Plantguy Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 Pretty impressive material you all have! Really enjoying seeing this stuff. Thanks for sharing. Nick, great thread! Regards, Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phoenixflood Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 I think I could hunker down here in this thread for a drool fest I'll just throw in a few orange fossils, (am I wrong in thinking orange is a rare color?) Potomac River Meg Shark cartilage The soul of a Fossil Hunter is one that is seeking, always. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
obsessed1 Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 (edited) Awesome finds everyone! I never get tired of seeing them again. Here are a few of what I think are my best finds. Family: Eurhinodelphinidae Genus: Xiphiacetus Species: Bossi From Calvert Cliffs Seal Molar Yorktown formation Lee Creek Mine Palaeocarcharodon orientalis Aquia Formation Potomac River Edited March 9, 2010 by obsessed1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LanceH Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 Ok, guess my best would be the most important I have found which is the newly described Pterosaur "Aetodactylus halli". My best echinoid called "Goniophorus scotti": And this cool rare Pennslyvanian age snail called "Cinclidonema texanum": Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Eaton Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 (edited) I think the fact that "bird" is named after you counts for something Lance. These are all amazing fossils. My daughter looked them over and is telling me "you need to hunt harder" LOL. Edited March 9, 2010 by Tony Eaton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
palaeopix Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 OK if you have been to my Member Collections posts then you have seen these before. The first group of fossils are from the Allenby Formation (Eocene) of South Central British Columbia. The first two are the best Frog Hoppers in my collection. The third is a bee of some sort. The fourth is the largest and best preserved Florissantia flower from my collection and the fifth is a rare double Porana flower-like fruiting body. The next group of contains some of my better self collected marine arthropod fossils. The first three are trilobites from the McKay Group (Upper Cambrian) of South Eastern British Columbia. They are Pterocephalia norfordi, Wujiajiania sutherlandi and Burnetiella leechi. The final photo is of the best and most complete Creatceous lobster Hoploparia tshudyi from Vancouver Island that resides in my collection. Hope you enjoy them all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Menser Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 Getting ready to replace my computer so a lot is not readily available. Since I am mainly into fish I will post them later. Here are some of my other favorites. Be true to the reality you create. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Menser Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 Be true to the reality you create. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramo Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 Here are 3 of my favorites. For one species to mourn the death of another is a new thing under the sun. -Aldo Leopold Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramo Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 A few more. For one species to mourn the death of another is a new thing under the sun. -Aldo Leopold Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barefootgirl Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 Great finds everyone. Thanks for sharing those. :wub: In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real knowledge, it marks the first step in progress toward victory. Alfred North Whithead 'Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia!' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THobern Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 Very well preserved, 5 7/8" New Caledonian meg. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FossilForKids Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 Opal Fossils from down under. If only my teeth are so prized a million years from now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry Dactyll Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 WOW! Great fossils Everyone..... .... we should hide this thread as a members only thread, we dont want to attract any more competition ... A couple of my fav's.... The giant fish..... Its not just the visual impact or the sheer size of the creature, I can imagine hundreds of hours of love and hard work have gone into that....often people are not mentally capable or practically equipped to deal with these feats of endurance without the dangling carrot of financial reward as an incentive.... so 'Respect' to you Sir!.... RCFossils.... Your very own Trex... Beautiful!..... Cheers Steve... And Welcome if your a New Member... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Menser Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 Be true to the reality you create. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xiphactinus Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 Here are 3 of my favorites. Thall shalt not covet thy neighbor's mosasaur.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Menser Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 Be true to the reality you create. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 ...Here are some of my other favorites. Chilean Cormorant cranium; you've been holding out on me! How does it compare size-wise? "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve71 Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 congrats for everybody that posted thier personal finds.hard to believe on some of them.they are some wild looking fossils Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oilshale Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 Not the rarest fossil in my collection, but one of my favorites. I found it in the 70ties. A Diplocynodon darwini baby from the Lutetian of Messel, Germany. The length of this baby alligator is about 26cm or 10" (I also got his grandpa with nearly 1,5m). Thomas Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes (Confucius, 551 BC - 479 BC). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnJ Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 Great thread, Nick. Man, among the many spectacular pieces, some of my favorites in a virtual collection would be: Terry (Steve's) UK ammonite (you know I like them) Scott's giant Xiphactinus Worthy55's mastodon jaw RCFossil's early tyrannosaur obsessed1's dolphin skull Lance's pterosaur jaw bowkill (Ramo's) "honey, we found a mosasaur skull" Thomas' baby alligator.... I'm sure there will be more. Thanks for letting me have a look. The human mind has the ability to believe anything is true. - JJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Menser Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 Not the rarest fossil in my collection, but one of my favorites. I found it in the 70ties. A Diplocynodon darwini baby from the Lutetian of Messel, Germany. The length of this baby alligator is about 26cm or 10" (I also got his grandpa with nearly 1,5m). Thomas Uh...wow..I mean...WOW Be true to the reality you create. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Menser Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 Chilean Cormorant cranium; you've been holding out on me! How does it compare size-wise? I picked that up several years ago. It measures 89mm. Be true to the reality you create. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xiphactinus Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 Uh...wow..I mean...WOW No kidding.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rødvig Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 It is now official, I can no longer collect fossils you people have found everything there is to collect, amazing fossils :wub: Mikkel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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