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Hello, My name is Pascal Passionate about tertiary molluscs for 40 years Looking for contacts with other collectors Sorry for my bad English

I found this clam buried in mud along Joshua’s Creek in Oakville, near Lake Ontario, the hotspot of Ordovician fossils. Measurements are 7cm by 6cm. I’m particularly intrigued by the growth rings, since they protrude out rather visibly and considering I’ve never seen this in any other kind of fossil or living clam species. Can anyone help with identifying what species of fossil clam this is?

Hi everyone, my name is Michael and I’m from Southern California. I’m new to this forum and am hoping to meet like-minded people that enjoy fossils as much as I do and learn from them as well.

I find skulls one of the most interesting pieces of fossil you can ever own. So here I'd love to see all of your fossil skulls, or parts of one. Here is my Pleistocene era skull of a Ursus arctos. An ice age brown bear. Very very uncommon find.

Hello I am just posting to introduce myself. My name is Sarah and I am a rock lover!

New to the site! Glad to be here! Usually into finding fossils such as shark teeth, ray barbs, verts, puffer mouth plates, scutes, etc. Now that I'm in Texas, those seem to be limited in my area... so just started getting into various rock impressions as well as Native artifacts! Looking forward to learning more here on the site!

I have tried to buy fossils from japanese sites online but everytime they come back and say the product is prohibited from international shipping due to the fossil being considered a 'living' animal so cant be shipped despite being dead for millions of years? Has anyone else experienced this? Also has anyone here successfully bought fossils from japan?

So it’s been a while since I’ve made a trip report! Been out plenty, just never sat down to make one, and by the time I was ready, I had already sorted away the finds. Decided to keep out my best finds from my last 2 trips, so… The first trip I had gone out looking for new spots. Found one, but hadn’t spent a ton of time there before I had to leave. The hour or two I did spend there resulted in a Holmesina claw, N. Aztecus p2, a partial posterior Meg, and a canid jaw, which while matching coyote, is heavily fossilized and could be any number of similarly sized canids, especially given the other finds in the same place dating the area to early Pleistocene at the latest. The next trip I was planning to continue hunting the new spot and check out more spots farther upstream, but it rained heavily 2 days before, and the water hadn’t dropped enough for me to even hunt the new spot, let alone look for more. So I stopped at an old spot that had been resulting in little gravel and not producing small shark teeth and not much else… I was then very excited when I found a dire wolf p2 in my first 10min there, followed by deer teeth, a horse incisor, tortoise claw cores, a large mammal vert, and plenty more. I will definitely be returning on my next outing, though probably going to continue searching for new spots. Hopefully the water has dropped enough by then… Anyway, the real reason people read these, the finds! Holemsina back foot claw core and the 2 tortoise claw cores I found: The myriad of armadillo osteoderms… Top row is Pachyarmatherium (found my 2nd and third normal Pachy osteoderms finally - I had only been finding edge ones before!) and then a single Holmesina, the rest are all Dasypus Bellus: Gator teeth, 2 posterior partial Megs, 2 deer teeth, a partial tapir, and a complete tapir tooth: The smallest tortoise spur I’ve found at 1cm on the dot: And finally my fav finds, a horse incisor, N. aztecus p3, the canid jaw with a p4, and the dire wolf p2:

As many of you know, my home on Sanibel was severely impacted by Hurricane Ian, especially by the storm surge of 12-15 feet. I was fortunate that the living areas escaped major damage. I have a 13 foot carport as the 1st level, and 90 % of its contents were destroyed or washed away. This included one of my kayaks, found badly damaged 15 feet up in a tree 6 weeks after the surge hit. Also in the carport, was a 20 drawer display cabinet containing lots of excellent fossils, which I could not fit inside the house. I have searched for that cabinet for 2 months, walking thru the much and mire of hurricane debris. Yesterday afternoon, about 3 hours before dinner and a play, a friend called my wife, saying there was a cabinet, like mine, dumped at the side of our street, 5 houses down, waiting for trash removal. I was up at 1st light, and indeed verified this was my fossil cabinet. It was full of sand, mud, fossils and broken beyond repair. The cabinet must have rolled in its journey thru the surge, since it contained a lot of palm fronds and large seeds from a Bismarkia palm and at least one panel was breached, allowing some loss of contents. I ripped the cabinet apart with pry bar and hammer in search of fossils. I recovered about 35-40% of the original contents... My glass in half full. This is a GREAT Christmas present.... I finished about an hour ago... Some of the recoveries.... That is a small Baleen whale mandible tip. I am really pleased to get it back...Jack

