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  • andreas

    The Columbianus Zone/alaunium 2/ Norium/upper Triassic, In The So Called “Hallstatt Limestone” Of The Northern Calcareous Alps In Austria

    By andreas

    The columbianus Zone/Alaunium 2/ Norium/Upper Triassic in the so called "Hallstatt Limestone" of the Northern Calcareous Alps in Austria Dear Fossil Forum members! This pictured report about the ammonite bearing Triassic Hallstatt limestone will be the first one of a continuous series of reports. Since the beginning of the geological research in the Northern Calcareous Alps of Austria in the 19th century, about 500 species of Triassic ammonites have been described from the Hallstatt limestone
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  • MikeR

    The Problem with Siphocypraea

    By MikeR

    For millennia, humankind has been fascinated by the hard-external shell of the organisms classified within the Phylum Mollusca.   Consumed first as food, their empty shells have served multiple functions in the past; as tools in many ancient cultures, in religious ceremonies by the Aztecs, and money by Pacific Islanders. During the Age of Discovery, sailors could supplement their meager incomes by selling exotic seashells to wealthy gentlemen for their Cabinets of Curiosity.  Today many people f
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  • JohnJ

    Ancient Hunters

    By JohnJ

    June 5, 2010 Barry held his camera barely two feet away from the back of an Agkistrodon piscivorus. Although a small snake, it was still very dangerous and he positioned his camera based on years of experience with these reptiles. Known more commonly as a Cottonmouth or Water Moccasin, the twelve inch juvenile snake had coloration similar to the closely related Copperhead. However, its patterns were muted by late afternoon shadows in a remote location that was not favorable to an easy medic
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  • MikeR

    The End Of My Pliocene Project

    By MikeR

    When I began this blog late in 2010, my intention was to report on recent field trips however, with the exception of one excursion each into the Upper Miocene, Lower Pliocene and the Calabrian Pleistocene, all of my posts have concentrated on the Upper Pliocene of the US Atlantic and Gulf coastal plains. I already had an extensive collection of Florida Upper Pliocene invertebrates that I had collected while a resident of the state in the late 80s and early 90s. The fossils from these beds are
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Terry Dactyll's Blog

End Of The Penning

Another 10 hours has seen off the bulk of the pen work..... I only have to fiddle and tweak it now.... There were 3 1/2 whorls intact, so theres very little of the centre carved and I only have to repair a small section at the top that was sea worn, to make this an impressive display fossil.... Im still not 100% sure on ID yet, I will have to consult my good friend, but im pretty sure its from a chunk of the ammonite pavement....Ive got a couple of days hard polishing ....
Terry Dactyll

Terry Dactyll

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Terry Dactyll's Blog

Ammonite Prep

I decided to have a go at a Blog.. .. 'all new to me'...but its time I got with the programme, as they say.... so its based on prepping one of my large ammonite finds... so some of the images I'm going to add initially , youve probably seen before in the other thread... but you have to start somewhere......my only motivation in doing this to share my finds and prepwork which I enjoy doing and in doing so, maybe you can enjoy them to and to help reinforce our common interest in sharing what we f
Terry Dactyll

Terry Dactyll

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Adventures with a Paddle

A Burning Road And The Dead Cow

October 3, 2009 We have all had those mornings when it seems that our timing is off just a little. This day started that way. Usually, I adjust by trying to focus more on what I'm doing than other things. Dan and I were teamed up for a return to one of our most productive jungle areas. The possibilities of what we might find crowded my thoughts. However, I think it was the forecast for storms that had me a little preoccupied. There were times along the twisted road that I could see Dan'
JohnJ

JohnJ

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Seldom's Blog

Beaumont Formation

While David was here we got to spend a couple hours at the east end flats no great finds but we did find a place where the Beaumont formation was exposed. This is the first time I have seen it on the east end so am excited about what might be found in the lagoon. Going to have to wait till I recover from this knee thing but will be getting muddy soon. Also found a place where the dredge dumped fill from the channel in 1970. Its on government land and controlled by the COE so don't know how that
Seldom

Seldom

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Adventures with a Paddle

A Little Flint

September 20th, 2009   In the search for fossils and other treasure, rain can be friend or foe. However, given the historic drought that is affecting most of Texas, you cannot complain about the rain these days. A friend and I decided to see if we could leverage the rain's recent effects on a heavily collected waterway in our state. We ended up rescuing several finds from nature's grinder.   During our excursion, I tried to take advantage of the digital video capability on my camera...it mig
JohnJ

JohnJ

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Fig Rocks' Blog

Understanding Wire

Well, today is the day to start telling everyone about wire, I can only say that is an amazing media that creates beautiful things. I think the first thing is to understand the nature of wire, it has a memory and if you over work the wire it will become weak and break. In my journey of understanding this media I have found that it is best to let the wire do its own thing, don't force the issue by trying to control it, let it move at will, it will give you great soft lines and contours with beaut
fig rocks

fig rocks

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Seldom's Blog

Sept. 15 Beach Hunt

David AKA Matt Cable is in town so we went on a beach hunt. No shark teeth but a few bones some with a lot of mineralization. I think David thinks I am weird I keep putting jelly fish and crabs that had washed up back in the water. Hey they got a right to live just need a little help sometimes. We were going to meet up with Chase this weekend but looks like he is tied up so David is stuck with no shark tooth finding me. Going to take him to the east end flats and the dredge dump I have been wor
Seldom

