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Hello, I've been wanting to showcase my ongoing collection publicly in some way, and with what I've amassed so far I've decided now would be a good time to finally start. As the title suggests, this collection is dominated by echinoderms and primarily crinoids. These are without doubt my favorite group of fossils, as in my opinion not only are they aesthetically beautiful due to their elegant composition of regularly interlocking calcareous plates, but the highly modular nature of their body plans seems to have permitted an extraordinary variety in form, which is a marvel to behold. With each entry I'll try to add an interesting description or at least factoid about the specimen, species or locality; hopefully this will be a great opportunity for me to do more in-depth research on my fossils well enough that I can explain coherently. That being said, I'm absolutely an amateur and have been collecting for just around 2 years at this point, so I would love any input and corrections from those more experienced. I love any opportunity to talk fossils, and even better if I learn something I didn't know previously. My goal is to make entries semi-regularly. The inspiration for this thread is definitely @rew 's incredible "My trilobite of the week" thread; I recommend you check that out too!

Hi. I would like to ask does anyone have ideas or tips how fossil teeth could be safely displayed? Im soon able to display some of my fossils and planned to get glass showcase, but realised that it might not be efficient for showing small-medium teeth. Most my smaller teeth are individually packed in clear cases and some are in riker cases. Any thoughts? Thanks for answers.

I’d like to see the Pliocene fossils from California that people have I’ll start off with some fossils I collected from the Purisima formation at Capitola Beach A vertebra with a shell on the back A heavily eroded whale vertebra with some associated (rib?) bones Some cool clam shells Edited to add: Here’s a clam shell I dug up from the Pinole Tuff formation when I was 7. It was the first fossil I ever found