Well I have been lurking around reading a and learning here for a while now and guess it's time I showed myself. I am still very very green , but learning. Thus far I have collected very little from the one local site I know of . I am located just outside of Montgomery Alabama . I have the fever something awful , but due to lack of funds and knowledge I don't get to hunt too often . My son (9) has went with me and loves it. He has collected a handfull of small sharks teeth . His biggest goal is to find a Meg tooth but I doubt that will happen here .
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Posted 02 July 2010 - 01:45 AM
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Posted 02 July 2010 - 08:56 AM
Hello, and welcome to the Forum from Connecticut!
We all have the same fever here!
Welcome, again.
We all have the same fever here!
Welcome, again.
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Posted 02 July 2010 - 01:51 PM
Welcome from Atlanta. I too drag around a nine year old son when I'm fossil hunting, although he usually comes very willingly.
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Posted 02 July 2010 - 08:27 PM
Welcome from huntsville area. I am in Florida right now, but will be collecting at point-A dam on my way home Monday morning. That is near Andalusia. Near you is Catoma Creek if you have not hunted there yet.
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Posted 02 July 2010 - 10:40 PM
Welcome to the forum. You might want to consider checking out the Birmingham Paleontological Society (if you google them you will get the contact info). They have field trips all over Alabama, one a month. Family membership is absurdly cheap, $20 a year if I recall correctly. I live in East Georgia, but I belong because they're a good group of like-minded fossil nuts, and generally have great trips.
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Posted 02 July 2010 - 11:24 PM
FossilDAWG, on 02 July 2010 - 10:40 PM, said:
Welcome to the forum. You might want to consider checking out the Birmingham Paleontological Society (if you google them you will get the contact info). They have field trips all over Alabama, one a month. Family membership is absurdly cheap, $20 a year if I recall correctly. I live in East Georgia, but I belong because they're a good group of like-minded fossil nuts, and generally have great trips.
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I found the BPS on the web and would like to join , but I would want to go to all the meetings to hear the speakers and there is no way I could make it to many if any of them . And the same stands for the trips . Sad to say but I am a busy man with Cub scouts and girl scouts and work etc etc etc .
I have collected at catoma and actually Me and a friend of mine and our daughters both 8 are going this Sat . Kind of a daddy daughter day type gig but it will be a blast and maybe some good finds I will try to get some pics while we are there .
The only drawback I have to collecting there is the fact that most of the fossils seem to be very delicate therefore I do not try to collect them as I have not learned enough yet not to damage them .
JP
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Posted 03 July 2010 - 09:02 AM
woodardcoin, on 02 July 2010 - 11:24 PM, said:
The only drawback I have to collecting there is the fact that most of the fossils seem to be very delicate therefore I do not try to collect them as I have not learned enough yet not to damage them .
JP
Hi from New York. I started collecting in Alabama.
I too collect with a nine year old (and a seven year old)
If you show us what you mean by delicate ( post pics)I think we may have some tips for preserving your fossils in the field.
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Posted 04 July 2010 - 10:59 AM
If you are talking about the point-a fossils being too delicate, you are digging in the wrong layer. The upper layer is full of fossil shells that are extremely delicate, but the botton layer has the shark and fish teeth. They are not as delicate.
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Posted 04 July 2010 - 11:04 PM
N.AL.hunter, on 04 July 2010 - 10:59 AM, said:
If you are talking about the point-a fossils being too delicate, you are digging in the wrong layer. The upper layer is full of fossil shells that are extremely delicate, but the botton layer has the shark and fish teeth. They are not as delicate.
Not point A collecting but catoma . I hope to make it to point A sometime this summer if I have time . So far catoma is the only site I have been to .
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