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Hi everyone!! I am so excited to learn from all of you and to find some cool shark teeth and other fossils. I am originally from Canada, raised in Orlando, FL and have just rediscovered my love for finding shark teeth. I did it when I was a child and now I am 45 years old and realizing again how fun it is. I did a trip to Venice Beach, Florida this weekend and I am hooked and thinking of doing a trip to the Peace River. Happy to be here! Jodi :-)
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Hey all, I have posted a few times and figure I might as well introduce myself. My name is Jeff and live in Arizona. I actually started collecting fossils to make a small display case for my nephew for when he is old enough. Just a baby now but it's never too early for an uncle to start spoiling his first nephew. Anyway, now I really enjoy it and with all of the Jurassic World and The Meg movies coming out it's really interesting to not only know but too truly understand what is creative entertainment and what is/was reality. Anyway glad to be a part of the forum and hopefully learn much more.
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Hey everyone! I’m just looking for a confirmation seeing as i’m not very experienced. I found this in Summerville, SC, sticking out of the chandler bridge formation (late oligocene). I believe it is a tooth from the extinct mako, desori? Sorry, I don’t have anything to scale it with but it is about 1.75 inches long.
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I am going to Cape May County, NJ the middle of this month. I thought while I was there enjoying the beach and surf that I would also look for some fossils. Is there anywhere around Cape May County, Atlantic or Cumberland Counties that I can go hunt for fossils? I figure while I'm in that area I might as well look around.
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Hi everyone, I am from Washington State. I am a mother of an 8 years boy who love nature and fossils. He started collecting fossils 2 years ago but mostly to popular pay to dig sites. I am recently searching for fossils location near home so we can go more often and find better quality fossils. Our first trip is to Murdock Beach, WA which doesn't give us much. We are looking to learn from everyone here and hopefully can go with someone on fossil hunt trip in WA. Owl Eyes is the name my son give his museum. Below is a picture of his current collection.
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Hi! Can anyone tell me what species of ammonites are these? They were found in France and they are from the Jurassic period.Any help would be much appreciated.
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Shark Teeth Caloosahatchee Formation Florida Pliocene/Pleistocene
alej9582 posted a topic in Fossil ID
Guys, In 4 days of sifting in this locality (Caloosahatchee River/Fisheating Branch) I have only found 2 shark teeth, in reality I didn't expect to find any at all as it seems to have been amphibian/mammal/mollusk land which points to a lacustrine environment. So at some point the area must have been a shallow see as well but there is no way to know age difference. Anyhow here are the two specimens I found. Both small in size (nursery area?). There is a lot of info on shark teeth around but I am having difficult with this two guys. Any thoughts? Thanks, Alex
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I found these small rocks with fossils in a creek in middle Tennessee. I’m especially interested in the fossils in the first picture. Is it just a deeper imprint of a shell? ~ Any information on the types of these fossils is appreciated.
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Just found out about this today: DO NOT FORGET THE ONLY ARTIFACT SHOW IN FLORIDA IS AT THE END OF THIS MONTH. SAT THE 25TH. LOTS OF FOSSILS AND ANTIQUE BOTTLES AS WELL. 3 weeks from tomorrow; I will be there mostly because I am starved for fossil related activities. 2830 Gulf Trace Blvd, Holiday, Florida, 34691 (just North of Tampa on the Gulf). Plus my hunting buddy loves Artifacts and bottles
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I am just posting the thins I have no clue about. Here is another one. Resembled some marine mammal otoliths I saw online. But could be a Nothing Sp.
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Large Interesting Bone New Jersey Cretaceous? Scute? Dinosaur? Turtle?
Kurufossils posted a topic in Fossil ID
Hello everyone, had a super quick trip to the cretaceous creeks of new jersey and found this particularly interesting large bone fragment, likely it is a chunk of miscellaneous bone material but it reminds me alot of a scute like ankylosaurus or some sort of other bone scute especially the edge, or from maybe something like a large turtle but I am entirely not sure if it's dinosaur, marine reptile, etc or if there is anyway to tell, looks super suspicious to me anyways so if anyone has any ideas I'd definitely love to hear them. (If more pictures are needed I will definitely be able to get some more angles if necessary)
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Hi all, I am going to be in the Tucson area for 10 days soon. Is there anything to collect in that area (say 120 mi radius). I have never been to AZ. If you have some collecting information to share please PM me. Thanks a lot. Herb
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[videos & photos] My collection of fake fossils
adriano posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
Hello everyone, I'm an Italian amateur collector with a small but nice collection of fossils and minerals that I started when I was 5yo in 1995. Then at 15yo I put apart my passion until few days ago when, using my 3D printer, I made some nice modular drawer to reorder in my collection of +-1000 pieces. I will finish the project in the next weeks and I will share it with you, as it can be of inspiration for your collection as well. Doing this hard work, I looked with a more mature point of view some big fossils that my parents and friends (not experts!) gave me as present many years ago. I already noticed that some are painted or assembled, but I would like to hear your opinion about them. #1 Let's start with a good one. This was a present from my mom, so I know she spent not few moneys to buy this fossil fish. I think that it 99% real. My only concern is the right side/section of the matrix that has a change in color (you can see it in the video). Maybe just a not-too-bad restoration... I drew circles around fishes with the pencil when I was a child... I should delete them! #2 Now a bad one... In this example I noticed that maybe the fish body is real (but low quality), it is mounted on a new matrix, and fins are painted... Am I right? #3 Another bad one... This ammonoidea seems painted. The matrix has some fossil shells, it is cracked and repaired (you can see the crack in the video, back side). I'm wondering if it is totally fake/sculpted or only painted. What do you think? #4 The last assembled fossil fish. This one is funny! Sedimentary layers are not parallel with the fossil... Overall I think that the body is real but bad preserved and with some painting. What do you think? #5 This was one of the first fossils of my collection. I personally bought it in Morocco in 1995. I think that this is a real one, joint is perfect. Agree with me? #6 Finally, the last piece: a cambropallas trilobite. About this one, I know that it was bought in a good shop and I think it is not too bad. I'm not sure about the matrix (see the back side), but the main body seems real. It, of course, has some restorations. I'm looking to hear from you. Final thoughts... I'm considering giving away false ones, in particular #2, #3 and #4. But it is also nice to have them to show how fossils are faked/retouched - I think they're part of the amateur paleontology history. I hope you appreciate the photos/videos I took to show some of my fossils. Thanks in advance and best regards! -
Nice to meet everyone. I hail from MS and travel all over the US. My hobby is to dig and surface collect fossils, gems, crystals, rocks, etc.
