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Another piece found in the badlands of Alberta. Could it be a cactus ? Or just a interesting looking concretion? Any help identifying much appreciated. Thanks !
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Found in Alberta, Canada. Any help identifying would be much appreciated. Thank you !
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My son was looking through the things we found this summer, and we found these pieces of similar colour and texture. There are three of these pieces in total, and they all have these white markings on the side that seems blue. We think this is bone, but we are beginners and don’t have enough experience to say for sure. If I took a wild guess, I’d say they are pieces of tooth? It seems there is a shiny surface which might be enamel on both side of it, and it is kind of dense. These were found in the Drumheller area.
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Fossils along the Notikewin River in Northern Alberta
JustPlainPetrified posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
Has anyone in this group even been up this far north in Alberta? I have an idea of location and will report back after my journey. -
Haven’t found a hadro tooth quite like this one, with serration type things on the end of it. Wondering if this is because it’s from a particular part of one of the jaws or if it’s a specific hadrosaur species that has this texture. Dino park fm
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Was going through some bags of fossils I found sometime ago in the Morrin Bridge area of Alberta. There were a couple turtle shell fragments, a tip of a dino claw, a hadrosaur tooth and a ray tooth. There was also this weird vertebrae. While it looks like a dino vert. it is only 1 cm in thickness. The dimensions of the vert. are approx. 2 cm x 2 cm x 1cm. I have found lots of dino vert before but the thickness compared to the rest of the vert. don't make sense. Also both sides appear concave, almost like a fish vert. but not as deep. The photos are not the best and, while the condition of the actual vert is quite good, it is covered in a hard caliche like surface that I can't remove. Anyone have any idea of what this is?
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Hello, I made this find in the Alberta badlands yesterday, the area is known to have tons of hadrosaur bones, so i assume thats what i have. unfortunately, i was not prepared to extract the bone without completely destroying it, so i plan on going back to get it some time this week. I collected many bone fragments from the area, and have noted down the location. I will post decent pictures once and if i am able to bring the fossil home, i seem to have forgotten to take proper pictures in my excitement! I would also like to ask for advice on how to extract this fossil. I plan on purchasing some wedges to split the rock, to make it a more manageable size. beyond this, i understand that it is a good idea to stabilize the fossil somehow before extraction, what would you recommend i use for this? i would imaging an adhesive that is able to seep into all the pours, but i am not sure what i should use specifically. The second image is showing the rest of the fossil, mostly buried under clay. Thanks for the help!
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Going through my fossils collected over the years and found this small complete bone. It was found in the Morrin Bridge area, Red Deer Badlands. It is a beautiful little bone but I have no idea what if belongs to. Would be Cretaceous age. Found it in the same layer within five feet or so of some carnivore dinosaur teeth, a few hadrosaur teeth, etc. I think it was an area where the bones, teeth, etc. were washed into originally and then fossilized. The bone is 2 1/4 inches or 5.7 cm in length. Any ideas?
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Can’t figure this one out. Maybe a limb bone but definitely theropod. Dinosaur park formation
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Hi all, observed a few fossils in Horsethief Canyon on a hike the other day, not sure what they are. One looks like a long bone, and the other maybe a squished skull with some other bones mashed in? Using my technically advanced shoe as a reference, long bone was maybe 25cm long, 10cm at widest, "skull" was maybe 25cm across at widest point. I know its hard to tell, but I'm new so not sure what layer I was in, but my watch said ~730m elevation if that means anything to anyone for the locality. A couple photos of two fossilized stumps and a shot of the Canyon for a bonus. Was a super fun day hiking around, thanks for your input! ****edit**** first pic displayed is the underside of the long bone, last is the top of it.....
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Another ID, wondering if this is Hadrosaurid or ceratopsian. Thanks again!
