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  1. AK hiker

    Alaska 2023 in Review

    It has been a busy past year for me and realized I had not posted some trips from last year so will post a few pictures from my travels. The 2023 spring trip for beach combing down the Alaska Penninsula did not disappoint with glass floats recently washed out by winter storms ready to pickup. There still are glass floats present there that get exposed from past burial by storms, just need to be the next plane by to find and pick them up. The Alaska Geographical Society had another field trip in Denali National Park hosted by Dr. Pat Druckenmiller on dinosaur tracks. I previously posted the trip so will share just one picture. My wife and 3 dogs made a road trip to the end of the Kenia Penninsula to look for plant fossils. I made acquaintances with @Sjfriend getting some tips on where to look, THANKS! We ended up hiking northwest about 2 miles during low tide from Bishop’s Beach, seeing lots of coal and plant fossils eroding out of the beach cliff face. Kilo in the foreground with 11 year old Kobuk back from checking out a Bald Eagle, Cook Inlet by Homer, AK. Kilo tagging along on the first trip fossil hunting. I got three trips into the Talkeetna Mountains hiking last summer. Finding this intact Pseudophyllites indure was worthy of preparation. I took the local rock club president on the second trip as a thank you for cutting a flat surface on the bottom of the P. indure. He was pleased with finding several nice ammonites. Gaudryceras tenduiliratum. One of the few ribbed ammonites present that make it easy to identify. Inoceramus with most large ones in worse shape than this one. As it turns out you don’t have to go far to find fossils around here. Some have shown up in my wife’s flower garden. The third trip was fantastic in that I found another prep worthy ammonite. Not this one, too big for my desk. This beauty, a combo of ammonite and bivalve clams with petrified wood and worm tubes present. Tentative ID Pachydiscus sp. with Inoceramus sp. associated on the ammonite. Difficult for me to get the species as there are subtle differences among the multiple Pachydiscus ammonites in Alaska. Now to the Brooks Range on a sheep hunt which I had previously posted a photo essay on the trip. Coral fossils were abundant, almost everywhere you looked. l Dall sheep left to grow older. Trip into the western Alaska Range with Kilo. Fall colors in the mountains, blink and you will miss it. Lasts only 2 weeks in early September. Kilo with ptarmigan catch of the day. Last trip before freeze up in middle October was shared with one other fishermen evidenced by the tracks. Many of my trips include fishing and hunting with bonus fossil hunting depending on the geology of the areas I’m in. Hope you enjoyed as I have big fingers and have little patience with typing this on my phone where the pictures are and spell check changing the ammo names. Uggh!!! Winter just around the corner.
  2. I finally went over to a slow-moving construction site that has been in process for weeks, if not longer. With little hope due to a lot of bigger rocks being hauled off, I walked along the elevated slopes of plowed dirt and smaller rocks that remained. To my surprise, I found some nice Fort Worth formation echinoids (holaster and macraster sp) and some small ammonites of the mortoniceras sp. I also found a very well fed nautiloid, I’m nicknaming Fat Boy Lloyd (you know, respectfully like he’s a rapper). It weighed in at 5 lb 10 ounces! I thinks it’s paracymatoceras species given the visible lines that are very close together. I also found what I think is a nicely ornate trigonia clam. Tarrant county, Texas.
  3. I finally got back some of my prepped woodbine/eagleford ammonites, conlinoceras tarrantense, and I’m really happy with how they look! I collected all of these, and my friend Mercer prepped them for me. I need to get a reminder on what he used to coat them. One of them has a lot of sandstone but most have nice calcite. First 3 pics are the same one, admittedly the last 2 pics might have 1 that is different, they came back looking different enough that I can’t tell easily 🤣. Ignore the three circled ammonites, the one that isn’t circled is pictured.More to come..
  4. David Peterson

    Fossil ID request

    Could someone help identifying what this is? Its a bit bigger than a shoebox and weighs about 30 pounds. Thanks in advance. This is from the woodbine btw as well as the ammonites ive included.
  5. Shaun-DFW Fossils

    Woodbine ammonites (conlinoceras)

