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The snow has arrived at the elevations that I like to hike covering up the fossil beds now. These pictures are from one of my last hikes in the Talkeetna Mountains and as you can see these are oversized fossils. The ice axe next to the clam is 30". Kobuk and one to the bigger ammonites measured at 65 cm diameter is another whopper. Ok, now a Where's Waldo picture. How many ammonites do you see in the picture? I have the answer and they as still are all still there in the outcrop, some are broken. The answer is nine ammonites. Until next year happy fossil hunting!
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Here is a trip I took to the NSR back in 2008 and had some great finds. Many bones and a good Mosasaur vertebrate. I don't know what is in the top center of the last two pictures. Also a tooth of what appears to be a fossil of a more recent mammal is right under it. Any ideas on either one? Sorry I didn't use anything to scale but it should all be pretty typical of the type of fossils from this area.
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Hello there, I bought this ammonite fossil several years ago from Nepal. Can anyone help identify what kind of ammonite is this? Thanks!
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From the album: North Sulphur River
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Hi everybody! Today I’ll show you yet another distinct fossil hunting location within the city limits. It’s situated in the south-east in the direct vicinity of the Moscow ring road (city and regional border). The outcrops are located on the banks of the shallow Shmelovka (Shmelyevka) river, effectively a small fordable creek.
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Hi all, I recently obtained several lovely ammonites from the late Triassic (Carnian) Xiaowa Formation of Guanling, Guizhou Province However, I lack the expertise to identify them and I was hoping you could help I suspect A is a Trachyceras multituberculatum as this ammonite type is abundant there, and that species is also the most common ammonite there I can't tell what B and C are. I am not even sure if C is a different species from A. From my research, the following species are also present there: Trachyceras cf. aon Paratrachyceras cf. hofmanni Paratrachyceras douvillei Hauerites cf. himalayanus Protrachyceras sp. Arctosirenites canadensis Arctosirenites columbianus What do you think?
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Good Day, I currently reside in Houston but have roots in West Texas and the Hill Country. Having been away in the intermountain west for the last 23 years, getting back to limestone is a joy! I've been a fossil collector most of my walking life and enjoy thinking about what must have been here and Wow, it is just mind boggling to consider! Rocks and minerals, geology and the world we live in is fascinating from so many perspectives. I'm an environmental scientist by trade and currently work in the transportation sector.
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Hey everyone. Yesterday while out on the NSR. I found several new items. I have been able to identify most. I do have two waiting for help in the ID section. But, lets get to why I am here. I found a Pachydiscus (P.) paulsoni piece with a piece of black material sticking out of it. This material seems to "puncture" the ammonite. I am delicately cleaning it right now and hope to have some pictures soon. Of course my thought was a broken piece of a tooth. Could it be a tooth? Or, something other that was burrowing into the ammonite upon its death or after?
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Hello Folks, Currently going through the collection with a view to cataloguing and labelling. Purchased this ammonite a few years ago. It was labelled as Peltoceras from the North Yorkshire Coast. It looks like a nodule from that area but the ammo does not look like a Peltoceras in humble opinion. I cannot see the keel either as it is a partial and it is not visible - likewise the whorl cross section. Can anyone help with the id, please? Many thanks, Hamish
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Here we see a middle Cretaceous ammonite I recently found. Before cleaning attempt And the other picture is after. I used a dremel and various bits. I wouldn't rate it 100% bad since it is my first attempt using power tools, however I would not recommend it. It lacks accuracy and sometimes the bit moves unpredictably, removing fossil material. Nevertheless, the sample was not something I intended to keep in my collection so I thought to give it a try and verify myself the advice so many people give. Use an airscribe!
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Hello, Folks, New to the Forum. I am currently going through the collection in an attempt to systematise it and catalogue it properly before I pop my clogs. I came across this ammonite which I purchased online some time ago. All it had with it was South America Cretaceous, which is a start, I guess. Can anyone please help with possible provenance and id? It appears to be preserved in some sort of black and white calcite, and it occurred to me that it might be from Peru, but I could not find anything like it in any searches. I will attempt to describe it - apologies for any poor use of nomenclature. It has a series of well-defined ribs which bifurcate before they cross the venter. There is no keel and there appear to be four maybe five constrictions per whorl. There are occasional secondary ribs which fade out about a third of the way down the flank. I hope the photos are of more help. Any help much appreciated. Regards, Hamish
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Fossil ID help: Knightia, Shark tooth (hastalis or desori), Ammonite (Aioloceras?)
Praefectus posted a topic in Fossil ID
Hello. I was wondering if anyone could help me with some fossil identifications. Thanks for any help. First, here is a Green River formation fish plate. I know the fish are Knightia, but I don't know how to differentiate the species. I think they are Knightia eocaena. Can anyone confirm the species? Thanks. Next, here is a shark tooth I found while digging on the Ernst ranch in Bakersfield, California. It is either Carcharodon hastalis or Isurus desori. I'm not great at telling the two apart. Can anyone confirm the species? Thanks. Last, here is an ammonite I received from caldigger. He identified it as Aioloceras besiaiei. I think the species might have been misspelled and is supposed to be besairiei. I've seen these sometimes referred to as Cleoniceras. Does anyone know the difference between Aioloceras and Cleoniceras? Thanks.
