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  1. kehaz

    Glendive Spots

    Coming up pretty soon, I'll find myself traveling through Glendive and would absolutely love to get my hands dirty looking for some good fossils. Nothing too crazy: ammos, baculites, belemnites and the like (although I certainly wouldn't turn down legal dino bits, if anyone is really willing to give a spot like that up ). I have a secret spot closer to Great Falls, lots of ammos and belemnites, that I'm willing to trade for some insider knowledge out near Glendive! Thanks all, happy hunting!
  2. hadrosauridae

    Mosasaur predation marks

    Today I was cleaning the baculites found on the last fossil trip, and found one VERY cool one. This segment looks to have clear and deep tooth holes in it. It is believed that mosasaurs fed on baculites, and the hole sizes would certainly agree with that.
  3. Brett Breakin' Rocks

    Baculite Mesa - WIPS Field Trip

    It has been some time since I posted anything of note. I'm still adjusting to my new surroundings here in Colorado but I did at least join a local Paleontological Society (WIPS) Western Interior Paleontological Society. My first field trip with the group was out to Baculite Mesa in Pueblo, CO. A location that is famous with a storied history, that is still giving up its ancient treasures. The weather here in Colorado can be touch and go at best, and our trip was almost delayed/cancelled by a late winter storm. This was our neighborhood in Denver the day before the trip. But temperatures rose fairly quickly (?) and the rain/snow abated enough for a window to open into the past. I brought the kids along on this trip. Here are the kids speeding along the ancient ocean bottom, which reverted to 4-6 inches of mud after the rain/snow. It returned to its roots you might say, and in the process my children grew 6 inches that day !! ... until dad had to scrape the sticky mud off of their shoes. 30 minutes later ?? .. yes, they were 6 inches taller once more. Screaming across the muddy ocean bottom. Here is our fearless leader Malcolm Bedell braving the mud and standing in front of one of the many "teepee buttes" that dots the landscape. These ancient methane seeps were built up by small communities of worms, bivalves, gastropods, crabs and the like. Food provided by the methane fixing bacteria at the seeps, and the communities of critters creating these limestone mounds. A closer look at one of these small communities. The baculites (mostly Baculites scotti) can be found eroding out of the shale and concretions that dot the landscape. This is how they typically present themselves at the site. It is rare, but occasionally you can find the Baculites with some of their original nacre still attached. But something to "fix" the nacre to the core is recommended. I think the wet mud helped to preserve this shell until I could return to the car and consolidate it .... the exercise was akin to lifting a shattered pane of glass lying on the ground to safety. Next time something to consolidate the nacre in the field and tin foil would be advised. The second location we moved to in the flats, was cut by many small and large arroyos, and could at times be treacherous for man and beast. This poor cow twisted it's legs on the way down into one of these arroyos (steep-sided gully) and had been lying there in the mud for some time, unable to move. These arroyos cut deeper into the Pierre Shale and most of the fossils here present themselves in hard concretions. I wasn't able to hang around for too long in this location. The cold and mud was too much for the kids and they retreated into the car. Next time I know what to look for and will be better prepared. I know next time will be more successful. Visually I know what I'm after and where to find it. The area is quite literally littered with fossils. I left most where I found them, eroding out of the muddy landscape. Next time I will explore the sides of the arroyo and bring a nice 3lb hand sledge. Here are ammonite bits .. found within eroding concretions. The desert has begun to bloom once again. Cheers, Brett
  4. Jurassicz1

    Baculites scotti

    From the album: Cretaceous Fossils of North America

    Baculites scotti. Found near Wasta, South Dakota, USA. In the Pierre Shale Formation. Upper Cretaceous - Middle Campanian. Approximately 45 mm.
  5. Jurassicz1

    Baculite from Pierre Shale

    I got this baculite in a fossil show. From the Pierre shale of South Dakota. He gave me a handwritten label that I can't tell what it says 100% Regards - Adriano
  6. Thomas1982

