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Hi everyone. I've lived in the Willamette Valley all my life. Been a rockhound all my life love fossils, rocks and anything geology! I LOVE petrified wood and Amber.. I love finding the imprint of leaves on rock but I don't know what this is all called.. I am not sure what ANY of my finds are called. All my life when my family and friends and I would go camping or on outdoor events when the rest of the crowd was socializing or swimming in the creeks and rivers, I would be digging around some hillside scratching away for rocks and fossils.. I don't even keep them all. Or I'd be overtaken. Well, I give most of them away to kids, hoping it will spark an interest in something more than video games and Facebook. I'm not educated and I don't hunt for so much as I just come across interesting things. But I would like to know of some interesting places to go to find fossils and the like. Or Amber. And I AM curious about their nature and as I said I have no formal education on these things so I thought it might be interesting to find out what some of these things are or if their fossils at all. Thank you.
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Recently got back from a trip out to the Oregon coast. It wasn't with the expressed purpose of fossil hunting, but I was in the area, so I spent a couple of hours at Beverly Beach breaking some loose rocks (digging into the Astoria Formation itself is strictly prohibited). A large Pecten with my hand for scale. Too big to keep. A couple of Anadara. A miniscule but well-preserved naticidae, or moon snail. A Katherinella, which I still have to remove from the matrix. My personal favorite, a Macoma with a nice golden luster, all mounted up. M I was hoping to find a cetacean vert, but I was only there for a few hours, so I didn't put the time in that it would likely require to find such a thing. I was stoked to find such stellar bivalves, but I wanted to come home with something other than just clams. A shop in Lincoln City afforded me that opportunity, and after dropping $30, I got my hands on a nice Dichocrinus from Carboniferous Iowa. In Lincoln I also found a dead Pacific mole crab, Emerita analoga, which I think makes a great wet specimen.
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Planning a Trip to the Oregon Coast- Fossil Hunting Suggestions?
Neanderthal Shaman posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
Salutations FF! Sometime next week I'm planning to come down to the Central Oregon Coast (Sort of around the Newport area). I'm planning on hitting Beverly Beach, Agate Beach, and South Beach in hopes of finding some shells and with the blessing of the fossil gods, maybe an aturia. Was wondering what kind of experience people have had at these beaches, and if there are any other places worth hitting in the area. -
We went camping last weekend out at Delintment Lake in eastern Oregon. We went to check out the ammonite fossils. It was a great place! Kids loved it. Here are some of our finds. Interesting area because you could dig in one area and it was really loose compacted clay and in another area less than a mile away it was hard slate type material that really needed some work to get it to split. Naturally the slate material had the more robust ammonites.
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Found this fossil while digging in the Delintment Lake are in Oregon, any help would be great.
Volksburgs posted a topic in Fossil ID
My wife found this fossil while we were digging for ammonites up by Delintment Lake in Oregon. I believe this area is from the Jurassic period. Thanks for any help. I will post other pictures of the ammonites we found. Also, maybe someone can tell me if there are ammonites under these raised round pieces that we brought home. Figured I would give it a shot at trying to uncover them.
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I found this specimen digging in the Hampton Butte area of Oregon. It was found with typical pieces of petrified wood from the area. It looks very much like a polypore/conch. I know fossilized mushrooms are very rare but I’m stumped as to what else it could be. Thanks for the help!
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My daughter found this seed pod in Fossil Oregon on Sunday.
Volksburgs posted a topic in Member Collections
My daughter found this seed pod Sunday at the John Day Fossil beds in Oregon. Pretty cool. Found a lot of seeds by themselves but this one is the actual pod. Just thought I would share it.
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I found this fossil on our ranch near Plush Oregon a few weeks ago. It is the 2nd complete bone fossil I have ever found. The first was allegedly a camel cannon bone. I would like to make a post on it later but this one really grabs my attention. The length is 1 3/8" (34.925 mm) and the larger width is 1/2" (12.7 mm) and the smaller width is 3/8" (9.525 mm). I found it in a small dry alkaline lakebed. I have found fragments from there for a long time. People just call them camel bones but there has never been anything identifiable. The last picture is of the fragments you usually find. I found this right before sunset about 3/4's of the way up the old dune that makes up the north edge of the small dry lake. The geological map I got off of the app rockd says it is in a quaternary surficial deposit; pluvial lake valley deposits. 2.588-0ma. I have a friend who knows a little about fossils and he thought it might be a toe bone off of a Mesohippus. I was wondering if anybody has any other guesses? I dont know much about fossils but I am trying to learn! Any thoughts would be welcomed. Thank you
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While out wandering with friends in Clarno vicinity (the town, but probably also the formation; well away from the Palisades and on public land open to rockhounding and collection,) we came across some really vibrant, bright petrified wood, quite unusual for the area. The source tree looks like it's encased in a coarse ash or tuff, with a "shell" of harder material. The wood looks agatized but is still very brittle, too brittle for lapidary application but gorgeous for display; lot of opalized areas and mineralization. I tried to get back far enough to get a solid round but was unsuccessful (read: it was windy and I got lazy!) There was a scattering of other wood in the area, of varying levels of preservation; the formation wasn't rich with it by any means. No observed leaf fragments. Most of petrified wood we get out here is carbon-black, poorly preserved or just little brown float fragments, so finding something this bright made for an exciting day.
