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When I started hunting and collecting around 15 years ago, I brought home anything and everything that could have been something halfway fossilized. I’ve become much more discriminating in what comes home with me now, but I have boxes of chunkasaurs and unidentifiable fossilized bone fragments. I really need to unload some of this stuff. I have donated some material before, but I’m not sure the organization really wanted it after seeing it. I hate to throw it all in the trash, but maybe someone will have fun exploring the landfill in a thousand years or so. Any suggestions??
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Donations to the Natural History Museum, London
Strepsodus posted a topic in Partners in Paleontology - Member Contributions to Science
Here are two fossils which I have recently donated to the Natural History Museum in London. The first is a Rhinocephalus planiceps skull from the Eocene London clay of the Isle of Sheppey, the second is a Triassic Archosaur tooth from Wales.
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This wasn't getting any love in a different post and I really am hoping to get some advice ASAP. Let's say that I have been finding parts to a Mosasaur for several months. Then one day I locate the source and excavate a few vertebrae before it gets dark. And let's assume I contact a certain university based on suggestions, email some photos and get positive ID that it is what we thought. THe thing is rare so of course they want to see it right away. My personal collection from the critter had reached maybe 14 - 15 verts, and a couple of jaw frags and a skull frag. No doubt they will want the donation and schedule excavation of anything remaining. I have been reading that a lot of folks are weary of donating because it may sit in a drawer and you would have rather it sat in your house. Thoughts?
