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Hi all, Hi, my name is Warren but I didn't collect fossils. Ancient coins, artifacts, militaria, yeah I'm a collector at heart but never fossils. I take that back, I used to go with my father as a young boy on his fossil collecting trips with his university students and I still find tags with my name on the collection around his house. Unfortunately, my father passed away last year and left me his whole fossil collection that he said consisted of more than 100,00 pieces. So I guess I am now, a de facto collector of fossils and to be honest, I look forward to learning a lot more about them and understanding better his passion. My father was Merrill W. Foster, professor of geology and paleontology, emeritus. He retired from Bradley University in Peoria,IL in 2016 after 47 years. His publications were referenced in Jack Wittry’s “The Mazon Creek Fossil Fauna”, specifically in regards to Reticulomedusa greenei and Essexella asherae. He also published two papers in the work “Mazon Creek Fossils” edited by Matthew Nitecki. These were “Soft-Bodied Coelenterates in the Pennsylvanian of Illinois” and “A Reappraisal of Tullymonstrum gregarium.” I've attached a few pictures of a few of the hundreds of trays he has...I look forward to asking a million questions to help ID some of these as well as share them with Ya'all.

Work has me in Exton, Downingtown this coming week. I was wondering if there are any accessible sites that I a FL boy could find something Older or Different than Shark's Teeth or Miocene era fossils. I'd love to find a bug or fern frond but if all you have is Shark teeth I'm happy to hunt for those too.... Thanks in advance, Kevin