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Dug this out of estuary mud (fully buried about 8ft out from high tide line) in NW Washington. I’m a newbie, been scouring galleries trying to get some ideas, may just be a fascinating mix of rock but the dark stripe portions strike me as bone or shell. Weighs about 3-4lbs.
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Was doing some rock hounding in my yard came across unusual petrified stones rocks possibly organs from animals guessing around 10,000 years or older. would appreciate help on what these might be.
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Greetings from Washington state. I'm a new member to the Forum but have used information from here for identification in the past. Been doing rocks and fossils for 50+ years, but there are still more things to learn, and I am looking forward to exploring the Forum. Image is cells in petrified wood, magnified 30 times.
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I found this near a train track in the mountains east of Tacoma, WA. There is lots of black bears in this area and aside from a dog I don't know what else it would be. I looked at some pictures of black bear skulls and I noticed there's a lot of variety in how they look. Some pictures make me think it is a bear skull and some don't look like it. I looked up some kanine skulls and I didn't find any that look as similar as the bear skulls.
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I think it could be a fossil of a turtle shell possibly. Maybe scales. But I obviously am unsure. It does show alot of similar features to the top and the bottom parts of a turtles shell of a fresh water turtles I have been researching for the area. I found this near Frenchman Coulee along the Grand Coulee Canyon area in Washington. A location where many ice age floods have accured. It has faint crystalization on one side of the piece.
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Found this in a dry riverbed downstream from a waterfall and next to an active stream. Near Mt. Baker in Whatcom County, Washington. Other plant fossils were in the area. Think it might be a partial fossil of a large palm frond or leaf, but I have no idea. If anyone can help identify I would appreciate it; it's really stumping me. Let me know if any additional information or pictures are needed. Thanks.
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Found this on the Columbia riverbank when the tide was out in Kalama, Southwestern WA. about 30 miles north of Portland Oregon. Someone said it may be a fossil. It is very thin. When I hold it up I can see light thru it. Any idea what it is?
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Hi all, I haven't been very active on this forum in a while, but I've still been collecting and prepping. Thought I would share a bit of a milestone with you guys.and talk a little about what I've been up to in the time I haven't been active on here. First up, my first Pulalius vulgaris! I had the great pleasure of doing some hunting in the Lincoln Creek Formation with Will @Fossilis Willis a little over a year ago and found this small concretion just over 2 inches in width. How it looked when I got it home: Knocked the extra matrix off quickly, and set it aside to be prepped when I felt more confident in my ability and tools. A few months ago I finally got to work on this conc. Lots of scribing later I found some shell material! From then on it was just a matter of dialing the 9361 way down, and slowly chipping away at the matrix. Some of it had really great separation, and lots of it was the stickiest material I've worked with. Hours were spent holding my breath scribing off layers of matrix less than 1mm thick. Slowly but surely the ventral side of the crab started to appear. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out, especially for my first attempt. Really wish the legs had come out better, the prominent leg on the left is disarticulated and dives so deep into the matrix I can't expose it further. The end of another one runs off the concretion below it but no sign of the rest of the leg. And on the right I found a few busted up floating pieces that don't show up super well in the photos, but nothing substantive. I suspect there might be more leg material deeper in but the stylus of the scribe needs to be sharpened and I need to work on other projects so I'm calling it done for now at least. Overall a fun and informative prep, really pushed my limits. I definitely feel a lot more confident about scribing up close and in tight quarters after this one. Massive thanks to Will for his help finding this! As for what I've been up to lately, an even bigger thanks to Will for mentioning a local paleontology group while we were out hunting. I joined NARG (the North American Research Group) and I've been collecting with the group, writing articles for their newsletter, and presenting at their meetings. I've also been taking Geology and Zoology classes at my local community college. This hobby has become a pretty big part of my life, I bet most of you can relate. I find it almost unbelievable looking back at my journey since I joined this forum in 2019. At the time I was 13 years old, looking to get an ID for a trilobite I'd come across online. The forum has been an amazing tool for learning about everything paleontology related and played a huge role in helping me grow my passion. I remember reading through posts of fossil hunts and prep-work on this forum and wishing I could do that someday, and now here I am. Thanks in no small part to the inspiration of this forum, and all the input and help I've gotten from forum members over these past 4 years. In 2 weeks I'll be graduating High School, and in a few months I'm moving out to study geology at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. I honestly don't know what to say except, Thanks TFF!