Today I drove out about 50 miles to attend an auction that is held a few times a year. This auction usually has Native American artifacts, Chinese artifacts, old fishing equipment, fossils and other odds and ends. The auction starts at 10:30 am and runs several hours. Today I left at 2:30 pm and there was still about 150 lots to auction out of the original 450 or so lots that the day began with. Today there may have been about 50 people in attendance and by the time I left, there were maybe 20 people left. There is no charge to enter and no additional fee is charged to you if you happen to win a bid. In addition, they provide a ton of donuts for breakfast and make sandwiches for lunch, all of the food is provided free of charge. They only thing that you are charged is $1.00 if you want a pop or water. I see many people that come and never bid, but do eat the food. Lol As with all auctions, you have to keep an eye on what is be auctioned at the time and you have to make sure that you don’t get caught up in the moment and bid more than you were thinking about paying. Here are some of the fossils that were up for auction. Most of these came from an older collector that had passed away and his niece was getting rid of some of the stuff. It was a Potpourri of things that included dinosaur pieces ( no teeth), Oligocene fossils, tracks, casts and other stuff. The main problem with these collections is that there is no information on the fossil or the location that they came from. A “lot” consists of what ever is in the flat. There were 3 Riker mounts of Mazon Creek fossils, none of which I bid on. The cool thing about this next Riker mount is that it contained a fossil that was collected and mounted by my fossil mentor Walter. Megalodon teeth are always sold separately, these 2 below were not very good at all and I do not believe that they hit a minimum that some other seller had set for them. This happens quite often on certain pieces and they will end up at the auction again. Some people think that there fossils are worth more than they are. They need to understand that it is only worth what someone is willing to pay for it. When some pieces do have ID’s, they are incorrect, such as these poorly preserved prints that are in Permian Coconino sandstone and are not dinosaur. Dino eggs that they said are real, but I did not look at them or bid. If they were real, the winner got a great deal. Dino stuff and some broken fish plates. A Dino centrum, there were a few. I was bidding on this next piece, but backed away after I saw that a guy who I had been talking to was also bidding, he did the same to me later. This next piece was a nice partial Rhino skull from the Oligocene (USA), location unknown. Some misc Dino bones and other things. This lot contained some poorly preserved Oligocene rhino jaws, a partial squirrel skull, fossil dung beetle balls and fossil locust / insect cocoons, most likely from Wyoming. As mentioned above-?dung beetle ball and insect cocoons. Misc stuff- Green River fish Santana formation fish Dino stuff and fossil Dino casts- I won this lot. This was something that I really did not need, but after sitting for a while, it feels good to bid. An Oreodont skull- I won this piece also. Here are the things that I picked up- A really decent Merycoidon gracilis Oreodont skull. I will prep it up a little more and I got it for a song. Believe it or not, this fake trilobite cast went for almost double of what I paid for the above skull and more than I paid for the Dino stuff below. And the above cast went for more than I paid for the below “lot” Dinosaur pieces that I won. Thanks to Frank @Troodon for helping with some ids, even though I had limited information on the pieces. Centrum from most likely a herbivore. Part of a Dino vertebra. This lot is continued on the next post.

Hi there, I am new to this forum and looking to get into fossil hunting. I know some basics, mostly from light reading and documentaries, but have zero experience in actually hunting, collecting and prepping. I have so many questions, first would love to know where about's, preferably close to Auckland, I can go to look for some fossils I can collect. Any other likeminded people here in Kiwidom? Thanks, Werner

Hi all. I very recently got back into paleontology and archeology. I would absolutely love to be able to look for my own fossils, but I’m having a very hard time finding up-to-date information on any public fossil site in the state of Delaware. I heard about the Canal and Pollock farm, but I can’t find any directions to the farm, and I heard the canal no longer has accessible fossils. any help regarding the subject would be greatly appreciated.

So...I have some questions about sclerotic rings. In addition to supporting large eyes, resisting pressure, etc. how do they work? I ask as I see four basic forms across species, extant and extinct. the first is a fixed ring fused to the frontal and zygomatics. the second looks to be a fused or partially fused ring that is around the iris the third is a ring of small plates held together by connective tissue and the fourth looks like a camera iris Where my confusion arises is with the third and fourth and some birds and fossils. Do these function as part of the actual muscles of the iris sliding/flexing the sclera, or are they purely support for the overall structure? For those unfamiliar:

Hello everyone, I am new to the forum and love looking through all the neat finds. We frequently go to the beach and love to look for unique finds whether it be shells, sharks teeth, fossils, etc. We also metal detect on occasion that pulls up interesting items sometimes. I mainly joined to help with the identification of some of our finds and to check out what everyone else has found. I will gladly help ID anything I have information for.

