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Looking for opinions about what this could be, because I know that it is not just a gas bubble and I have other items that suggest that this is some form of vegetation.

Hello all!! I am a graduate student at Oregon State University, a geologist by trade, but a paleobotanist on the side (see my publication :https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/721261?journalCode=ijps). I am going to add to my Paleocene fossil plant collections, and am going to make a tour all around eastern Oregon. I will of course visit Fossil (again) for some more Bridge Creek Flora specimens, but do not personally know the area super well. Do any of you have any recommendations for plant fossil locations where I can legally collect? It would mean the world to me, I am trying to make my collection more robust, and hopefully produce some scientific literature from them. I would be open to non-plant fossils as well. I know the Mitchell area has some plants, (Bridge Creek also) and will be in that area, but if any of you have specific spots anywhere in eastern Oregon, I would be much obliged. I understand the sensitivity behind disclosing locations, so if you dont feel comfortable, want to keep things secret, maybe just drop me a hint, I am a geologist, and if put in the right area, will be able to find fossils on my own, I just need some help, eastern Oregon is SUPER big!!!! Thank you!!! -Nathaniel Edmonds

Please help ID - Hudspeth Fm, Albian Cretaceous, Mitchell, Wheeler Co., Oregon. - Flat plates, no internal structure. consensus seems to rule out aptychus, which are found in pairs, small tube worm in lower left, small piece of wood between plates, middle right. Found on private land by Andrew Bland and given to me to prepare. Andrew will donate to public collection if it's identified for publication or important. Has a brown crystalline structure, similar to crab shell. Note repeating pattern (more prominent in lower right plate). So far we have ruled out inoceramid shell, rudist, mammoth tooth, and sedimentary ocean patterns. Found close to ammonites and Eucorystes platys crab.

Hello all, I found this in a river near John Day, which is near the John Day Fossil beds. I have zero information as I am a total newbie to all this, but I am very excited! I’ve run it under the water to see it better. It is roughly 4 in/10cm from one end of the white part to the other end of the white part. If you look at the top of the back, there looks to be more of the white just barely showing a ridge. Any help is appreciated!

I found a piece of green petrified wood in Eastern Oregon and underneath was a mushroom. The mushroom has taken on some of the green quarts from the petrified wood. Can anyone help me to identify what this is?

I found this fossil on our ranch near Plush Oregon a few weeks ago. It is the 2nd complete bone fossil I have ever found. The first was allegedly a camel cannon bone. I would like to make a post on it later but this one really grabs my attention. The length is 1 3/8" (34.925 mm) and the larger width is 1/2" (12.7 mm) and the smaller width is 3/8" (9.525 mm). I found it in a small dry alkaline lakebed. I have found fragments from there for a long time. People just call them camel bones but there has never been anything identifiable. The last picture is of the fragments you usually find. I found this right before sunset about 3/4's of the way up the old dune that makes up the north edge of the small dry lake. The geological map I got off of the app rockd says it is in a quaternary surficial deposit; pluvial lake valley deposits. 2.588-0ma. I have a friend who knows a little about fossils and he thought it might be a toe bone off of a Mesohippus. I was wondering if anybody has any other guesses? I dont know much about fossils but I am trying to learn! Any thoughts would be welcomed. Thank you

Hi folks, by way of introduction I am a retired guy with way too much time on his hands and a brain that is definitely out of step with an old body. I found my first fossil in my backyard when I was four years old. It was also my last find for over 65 years, or around the time the first sentence in this intro sunk into my thick head. The first find has long since disappeared but the interest in all things hidden has reemerged. I guess that is my way of saying that for this person the hunt is as, if not more important, than the finding. Still, it's hard to "jump start" an interest when mobility is lower than native curiosity, if you know what I mean. I am hoping to travel into eastern Oregon soon on a collecting trip. In the mean time the Oregon Coast has attracted my attention as a fertile "hunting ground" and I plan to improve my knowledge of local sites and finds. I also am a member of the Rice Museum of Rocks and Minerals and debating whether or not joining NARG (North America Research Group) as well as extending my scientific interest in both mineralogy and fossils. I hope to answer as many of my own questions as possible, but I also am very much interested in learning from others and sharing what I know. I am looking for a collecting/exploring friend and am well equipped for field trips - at least, I think I am well equipped. But perhaps I can learn more about gear, collection and preservation techniques, and maybe making a friend or two in the process. I hope to hear from members within and outside of Oregon. Good Hunting! John

I am a new member, retired, and considering a collecting trip into Eastern Oregon next month. I plan on spending a week in the High Desert hunting and collecting. I am "self-contained" and am planning on living in the field or, at best, staying at a low impact camp site. If you are interested in speaking with me about this excursion in more detail, drop me a line! Trapper John

Is a Forrest Fire Burnt Petrified Wood Rare? This piece weighs in at more than 900g.