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I have been interested in geology ever since I took an introductory course in my town's two-year branch of the state college. After that course, I decided to major in geoscience as well as English education and minor in both chemistry and Earth and space science (so I could teach three different areas), and with my change to a geoscience major, my family decided to help me entrench myself as firmly as I could in this new obsession. In 2017, after I graduated, we took a two-week trip through: Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, Utah, and Colorado. We found a plethora of gems, minerals, and fossils by traveling that huge distance. We have gone on trips to both the east coast (Delaware has one of my favorite fossil sites) and western states for years now, and collected plant and animal fossils alike. Last year, we went to Baisch's Dinosaur Digs in Glendive, and I learned so much about identifying dinosaur bones. As of right now, I'm helping to plan another trip to Montana (we are currently open for suggestions as to fossil locations in northern and eastern Montana), as well as my graduate career at UW-Madison. I'm hoping to study in either field of geochemistry or paleontology. It's very nice to meet you, and be a part of this forum.

This is a piece of a fossil that I found in a field in western Pennsylvania in the United States. It has a serrated feel to the edge, as if it is a tooth. I couldn't seem to find another part to it. There are lines that run vertically along the fossil as well.