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A good weather to hunt in the cretaceous,few good echies and brachiopods
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I went today to the museum of natural history Lille Northern France,nice place to visit!
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Today I receive some Echinocorys (Leske, 1778) sea urchins. Some still in their flint matrix. I am in love with their color variety. They were found in the fields around Les Andelys along the River Seine. Parasitic worm tunnels are visible on some sea urchins. Also contain some mini calcite crystals, which are clearly visible in the sunlight. For my sea urchin collection and welcome addition. I would like to identify them by species, who can help me with good online documentation about these sea urchins? I will also post detailed pictures in the topic so I can get some help. This will follow when I have better light and time. I like to hear when people recognize species
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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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Annularia sphenophylloides leaf whorls - Upper Carboniferous, Westphalian - near Lens, Northern France
nala posted a gallery image in Member Collections
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Annularia sphenophylloides leaf whorls - Upper Carboniferous, Westphalian - near Lens, Northern France -
Hello, in my quest for jet and amber I came across this piece this week in an old mine. This is the first time that I have found a piece of good jet covered with its bark totally pyritized over several millimeters. I find the result very pleasant but I fear for its stability in the months or years to come! This dates from the Turonian and the abandoned mine is in Languedoc Roussillon in France!
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This weekend Natalie and I had a little field trip near Boulogne sur Mer in France. It is a few kilometers more Southwards than the Chalk cliffs we often prospect. The fossils here are a bit harder to find, but on a few occasions it is pissible to find marine reptile remains. We didn't find lots of fossils, a few gastropod steinkerns and a beautuful echinoid: Perisalenia koenigii. On our way back home we made a quick stop at a small construction site where I've found a few Micraster sp. echinoids before, there hasn't been a lot of activity since we last visited the spot, but it still delivered a very nice specimen. Enjoy the pictures: Perisalenia koenigii : The Micraster sp. from the construction site:
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Fossil Hunting in the Pas-de-Calais So last week was a lot of fun for me. Saturday afternoon we left home to go to northern France, the Pas-de-Calais. We first stopped in Belgium to visit some family, so we only arrived at our B&B near Wissant in the late Sunday afternoon. Our main goal was to go to that region in order to do, obviously, fossil-hunting! And that is what we did. I gotta say that I was (pleasantly) surprised with how things ended up! Read on to see what we found... Day 1: Wissant The evening of our arrival we were walking in the small city of Wissant, which lies in between the two famous Caps: Cap-Blanc-Nez (to the north) and Cap-Gris-Nez (to the south). Therefore it is a popular place for visitors to stay during the holidays, as it is ideally placed in between the two main touristic sites of the area. We had a really nice Bed & Breakfast on the outskirts of the city, so that was good too. Anyways, so we were walking the city to try and find a restaurant for the evening. At some point, I come across this small area where there is very dry mud/sand-like sediment, in the middle of the city. I look inside and there are lots of bones and jaws from different critters! Also a few shells. Although everything was in matrix, I still suspect that the things are modern (in the sense of 'non-fossil'. I'd say it still is a few hundreds of years old.), mainly because the bones are from sheep, cow and the shells are from edible species. So probably remnants of some primitive food-left-overs junk pile or something. There were also deer bones too (roe?), not as sure as to how that got there. Anyways, even though the bones are probably modern, still cool finds IMO! Total haul
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This Weekend was very busy,saturday afternoon the tide was low and allow a good hunt on the Cap blanc nez with a very grey weather ,heavy rain sometimes a a Mantelliceras picteti from the Cenomanian was here And a Turrilites costatus Big pieces of Calcite time to see the Gault clay Anice pyrite Hoplite from the Albian on the sand small samples to ID inside the clay time to go back on the way :) Today morning with the sun but high tide And before living
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Iwent today for a new carboniferous hunt,very hot today in Northern France
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From the album: My collection in progress
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 -
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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
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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
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