    I was thrilled to find 9 woodbine ammonites today in eastern Tarrant county, TX, but what made it even better is that more than half were found at a locale that I found on my own. I found 2 very small ones some months ago, but it took this latest heavy rain and flooding to wash the rest out onto a large gravel area where I found them. One looks like it came out of a concretion. My only sadness is knowing that I can’t go back every week and find the same haul! All were either underwater or laying in the open except for one that was partially exposed in loose gravel.
  6. Deruos

    Bronze fossils 2

    Nine years ago I published pictures of several fossils cast in bronze. I cast other fossils in the last years. I'm happy to show you some of these.
  7. I’m still stuck on my “deep dive” in the Tarrant formation lately, adding a few more small ammonites, some pet wood and some nice plates of turritella. Tarrant County TX
  8. Best of my ammonites 2.0 reloaded. I decided to redo “ best of my ammonite” thread because my old thread is a little outdated. I have given so many of my ammonites away to friends that it seamed strange been called my collection . Also I have found some new , older finds and gifted ammonites that I have never shown before so it should be entertaining. I hope you don’t mind seeing a few duplicates in the next weeks post. I will post 3 specimens now and a couple of more every week. My dyslexia is very time consuming so this thread will keep me busy to Christmas and beyond. Thanks for looking Bobby Promicroceras British Lower Lias, Lower Jurassic Ammonite Cluster "Marston Marble" from Marston Magna, Somerset, England. U.K. Pleuroceras salebrosum? Cleeve Hill Not a bad Ammonite from a rare location. Cleeve is the highest point both of the Cotswolds hill range and of the county of Gloucestershire. U.K. A cool piece A Gyrosteus fish bone and a small Dactylioceras from Sandsend Whitby U.K.
  9. Yesterday was my first outing of 2024 to go south into some of Utah's beautiful deserts. There were two stops, one of collecting and the other for scouting the terrain on a canyon outcrop. Mounds Reef in a word is fossiliferous. it is roughly a 125 square mile area of Cretaceous period sedimentary layers of the Juana Lopez formation filled with fossils. And the Morrison formation of the late Jurassic period is right next door. Since the early morning was still frosty I did some scouting around on side roads that my Chevy would struggle with but my recently purchased Honda Element AWD, higher clearance vehicle got me where I was going easily traversing some eroded ditches and washed out portions of the dirt roads. Due to the weather I knew that the ground would be frozen and any collecting would be predominantly surface finds which was fine with me since the fossil bearing concretions which had weathered out of the cuestas were just sitting there...by the hundreds wherever one stops. These concretions were from lemon sized up to 2 meters in diameter. I was hunting the bowling ball sized which could be cracked open with a standard rock hammer or with one of two others in my kit...a 1.4kg and a 2.7kg. The drive to the destination involves a mountain range crossing and the summit is 7500 feet above sea level or 2286 meters. What it looks like and what it feels like. Yeah, that's kinda chilly for fossil hunting. But after the descent it warmed up to balmy 25F and by the time I headed home it was a toasty 48F. Looking southeast with the Book Cliffs in the background. The lichen covered rocks are always a pleasing find. These ones are easily hundreds to thousands of years old growing less than a mm per year. These are one of the three common type - crustose lichens. Moving along...here's the center of a weathered out and naturally split open concretion. Some have fossils and some fill with calcite veins around something miniscule. This one reminds me of a septarian nodule like I have on my hearth from a rock shop, all polished and nice. This would probably look nice displayed after a polish job. Here's one of the gargantuan concretions still embedded in the Ferron sandstone layer. You can see the natural split across the center. When it weathers out in a few hundred years it will roll down the hill, drop off the cliff and bust open to reveal its contents. I'm looking for the smaller low hanging fruit. My hammer and glasses are just barely hanging on to a crevice by the pick. A few miles down the