    20220321_150042

    From the album: Cretaceous of Delaware and New Jersey

    Baculite segments Chesapeake and Delaware Canal
  7. Hello, Does this association of Didymoceras cheyennense and Baculites compressus seem legitimate? Any restoration/reconstruction going on, or composite of multiple individuals, especially on the Didymoceras? Dimensions are 22cm x 14cm x 14cm, and listed as of Lower Cretaceous age and from the Pierre Shale of South Dakota. Also, if you had to pick one heteromorph ammonite specimen, would you personally purchase this for your collection (i.e. is it a good example of Didymoceras cheyennense)? I realize this is just a part of the inner whorls. Complete Didymoceras in general seem to be very rare and exorbitantly expensive so perhaps this is a good enough piece? I don't exactly have a fortune to spend, but I can justify one big purchase as a gift to myself. Thanks.
  8. hadrosauridae

    It was a baculites graveyard

    Fossil Friday once again! This is the last of the South Dakota exploration trip, hunting the Pierre shale for cephalopods and hopefully a mosasaur. Although the first half of the Pierre shale exploration went pretty slow, it wasnt without a few nice finds. The second part, we were extremely fortunate in that we got to meet Neal Larson and hear a short talk about the local Pierre shale formation, and then he took us out to his personal hunting site.
  9. ThePhysicist

    Baculites in matrix

    From the album: North Sulphur River

  10. I recently went on two fossil hunting trips to Cretaceous sediments of Eastern North Carolina, the second of which was earlier today. Today’s trip to the Bladen formation yielded baculites ammonites, some worn mosasaur teeth, the nicest goblin shark teeth I’ve personally collected, some fish mouth plates, turtle shell fragments, and some other goodies. My first trip a couple weeks ago was to Tar Heel formation sediments and I collected several small mosasaur teeth, a mosasaur vertebra, a piece of petrified lignite, lots of goblin and crow shark teeth, lots of turtle shell, a very worn Deinosuchus tooth, and some coprolites (I’ve posted a few of the images from this trip in the ID section of the forum already). North Carolina is an amazing U.S. state for fossils, it has loads of fossils from the Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic (although if you want Jurassic look elsewhere). If you haven’t already, you should come check it out! Pics from today’s trip: Pics from the first trip:
  11. I would like to share some of finds of the last six months. I live and fossil hunt in the foothills in western colorado springs. The is a 375 acre tract that lies between me and "Red Rocks Canyon Open Space State Park. They have sold off the tract to build 170 town homes. It is heart wrenching to say the least, as they began excavating yesterday . I'd like to share some my finds from the last six months in hope of identifying as many as possible. I'm new to this but I finally realize the importance of "cented graph paper"
  12. Hi Everyone. I was fortunate to be able to take a weeklong vacation trip the week of Labor Day, my fourth since I began collecting fossils. I wanted to visit friends and family and do some collecting. I was able to do all of that. It was busy, but there was also some quality relaxation time. It proved to be a good break. I flew into the Denver airport, rented a car and drove to Colorado Springs where I was invited to stay with my second cousin and her family. Next morning I was on my way to Florissant Fossil Quarry. I've known about Florissant for over 50 years and over 40 years ago I visited the National Monument, back when I was interested in fossils, but not into collecting them. This time I was intent on collecting and spent four hours splitting shale at the pay to collect quarry. The famous Florissant site was a lake during the late Eocene age. A number of eruptions from a nearby volcano buried animals and plants in beds of shale that were in turn covered by volcanic ash which beautifully preserved their exquisite details. These photographs show the exposure that's quarried, the area where guests like me can split the shale, and my finds from four hours of splitting.
  13. hadrosauridae

