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Hi there, Finally jumping in after reading for months. I've been interested in geology since taking a course years ago (ok, decades ago). I take a lot of photos of all kinds of rocks and formations that have interesting shapes, patterns, colors and enlarge some for wall art. I was sorting out an old pile of rocks/stones on my property and saw features and patterns on second look that I'd missed before and set out to learn more about fossils. I've read more about paleontology in the last month than I ever have, just as a hobby. I'll get a few photos put together in a separate post. Thanks for this forum, the helpful guidelines and especially for welcoming all of us. DM
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Hi, I'm Chris and I live in Southern California USA. Southern California has many locations that have fossils from various periods and especially marine fossils. I typically look for marine and occasionally terrestrial fossils from the Eocene, Oligocene, Miocene, Pliocene, and Pleistocene periods. The Los Padres Mountains and Santa Monica Mountains are where I usually go the most but I also look at coastal areas and the foothills. I like looking up old research papers on paleontology and seeing if I can retrace the author's steps to previously known fossil sites. I also post often to the Fossil Forum Facebook group. -Chris. p.s. I tried uploading to the Collection here but had no luck. As soon as I get to the mandatory drop down menu to select type of organism, it won't let me make a choice and then won't let me continue from there. Using Chrome so not sure what is going on.
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Hi everyone, Today I decided to make an account for this forum after following the topics for some time. I live in Belgium so my limited number of findings are mostly pleistocene or neogene from the coastal regions. Looking forward to seeing a lot of interesting stuff on here!
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Hello all! I've been fossil hunting with my son for about 6 years now. We've hunted in MD, WV, DE, and PA and have made finds from the Ordovician up through the Miocene. Recently we've been hitting central PA pretty hard, finding some really good Devonian, Carboniferous, and Silurian spots. I've gotten a lot of good info on locations leads and fossil IDs from this forum over the years. I figured it was time to officially join! 🙂 I'm looking forward to learning and growing through being part of this community. Gary
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Hello My name is Tim Martin. We recently moved to Ocean Isle Beach,NC 3 months ago and am interested in finding shark teeth as well as different shells while walking the beaches with my wife. Glad I stumbled upon this forum. Hope to look, learn and meet new people with same interests. I have posted a question in the ID part of the forum. Have a great day all.
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Re-introduction! It's Been A While - Glad To Be Back!
WILDKYLE posted a topic in Member Introductions
Hey y'all! I haven't spent much time here for far too long, and I'm looking to change that right now! Some of you may remember me from my former username "addicted2fossils". A bit of background - I've been interested (or more properly expressed, OBSESSED) with the prehistoric world for as long as I can remember. I've attached a photo here of my Dad and I looking for Eocene shark teeth in a Kaolin Mine in Georgia when I was around 6 or 7 years old. This catapulted me down the path I've been on all this time. Over the years I learned fossil hunting is about far more than just finding something "cool" to put on your shelf and show to your friends. It's completely shaped my worldview, and I believe it's even made me a better person. The disciplines we learn through finding fossils and learning about the prehistoric past are applicable to all aspects of life. Most importantly - it humbles us and gives us the opportunity to understand our place in the universe and in time. It's nothing short of monumental every single time we step outside and pick up a remnant of our planets incredible story. I'd also like to note that Cris and I met through this forum when I was still in High School. It forged a lifelong friendship and has lead us to countless adventures and memories being made, with so many more on the way. I'm beyond thankful to this forum for that. I look forward to reading about all of your adventures, seeing your finds, and sharing some more of my own!
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Hi all, About me: I am a researcher in biomedical sciences and currently a university student aiming to find a career in conservation. Very happy to have found this site. Have been fossil hunting as a hobby for a couple years now and have been struggling with IDing and explaining my finds to others interested in fossils. I hope to gain some knowledge on the field, on my finds (of course), fossil formation processes, techniques for IDing and dating (roughly), etc. or even just some reliable resources for me to teach myself. Eventually, I hope that my gained knowledge will be extensive enough for me to provide help to others in my present position. Nice to meet you all; it seems you have created a great community. Thank you, Kayla
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Hello from Florida! My name is Bri and I'm excited to be a part of this community. I was always told growing up "There is nothing new to discover" and that I shouldn't pursue paleontology because it wasn't a "viable option," so I got an art degree instead and never did much with it. I still enjoy making art in my spare time, though! I ended up moving to Florida a few years ago to better pursue my passion for paleontology alongside @Cris. Since then I have had so much fun going on adventures and exploring, discovering these pieces of our natural history. Some notable things I have found are a partial Smilodon maxilla with an upper premolar, a mostly complete mandible from the giant beaver Castoroides, and most excitingly a recent co-discovery with Cris of associated Entelodont material! So far we have found a canine, partial molars, a metapodial, and hopefully more to come as we continue to work the site! We are working with the Florida Museum of Natural History to make sure all important material is turned in to their collections for further study and it has been so fun getting to know the people working there. It turns out that they haven't added any Florida entelodont fossils to their collections in the past 100 years until now! Smilodon sp. Castoroides ohioensis I'm looking forward to getting to know you guys and being a part of this community!
