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On 3/28/2018 at 2:53 AM, Wrangellian said:

I've been wanting a piece of that desert glass too (and a decent meteorite for that matter - I've already got a tektite) but the attention [available funds] is divided between so many things in my bucket list:

I'd still like to get a decent Dickinsonia from the Ediacaran/Vendian - I have a small partial one but I think it's only a matter of time before I score a decent complete one, if only slightly larger.

Also Horodyskia (1.4by macrofossil) from anywhere..

A spiny trilo from Morocco or Oklahoma would be nice, but the good ones are expensive, the cheap ones are badly prepped.

It might be an interesting project to compile a list of all the different taxa I have in my collection, categorized by location. I've already tabulated my local stuff from Mt Tzuhalem, and my Arkona and Penn Dixie stuff from doing trades with Monica, so I've already partway there...

I might find that certain time periods are underrepresented in my collection - I know there is not much Silurian, Mississippian, Permian or Triassic, and probably some of the Cenozoic epochs are sparse too.

Money limitations keep me from getting much further.

Well , you have sone triassic in BC , Toad river or something like it? As for spiny trilo from Morocco , you forgot to mention whether they are fake or not ....

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10 hours ago, taj said:

Well , you have sone triassic in BC , Toad river or something like it? As for spiny trilo from Morocco , you forgot to mention whether they are fake or not ....

Fake or badly-prepped - same thing to me!

I have one ammo from the Toad River area, and some nice Monotis clams from NE'ern BC. I also have a few Triassic fossils from Vancouver Island, some of which I found myself, but they're not very spectacular. You take what you can get!

I probably have something from every period (system) but there are those that are underrepresented. For that matter I don't have much Jurassic either but I have some from Van' Island.

Didn't you use to live in France? When did you move to Canada?

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Yep , that's correct !It's been a year so far  . Have explored some of Quebec and Ontario, keeping Western Canada on the back burner for a later time...

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It's a big country! Ont and Que will surely keep you occupied for some time, but the West has some different fossils/ages.

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Oh Yes , very big ! But limited to the primary on the eastern side ; fortunately I have still lots of stuff to prepare , so I can keep my ammonite craving at bay the the moment ...

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On 1/26/2015 at 10:56 AM, UtahFossilHunter said:

1. Spence Shale trilos

2. House Range trilos

3. Red beryl, Juab County, Utah

4. Confusion Range ammonites

5. Precambrian algae, Uintah Mountains

6. Castle Dale, Utah ammonites

7. Wyoming fish (again)

8. Complete Utahraptor

9. Morrocan Spinosaurus teeth

10. More theropod teeth

Forgot I put this here but I’ve got some marked off.

1. Spence Shale trilos :dinothumb:

2. House Range trilos :dinothumb:

3. Red beryl, Juab County, Utah

4. Confusion Range ammonites :dinothumb:

5. Precambrian algae, Uintah Mountains

6. Castle Dale, Utah ammonites :dinothumb:

7. Wyoming fish (again) :dinothumb:

8. Complete Utahraptor

9. Morrocan Spinosaurus teeth :dinothumb:

10. More theropod teeth :dinothumb:

Only 3 to go. I now realize how hard 8 is going to be. I think I’ll settle for a tooth first before a complete one:ighappy:

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Ichthyosaur Jaw section with Teeth

Croc vert

Full Nautilus

Cannonball nodule with eleganticeras ammonites

Harpoceras Ammonite

7 inch+ Hiloceras

 

And loads more

 

 

There's quite alot i'd like to find from the Yorkshire coast! 

 

 

 

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Yorkshire Coast Fossil Hunter

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All teeth:

 

Megalosaurus

Eotyrannus

Yutyrannus

Diplodocus

Torvosaurus

Marshosaurus

Ceratosaurus

 

to name a few 

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Dromaeosaur tooth from the KKCA.  

Big dinosaur bone from the KKCA. 

Reptile tooth from Belgium or the Netherlands (own find). 

Walliserops sp.

Comura sp.

Erbenochile sp.

A complete White River skeleton.

Any fossil insect.

There will probably follow a whole lot more.

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On 27/03/2018 at 2:45 AM, Bobby Rico said:

Wow ok

I crossed one of my list this year a T.rex tooth.:D

 

i thought I would answer this question in images. I think you all will be able to guess them .

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Still same except I crossed of the Dimetrodon tooth. Only a small specimen but beautiful and very appreciated. 

On the bases of one in one out. I would add a bird claw from Hell Creek for my bell jar collection and a Mastodon tooth for my mammal collection.

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This is a great topic!

