Lost river coulee

[MedicineHat]

I found the lost river coulee south of manyberries. I hiked for about 5 hours and it was a great landscape to explore. However, I found next to no vertebrate fossils.

[MedicineHat]

Others have insinuated that the fossils are just dripping out of the outcroppings merely off the side of the road. Well, my experience at lost river  twice, is that I use my keenest hunting eye and find rarely a tooth or a complete bone.

 

[MedicineHat]

Very cool marine material. Reminds me of red rock coulee

[MedicineHat]

[MedicineHat]

Some very cool rock formations. 

[MedicineHat]

A rock completely hollowed out

[MedicineHat]

Markers and a site dug out?

[MedicineHat]

Very cool shell imprint...ammonite?

[MedicineHat]

One unbroken tooth...amongst the blast which seems like shattered the billions of bones of now turned to shards. I imagine the indigenous peoples probably used the shards of bones as cutting tools

[MedicineHat]

Hadrosaur jaw. 

 

Broken bone infested with dirt and roots

[MedicineHat]

Searched hi and lo... found nothing....I guess all those days in the field learning how to track fossils never paid off. 

[MedicineHat]

Lots of marine shells with traces of croc and turtle mixed close by. 

I imagine a guy could find shark gar fish and other fossils. 

It was a nice day of hiking! Just nice to be out....but that view of the outcroppings and the legends I was told left me disappointed not to track much vertebrate fossil material down.

I keep telling myself to lower my expectations. Well back to self help . Enjoy:)

[daves64]

38 minutes ago, MedicineHat said:

Some very cool rock formations. 

Imagine having that in your front yard..