Member Collections

Albums

1. My Collection

   • Album created by MarcusFossils
   • Updated May 25, 2022
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2. Mazon creek assortment

   • Album created by TheRocksWillShoutHisGlory
   • Updated January 31, 2022
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3. Post Oak Creek

   Fossils found in Post Oak Creek , and in nearby creeks in Sherman, TX. 
    
   The Cretaceous fossils are washed out of the Eagle Ford Group (~ 90 Ma) , and mammal material from the Pleistocene or younger.
    
   Vertebrate Faunal List (work in progress):
    
   Rarity (purely subjective):
   Abundant,  Common,  Uncommon,  Rare,  Ultra-Rare
   Sharks:
   Cantioscyllium sp.   ('bamboo shark')*
   Cantioscyllium decipiens Chiloscyllium sp. ('bamboo shark')*
   Chiloscyllium greeni Cretodus sp.
   Cretorectolobus sp. ('carpet shark)*
   Cretalamna sp.
   Cretoxyrhina sp.   ('ginsu shark')
   Cretoxyrhina mantelli ?Galeorhinus sp.  ('tope shark')*
   cf.  Ginglymostoma sp. ('nurse shark')*
   Lonchidion sp.  ('Hybodont shark')*
   Meristodonoides sp.  ('Hybodont shark')*
   Pseudocorax sp.  ('False-crow shark')
   Ptychodus spp.   ('crusher shark')
   Ptychodus anonymus Ptychodus atcoensis Ptychodus mortoni  Ptychodus whipplei Scapanorhynchus spp.   ('goblin shark')
   Scapanorhynchus raphiodon Scapanorhynchus texanus Squalicorax spp.   ('crow shark')
   Squalicorax falcatus Squalicorax kaupi Fish:
   Amiidae indet.*
   Enchodus sp.   ('saber-toothed herring')*
   Ischyrhiza sp.   ('sawskate')*
   Pseudohypolophus sp.  ('guitarfish')*
   Pseudohypolophus mcnultyi Ptychotrygon spp.   ('sawskate')*
   Ptychotrygon slaughteri Ptychotrygon texana Ptychotrygon triangularis Pyncodontiformes
   Rhinobatos spp.   ('guitarfish')*
   Rhinobatos caseiri Rhinobatos incertus Reptile:
   ?Coniasaurus crassidens*
   Mosasauridae
    
   * micro-vertebrate - should use/need magnification to find
    
   

   • Album created by ThePhysicist
   • Updated March 25, 2023
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4. Sharktooth Hill

   Sharktooth Hill is located in the arid, rolling foothills near Bakersfield, California. It's one of the most productive Miocene bone layers in the world. Fossils of various Sharks..Cosompolitodus Hastalis & Planus, Carcharocles megalodon,Galeocerdo Aduncus,Squalus Occidentalis to name a few...rays,fish and various mammals are some of the items that can be unearthed there as well as a mortality shell layer on the south side of the Kern River...there is even a makeshift cross in the Ant Hill area where someone lost their life digging for the prized sharks teeth...more than one person has been caught in an overburden collapse.It is, and can be dangerous..I was buried before through a freak collapse of the hill side..When starting to dig it's so important to remove the overburden FIRST....sometimes this takes longer than actually digging for teeth...but it will save your life!
   The layer is composed of the Round Mountain Silt Formation which in turn is part of the Temblor Formation. The bonebed is approximately 15.97 - 13.65 million years old.The age of the bonebed has been extended to 18 m.y.o.range. This can be found in the East Quarry area of the Ernst Property. Active collecting has gone on since the late 1800's. On the south side of the Kern River, Ant Hill, Hang Glider, Sheep Hill, have all been productive sites to collect from..many of the "fire zone teeth" have come from this side of the river. This area though IS PRIVATE PROPERTY so I'd advised contact be made to dig there....Recently on the north side of the Kern River Rob Ernst and Mary Ernst opened up their property to collecting. The dig areas are made up of Slow Curve & the East & West Quarries as well as Snakepit.
   Sean and Lisa Tohill own the 85 acre Whale Quarry that was once part of the Ernst property. This site is off limits to collecting. The collecting layer is roughly from 6 to 18 inches in depth..it can range from a hard compacted area of gypsum composition to a easy to dig in loose sandy matrix. It wasn't a sudden die off that makes up this bone layer..it was just an area that had remained sediment free for ages and remains accumulated over time.
   
   Rob Ernst and his great website where you can sign up for a dig! http://sharktoothhillproperty.com/
   
   One of the best websites that give great info can be found here:
   http://inyo.coffeecup.com/site/sb/sharkbonebed.html
   

   • Album created by RickCalif
   • Updated July 18, 2021
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5. Fossils I have found

   My brother and I started hunting fossils late 2011. We have always been hunters and collectors of interesting things, and frankly, I am surprised it took us this long to go after fossils.
   We only collect what we can find, and enjoy the hunt just as much as the find!.
   

   • Album created by DitchDiggerUno
   • Updated February 17, 2013
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6. Robs Fossil Collection

   Just an album of my small but ever growing fossil collection
   

   • Album created by RobFallen
   • Updated December 17, 2021
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7. Associated Latoplatecarpus sp. Mosasaur

   In 2006, I found an associated group of Latoplatecarpus sp. skeletal elements in the Upper Cretaceous Ozan Formation of Central Texas, U.S.A. Initial photographic identification was made with the assistance of Mike Everhart as a Plioplatecarpus (based on the quadrates found).  However, in late 2015, Joshua Lively identified it as a Latoplatecarpus sp. after an in hand examination of the bones.  This identification was later confirmed by Mike Polcyn in 2019.
   

   • Album created by JohnJ
   • Updated May 24, 2008
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8. Brachiopodes, Shells, corals, sponges......

