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One of the really best websites about cretaceous and jurassic ammonites has been removed from the net, www.ammonites.fr This was always an inspiration to compare own finds and determine them. I do not really know why, have heard some stories but did not talk to Herve Chatelier, the owner And, when you look with the waybackmachine it is not possible to open former versions... I will miss the website
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Hi TFF, I was thinking about fossils and thought why not make a small trip report. Few weeks ago the GF and I hit the usual spot in France to hunt some Turonian goodies. Lots of sand still, makes it challenging and more exciting when you find something. Within the first 10 minutes on the beach I spotted what I believed were some sweet mammites spikes in a loose boulder on the beach. It must have been just uncovered from under the sand since the sea had done some awesome polishing already. During extraction a spike were to break, glue to the rescue! No other finds that day. Decided to rest and eat while enjoying high tide.
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Hello, I found this fossil in the center of France, in the loire valley. There you can find ammonites, echinoderms, seashells.. all marine animals. Unfortunately I'm not able to identify this one, it looks like a tooth to me but I'm not sure. Dimensions: 2cm
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At least I think its a tiny tooth. Size about 3mm. Boulonais, France. Upper jurassic, marine/ terrestial sediments.
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Hi! Total newbie here so sorry for the noob questions We made a trip to France (Normandy) near Cap Blanc and found some fossils. I've tried looking online to identify them but as I don't have any knowledge about it it's looking for a needle in a haystack... Can someone help me with the identification with these 2. I'm not sure the tube-like stone is even a fossil or not just some bead we found from someone's necklace... :') It's hollow all the way through. Thanks in advance!
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2 weeks ago, returning from a sale exhibition of minerals and fossils in the Dordogne, we (my wife and I) visited a site in search of fossils rarely sought after by amateurs... The rock that motivated us is a millstone that has been exploited, formed from a lacustrine sediment from the Rupelian (Oligocene), and cuttings from exploitation are still accessible in a wood. The first photo shows a (broken) millstone found in the area; For the search for fossils, you have to be motivated, equipped with a good magnifying glass because the average size of fossils is between 0.5 and 1 mm in diameter! ..And perseverance because few pieces of rock have fossils, and this rock is extremely difficult to break, producing sharp shards in an unpredictable direction. Have you guessed which fossils these are? these are Gyrogonites, oogonia of Characeae, which can be found preserved in 3D with their spiral ornamentation, or in section, and occasionally accompanied by very small gastropods... here are the pics, enjoy
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After a loooong long time I've got a new piece to prepare! I recently recieve this beautiful Hyaenodon canine from Saint hyppolite de Caton (an upper Eocene locality). Many of you would prefer to leve the tooth in the matrix but I'm just to curious to extract it a see how is preserved on the other side but also because this is rock is super rich of fossils and I want to see if I can find anything else.
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Hi! My son found this in France in a river, region center , it’s quite unusual so I thought I’d show it to you guys. Any thought? IMG_3992.MOV
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A few weeks ago I went back to Cap Blanc-Nez in France. The variety of fossils that can be found there (aptian,albian,cenomanian,turonian) is the reason I keep coming back. Just 30 mins on the beach together with a french buddy and already a tripmaker. A freshly eroded morrowites, barely touched by the sea. While further excavating it seems a second ammonite is below. Highlighted because it's not that easy to see. Turns out to be a small Lewesiceras, incomplete anyway. Back to the good stuff. The split went like a dream, can't get any better. Beautiful sutures too. To make the post not too long with images, i'll post a mid-prep picture as a comment. As a lot of collectors do, I hid the ammonite and went looking further. I knew a there still was a big ammonite laying around as I found one just a few weeks prior, unable to take it with me or start excavating. Was too big and chalky anyway, what a luxury problem to have. Classic picture with shoe for scale. My friend and I couldn't resist hammering around a bit, just for fun. Another friend got it out last week. Seeing the result I might have made a mistake leaving it :P Picture also in comments. On our way back we saw @Manticocerasman, seems we missed a beautiful Ptychodus. Congratz to him and the wife Afterwards we did a bit of cenomanian hunting. My friend wanted to make up for my finds and found a beautiful Mariella (rather rare with all whorls) while I enjoyed an epic sunset and managed to pick up a tooth.
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I found this mammal tooth in France, Chalons-Sur-Marne, while searching for shark teeth. I should be (late) paleocene. Does anyone have an idea which animal?
