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  1. Hi All, On May 21st, 2023, my family and I took a 90 minute drive to Colt's Neck, NJ, to visit a place called Big Brook Preserve. I saw a video on Instagram of a person finding Cretaceous period shark teeth in the middle of a crick bed. I had to go to this place. Wife and I loaded up our 12 and 10 year old, and off we went. Our first trip provided us with 1 complete shark tooth (Scapanorhynchus - Goblin Shark), 1 partial shark tooth (same), some belemnites, a few oyster valves (Agerostera) and a nice Devonian period trace scallop fossil. I was hooked, family had their fun. We made another trip out the next week. Shark teeth came a lot easier, and we found a complete Squalicorax tooth, a couple complete Goblin shark teeth, and a few partials. We also found a complete Enchodus tooth. We kept finding new species. Next trip I went solo. Family kind of lost interest, but I was hoping to find some of the other species I read about being found in the Brook. Well, this trip set the hook for me. I discovered a tooth, and after posting on a FB group, confirmed it belonged to a Mosasaur. It was small, but mostly complete aside from a small portion of the point. Amazing! I was cleaning up some of my other finds, and had this shiny rock that I thought was more than a rock. But, this was in a pile of other rocks that might be more than a rock, that turned out to be just rocks Well, I posted this piece on a FB group, and to my surprise it was a fragment of a Mastodon tooth! Whoa! Never thought I'd find something like that, especially in NJ of all places. I'm sure I'll never find another, but glad to say I found the one. Since then I've been back pretty much every weekend, checking out the different brooks. Have found several more different species since then, and each time is a new adventure. Hoping to branch out to other areas of the country soon. Family & I are going to Beltzville State Park in August. Area is known for Devonian period fossils right on the shoreline. And a trip to Calvert Cliffs, MD is definitely in my near future! In any case, I thought it would be interesting to catalog some of my finds as I go along. Thanks for looking, and feedback good or bad is always welcomed (please correct anything I've misidentified - I'm still learning, and won't be offended). Eric I'll kick-off with photos of some of the locations I've visited. Big Brook - First and one of my favorite spots Ramanessin Brook - Lot's of small shark teeth Leopard frog joined me for a few sifts.
  2. I've done a bunch of keyword searching today and my eyes are crossing so, if this is in the wrong place, feel free to correct me. What methods do y'all use to manage and track your specimens collection? I've used Trilobase, ReCollector, Access, and Excel. I've been the happiest with the first two, but they still feel clunky or lacking in support/updates. I'm just trying to see if there's something else out there that's high quality without costing me museum prices. Bonus for something PC-based that has a smartphone app as well. Whatever method you use, I'm interested in hearing your thoughts. I'm always up for getting good ideas. Thanks!
  3. Hello, I've been wanting to showcase my ongoing collection publicly in some way, and with what I've amassed so far I've decided now would be a good time to finally start. As the title suggests, this collection is dominated by echinoderms and primarily crinoids. These are without doubt my favorite group of fossils, as in my opinion not only are they aesthetically beautiful due to their elegant composition of regularly interlocking calcareous plates, but the highly modular nature of their body plans seems to have permitted an extraordinary variety in form, which is a marvel to behold. With each entry I'll try to add an interesting description or at least factoid about the specimen, species or locality; hopefully this will be a great opportunity for me to do more in-depth research on my fossils well enough that I can explain coherently. That being said, I'm absolutely an amateur and have been collecting for just around 2 years at this point, so I would love any input and corrections from those more experienced. I love any opportunity to talk fossils, and even better if I learn something I didn't know previously. My goal is to make entries semi-regularly. The inspiration for this thread is definitely @rew 's incredible "My trilobite of the week" thread; I recommend you check that out too!
  4. SteppeJim

