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Green River Formation Leaf and Insect Fossil Trip
Fossilized Dad posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
Hi All, This past summer, my daughter and I went to a couple of sites in the Green River Formation to look for leaf and insect fossils. Here's a video we made about our trip and findings. We also visited the Field House of Natural History in Vernal and the curator took us on a tour of the collection. cheers, Lloyd- 13 replies
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This past summer, we went to Dinosaur National Monument. I'd highly recommend it to anyone interested in dinosaur fossils and people with kids. It's a great opportunity to see fossil dinosaurs in their natural state and in a quarry, plus other fossils are around too (e.g. mini clams). I know you can't collect there, but it's good to see sites with an abundance of fossils the way they've been for ages. Lloyd
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On our trip out to some Rocky Mountain states this past summer, we found red agatized horn coral in the Uinta-Cache National Forest. Back home, we polished the agate, which is jewelry-grade material and transparent--so real agate, not jasper. Here's the video we created about our trip. Lloyd
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Hi, I have this mystery piece of what appears to be anomalocarid appendage of sorts. The problem is I did not receive any information with it and it came out of an old collection from Maine, Usa. I'm not to sure what else it could be from the appearance but I am also very uncertain of the exact species. The piece of a very laminated sparkly shale If I had to guess it could've came from either Burgess Shale, Utah, or Nevada but I not sure what locality it could be from so if anyone if familiar with these shales and can tell from the preservation it would be a huge help, thank you and looking forward to seeing peoples opinions, and if anyone can recommend an expert to show that would also help.
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I was given the fossil fish below. It didn't come with any details, but this looks like a Green River Formation fish, which means it could be from Colorado, Wyoming, or Utah, right? Any thoughts on genus and possibly species? Thanks!
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Almost complete new Permian tetrapod species may been found in Canyonlands National Park
Creek - Don posted a topic in Fossil News
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a-300-million-year-old-fossil-discovered-in-utah-could-be-a-new-species-180979042/ Nicely preserved specimen. Almost complete. -
An approximately 300 million-year-old fossil skeleton was discovered at Canyonlands National Park in Utah
Oxytropidoceras posted a topic in Fossil News
‘My jaw hit the floor’: Rare skeleton discovered in Utah’s Canyonlands overjoys paleontologists The nearly intact specimen could be from a previously unknown species. By Connor Sanders, The Salt Lake Tribune, November 5, 2021 300 million-year-old fossil skeleton in Utah could be the first of its kind By Sherry Liang, CNN News, November 5, 2021 Petrified Forest Paleontologists likely found a new species in Canyonlands National Park By Joe Giddens, Williams-Grand Canyon News, November 5, 2021 Yours, Paul H.-
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Partial ichthyosaur found by boater at Flaming Gorge National Recreational Area, Utah, Wyoming
Oxytropidoceras posted a topic in Fossil News
Utah man discovers fossilized ‘fish-lizard’ at Flaming Gorge Reservoir By Jordan Miller, Salt Lake Tribune, October 7, 2021, Paleontologists recover rare “Fish-lizard” fossil in Utah By Eliza Craig, KSL News Radio, October 6, 2021 Utah boater finds fossilized 'fish-lizard' at Flaming Gorge By Matthew Sampson, KUTV, October 5, 2021 Some papers: Sprinkel, D.A., Chidsey Jr, T.C. and Anderson, P.B., 2010. Geology of Flaming Gorge National Recreational Area, Utah, Wyoming. Geology of Utah's Parks and Monuments: Utah Geological Association Publication, 28, pp.277-299. More papers, Douglas A Sprinkel, Utah Geological Survey Yours, Paul H.-
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So, I had planned a long trip for this year and built a vehicle for it. However due to some health issues I had to cancel. However I still had the time off from work and the weather here in Omaha was not good for recovery. so I got some help packing up the new to me fossil hunting Jeep and headed west to San Diego. Plenty of time to burn and a vehicle with AC helped, so I took a long and inefficient route to SD where the VA has a better cardiovascular clinic. As I could only drive for a few hours a day and due to heat and wildfire smoke, I took stopped frequently and mostly stayed in hotel. However, it was cooler in the higher altitudes with much lower humidity so… Stopped at Fossil Mountain to camp. Couldn’t do much on the mountain itself where the good stuff is at, but enjoyed a cooler evening and morning. Didn’t get any fossils worth reporting, but was nice spot to relax. From there I stopped at Crystal Peak and scored a few pygs in a wash near the road.
