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11 hours ago, caldigger said:

Ricardo, I notice you like to display your finds along with your other hobby of vintage tin toys. Sort of a duel show and tell. ;)

Hello, Caldigger

In fact I don´t collect vintage toys… those are just a few from my childhood :)

 

14 hours ago, PaleoNoel said:

Nice find!

 

Thanks. I found a few more. I will clean those on next days.

 

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Very cool pieces! 

I’ll add a little something in myself. Nowhere as nice as the other stuff posted in the topic, but I found it today. I was just walking home from the bus stop, and there was some sand next to one of my neighbor’s house. The sand that’s used as construction helping material in the Netherlands is dredged from the North Sea, which is very rich in fossils (Ice Age mammals & Pleistocene seashells mostly). It was already dark, so I didn’t spend more than a minute looking through the sand, but I almost immediately found this little dude. Not a very rare species, and not a perfect specimen either, but still decent quality and a cool find for one in the middle of the city :P 

 

Mimachlamys varia

Scallop

The Hague, Netherlands

Eem Formation

Eemian, Pleistocene (120’000 y)

Found today :) 

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Max Derème

 

"I feel an echo of the lightning each time I find a fossil. [...] That is why I am a hunter: to feel that bolt of lightning every day."

   - Mary Anning >< Remarkable Creatures, Tracy Chevalier

 

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The best from today in the creek near Summerville .. Holy mother of all that is Unholy the water was cold.  The gods were shining down on me today. This tooth is most likely recently washed into the creek because it isn't completely black.  Best part was it came up as only a partial and missing a cusp/part of the root .. it always seems they are missing a cusp !!! ..

 

ok, so fast forward 15 minutes.  My 1/4" screen saved the day and I found the missing piece.  Huzzah ! A miracle honestly. One of my best from this creek.

 

Angustidens - Oligocene - Chandler Bridge Formation

 

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6 minutes ago, Brett Breakin' Rocks said:

The best from today in the creek near Summerville .. Holy mother of all that is Unholy the water was cold.  The gods were shining down on me today. This tooth is most likely recently washed into the creek because it isn't completely black.  Best part was it came up as only a partial and missing a cusp/part of the root .. it always seems they are missing a cusp !!! ..

 

ok, so fast forward 15 minutes.  My 1/4" screen saved the day and I found the missing piece.  Huzzah ! A miracle honestly. One of my best from this creek.

 

Angustidens - Oligocene - Chandler Bridge Formation

 

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Awesome tooth!

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23 minutes ago, PaleoNoel said:

Awesome tooth!

 

15 minutes ago, caldigger said:

It's always great to find a missing piece. Nice size.

Thanks .... it's always nice when a plan comes together.

 

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2 hours ago, Brett Breakin' Rocks said:

, so fast forward 15 minutes.  My 1/4" screen saved the day and I found the missing piece. 

Always nice to save a good tooth. Good eye too.

 

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Will Rogers said: " Some of them didn't spring far enough."

 

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5 hours ago, Brett Breakin' Rocks said:

it always seems they are missing a cusp !!! ..

 

ok, so fast forward 15 minutes.  My 1/4" screen saved the day

Whoa, there you go. That makes a day!

"Journey through a universe ablaze with changes" Phil Ochs

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12 hours ago, ynot said:

Always nice to save a good tooth. Good eye too.

Thanks. A first for me but it happened where it counts.

8 hours ago, Innocentx said:

Whoa, there you go. That makes a day!

By then I was frozen and ready to go home .... yep, time to go. I'm done.

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Coilopoceras ammonite, Goniopygus echinoid, Puzosia(?) ammonite.  None perfect condition, but fun finds nonetheless.  Big mileage road trip through central and west TX.

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Grüße,

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"To the motivated go the spoils."

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24 minutes ago, Uncle Siphuncle said:

Coilopoceras ammonite, Goniopygus echinoid, Puzosia(?) ammonite.  None perfect condition, but fun finds nonetheless.  Big mileage road trip through central and west TX.

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Woah, pretty finds.

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"We only well see with the heart, the essential is invisible for the eyes."

 

In memory of Doren

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While looking for craby bits i took some blocks and, in one, i found that cute little crab. Alas, a bit of it is missing.

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"On ne voit bien que par le coeur, l'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux." (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)

"We only well see with the heart, the essential is invisible for the eyes."

 

In memory of Doren

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Found this piece of chert with some pygidium (Ameura?). These would be among the last of the trilobites, from Wreford formation, lower Permian, Greenwood County, Ks.

 

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This is from yesterday. A 3x2.5 inch piece of stromatolite from upper Pennsylvanian, in flint cortex.IMG_4695.thumb.jpg.48410134150f952a311daf8195981a86.jpgIMG_4696.thumb.JPG.e3eb6a7471ba3fc5b85552ea54c6ee81.JPGIMG_4697.thumb.JPG.554d02cbebce6bc5ce621887b8cfbec9.JPG

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Nice find! I feel like would see that and struggle to identify it, maybe even pass over it lol.

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Neolobites vibrayeanus d'ORBIGNY 1841, Tentúgal Formation, C level, Upper Cenomanian, Portugal. Collected yesterday.
Those are really rare here.This is the 3rd I found more or less complete and the smaller one.

 

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4 hours ago, ricardo said:

Neolobites vibrayeanus

Fantastic looking fossil with it's raised up sutures.

"Journey through a universe ablaze with changes" Phil Ochs

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Found back in December, but just now cleaned up and split:

Pieces of the coelacanth,  Diplurus newarki, from the Late Jurassic Lockatong Formation in NJ. 

 

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These brachiopods I found yesterday.

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Each dot is 50,000,000 years:

Hadean............Archean..............................Proterozoic.......................................Phanerozoic...........

                                                                                                                    Paleo......Meso....Ceno..

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Doesn't time just fly by?

 

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Each dot is 50,000,000 years:

Hadean............Archean..............................Proterozoic.......................................Phanerozoic...........

                                                                                                                    Paleo......Meso....Ceno..

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Doesn't time just fly by?

 

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And one more from the Manning Canyon Shale in Utah

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Each dot is 50,000,000 years:

Hadean............Archean..............................Proterozoic.......................................Phanerozoic...........

                                                                                                                    Paleo......Meso....Ceno..

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Doesn't time just fly by?

 

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I found this (Red Eagle formation, early Permian) bryozoan which had grown over a brachiopod valve. Things like this make my day!

 

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