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I’m not even sure if looking at these or posting these would help. Most teeth from Shark tooth ridge are broken so I feel ID is hopeless. But if anyone knows anything , id be forever thankful! A. I’m really curious what these thick ones are. They don’t scream Squalicorax sp. B. Doesn’t look like a shark C. Scapanorhynchus sp. D. I really love the color on these. E. Also is a cool color pattern F. Too broken? G. This is what most of the teeth look like. It’s so sad. but I would keep going back if I could

Hey everyone, scrabbling around Santa Fe and found a nice spot with tons of shells and some crinoid stem parts, when I came across a round piece I thought at first a vertebra. The next time I went out with a friend she found some points and we found more smaller pieces and thought some kind of snail, but not an obvious twist. now I'm leaning toward a mineral formation? Any help would be awesome. Last picture is a shell to give an idea of the surroundings...

So a few months ago I traveled to El Paso, in search of some trackways from dinos and Permian amphibians. My trackways collection has been lacking for the better part of my whole life so I decided to go get some. If you haven’t already seen them, I’ll include them here: Now how could I possibly get new footprints if I’m all the way in DC? Well, I was doing some cleaning with a toothbrush on this exact rock and to my amazement, I started seeing little footprints in the stone. Knowing that I didn’t see them before, I freaked out and almost had a heart attack. There are now 9 different sets of tracks on this one little plate! I’m in shock. Here’s some new pictures of the newly uncovered trackways!There are 5 additional tracks that I had no idea were there for over a month. I had this fossils for that period of time with no clue that there were more. Now that I think about it, there were probably a lot more back at the place where I chiseled them out. I didn’t look carefully enough, but I won’t make that same mistake next time. I hope you all enjoy these!

I found some more Permian tracks in New Mexico and I think they’re probably related to a Temnospondyl amphibian. I have the first track I found from this place here, but I also found one with 4 tracks in the rock that I’m fairly certain are some of the best I’ve found in a while. : Here are those tracks. Now something cool I noticed on this one is there is a track I circled here: because it pokes out on the other side, like this right here: I’ll also give you guys a close up of the other two in this rock that was initially exposed: That’s pretty much it for the tracks, but I figured showing them would be neat because they are my first and probably only ones I’ll be able to collect for a while. I’m overall happy with the way the trip to Texas went.

Wow is all I can say. I cannot believe what I have managed to find this week alone. I went to Texas for a vacation, and I’m coming out with some of my best fossils (in my opinion) I’ve found this year. I came here hoping to score some trace fossils of what once lived here, and score some, I did! Since there are two different time zones, and 4 different types of fossils found, I’ll split them up based on environment, and time. With marine fossils going first and tracks going second. Permian first, and Cretaceous second. I’ll do a picture of the whole haul and then we’ll get started. I also was able to capture some tracks that weren’t collectible so I collected them with my camera. Taking a fossil out of its place in a rock like that causes more damage than it does good, so all tracks were already eroded out and separated from anything scientific. Anyways, here’s the stuff: Permian Marine Fossils: Permian Footprint: while collecting today, I was hoping for a Permian footprint. Literally as I was about to leave, I found it! There was also another footprint attached to the rock but it fell off and scattered along the debris of similar colored rock. I wasn’t finding that anytime soon! But anyways, here it is. You can see a few sets of claw marks from the amphibian that once walked across it. I’m really happy I found this on a small rock and not one that I would have had to leave behind. cretaceous marine fossils: I also found a nice crab claw but it was so embedded into the rock that I just took a picture of it. Some things are better left to be appreciated by other people! cretaceous footprints: I found a bunch of footprints embedded into the rock, I of course didn’t attempt to take these out of their rightful place and I left them to be admired by others. I found one eroded out of the rock, and broken and incomplete, but it’s a footprint none the less. I’m pretty happy about all I found in general. It’s hard to see but the first two toes are there, and the only reason I’m confident this is a footprint is due to the fact that there were others around. All around a great trip and I still have more to find because I haven’t left yet!

Found this in NM, not a professional, but I’d like to know if it’s a fossil, and if so what kind. Looks like a fossil to me, but it also looks igneous, so is that possible?