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Hello everyone! I'm a 16 year old from SoCal that has been in love with paleontology, dinosaurs, and fossils ever since I could remember. Naturally, this led to me to start fossil collecting at a young age, and TFF has been the best resource possible over the past years. For some reason, I never became a member, until now! I'm excited to be a part of this community and continue my fossil journey. To kick things off, here's a picture of my pyritized trilobite I recently took:
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Hey, I purchased these in two groups as raccoon, river otter, and possum canines, but I wanted to make sure they’re what I got them as. Biggest of them all is 1 3/16 @Harry Pristis @Shellseeker @Bone Daddy. TIA!
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Anyone know of good places in NY (close to NYC and Long Island) for fossil hunting ? Penn Dixie is way too far and I heard there are some good Devonian fossils in the Catskills. Any spot where I can find a sea scorpion or trilobite ?
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Are these belemites ? They were found in Big Creek Preserve, NJ
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tyrannosaurus, hadrosaur and other Dino Teeth Repair and Restoration?
CEP posted a topic in Fossil ID
A couple of the bigger Tyrannosaurus teeth I found this summer in Montana Judith River formation. I found this 3" tyrannosaurus tooth in about 400 pieces and was able to piece about 80% of it together over about 3 weeks and 30 hours, the other one is almost as big but was only in about 30 pieces and is still a nice brown color. I am no professional and did not want to pay thousands to have someone do it for me. I would like to get it filled in and solid, is there some putty or epoxy used to fill it in and hold it all together? Also had some other smaller Hadrosaur teeth I believe and maybe a croc tooth but not certain. can anyone ID those?
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The wifey and I did a quick hunt today,didn’t feel like sifting ,just surfaced hunted and there were a lot feet prints,but that didn’t stop finding anything,just gotta look closer,nice variety of fossils.
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Hello! I was cracking open some more phosphate nodules from the Muncie creek shale formation and had these stored in my room for a while! I was wondering if anyone could identify these very hard to determine fossils as I cannot tell if they contain bone fragments or if the fossils are from a coprolite! I think the one on the bottom right could be a either bone or coprolitic material More images of the specimen on the left which I believe is either fish excitement or fish vomit, I am unsure as I have found similar fossils to this inside some other nodules. Unsure what this one is as well! Any guess is welcomed! Location is in Missouri The area is dated to the Pennsylvanian Formation is the Muncie Creek Shale member
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Hello there, i'm new at this community, so i'm hopping I will get some help from you guys, tried to google what've found, but didin't really found any good info. Fossils are numbered you can see at photos Fossils which i found were at Lithuania, in random fields, few years ago. Would be nice to get any info about these, are they rare, does they have any price... any info, thx 1 https://imgur.com/C4YKjlF 1 https://imgur.com/Kh0NMZy 2 https://imgur.com/EZEoJ8M 2 https://imgur.com/pOwv214 2 https://imgur.com/Cwho8KL 3 https://imgur.com/95fQEm9 3 https://imgur.com/MowZGhu 4 https://imgur.com/zqUPa9a 4 https://imgur.com/6odgAeE 5 https://imgur.com/7Q1zWlX 5 https://imgur.com/2SKKMW7 6 https://imgur.com/dxDeF9m 6 https://imgur.com/Icxfkd7 6 https://imgur.com/rWEkbsX
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Should I restore this, or Keep as is? T-Rex gastralia.
PrehistoricWonders posted a topic in Fossil Preparation
Hi everyone, do you all think this would look better with the cracks filled and fully restored or as is?
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Hey guys I’m new to the rock and fossil collecting! My name is Kristi, Michigan. I have a couple things I’m not sure what they are if anyone could help I would appreciate it!
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hi new to the group , hope im doing this correct , i found these in a old gravel railroad track , in new orleans , no telling where the gravel came from there tracks havent been used in 40-50 years
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Rob starts oraganizing his mess, ahem, I mean fossil treasures!
Rob in Idaho posted a topic in Member Collections
As I am very new here, I figure the best place to really start to introduce myself and my fossils (and related ephemera) would be to start a collection thread. I have picked up fossils off the ground since child hood. Sadly many of my early Brachiopods, Crinoid pieces, etc. and some Pleistocene bones? (Never knew for sure which exact time frame or animal, but definitely not mammoth, dad thought they were bison when they popped up while digging our farm pond) and such did not survive my fathers move from one home to another while I was in the Marine Corps. However since then I have picked up a few things , mostly from the ground, a little in trade, the occasional museum gift shop and maybe a few treasures off that online place in more recent times. I'm not particular about what I find in or on the ground, I love all my fossils from the wild, however when I buy fossils, they tend to be aquatic in nature. I have a growing fondness for fish fossils and shark teeth. I have quite a variety which will get posted here as I finally start the organization of it all. (Thank the Wuhan Covid-19 flu quarantine craze that is sweeping the world). The bulk of my finds are bugs and plants from Meeker, Colorado. I have two trunks of shale to sift through still and you all will get a front row seat as I do it! You will also see some other stuff, so don't wander far if your not a bug and leaf kind of person. And just to whet the appetite, here are some over all pics of what I have just started doing in my display area. Semper Fi, Rob
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Well, it's hot in Texas in August. 107 is the forecast for Saturday. Soooo...I'm hunting at home! Still having fun with the micro matrix stuff! This time, it's from Mineral Wells, TX. While i have been there a variety of times and found lots of great stuff, I never looked quite THIS close to find fossils! So a pound of washed matrix and my microscope camera landed me a few neat things. I was hoping for a whole Trilobite (which I have found three small ones at Mineral Wells) no full trilos this time, but some trilo bits! But my favorite things are the Crinoid parts...the geometric architectural elements of crinoids simply amaze me. So here are my favorite Mineral Wells Minis. All of these are 1/8 inch and smaller. Echinoid Plates and Spines: (Big one is 1/8 inch) Trilobite Bits: Crinoid fragments (stems, calyx, bulb, and arm structures) I am simply amazed by the geometry of these! And a couple of tiny gastropods: I"m not completely sure what this is...I assume a bit of crinoid, but it has a different texture than the others.