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Hi I've been gifted a plate with different ammonites in it. As it comes from a second hand store, there's no record for provenance,age and all other infos. I'd appreciate any help with the identification. Thanks Back of plate:
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Hey guys! This hunt was on more than a month ago, on the 18th of July, but I haven't had time to make a trip report till today. Better late than never! In late June I invited my good friend Tijn ( @Hunter0811) to come hunt with me at the Zandmotor, and then come to my place to see my whole collection, and we had a great time talking about all things fossil-related. That evening he told me about a new location he had discovered near his house in the east of the Netherlands which also had Ice Age mammal bones, and so we made plans to meet up again soon, but this time over there, so that we could check this new place out together. He picked me up at the train station and we biked to the place. The weather was nice, although maybe just a bit too warm, but sunny and good for fossil hunting. We had to cross a small field with cows to get to the place after parking our bikes, and they were curious to see what we were doing so they approached us to say hi. The site is near a village called Lathum. It's quite literally a big pile of rocks: gravel with lots of erratic stones, all dredged from the bottom of a nearby pond. The hunting there consists of just looking in between the stones.
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Hi. I’m new to fossil hunting and collecting its a little hobby my 8 year old son enjoys. We came across this on the beach last year and I have no idea how to open it and if it is a ammonite. Any advice would be very much appreciated.
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I took my daughter to the Natural History Museum in London last year and the highlight was seeing Mary Anning’s ichthyosaurs, so we’ve been planning this week away ever since. Unfortunately we haven’t found any bones yet but we’ve found a few nice samples that I’ll get up here once we’re home. Here’s a few pictures from today’s walk along Monmouth beach, hunting in the land of giants!
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Good Morning! New to the forum obviously but a tooth-hound nonetheless! We have lived here in the low country with our two kids for 10+ years, but never ventured on a meg hunt before. We have a few spots where we regularly find ammonites, mosasaurus teeth, ray grinding plates, and teeth of all kinds, but the kids are now big enough and interested enough to go for the big guys! The elusive Meg!! Anyone have a “backup spot” they don’t mind sharing? I don’t want your honey hole! I understand you have spent countless hours finding it and don’t want to (nor should you) give it up!! I am looking for a creek(Bed) in Charleston, Mount Pleasant, or Summerville where I can take my shovel and sifter and spend half a day with the kids getting them into nature!! We have spent the past couple summers volunteering at the Shell Mounds to help excavation efforts before they are reclaimed by the sea, hitting area plantations, etc. Anyone have a somewhat decent area I can take them to?
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I recently moved into a house with some friends on our university campus, and this nice cabinet was included right past the front door. So of course I had to put together a little museum! These are just the fossils I have on me at this time, but I’ll probably pick some more up to add next time I visit home or if I go on a hunt soon. I tried adding some fun blurbs with a couple that I felt had some really cool information hiding in them. If there’s any specific part you want to see, or if you have any fun suggestions, let me know!
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From the album: My finds from portugal
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From the album: My finds from portugal
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Hi all! I've had this little ammonite hiding in a rock for some time now. Today I decided to split the rock and chipped away at the matrix to reveal the fossil. It looks like some of the original shell has been preserved and what looks like the soft body as well. Could it be? Apologies for the reflection on the magnified pics, my usual lens is on my telescope.
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I had a job in Dallas this morning (retirement still hasn't quite taken), but finished very early, so I decided to stop by a spot that was on my list, that was only five miles or so from where I was working. Wearing jeans and a work shirt, and with a forecast high of 99 degrees today, I knew I wouldn't be staying long, but I was close to the spot, and it wasn't nearly as long a hike from where I'd park as I usually end up with, so I figured I'd take a look. This is an Eagle Ford outcrop. It's in the middle of DFW, so not exactly secret and off the beaten path, so I wasn't sure if I would find anything or not. I spent an hour checking the outcrop and nearby gravel bars, then headed for home. If I'm identifying this piece correctly, it's a burrow with a small ammonite fragment attached. Not too exotic, but it was so cool looking, I had to take it home. It almost looks like a cow skull with a small crown.
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I found these two fossils whilst searching in Whitby a few days ago and could do with some help identifying them. I’m not sure if one appears to be sections of an ammonite and I have no idea about the other.
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I found these Jurassic fossils in the Jaisalmer Basin, Thar Desert, India. Belemnites (left), brachiopods of various sizes (center), ammonite fragments (top) & 3 small whole ammonites (lower right). Quarter coin shows scale.
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Jurassic coast Dorset UK....ammonites & belemnites
traveltip1 posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
I found these Jurassic ammonite fragments and belemnites near Seatown along the UK Dorset coast.
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