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Getting Permission from Landowners regarding Western Kansas
JFPennsylvanian posted a topic in Questions & Answers
Hello all. I try and go fossil hunting as often as possible and I really want to get back out in the Niobrara chalk in western Kansas. I’ve only hunted out there one time on a state 4-H trip and it was the most fun I’ve ever had. However I do know that most of, if not all of the land the chalk is on is owned privately. I’m not sure the best way to get in contact with landowners about asking permission. If I lived closer I would just drive out there and ask around, but I live in eastern Kansas so it is a minimum 5-6 hour drive out there. Is there any reliable way of figuring out who owns land and the best way to ask them? Thanks for any and all help in advance.
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Hello! I’ve been on this site for a while now but I haven’t formally introduced myself. I have been interested in paleontology for quite a while and I am hoping to go to KU (Rock Chalk!), for paleontology when I graduate high school. I have lived in Kansas my whole life and thanks to 4-H, I have had the pleasure of hunting all around Kansas. I think my favorite place to hunt has been out in Western Kansas in the Niobrara Formation.
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Hello, I found this fossil in South Central Kansas, 20 miles north of Oklahoma border. A pond was dredged and this was found on a sand pile. Could someone please help me identify it?
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Hey all, I found this in the Arkansas River mud right in the middle of Wichita, KS. It was in one piece but it broke when I was tapping a tarantula wolf spider out of its bone home
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My son found this rock a while back in the sandbar of a creek bed in Northeastern Kansas. We find all kinds of invertebrate fossils here regularly in/around creek beds, and thought this looked interesting, almost like dinosaur skin? Or some other fossil? I’m 99% positive it’s just some sedimentary rock, as it is cracked on all sides and common in sandbars here, but we’ve never found one like this and I thought it wouldn’t hurt to consult some more knowledgeable people.
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Looking for American/European mosasaur Jaw & teeth
JorisVV posted a topic in Member-to-Member Fossil Trades
I was wondering if anyone would be interested in trading his/her mosasaurus jaw or partial from a site (Either United States or somewhere in Europe). I've got various amount of eurasian pleistoceen stuff, some dinosaurus teeth. Megalodon teeth of great quality too. Please if you know anyone, feel free to contact me! -
.7” tooth, Blue Hill Member, Carlile Shale, Jewell Co Kansas. I am not super familiar with the Carlile Shale fauna and I think this is a Cretoxyrhina but I’m not 100% sure I’m correct so I thought I seek other opinions.
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I just got back from a trip to Kansas where I found a tooth in the Ninnescah River outside of Wichita. I first thought it was a cow or buffalo but now after researching it believe that it looks more like a Woolly Rhino tooth. Thoughts?
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Hello, I recently got this section of fossilized squid pen of the giant squid Tusoteuthis longa, from the Cretaceous Niobrara Chalk of Kansas, USA. It measures about 7cm long. After receiving it I realized that it seemed rather unstable, with small "splinters" flaking off like a fragile piece of wood. I hear it is recommended to consolidate vertebrate bones with something like Butvar B-76, but what about something like this squid pen? I don't know what the material even is. Does anyone have experience preserving these? Thanks.
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Found yesterday in the Kansas River. I'm thinking it's probably just a button buck skull cap. Although I really want it to be from an antilocaprid. But I thought its worth the post for me because it's my first part of a skull Ive ever found in the river. But I can't distinguish personally. I'm not the best at telling Kansas river modern stained bones from permineralized bones sometimes too, and I understand if it's unidentifiable beyond cervid even. Thanks
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Hello Everyone. My grandaughter is in 4-H Geology and we found this specimen in Southwest Kansas. We have no idea what it is or how to label it for her exhibit box. Any help you could give us would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
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Hello all. We were recently on 4-H trip to Greenwood County Kansas and stopped at a roadcut in the Kanwaka Shale. We have several questions, the first one is below. We found this crinoid stem with an encrusting Bryazoa on it. I believe this is Fistulipora but would like a more positive ID. Any help is appreciated
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Rod shaped structures with central cavity, shape reminded me of urchin spines. Bryozoan and coral in background. I thought about weathered coral but the structures seem too straight. Smaller rock with similar but larger structure on back.
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Not sure if these are trace fossils. The rock looks like a cast of the sea floor.
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From the album: Sharks
A gorgeous tooth from one of my favorite sharks! The enamel isn't polished - the chalk preserves its shine extremely well - it's as shiny as when it fell out of the animal's mouth! -
From the album: Sharks
A beautiful tooth from one of my favorite sharks. This one is extra special because of the self-inflicted bite mark - a gash seen on the left in lingual view. Apparently their bite was strong enough to cut their own teeth! -
Hello from Kansas. I'm getting back into fossils now that I have a dino-crazy 3 yo. We make regular trips to museums to look at the fossils and my wife reminded me that we should have fossils here in Kansas. It's amazing what we've found on our first few adventures. Looking forward to many more and learning more from the group (as well as admiring all of their finds).
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Found some interesting fossils with my wife and boys yesterday. 1. Guessing these are gastropod shells (all replaced with crystals) 2. I think these may be crinoid stalk fragments 3. Millions of sub millimeter round fossils (and brachiopod) Wife: I found a rock with the wavy sea fossil (bryozoan) and petrified wood. Me: that doesn't make sense, oh, it's concrete. I guess Kansas has so many fossils we use them as filler 4. Not sure what this is and didn't have a ruler handy
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My name is Jonathan and I just started fossil hunting with my 4 yo son, Gabe. Here's some shells we found at a flint hills rest stop: 1. Cluster of similar shells: 2a. Corals. 2b. Close up 3a. Larger brachiopod (per posts below) 3b. Same rock, probably same type of brachiopod.
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I found this maxilla piece on the Kansas River today. I'm thinking it's some sort of pig ancestor, and hoping it's not just an old domestic pig's. But it seems mineralized to me. Also, the teeth are pretty worn so it's hard for me to ID them. I saw this topic And thought it's too difficult for me to ID based on the worn teeth. But maybe someone else here can help? Please let me know if more photos would be of use as well. Thanks in advance.
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My daughter likes to investigate the rocks at our local post office and found this one that we thought might be a fossil. These are a mix of 1-3” landscaping rocks and I don’t know the source. Can anyone help us ID it? Thank you for your expertise!
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HELP! My friend found this on the sandbar today. I’ve never seen anything like it! Feels like bone…. Any ideas?
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I recently acquired this nice little tooth from the Carlile Shale of north central Kansas, which I believe is Turonian in age. It looks like Cardabiodon ?venator to me, but I don't have much experience with the genus. What do others think? The tooth measures 27.17 mm along the slant and is 21.66 mm wide.
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All of these were found on gravel bars on Elm Creek in north-eastern Kansas, as we kayak on it a lot.
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