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  1. cameronsfossilcollection

    Elrathia kingii

    From the album: Wheeler Formation

    Beautiful, large molt with a tinge of green.
  2. cameronsfossilcollection

    Bolaspidella housensis

    From the album: Wheeler Formation

    Two cheekless red molts on a beautiful algae covered matrix.
  3. cameronsfossilcollection

    Modocia sp.

    From the album: Wheeler Formation

    Unsurprisingly thought this was an Elrathia when I found it.
  4. cameronsfossilcollection

    Elrathia kingii

    From the album: Wheeler Formation

    Cheekless red Elrathia molt on a beautiful piece of rock.
  5. cameronsfossilcollection

    Hyolith - Haplophrinites?

    From the album: Wheeler Formation

    Typical preservation without either of the helens nor the operculum.
  6. Zomb Ren

    Morrison tooth ID (Allo?)

    As mentioned in the title, I am considering whether this tooth is from Allosaurus sp.? CH 1.7cm CBL 0.9CM CBW 0.35CM MESIAL: 5/MM DISTAL: 5/MM I think mesial serrations extend almost to the base
  7. Prairiestone

    Is This a Cambrian Monoplacophoran?

    Hi I came across this while hunting for trilobites at a commercial Cambrian shale quarry in Utah near Delta and was wondering if it was a monoplacophoran or something else or just an odd rock formation. The shape is concave and about 2 inches in diameter. Any help would be much appreciated. Thank you!
  8. Crusty_Crab

    Eocene Green River Formation Unknown

    This is from the Eocene Parachute Creek Member of the Green River Formation in Utah. Any suggestions or anyone know if anything similar has been found?
  9. minnbuckeye

    Round 3 of Western Trip

    The third chapter about my trip out west has been a bit delayed in coming. @piranha graciously referred me to a book on Green River leaves, the main subject of this posting. It was a wonderful book full of beautiful pictures and relevant information on the flora of the Green River Formation. And I immersed myself in it as a way to“semi ID” my finds. For those who are interested: MacGinitieH.D.1969 The Eocene Green River Flora of Northwestern Colorado and Northeastern Utah. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences, 83:1-140 In addition to piranha, I need to thank a “to remain nameless” forum member who directed me to the site. I also stopped at Florissant for a short time, which contains many similar if not identical species at its location. So, my finds are a mixture of the two sites, but mostly Green River. To begin my journey, I exited the highway onto what was thought to be the proper road. It seemed more like an abandon trail, but the landmark mentioned was present. It concerned me, with the small low riding rental car being driven, the likelihood of getting stuck existed. Roads like this never stopped me before, so off I went. And besides, it is a rental car!!!! Looking at my directions, it instructed me to turn right at the next “dinosaur”. What a unique instruction. I couldn’t wait to see what was ahead. After seemingly hours, traveling under 10 mph, seeing nothing but expanses of sagebrush reaching to the horizon, I finally reached my next turnoff. And yes there it was, the dinosaur, clear as day (mixed in with a little pareidolia) soaking up the warmth of the morning sun. After turning right and many more rough miles of travel, I finally reached this isolated spot of Green River Formation. It is the light-colored rock in the foreground. The beauty of the Utah landscape overwhelmed my senses and I just sat on the rim of the canyon taking it all in. It is moments like this that keep me “fossil hunting”. My mind, body and spirit were united as one! Enough of this meditation stuff. You want to see fossils!! First up are the possible insects found. Again, pareidolia may be part of what I am seeing so forgive me if some are misidentified as insects. My readings told of seeds frequently encountered in the Green River. These pictures depict what I believe are seed like structures. Possibly Somara ailanthus: A legume pod?? Next are unknowns to me. They appear to be coniferous. The next specimen was tentatively IDed as a coniferous leafy shoot. But in the book that I attempted to make my IDs from, the tip of a fern, Asplenium delicatula looked very similar. Woody pieces are found on occasion. The first one pictured matches Equisetum winchesteri closely. The next two are unknowns that I keep seeing as flowers. Hopefully not more pareidolia. An odd trace fossil. Now I will show samples of the Green River leaves found. I was unprepared for splitting this matrix. My lowly bon big face Estwing brick hammer could not peel up large enough slabs of matrix, resulting in many partial leaves like these. Be prepared for the need of multiple small chisels and pry bars if better specimens are wanted. The first leaf is similar to Quercus petros. The next leaf is suggestive of a legume. Finally Eugenia americana?? Next are a few Florissant leaves. The middle one possibly Populus heeri. Next up is Astronium truncatum. Notice the matrix is NOT flat and the leaf conforms to the undulations. This is common with leaves from Florissant. Dinner time!! I will finish this post when my after dinner nap concludes!
  10. On a recent trip out west, I ended my day of collecting petrified wood in the Farson, Wyoming area by driving to Vernal, Utah. On this trip through some gorgeous country, I was pleasantly surprised by occasional roadside signs telling of the geology that I was traveling through. And by the time I arrived in Vernal, I feel I had a better understanding of the local geology!!! Thanks to whoever was responsible for the signage. Here was my lesson! One question I have about the next formation, the Mowry Shale. I did pull over here to stretch my legs and found a few pieces of matrix that contained some nice fish scales. It wasn't until I returned home and saw these that it occurred to me, did I collect this illegally along the road's right of way? Are vertebrate fossils open to collection on a road right of way?
  11. Not sure what this could be. I am pretty sure this is cambrian maxfield formation. Any guesses? (It might be possible that it is one of the other carboniferous limestones that lay above, but those usually look different and have different fossils)
  12. Cspell