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Hi Folks, Finally made it to Matoaka this past weekend after the recent Hurricane. Alot of new cliff falls. Was able to collect a few Ecphora is semi decent condition. Nothing completely intact though. I have found a few bone fragments on my last several trips to Matoaka and am looking for an expert opinion on what they are. Below is a pic from my trip this weekend. I really think this is modern but I'm not entirely sure. I think its a C1 vertebrae from a deer, but if anyone has any other thoughts please let me know. Other posts below are of three other fragments I have found.
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I foud these two stones on a fossil hunting trip some weeks ago. The fossil on the below stone seems to be a gastropod (size about 3 cm), but is the other a sponge? Anyone have an idea? Both are from middle ordovicium, Oslo-field in Norway. Martin
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I found these two stones in two different places both of them from silur. Anyone can which kind of octopuses it is? Is the round thing a part of the octopus? One of them have visible crystals and which material it is made of? Aragonite? Martin
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Summer end Mesozoic and tertiary french fossils for trade
nala posted a topic in Member-to-Member Fossil Trades
Few more French samples for exchange for all kind of fossils i don't have already with ID Ammonites 1 Garantiana gr. garantiana (ORBIGNY 1845) Bajocien Calvados - France 2 Parkinsonia parkinsoni (SOWERBY 1821)Bajocien (-170 à -164 millions d'années) supérieur Calvados - France 3 Chondroceras evolvescens Bajocien Calvados Normandy 4 Parkinsonia parkinsoni microcoque (SOWERBY 1821)Bajocien (-170 à -164 millions d'années) supérieur Calvados - France 5 BIGOTITES thevenini (Nicolesco 1917) Bajocien Calvados France 6 Teloceras blagdeni (SOWERBY, 1818) Bajocien Calvados Normandy 7 two Hildoceras Biffrons from the Toarcian of Riviére sur Tarn Aveyron 8 Quenstedtoceras Lamberti Callovian Villers sur Mer Normandy 9 Cardioceras woodhamense (Arkell) Callovian Villers sur Mer Normandy Echinoids a PHYMOSOMA GIRUMNENSE SANTONIEN GURAT CHARENTE France b phimosomas microtuberculatum SANTONIEN GURAT CHARENTE France c Flint regular Echinoid from the Turonian Ault Picardy and more Mezosoic from Picardy and Normandy A Tertiary Nummulites plate
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Hey all! As usual from big brook I’m looking for some identifications if anyone can help, thanks for your help in advance!! Travis 1) 2) 3)
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good morning all a recent post of mine and then the response of 2 members concerned keeping (or not) of found modern bone. which got me wondering - WHAT DO YOU FOLKS COLLECT OR KEEP? (not exactly sure what the difference is). For me, collecting in Cretaceous Big Brook, fossil shark or other teeth are my main finds and hence my main collection. But i collect, or at least keep pretty much anything i find that i like so i also keep belemnite, fossil shells, modern bone, interesting stones and artifacts ranging from pottery shards to glass bottles (and even odd stuff like shell casings). (I even have a glass vase full of translucent rocks). What do you collect or keep?
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Hello everyone. We live in the Texas hill country. I have been a nurse for over 40 years, getting ready to retire and now I have a new interest, seems like good timing for a new hobby. Accidentally found several fossils while digging for interesting rocks with the grandkids. Now I am spending hours cleaning out a fossil we found in our backyard. Have been reading your post, so very interesting. Looking forward to reading and learning from everyone's posts.