well groomed BLM gravel road I stop at my destination. Again the Book Cliffs are in the background. By now it's close to noon and warming up nicely. I have on three layers of undergarments, fleece pants and a cashmere sweater with military camou pants and a down jacket and a beanie to top it off. Not long later I removed the fleece pants and jacket. High altitude desert climate with low humidity feels much warmer with the UV rays cooking everything. Plus the brisk hiking and hammering has warmed me up. If one looks closely the frontside of these formations are mostly devoid of concretions with the exception of a few large ones. Whereas on the back side the ground is covered with them. This large broken open concretion down in front has a stack of 3 ammonites in its center with the "knuckles" showing nicely on the top specimen. I gave an exploratory whack or two beside the fossils and realized quickly I would be admiring this only. A rock saw or jack hammer would excavate them but power tools are not allowed...only surface collecting and manuals tools like geology hammers, shovels and picks with any holes dug being refilled. Moving on the back side where the concretions are pretty much "pick how big you want to split" ...one or two whacks with the rock hammer, or get out the bigger hammer and swing hard. My experience from last year's trips tell me that the larger sized concretions have a greater potential for larger sized bivalves and ammonites. Anything larger than a basket ball is beyond splitting easily. So out of 25-50 on the surface there may be 10 prime concretions. I was being very picky on this trip. This one looked promising. And it was! First hit and I see something I immediately recognize. The unique flat keel and smooth sidewalls of a Placentaceras pseudoplacnenta ammonite; from late Cretaceous period. Wooh Hoooo! A bit more matrix removed confirmed my guess. A few more delicate taps revealed more. And then a second one appears! Whaaaaat ?!?!? I certainly wasn't expecting that. The second ammonite of the same species was hidden right under the stack of bivalves in the bottom right of the above image. Not even a clue that it was there. It was time to stop whacking and start packing it for the trip home to do the prepping. Part Two ... coming soon. Steve
  10. I have had great luck finding fossils in creeks and wild places, but this afternoon was my first construction site success (other than Grayson nautiloids and a few shoe clams), and the first success I’ve had in northern Johnson county at a Mansfield construction site. I barely lifted this into my trunk and the car immediately lowered by a few inches. lol! I like creeks because erosion isn’t only visible for a few days until a big slab covers the entire ground, but it sure is easier to find ammonites by the curb..when they’re right there! If only I could have a cell phone alert for active tractors in the Tarrant Formation..
  11. Hello everyone! Like most Europe, here in Bulgaria the winter is also very warm. Today we had 16C with totally clrear sky, so I decided to go hunting on a placed I was gathering info. 150Km from Sofia to the North, is the village of Belotintsi. There is a small Gorge formed by a creek "Nechinska bara" and the outcrops are part of Jurassic of Bulgaria. My source was the National history museum of Sofia and some publications of professors found online. The initial goal was to observe mostly the area as I was little tired for climbing and not properly prepared in terms of equipment. The whole area around (Border with Serbia, Stara Planina Mts, Golo Burdo Mt close to Sofia) were the bottom of Tethys sea. Here is a general aspect of the locality. Next time I plan to go to the upper part of the formation (Oxfordian). Pictures numbered from 1 to 4 show some spiecements on the field. The rocks are rich in CaCO3 as they highly react with vinegar. The stones are easily separated with very light blows. Picture number 1, I think I forgot it there Pictures Sa-Sd: Macrocephalites versus or gracilis I think. Se: This big fella, sadly found in pieces. I believe it is a different spieces to Macrocephalites. Probably it was detached from a formation above. Sf-Sg: Some fragments Sh-Si: I gathered these only to try testing with preparation process. As a novice, I do not want to ruin something nice that was preserved for million of years due to lack of experience. Hope you like the pictures. None of the fossils are museum quality; nevertheless I really enjoyed the day. Wish to everyone happy and fruitful hunting trips! Regards, Dimitris.