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I had a bit of spare time today so I thought I'd prep a trilobite or two from my trip around the Confusion and House Ranges of Utah. (See trip report here) I had found this guy in someone else's throwaway pile probably after it came out chipped and subsequently scraped. I didn't think it was worth leaving out in the elements so I brought it home. Here's a before picture. After 4 hours of swapping between dental picks, wire brushes, toothpicks, and various Dremel attachments here is my final product. It's not perfect at all but I think it deserves to be admired for a time because it has not been on this earth for over 490 million years just to be chucked aside when it finally reached the surface. I even gave it a polish using a piece of newspaper. I don't think it came out too badly. The scrape is still visible on the thoracic segments but there's not much more I can do for that. What do you guys think?
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Rare Cambrian fossils from Utah reveal unexpected anatomical complexity in early comb jellies
Oxytropidoceras posted a topic in Fossil News
Rare Cambrian fossils from Utah reveal unexpected anatomical complexity in early comb jellies by Harvard University, PhysOrg Prehistoric Comb jelly fossil found in Utah at least 500M years old, researchers say By Carter Williams, KSL.com, Aug. 24, 2021 The open access paper is: Parry, L.A., Lerosey-Aubril, R., Weaver, J.C. and Ortega- Hernández, J., 2021. Cambrian comb jellies from Utah Iilluminate the early evolution of nervous and sensory systems in ctenophores. iScience, no. 102943. Yours Paul H.-
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So, there’s a very bright, yellow-white exposure of a very soft sediment in the Dugway Geode Beds near Site B. I cannot find anything about any fossils from the beds proper. Im guessing these are in the Lake Bonneville Pleistocene era. Have been unable to find any details on these guys and sadly have no clear data on the various members exposed in the area due to the famed geodes. All suggestions welcome!
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I would like to show you all some items I have termed "elongates", so as not to hint as to what they may be. They could be a number of things, but they all form elongated strips. I have grouped them into several different types, based on structure. Interestingly, some of these combine different structures or all of the above, so these may all be the same kind of thing. Some of them extend short, and some of them are very long, taking all kinds of twists and turns. They all show the same structural features whether they are almost microscopic (taken at 250x) or quite visible to the naked eye (taken at 40 or 50x). Each square shown in the scales is 5mm x 5mm. The difference in structural types could be due to weathering down from complex to simple. They could be tracks, feeding tracks or parts of burrows. They could be cruziana, though I have never found anything resembling the "cruziana" I have seen described in numerous illustrations and photos labeled as such. One would think there would be such things in the Wheeler Formation, what with all the trilobites and other fauna there. In the renderings I have seen, cruziana look like TWO of the circular elongates, directly side-by-side, not single strips that I see. First, we have the circular elongates. They look as if something had been feeding in a circular pattern, but all along moving in one direction while doing so. Check out rhizocorallium.
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I saw this potential fossil in the Jurassic age Navajo Sandstone in Zion National Park in Utah. I'm sorry that there is only one picture with no scale. I was hurrying down the precarious Angel's Landing trail with a long line of people behind me, so I only had time for a quick picture. The feature is probably about ~12 inches long, and I believe that it is situated on the plane of a cross-bed in a dune structure (example of the cross-bedded sandstone is also pictured). This feature might just be some sort of iron precipitation, but it looked so similar to an invertebrate trace fossil that I am not sure. Any thoughts on what it could be?
