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Whether you're walking along the shore or the vast beach of one of the Great Lakes, you may pick up what looks like a fossil and want to know more about what you're holding in your hand.

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Fossil Gar Scales are known as far back as the Cretaceous Period, about 110 Million Years ago. Fossil Scales are found all over Florida. Good examples are the ones from the Pliocene Deposits of Sarasota County, Florida, dating back 2-3 Million Years ago. Atractosteus lapidosteus species, is an extinct gar found in Vero, Florida and named by O.P. Hay. It may be the same as the living species today - Atractosteus spatula.

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Welcome! As of June 20, 2025, the myfossil.org site has been sunsetted. Users of that site are now automatically redirected here. For more information, please see the section below on the "Sunsetting of myfossil.org". The FOSSIL Project—The Big Picture Throughout the U.S., more than 60 fossil clu

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Tabulate coral fossil from Tennessee. Made of quartz crystal and agate. Silicified pseudomorph of Tabulated coral. Chalcedony pseudomorph of coral. Possibly Tabulate coral Favosites. Also known as Honeycomb Coral. One professor thinks it maybe Foerstephyllum a member of a group of corals known as the Tabulata. One paper shows a Favosites helderbergiae that looks very similar. Showing short Septa with close Tabulae.

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