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Thank you for the recommendation.
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White Sands Giant Claret Cup flowers
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Adventures in Balance. A Peace River fossil journal.
digit replied to Balance's topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
Simple. I don't have a smart phone (keeping my dinosaur status alive) and so I don't have to deal with autocorrect on my desktop computer. I can mispel anny woordz I liik! Cheers. -Ken -
Thank you, Dave. I just got the bug this year and am really enjoying it. I mostly walk the old strip mine areas so they done most of the work for me!
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Cretoxyrhina possibly
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is this some kind of stromatolite or other fossil?
Rockwood replied to himmelangst's topic in Fossil ID
Possibly a stromatoporoid. -
Large Turtle Shell Section (Soft Shelled)
Tidgy's Dad commented on Jaybot's gallery image in Member Collections
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Hello and welcome to the Forum from New York! The fern you found is really nice! Looks as though your hike was worth the effort! Dave
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Giant Cambrian trilobite - real or fake?
Tidgy's Dad replied to CuentoDeHadas's topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
I am very glad that you can get a refund on this horrible fake. I don't think any of it is real at all. You can try to get a specimen with positive and negative halves as this reduces the ease of faking them. Cambropallas telesto. We have plenty of Cambrian fossils here, including large trilobites, but as has been mentioned, these are often faked or 'improved' due to their comparative scarcity and the prices that they can fetch.
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Just a rock.
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Not a fossil, still cool though.
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Honestly, they look like broken lemons..beach finds?
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Not a clue, I'm afraid. Oh, wait, I'll instead pretend that I know something and agree with Roger and Tarquin.
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is this some kind of stromatolite or other fossil?
himmelangst replied to himmelangst's topic in Fossil ID
I tried to clean it up a bit and I do see marine fossil looking patterns. It looks a bit like a concretion but also like a fossilized colony with stems poking out or something burrowing in. How could it be both?
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Thank you all!
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Member Of The Month - Time for a change? Please give your opinion.
digit replied to Fossildude19's topic in Member of the Month
Indeed. We do slip in a FOTY poll in the window after the voting for the December FOTM and before FOTM of January the following year. We had some nice winners for 2023: https://www.thefossilforum.com/topic/139022-winner-of-the-2023-vertebrate-fossil-of-the-year/ https://www.thefossilforum.com/topic/139023-winner-of-the-2023-invertebrateplant-fossil-of-the-year/ We rarely give out the Golden Drool Bucket Award when we spot a real drop-dead gorgeous fossil that is eminently drool-worthy. This is not part of any monthly contest but when the staff wish to highlight an important scientific find that is also stunningly beautiful and jaw dropping. Cheers. -Ken -
Hi, I found these teeth a while back and just never could find a solid match, does anyone know the species? They were found on the Kaw river in Kansas. Thank you!
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Hominid fossil found in travertine floor tile during kitchen renovation
Fin Lover replied to Oxytropidoceras's topic in Fossil News
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Saurichthys Triassic China
JBkansas replied to svcgoat's topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
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Saurichthys Triassic China
oilshale replied to svcgoat's topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
Saurichtys minuta Both not perfect, but at least not prepped with a Dremel. -
Saurichthys Triassic China
rocket replied to svcgoat's topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
Real, skull and frontal part of the body could be prepped better. I would assume that some parts of the body are scratched away (acid-prep?) Nevertheless, a good, but not perfect specimen They are not rare and some dealers in Asia sell them. Will be possible to get one at a reasonable price one day I attach a pic, the blue surrounded parts looks like that there is some material missing. Frontal part could be there, but under matrix, the part at the end of the fish seems to be away
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I've had some great hikes this month with such a variety of finds. I walked several miles rock hounding and my legs were tired. I sat down to hydrate and debate if I should continue when I looked down and right in front of me was the cutest little fern. I was lucky enough to find the matching halves in the same spot! Just the energy I needed to keep going!
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I finally convinced my friend Dan to trade an agatized stromatolite from Missouri to me. I had to trade two rare, small, blue stromatolite slabs from Indonesia (See above for examples that I kept). This piece is loaded with interesting banding and other features that are hard to see in detail in the individual face picture, so I took a number of close up pictures going down the stromatolite face in order. Agatized Stromatolite End Cut, Upper Cambrian, Potosi Formation, Barite Mines, Washington County, Missouri (977 grams 6.25x3.25x2.375 inches): Marco Sr.
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Saurichthys Triassic China
JBkansas replied to svcgoat's topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
Looks real to me but I'm better with reptiles of triassic china. There seems to be a lot of variability in the prep and matrix of these. -
Saurichthys Triassic China
svcgoat replied to svcgoat's topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
What does a well prepared one look like? When I look up Saurichthys its hard to find a good example
