fossilized6s Posted March 16, 2014 Share Posted March 16, 2014 (edited) I was just pondering what is still on my bucket list as far as fossil hunting goes and I've got quite a few! What are some of yours? And my list keeps growing thanks to the awesome finds of fellow TFF members. 1. Giant Ground Sloth claw 2. Giant Ground Sloth tooth 3. Mastodon tooth 4. Pine Cone 5. PNW Crab- SOON TO BE PREPPED (thanx Scott) 6. Dino anything 7. Complete skull of anything 8. Large complete Megalodon tooth 9. Amber or Copal with inclusion 10. Large and lumpy piece of Coprolite, inclusions would be nice!- FOUND 11. Sand Dollar- FOUND 12. Complete Trilobite 13. Eagle Claw 14. Green River Fish 15. Mazon Fern - FOUND 16. Mazon Shrimp - FOUND 17. Mazon Horseshoe Crab 18. Mazon Insect 19. Tully Monster - FOUND 90-95% complete! 20. Mazon Worm (any kind) - FOUND 21. Mazon Fish (any kind) - FOUND 22. Mazon Giant Millipede Edited September 15, 2014 by fossilized6s ~Charlie~ "There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why.....i dream of things that never were, and ask why not?" ~RFK ->Get your Mosasaur print ->How to spot a fake Trilobite ->How to identify a CONCRETION from a DINOSAUR EGG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Siphuncle Posted March 16, 2014 Share Posted March 16, 2014 fossiling europe again. Grüße, Daniel A. Wöhr aus Südtexas "To the motivated go the spoils." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DE&i Posted March 16, 2014 Share Posted March 16, 2014 fossiling europe again. Are you planning to come over anytime soon. Regards, Darren. Regards.....D&E&i The only certainty with fossil hunting is the uncertainty. https://lnk.bio/Darren.Withers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scylla Posted March 16, 2014 Share Posted March 16, 2014 One each of every trilobite species. A big perfect Meg tooth. One each of every dinosaur. You get the idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrangellian Posted March 16, 2014 Share Posted March 16, 2014 Fun topic. Do you mean being able to hunt for oneself or anything including buying/trading? In the former category I'd like to (but don't ever expect to get the opportunity to) hunt some of the US southwest sites incl. Utah for trilos and those amazing Jacksboro-type sites in Texas, but I have some sites here on the Island that I have yet to check out, which I won't mention until after I've done them. Latter category, I'd like to get more Precambrian anything (stromatolites to Ediacarans) if possible, and lower Cambrian. I also would like to acquire some (better) examples of Paleozoic classes like Edrioasteroids, Cystoids, etc. and a later Paleozoic trilo or two, esp. Permian. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrangellian Posted March 16, 2014 Share Posted March 16, 2014 One each of every trilobite species. A big perfect Meg tooth. One each of every dinosaur. You get the idea. So in other words it never ends? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paleoworld-101 Posted March 16, 2014 Share Posted March 16, 2014 Top of my list: More vertebrate fossils (dino, mammal, croc, turtle, marine reptile bones) from England. Also really want to find any vertebrate stuff from around Sydney but that likely won't happen. Oh and a nice complete Dicroidium fern frond "In Africa, one can't help becoming caught up in the spine-chilling excitement of the hunt. Perhaps, it has something to do with a memory of a time gone by, when we were the prey, and our nights were filled with darkness..." -Eternal Enemies: Lions And Hyenas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fossilized6s Posted March 16, 2014 Author Share Posted March 16, 2014 Fun topic. Do you mean being able to hunt for oneself or anything including buying/trading? Anything. One can dream! Good stuff guys! I know fossil hunting is a life long obsession (at least that's my plan) but it's a bucket list, so list your dreams. ~Charlie~ "There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why.....i dream of things that never were, and ask why not?" ~RFK ->Get your Mosasaur print ->How to spot a fake Trilobite ->How to identify a CONCRETION from a DINOSAUR EGG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Missourian Posted March 16, 2014 Share Posted March 16, 2014 (edited) 1. Any fossil genus from my collecting area that is not yet represented in my collection.2. A perfect, laid-out Ameura trilobite from my area.3. A whole eurpyterid from a certain local site that produced a partial one. 4. Any part of a tetrapod in my area. 5. A complete Arthropleura.6. A professionally prepared and mounted T. rex.7. Archaeopteryx, Berlin specimen. 