"You got a list that's three miles long no doubt"  that quote from Aladdin couldn't be more true for me and most other fossil hunters. Once you start a collection you never truly feel fulfilled which is a double edge sword, you feel pride in what you find yet you know there's still so much out for you to obtain. I've been very lucky in my short time fossil collecting to gather some great specimens and have little to complain about. 

Here's my fossil wish list; We'll start with domestic (US).

Most of these are from places I've already been and have had chances to find these fossils.

Less rare:

-A Squalodon tooth (NC, MD or elsewhere)

-A decent mosasaur tooth (New Jersey or elsewhere)

- An Otodus tooth (Maryland, Potomac)

- A complete ray dental battery

-A decent size & quality horse tooth (What I found in Florida was small and incomplete)

-A nicer self-collected Meg tooth

-A Paratodus tooth (which might fall under the more rare finds)

-An Oreodont or Leptomeryx skull (white river fm.)

-A rhino tooth (white river fm.)

-A Tapir tooth or jaw section (FL)

-A Llama/camelid tooth or jaw section (FL)

-A complete hexanchus or notorynchus tooth

-A gator tooth

That part of the list is far from complete, only a taste of my desired finds.

 

Here are the finds that would be harder to come by but be totally worth the effort.

-Any carnivore material from the white river fm. (Hyaenodon, Entelodont, Nimravid)

-A nicer Tyrannosaurus 

-A mastodon tooth

-Any carnivore from Florida (Bear, Wolf, Cat, Beardog etc.)

-Any Titanis material from FL

-A complete or partial Eurypterid from NY

-Any New England dinosaur tracks.

-A deinosuchus tooth

-Any east coast dinosaur teeth (basal tyrannosaur or hadrosaur most likely)

-A pachycephalosaur tooth

-An ankylosaur tooth

 

Third Part of my domestic section is places I haven't been, but want to go fossil hunt at

-Red Hill, PA

-Pleistocene Microfossils from Merritt Island, FL

-Lang's Quarry

-Texas (NSR + other sites)

-Waurika, OK

-Morrisson fm. CO, UT or WY. 

-Triassic formations, New Mexico and Arizona.

-Aguja fm, TX

-Shark Tooth Hill, CA

-Cape Fear Rive, NC

I'll probably come back to this list once I've thought of some more fossils and localities.

 

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Places internationally I want to visit and collect at:

-Morocco: Most interested in Kem Kem material but also interested in Oued Zem marine fauna and various trilobite sites. 

-England: Interested in Jurassic coast ammonites and ichthyosaurs but most interested in Cretaceous Wealden beds.

-Germany: Many jurassic sites I want to visit such as Solnhofen, Buttenheim and Holzmaden

-The Netherlands: any pleistocene locality on the North Sea (Zandmotor etc.)

 

These seem like reasonable trips for which the areas have laws more lenient to collectors. As much as I'd love to fossil hunt in China, Mongolia or Argentina I wouldn't want to get in trouble for doing so.

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Forgot about this.  I've achieved some since I posted.  

 

*Complete Isotelus 

*Rostroconch

*Rudist

*Productid brachiopod with spines :dinothumb:

*Lingulid brachiopod:dinothumb:

*Complete conulariid 

*Complete Greenops boothi 

*Dipleura dekayi:dinothumb: (partials: still would like a complete one, tho :))

*"Giant" ostracod :dinothumb:

*Receptaculid

*Ordovician "Solenopora" :dinothumb:

*Edrioasteroid

*Asteroidea 

*Complete crinoid calyx

*Any species in the Cincinnatian of Indiana, Ohio, and Kentucky that I don't have.:dinothumb:

*Any species in the Silica Shale I don't have.:dinothumb:

*Any species from the Marshall Sandstone I don't have.:dinothumb:

*Any species from the Windom Shale I don't have.:dinothumb:

*Any species from the Big Clifty and Indian Springs Formations I don't have.

*carboniferous brachiopods:dinothumb:

*Devonian phyllocarid

*Dalmanites

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1 minute ago, Peat Burns said:

Forgot about this.  I've achieved some since I posted.  

 

 

If we all can dig together at DSR this spring, I can set aside a Devonian rostroconch and a partial Widder Fm phyllocarid for you. 

...How to Philosophize with a Hammer

 

 

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28 minutes ago, Kane said:

If we all can dig together at DSR this spring, I can set aside a Devonian rostroconch and a partial Widder Fm phyllocarid for you. 

:faint::wub:

 

Thank you, Kane. I plan to make every effort to be part of the DSR hunt!

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Fossils I'd love to own (or at least find, if it's to be donated)...