    Wheeler shale mystery

    Came across this cracking some shale...any help in id'ing it would be much appreciated!
  13. Duddyson

    Found a fossil in Utah

    I’m not sure what kind of fossil this is. I was digging in some shale and found this guy lying in there. I think it might be some kind of brachiopod. I found it south of Provo, Utah.
  14. My cousin found some possible fossils while visiting a friend's ranch in Utah years ago (he has no idea where they were). While he was there him and his friend found "dinosaur bones" that were embedded in rock (he said he broke one in half trying to get it free). Since he heard I was getting into fossils he gave me a couple of the smaller ones. I don't think they're bones but wondered if they might be some sort of trace fossil (burrow?). Let me know what you think.
  15. Huntonia

    Wheeler Shale Unknown

    Hey guys, I found this last month in the Wheeler Shale in Utah, and I'm at a total loss as to what it is. I showed it to a friend who collects there regularly and he wasn't sure what it is either. He suggested it might be a carpoid or something similar. It's ever so slightly raised on the matrix. Does anyone recognize it? Scale in inches:
  16. Southern Utah - Grand Staircase between the Vermillion and Chocolate cliffs section. The geological period for this location is Upper Triassic. I was out exploring the cliff of a butte (more like a half-butte since one side was cliff and the other gently slopes north into alluvial sand) and came across what seemed like a very flat ancient creek bed, now just a small desert wash. It was strewn with quite large river rocks that did not belong, and were not found outside this sand creek. It was very cool, as this "river" was essentially at the top of the cliff and gently flowing away from the edge, so even heavy desert monsoons couldn't produce enough run off water flow to smooth these rocks since the cliff formed. Whatever mountain these rocks came from is long gone. I came across this egg-shaped rock. (8-12inches, 20-30cm long) , and the surface markings were really unusual. I took the photo below, but was being dragged along by my partner who couldn't care less about rocks, so I didn't get forensic photos. I assumed in the moment it was just a very egg-looking river rock, even though it was a different type than the others. The cliff area was otherwise entirely the typical sedimentary rock you'd expect. But after a year looking at the photo, and looking at actual dino eggs, it didn't seem like a totally crazy thought. Petrified wood is known to be in the area also, but I wasn't aware of that at the time. I attached a photo of the other rocks in the sand creek to set the scene a bit. Some of these rocks looked like they really needed to be broken in half to see what might be inside, but I didn't have my rock hammer as I thought I was just going to see normal sandstone. Thanks for any thoughts...
  17. There are so many beautifully colored dinosaur bones. Are the different species the reason for the different colors?
  18. creepyspiderlady

    Type of Dino ID possible from vertebrae?

