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Hello please don't yell at me too much (you'll find out why soon enough) I hope you guys can help me I am a fossil newbie and a college student TL;DR at the bottom last year my favorite biology proffesor told me about a fossil bed I might have fun dinking around in becuase he found a few bone chips in it and thought it was pretty cool so I went out and had a great old time finding a few bone chips and cool rocks then I stubmled apon like 1/4 of a jaw bone with the teeth still in it and boy is it cool not knowing better I brought it back home to show my proffesor he thought it was cool as a cucmber and said if I wanted to to contact someone and tell them about the fossil bed I half heartedly contacted the state the USGS and the BLM nothing happened no emails back nothing fastforward to last semster when I took a geology class trying to impress my prof I brought in the jaw fossil i brought a few other rocks for him to ID then i handed the fossil to him boring side up and had him guess what it was i wish i had a photo of his face when he relized what it was i nearly pasted out from laughing at it then i sobered up really quick when he told me it was completly illegal for me to be touching it let alone removing it from a bed site and to contact the blm right away i did whole heartedly this time and again no emails back to me so i forgot about it yet again this semester i was talking to a 3rd proffesor about fossils and he gave me the number of the local BLM fossil guy and told me to just go to the office one day and bug him LIKE THE GOOD PERSON I AM i went to the BLM office the next day with fossil inhand preparing for my life in prison i asked the nice front desk lady if the fossil guy was in the nice lady told me he wasn't suddenly glimpsing a way out of being arested (i over react i know) i gave the fossil and my cell phone number to the nice lady a few days later finally I get contacted by the BLM guy he wants me to come in and talk to him about where i found the fossil so again i prepared for the cops to be at the blm office to take me away to the gray bar hotel i went in told the guy exactly where i found the fossil and he told me it was in the middle of state land and there was nothing he could do about it he handed me back the jaw fossil and let me leave with them (i still don't even really get why how this was able to do so [you read that correctly]) i talked to my geology proffessor again about the whole ordeal and he told me to contact the state so again I contacted the state no emails back (been only about 3 weeks) now becuase apparently no one told me //multiable// times about how illegal this was this spring break I went back out to the fossil bed and found roughly half a ziplock bag full of marrow joints slivers and a tooth (i plan on giving everything i have found to the proper people I just don't want it to wash away or be found by a random huter/hiker) TL;DR I found camel fossils on state land blm is no help i am a college student with no experiance in fossilogoy what do I do now? does anyone know who I should contact? I am in SE AZ I can add any info/pic that you guys need/request thank you very much for your help!