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Hi from New Zealand, I went out on a fossil hunting trip with our local rock club today, this forum was recommended to me as a good place to learn, which is good because when it comes to fossils I have no idea what I am doing, so please forgive me if I ask the simplest of questions. I managed to find what I am told is a pretty good crab fossil, I guess time will tell when I get the right equipment to reveal it better.
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Saying Hello,who am I kidding ¯\_(ツ)_/¯Hey all country boy From Ohio !
colby8454 posted a topic in Member Introductions
Hey y’all, just like to say hi I’ve come here to get some help identifying my finds I used to love rock hunting I would scour the driveway for fools gold A.k.a. pyrite Obviously When I was about 12 we got to build our dream home but as punishment I would have to pick up rocks as the land was Previously a cornfield So I’ve come along way with my rock route therapy! And I am very proud of her ex-husband luscious green grass lol I hope to laugh and learn a lot good ways to Identify rocks preserve them also I am looking foward for to meeting a as many mentors and friends as I can along the way ! The "Rocky Road " that brought me her has not only help me to reconnect with nature get out of the phone and just ground myself unfortunately my ice cream melted and now my feet are stuck on new Discoveries I'm young and eager to learn from y'all and someday pass my knowledge along as you can see if have quiet a since of humor and a on going tumultuous relationship with rocks So I figured might as well embrace. Its the adventure for me not the destination you may also notice my lack of punctuation so Sprinkle these in where you see fit .,.,.,.,.,,.,,;:.,,:;..,;..,....,,.,..,,.....,,......,..,.,,;..:........:) Happy Hunting ! Peace & Love Colb -
Hi my name is Ben, I am a new collector and I am here to gain experience learn and show my collection. Hope to make some new friends
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Greetings to all, I am happy to be here, and enjoy all the amazing knowledge shared by you all. I'm Adam, or SCM for short. I am just some guy who enjoys collecting little information time bombs (rocks). The Fossil Forum is one of my favorite places to discover and learn about fossils. My goal is to learn how to take better pictures to share with you all. Until then, here is a couple pictures of my first find in Comal County. Who else likes wood?
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Hey everyone thank you for allowing me to join this group, I’m just now starting to get into fossil hunting but I never been on a fossil hunt before, I don’t know where to start to be honest I just think it’s awesome, I am in Athens Alabama and can’t wait to get to know y’all more.
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Hello all! Had a good day out at Aust Beach in the UK, one of the countries more productive sites for Triassic and Carboniferous fossils and need help with some identification.
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Hello new friends! I am an educator working at a children's museum in Louisiana, and I have inherited a collection of natural artifacts to ID and catalog. My expertise is not in paleontology or geology, so I'll be popping in for help with all the (unlabeled) items I find! Nice to meet y'all!
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Hello all, I live in Washington state! I recently discovered fossil hunting/rockhounding and during some online research, I had stumbled upon this forum multiple times, so I decided to join! As of now I don't have much experience with fossils and so on, but I hope to go on my first search soon! My first big goal would be to discover a well preserved crab. Thanks for reading!
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Hello! This website was recommended to me by a fossil hunter I encountered during a trip to Myrtle Beach a couple years ago, but I admittedly kept forgetting to join until now. I live in Tennessee, and despite living here for 5 years now, I haven't been able to really go out exploring and am not sure if there is any places to fossil hunt here. I love fossils and learning about the history of our world through them and am new to fossil hunting, well fossils that aren't shark teeth that is. I've hunted shark teeth for years during family trips to Myrtle Beach and have found a lot of shark teeth over the years (I lost count after 300), but have never found my dream find of a Megalodon tooth, but I hope to one day find one. The attached photo is just a small portion of the shark teeth finds I have found, wanna guess how many shark teeth are in that small 4 cm tall by 2 cm wide (1 1/2 in tall & 6/8ths in wide) bottle? During my last visit to Myrtle Beach, I found some interesting finds that I think are fossils and have created a post in the fossil Id section with photos of them in hopes I can get some ideas as to what they are.
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Hello everyone --I live in Florida and I love hunting fossils and rocks!!!---I love-love the history of everything!!!!!--I metal detect and I'm always finding weird rocks and mineral stones!!--I have a lot of fossil's that I need help identifying!!!--!!!!-So awesome to find this site!!!!--Happy Hunting!!
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Howdy y'all!!! (Sorry had to start this post off sounding all Texan because Texas is awesome, haha). So, obviously i'm from Texas, like you couldn't tell already. I am a 34 year old England-born, Texas-raised mother of 3 children (15yo/13yo/5yo). My husband and I were high school sweethearts and we're together for 16 years. He has recently (15 months ago) passed away. I have only recently started collecting fossils/gemstones/rocks. My late husband was always into rocks, he and our oldest daughter would compare rocks almost everyday, the days they didn't my washing machine was usually extremely loud. After my husband passed away, my daughter kinda lost the joy she had for rocks. A few months ago I was going thru boxes and found a bunch of rocks, I started looking thru them and asked my oldest daughter about some of them. While she didn't have alot of information about the rocks she enjoyed telling me the stories of going with her dad walking and finding them or how her dad was so excited because he found this awesome rock and couldn't wait to show her and how no matter what the rock looked like that she would bring home, her dad always told her she had the coolest rock. I started to see her joy again while telling me her and dad's rock stories.
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Auction website trilobite genuine?
kmmerwick posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
Hi I am totally new to buying fossils online and need a bit of hand-holding. Dear experts: would you say this is fake or real?