Seldom

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Adventures with a Paddle

The Unexpected

September 6, 2009 It happens in all areas of life. Yet, sometimes the unexpected is manifested in remarkable circumstances. Last January, Dan and I were scrambling across a rocky bar in a Texas stream. To help keep our focus during a cold downpour and intermittent showers, we joked with various sandstone "fossils" we picked up. The erosive nature of water and gravel creates thousands of pseudofossils, and we were finding them with frequency. "Hey Dan, here's your mammoth tooth! Catch!" (P
JohnJ

JohnJ

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Mudding Around

A Successful First Hunt

Hello All. This weekend I went on what could basically be called my first fossil trip... a trip with the sole intent of fossils. Ill start with Saturday.... After preparing to leave to go to one of my locations, I left for the 45 minute drive. Once I arrived at my offroad location, the first thing I noticed that (after raining for a week) all the water was much higher than normal. Being in my jeep, this didnt stop me, but it made me be aware that it would certainly be muddy and wet everywhere
jeepinthemud

jeepinthemud

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Anson's Blog

Forum Was Down

Forum was down most of last night. Host was updating sql to the newest most secure version. It's a pain but these things happen and it is a good thing. Keeps out hackers that is always a good thing. This was the first time the forum has been down since the switch and it wasn't due to a server crash or error so it is a good thing. Trying to get one of my mods to make a tutorial on how to embed you tube videos and other videos on the forum. This way members do not have to go off site to view the
Gatorman

Gatorman

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Anson's Blog

Forum Work Sucks

Working on this new forum format has been a pain... there's more bugs than the entire everglades. I have most sorted out but there are still a few that just baffle me. I need to hire a full time support tech. Another odd problem has been members having weird glitches on their end. Things like missing the pm options or the page not displaying properly. Most of the time after clearing cookies and temp file or even having to reset internet settings things seem to work out. Odd that it started hap
Gatorman

Gatorman

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Adventures with a Paddle

A Humerus Trip

August 15, 2009 It all started on a small, secluded Texas waterway in the Jungle of Gigantism (you know better than to ask); we watched a log submerge with purpose... but, it was no log. Big reptiles were only a hint of the giant to come. Shortly afterward, we pulled into the bank and my friend Dan offered, "you want upstream or downstream?" Words he later said would influence a fossil career.   It was 7:45 in the morning. I headed downstream to low gravel ledge. Within a short t
JohnJ

JohnJ in A Humerus Trip

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Traviscounty's Blog

Hunting In The Neighborhood

I took my next door neighbor on a small fossil hunt under the freeway near my house. It's a pretty large creek, and since we haven't had any rain, it didn't stink. Found a couple of shell impressions and possible scraper. When it rains, I'm gonna check it out a little more aggressively. I think there might be some artifacts.
Traviscounty

Traviscounty

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tracer's tidbits

Blogging The Cutover

well, the forum is back up, but the pictures are apparently not linked or whatever yet. don't know. what i do know is that the forum sure is a big deal to an awful lot of people, especially me. i don't really know how much trouble gatorman goes through in trying to keep it all humming from a technical standpoint, but i sure am glad he does. i get in trouble when i'm not on the forum. ask tj. he knows. i get bored and then somehow we end up in some place that nobody in their right mind would go
tracer

tracer

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fossilfacetheprospector's Blog

Greetings Fossils

Never done a blog so here goes. Gallery entry is of shark poopies (coprolites), which I hear are a big deal these days. Go figure, shark poop from the past. Seems like a fun way to meet people. "Hey Babe, come back to my place and I'll show you all of my fossil excrement." Now that's a hot pick up line. Lately I can't get out to the creekbeds much, I am nursing a bad back which I got, wait a minute, GUESS how I got it!!! If you said fossilin you would be right on. That reminds me of why kids al
fossilfacetheprospector

fossilfacetheprospector

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Sacredsin's Blog

This Is A Neat Little Feature. :)

Hello all, my first blog post. I'm not here all that often and only pop in whenever the mood strikes me. For those who don't know I'm engaged to administrator Nicholas. Anyways the mood has struck so now I am copying and pasting a post from my LiveJournal blog detailing my recent trip to the Mainland, to compliment Nick's blog and to get my blog here started. So without further adieu... Well I know its been a while since I've posted and so much has happened since then. Nick and I have tra
CaitlinAnn

CaitlinAnn

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dinosaur50's Blog

Hi This Is My Frist Blog Post

hi this is my frist blog post the stihl virginia beach lumberjack champs is Saturday, September 19, 2009 Time: 12:00pm - 5:00pm Location: Mount Trashmore Park Street: 310 Edwin Drive City/Town: Virginia Beach, VA i will be axe throwing in it so buy and say hi
va paleo

va paleo

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tracer's tidbits

Ponce Awon A Time There Were Pee Little Thrigs

doesn't "blog" sound like something that you would drink that would give you a terrible hangover? well, i started this thing for the same reason people allegedly climb mount everest - because it was there. yes, anson, my dearest friend on the planet, saw fit to add yet another piece of functionality to his virtual universe, and so here we are. it really is going to be problematic, in that since this blog is "mine", i'll of course feel free to just be myself and distractedly ramble on and on and
tracer

tracer

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Seldom's Blog

Clueless

Don't know what to do now, going to need to think about this. But hey I got my name on something the bank don't own half of
Seldom

Seldom

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Nicholas' Blog

My Recent Mainland Road Trip

Well I returned from my wonderful escapades on the mainland of Nova Scotia. We survived the long boring landscapes and a few very tedious areas some of which I’ll mention later. Over all it was a spectacular experience much of which was spent on the beach along the famous Joggins cliffs. Although this trip was cut prematurely do to putting approximately 1800 miles on my car in 2 days, in layman’s terms we were tired of the road and home was beginning to sound better and better. We left at appro
Nicholas

Nicholas

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