If you Could Fossil hunt Anywhere

[Archie]

In the past, say fifty years ago before all my local quarries had mature woodlands growing on them!

[Peace river rat]

In the peace river at very low water around 1900.

[Tidgy's Dad]

51 minutes ago, Peace river rat said:

In the peace river at very low water around 1900.

Or in the Peace River with no water in it?

We are dreaming. 

[Missourian]

8 hours ago, Archie said:

In the past, say fifty years ago before all my local quarries had mature woodlands growing on them!

 

That reminds me.... Pennsylvanian of Missouri when coal strip mines were active ~50-100 years ago. There were Mazon-like concretions at at least one locale.

[jcbshark]

Any phosphate mine in bone valley or the Carolinas would suite me just fine

[caldigger]

9 hours ago, oldtimer said:

If I could hunt anywhere I think it would be Dinosaur National Park.  I would stay long enough to dig out a large Dino that is mostly complete.

I would bring all the tools necessary as well as a few friends to help dig and load into my big truck to haul the booty home.

OK, heres what you do.  Drive right up to the science museum dig, (they'll have all the tools you will need).  You just tell them Doren sent ya. Soon there will be a nice police escort coming along to take you to the best spots.

Have fun and don't forget to take lots of pictures!

[Peace river rat]

On ‎12‎/‎19‎/‎2017 at 2:35 PM, Tidgy's Dad said:

Or in the Peace River with no water in it?

We are dreaming. 

But I need some water to get the sand out of my scooper. A ft and a half would do fine!

[erose]

Olduvai, Turkana, Afar...

[Kane]

By some dint of miracle or engineering, being able to excavate at the bottom of any ocean (minus the water).

[KimTexan]

On 3/31/2017 at 6:33 PM, Fruitbat said:

If I had to pick ONE dream scenario...it would have to be the opportunity to have free rein in the Eocene/Oligocene badlands of the Dakotas, Nebraska and Wyoming for a couple of decades.

 

-Joe

I’m not familiar with what is found in those areas. I guess you get a lot of the bison and other mammals. When I think of those areas I think of places like Hell Creek or stuff in the Lance Formation, but that’s Cretaceous.

My mentor from my university days has spent every June for close to 2 decades in the Lance Formation in Wyoming. The university I went to now has a dinosaur museum. It’s about an hour south of Dallas. I keep meaning to make a trip down there.

Here is the URL in case you’d be interested in visiting it sometime. It might be a good DPS field trip to see. I think they have collected around 19,000 specimens from the dig sites. I’ve been out there twice and was considering going next June.

https://www.swau.edu/dinosaurmuseum

[KimTexan]

I never hear anyone talk about Patagonia on here or fossils from there. I’m curious as to why that is. I guess they don’t let fossils leave the country. I would want to go to Patagonia to explore the fossil beds. I think plant fossils would be my first pick. The other stuff too. I’d like to see the Titan or his brother excavated. 

Since we are dreaming I’d backpack my way around and have pack llamas or mules or whatever they have there to carry my gear and fossil finds. I’ve been in the Andean and it was llamas, alpacas and vacunyas. Then after a couple weeks we would be picked up by a helicopter. 

For a more realistic trip I’d like to go to Wyoming for a couple weeks. I’d prefer ammonites and baculites, but I’d love to find a T-Rex tooth or claw. I’ve dug up T-Rex and Edmontosaurus bones before, been there done that, but I didn’t get to take anything home. Not that I’d want a femur or anything like that. They’re too huge. A tooth or claw would be fine.

[Nimravis]

16 minutes ago, KimTexan said:

I never hear anyone talk about Patagonia on here or fossils from there. I’m curious as to why that is. I guess they don’t let fossils leave the country. I would want to go to Patagonia to explore the fossil beds. I think plant fossils would be my first pick. The other stuff too. I’d like to see the Titan or his brother excavated. 

Since we are dreaming I’d backpack my way around and have pack llamas or mules or whatever they have there to carry my gear and fossil finds. I’ve been in the Andean and it was llamas, alpacas and vacunyas. Then after a couple weeks we would be picked up by a helicopter. 

For a more realistic trip I’d like to go to Wyoming for a couple weeks. I’d prefer ammonites and baculites, but I’d love to find a T-Rex tooth or claw. I’ve dug up T-Rex and Edmontosaurus bones before, been there done that, but I didn’t get to take anything home. Not that I’d want a femur or anything like that. They’re too huge. A tooth or claw would be fine.

Here is my favorite piece from Patagonia, a beautiful wind/sand polish limb. And Kim, it is not backpacking when you use llamas or alpacas- that is just hiking. 

 

[Bobby Rico]

I would probably go with @Tidgy's Dad to the  Burgess Shale and find myself a   Anomalocaris canadensis and a couple of Hallucigenia sparsa . That be a good days hunting. 

 

Cheers Bobby 

[Tidgy's Dad]

1 hour ago, Bobby Rico said:

I would probably go with @Tidgy's Dad to the  Burgess Shale and find myself a   Anomalocaris canadensis and a couple of Hallucigenia sparsa . That be a good days hunting. 

 

Cheers Bobby 

That'd be fun! 

You and me, Bobby, sharing the spoils! 

[MeargleSchmeargl]

On 3/31/2017 at 2:02 PM, MatthewS.Paleofan said:

So If you could Fossil hunt anywhere in the world. Where would you go, how long would you be there and what tools would you bring to help? 

 

I would Like to go to a lovely Clear stream in One of Florida's forests. I have always wanted to Scuba dive there and look for the many fossils that lye under the waters surface.  

 

What I would like to Look for are the fossils of Mastodons and Titanis walleri along with any species of Alligators that may have lived there during the Pleistocene era.

 

Not only that but to also look at the current Wild life, You know it is awe Inspiring to think, this is one of the few places in America you will find a hold over from an ancient time, the mighty American Alligator. 

 

I think their presents within the water has scared a few people off from looking on the floor of the body's of water. It's almost somewhat Ironic that people go looking for fossils, some of which are from giant predators but can be scared off by an Alligator. 

 

But where do you want to fossil hunt? 

If I could completely and totally have my way, I'd be scouring the Burgess Shale of British Columbia for those sweet, exquisitely preserved inverts. Not to mention that my Hammer and chisel would probably find new species that nobody else had ever laid eyes on. If I could hunt there, I'd die a happy man.

 

 

[Missourian]

On 3/31/2017 at 1:02 PM, MatthewS.Paleofan said:

I think their presents within the water has scared a few people off from looking on the floor of the body's of water. It's almost somewhat Ironic that people go looking for fossils, some of which are from giant predators but can be scared off by an Alligator.

 

The Cretaceous chalk is fascinating for fossil hunting, but a Cretaceous ocean would be an extraordinarily scary place for swimming. It would make our current oceans -- and Florida streams -- seem like a Sunday picnic.

[KimTexan]

23 hours ago, Nimravis said:

Here is my favorite piece from Patagonia, a beautiful wind/sand polish limb. And Kim, it is not backpacking when you use llamas or alpacas- that is just hiking. 

 

Wow, it looks like modern wood. It is beautiful! What kind it it? 

Hey, it’s a llama back that is packing (giggle)

I’m thinking of carry my own pack until I get to loading up on fossils, but then again I don’t want to carry the tent and all the digging gear and stuff I’ll need for the 2 weeks. I’m a wimp. I’m not sure I could carry more than 40 pounds that long everyday.