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Hi! New member from eastern Oregon, where the ground is paved in agate, jasper, petrified wood, fossils and thunder eggs! Am trying to turn the lifelong hobby and front-deck rock collection into a learning opportunity and move past "I don't know but it looks neat" into "this is what this is" level of rockhounding. I am running around on my boss's enormous chunk of under-studied John Day / Clarno formation overlap, digging up 60-year-old student papers for information and collecting anything that looks interesting. My usual venue for learning things from hand specimens is our local rock powwows in town but those are hit and miss right now, and they quickly turn from a "what is this?" inquiry to a game of "how many different answers can I collect for the same rock?" Which, while highly entertaining, doesn't always tell me if I'm holding a fossil or not!
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Fossil Bone found in SE Oregon, please help in identifying.
DesertSparky posted a topic in Fossil ID
This was located approximately 20 miles from Lost Forest, Fossil lake area in SE Oregon on some property my folks own. Sorry the ruler isn't lined up better but you can get a good idea of the size. Any help identifying is appreciated. Thanks!
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Just saying hello and letting folks know I am new to the forum.
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Hi, Was down beachcombing Oregon after the recent storms and stopped at Moolack to look for fossils. I'm generally familiar with the bivalves and other invertebrate fossils that are present. However this particular specimen has me scratching my head. It appears to be in the same hard mudstone that most of the invertebrate fossils are in, however there are many grey look-alike rocks on the beach and this one has obviously been tumbled for a while with the other beach cobbles. It is about 4 inches (long axis), and 2x2 inches (short axis, on end). I've seen toredo wood, which the center 'tubules' remind me of, however the toredo wood I've seen is usually a very dark grey, not the light grey. Some of the pits on the side remind me of the partial pits made by the piddock clams in the harder mud. It also vaguely resembles internal bone structure from whale bone and various slabs of "gem bone". Any thoughts as to what this might be? Thank you! -J
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Hi - New to fossil collecting, but have been rockhounding for a while after my girlfriend got me interested in it again. I got more interested in fossils after finding some on the beaches in Oregon. Petrified wood has fascinated me for a while, especially the pieces where cell structure and growth rings are still visible. Still learning locations for collecting, ID, and all the other fun outdoor stuff that goes along with the hobby. -J
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Camp, V.E., and Wells, R.E., 2021 The Case for a Long-Lived and Robust Yellowstone Hotspot. GSA Today. vo. 31, no. 1, pp. 4-10. Abstract of Paper PDF of paper Ciborowski, T.J.R., Phillips, B.A., Kerr, A.C., Barfod, D.N. and Mark, D.F., 2020. Petrogenesis of Siletzia: The World's youngest Oceanic Plateau. Results in Geochemistry, p.100004. Yours, Paul H.
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I think I've found my "home" here. I have well over 50 pieces (a couple are large - 10-25 pounds) of formation that I've collected over the last three months to "investigate". Mostly sandstone and what I think is deep water mudstone (thought it was shale at first but no layering). Will try the Hydrogen Peroxide to dissolve the sandstones but am at a loss for the mudstones. the mudstones are extremely hard but contain lots of micro deep water (>200 meters) fossils. Any advice? I've included an image in the what I think is a softer mudstone higher up in the Keasy. This is juvenile Dentalium agassizi (20mm in Length) I believe but after a 30 year break I've just gotten back into the game and may be erroneous in my ID. Interesting point is that specimens of Dentalium agassizi were used as the "wampum" of the North American Pacific Coast tribes (have a long PDF on it if any one is interested (Phd thesis I found).
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Hi folks, I was looking through some of my older fossils (by which I mean the ones I've had the longest, not the oldest in terms of geologic time) and I was happy to see this guy again. This is Eocene shale from the John Day Fossil Beds in Oregon, acquired back in the day when they did guided tours of the Painted Hills and let you keep some stuff. I've long assumed it to be the impression of a nut of some kind. Was wondering if anyone else had some thoughts on it? The impression of interest is small, probably about 1 inch in diameter.
