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Hello! Help pleae to identify this tooth. I think that it is Rhynchobatus but I didnt found before this genus and dont know certainly... Size - slightly more than 1 mm. Location - Western Ukraine. Age - Middle Miocene. Thanks in advance!

Taiwan's largest museum devoted only to fossils is located at the southern part of the island, near the city of Tainan at the Zuojhen Fossil Park. Most travelers will start their journey in the capital city of Taipei, but Tainan is only a <2 hour bullet train ride away (the bullet train, or high speed rail, is a destination in of itself- a marvel of speed, comfort and efficiency) and a visit to the Zuojhen Fossil Park is highly recommended. For western audiences, fossil park may be a bit misleading. Its not a park as in playgrounds and grassy fields, more like an industrial park, or complex. In this case, the complex includes the museum, natural history education hall, and a local elementary school. The museum showcases fossils from the mid-Pleistocene Chiting Formation, which are abundant in the Cailiao River Basin. Students from the elementary school would find fossils, and bring them to their teachers. which became the nucleus for the collection and is why the elementary school is included in the complex. The new complex was opened in May of 2019. As of late 2019, admission to the museum is about $3.30. Entrance to the museum: Main entrance area with Formosan Sitka deer in the air: Overlooking courtyard to the elementary school where you may catch a unicycle(!) routine: The first building appears to house the rotating exhibits. At the time of visit, it seemed to be an exhibit on mammoths and Tyrannosaurs. and extinctions:

So I was wondering what's the best position to display all my fossils so before I buy the equipment to display my fossils I just wanted to see your designs at displaying them

Ill be working on a pretty big fossil and wanted to know any differences between paraloid b - 72 and paleo bond stabilizer . I've used paranoid on a few things but have no experience with paleobond stabilizer. Are they used the same ? Does paleo bond need any mixing ?

I have two unknown fossils one being a tooth and the other I believe is a ray mouthplate/jaw bone. Sorry about the photo quality on the mouth plate it had a strange shape. Thanks

I got a weather window and some time to get out for a hike to the Talkeetna Mountains near my home recently. It is an hour long flight to where I went this time and beautiful scenery on the way there. The Nelchina caribou heard uses this area in the spring through fall with their trails from eons use evident in some areas like this mountain. Alaska’s state flower is the Forget Me Knot with many in full bloom. This is at 5,000 foot elevation and the alpine flowers are just now greening up. The caribou trails are nice to use if they happen to be where you are going. Bones from a likely wolf killed caribou. The formation in the background has abundant belemnites. The spring melt with water erosion moves lots of the loose grey mudstone exposing concretions with weathering, some fracture open. This large clam was laying on the bottom and next flood will be gone. Fossil Dog (Kobuk) in action trying to get a parka squirrel who had been chipping at him. Entertaining but really we need to keep hiking as we’re 4 miles from the plane and have not gotten to where I wanted to look at another exposure. D2DCA8DF-76FF-46C0-92B0-6D987105F3A9.MOV The size if some of the ammonites is impressive with these being chunks at the bottom of the exposure I was hiking too. Kobuk is carrying my water which is something he can’t break in his pack. Time to turn around and disappointed as this exposure had looked promising for the bigger ammonites with the float I was seeing in the bottom. On the way back went a different way and found some small gastropods. These slabs of clams were mixed in with conglomerate aggregate and I have seen these type of fossils in several other locations near by. Mixture of fossils and rounded rock. The weather really improved for the flight home making for another spectacular trip. The Talkeetna Mountain in the foreground and Chugach Mountains in the background. Rock glacier is in Hicks Creek valley. Matanuska Glacier The area hiked on this trip is in Cretaceous rocks. There are Jurassic exposures in the Talkeetna Mountains and will get to those sometime too. AK Hiker

With more nice weather and low tides a friend and headed down the west side of Cook Inlet to dig clams. The island in the background will be explored for fossils after getting some groceries from the tidal flats. It was a weekend day so lots of people out in aircraft and boats digging clams. The boats come across Cook Inlet from the Kenia Penninsula and stay for the full low tide cycle. Kobuk stayed in the plane so I did not have a messy passenger for the rest of the trip. The quarry are down in the sand and show holes as they move pushing water out as they breath. Clams Once the clam bucket was filled with what we wanted to take home and clean I scooted over to Chisik Island which is park of Lake Clark National Park to look at and photograph fossils. This is an easy spot to access as the fossils are on the beach or just a short climb to see. Kobuk has his harness on which I use as his safety belt in the plane. Belemnites Inoceramus are abundant A few ammonites in situ Fossil Point in the background across Tuxedni Bay Beach fossils I had intended to climb to see where the blocks of Inoceramus fossil were eroding out but the tide was coming back in so needed to depart while there was still beach showing. This is a park and want to remind anyone wishing to visit that no collecting of fossils is permitted without required permit from the NPS. AK Hiker