    2 week exploration - day 4

    Day 4 was a special treat! Neal Larson came to the field station to give a brief talk on Ammonites, Baculites, and the Pierre shale formation. Then we loaded up and went to hunt Neal's own site, and OMG what a site it is! The only description that came to mind was "an embarrassment of riches". From the instant we stepped out of our cars, we were walking on baculites! The ground was covered with them. It wasnt about being able to find, it was just a search for quality. Neal had a goal for this hunt, and that was to find a Baculites with the jaws still in the chamber. For all his hunting, he still did not have an example in his collection. Sure enough, the person who found the pachy dome the day before, found a bacy with jaws for Neal! Its not real clear in this pic, but this is Neal holding his new prize. I took pics of the baculites covering the ground, but it seems to have disappeared from my phone. I do have a pic of some as we were cleaning them last night. The 2 biggest are almost 2 foot long and had to be excavated. Even still in the matrix they are broken, so I will be doing some prep work on these. I also plan on polishing some of the small sections, and some only need some consolidate.
  14. Day 2 of our exploration trip, this time we were exploring a ranch in the Pierre shale. This was a massive ranch which Walter had done a small amount of exploration years ago. The 3 teams split up again, and my group went to the farthest north of the ranch to begin. This required miles of off-road driving. Its incredible how much area some of these ranches contain! Even though we spent about an hour searching, we didnt find any fossils, although my son and I found 2 arrowheads. I was happy with those, as they were the first ones I have ever found. We moved on to another area and spent a couple more hours searching. There was a lot more exposure at this site and we began to find some scattered broken concretions and bits of bivalves, ammonites and baculites but it wasnt anything great, so then we moved on to a 3rd site (which of course was on the path we already took in). Here we began finding a lot more. There were concretions of shell conglomerate spread around, and many partials of ammonites on the surface. We picked up a lot of concretions to prep at home, broke open a few in the field, and this is where we found our first ammonite. Its small, but its a first. We also managed to find a couple sections of what is likely Baculites Grandis My son seems to have a knack for finding pointy things, either teeth or points. He managed to find a 3rd arrowhead at this last site! Walter was really hoping that we would find a Mosasaur weathering out, but we didnt do too bad. I still have a bucket full of concretions to explore.
  15. A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to look for fossils among additional Pierre Shale outcrops in the Sheyenne River Valley. I didn't post anything about that trip as it came up a bit short and read like my last Pierre Shale trip with more partial specimens. Today I went back to the area to look again, and also made it to an outcrop of the Gregory Member. Low water levels made for a great collection from the Gregory. The DeGrey was rather typical. The side of one of the so-called "Indian Mounds" of the DeGrey member and a frog which was hanging out on the mound. This portion of the river is also the DeGrey. The DeGrey is well exposed in many parts of the state but is often poor in fossils. That fantastic looking ravine produced nothing, not even fragments. Glacial till and boulders are often mixed into the worn outcrops. Some things still grow in the worn shale. Prairie Crocus (Anemone patens) coming up from a few weeks ago. Exposures of the Gregory. The mark of the Gregory, tan claystones compared to the mark of the typical DeGrey, iron manganese carbonate concretions. Frogs were everywhere. I counted 19 frogs in a 7 foot line along the bank here. Freshwater mussels are abundant in the Sheyenne and the low water beached several. Many became muskrat and raccoon snacks. This male Fatmucket (Lampsilis siliquoidea) was one that survived the feast. The first fossil from the Gregory, a nice Baculites.
  16. I_gotta_rock

    Shell Made its Own Pedistal

    From the album: Delaware Fossils

    A Gryphea vomer bivalve made itself at home atop the internal mold of a tiny Baculites ovatus cephalopod. The whole thing is about 3 cm tall. Found in the Cretaceous spoils sands of the C&D Canal, Delaware
  17. Went fishing this spring and picked up a few pieces along the river. They are from the Bearpaw formation in Alberta. Finally got around to cleaning them up a bit. After finding these I think I spent more time watching for fossils than fishing.
  18. JustPlainPetrified

    Little Smoky fossil hunt

    A few baculites pieces from the shale bank of the Little Smoky last week before we made it to the Kakut River. Still have 3 baculite pieces in matrix to work on. Lots of crazy glue needed with these guys.
  19. ThePhysicist

    Baculites

    From the album: North Sulphur River

    Baculites are abundant at NSR. These are typical specimens; some are nice with good suture lines, others are really eaten up.
  20. I finally got some time off and had a nice day to hike the North Sulphur River Texas. I hit the fossil park which is the most hunted location but I still managed to find some good stuff. The big piece of coprolite is loaded with shells in it. I really like the well preserved Glyptoxoceras heteromorph ammonite and the big Tylosaur vert.
  21. Looking to have growths id present on late cretaceous wood. The growths are the scales present on the wood. They appear to have been growing between wood layers. Wood is partly carbonized and not fully mineralized. Wood was drift wood mixed in with baculites and scaphites. Fossil taken in situ from upper part of Kevin mb of Marias Fm in Montana.
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