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  2. Michigan Backyard Fossils | U-M LSA Museum of Paleontology

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    This interactive guide will help you identify some of the fossils you may find around Michigan with identification tips, photographs, and even 3D models for you to explore! This guide is split into six fossil categories; fossil shells, corals, trilobites, sea lilies, plants, and teeth & bone.

  3. MI’s Backyard Fossils – UMORF - University of Michigan

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    Michigans Backyard Fossils Identification Guide. This is an identification guide meant to help place the amazing ancient finds you may have found hiding in your own backyard. The state of Michigan used to be covered by a warm, shallow sea and was later an unforgiving glacial landscape.

  4. Found a Michigan fossil? ID it with the help of this new online...

    www.mlive.com/news/2021/06/found-a-michigan-fossil-id-it...

    Now, a new online guide from the University of Michigans Museum of Paleontology aims to help people identify some of those ancient Michigan finds.

  5. Beachgoer's Guide to Lake Michigan Fossils and Rocks

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    See how many of these rocks and fossils you've spotted on the shore. Take a look at some of the more common rocks and fossils that can be spotted around the lake (particularly on the Michigan side). In Wisconsin?

  6. A New UMMP Online Fossil Identification Guide Introducing the Michigan Backyard Fossils Identification Guide, now available on UMORF. This guide includes helpful tips for identifying different fossils you may find, as well as 3D models for you to explore!

  7. MI Backyard Fossils- Bones and Teeth - University of Michigan

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    Below these identification tips are tips for identifying a couple of iconic Michigan fossils: mastodon and mammoth teeth. Tip #1 Color can be deceptive. It’s amazing what dirt and grime can do to the color of bones.

  8. MI Backyard Fossils Corals – UMORF - University of Michigan

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    There are many types of corals or animals that look like corals – like bryozoans (moss-animals) and stromatoporoids (sponges). These animals often live in colonies but sometimes are solitary animals. Using the pictures below, find the closest match to your fossil.

  9. Michigan is a hotspot for fossils: What to know, where to look

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    Most of the common fossils Michiganders find are Petoskey stones, the state stone, which can be identified by its trademark hexagonal pattern. Petoskey stones existed about 390 million years...

  10. Hexagonaria percarinatum | U-M LSA Museum of Paleontology

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    Hexagonaria percarinatum is a species of fossil coral commonly found in Michigan. Its scientific name, which means “six-sided,” refers to the shape of the starlike features covering its surface, called corallites.

  11. Michigan Fossil Sites and Collecting Localities

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    Michigan Fossil Sites and Collecting Localities. US And Canadian Fossil Sites -- Data for MICHIGAN. Version 0810 current as of OCT 2008.