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Hey guys! I wanted to know if there were any expert Calvert cliffers on here and would be willing to show a noobie the way around and some cool spots here and there!

Howdy fellow fossilers. I moved to Corpus 3 months ago with my wife and I've always loved hunting fossils across the US. Let me tell you, I can tell this is a great spot. I've seen Steve71's posts on mammoth teeth and Pleistocene bones, bison, mastodon, tapir, horse teeth etc. I'd really love to find some of those things and if anyone knows any pointers for stuff nearby (not by san antonio) I'd be forever in your gratitude. In the meantime, here are some photos of fossils I found roaming the beach at Port Aransas.

I found this in a creek and can't find anything like it. What is it?

Starting Monday, I'm going to have a weeklong trip across multiple parts of Italy. The main attractions being Naples and Sicily, visiting the volcanoes of the country (people may not know that volcanology is my second biggest interest). If there are days of downtime, I'm wondering if there are any spots I should check out while I'm there. Thanks in advance!

Found this piece of large (for the location) orthocone yesterday in a Brigantian (Mississippian) mudstone. The thin bits of surviving shell are apparently pierced through with many small round objects, mostly circular, 0.3 - 0.5 mm in diameter. Each one is now a very low cylinder (like a watch battery) with apparently vertical sides and depressed centre. Many are filled with pyrite. They have left impressions on the mudstone internal mould - the whole shell fossil is covered with them, both the living chamber and chambered phragmocone. Ostracods came to mind but these seem to go right through the shell and the spacing is quite regular so was whatever they were growing there? Orthocones and many other types of shell are common from this location but I've never seen this before. And one more:

Over the summer we are doing a trip to Maine and I would like to go fossil hunting one day while there but I have no spots and very little information. I would appreciate anyone that can tell me a place to go and the method to finding fossils there

I have gone to Gainesville a couple times and I have found small shark teeth and megalodon fragments, but I would love to find a full megalodon tooth for myself. I have 2 megalodon teeth neither one I found and they are not fully complete. I'm asking if anyone can tell me of a good spot to go to. Or maybe even if someone like to meet me somewhere in Gainesville to go hunting. Thank you

Hey guys, I was planning to go to Peace River, but the water levels are average so fossil hunting may not be good. Venice is always a good alternative spot so I was thinking if Venice Beach would be better. So Should I go to Venice or Peace River? Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

Hello all. Back in March, I posted a topic about Spotted Trilobites I had found last year, in the Middle Devonian Windom shale in the Buffalo, NY area. I was interested in why they had spots, and some recent studies have concluded that they were chromatophores, used to change the color of the trilobites exoskeleton for camouflage purposes. Pretty cool. Well, I was fortunate enough to hit the same site this past July, with my buddy Carmine. (xonenine) I did fairly well, and had lots to bring home and prep. I have recently prepped out a bunch, and have added quite a few spotted ones to the two I had previously. Prepping consisted of some work with an engraver (not powered) to remove some of the larger pieces of matrix, and then a turn or two through my blasting cabinet, for a dolomite shower using my Harbor Freight Central Pneumatic Air Eraser. I think that, despite the fragility of these pieces, that they came out rather well. I thought I'd show them off, here. I think it is interesting how different the patterning and density of the spots is on each specimen. Hope you like them. Thanks for looking. A nice 3/4 bug: A large cephalon (1 1/4inch wide): An enrolled specimen: A nice little double: A partial: Another partial: and the rest are rollers... probably not complete, however . Continued.....