If You Could Have Permission To Collect For 1 Day From Any Site/formation In The World...

[DinoMike]

If you were given permission for 1 day to collect & keep any fossils you found from ANY locality in the world... where would you go?

I'd head to Bavaria & do some searching through Solnhofen limestones.

[Troodon]

I would head to the Burgess Shale and pick up as many specimens as humanly possible. Wishful thinking.

[Auspex]

Walcott Quarry, with the Ediacara Hills as a backup plan.

[FossilDAWG]

Another one for the Burgess shale, either the Walcott quarry or possibly one of the more recently discovered sites such as the Collins quarry (home of Sanctacaris).

Don

[ZiggieCie]

I'm in the Burgess shale group outing. Next are the lagerstatten areas of China. BUT I have always loved the La Brea tar pit's.

[digit]

Put me in the Burgess camp as well--it's the stuff of legends.

Cheers.

-Ken

[Adron]

I would head to Chile or Bakersfield for shark teeth, I guess .

[Coelacanth]

1) Walcott Quarry

2) Ediacara Hills

3) Emu Bay Shale

4) Chengjiang

Edited July 3, 2015 by Coelacanth

[Raggedy Man]

Like Auspex and Coelacanth, the Walcott-Rust quarry would have to be my first choice...

Nice question to pose here as I've never given it much thought.

Best regards,

Paul

[FossilDAWG]

The Walcott-Rust quarry is a prolific source of trilobites in the Ordovician near Trenton Falls, NY. It's different from the Walcott quarry, which is in the Cambrian Burgess Shale on Mt. Field in British Columbia. Walcott certainly got around a lot, especially for the times when travel by train was the fastest option available.

Don

[Mediospirifer]

Count me in for Burgess Shale, too. With La Brea for a backup.

We can dream, can't we?

[Otodusobliquus]

I think I would choose lee creek phosphate mine or Bakersfield California.

[JimB88]

Escuminac in Quebec

[Fossil Claw]

la brea tar pits. I am partial to mammals. I hunt Ordovician sea bed fossils because that's what is around me.

Back up. Green River 18 inch layer.

[cynroux]

My world is so small. There are still places along the Chesapeake and Potomac I long to get to.

[Uncle Siphuncle]

If you were given permission for 1 day to collect & keep any fossils you found from ANY locality in the world... where would you go?

I'd head to Bavaria & do some searching through Solnhofen limestones.

I was able to collect 2 Solnhofen quarries in 2011...good times!

[JUAN EMMANUEL]

No one has mentioned the Ordovician Fezouata of Morocco so I'll say I'd like to pay a homage to that.

[DinoMike]

I was able to collect 2 Solnhofen quarries in 2011...good times!

Uncle, yer KILLIN' me here! I do so hope you have photos of the finds!

[Uncle Siphuncle]

Yeah my wife and I got brittlestars, floating crinoids, a plant and a few small fish...sadly, no Archaeopteryx.

Edited July 6, 2015 by Uncle Siphuncle

[Malcolmt]

Would have to be the new Burgess site followed by a day with Bob Carroll at Black Cat.

[Auspex]

If the window of opportunity were at least a week (instead of one day), the Beaufort Group of the Karoo Supergroup would be my destination. This simply cannot be done in a day!

[Coco]

There are so many places where I would like to go that my answer is this one : I would want to go wherever in the USA with Uncle Siphuncle and his wife to eat snake, to sleep under stars, to discover wild places and to live as a real adventurer during two days (to be able to camp) !

Coco

[Velociraptor99]

Any place with velociraptor teeth. The real question is, are there any?? If not, back ups are Penn Dixie in NY and the Smoky Hill Chalk in Kansas.

[jcbshark]

I would love La Brea but would settle for any mine in the bone valley region so long as it was where they're digging and not stuff that has went thru the slurry pipes It can be pretty depressing thinking about all the gorgeous pieces that came out perfect but get all banged up on the way to the plant

[frankh8147]

A lot of places come to mind but I don't want to 'cheat' on New Jersey, so I will go with the Ellisdale formation.