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Found a large boulder that had recently tumbled down a rocky hillside on a rock hounding trip near Elma Washington. The boulder measured about 4 x 4 x 3 ft. and consisted of compacted fine-grained sandstone or siltstone. However, there was a dark seam running through it. On closer inspection this darker material was encased in the fine sediment and looked like cells. We estimated this cell material made up around 30 percent of the rock structure. The seam expanded in certain areas. Here is a crude drawing. We used a rock hammer to break off a small chunk. The rock was very hard, and it took quite the effort to collect that small sample The small sample we collected weighed a little over 1 lb. So, the rock boulder would have roughly weighed 500 or more pounds. Bringing the sample home, I cut a small piece and then polished it using a lap. The material polishes up nicely and looks like cells. About a month later we brought a rock club to the site and the rock was gone! It had to have weighed hundreds of pounds yet there was no trace of the boulder. The group did find some small gastropods, so the trip was worth it—but what happened to the boulder and what is the material we collected. The site is in the Lincoln Creek Formation about 38 to 16 million years old and is at a high elevation.
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Hello all, After a few shrimp I finally decided to try giving a crab nodule a go. This is my first time working on a Washington Pulalius vulgaris and so far I am pretty happy with my progress, It hasn't been too sticky and while it's more disarticulated then I expected it seems to all be there. The nodule before prep - this side turned out to be the bottom so I quickly switched to the other After about an hour, I managed not to ding up the carapace too much which I am thrilled about. I am now bout 4 hours in. There are 4 legs on the righthand side and I've managed to expose them only losing a part of the bottommost one. I'm particularly happy with how the claw has come out. The left-hand side of the crab however is a bigger challenge, the one leg I have exposed so far is hollow and you can see the two holes which I think indicate the left arm is hollow also. To prepare them, I am thinking of injecting some thin resin into the voids in the hopes that will give the shell some internal stability. If anyone has any other ideas or experience dealing with voids I'd love to hear it. I am excited to get back to prepping this one.
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Hello, I found, what I believe to be, a bone on the beach on the coast of Washington. I’ve never found anything like this, and google wasn’t much help. It’s about 27 inches long and ranges between about 5-8 inches in width. Any help would be much appreciated!! -Rachel
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With the start of 2023 I decided to take a break from my long running prep project and prepare out something smaller to start the year off. I collected several of these C. clallamensis shrimp nodules last January and in my previous experience they tend to prep well. This was one that I had split on the beach so I knew that there was a large-ish claw and hoped nodule contained the rest of the arm also. The nodule before prep Unfortunately this nodule didn't contain an arm but rather a bunch of fragmentary shell remains and one large disarticulated claw, but the claw tip glued back on nicely and I decided to have a play with shaping the matrix resulting in an interesting bowled out effect. In total the prep took about 3.5 hours with my Ken Mannion TT pen and I'm quite pleased with how much I managed to undercut the outside of the nodule without breaking it away. While not the best shrimp this was a fun prep to start off the year. Thanks for having a look
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Bones, teeth and really old rocks - essay on fossil hunting
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Bones, teeth and really old rocks: How finding fossils takes me out of myself Meredith Rizzo, National Public Radio, October 17, 2022 Fossils in the architecture of Washington, D.C Fossils in Architecture National Building Museum, March 26, 2014 Yours, Paul H.-
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Hello all! In my hunt to find crab concretions I started out at the beaches of the Olympic Peninsula. I wanted to share what I have found! I have gone three times so far and the close to six hour round trip was a bit rough, but very well worth it and I can't wait to learn and discover more. I am struggling to find crabs, but I am continuing my research and hope to figure something out soon. If there is anyone that could point me in the right direction that would be greatly appriciated as well! The first concretion I opened, It took no effort to crack. I speculate it could be a piece of bone? Wood? A super lucky find, I cracked this open after returning home and found leaf fossil concretion! I believe that these are not common on the olymipic peninsula?? I think they are Oak? Quercus? I believe a bivalve? I was confused with this one, could this be a parital crab carapace? Or the shell of a snail? And lastly this claw. Is it shrimp or crab?
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Hello everybody. Besides being busy making fossil prep video's, I'm learning a new editing software program that is much much better than the first one I learned. Way easier and much better to handle/play/control audio with this one. Anyways, I made a 5 part crab prepping series and this is Part 3. Part 4 and 5 will be published the next two saturdays. Enjoy Oh, this video is just under 3 minutes so it wont waste too much of your time. https://youtu.be/-GMQEFqw5MQ
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A stunning find yesterday, my best so far, of a rare palaega goedertorum. Lincoln Creek Formation, upper Oligocene of Washington state. 34 years hunting here, I've only found six. Some of my colleagues have hunted for decades and have yet to find one.
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From the album: My Collection
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