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	Any ideas « on: January 09, 2011, 02:40:08 am »

Hi all, im hoping someone here can help identify this fossil my girlfriend found well specking for gold after the recent floods here.

Overall length about 10 inches, looks to me to be some sort of cetipede milipede ?

Any ideas folks ?

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	Re: Any ideas « Reply #1 on: January 09, 2011, 04:01:45 am »

Wow! That looks just like it could leap off the rock and run away! I believe it is a centipede, as you thought.

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	Re: Any ideas « Reply #2 on: January 09, 2011, 04:12:11 am »

it looks like a millipede to to me.Here in Wynyard Tasmania,Australia someone found a fossilised possum a week ago at a place called fossil bluff here in my town of Wynyard.

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	Re: Any ideas « Reply #3 on: January 11, 2011, 11:01:09 am »

Awesome find! ! I've been tipped off on the whereabouts of a fossilized turtle in the mountains by where I live....now I need the snow to melt....

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	Re: Any ideas « Reply #4 on: January 11, 2011, 01:11:29 pm »

Cool Beans!

That or a Sea Worm of some sort.

That's a Keeper for sure.

I found a small fish one time in some shale but someone robbed it.

Sad, Sad.

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	Re: Any ideas « Reply #5 on: January 20, 2011, 11:24:04 am »

Very unique....That one looks to be in 3D. Rare to find something not flattened.
The Clairborne Shale in N. America produces some of the soft tissue specimens
and recently an area in North Africa has been producing some as well.
That is one specimen that should be taken to someone
who knows more than you can get here. A hands on approach.

Don't send it to them it may be years before you get it back, if you get it back at all intact.
Do not let it leave your possession without an understanding as to when you will get it back.
It does have value, to some a great deal of value.
It is not just an pseudo fossil it appears to be the real thing.

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Very unique....That one looks to be in 3D. Rare to find something not flattened. The Burgess Shale in N. America produces some soft tissue specimens and recently an area in North Africa has been producing some as well. That is one specimen that should be taken to someone who knows more than you can get here. A hands on approach. Don't send it to them it may be years before you get it back, if you get it back at all intact. Do not let it leave your possession without an understanding as to when you will get it back. It does have value, to some a great deal of value. It is not just an pseudo fossil it appears to be the real thing. Out4gold