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No problem, happy to help! Here are some pictures of the fossils i got at Allestree. Keep looking in the sand with shelly bits and you will find them! Mako tooth (Isurus) Sawshark rostral tooth Bullhead shark tooth (Heterodontus cainozoicus) Grey nurse shark tooth (Carcharias taurus)...

To all the people wanting to find fossil shark teeth at Portland and getting no responses: I was there in December 2015 and managed to find 14 teeth in the sand at Allestree Beach (just west of the large coastal seafarms, look on google maps). They were only small but there's definitely some...

Have you considered sending pictures to the Museum of Victoria or Australian Museum? They may be able to help you identify some of them.

Thankyou all :) I'll try get some more pics up soon.

Very nice ;) Glad to see you got the pics working!

Hello everyone! I think today I may have found my first gold piece of jewellery on the beach! I need a bit of help though in determining if it is real gold or if it is some other kind of metal. It's a bit beaten up and scratched. I can't see any marking on it saying how many karats or...

Wow megafauna! You are very lucky, not many people have the opportunity to find those kinds of fossils. Can't wait to see pics.

Some great specimens in this thread! These were found late last year, and the one on the left was the first vertebrate fossil I ever found (after collecting only plants and shells for more than 6 years). It's a pair of two articulated Ichthyosaurus vertebrae and another single Ichthy vertebra...

Fantastic finds, how did you get the pennies looking so clean? Did they come out like that or you cleaned them up?

^^^^^^^ Very nice Trilobite Pygidium (tail), great find!! I am a long time member of the fossil forum which some people have already posted links to and there is a small group of us Aussies on there that would love to add some new Australian members so feel free to join up. It is a great community.

Hey guys, Metal detecting has been going good recently and I have crossed the $30 mark in modern change (found on the beach mostly) but of particular interest has been a few predecimal coins that I recently pulled from my front and back yard. 90% of what I dig in my yard is trash so finding...

Hey guys, I just found this 1942 Half Penny in my backyard. It was literally on the surface eroding out of the dirt. I was walking along and saw a round coin shaped thing in the dirt, picked it up and sure enough it was a 1942 Half Penny. No metal detector required :D The front is mostly...

Nice! What do you mean by 'cuts'? Is that the place that yield the most stuff?

Hi everyone, I have a Garrett Ace 250 and have been using it on the beach for the past month or so now. I usually go out for a detect every couple days or so. I have not done badly by any means, up to about 80 coins totalling around $28 as well as a couple small bits of jewellery with what I...

According to that Gold Coast site, the 1957 coin could be worth anything between $1.20 and $15. What grade/quality do you think the coin is? I am not familiar with grading so have no idea what aUNC or VF even stand for.

Hey guys, Well I got my Garrett Ace 250 metal detector a few weeks ago, and have so far only used it a little bit on the beach. My main hunting ground has been my front lawn actually, and out of the 35 coins pictured below that I have found with my detector, 33 of them came from my front lawn...

Wow, it is so great to have you on the forum Alex! It is my goal in life to become a Paleontologist, and I will hopefully be studying Paleobiology at Macquarie University from next year. I saw that article about you and the fish from Canowindra, is it true the museum is shifting its focus away...

Hi everyone! I just got my Garrett Ace 250 today in the post. It took a record 16 business days to arrive, for a while there I thought it was genuinely lost! So glad it finally showed up. Pheww! Anyway, I got it late arvo so only had about 30 minutes to take it for a spin but I managed to find...

Thanks for the comments everyone! I have sent the local council an email regarding this so hopefully they should get back to me soon, then i'll have a definitive answer to share with you all.

Wow, they look remarkably similar to Brachiopods and Bryozoans that I have found up here in Sydney. Even the rock looks exactly the same. Nice specimens!