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Possibility of Getting Abelisauridae Fossils
JurassicParkCarnotaurus posted a topic in Questions & Answers
My favorite dinosaur is the Carnotaurus (hence the name) and I would love to have a fossil of one but I am aware that they are nearly impossible to come by. I was wondering if any of it’s relatives fossils are more common or easier to obtain. Thanks in advance!- 17 replies
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Mobile (Alabama) Police Seek Owner of Briefcase Filled with Fossils
Oxytropidoceras posted a topic in Fossil News
Mobile Police seeking owner of briefcase filled with fossils Yellowhammer News, Mobile, Alabama, August 23, 2018 https://yellowhammernews.com/mobile-police-seeking-owner-of-briefcase-filled-with-fossils/ Yours, Paul H. -
We took the family over to Ireland this past week. Sadly no time for fossil hunting expeditions. But that doesn't mean I wasn't scoping out areas. While fossil hunting doesn't appear to be popular in Ireland you could tell there's plenty of potential. Especially for marine fossils. Over at Rope Bridge near Giants Causeway in the North you could see shells embedded in the cliff face (100' above the beach). In the Aillwee cave by the Cliffs of Moher there was evidence of more shells and other marine life. I would have loved to have been able to get on the beach below some of these cliff faces and do some exploring. A local shop has these small samples. Nothing great but always like to pick up local stuff.
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While fossil hunting at the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains in North Carolina, I came across this interesting looking (possible) fossil. Two of the pictures are similar, and the last picture is a side view of the rock that it's on. Sorry, that seems to be about the most clarity and zoom that I can get. Any thoughts or help would be greatly appreciated. Joe Thanks in advance Joe
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Good morning! Found this fairly pronounced coral on a jog this morning. I'll never know really where it came from since central Indiana is not known for any level of fossils due to glaciers but I'm assuming this was transported from southern Indiana or Ohio. It matches a coral from the Ordovician period timeline.... I just can't nail down what kind. I'm for sure going to leave it in the stone. I think it looks pretty sweet with how it is housed. .... my wife hates how whenever I come home from anywhere I have a new find.
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Hey all! Just an FYI that sifting does not only apply to beach front fossil hunting. Outside of pulling rock from the ground, one great way to find smaller fossils is digging up a bucket worth of dirt at a good dig site and sifting through the debris. I dig for and collect Ordovician fossils, so I will not only excavate land for fossilized fossil plates but I will sift through the loose dirt for corals, trilobites, smaller shells, rogose...etc...
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Galerie de Paléontologie et d’Anatomie comparée (Paleontology and comparative Anatomy Gallery)
FossilsAnonymous posted a topic in A Trip to the Museum
This was a really cool museum. I especially liked their selection of fish and marine reptiles. They also sported a largely complete tyrannosaurus skeleton, an Ammonite five feet tall and four feet wide, and a large completely intact mammoth. Pelagosaurus Typus A Mary Anning Icthyosaur (Two more were present) Plesiosaur Eryops A large fish (One of the Many on display) A perfectly preserved Crinoid The nicest ammonite (My opinion) Perfect spiral pattern And much more that we didn't get photos of........
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This was the first plate I actually discovered from my dig site two years ago. Recently, I brought it back out of storage for review. The dry view or the wet view is pretty neat. Let me know your thoughts.
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Found this that I believe is a cephalopod today at a devonian spot with imported material, I haven't seen a cephalopod with a bulbed tip before so I am not sure if it's some sort of pathology of a species or it's own species.
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I washed up another plate from my dig site in southern Ohio and found two extremely visible trilobites encased. Upon closer review I found nine other smaller trilobites within the plates in varying positions. Along with some smaller impressions. Plate is 25 cm in length and 14.5 cm wide. I'm not sure abrasion is the way to get them out or just leaving them in there is a better way to appreciate the awesomeness. I've never found this many in one sampling. This is the fourth time I've found them at a certain segment of my site. I have one whole one as well that was loose in the soil. I tested the CLR on another plate with nothing but Bryzoa and Brachiopods and as long as the exposure was time controlled I was able to breakdown much of the matrix to and then use abrasion to remove much of the rock.... I'm a little skeptical to do that with this set of fossils. Thoughts?! I get jazzed when I find Trilobites.
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