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Hey guys, Last year I found a nice ammonite in Switzerland and decided to prepare it a few weeks back! It’s more specifically from the Valais region , at Le Col de de la Plaine morte. I don’t know too much about that site, but I think it is Oxfordian. I really have no idea what the ID is, I would love to know it so I could enter it for FOTM! Thanks all!

I am a student working on the fossils in the museum!

I have pieces of Ammonite with ammolite from the Bearpaw Shale in North Eastern Montana. The pieces are in the condition that they were collected in from the field. I am not sure if the ammonite is complete or not, some of the pieces may be from the positive or negative of the fossil. If prepped the ammolite should look nice. As it is from the Montana part of the formation the mineralization is thinner than the Canadian mines and therefore I don't recommend doing a full polish. It will be a fun prep project. As the specimen is heavy shipping will be determined based on where the recipient is located. I am looking for other Dinosaur age material (Dinosaurs, Ammonites etc) Preferably from North America however I will look at Europe and Asian specimens as well.

Hello again. I managed to split that massive rock with a Bi-Valve inside. Other than that, there was nothing else obvious in it, so I've turned my attention to this little cluster that I found in Charmouth, Dorset, England, last April. It was in cliff debris on the beach. I'm sorry I don't know enough about layers, but it's Jurassic. It comprises of Ammonites and other shell fossils. I would like to know the name of the curly shell and the flat base, which I thought was a clam type shell, but it doesn't have any ridges or grooves on it. Also once I've finished the prepping, what type of coating should I use for this? Previously I have used clear varnish, but I've heard this is a No-no. Cheers Jes.

In my opinion, the black colour and the good state of the inner whorls give a more elegant touch to this fossil. I still dont know what type of rock are but its amazing

Eboraciceras from Russia (I don't know the species) I don't know why it has this hole in the conch. I may have an idea but I want to be sure

Hi! I received recently several ammonites and I would like to ask for some help identifying the fossils so I can appropriately tag them (species, age, etc) This is the info I received from each fossil: 1. Found in Sakahara, Madagascar. 2. Found in Gundelsheim in Baden-Württenberg, Germany. 3, 4, 5 ,6 Found in Marloffstein, Germany 7. Found in Sengenthal bei Neumarkt i.d. oberpfalz, Germany. Parkisonia. 8. Found in Marloffstein, Germany 9. Found in Saratov Russia, Jurassic. 10. No info 11. Found in Swabian Alps. (are these two real or carved?) Thank you in advance!

I found this in a place where I find many others Ammonites and this is particulary small and have this little sworl

We are currently looking for rare rare Ammonites from Courcelles / France like Oxytropidoceras and heteromorph ones could be unprepped but must be complete and (if unprepped) possible to be in great condition after prepp (I know thats always a risk) PM if you like to offer some, thanks

Hi, I'm Jes and this is my first ID post, so hopefully the easiest. I know this is an Ammonite, but I don't know what kind. What features identify it as a certain species? I found it in Charmouth, Dorset, UK in April 2023. It was amongst the debris from a cliff fall on the beach. I believe it is Pyrite with some Calcite in the middle.