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.

I am working on some fossil mounts as gifts and was wondering if anyone could help me Id or had an idea of what these leaves are. The first two are the same kind of leaf I believe. The two taken without the ruler: image three 2 inches, Image four 2 1/2 inches! These all come from around Burns in Eastern, Oregon. A HUGE thank you! Nyla

Hi, my name is Karthik and im a 11th grader living in India. In the past I used to go to Big Brook New Jersey to find shark teeth, hardrasaur teeth, etc. Currently, im now living in India, specifically the outskirts of Hyderabad. Theres a lot of farmland but thats about it. India was a subcontinent in the cretaceous times I believe so im sure theres no marine reptile fossils or anything like that. Would it be possible to find any fossils in the area or is that not possible. Next month I also am going to a place called Kakinada which has many beaches nearby (its right next to the ocean). Could there be marine reptile fossils there?

Hey, A couple years ago I did go to big brook and I did find some items that I cannot identify there. Im an amateur fossil hunter haha, but I am intrigued to see if they could actually be a fossil or a suggestive rock. Ive attached the photos. I honestly have no idea if they are even anything, but I did have a suspicion that the black fossil looks like an edmontosaurus tooth. No idea.

New member here, although I'm no stranger to the forum through researching past finds! 1st and foremost, this is such an amazing community and happy to finally have the time to hop on board. I've always considered myself a collector of sorts but have been fossil hunting seriously now for about a year. Been to multiple locations here in FL but I spend most of my time surface hunting the Gainesville creeks after rain. My favorite fossils are the ones' I haven't found yet but my favorite fossil finds to date would have to be my 4.1" Chub w/ feeding damage on the root, found amongst a dugong graveyard... followed closely by the little yellow guy in my profile pic (recent find and my first meg w/ zero feeding damage). I love to learn as much as possible about things that peak my interest and fossil hunting has become quite an addiction for me, so naturally I've read just about everything available online... but always hungry for more information. Looking forward to tapping into all of your collective knowledge and potentially making some new fossil hunting friends along the way! PS... I will be up in Greenville, NC & Summerville, SC for work soon and will create another topic in case anyone wants to meet up while I am in the area

Hey folks! I used to be active on here years ago. Recently I have been traveling the US more and try and check out any fossil bearing spots… just returned from Texas and ran across some ammonites and other stuff I want to I’d. thanks!

Thank you for allowing me on here. I’m just learning so bear with me I’ll get the hang of it. Can Anyone give advice the best places in Colorado to fossil hunt?

Hello all, I bought a collection box (rikermount) for some of my late Cretaceous belemnites (Belemnitella and Belemnella (pachybelemnella) sp.). The fossils are 70-66 million years old (to be more detailed: 70-68 and/or 70-67 mya). Just like other fossils, belemnites can be stored quite well in this kind of vitrine/case. Also good for storing some shark teeth or other fossils like (flat) plant fossils/impressions. Other collectors that have rikermounts with fossils? (perhaps a picture?)

Hi there all, I'm new to this. Please help... View the photos attached and any info would be amazing. Thanks kindly. My name is che-ruby wood.

Hello from Denmark Just a small little "hello" while browsing through the forum, and learn where to post what A life long dino fan, but just recently took the step into fossil collection, and hope to learn and share the road here with you all. Been a toy collectors for years, and toy lines like "Dino Riders" has been a favorite since I got my first piece as a kid. This is a small part of my toy collection, and the old models on the right under the Bronto is from my own childhood = They are priceless for me, and a huge part of what started my love. Have a great weekend, and when I learn where to post what I will show more Regards Henrik

Hi Friends, just want to introduce myself. Im a single dad from PA who has enjoyed rockhounding all over the country for the past 15 years. I mainly seek and collect gems and mineral specimens but I do stumble upon the odd fossil from time to time and while I have a pretty good bead on geology, mineral identification and gemology, I am a novice with fossils. I have some obvious ones, trilobytes, shell and fern fossils from local shale and limestone beds, but I really only know the most basic info (i.e. I can tell a trilobyte from a crinoid but not much more than that). So I saw the page while doing a google search and decided to join in the hopes that far more knowledgeable people could educate me on what I have. And in return, if anyone is lacking in mineral ID or rockhounding knowledge, Id be happy to share what I know.