8. To collect Cambrian trilobites in Utah. Pay-dig is ok. 9. To collect from the Green River Fm. Pay-dig ok here too. 10. To collect eurypterids in New York or Ontario. 11. To collect and prepare silicified fossils from the Permian Glass Mountains of Texas.12. More sponges! I already have way too many, but I keep collecting them. I just brought a handful home today....13. Heck, any decent fossil that turns up will do. I'll just keep them in buckets.14. Get a bunch of decent boxes so I don't have to keep my fossils in buckets.Well, maybe just some on the list. But still, I'm sure I'm forgetting a few.... Edited March 16, 2014 by Missourian Context is critical. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taj Posted March 16, 2014 Share Posted March 16, 2014 Fossiling Morocco again ( before junior major stops showibg any interest). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Siphuncle Posted March 16, 2014 Share Posted March 16, 2014 Are you planning to come over anytime soon. Regards, Darren. i'm always threatening to, but timing is really dictated by mrs. woehr's work schedule. so many countries to collect/collect again. in the meantime i've done some great trades for echinoids (echinocorys, conulus, hemipneustes, clypeus, clypeaster etc) and bought a few things too. i love your english ammonites in solid pyrite. would be a blast to find a decent ichthyosaur vert too. as someone who thrives on variety of venues, fauna, and modes of preservation, europe presents a welcome change from texas. Grüße, Daniel A. Wöhr aus Südtexas "To the motivated go the spoils." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CH4ShotCaller Posted March 16, 2014 Share Posted March 16, 2014 Collecting amber on the Baltic sea, collecting fossils on Crete, fish fossils in Wyoming, finding a new species of PNW crab, a big piece of amber from Washington with inclusions. Hitting the lottery! Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. -Albert Einstein Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scylla Posted March 16, 2014 Share Posted March 16, 2014 So in other words it never ends? I knew you were smart! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koss1959 Posted March 16, 2014 Share Posted March 16, 2014 A Tyrannosaurus Rex tooth. Have to go abroad to find one. How rare are they? An Icthyosaur rostrum. Completely reasonable, very rare, but realistic if I put the time in. A complete ammonite over 10 inches. Rare, but realistic. A Plesiosaur tooth. Rare, but not unrealistic. A Scelidosaurus bone. Very, very rare. All these, 'cept the T Rex tooth, I can find on a single beach. Just need some rough weather. Etsy shop for Dinosaur Art: https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/IzzyBeeCreates?ref=seller-platform-mcnav Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DE&i Posted March 16, 2014 Share Posted March 16, 2014 i'm always threatening to, but timing is really dictated by mrs. woehr's work schedule. so many countries to collect/collect again. in the meantime i've done some great trades for echinoids (echinocorys, conulus, hemipneustes, clypeus, clypeaster etc) and bought a few things too. i love your english ammonites in solid pyrite. would be a blast to find a decent ichthyosaur vert too. as someone who thrives on variety of venues, fauna, and modes of preservation, europe presents a welcome change from texas. Well if your in the vicinity of my neck of the woods if you make it on your travels. Give my a call ill see if can get you on one of our Oxford Clay field trips. Regards, Darren. Regards.....D&E&i The only certainty with fossil hunting is the uncertainty. https://lnk.bio/Darren.Withers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Siphuncle Posted March 16, 2014 Share Posted March 16, 2014 Much obliged, Darren. I'd be happy to help you pinpoint some quality fossils if you make it to Texas as well. Grüße, Daniel A. Wöhr aus Südtexas "To the motivated go the spoils." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DE&i Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 (edited) Much obliged, Darren. I'd be happy to help you pinpoint some quality fossils if you make it to Texas as well. I've always said never say never to a gas guzzling road trip to America. My wife asks can we hire one of those Winnebago's. Edited March 17, 2014 by DarrenElliot Regards.....D&E&i The only certainty with fossil hunting is the uncertainty. https://lnk.bio/Darren.Withers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikecable Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 More time with my grand-kids doing science. More time in the field. More time with my scopes. Learn how to properly prep. I want to see and feel the heat of lava. Go some place far afield like Morocco. Time on a deep ocean core sampling expedition. Antarctica or Greenland. A true room of my own--plumbed and wired and ventilated, with lots of storage. A century plus old Greenough stereo scope, black enamel and brass, with wooden case. More classic literature/maps in first or early editions. Discover a new species of something totally irrelevant to most of humanity and name it after my father. Write a book about my obsessions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikecable Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 Not likely to happen, but I want to collect on Mars or the moon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bev Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 I would like to find anything ice age mammoth here in southeast Minnesota - we do have them. I would like to find a nice Isotelus trilobite laid out and in fair condition that I could get out - "Stucky" is just plain stuck in that rock where I found him. Perhaps this spring I will go and get a cast of him. I would love to hunt anywhere out West and find anything - even "chunk-o-saurus". :-) Wrangellian, I didn't know you were looking for Stromolites. I don't even bother to pick them up since I have one very nice one. Next time I find a nice one I will collect it and notify you. Hopefully it won't be too large like that Fisherite. And I would like to find one Am. Indian artifact. I know, not a fossil, but it is on my bucket list when out fossil hunting. The more I learn, I realize the less I know. BluffCountryFossils.NET Fossil Adventure Blog Go to my Gallery for images of Fossil Jewelry, Sculpture & Crafts Pinned Posts: Beginner's Guide to Fossil Hunting * Geologic Formation Maps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimB88 Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 lets see: 1. Ive already found my first complete trilo, but more would be nice. 2. to collect in sediments of an age I havnt collected in before (Ive only collected Ordovician, Mississippian and Pennsylvanian.) 3. to meet with and collect with some of my FF buddies 4. to add to my Miss. shark tooth collection by finding some genus I havn't already found or a nice big cladodus! 5. finding the remains of other kinds of fish or tetrapods from the Mississippian. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DE&i Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 I've yet to find a Hibolithes hastata belemnite. GEOLOGIC AGE: Middle Jurassic. 160 million years old. STRATIGRAPHIC DETAIL: Lower Oxford Clay. Callovian Stage. I know they are there i just cant seem to nail one. Regards, Darren. Regards.....D&E&i The only certainty with fossil hunting is the uncertainty. https://lnk.bio/Darren.Withers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fossilized6s Posted March 17, 2014 Author Share Posted March 17, 2014 Not likely to happen, but I want to collect on Mars or the moon. I always wanted a moon rock! I do have a HUGE meteorite though (70lbs+) Good stuff guys! We even have Bev trying to help others with their bucket lists! Nice! ~Charlie~ "There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why.....i dream of things that never were, and ask why not?" ~RFK ->Get your Mosasaur print ->How to spot a fake Trilobite ->How to identify a CONCRETION from a DINOSAUR EGG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tooth_claw Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 More Palorchestes (any species) - complete skeleton please! Decent remains of Varanus (Megalania) prisca - to solve the size debate once and for all. Any extinct megafaunal marsupial with preserved pouch young - the only way to determine gender in marsupials. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordTrilobite Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 Not in any particular order. - A nice Eurypterid - The remaining bones for my Woolly Rhino (Coelodonta antiquitatis) skeleton composite and a frame to mount it on. - Any Cave Hyaena bone - Lots more mosasaur material. From as many different species as possible. - Lots more dinosaur material. Mainly Theropods and Hadrosaurs. - Archaeopteryx replica, Berlin or Eichstat specimen. - A meg tooth. - A large mounted dinosaur. - And if it's not to much trouble, my own museum Olof Moleman AKA Lord Trilobite Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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