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Hello everyone, in addition to posting my other topic today, I am going to post this one. With the summer coming to a close, I am preparing to go back to college in Ohio and continue my study of Neuroscience and Mathematics. The rain in Ohio and ID'ing NJ fossils in the ID section often make me lament all of potential NJ hunts I am missing out on because I am at school. So, I thought it would be a good idea to collect micro matrix using a window screen and stock several buckets full of gravel to look through during the semester. Over the last two weeks or so I've had the opportunity to do some early looking and will share my finds in this post. Hopefully I will be able to make many more NJ Micro trip reports during the course of the semester. I am still figuring out the proper mixture of lighting and camera angles. Also, you may notice it in this post, but I am adjusted the properties Exposure, Shadows, and Sharpness to get the optimal view of the fossils. The black borders and resizing of the photos were automatically done by a Python script I wrote. Perhaps with more micro reports I can become better at ID'ing what I find (there are still many things that I have found where I am at a loss for what they are) and taking photos. Enjoy. Here is my setup currently Here is some gravel I've looked through FOSSILS Format: <suspected ID> Maybe Rhombodus laevis AMALGAM OF RAYS 1 (tooth) 2 (tooth) 3 (tooth) 4 (tooth) 5 (tooth) 6 (denticle) 7 (denticle: In middle) Lonchidion babulskii Ptychotrygon sp. 1 2 Ischyrhiza mira 1 2 3 4 5 6 Squatina hassei (potentially) Hadrodus priscus 1 2 3 Ischyodus bifurcatus SHARK TEETH MISCELLANEOUS BUT POSSIBLY DIAGNOSTIC 1 2 GENERAL FINDS 1 2
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Hey guys, I went looking for fossils in central Florida this past Tuesday. I only had an hour to hunt, but boy did it produce! My favorite finds were five chunks of Mastodon tusk and a partial muskrat jaw! I hope you enjoy this look into prehistoric Florida!
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Echies of Texas - (and MORE from West Texas! )(Part 8?)
JamieLynn posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
Took a little trip out to West Texas last weekend. My parents have friends who have ranches out near Balmorhea (great to have friends with ranches...everyone should have friends who have ranches!). I knew the general area was one I had wanted to go hunting for echinoids in the Boracho Formation (some very special echinoids not found in my area). I did my research on Google maps and the Texas Geology website, hoping I could pinpoint the right roadcuts! The first one we stopped at (I thought was the right formation) turned out to be a different formation, but I found some cool little brachiopods that are different than any i have encountered before and a couple of echinoids (phymosomas) and that was all for that little roadcut. Checked out a few more in the area but didn't find anything. Definitely didn't find what I was looking for! So on to our weekend at the ranch. The owner said he know of a "beach" on the ranch where "sea shells" were found. I was really surprised because on the Geology map it is all Igneous and Quaternary - nothing at all that looked Cretaceous fossiliferous. So we went driving around the ranch to the spot and to my GREAT surprise, we found an outcrop of Austin Chalk! I don't know how, but it was there! I found inoceramus clam parts and some of the most beautifully colored Exogyra erraticostata! So that was a really special spot! ( @grandpa -another "fossil that shouldn't be there!"- but it was!) The final day we were to head home, I convinced my parents to drive 30 miles further West before we headed back east for home. I knew there were supposed to be some more outcrops of the Boracho accessible so we took a little side trip and happily I found the formation I was looking for! And I was rewarded with a most LOVELY little Anorthopygus texanus echinoid! I initially thought it was a Coenholectypus transpecoensis (which was mainly what I was hoping to find -which I did not find!) but was happy to discover it was a more rare Anorthopygus! My mom found a nicely presereved Wahitaster wenoensis, so that was great too. I also found a phymosoma, but it's pretty beat up. A small section of a nautiloid and a nice bivalve which I think is a Lima wacoensis quadrangularis rounded out my day. So it was a good haul to West Texa! My best finds from Boracho /San Martine formation Anorthopygus texanus - 25 mm : Washitaster wenoensis 25 mm a not so great Phymosoma 1 1/2 inches Lima wacoensis quadragularis 1 inch From the Austin Chalk Formation on the ranch: Exogyra erraticostata 3 inches From the first roadcut which was Buda formation Kingena (Waconella) sp? what's odd about them is this "dip in the lip" so I am not sure what species it is (it is for sure Cretaceous Kingena/ Waconella and not a Pennsylvanian Composita which it very much looks like -we had a nice long post on that!) A few pics of some of the critters on the ranch: Auadad (not native, but gone native) Javelina mama and baby! A mule deer wild turkeys.thumb.JPG.0740241271a0f398fa352e368134d9e7.JPG)
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Hi, My name is Max. I live in Philadelphia and frequently (but not often enough) collect in NJ in Monmouth County with occasional trips to MD, TX and TN. I work as a nurse practitioner in an infectious diseases practice and specialize in HIV care. I have a particular fondness for ordovician fossils, but am honestly down for just about any fossil-hunting that involves walking up creeks. I've loved finding fossils since childhood (my dad was an avid artifact-finder, and I discovered fossils along the way... that was in Central Texas and fossils were everywhere). I joined the Delaware Valley Paleontological Society about 5 years ago, attend meetings whenever possible, but due to my work and dad life don't get to participate nearly as much as I'd like-- I'm a DVPS wallflower haha. I probably won't post very often, but I am deeply appreciative of the wealth of knowledge available on this forum and the willingness people have to share their knowledge. -Max
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