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Hi Everyone, I suddenly have a work trip to the Black Hills of South Dakota coming up next week and I'd like to get out and collect some fossils along the way. I'm driving from Denver to Lead, SD and will be driving north on HW 85 and 18 through Newcastle. I'd be really happy to get a few stops in along the way and any potential information would really be great. Unfortunately, I won't have a ton of time to be able to stop and really dig, so some road cuts or target formations would be super helpful for surface collecting. I'm open to every type of fossil. I know there's a lot of fossils in that section of the state so I'm looking forward to hopefully finding some decent stuff! Thanks! Caleb

TFF, After about 10 months, I am finally scheduling myself to make another trip to western Kansas next week - 8/27-8/30. I am conducting field work for my master's thesis which focuses on outcrop modeling and interpretation of Niobrara fracture systems using a drone. I feel fortunate that one of my field areas is famous for its abundance of preserved Cretaceous fauna. While I'm out there, I figured I would try to make an effort to visit some well-known fossil localities that have public access or find private landowners that are also enthusiastic about fossils. Previously, I was lucky enough to find a near-complete Cimolichthyes jaw and some other large fish vertebrae. I know I can re-visit that same site in an effort to find other fossils but I thought I would reach out to Kansas veterans to see if anyone else has suggestions of locations to visit. From reading some of the other threads, it sounds like Castle Rock is a fairly popular destination for public hunting, but I have a feeling after all these decades that there might be other spots that have been less picked-over. I'm looking to find anything and everything but would especially like to find a few teeth. I have relatively little diversity in my current fossil collection. Thanks in advance for your help and guidance!

Ptychodus are my favorite teeth and I recently came across a place that seemed to have an unusual number of them. There are a few with a nice red tint to them that is new to me. I like them very much. However what I really love is a larger(for the site and age) tooth with an extremely worn crown. I have a lot of ptychodus with worn crowns but this tooth just hurts to even look at. He's the guy in the top left. Probably occidentalis. There is just something about seeing a worn tooth that makes a 95 million year old creature seem more real, if that makes sense.

Hello everyone. I found this vert. in the Greenhorn Formation, Lincoln Limestone, Cretaceous in Kansas. It is about an inch or so long and has an odd texture to it that might help identify it. Any thoughts on what this might have come from? Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

Hello everyone. I found this guy in the Lincoln Limestone, Greenhorn Formation, Cretaceous of Kansas. It's a small shark tooth about 1 cm and an odd shape to me that I cannot identify (big shocker right)? Any help is appreciated. Thanks! Sorry, picture are out of order.