I live in Florida and I've heard of some people going to locations in bone valley where it isn't restricted, I was wondering if anyone knows of any places where I could get in to find some fossils. Thank you anything would be helpful

I'm hoping the hive mind here can help me. I am looking for sites that contain fossils from at least 3 distinct time periods, all in one exposure, i.e., at least two of them are reworked into the 3rd one. In other words, I am looking for discrete areas of reworking in which fossils are found from at least 3 time periods. Thanks!

Got some ice age fossils, from North sea.. have you any idea what these are?

Hello! Help with identification please. Radius - 0,7 mm. Age: Middle Miocene. Western Ukraine. Thanks in advance!

Hello! Help please to identify a genus. Height - 6 mm. Age - Eocene. Location - Western Ukraine. Thanks in advance!

Hiya everyone. I’m thinking of buying this fossil collection just wanted to know if any of them are real of if they are reproductions. Thanks

Just today I was reminded of an idea by a friend about trying to do an SVP meeting for Amateur Palaeontologist. Amateur Palaeontologist could join and share their research while getting suggestions by others as well as getting to know other people in the Paleo community. I’m wondering what everyone would think of something like this and if they would join if it is to happen.

Good morning! I wanted to share this beautiful Acrocanthosaurus tooth I was gifted by one of my dear friends family after he passed away. It was found in Texas and it is by far my favorite in my collection. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do!

Hello Fossil Forum, Thank you all for the fantastic information I've already been able to find on prep tools and overall prep lab requirements. I'm in the investigation phase right now and am poised to purchase my first air scribes as an upgrade to the electric engraver I've been using so far. My question is this; for any of the Canadian experts out there, do you have any suggestions on where to look for tools and supplies that can be delivered easily within Canada? There are a lot of great retailers out there, but they all seem to be located in the USA or UK, are there any Canadian options/resources I might be missing out on? Cheers, Ryan

Hello! Help please with identification. Height - slightly more than 2 mm. Age - Paleogene - Miocene. Location - Western Ukraine. Thanks in advance!

I'd really like to get more into fossil hunting and rock hounding after how much fun I had at the beach. Are there any good sites I can access around Eastern PA? Specifically up to an hour or two of driving distance from Berks County. When I search for sites in PA I usually see suggestions for Central and West PA. I'm not looking to join any groups atm for personal reasons, but I'll take suggestions for when I feel up to it (there's a group in Reading I'm keeping an eye on). Any tips would be appreciated! Thanks!

Hello. From a recent trip to the Perm-Carboniferous petrified wood, we brought back some very interesting fragments; nothing like this has come across before. Usually we find fragments of wood (chips), without knots, without a pronounced structure - just highly silicified, indeterminate fragments. But while this trip from a small area (just a couple of square meters), we collected several interesting fragments. This is a solid piece of the trunk with knots located at the same level. 7 knots. Another similar fragment, but split lengthwise. There are only 3 knots left, but a cavity with smoky quartz crystals has opened. I want to identify these findings. Having looked at the photographs and drawings, which depict Araucaria, I saw that the branches of this tree are arranged in "layers", i.e. on the same level. Why did I take Araucaria as a basis - in some literature, local layers are called Araucarian. I would be glad to receive any information. By the way, I have a similar trunk with knots on the same level - but it is from the Paleogene; much better preserved, replaced by chalcedony, and has 5 knots.