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No images (yet, they are coming), yesterday in celebration of my Stereo Microscope (3.5 to 90x with camera port) shipping I decided to go fossil hunting. @71 I have to be careful when I go hunting (my wife it turns out is a fair weather digger) by myself. I have spent the last months working on my collections from the summer in two Keasey Formation locations (deep and shallow marine) with good manual tools and a dremel, but with sup-optimal hand optics (one is actually a very nice 8x optic but just to hard to use). So my wife said why don't you get a reasonable scope (would be my first since high school). So I ordered an AMscope and added a ring light to go with my video LED's I used for lighting. Not the best, but what I could afford and should work well with my camera capable of taking 80 MPX stills and being tethering to my PC showing the image on a 4K 50" screen. So being excited I went to the easiest of the two locations I've been "digging". Low 40's (F) and raining when I left in my Subaru Crosstrek (both of my cars are 4x4's to get me where I want go go here in Oregon) I was thinking "if I only find a couple of new things I will be happy". This location the actual out cropped is on an extremely steep hill, and I "dig" only in the talus at the bottom, what falls is where I find. As I approached the site I started to fill the anticipation. I parked at the base of the hill, and started my adventure. There are two layers at this location, one is a sandstone that is loosely consolidated (I think shallow water) and the a hard Shale (earlier deep water). First find in an unconsolidated sandstone that falls apart in my hand leaving a complete (top/bottom shells - one piece) in my hand. Big smile. Then I look a bit farther and I see the "mother-load" as the miners say. Apparently the heavy rains of the last couple of weeks have cause a large piece of shale to break off the formation and tumble the 70 or 80' down and break into about 15 rocks weighing between 5 and 30 pounds, fossils are abundant in every rock. I know the state will clear these because they are on the edge of the road and present a hazard. I move and leave 3 pieces for the next lucky person. I load what I think is about 100 pounds of large rocks in the car and then add a trash bag full of the unconsolidated sandstone, and a 10 gallon buck of small pieces that have the same matrix of shells. I now have my winter tasks all set. I've accumulated a lot of research and images from which work on the identifications this winter. If this find had not be a road hazard on this blind curve I would have left more but there was a road crew working not more than a couple of miles away and I could not risk that these precious finds would end up in the rock crusher or just dumped somewhere. I will be posting my finds here asking for ID help I am sure and with the new scope hopefully some great images. All and all a great way to start the New Year off. I've attached just a quick macro shoot of a snail. Haven't ID it yet, guess anyone? BTW its a cast and that is why some areas are Out of Focus (didn't have time to stack images).
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What about a Neanderthal embryo fossil cast mineralized common opal? Would that be rare? I found this in central oregon and I know nothing about it. I thought it was a thunderegg until I started pealing it back and had a laugh with my girlfriend about how it looked like a skull inside. I do suffer from extremely vivid imagination that most people call paradolia. This is not that. After a bit more liberation I now can see a skull, spine a tail (I think ) and a tiny little foot that almost winds up in its mouth. Did some research of features and came up with the above description. I think its casted in common opal I'm not positive I'm still cleaning it. Thank you for any help and your time.
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I've been meaning to make this post for a while, finally getting around to it. Back in July I made a trip to John Day for my first ever fossil hunt. Before I get to our finds, of course when in the area you have to spend some time enjoying the scenery of the gorgeous painted hills also on the list was the visitor center, unfortunately I didn't get many pictures there but here are a few highlights: Continued...
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Found this on the beach in oregon about 20 years ago. Any ideas?
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So after a 30 year lull, my wife and I decided to do a fossil trip to "get out". She had never been. I had 12 hours of college geology and have done a lot of Devonian and Silurian digs (gave my collection to a friend who made a fireplace cover out of them in his home when I moved). I picked a location near the town of Timber, Oregon which has a nice Keasey Formation outcrop. But it is a dangerous climb so we settled for looking through the talus. My wife was very excited to find her first fossils:). Here are a couple of images. First is a cast and either a mold or the actual shell, second is a comparison of the different sediments we found, and third is one with a mm ruler for scale. Back in the game for sure, even ordered some cleaning tools and a mason hammer (have a pick hammer) but needed something with a wide end and lighter for my wife to use. Will have two other images in the ID second not sure what they are, perhaps a brittle star and then either a tooth or something else. Feels good to say "I'm a digger" again:)
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These were found east of Burns, Oregon in a road cut. I thought maybe redwood but the structure is vertical not horizontal. Can anyone tell me the name of my little guys? Thanks! Nyla
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Would like to know if this is as I thing and agatized mushroom cap. I found it in the Ochoco in central Oregon
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Good evening folks. I have a Cephalopod section that weighs about 5 pounds and is about 7 inches long without a name:-( It was collected from leftover bridge fill on the Oregon/Washington border. No other information was available. It's unusual (to me) in two ways, first the size and center crystallization and second it appears to have green/brown contents visible where a piece was broken off (right side of photo #1). Help....
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