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Hi everyone. My name is Péter Imre Fábián. I am a Biologist master student at the University of Debrecen, in Hungary, but I also studied as an Erasmus+ exchange at the KU Leuven, in Belgium. My main interests are the birds and their behaviour, but the Waking with series of the BBC had a big influence on my interest, and so I wanted to become a palaeontologist and study prehistoric life. My enthusiasm did not decline, and now I am studying palaeontology in my free time. As much as I can see my near future, in the following few years I will be mostly in Belgium. Hopefully I can go to some fossil hunting trips and learn practical knowledge and identification, even on the field.
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Hello from Missouri! I am thrilled to have found this forum and I have been exploring the site every day since. My dad was a ‘rock hound’. He would take my brother and I out fossil and arrowhead hunting when we were kids. I inherited his curiosity and fascination, but my knowledge is rudimentary. As most newbies probably do, I’ll be submitting a flurry of posts requesting help with identifying fossils I have had for years and some that I have found recently. And yes, I’m bracing myself for the probability that some of my ‘amazing finds’ will turn out to just be ‘cool rocks’. I have already learned so much by reading the posts of others, and I look forward to learning more. Marcia
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Hi everyone! I was born in Portugal and I do most of my fossil hunting around the Algarve region and some in the Lisbon area. I have always been captivated by the many species that live on this planet and I am fascinated with the ability of the earth to preserve them as fossils. Recently I found a shark teeth that looks like it could be a fossil, so I decided to finally start posting on this site!
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Hi everyone, I am excited to join you all in what I think is an exciting, educational hobby. I am new to the hobby and hoping I can learn from all of you with much more experience than I. I’m 52 at this point and my first experience really in finding anything really was visiting NJ on business and looking to fill my down time with something involving my other passions. I ended finding the fossil beds out there and was instantly hooked.
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Hello! I am a Long time fossil enthusiast first time forum finder. I’m hoping that by joining this group I can learn more about the rocks and fossils I have collected over the years. Thanks for having me!
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Fossils found in this area are from the Cambrian Pennsylvanian, and Cretaceous Periods. What is it? That’s for any help! My foot is there for size reference. Maybe 6? Inch diameter
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Hello fellow fossil lovers! Thank you for allowing me to join your forum. I have loved looking for fossils and rocks for as far back as I remember. When I was a child we had an elderly neighbor who tumbled and hand polished rocks. I was so intrigued and he was kind of enough to let me watch and gives me stones. I was about 5. No one in my close circle “gets” my interest is I am reaching out for like minded folks. I know very little but want to learn and get that excited feeling again! I found a cool fossil a few days ago and I hope to get some identification of it. I apologize ahead of time I’m I am clueless. I am here to learn and admire your finds!!
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Hello! My name is Scott and obviously I'm new here! Always been a little interested in rocks but the new room mate has gotten me way more than I ever was before! I now have rocks every! My room, my pockets, her room, bathroom, kitchen and of course in the rock garden! Never really thought much about fossils until the other day and we believe we may have found one and that is ultimately what brought me here! Glad to be here and plan to stay no matter what our recent find turns out to be! I have attached a few pics of what we found! My research has led to it possibly being a lopha I believe is what it was called but I'm new to this so anyone have any input or answers?
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Help a newbie :) Middle Tennessee creekbed find - I don’t know if I’m posting this correctly
sarahbbgun posted a topic in Fossil ID
This link explains the geology of my area. https://www.mtsu.edu/glade-center/gladehistory.php I’m happy to have found this forum as I’m a newbie and would be so grateful for your help w/identification of these fossils I’m finding here in Middle Tennessee, USA. My friend has a creek in her front yard full of these Ordovician (??) sea creature fossils. This is my favorite so far but I’m not sure what it is. Someone in a FB group said it could be a cephalopod cross section? I’m seeing eyes and shrimp. There are even shades of violet on one spot IMG_0763.MOV
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Hi all, greetings from this retired Royal Navy officer/fossil newbie in Southern England. I've returned to fossil hunting after maybe 40 years doing plenty of other stuff, and the bug has bitten pretty hard. I've attended a couple of organised field trips and it turns out that I like nothing more than crawling along a beach with my nose about a foot from the sand. I'm looking forward to plenty more opportunities for getting my hands dirty, and to using the great resource that this forum seems to be. Here's to dirty fingernails and heavy rucksacks.
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Hello from Yorkshire and Tyneside, England. I am fairly new to this game, although have accidentally stumbled on some nice fossils over the years. Have Recently started finding bits and bobs on northern English beaches with my 8 year old grandson. We are both hoping to learn more from this site.
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Usually dig in rivers, so very newbie to this. First time to badlands. Watched a youtube and the paleontologist is squirting some kind of glue on a tooth before they try to remove it from the earth to prevent it from breaking. What is that glue?
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so just recently i was going on a trip to look for fossils, trilobites specifically. On the trip i was able to find plenty of goodies; brachiopods, bryozoa, etc… But i never found any trilobites—well, except a possible pygidium. I did my digging at Savanna, IL, which from what I could find was known for finding lots of trilobites; and complete ones at that. Was I doing something wrong on my trip? I guess what i’m asking is there some way to more easily find trilobite fossils? Like, is there a way to tell what areas are likely to have trilobite fossils or what rocks would have them? on a similar note i’ve seen plenty of instances of people splitting rocks and finding lots of fossils that way; but i found almost all of my fossils just sitting in the open; any time i tried splitting a rock it would just shatter into bits, not to mention i wouldn’t really find anything inside. Is there a way to tell which rocks might have a fossil of some sorts in it? Or a way to split a rock so that any fossil in it would be exposed. Or i guess the better question would be what kinds of rocks are even worth trying to split into, and does this change based on a given locality? any advice would really be appreciated!
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