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Harry Pristis

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I was too lazy to take new pictures and seperate the makos into PCS pics. But I bet you can guess which ones are from this place? :D

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The soul of a Fossil Hunter is one that is seeking, always.

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Here's how to find a 5" meg in Phosphate pit

Walk around until you see point sticking out of the reclamation land

dig around carefully down side until it falls out

Take it out and wash off carefully

:)See that is real simple !

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Here's how to find a 5" meg in Phosphate pit

Walk around until you see point sticking out of the reclamation land

dig around carefully down side until it falls out

Take it out and wash off carefully

:)See that is real simple !

That's what I'm doing wrong! I've been leaving out the second part of step one!

Thanks for the "tip"; you make a good "point" about the "root" of the problem. :P

"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!

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Guest Smilodon

my favorite phosphate mine "fossil" made out of raw fossil coral - talk about your heartbreaker! I'd like to think I would have found it if I had gone right instead of left.

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Here's how to find a 5" meg in Phosphate pit

Walk around until you see point sticking out of the reclamation land

dig around carefully down side until it falls out

Take it out and wash off carefully

:)See that is real simple !

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Is there a horse tooth below the 1st pic? or is it just me.

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I like crinoids......

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Mine...

Sabre-tooth Herring fish backbone vertebrae section in sandy matrix. From the Phosphate beds at Benguerir, Marrakech, Morocco, North Africa. Matrix is 10cm long.

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Here's some classics from the phosphates of Bartow, Florida; once famous for some outrageously colored shark teeth.

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Be true to the reality you create.

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Since some of the older photo links are broken, I figured I'd add some of my stuff to the thread.

Bone Valley Megalodons (& 1 possible Mako) from a post-processing spoil pile in a closed Fort Meade, FL mine.

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Phosphatized baculite & gastropod from the North Sulphur River, TX.

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Here's some fossils. Squalicorax Kaupi and Squalicorax Pristodontus. Phosphate deposits from Morocco.20170106_215213.jpg20170106_215232.jpg

 

"Without fossils, no one would have ever dreamed that there were successive epochs in the formation of the earth" - Georges Cuvier

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