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Hello everybody. I went through one of my fossil sheds the other day, something I have not done for quite awhile now, but I dug through some old boxes and totes and along with a lot of other fossils I ran into this box of echinoids. I remember it was a trade and I remember they come from someplace in southern Cal. The darker ones I want to say come from the Bakersfield area? By any chance does anyone recognize these and cann help with any info would be great. Thank you RB

Good day- my first time out fossil hunting I went behind my house in a green belt. New construction and rain uncovered a bunch of stuff in the creek bed. It’s hard to believe I found these right in my own back yard honestly. Some of it I can ID some of it I can’t tell what it is or if it is a fossil. Any help and info would be great appreciated! Thank you in advance also, I’m not extremely tech savvy, so I thank you for your patients as I navigate this site

I found a fossilized sand dollar walking down the beach yesterday. Can anyone give an around about age for this sand dollar? It's pretty big. It's thick too. Snapchat-1881094563.mp4

Okay, Fool's Gold and Sand Dollars, but hey, I prefer those anyways!!! So yesterday was my birthday and I had a 6 hour drive home from a convention I was working and thought, hey, I'm KIND OF close to a fossil hunting spot I had heard about so I took a short (two hour) detour to check it out to see if I could find anything. And oh my goodness did I. This is a very very small grown over spot in East Texas, down a back road. I came across this beauty first thing but left it since it was too shattered to try to retrieve, so it sits in situ as it should be. I hope nobody ever disturbs it. So this was my take home beauty -it's about 30mm (slightly bigger than a quarter). Happy Birthday to me! And the Gold: Fool's Gold! Athough it wasn't TECHNICALLY on my birthday, I found these last week, so close enough. I had been poking around a creek, hitting it in different spots to see what I could find and stumbled up on a stash of Pyrite encrusted Illymatogyra oysters! I had heard there were pyrite "ammonites" In this creek, but the person I think was no quite sure what they had as there were no ammonites, but hundreds of these amazing things!!