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A sunny afternoon in the Selzerbeek, South Limburg, Netherlands
Mart1980 posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
At the end of October 25°C, much too warm for the time of year against a long-term average of 10.9°C. On the other hand, perfect weather to go looking for fossils in the stream. The village of Mamelis near Vaals looked magical. Behind these houses is the stream and here it is only 10 to 20 centimeters deep. The Selzerbeek rises on the Vaalser Berg and has a length of approximately 13 kilometers. At Gulpen (ZL) the stream flows into the Geul. The stream runs mainly through Vijlener limestone (Upper Cretaceous / Maastricht Formation / Vijlen Limestone). This means that you can encounter all fossils from this stratigraphic layer. In particular, brachiopods, sea urchins, belemnites and bivalves are among the finds. Many amateurs, but also professional palaeontologists have known the stream for a long time as a location for fossils from various eras. I especially found a lot of parts of belemnites. Fortunately also some whole belemnites, a part of a flint sea urchin and what and some other Cretaceous material. The stream was crystal clear, you could see the belemnites with some luck, look at this photo, which gives a magical image The day was successful. Although I didn't find much it was a lovely afternoon in this beautiful setting. Just before sunset, I was able to take a few nice pictures of the beautiful Limburg landscape at sunset.
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Searching for sea urchins in South Limburg with my dog
Mart1980 posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
A few weeks ago I took the dog (our Nova Scotia duck tolling retriever) to the hills of southern Limburg (the Netherlands) to walk especially around Gulpen and the Malensbos. To look for fossilized sea urchins that can sometimes be found after rainfall. These sea urchins date from the Gulpener chalk (Cretaceous period). Taking the dog on a fossil hunt is wonderful. She enjoys any type of environment. Although it is sometimes annoying that the boss does not continue and just keeps digging. She forgets that I have to wait at every puddle because I have to swim again. In the evening she did her own find of the day, a hedgehog, also prickly. I told her I was looking for 'zeeegels'. I meant another 'egel'. She did her best . In Dutch we use the word 'egel' for both a hedgehog and sea urchin. I found many small pieces of sea urchin, only four that are presentable. These sea urchins are still unprocessed and need to be prepared. Difficult to distinguish the species, I personally think Cardiater sp. and Hemiaster sp. Definitely a successful day, for me and the dog
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Last weekend after a windy week I decided to go to the beach of Katwijk aan Zee (Netherlands) to see what fossils had washed up. It was a lovely walk along the North Sea. Mammal remains from the Pleistocene (part of the Neogene period) sometimes wash up on the Dutch coast. The bone material comes from layers that are eroded below the sea surface. In the Pleistocene the North Sea was a kind of tundra plain where various animals lived such as woolly mammoth and rhinoceros, the giant deer, eland, wild horses, red deer, musk oxen, steppe bison, cave bear, cave lion, a kind of hyena and the wolf. It is best to search between the somewhat coarser material washed up on the beach, especially after stormy weather like the week before I went looking. The find frequency on the coast is generally quite low. Unfortunately, this time too the yield turned out to be low. But still it was a fantastic afternoon, where I found a fossil Bovidae molar and some fossilized bryozoan colonies. Due to the stormy weather, a lot of material from the sea had been left behind on the beach. There were also many egg cases of rays (especially Raja brachyura) and sharks (Scyliorhinus stellaris). Also found some sea urchins, of the common species the little sea apple, also called common sea apple (Psammechinus miliaris). In addition, we enjoyed the typical 'Dutch skies' with beautiful clouds. All in all, a very pleasant afternoon, with a beautiful sunset. An afternoon to repeat.
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Hello, I just joined, so here's a little introduction. I'm 46 years of age, live in the Netherlands and been interested in fossils since I was very young. I found my first fossil when I was 2 years old, although it wasn't until I was about 8 or so until I knew what it was. I've not been actively fossil hunting for the last 20 years or so, but I've build up quite a nice collection of finds mostly from the Netherlands, UK and Germany. Currently I don't have the opportunity to go fossil hunting, as I have too many responsibilities to allow me to do so. But I still have quite a bit of unprepared fossils hiding in my shed, so most of my fossil hunting will be in my shed, prepping away at the fossils that have been waiting to be revealed since they were collected. I've made a tiny prep shop in the attic of my shed, so I'll be spending some hours there when time permits. Maybe when my daughter is older, I can convince her to go along on fossil hunting trips. Below a photo of me in one of the now closed quarries in the Netherlands when I was about 10 years old (on the right).
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My visit of the famous belemnite cemetery in Beutenaken, the Netherlands
Mart1980 posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
This week I went to look for belemnites in the "big forest" near Beutenaken (South Limburg, the Netherlands), in the uncovered parts of the famous belemnite cemetery in the "Gulpense kalk" (Gulpen formation, part of the Cretaceous period). If you look closely you can find a lot of (mostly fragments of) belemnites, especially Belemnitella Mucronata (Schlotheim). The high concentration of belemnites in certain places in this forest is because the limestone has disappeared through dissolution. The harder belemnites are left behind. After a lot of work I finally had a day off and wanted to combine a walk with fossils. Last week it had rained, for me an excellent opportunity to walk in the beautiful south of the Netherlands and at the same time look for some Belemnites. I live in the east of the Netherlands, where it is flat. So the south with its hills and small rivers like the Gulp feels like a holiday. Especially in the Beutenaken area.