Hello everyone! First of all, I would like to publicly thank my friend Panayiotis for the amazing research he has done in order to locate the localities of this outcrop. Fast forward to the topic, the outcrop is a small section on a hill West of the main port of the island of Chios and represents one of the oldest Triassic ammonites of the Tethis sea. Similar outcrops are observed in Albania and in Turkey. According to C. Reinz, Marmarotrapeza formation*1, ranges between Lower Triassic (Olenkian) and Lowest part of the Middle Triassic (Early Anisian). The most important locality of the formation, is this small protrusion of Triassic rocks. If I understood well, the part closest to the north is Olenkian, and with direction to the south, the outcrop reaches up to lowest part of Anisian. There are more outcrops *2 of this formation in the island, one of which is described to be richer in cephalopods Since this place was a quarry for such a long time, a large amount of ammonites can be found on paved streets and on some mansion walls. The extraction from the formation is almost impossible, unless you use power tools. I personally took advantage of the debris caused by the quarring process. Here you can see some coring and stratigraphy This is probably ammonite sampling, correct me if I am wrong. (samples 89-169 layer?) The most common finds in situ were weathered cross sections. I collected a couple with the intention to polish them, hoping at least to define up to Genus. The greatest enemies of these fossils, are the weather and some goats that roam around. Their replacement is mostly calcite, so they are easily falling apart. I found some decent samples as well. The split euro coin has diameter of 1" This is the first block I started working, some orthoconic nautiloids, maybe Atractites sp. I cannot define the ammonite since no suture line is preserved and its size is quite small. Maybe a picture under a loop would help, but I still do not have one Here is whatever is left of a Leiophyllites sp Here is a decent find, which I believe it is Albanites sp. My woman tried to draw the suture line and according to the publications, the closest match was an Albanites sp. My visit was met with some criticism by the locals and there were publications in social media pages that were probably used as a pre election campaign, Bread and circuses aka panem et circenses. They even left the possibility that the collection is done with a financial benefit. Ridiculous... Or at least this is my very personal opinion of how I undestood their post... Nevertheless, two months before the elections, they have made some attempts to include this NOT PROTECTED and FREE TO COLLECT area as an UNESCO geosite. Lets see if they will remember it after the elections. The human memory is short. On the other side, I believe I rescued some ammonites that were either way left to decay from the mechanical corrosion of the weather elements. I have collected around 40 samples, most of them are average to poor quality, howerver, there are around 4-5 multiblocks with quite dense mortality. If I manage to prep them properly, I will update this topic with some nice speciments. The two problems I have to overcome are the hardness of this limestone and the tendency to be too sticky close to the fossil. I know that these are not top quality examples, yet there are some triassic nerds out there (like me of course) that crave to see such goodies. *1: Marmarotrapeza means Marmaro (Marble) + trapeza (Bank) and was a major source of marble for the Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantines). I think that this name was given to the formation by Ktenas and Renz, due to this historical fact, but might be wrong. *2: I managed to locate another outcrop that is lost in time, however I did not have time to explore it. Due to that fact, there is high chance to visit again the island, this time as a group.

Hi everyone, my name is Gavin and I’d like to say hi. I am a Geology major that likes to dabble in the paleo world. My beginnings in fossil hunting were as a little kit with my parents but by the time I was in middle school I didn’t do it very often but after I got into a geology class in college I regained my passion for hunting and I’ve been going strong since last fall. I look forward to see what every one has to post! Posted below are some of my best sharks teeth finds so far.

Recently I received from my girlfriend a supposed Acanthoceras Ammonite. We both would love to know if it's faked in some way or real. We are already very grateful.

Found in Wootton Bassett Mud Spring UK.

Hi guys, i've receiced those ammonites from @Svetlana, they are sinemurian. I tried.to figure out what species they are. Note that the carena is well marked for all of them and they all show costulations. For that first one i found nothing but Oxynoticeras or Asteroceras, i'm absolutely not satisfied about that. For the second one i've found Echioceras rhodanicum And for the third one Orthechioceras maybe cf. viticola

Hi all! Today I'll show you a site which is quite similar to the subject of the Frozen Fossils topic, but somewhat opposite of the latter, as it's only accessible in summer (end of July- beginning of September). It's situated in the historical city of Vladimir on the Klyazma river. The banks are overgrown with vegetation, no movement whatsoever on the river and very few people visible. Occasional ducks and herons, fish splashing nearby.The bridge is the only reminder of civilization. The river bed is surprisingly formed of solid clay you can confidently walk on. The age of this clay is Lower Kimmeridgian (mostly the 1st bauhini/baylei zone which is pretty rare in European Russia)