    My Collection So Far

    Hey everyone, I'm very new to fossil hunting and collecting, but the collection is growing, and I'm really wanting to get out hunting a lot more. Iv'e looked around North wales and mostly found carboniferous fossils such as coral and also had a few trips to the east coast of England (mainly Whitby and Norfolk) but haven't had a lot of luck there yet except parts of ammonite and the odd belemnite. So anyway, my collection so far. My main interest in ice age animals, especially European and British. But also a keen interest in prehistoric marine life. Fossils so far: Steppe Bison (Bison Priscus) cranium Irish Elk (megalocerous giganteous) cranium Partial Irish Elk (megalocerous giganteous) Left Antler partial Juvenile cave bear (Ursus spelaeus) Jaw Partial Cave lion (Panthera Spelaea) Jaw Partial Woolly Mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) Right side of Jaw with M2 Molar (and M3 Molar Erupting) Woolly Mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) Hair sample Woolly Mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) Fecal sample Woolly Rhino (Coelodonta antiquitatis) hair sample Fossiled Whale Rib bone that has been eaten by a Megalodon (Otodus Megalodon) Megalodon (Otodus Megalodon) Coprolite British Clactonian/Acheulean Bitface Flint Handaxe Lots of smaller pieces of ammonite, Belemnite, carboniferous corals and shells. But lets start off with my most recent purchase. Very happy with it! [removed seller name, as per forum rules] A Half Lower Jaw with M2 and M3 Molars of a Woolly Mammoth. Latin Name: Mammuthus primigenius Site: North Sea, ‘Doggerland’ area Age: Approximately 40.000 years old [removed seller verbiage as per forum rules]
  5. Hello Im new to this amazing website (forum) and im so happy i found out about it. Paleontolgy is my interest for 3 years so im quite new to it. I have a small collection of fossils and i wonder i they are genuinely real or not. The teeth should be mosasaurus and the trilobite elipsocephalus hoffi. Im asking because in my country are fake fossils sold quite commonly so i wonder if they are real and someone could tell if they are real or not please. Also i would like to ask if you know on what website i can buy 100% real fossils if it is not against the rules. Thank you so much for any identification, advice help and your time
  6. Here by I want you to share my fossil dinosaur collection and keep updating it! So lets start off by showing my recently aquired Spinosaurus indet. tooth from the KemKem Basin, Taouz Morocco. It measures 4'51 inches. Really like the colors and detailed preservation. With serrations still visible.
  7. Good evening, Long time didn’t post my collection. I took pictures for some of my collection yesterday. Wish you all enjoy it! Thank you
  8. I’ll show my collection here. 1. Agnostida This is my only example from this order. Itagnostus interstrictus Wheeler Shale U-dig Quarry, Delta, Millard County, Utah Middle Cambrian Purchased Scale bar is 1 cm.
  9. Ludwigia

    After the Move

    I think I've already mentioned now and then over the last couple of months that I was on the move again. Now that we've settled in, I thought I could show you the new arrangement of the collection. Since we moved into a much smaller apartment, I've been forced to radically reduce the collection and have given up the workshop due to lack of space. Besides, I'm reaching the age where it's anyway time to let go of a few things, so I now have a good number of cartons full of fossils which shall be being put up for sale over the next year or so. Anyway, I still have 6 showcases full, so it's not all that bad and the fossils aren't nearly so much squished together in as in the past. The first one is out in the hallway directly outside the apartment as a welcoming gesture to visitors and passers by. I've filled it with what I've saved from my old mineral collection and a variety of cut and polished fossils and I've garnished it with a few ammonites from around the world. Then there are the riker mounts on the wall with small ammos and shark teeth. My main passion was always for ammonites, so these are what are mostly presented. The cabinet on the left at the top has first of all my specialty shelf and then shelves with Jurassic finds from Switzerland and France and then the 2 at the bottom from the English Jurassic. The one on the right shows from top to bottom 2x southern German Late Jurassic finds, then Early Jurassic, then Cretaceous and Nautiloids, and Belemnites at the bottom. The nautilus on top is a Digonioceras tintanti from the Wutach Valley and the large ammo on top of the cabinet on the right is a Pseudhimalayites uhlandi along with a few smaller ones on the block from the Upper Danube Valley. The next one is filled with my southern German Middle Jurassic finds from Geisingen at the top and the Wutach Valley at the bottom. There are also a few from the Alpine Triassic at the bottom right. The next one is reserved for, from top to bottom, plant fossils, gastropods in the middle and bivalves all from all over the world. The ammonite at the top is an Arietites bucklandi. And this one contains, also from top to bottom, teeth and bones, echinoids, bryozoa and crinoidea, trilobites, brachiopods and insects, corals and at the bottom a huge Pleurolytoceras dilucidum which I lugged out of the quarry in Belmont, France a few years ago. The ammonite at the top is a Procerites hodsoni. And last but not least, the TV table with my favorite eye candy. Top right Campanile giganteum with Scyphocrinus elegans. Bottom left to right Arietites solarium, Coroniceras rotiforme, Encrinus liliiformis, Cockerellites liops, Stephanoceras humphriesianum, Procerites hodsoni and Brasilia decipiformis. Well, that's all for now folks and I'm off on my bike for a short tour.
  10. parrotparrot333

    The humerus of the Hadrosauridae?