   Various other forms of marine life

   • Album created by nala
   • Updated December 1, 2021
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9. Texas Cretaceous Fossils : Gastropods

   Texas Cretaceous Fossils: Gastropods
   From a variety of formations including Glen Rose, Walnut, Buda, Georgetown, Edwards, and Del Rio. 
   

   • Album created by JamieLynn
   • Updated April 8
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10. Trilobites

    My growing collection of everyone's favourite bugs!
    

    • Album created by Sofyar
    • Updated September 24, 2021
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11. Vertebrates (other than fish)

    I haven't found that many of them, but I'm more than happy when I do.

    • Album created by Ludwigia
    • Updated November 24, 2021
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12. Russian Upper Volgian ammonites

    Represented mostly by  Craspeditidae family, which evolved from Mid-Volgian Dorsoplanitidae and later gave birth to 2 lineages: more typical-looking Craspedites (lots of species) and disc-shaped Garniericeras. The latter evolved from smooth and round Kachpurites, with each evolutionary step becoming more and more flattened to the extent of looking almost 2D.
    Late Volgian comprises 3 ammonite zones:
    1. Kachpurites fulgens (good sites in Moscow region)
    2. Garniericeras catenulatum/ Craspedites subditus (both names in use, sites in Moscow and various Volga regions)
    3. Craspedites nodiger (less numerous sites in Moscow (Shmelovka), Kostroma and Samara)
    As to preservation, they are usually fragile shells found in watery clay with iridescent nacre of various colors, often green, blue and yellow.
    

    • Album created by RuMert
    • Updated October 17, 2023
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13. BONES

    Images of vertebrate post-cranial bones with information to assist identifications.

    • Album created by Harry Pristis
    • Updated June 19, 2022
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14. New Jersey Late Cretaceous

    Approximately 70 million years ago, during the Late Campanian Age of the Cretaceous Period, the Earth's oceans were teeming with a diverse array of wildlife. The streams and tributaries where these fossils are found go by many names: New Jersey, United States, and North America. Yet, these designations for the Earth are simply concepts created by humankind; they are arbitrary when held against the eons of nature and life that have preceded humans and that will come after humans. Through fossil collecting, a new appreciation for life on Earth is had. A humbler stance on existence is usually taken by those people who take the time to postulate the intricacies and wonders of nature. These fossils I present to you in this album are a small but beautiful glimpse into one of the many lost worlds that our Earth once was. I hope you may find use for or enjoyment from this album.
     
    Example of an 8.5 hour fossil collecting trip (mixture of surface scanning and gravel sifting):
     
    
     
    A snapshot of one drawer from my growing collecting as of (May, 2020):
     
    
     
    Artifacts are uncommon, but can be found in many of the streams where fossils are found.
     
    
     
    

    • Album created by Trevor
    • Updated July 18, 2021
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15. Moscow region Late Jurassic vertebrates

    Mostly Fili Park, Moscow, Late Jurassic, Middle Volgian (Tithonian), Epivirgatites nikitini zone. Known from this location:
    1. Sphenodus shark
    2. Palealbula fish
    3. Lots of other shark genera (much rarer), marine reptiles (O phthalmosauridae , Colymbosaurinae, Pliosaurus), ratfish, etc.
    4. Lots of indeterminate fish vertebrae and occasional bones
    

    • Album created by RuMert
    • Updated January 5, 2022
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16. Fossil Plants

    • Album created by RJB
    • Updated October 19, 2020
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17. Fossildude's Upper Devonian Fish Fossils

    Bits and pieces of Upper Devonian fish, from Red Hill, (Catskill Formation)
    Metzger's Quarry, and Route 15, (Upper Steam Valley Fm. ) 
    All Personally Collected.
    

    • Album created by Fossildude19
    • Updated August 1, 2022
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18. Fossildude's Middle Devonian Fossils

    My personal finds from several locations in New York. 
    Hamilton Group, Middle Devonian. 
    
    ALL SELF COLLECTED.
    

    • Album created by Fossildude19
    • Updated October 26, 2023
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19. Fluorescent Petrified Wood

    Ever tried shining an ultraviolet light on your fossils? About 60% of fossil shells fluoresce. I discovered one morning as I was admiring my fossil shells this way, that my petrified wood seems to match those statistics.  Below you can see what they look like under visible light. 
    
    Blue Forest Petrified Wood, Eocene, Wyoming
     
     
    
    Petrified Cypress Wood, Miocene, Delaware
     
     
     
     
     
    

    • Album created by I_gotta_rock
    • Updated April 12, 2021
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20. Llewellyn Formation Plants of Pennsylvania

    Fossil plants collected by the author in several trips to various exposures of the Late Pennsylvanian Llewellyn Formation in Pennsylvania's "Coal Country"
    

    • Album created by historianmichael
    • Updated April 19, 2021
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21. Conodonts

    This will be a running collection of the conodonts I've photographed and mounted in a case. As I identify (or otherwise learn more about them), I plan to update the information.

    • Album created by Mediospirifer
    • Updated August 27, 2015
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22. Cretaceous Shark Teeth

    A few of my favorite Cretaceous shark teeth specimens from around the world
     
     
    
    

    • Album created by Untitled
    • Updated April 21, 2020
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23. Sharks and their prey ....

    The Diggs
    

    • Album created by Brett Breakin' Rocks
    • Updated September 27, 2019
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24. Pennsylvanian trilobites from the Madera Formation, Cedro Canyon, New Mexico

    Cedro Canyon fossils
    

    • Album created by Opuntia
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25. Pennsylvanian System of Chloride Flat Grant County, New Mexico

    Fossil location near Silver City, New Mexico
    

    • Album created by Opuntia
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