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Rare dinosaur skin fossil discovered in Alberta | Watch (msn.com)
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We went for a fossil hunting trip yesterday in the Drumheller area. We found a few decent bones. On one of the bones, there was this strange pattern of white streaks. It looks almost like lighting. It even makes a full circle at one point. When I cleaned the bone, I noticed that the pattern disappeared with water, but once it dries, the pattern reappears. This is one of the strangest things we have ever found. ( keep in mind we are beginners and we haven’t found much). If anyone knows what this is, any explanation is welcome. Thanks, Joy
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Where is the location of Lucky Strike, Alberta? The collecting area
Joy_Fossils posted a topic in Questions & Answers
Hi Me and my son are new users here and are looking for places to fossil hunt in Alberta. We came across some posts of fossil hunting trips near a place called Lucky Strike, Alberta. We are trying to pinpoint the location of the site so we can plan for a trip there. However, we are having some trouble figuring out its location. Any help on where the site is will help immensely, and if you want to give us more specific information, feel free to message me. Thanks, Joy -
Hello fossil forum, Recently we were out hiking in the Coulee near Medicine Hat, Alberta! As newbie fossil enthusiasts, we were hoping for some expert weigh ins to help identify this fossilized bone we found. We have some very interest kids (and adults!) who were hoping to narrow it done from Chunkasaurus, to hopefully, a general species. ID or no ID, we do appreciate any direction on this! The Newbies
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Any idea if this is ceratopsian and if so what it is?
prehistoricpeasant posted a topic in Fossil ID
First piece I suspect is frill and it’s about 2-2.5 inches long. Second is what I think is a toe bone and is 1.5-2 inches long. Thanks! Found in horse shoe canyon Alberta.
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Plant Material Found in Cochrane - How Do You Glue Together?
Nreekay posted a topic in Questions & Answers
Hey Folks, Found this little piece in a construction area here in Cochrane. What is the best way to glue them together? Thanks Folks!
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Hello all, Recently on a trip to Alberta I received this in a museum. It was labelled as a dinosaur bone, but not further information. Would anyone be able to provide a clearer picture? Thanks!
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Is this a tooth fragment and if so what is it from possibly judging by size? About 1 inch long. Found in horse shoe canyon Alberta
prehistoricpeasant posted a topic in Fossil ID
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Hi all This one has me stumped. Found along the Red Deer River outside Dinosaur park. I thought it had some characteristics of a jaw? Any help and direction would be appreciated.
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Hello! New user here... My boyfriend and I have been doing some exploring around the badlands here in Alberta, and lately we've been mostly wandering around north of Tolman. We've found a few cool fossils, but we're both having a hard time putting all our research into practice. Trying to learn the different formations and identifying the coal seams, but not having much luck. I've read some of the documents that describe the scollard formation, but when I'm climbing the hills I honestly have no idea what I'm looking at. Is there anyone in Alberta that frequents these areas that can offer some insight or tips? If you're looking to pass on some knowledge, or even have us tag along on a hike or two, that would be amazing. The picture is some of my best surface finds so far.
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I can assure you it is fossilized bone it just doesn’t look like it in the pictures because of how dirty parts of it are and the bad camera quality. It’s about 3 pounds 5.5 inches long and 4 inches wide. horseshoe canyon AB
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Struggling to figure out what this might be. Apologies for hands in the photo again but this thing definitely won’t stand by itself. Might just be an unidentifiable chunkosaurus but the weird texture at the top made me curious if it’s skull material of some kind
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Hello all. New here, but hoping maybe someone could help confirm if my guesses are correct or if I'm way off. I found this south east of Drumheller, AB around the Red Deer river. From my Googling efforts, I'm thinking this might be a toe bone from an ornithomimid? I believe ornithomimus and struthiomimus are both found in this area, so this is my best guess. Sorry, my cell phone camera quality isn't the greatest. I could also be way off, and maybe this isn't even a dinosaur at all haha. Thanks in advance!
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Second fossil hunting trip and first BIG FIND! (scaphite, and coral?)
Treemaninaction posted a topic in Fossil ID
My wife and I went out for our third fossil hunting expedition and landed on what I would consider to be our first big find. We went camping up near Ram Falls, in Alberta Canada. I previously read on this handy website that others had found ammonites in the area, specifically scaphite depressus, an low and behold, we found one too! I can't described how pumped I was to hold that thing in my hand. What a great feeling. Anyway, we also found a fair amount of other coral looking thingys, and I would really appreciate some help IDing them. Here they are: I am thinking that these three might be colonial rugose corals... but that is just a noobs guess: Now this one looks like a sponge to me... but it also looks like pumice. I didn't see any other volcanic looking rock around, so that led me to suspect some sort of fossilized sponge... Not sure what to make of this... maybe rugosa coral or a bit of bivalve? This one is really hard to make out... it has some really faint patterns that gave off fossil vibes to me. Annnnnd finally... here is the beautiful scaphite. I am pretty sure there are actually a couple of them there. What really neat is that in a few spots you can see inside the shell! Sorry about the lengthy post and thanks to anyone who takes the time to read and respond. So far this forum has been incredibly welcoming and helpful to me, and I am very glad it exists!