    Is it the upper arm bone of the Hadrosauridae? I draw the Forelimbs with the fossil preserved area (Red colour).
  11. JorisVV

    My collection update

    New to the collection, added last week. Nest of 5 oviraptor sp. (Elongatoolithid?) from the Nanxiong Fm in China.
  12. okfossilcollector

    My little collection!

    Nothing too crazy in the collection yet just some theropod teeth mostly from HC MT. ID'd (when I bought them) as a nano, a Acheroraptor, Dromaeosaurs and a little bitty tooth I'm not sure of. I have a few ceratopsian bones and teeth, amber and such. There's a few Spino teeth and some low quality Carchardontosaurus teeth I want to get replaced with better ones.
  13. Here are the only fossils that I have at the moment I hope to continue to grow my collection! Pictures 1, 2, and 3 are of my Mantellisaurus atherfieldensis vertebra. Per the seller, it is from the Cretaceous (Barremian Stage), and originated from the Isle of Wight's Wessex Formation (Wealden Group). Picture 4 is of my flea market Colpocoryphe grandis, likely originating from Morocco. Picture 5 is of my gifted partial (most likely) Merycoidodon gracilis skull, originating from possibly Wyoming or Nebraska. Picture 6, my most recent purchase, is of a plate of four upper Cretaceous shrimp originating from Hjoula, Lebanon's Sannine Formation.
  14. harpercm3

    Personal Collection

    Here are some of the cool things I have found over the years!
  15. I have a collection of at least 50 fossils, and at this point, I have something from every major time period and major life group. I've been collecting for a couple of years now, with a focus on trilobites but I have lots of other things too. But I am being to be concerned that through collecting, I am taking away material that could be studied by scientists to learn more about prehistoric life. Of course things like Elrathia Kingii are so numerous and well studied that I think pretty much anyone could or should be able to own one, but sometimes I will purchase a fossil and there will be little to no information about it online. I'm also concerned since I've read about how fossil poaching can impact scientists' studies of a specific locality and that really bothers me if I've at all contributed to that. I don't want to donate my entire collection, as I love making displays in my house and looking them over to study myself, but there's a few I feel might be better suited in a place where they can be studied by actual scientists. I've learned so much through having them and seeing them in real life in my home, but I am not exactly equipped to be making studies that are contributing to the field. Is there anywhere I can loan them, or would they have to be officially donated? And if so, would they likely be destroyed to study or just kept in a library somewhere? Could I go and visit them or receive updates on their study? I'm not even in college yet, but planning to attend an Art School, and moving on to study Paleontology either after or if I don't enjoy Art School. I've volunteered a bit at a College cataloging fossils, and looking to do more volunteering and learning fossil preparation this summer. How do you guys reason with this with your own collections? Is it even ethical to own fossils at all? I'm curious to hear different opinions.
  16. Hi This will hopefully end up being a long thread over the next years, but has JUST begun this adventure into fossils after being a vintage toy collecter for years. Has been a dinosaur fan since early childhood and is SOOO happy to own a piece of history and dream about getting a huge collection (Without the need for selling our house ) This is my very first fossil, and its a 3,35" Serrated Carcharodontosaurus in great condition - Been looking a long time for this piece that had the right size, condition, nice tip and serrations ........................... That I could afford Used all the money on the tooth, so to begin with I display it with a cheap model from Jurassic World And a bit closer from one side ..... And the other ..... Will take a few pictures outside the display frame later ..... Its SO happy about this piece, and just thinking about what it has been killing / eating back in time is mind blowing to me. Already got next fossil on its way, and will soon be able to show it. Regards Henrik
  17. I've been collecting casually for about 40 years in the UK, mostly on the Yorkshire coast and have built quite a collection of, what I think, are reasonable ammonites and other fossils, some of which can be seen in IMGP3195 below. I have either found these already split or been able to split them quite easily with just a hammer and chisel. But I have also amassed a large number of unprepared part eroded nodules which I am unsure how to split or prepare as seen in IMGP3197. Wondered if anyone can suggest how to go about uncovering these ammonites without damaging them in the process. I have a good collection of general tools but no specialist fossil preparation equipment. Thanks in advance.
  18. lesofprimus