    My dog and I were out rock hunting in Utah, right outside the dinosaur national monument park boundaries and she started digging furiously at a rock that I had tripped over. I looked back and I couldn’t believe what was sticking up out of the ground. It was a Dino bone vertebrae! I was in complete shock! I helped my dog clear the earth around it and found more and more pieces. Whole pieces. I knew I was supposed to do something but my mind went completely blank. I took the pieces that we had found to a paleontologist that lived on the same block as me. He told me that ‘they aren’t interested in small specimens’, and ‘if you find like a leg bone, that’s another story’. So I kept the pieces that we already had taken. I recently contacted a lady that works in the utah blm network and she contacted like 5 or 6 other people, all of them emailed me and I told them my story. One guy seemed really interested because he had taken a bunch of students out to the site 4 years earlier and hadn’t found anything. I mean, literally, this bone jumped out at me! I tripped over it! Anyways, I read about a man from Moab that basically had the same story happen to him and he was charged with theft and sentenced to prison for taking Dino bone. The guy I was emailing (I am pretty sure his name is Steve) asked me to come show him where I found this dinosaur. I don’t want to go to prison. But I really think this dinosaur needs and deserves to be ‘found’ so nothing else will happen to it.
  19. Marco90

    Itagnostus interstrictus

    From the album: My collection in progress

    Itagnostus interstrictus White 1874 Location: Wheeler Formation, Utah, USA Age: 507 Mya (Wuliuan, Middle Cambrian) Measurements: 5x5x4,5 cm (matrix), 6x3 mm(trilobite) Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Subphylum: Trilobitomorpha Class: Trilobita Order: Agnostida Suborder: Agnostina Family: Peronopsidae
  20. Marco90

    Elrathia kingii

    From the album: My collection in progress

    Elrathia kingii Meek 1870 Location: Wheeler Formation, Utah, USA Age: 507 Mya (Wuliuan, Middle Cambrian) Measurements: 3x2 cm Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Subphylum: Trilobitomorpha Class: Trilobita Order: Ptychopariida Suborder: Ptychopariina Family: Alokistocaridae
  21. Nautiloid

    Lemureops kilbeyi

    From the album: Nautiloid’s Trilobite Collection

    This gorgeous little bug comes from the Lower Ordovician Fillmore Formation in the Southern House Range of Utah. Definitely one of the coolest bugs in my collection! This was purchased from a good friend of mine.

    © Owen Yonkin 2022

  22. Finn

    Dinosaur Egg

    We found a few dinosaur eggs located in Utah. Not quite sure on exactly what they were laid by or even if they are fossilized eggs.
  23. Hi everyone! I'm gonna be spending a few days in Salt Lake City this August and am looking for advice. I'm debating between heading to the U-dig/New-dig sites in Delta UT for trilobites vs. heading to Kemmerer WY Green River for fish and other fossils. I wish I had time for both and to explore on my own, but time is limited. Any thoughts/suggestions? Also, any advice on finding petrified wood around the Salt Lake City area? Thanks so much!!
  24. I'm going to be taking a trip to the southwest (Colorado, Utah, New Mexico and possibly Texas) pretty soon, and I was wondering if anyone could give me some ideas as to where I could go fossil hunting. I'll provide the specific areas we'll be traveling to; I also previously lived in Colorado and have already found a few good sites, but would definitely be open to any other suggestions. Colorado seems pretty promising with some good fossil quarries (Florrisant Fossil Hunting and the Morrison Museum), and I grew up with the Denver Museum of Nature and Science as well as Dinosaur Ridge. I'll mostly be in the Denver and Colorado Springs areas. Utah is where I'm having a bit of trouble; I've heard it's definitely fossil country, but I can't find a lot of tours or places where you're actually able to take fossils home from. The main one I'm thinking of right now is the U-Dig Fossil Quarry, although I don't have any other ideas as to where we'll be going in Utah (wherever the fossils take us, I suppose!) so we're likely just going to plan around where we hear the best fossil sites are. New Mexico is a state we're visiting not just to find dinos, but to see the lovely Santa Fe, which is the main area we'll be near. We don't really have any plans as to where we can go for fossils yet, but I assume there might be some good spots we can hit along the way. Texas is kind of up in the air right now. I found some amazing fossils last time in Glen Rose, and intend to return there as long as my family is also willing to make the trip. It's a bit far, but if anyone knows of any other fossil sites that would be worth visiting around the Fort Worth/upper Texas area, I would love to hear about them. I have a feeling we'll be able to go back there as long as we don't stray too far into inner Texas (i.e. anything further down from Dallas). Hopefully this is in the right place, and I would love to hear everyone's thoughts. Thanks in advance!
  25. Found this in the Chinle Formation outside Moab, Utah. About 3/4" (19mm) long and 1/4" (6mm) wide at the base
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