What fossils should be in every collector’s collection?

[DeepTimeIsotopes]

3 minutes ago, siteseer said:

I remembered looking for a "Xenusion" which was in one of my childhood books but haven't found it or even what it was.  It could be an old name of something from the late Pre-Cambrian.  I assume it's expensive now.

 

That name is being used for an early Cambrian arthropod.

dzik1989.pdf

Known from two specimens from some glacial till in Germany so yeah it’s probably very expensive.

[siteseer]

On 1/28/2019 at 6:28 AM, Kane said:

I'll shoulder the blame for the "turn" in this conversation, but it was not confrontational. To question assumptions (made in language, or otherwise) is simply a potentially healthy expression of exercising our critical faculties, and also potentially generative of discussion.

 

I think you just thought deeply about the original question when many others like me just wanted to start making a list.  People talk to each other with words but also facial expressions and other body language.  Even with emoticons otherwise faceless lines of text can be interpreted away from someone's intention. 

[siteseer]

1 hour ago, UtahFossilHunter said:

That name is being used for an early Cambrian arthropod.

dzik1989.pdf

Known from two specimens from some glacial till in Germany so yeah it’s probably very expensive.

 

Nice. Xenusion would be a good Fossil Forum name but it might have been taken by some other child of the 60's-70's.  Glacial Till sounds like a good name too.

 

Jess

 

 

 

 

[Haravex]

I think something representing every form of extinct life personally I doesn't have to be huge or rare. So for me my main collection focuses around dinosaur and plant fossils, however I have one example of trilobite, one example of an ammonite, coral, braciopod, ice age mammal.

I think with this you get the picture again just my thoughts.

[siteseer]

On 2/1/2019 at 3:40 AM, Haravex said:

I think something representing every form of extinct life personally I doesn't have to be huge or rare. So for me my main collection focuses around dinosaur and plant fossils, however I have one example of trilobite, one example of an ammonite, coral, braciopod, ice age mammal.

I think with this you get the picture again just my thoughts.

 

Hi Haravex,

 

That was my idea back when my whole collection fit in a cigar box.  There used to be a company that made fossil kits with ten fossils in them and they were about $8-10.  There was most of an Elrathia, a gastropod from the Green River Formation, a Venice Beach shark tooth, a piece of petrified wood, with other odds and ends.  They were for sale in just about any rock shop.  I bought one of those and figured out what the interesting yet cheap fossils were and went from there.  I was working in a bookstore at the time, making about $4/hr so the fossils had to be cheap.

 

Jess

[sharkdoctor]

On 1/27/2019 at 8:13 PM, Herb said:

The ones that you collect yourself, in my opinion

I agree, for those of us that live in countries where that is legal  My favorite fossils are always the ones I collect myself.