  12. Hello to everybody! I'm kinda new here, but before I start I must say I really love this forum! It has really great vibes and you instantly can tell that this is a good and friendly community! So, I am ziggycardon, I live in Belgium, close to the border of the Netherlands and when we start speaking geologically, I live on the same cretaceous sediments as where the first major Mosasaurus discoveries where done! Unfortunatly I have never been on a fossil hunt myself and everything currently in my collection was bought or given to me. But I hope to change that soon, as I am dying to go hunting myself. Maybe the Chalk sediments 3 km from my home would be a good place to start! For the rest, my job, my major hobby and my other main interest besides fossils are living animals. I currently work as the head of terrarium & aquarium in 3 different pet stores and I have quite a collection of reptiles, amphibians, invertebrates and tropic fish myself. In my spare time I often take my own living animals along with my fossils and other educational natural history material to schools so I can teach kids about nature and it's history and hidden mechanics. For the rest are my other hobbies mainly based around movies and televisions as I collect a lot of stuff drom my favorite franchises like "Lord or the Rings" & "The Hobbit", "Game of Thrones, "Pirates of the Caribbean", ... And I also attent a lot of comic cons and other events related to those franchises. But then this topic! In this topic I will show my collection of fossils (and also minerals, stones and meteorites) as it is right now and then I will highlight each group of fossils bit by bit. I am currently starting with a own specialized fossil room, so ofcourse the progress and end result will also be posted here! And ofcourse when something get's added to my collection, I'll show it here as well. Sometimes a photo of my "special" pets or taxidermy specimens might pop up, but this topic will mainly be about the fossil room and my fossil collection. For the rest, if you have any comments or questions about the collection or about me or about anything, feel free to ask! I'd love to reply!
  13. Another hundred or so prestine hemiaster and heteraster echinoids, some foldy and rough shape oxytropidoceras of various sizes, and my first complete engonoceras ammonite. I almost forgot the hamite. I like the cylindrical shapes of the gastropods, too. Not bad for 1.5 hours on a cold day. South Tarrant County, Texas.
  14. Winter is the best time of the year for fossil hunting near the cliffs at the french coast. So like every year Natalie and I spend a few days at the "Côte d'opale" in northern France to prospect. The storms and tides cleaned up a lot of the boulders from the last cliff fals. The weather conditions were a bit harsh but we managed a few good prospections and we scored a few large ammonites.
  15. I mapped out a quick trip to recover some pet wood I identified last week but failed to initially remove due to having too many ammonites (I know, a real problem!), taking me initially by a Fort Worth formation spot. I found a few huge macraster echinoids (currently being cleaned a little) in tarrant county, a few smaller mortoniceras ammonites, and a nice bivalve. Then I swung by the eagle ford shale where it starts after the woodbine and found 2 conlinoceras and some nice pet wood in addition to my target specimens from last week. Also a bone, currently awaiting ID. Tarrant to dallas counties, TX
  16. I had my best hunt of the year Saturday, it was incredible. I guess you could say I was…petrified. Sadly, my phone died after getting stuck in a reboot loop (thanks iPhone 10) so it’s now extinct. Oh and I finally found a dinosaur! It’s on top of an ammonite. 🤣 25 complete ammonites a few partials! I also found a 21-inch long chunk of pet wood and a colorful smaller chunk. I then found 11 ammonites today to start the new year right. My back is still sore and feet tingling after treading through creeks where shallower areas were actually frozen..lol! Tarrant and Dallas County locations. 2 were in partially exposed concretions. One of those is placenticeras or engonoceras? sorry about the blurry pic, I’m using another old phone I have that has a camera that only works when it’s on 2x, so I’m having to adjust to taking pics with it.
  17. Isobel