I havn't been fossil hunting a very long time....I've only been really serious about if for the last 6 years. And in Central Texas, there ARE a lot of fossils, but it is hard to find a new spot that has not already come under the hunting radar of the many fossil hunters in this state! And some of them have been at it for a LONG time so they've usually found all the really good spots! Which is one of the reasons I love the Paleo Society of Austin, because I learned of some of these good spots from them....they are typically still productive, if not over hunted, so I love finding stuff there. BUT.... I've been hoping to FIND A NEW SPOT. Somewhere no one has found, at least not that I know of in my limited engagement with fossil hunters in this area. New hunting grounds are far and few between unless you are near an area that is being built upon, and there are some of those, definitely. but not near me. However, I'd been finding interesting "potholes" of Del Rio Formation in a local river and the other day, I decided to go a little further upstream than I normally do and LO AND BEHOLD.....the motherload! A whole wall of the grey blue mud I'd been looking for! Now, whether it was productive or not was the next question. There were millions of Ram's Horn Oysters (Ilymatogyra arietina). Maybe a billion. It's hard to count that high. A lot, suffice it to say. So, was there anything other than oysters?? After a bit of trying to see past the oysters, I found a good sign: a little Plicatula bivalve. They are lovely little cat paw looking oysters. A little more searching and I found one of the things I was hoping to find - a heteromorph ammonite called Mariella worthensis. So that gave me a big clue that I had indeed found the Del Rio Formation that I had found chunks of further downstream. What's interesting is it is very similar in fauna to the Waco Research Pit stuff, but with more oysters and less of all the other stuff typically found there, so it is not quite as productive as the Waco site, but it's yielding some nice stuff. I havn't found any Cretolamna shark teeth or Goniophorus echinoids yet (but I have found plates and spines of Gonio, so they are there somewhere....). So I hauled home a bucket of dirt to look for the little stuff and I found some really lovely tiny things!! The next week I went again, trying to get a little hunting in before the REAL summer heat set in (we've had 45 days of over 100 degree temps. It's been brutal, even to use "used to hot summer" Texans). And Happy Day - I found a nice "large" ammonite Otoscaphites subevolutus and a very nice Mariella (the "biggest" I've collected so far), and something interesting, what I would not have known to look for except a friend clued me in that I might find tracks in this formation....and I did! An arthropod I'm assuming. And of course, I took home another bucket of matrix! 1/2 inch Otoscaphites subevolutus Mariella worthensis 3/4 inch Tracks Here are some of the nice micro matrix finds. Lots of tiny crab claws! And the floating Crinoid Roveocrinus.... Some neat little gastropods: but my favorite thing to find is the starfish stuff. In prior spots I have found more brittlestar stuff, but here, not so much. These I think are regular asteroidea fragments. Nothing so great as a whole one...YET! I did find one little shark tooth - possibly Leptostyrax? And one final nice find that is sadly only a section - an ammonite Engonoceras serpentinum - which in all honesty, I didn't even realize what it was till I go home and cleaned it up. I thought it was just a chunk of bivalve till I saw the sutures! Unfortunately, I am not going to post any pics of the area because I want to keep it to myself for a little while at least. I know there are people always searching for signs of a new spot...heck, I was one of them till I figured out how to read a geological map. Someday I'll post some pics of the river...it's quite pretty. Hopefully my honey hole will continue to surprise me!

Hi all! Just purchased a large (17lb) ammonite on an online auction site; my first time getting one and even after reading a lot of the comments here about them I still have no confidence in my own ability to assess how real this thing is and how much of it is carved if it is real. Would love any guidance! Thanks so much!

I dont know how to prepare this Ammonite (I have never done this before) so I want to know what tools can be used and stuff like that :p

Ideas on the species of this ammonite? I was told it was found in Madagascar. 33x30x8 cm

German Ammonite. Unknown Origin formation. Any ideas of species name or gender?

Hi, as me and a friend visited some other friends of us in Bavaria this week, we went to the Kromer quarry near Holzmaden (Germany) which was on the way. It was my/our first fossil hunting trip. Unfortunately we haven't much time, we were only there for 2 hours but since the weather was horrible the last weeks and we were already close we wanted to take the chance. When we arrived at the quarry we already saw more than 20 cars parking there. I wasnt sure if they all go for a walk or something.. no - they all go the Kromer quarry hunting fossils. Wow! Almost 60 people were here - I really didn't expect that. The first hour we worked on larger plates on a plateau, they split much easier but the layers weren't that fossil-rich. The second hour we went to a different location...there we splitted some smaller plates, sometimes they broke but we found some good layers with a lot of ammonites. We mainly found Dactylioceras ammonites and also some clam shells(?), see below some fotos. I really like that these gold shimmering ammonites look very noble in their natural matrix. It turned out, that I am very unlucky that day.. when I splitted some plates the ammonites have always been in the area where I put the chisel. But hey, everyone has their strengths. As we are beginners we were fascinated by our finds. For me it's not only about the quality of the fossil, it is also impressive to be the first one to ever see that fossil after such a long time and it is much more special finding fossils on your own instead of buying a fossil of probably higher quality. However for our next trip we need much more time but that was a good first impression. We already plan another trip to the Kromer quarry and also to the Mühlheim quarry near Solnhofen (Germany) in September or maybe October when the Munich Fossil show takes place. Have a nice day. Max

Do you think it is possible to identify the name/species of this ammonite? I was told it comes from Mahajanga, Madagascar. Thanks a lot!

Hi all, to start -- I'm a beginner in this so excuse me if I ask things that may be obvious. I was thinking about ways to improve this ammonite, but I wasn't sure what would be the best way forward. Please let me know your ideas and what would you do to make it better. Thanks!