    Lesofprimus Fossil Collection

    Here are a few photos of my entire collection spread out in my living room between 3 seperate tables and separated by groups; Table #1 Crocodilians, Theropod Dinosaurs, Marine Mammals and Marine Reptiles. Table #2 77 Different Shark Teeth Species. Table #3 Amphibians and Reptiles, Miscellaneous Fossils and Fish.
  19. underdog76

    My humble little collection

    I was given a bag of fossils by a family friend, somewhere around 1985, and I absolutely cherished them when I was a boy. I was all in on fossils and dinosaurs. Fast forward all these years and I stumbled upon this old bag of fossils and my 5 year old son was enthralled by what he found in that old bag. He loves dinosaurs and sharks, like any 5 year old boy, and this was just the spark he and I needed to start a new collection. Our first piece was the 4.75 inch meg tooth in the middle. I follow a guy on Instagram and he found this off the coast of Florida, in an area close to our vacation home. The sheer size of it is so impressive, people freak out when I tell them it's real. The Spinosaur tooth on the left was acquired online. It's 4.2 inches tall and came from the Kem Kem Basin in Morocco. The tooth on the far right is a 2.3 inch Carcharodontosaurus from Kem Kem as well. Next on the wish list, T-Rex, Pterosaur and Triceratops teeth.
  20. Omar01

    Teeth fossils

    Hello everyone, I'm looking for people who have teeth fossils collections to help build a dataset for my graduation project which will be an application that does identify a tooth and extract information from the tooth image. If you don't mind sharing your dataset or a subset of it, please reply to this topic or PM me. Thanks in advance.
  21. Hi all, This may seem like a weird topic but I wanted to ask here because this keeps happening occasionally and I am unsure of what the cause behind it is and whether this could be of any concern. When going through my fossil collection, whether it be putting new specimens up for display, looking through my collection, dusting pieces off, moving them, etc. I occasionally see small translucent white bugs slowly scuttling across the surface of them, I believe that these are springtails as that seems like the only plausible organism to be found there that also has that appearance and body shape. I personally have no issue with the bugs, I like springtails, I think they're fascinating organisms and somewhat cute even. My question is where could all of them be coming from? My understanding is that they primarily feed on fungi and need lots of moisture to thrive, I understand maybe finding a couple of them a few days after pulling fossils fresh from the ground, but some of these seem to come out weeks or even months after these fossils have been laying on my shelves with little to no contact with fresher specimens. My display area is kept clean and dry so I really have no idea where they could bee coming from, is this any cause for concern? Has anyone else experienced anything like this? Thanks for looking and any replies, Misha
  22. I have decided to start a thread showing pieces from my collection. I usually post in the "mailbox score" thread, but have found that my additions get lost in the volume of postings in the thread. So my collection will be in my own thread.
  23. Hi everyone, it’s been a while since I have posted on here. Next summer my family is moving to the Fort Collins area and I was wondering if there were any sites or natural areas to hunt/collect in. I read on fossilspot.com that the south shore of Horsetooth Reservoir (west of Fort Collins) contains Late Cretaceous Fox Hills formation containing “Inoceramus, Ostrea, etc.”. I have already planned to get down to Florissant Fossil Quarry (despite the extremely expensive one hour access fee). My mom has friends with ranches in the central part of the state that have extensive land with mountain ATV trails. I’m still working out the formations of the area, but hopefully they are vertebrate bearing. If they are and include dinosaurs or phorusrhacids, then I would be more comfortable to brave the Mountain Lions, Fire ants and rattlesnakes for them. Near my mom’s friend’s ranch is Monarch Mountain, which is built on Ordovician rocks full of fossils. It is unfortunate that there is not many vert sites in Colorado that you can collect at. However, I will take invertebrate sites too. Of invertebrates I want Baculites or Placenticeras. Any help appreciated.
  24. First one was theorized to be a gerastos trilobite, but I am unsure after comparing images The second image came with a note that said pachycephalosaurus vertebrae, hell creek. I don't know how accurate that is but if someone could at least tell me what type of vertebrae this is because all the ones I looked up were not this intricate Third and fourth one I have no idea what they are they never had any notes attached when I unpacked. I completely understand if nobody can identify exactly what they are but if someone can tell me what bones they at least are I'm happy with that The last two pictures are the front and back of what I assume is a juvenile mammoth wrist bone. Or at least that's what the note said there was no location written down Goodness, I believe this might be the last post of all the stuff I found. I really do appreciate everyone's help.
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