Hello guys! That was outside of my plans to search in such direction, however a small comment started a big discussion about the possibility to have magma melting the rocks and sealing some fossils. In fact what I was suggesting as simple "melting" seems to be a very complex process or group of processes, that I would suggest to discuss here. So it was already commented, that magma can't really melt other rocks. The temperature of magma is not high enough and it will cool down . Still we see many effects of the magma on the rocks and especially on the sediments and fossils. Here I will try to explain some, so let try to discuss it in the best scientific way . First of all - we talk for underwater sediments. Most likely the intrusion of magma happened when there was still water on the surfice. The main difference between LAVA and MAGMA - these are both the same, however the lava is a magma, that reach the surface and errupt as volcanic activity. But we don't discuss such lava. Most of the time we will see some effects of the magma, intruding near the surface . 1. First effect of the magma - high temperature. Because of the high temperature - the sediments where magma is intruding will be heated. In fact we may not see real melting of these sediments, but because of the high temperature - it will cause these sediments to undergo termal processing which is similar to ceramic production. The water will evaporate. And the clay will harden into very solid hard matterial. 2. The effect of the pressure . Because the magma will erupt from the lower layers - it is under high pressure there. If there is way to the survice it will cause volcanic erruption. It the pressure is not high enough or no such way, the molten magma will try to find any possible space and will fill it. Together with the high temperature - the magma will burn some organic materials and will fill its space. So we may see the exact copy / matrix/ of the organic material but filled and formed by the magma. 3. Chemical processes. Some minerals from the magma may reacct with water or dissolve under hither temperature with water and this may create some kind of magmatic liquid - which would be boiling water with all kind of chemical elements in it. This water may fill the gaps on the bottom, it will be heavier than the normal water and it may create a layer of sediment. 4. The evaporation of water. This is only for a case if water layer is very low and high temperature from underground to evaporate the water, causing all the sediments to form a solid crust. 5. Effects of gases. 6. Cracks - usually the magma will come near the surface through the cracks, so we can see the magma or some products created by magma to fill the cracks in the rocks. The color of such magma or magmatic liquid substances is usually red-brown or black. With all the mention here possibilities I will try to provide some examples of rocks and fossils that I found and to give some explanation, but I should tell that I am not a chemist, I am not geologist. So my explanations are weak. There should be better explanations by the specialists in this field. What is very clear for me: For some very specific rocks and fossils - I may suspect or I recognize some effects of the magma . These are not difficult to recognize. There are many hints to suggest such magmatic activity . I fully understand this is a complex problem and I don't have the background to do such scientific research, I would like to share some observations and to discuss with other participants about such effects and fossil affected by magma actions. First , I will give some examples of rocks, affected by the magma.

My husband and I found these 3 bones in the Peace River in Florida. Can anyone identify them for us? This is my first time posting, so I hope the pictures are OK. Thank you so much!

Today I stopped at the 2021 Chicagoland Gem and Mineral Show that is being held today and tomorrow at the Kane County Fairgrounds. This is the first show that I have been able to attend in about 18 months. The show was not as big as it normally is, but it was pretty close. At the beginning there were not a lot of attendees, but with in 1 hour, the place was packed. Here are a couple random pics of the show. The line to get in- The crowd- Some pics of the various fossils that were for sale. I did not take the amount of pictures that I normally would have because it is a lot of work to block out prices, as the admins request. I did buy 2 flats of fossils for $40 each, this first flat contained various items and I got it because I liked the first item pictured below. I will include the id that came with each piece. Cassie fimbriata Middle Eocene Roe Plains, Madura Western Australia Giant Tortoise Shell Geochelone sp. Withlacoochee Formation Florida Exogyra ponderosa Taylor Formation Cretaceous Ladonia, Texas Lyticoceras Lower Albian Lower Cretaceous Huanzala, Peru Leptosolen Cretaceous McNairy Co., Tennessee Conus spurus Pliocene Desoto, Florida Knightia Green River Formation Wyoming Unknown Gastropods Unknown Location Amethyst The next flat contained something that I really like fossil echinoids from Texas. This flat contained 232 pieces which came out to about 17 cents a piece. It looks like there are two different species, I have to figure out what they are. Any suggestions would be appreciated. If I am bored tomorrow, I might take a drive out to check it out again.

Hello all! A batch of new unknowns found in my micro matrix! Any help will be appreciated! Cretaceous Eagle Ford formation. 1. Interesting geometric pychnodont tooth? I know they can be rectangular, but this one is oddly shaped. Size 5mm 2. Strange "fat" tooth". It looks sharky but the width of the base is throwing me for a loop. Perhaps the cusplet of a bigger tooth? Size 5 mm 3. An odd striated tooth. Size 6 mm 4. A very pointy something. I thought it was a Scapanyorhynchus tooth at first, but it's not quite right. Seems more "fishy". Size 6mm 7. Not even sure what to make of this. It has bone texture, but also other stuff? Size 8mm 8. A weird little double pointy thing. Those two sticky up "stalks" are just strange. Size 2 mm 9. Thinking this might be turtle? Very small though. Size 12mm 10. Lastly, a little vertebra that might be snake Size 7mm

I spent a couple days this week hunting fossils and sharks teeth around coastal South Carolina. I came across a few fossils that I need help identifying. Any ID or guidance is much appreciated. Images are below.

So I got these when i was like 9 at a gift shop. I think these are from morocco either from khouribga or kem kem. Does anyone know what these fossils are? Picture 1picture 2picture 3