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From the album: Plantae
7x6x2cm. From the petrified forest by Virgin, Washington County, Utah, USA. Chinle Formation, Late Triassic. Thanks to my Secret Santa Crusty Crab. -
Now that I'm shut down for member the winter I'm going to try to catch up on my cataloging and ID work. First up, is this an ischium? If so whos? Any help appreciated. It and all the others I will be asking about are from the middle Petrified Forrest member of the Chinle formation...just below the Black Forrest member (it's almost completely erroded away and covered unconformably with the early Cretaceous Dakota Group Conglomerate) in undisturbed reddish brown mudstone with copious huge fossiliferous coprolites(?). Please let me know if I have forgotten any key info and thanks.
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Probably from Petrified Forest member. Literature says phytosaur remains a common occurrence. Can anybody confirm what it is?
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Yes! What this?
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Possibly a burrow? Found beneath the Chinle formation on US89 in northern Arizona. 4 inches long, 2.5 inches tall, with a slight curve and a flatter bottom side. The rock looks like limestone, but was found on a flat wash without similar rock in the nearby area.
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Now that the weather has officially snowed me in. I’ve gotten around to posting some trips I took during the summer. At request of my friend, I won’t reveal the exact location of this area but if you know where this is you know there’s abundant petrified wood. I can say it’s close to Capitol Reef National Park (definitely not in the park ). Here’s the stratigraphic column for the area. The petrified wood we were looking for were in the Petrified Forest member and the Shinarump conglomerate member. The area is a long hike in. So even though we saw abundant wood, we could only
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a book review of: "A Fossil-Hunter's Notebook: My Life with Dinosaurs and Other Friends" by Edwin H. Colbert. 1980. E.P Dutton. 242 pages. Original suggested retail price: $15.95 USD. If you were a kid during the 1960's and 1970's and you wanted to learn everything there was to know about dinosaurs, you checked out everything available at the elementary school library. Deliriously happy that you were interested in reading, your parents, aunts, and uncles bought you every "dinosaur book" they could find. You started reading books intended for teenagers and adults. Among your favorite po