    Ammonite ID needed

    Hi everyone! Archaeologist here, looking for help with an Ammonite ID 😄 My dad and I found these two Ammonites near Sherborne in Dorset, UK. If anyone is able to tell me the species/age, I would be so grateful!
  18. I went to an “easy walking” spot to enact my own play called The Rockcracker while my daughter went to see The Nutcracker. This Goodland formation spot is a guaranteed echinoid grab every time. I have a bunch of flawless hemiaster whitei echinoids and a small number of heterasters, plus perhaps the smallest ammonite I have and a few nice gastropods.
  19. I went to my favorite Fort Worth formation spot near my house (Johnson County) and came home with a nice Christmas present to myself, 6 macraster echinoids, 2 of which are nearly perfect and are now amongst the best I have. They’re also huge, I am naming one Absolute Unit and the other The Rock. Also a rough looking holaster and a bunch of smaller mortoniceras ammonites. Check out the curvy fold in one of them. Poor dude went flaccid right when he hit the bottom of the ocean. Lol..I decided to flip a huge rock I’ve walked by many times (natural for me as a snake chaser) and I’m glad I did, I found a robust 2 inch wide x 8 inch diameter mortoniceras attached within the rock. It’s beyond my ability to easily free it, but I will get it done with some help. Nice calcite on the outside where I broke away some matrix. one of the morts is a mess (the one with the green algae on one side), it’s beautiful but I’ll have to make a decision about leaving it as is or cutting it to the point where it’s complete on both sides.
  20. I located a potential spot (a creek tributary) that I never gave a chance literally a few feet away from a spot I’ve hunted before. I stopped by after a work meeting today and I was NOT disappointed (I know, I have fossil fever, no known cure). 9 conlinoceras tarrantense ammonites! One is about 6.6” across and in great shape. I assumed most in this area washed downstream from another location, but I found exposed formation with 1-2 smaller ammonites a few feet up the bank and 2 that were firmly fixed in matrix on the creek bottom, so I have an original source spot to add to my secret shopping list. I now have 13 of these in a week.. Dallas county TX (all of my prior finds were Tarrant county)
  21. Shaun-DFW Fossils

    Eopachydiscus ammonites- Duck Creek

    Ok..so far I’ve posted my turrilites and my woodbine ammonites, next will be these eopachydiscus ammonites and my oxytropidoceras, with echinoids and most (some are at the beauty shop) of my mortoniceras ammonites. these eopachydiscus ammonites represent at least a couple of different species from the looks of it, though I am not knowledgeable regarding scientific names, I just know they look different! LOL..no preparation has been applied other than soap/water and a little careful chiseling of matrix that I thought I could tackle. One of the big ones cracked in half due to it being my first big one to remove. I used Elmer’s glue and crushed limestone to fill the crack but I’ll likely soak it to get it out and replace it with an epoxy. Another one is cracked but never broke, I put super glue in the cracks just in case. Nice sutures on a few! 2 of the smaller eopachydiscus are 11-12 inches across, the biggest is around 17 inches, most are 14-15 inches.
  22. Shaun-DFW Fossils

    Conlinoceras tarrantense+pet wood

    I have 3-4 spots (duck creek, Grayson, Fort Worth formations) I haven’t yet revisited since it rained that are really close to my house. I’ve been to the same conlinoceras spot 3x and this was my last visit until we get heavy rain/erosion again. It didn’t disappoint! Funny how I can walk by the same spot 3x and find things I missed. Haha! I’ve seen ammonites missing chambers before, but this little one seems to have indentations that might have been there originally, like from bite marks or something. What do you think? Just my child-like imagination? the nice looking white calcite specimen missing part of itself is from another larger creek that my primary spot feeds into more upstream. Tarrant County TX.
  23. I only had 1.5 hours, but it was worth it. I ran out of daylight a month ago when I was at my local creek, so I went back and walked the portion I couldn’t see due to darkness last time. 4 nice mortoniceras ammonites, looking good on both sides (one is a bit worn due to weather exposure). Another one was broken down the middle, but I glued it and I’ll make it a rehab project. How about the perfect scallop too? I rarely find them complete and unblemished.
  24. Shaun-DFW Fossils

    Oxytropidoceras ammonites

    I sold or donated most of my smaller oxytropidoceras but I kept a handful of 12-15 inch specimens that I found in Benbrook TX and far south along the Tarrant/Johnson county border. They’ve all been washed with soap and water but no other prep has yet occurred. Front/back pics included for most. I hear these take a lot of time to prep..looking forward to getting one cleaned up completely! One smaller one is very orange, it’s a tanning booth variant, and the other small one (not very obvious) is full of crystals..it’s the only one I’ve found full of crystals. It’s rough on the outside. Tempting to grind it down to reveal the inside. Not for now..big ones from kiamichi, smaller ones from tarrant(?) formation or whichever formation has all of the tiny echinoids and brachiopods all over. Pardon my ignorance. I’ll edit once confirmed.
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