  • Reptile material from the Smoky Hill Chalk of Kansas, USA 
  • Shark or reptile material from the Chalk of Møns Klint, Denmark
  • A heteromorph ammonite from the Cretaceous of Hokkaido, Japan
  • Any kind of opalised tetrapod bone/tooth from the Cretaceous of Australia
  • An extensive microsite with plenty of theropod teeth in the Hell Creek Formation, USA
  • British Triassic bonebed stuff
  • Plesiosaur and Ichthyosaur bones in the Oxford Clay and Lias, UK
  • Phyllocarids, eurypterids, straight-shelled nautiloids from the Paleozoic of USA
  • Any kind of harpetid trilobite
  • Ivoites or similar ammonoid from Hunsrück, Germany
  • Late Cretaceous dromaeosaur material from southeastern France
  • Winterswijk (Netherlands) Triassic reptile material
  • The skull of Balaur bondoc (Romania)
  • Heteromorph ammonite from the Late Cretaceous of Vancouver Island (Canada)
  • Vertebrate material from the Late Cretaceous of Vancouver Island
  • Any kind of terrestrial tetrapod material in Mesozoic marine sediments
  • Burgess Shale-type preservation anywhere in the world (not counting Burgess Shale, Chengjiang, Emu Bay Shale...)

That's approximately it, guys :) I hope I'll be able to find at least some of that!

-Christian

 

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Opalised fossils are the best: a wonderful mix between paleontology and mineralogy!

 

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9 hours ago, Peat Burns said:

Forgot about this.  I've achieved some since I posted.  

 

*"Giant" ostracod :dinothumb:

What is a 'giant' ostracod - how giant - and where do you get them?

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14 minutes ago, Wrangellian said:

What is a 'giant' ostracod - how giant - and where do you get them?

There are some big ones compared to most which are only a mm or so.  There are some more than 10 times that in the Ordovician spots I hunt.  But I ended up filling my bucket lister in the Silurian of upper MI. Check out these bad boys I found :)

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"1 of everything of the menu please" :ighappy: no, but seriously, I would love to find literally anything, but to name a few, nanuqsaurus, dire wolf, mammoth, kaprosuchus, darwinopterus, kosmocertops, any dino material from NC, perfect meg over 6 inches, perfect mako and great white over 3 inches.

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58 minutes ago, Peat Burns said:

There are some big ones compared to most which are only a mm or so.  There are some more than 10 times that in the Ordovician spots I hunt.  But I ended up filling my bucket lister in the Silurian of upper MI. Check out these bad boys I found :)

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Ah yes, I remember that one now that I see it again! First one is very nice too. B)

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10 hours ago, The Amateur Paleontologist said:

Fossils I'd love to own (or at least find, if it's to be donated)...

  • Burgess Shale-type preservation anywhere in the world (not counting Burgess Shale, Chengjiang, Emu Bay Shale...)

-Christian

 

Should we take this to mean that you already have specimens from each of those three places?

I don't know what else that leaves other than the occasional Burgess-type thing that comes out of the Western US Cambrian (Wheeler Fm, etc)

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7 hours ago, Wrangellian said:

Should we take this to mean that you already have specimens from each of those three places?

 

Nope - I've never even been, let alone obtained any specimens, from those three sites... What I meant is (I know, reaally ambitious) discovering a new Cambrian site with Burgess-Shale-type preservation, anywhere in the world 

-Christian

Opalised fossils are the best: a wonderful mix between paleontology and mineralogy!

 

Q. Where do dinosaurs study?

A. At Khaan Academy!...

 

My ResearchGate profile

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At the moment: 

Morania fragmenta.

Ogygiocarella.

Pentamerus.

Wenlock Halysites chain coral.

Parvohallopora.

cystoid.

Ordovician Favosites. 

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13 hours ago, The Amateur Paleontologist said:

Nope - I've never even been, let alone obtained any specimens, from those three sites... What I meant is (I know, reaally ambitious) discovering a new Cambrian site with Burgess-Shale-type preservation, anywhere in the world 

-Christian

Yeah, really ambitious... but that would be a real feather in your cap, I agree. There are others, too, such as Sirius Passet in N. Greenland. The location of that one seems to suggest that they've all been discovered already! Certainly all the easier ones.

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For my bucket list, I'd love to happen upon a new extensive fossil deposit--a veritable lagerstatte--that represented the past life of an as of yet unrepresented time period in our local or continental fossil record. It would be perfect to have a couple new strange and unique species in there.  I'd keep a few specimens, and donate the rest to science/museums....I reckon I can dream on... :)?

 

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