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Looking for American/European mosasaur Jaw & teeth
JorisVV posted a topic in Member-to-Member Fossil Trades
I was wondering if anyone would be interested in trading his/her mosasaurus jaw or partial from a site (Either United States or somewhere in Europe). I've got various amount of eurasian pleistoceen stuff, some dinosaurus teeth. Megalodon teeth of great quality too. Please if you know anyone, feel free to contact me! -
Hello fellow fossil enthusiasts, I should have posted this a long time ago, in fact I should have done it when I got home from the visit, but I guess I forgot... So here it is, with about 2 months of delay. So that day I went to the Naturalis museum in Leiden, Netherlands. I went there for a special reason: to see a record-holding fossil! And this legend is nothing less than Trix, the mighty T-Rex. What is special with Trix is that it's the only T-Rex fossil to be in a museum outside of America. Here is the story behind the beast: a couple were hiking in Montana, when they saw a big brown bone sticking out of the ground. They quickly contacted the Black Hills Institute, which acknowledged the find to be of a T-Rex. They contacted several museums to see who would be willing to dig it out, having quite a few denials, when they contacted Naturalis. Our Dutch museum jumped on the opportunity. But knowing that they didn't have the money to dig all of that out, they asked the public to donate money to them. I was one of the many donators, and gave 10$. With all the donations, and after about 2 years of work, the team managed to bring the beast home. It was a 12 m long female Tyrannosaurus rex, and they found around 80% of the skeleton!!! Thanks to this, the Naturalis is now one of the most important European museums, if not the world. Trix has already attracted a few millions of tourists, and even other museums; in fact it's soon going to Barcelona to be shown to the public there. Here are some photos that I took. At first, before seeing the actual showpiece, there was a hall with moving dinosaurs that co-habited with Trix. Seems like some of the chickens lost their feathers . Luckily not all chickens were naked. But the giant chicken had also forgotten to put his clothes on, and as you can see the ankykosaur wasn't much impressed Unfortunately this trike did not escape the giant naked chicken...
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Hello everyone, My name is Thomas, a young man from the province of Frisia in the Netherlands, with a passion for anything historic, especially roman, dark ages, viking and medieval times. I have big display case at home with a lot of historic items, part of which I find myself with my metal detector. A while ago I bought a megalodon tooth of 14.1cm at an auction and it lit an interest in fossils. Past months I bought more interesting fossils and stumbled upon this forum. I hope to learn a lot from you guys, explore this forum and thanks!
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Decided to go to the beach at Katwijk, Netherlands as one of our first post Covid days out. While we didn’t go to some of the more famous fossil areas like the Zandmotor, one can always hope. There was a lot of debris on the beach after a recent storm, so hope went up. While it was mostly wood and recently deceased sea stars I did manage to pick up this piece. So far I have arrived to seal / Pinniped and maybe Phoca vitulina. No reaction to a glowing needle.
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Hi, i recently received those very nice sponges from @badeend. I asse they're all Hexactinellids. I know identfying sponges even when you have them un grand is a hard thing to do. Any help to try a more precise ID is greatly welcome. Here is the number1, a glass sponges ? Kimmeridgian, Kalberbeg, Netherlands
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Hello all, I found this in Scheveningen beach, Netherlands, I was doing inverse search in google and the closest thing that came up is a snake vertebra fossil, could this be one? , in some pics the color appears to be black because the fossil was wet, thanks for your help!
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From the album: Zuid-Limburg coal-mining district (Limburg, The Netherlands)
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From the album: Zuid-Limburg coal-mining district (Limburg, The Netherlands)
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From the album: Zuid-Limburg coal-mining district (Limburg, The Netherlands)
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From the album: Zuid-Limburg coal-mining district (Limburg, The Netherlands)
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From the album: Zuid-Limburg coal-mining district (Limburg, The Netherlands)
Note you can see microphylls extending from the leaf cushions in the top left part of this counterpart specimen.© T.K.T. Wolterbeek
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From the album: Zuid-Limburg coal-mining district (Limburg, The Netherlands)
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From the album: Zuid-Limburg coal-mining district (Limburg, The Netherlands)
© T.K.T. Wolterbeek
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From the album: Zuid-Limburg coal-mining district (Limburg, The Netherlands)
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From the album: Zuid-Limburg coal-mining district (Limburg, The Netherlands)
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From the album: Zuid-Limburg coal-mining district (Limburg, The Netherlands)
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From the album: Zuid-Limburg coal-mining district (Limburg, The Netherlands)
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From the album: Zuid-Limburg coal-mining district (Limburg, The Netherlands)
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From the album: Zuid-Limburg coal-mining district (Limburg, The Netherlands)
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From the album: Zuid-Limburg coal-mining district (Limburg, The Netherlands)
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