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I finally took a trip to the North Sulphur river last week. There have been a couple good rains so I was hoping that would uncover some stuff. The last couple of trips in 2021 were terrible. All muddy and picked over. This trip was still pretty muddy and little in terms of quality mosasaur material. However I went low and found a lot of smaller material. I wonder if the recent muddyness of the river is due to the lake construction or if the river just hasn't had enough rain lately? Is picture 2 an enchodus jaw? I believe the pictures of item 3 are of a really chipped piece of mosasaur tooth. Still never found a whole one this color. Are the pictures of item 4 pachyrhizodus? I have seen people say these are really small mosasaur but I have always doubted this. Any way to identify item 5? Maybe xiphactinus? Item 6 are the few decent mosasaur pieces i found. Is the second one a phalanges bone? Any idea about 7? It is heavily fossilized so i was thinking cretaceous but the shape makes me think of more recent like pleistocene. And my final question. Is item 8 coprolite? Im terrible at identifying the stuff. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
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Hello, I made a run the the North Sulphur River yesterday and there are a couple of finds that I’d like help identifying. The first looks like a coprolite to me but I’ve never ID’d one. Please confirm or deny. If it is one any ideas on what animal made it? It reminds me of a small dog poo. I’ve found this vertebrae but I don’t know what it belongs to. I doesn’t look like the mosasaur vertebrae I’ve found in the past. Can anyone help with this? Thanks in advance!
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From the album: North Sulfur River - June 15th
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From the album: North Sulfur River - June 15th
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From the album: North Sulfur River - June 15th
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From the album: North Sulfur River - June 15th
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From the album: North Sulfur River - June 15th
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From the album: North Sulfur River - June 15th
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From the album: North Sulfur River - June 15th
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From the album: North Sulfur River - June 15th
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From the album: North Sulfur River - June 15th
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From the album: North Sulfur River - June 15th
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From the album: North Sulfur River - June 15th
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From the album: North Sulfur River - June 15th
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From the album: North Sulfur River - June 15th
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From the album: North Sulfur River - June 15th
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I mentioned in my last post that I would be going back to NSR today, taking my girlfriend for her first ever fossil hunting trip. As I suspected, we didn't find nearly as much as I did Friday, even though we ended up hiking even further up the river. But she got her fossil collection started by finding the prettiest ammonite I've seen at NSR, and we had a fun time at the river. We were the first vehicle in the parking lot this morning, but there were lots of folks in the river when we left.
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From the album: NSR - May 27, 2022
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I drove down to the North Sulfur River Friday morning. It was my first trip to the new temporary fossil park. This part of the river was my favorite even before the new park. But it looked very different in 2020 than it does now. It's a muddy mess right now. There were clean washed gravel bars everywhere in 2020, but now the gravel bars are all covered with dried mud and clay pieces. I wondered if the diggers and sifters had the better plan Friday, but I didn't bring my sifter, so I made a long hike away from the bridge, and spent my time searching gravel bars. With so many clay pieces covering everything, it was harder to spot fossils, but I still had what I thought was a great day. I'm going back and bringing my girlfriend tomorrow morning, for her first fossil hunting trip ever. She has always been fascinated by the stuff I bring home, and will finally get the chance to try it out herself. We almost certainly won't hike as far as I did Friday, and after a holiday weekend of fossil hunters picking over the gravel bars, it seems unlikely that we'll find nearly as much as I did Friday, but we'll see. Some in situ photos from the day.
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From the album: NSR - May 27, 2022
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From the album: NSR - May 27, 2022
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From the album: NSR - May 27, 2022
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From the album: NSR - May 27, 2022
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From the album: NSR - May 27, 2022
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From the album: NSR - May 27, 2022