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During the first part of our summer holiday we spent a few days at Cap-Blanc-Nez. The tides and weather weren’t optimal for fossil hunting and lots of tourism at the location didn’t help much either, so our finds were relatively limited. The last day however we found 1 spectacular piece. A little brown spot was reflecting light on one of the loose boulders on the beach. It was a ptychodus tooh peeking out. They are very rare there and this one allone was worth the trip. After the prep at home it only got better, the tooth was complete and of considerable size. Enjoy the pictures :
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Bad news for french fossils collectors from North of France.......and others https://france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/normandie/calvados/bientot-une-interdiction-de-ramasser-des-fossiles-a-villers-sur-mer-2583356.html?fbclid=IwAR0Q7LG9iJ2wHzASlPRAj8n9bU5OYG8zfbKOmi43bpQ0NlOVsgeAeLtyKcE
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During our explorations in search of fossils, we obviously favor sedimentary rocks; I invite you to follow me with my wife in search of fossils… in volcanic rocks! (only observation without sampling) In the center of the volcanic massif of Cantal (central France), we explored a not very accessible valley where outcrop deposits of breccias of dense pyroclastic flows, in search of fossil woods of Villafranchian age (upper Pleistocene). According to an old reference (conference , 1969) one can find: “sometimes tree trunks inclined in all directions and sometimes branches. They are black, it is charcoal, produced by combustion in the absence of oxygen. After their reduction in carbon, certain woods underwent a strong fumarolic activity with silicification in opal cristobalite, generally respecting the vegetal structures.” By anatomical study in microscopy, 5 genera have been identified: Cedroxylon, Piceoxylon, Cornoxylon, Fagoxylon, Ulmoxylon. They suggest a temperate or mountain type climate. The conservation of carbonized organic matter indicates that the rock emplacement temperature must have been relatively lower than at the volcanic magma exit point estimated at 900°C according to mineralogy. The pyroclastic flow therefore destroyed a forest by descending the slope of the volcano while cooling. Let us now see in some photos what we discovered with wonder: 2 fossiliferous sites, the first with only one vertical trunk in an overhanging cliff, the second with multiple trunks preserved or hollowed out and branches on the bank of the river (without signs of silicification on these 2 sites found about 300 meters apart). There must therefore still be other nearby sites, but the difficult access to the site probably keeps them out of sight.
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From the album: My collection in progress
Ceratites laevigatus Philippi 1901 Location: Héming, Grand East, France Age: 242 - 237 Mya (Ladinian, Middle Triassic) Measurements: 11,4 cm (diameter) Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca Subphylum: Conchifera Class: Cephalopoda Subclass: Ammonoidea Order: Ceratitida Family: Ceratitidae Are visible the peculiar smooth living chamber and the ceratitic suture pattern.-
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Parkinsonia pachypleura Buckman 1925 Location: Saint-Benin-d'Azy, Bourgone-Franche-Comté, France Age: 168 - 166 Mya (Batonian, Middle Jurassic) Measurements: 4,2 cm (diameter) Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca Subphylum: Conchifera Class: Cephalopoda Subclass: Ammonoidea Order: Ammonitida Suborder: Ammonitina Family: Parkinsoniidae -
Iwent today for a new carboniferous hunt,very hot today in Northern France
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Myophorella clavellata Parkinson, 1811 Location: Villers-sur-Mer, Normandy, France Age: 166-163 Mya (Callovian, Middle Jurassic) Measurements: 2,8x1,7 cm Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca Subphylum: Conchifera Class: Bivalvia Subclass: Palaeoheterodonta Order: Trigoniida Family: Trigoniidae -
New Amphicyonid (bear-dog) Found in France
Harry Pristis posted a topic in General Fossil Discussion
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From the album: My collection in progress
Gryphaea dilatata Sowerby, 1818 Location: Villers-sur-Mer, Normandy, France Age: 163-157 Mya (Oxfordian, Upper Jurassic) Measurements: 7x7x7 cm Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca Subphylum: Conchifera Class: Bivalvia Subclass: Pteriomorpha Order: Ostreida Family: Gryphaeidae -
A week ago my friend Diego (@fossilesdecapblancnez) sent me a message that he'd found a big lewesiceras peramplum (lower turonian, grand blanc nez formation). This is the ammonite in situ. He decided to leave it alone and come back with me a week later to extract it and carry it of the beach since it's huge. So that makes it yesterday. He arrived a bit early after high tide but luckily the ammonite was still there as the site is frequently collected. As you can see the pebbles moved quite a lot in a weeks time. It's good and bad, lots of erosion but also lots of boulders with potential fossils buried. I arrived a bit later. The extraction itself went quite well. The matrix wasn't too hard and it split well of the fossil. A massive 77cm (+-30.3 inches) which is relatively big for the species. It should be a female since they grew biggest. I don't know how but it seems he and I always manage to photograph our shoes/boots too Luckily she's not the fattest/thickest making the weight acceptable for my old handtruck. A good half kilometer on the beach and a steep climb of the beach and she was secured
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Brittlestar fossil is it real?
Starfishfossils posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
Hi, I’m newer to collecting fossils and I was just wondering if these two brittlestar fossils are real or not. The information I have on them are as follows: Ophioderma elegans,from the Jurassic; Calovian of La haute vault, Ardeche, France.
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Asterophyllites equisetiformis Stéphanian , Carboniferous , Graissessac ; Hérault France
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Avery nice WE,the second day with a famous local guide in the Jurassic!
nala posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
The second day was in the Jurassic cliffs of the Boulonnais,Northern France,with a famous local hunters who took with him! Ludovic was born on the top of these cliffs and is a real passionate ,it was hard for me to follow but i saw stunning fossils !
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A very nice WE first day The Cap Blanc Nez
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This time on our field trip we tried the late jurassic deposits of the northern french coast. those spots are a bit harder to prospect, but from time to time you can find vertebraten material there. This time we found quite a few Hybodont remains, 2 realy nice teeth and a spine. we also found a little piece of marine reptile bone and fish scales.