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Hello everyone, I am a new member. I am an amateur photographer, fresh college graduate, and beginner fossil and artifact finder. I live in Grant County, WV and have found many fossils, arrowheads, and other relics from battles and homesteads. - Jacob T. Armentrout
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Hello, I'm new here. I'm from Europe; Poland, to be specific. MSc (palaeobiology). I'm looking for expanding my experience in identifying fossils, however the direct reason of joining was a problem that I have with identifying several specimens from my collection. I'm sure I will learn here a lot.
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Hello Everyone! I'm very happy to have found "The Fossil Forum". I've been interested in all sciences and especially topics with areas associated with this forum. I found my first fossil when I was 8 years old back in the late 1960s. I was living in Missouri when my Mom and Dad took the family on a month long trip in our station wagon pulling our pop-up camper. We were visiting family and friends across the country as we travelled. We stopped in Fort Worth to visit some friends of my Dad in Texas. They took us to Lake Texoma to look for fossils. They told us that there were a lot of fossils that you could find just walking around the edges of the lake. While my family proceeded to walk around looking, I stood on a large rock looking out into the lake and then down around my feet. It was then that I discovered I was standing on a very large fossil. My eyes got really big and I decided then and there that I wasn't leaving without it. I was not very strong, being a skinny little kid and the fossil was very heavy. But that wasn't going to stop me. I carried it several hundred feet to where the car was parked and just waited for everyone else to return. It ended up riding the rest on the trip in the camper along with other fossils found by the family. Unfortunately about 4 years later, we moved away and my fossil was left in our car port in Missouri when our stuff was packed up! I didn't discover this fact until after we unpacked everything. I was devastated. However, there was a happy ending when my Dad and I took a trip back to Missouri to hunt for American Indian artifacts another 4 years later. (This had been his hobby for over 60 years, and became mine as well.) Anyway, my fossil and I were reunited as it had remained untouched and exactly where we left it when we moved. I've included a picture of this fossil find below. Anyway, I've not found the time to really jump into this and other areas of interest (astronomy being one as well), but hope to do so as I near retirement. I'm also looking to introduce my grandsons to this hobby as well. They are especially excited after finding a fossil in my background in the stone (most likely from a local quarry) that was used to line the drainage ditches. So if anyone has some good places for us to explore, please send recommendations my way, especially in the West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania areas. Regards, Paul
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New to Texas and new to this forum, most of my rock, mineral and fossil collection got lost (more accurately left behind) in the move and I have only kept a few choice pieces. I have found a few new ones since arriving though, all in the Permian Basin of West Texas. Hope to make some good friends here and happy fossil hunting!
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Hi, just joined from Manitoba, Canada. Love fossil hunting but not really many places to do in manitoba. Mostly just fossil hunt when I travel. Would love to see what is available in fossil sales.
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Hello everybody! I'm MetalRavioli, and I'm new to this forum! I've recently started collecting fossils, and I have a very small collection. Nothing too grand, mainly just a Jianghanichthys specimen, but I'm very excited to collect more! My other hobbies (and job) include caring for animals. I have a 29 gallon and a 90 gallon tank at home, and work in a store that raises parrots from infancy and sells them out to responsible owners. We also carry lots of reptile and amphibians, so it's a wild crew of critters we've got over there! I'm excited to be here and to grow my fossil collection in the near future!
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Greetings from Romania. I am an amateur fossil hunter from Romania and I am glad to find here a community where I can learn more about paleontology.
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Good morning, This is a nice forum you have here. I found an interesting bone mass on a Fl beach yesterday. I will post for ID help shortly. best regards, D
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Hello all. I enjoy fossils and cool rocks, unfortunately there aren’t many of either where I live. Used to love to hunt shark teeth and massive pyrite balls when I lived in Dallas and had access to a cement quarry in a little town south of Dallas, but that was 25+ years ago. I have to live vicariously through others now. I go to Austin and Houston on occasion so I’m hoping to just read peoples experiences and maybe I can apply what I learn when I go to either of those areas. I look forward to seeing what others find and how they came about discovering good areas for hunting.
