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Palaeo-activities around Bourges/Morlac in France
pachy-pleuro-whatnot-odon posted a topic in Europe
Hi all, I'm currently on a week's holiday near Morlac (Bourges-area) in France, and was wondering if there were any toddler-friendly activities in the area that I could do with my 3.5 year-old son. I'm thinking of museums, but possibly also of areas where we might go on a fossil-hunt. Thanks for any information you could and would be willing to share! -
We are heading out the last week of March our first stop will of course be Black Cat Mountain. We have heard about another quarry near there named the Theisen quarry. Does anyone have any info and a contact E-mail for this quarry? What is their fees and is it worth a couple of days?
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Hey guys, I was wondering if any of you know where some fossil sites are in the state of Oklahoma. I am a noobie in the field of paleontology but I want to learn more and want to go on trips to quarries and places where fossils are located. I know relatively what is located in Oklahoma: trilobites, bryozoans, echinoderms(crinoids), blastoids, brachiopods, etc. Me and my friend Ian are interested in going to different locations such as the Thesien Quarry or White Mound. Me and him have never been on this type of trip before but I'm eager to visit one of these sites. I was also wondering if you
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Hello all my fellow fossil lovers! This is my first post on here for a while, I've been lurking around and admiring everyones finds. But y'all have motivated me to actually get out and start hunting! I will be driving up with my girlfriend from Los Angeles to Ernst Quarries in Bakersfield, CA on March 28th. For people who may not be familiar, this is part of the infamous Shark Tooth Hill, dated to the Miocene at 12-15 mya. It is a pay-to-dig site, and not too bad at $40 for a full day of digging. Is anyone on here planning on going that day or have been recently? How d
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Any tips for a starting local fossil hunter?
Macrophyseter posted a topic in General Fossil Discussion
So today Ive went down to the bay that I was planning to find fossils in for awhile, only to come back empty handed (I couldnt reach any of the shale quarries and just decided that its layers are too flat to house fossils anyways). Being a Palos Verdean, There are small pockets of quarries which are generaly unprotected by preserves (usually alongside roads, sometimes beaches). Palos Verdes has a rich history of Miocene-Quarternary fossils, but much of the fossiliferous zones are protected by preserves. Because I cant really go far just to find fossils, I can only hunt in the small pockets I c -
Like many people here in eastern NC my first full fledged exposures to fossils was at the Aurora Fossil museum. Growing up here, I had seen and found my share of smaller sharks teeth and "petrified" clams as we called them, but never thought much about it. Never had anyone able to expose me to the world of fossils.(Plus, I was much more interested in baseball ..... then girls.) After I had grandkids a friend said, hey you should take them to the fossil museum in Aurora. So I did and the rest is, as we say, history. I was amazed at the teeth and everything else that was on display there. The f