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I picked this little nugget up quite a few years ago, during my early infatuation with coprolites. All I know about it is that it was found near Price, Utah. I have siderite "formations" from around the world. This is the only one I've seen that looks like it has an inclusion (or should I say the cast of an inclusion). There has long been a debate as to whether siderite rocks such as these are coprolites, casts of voids (fecal and otherwise, or iron-rich mud extrusions (what I like to call "Earth poop"). My questions are: 1. Does anyone happen to recognize what formation this might have come from? 2. Does anyone recognize the tubular structures? The only thing that comes to mind for me are worm tubes, but I don't know if there are any marine environments represented near Price, UT. As always, thanks for your help! @Carl
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So I sorta impulse purchased these 4 little vertebrae from a rock shop (they were cheap, and looked like nice teaching specimens). They are from Utah, but have no further provenance than that. I am fully aware that complete identification of them is impossible without locality, but it would be great to even just get them down to a family. And heck if someone might have an idea on what formation they could have come from I'm all ears.
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I have a decent collection of petrified wood I've found here in Utah mainly Triassic Chinle, Jurassic Morrison, and Cretaceous Cedar Mountain Formations. This one has me a little stumped though and I am mainly looking to see if anyone has seen something similar to this. I'm about 80% sure it's jasperized petrified wood. Possibly an old rotting log. This was found near Park City, Utah in Keetley volcanic strata. The locality is not from the ash deposits that produced the nice Silver Creek Junction petrified wood (now extinct under commercial developments) but more likely from the violent lahar deposits that came later. No scraps of petrified wood were found. Just this. More info here. ANCIENT VOLCANOES OF THE CENTRAL WASATCH RANGE
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Here are images of the 6 honeycomb pattern patches found in my Wheeler Formation collection. First image: 1 mm long Second image: 1mm long Third image: 1.5 mm long One image missing - couldn't get to focus. Fourth and Fifth images: 2.5 mm long. These are facing images of each other - original fossilized and impression - same specimen. I tried my very best, but images are still a little fuzzy, despite higher magnification.
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Block sliding, Heart Mountain Detachment, Wyoming High-temperature faulting, Heart Mountain Detachment, Wyoming Steven Losh, Faculty at Minnesota State University, Mankato "3400-square kilometer by 1.5-kilometer thick block of rock slides 45km..." Utah’s Ancient Mega-Landslides by Robert F. Biek, Peter D. Rowley, and David B. Hacker Utah Geological Survey Yours, Paul H
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Eldonia sp. Part and counterpart from the House Range in Utah, the pride and joy of my collection. Just look at that beautiful circular gut!
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Hello all, I was raised in Vernal Utah (dinasaur land) and have been collecting fossils my entire life. My siblings and I would find dinosaur bones across the street from our house and thought everyone had dinosaurs in their yard. Lol. I went to BYU Idaho and majored in Geology. I transferred to Casper College and was studying extractive resource technology and mud logging, but didn't finish due to a realization that fossils are my hobby, not a career choice....and I'm terrible at mathematics. Hahaha I love fossils, gems and minerals and am excited to learn from this group and see some neat finds.
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Hello All! Found a pocket of dino in the Moab area of Utah. I'm confident one is a raptor, but I may be wrong. The other I am not sure about. For reference, they were right around the corner from each other in the same pocket. Just a note - these are WAY off the beaten path in an area very few people would be able to get to. Quite frankly I was surprised to find them in this material as opposed to conglomerate like most of my other finds. Thanks in advance for your help! Raptor (?) - The whole thing was there down to the tail, but I am still working on pulling those pics of my other device. ' Mystery-O-Saurs
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I keep finding partially fossilized or mineralized bones in our yard. We're about two miles from the mouth of Weber canyon Davis County Utah. Found some mineralized snail shells in the same area as the bones. We know that before highway 84 was built, our house would have been on the edge of the river. Any help identifying would be greatly appreciated.
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Hello, I'm from Evergreen Colorado. I found my first triceratops bones when I was 8 years old near Boulder and i've been looking ever since. Now that I have a young son, i'm getting back into the hunt. I'm having harder time finding fossil sites now days compared to when I was younger, seems like everything is private property these days. I'm looking for new places to check out and exciting journeys to take my son on and ways to educate him on our ancient world. I look forward to getting to know everyone here. Thank you!
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