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Hi all! I’m new to fossil hunting—I grew up combing the beaches at home in SC for shark’s teeth with my dad, but since moving to MD I’ve had access to the Calvert Cliff areas and a much broader range of fossils than ever before! I hope to meet some folks here, get better at identification, and gain a greater understanding and respect for fossil hunting!
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Howdy y'all!!! (Sorry had to start this post off sounding all Texan because Texas is awesome, haha). So, obviously i'm from Texas, like you couldn't tell already. I am a 34 year old England-born, Texas-raised mother of 3 children (15yo/13yo/5yo). My husband and I were high school sweethearts and we're together for 16 years. He has recently (15 months ago) passed away. I have only recently started collecting fossils/gemstones/rocks. My late husband was always into rocks, he and our oldest daughter would compare rocks almost everyday, the days they didn't my washing machine was usually extremely loud. After my husband passed away, my daughter kinda lost the joy she had for rocks. A few months ago I was going thru boxes and found a bunch of rocks, I started looking thru them and asked my oldest daughter about some of them. While she didn't have alot of information about the rocks she enjoyed telling me the stories of going with her dad walking and finding them or how her dad was so excited because he found this awesome rock and couldn't wait to show her and how no matter what the rock looked like that she would bring home, her dad always told her she had the coolest rock. I started to see her joy again while telling me her and dad's rock stories.
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Hi all, greetings from this retired Royal Navy officer/fossil newbie in Southern England. I've returned to fossil hunting after maybe 40 years doing plenty of other stuff, and the bug has bitten pretty hard. I've attended a couple of organised field trips and it turns out that I like nothing more than crawling along a beach with my nose about a foot from the sand. I'm looking forward to plenty more opportunities for getting my hands dirty, and to using the great resource that this forum seems to be. Here's to dirty fingernails and heavy rucksacks.
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Hi everyone, although I don’t currently own fossils I’ve always been interested in paleontology and recently started studying more into it again. I joined here to see all the fossil collections and pick up on some knowledge. As for a little about me, I’m a huge fan of all branches of biology. I’m more knowledgeable in extant animals and my primary focus is herpetology. I also love toxinology. With those two combined, my favorite animals are snakes and arachnids and I own 2 snakes, 3 widows, 3 scorpions, and 28 tarantulas. Though I don’t have any fossils, I do collect remains of extant animals. I have a decent amount of skulls and other various bones as well as mummified animals. That’s pretty much all about me, very exited to be a part of this community
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Hello everyone, Bit of a late introduction, but a new amateur fossil collector here checking in from California. I only started collecting last year and so still have a very small collection so far; wish I could fossil hunt myself but that's unfortunately not a realistic option, so I'm exclusively buying from online shops. Recently I've been obsessed with bizarrely coiled (or rather uncoiled) heteromorph ammonites. Structure is function after all, so it's intriguing what evolutionary advantages such various, ridiculously cumbersome shapes would've provided to offset the loss in mobility! For instance, here is an cool little paper on how the U-shaped body chamber of the Ancyloceratina may suggest a stationary "hooked adult" stage of life: (https://academic.oup.com/mollus/article/80/4/354/1021718) Anyways, I have been scouring the internet for something that really strikes my fancy, but haven't found it yet. The huge, bumpy open-coil Didymoceras species are my holy grail, but I generally like any impractically open-coiled heteromorphs. Pleasure to meet you all! I've already received a lot of help from some of you on the ID and "Is it Real" threads, so I look forward to my time on this forum.
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Hello everyone! Ive always been into archeology/paleontology but I dont get out to dig or search much, so its kinda been off the radar for a while... I do have a semi-large collection (in my opinion, to you all its probably tiny lol) Some of the bones I have, I dont know what they are and I also don't know how to identify what certain bome I have or what shark tooth I have (I know megladon and great white teeth, and tiger shark teeth as well). I cant wait to learn from the veterans and experts of this hobby!
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Greetings everyone! I'm an Employee at the Fernbank Museum of natural history, famous for our Giganotosaurus and Argentinasaurus! I've been a fossil collector my whole life, but it took a pause for several years and now I'm back. This forum was very helpful recently so I decided to join! Paleontology is just a hobby, but I am actually a Thanotologist, so I know bones haha. I can't wait to see more!
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Hello everyone, I am from Pennsylvania - Western side. I have become interested in collecting rocks recently - as well as fossils. Currently interested in all fossils. Don't really have many fossils at the moment, hopefully I can find some more and share them here with everyone. Might need some help with IDs! Glad to be here.
