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Hello. I have been given some things by the land my family has lived on for over a century. I appreciate any information. I found it in Graves County Kentucky. Someone said they had seen an embryo petrified? I'm not sure what so yeah. Thanks so much
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Check out my free exhibit i put together with river legacy nature center in Arlington Texas if your local or in town. there a lot of good trails to hike in the Trinity river forest and bottom lands. I loaned some of my collection all that were found by me and my kids over the years to go along with there summer camp classes of 2nd graders that is centered around extinct mammals etc. here are the display cases I put together with staff. will be on display till end of summer.
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Hi, I'm looking forward to learning from everyone here, as I am green and ignorant. I've spent time hunting arrowheads and artifacts since I was young, learned from the best in Utah. I spend a ton of time researching areas to hunt which are not already listed on 10K sites and have been somewhat successful. I pulled my head out last year and realized fossils, in many instances, fossils are located within or close to the artifact areas. I started adding this to my research and on my first fossils only trip last week, I think I did well. After I post in the ID forum, I will hopefully confirm it. I look forward to learning from anyone on this site willing to depart with their knowledge. If anyone is interested in is Native American artifacts, I would be happy to pass along what I have learned. Thanks!
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Been at it for about a year now and I try to hit the creeks at least twice/month if I can help it. The "loose" pics are either newer finds that haven't made their way into the display yet, or finds that have their own display. Most of these were rescued from the Gainesville area. Some are from the Peace River & Joshua Creek, as well as Manasota, Caspersen, Venice & Fort Clinch beaches. I was also lucky enough to discover a previously unknown spot VERY close to home, while scouting one day! Dr. Hulbert (w/ UF) confirmed it is a new spot, but was reluctant to check it out as none of my initial finds were extinct species... I have since found horse teeth at that location and can't wait for water levels to go back down!!! Hoping to add a few new species to my collection on my upcoming trip to GMR & one of the Summerville creeks (not sure which one yet but would love to find my first Angi & GW)... the GW in my pics was actually found by my Grandfather in Panama in the 70s! Thanks for looking : )
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Please forgive my ignorance with this, my degree is in Wildlife Biology and I was a collision investigator for the state for 21 years. I believe there are carvings and silhouettes of faces, profiles, and possibly letters from an unidentified language. Or I just possess an over-active imagination. These are only a few of at least 50 busts, profiles, and other carvings
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A weekend of adventures in my neck of the woods (1/16/2022)
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I have been experiencing the most unusual predicament for over a month now - I've been finding more artifacts than I have my target fossils. I happen to live in one of the most prolific areas in the U.S. for impressive paleoindian and other native artifacts, and while I certainly have an appreciation for these, it's like "giving pearls to swine" - since my first interest right now is firmly cretaceous vertebrates. However, I am still regularly blown away by some of these artifacts, even though I don't know much about them. So, purists be warned! This trip report is yet another one where artifacts are a regular feature -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- While some people my age use social media to doom scroll or burn time, I use it to fuel unrealistic day dreams of huge Cretoxyrhina teeth. A north texas fossil hunter I follow on Instagram recently posted a broken 2.5" Cretoxyrhina tooth they found, and I couldn't stop thinking about it. Furthermore, while stuck at home with a cold I caught from the impulsive, freezing creek stomping excursion I took recently, I organized part of my collection and realized that ALL of the 5 non-ptychodus shark teeth I've found at my local Eagle Ford outcrop are Cretoxyrhina mantelli - even my biggest, which I assumed from one glance in the field to be a broken Scapanorynchus raphiodon, due to the super curved root. With my largest tooth being just 1.1 inches (albeit with a broken tip), I figured I could only go up from there. So, Saturday afternoon, after a morning spent rock climbing with a friend, I swung by my new local spot. I found one, tiny beat up blade walking up, not id'able to any species. At my turn around point though, I looked down and saw this: Here it is in hand: Again - I don't know anything about points, but I think this Atlatl point is a "Bulverde", and so 3,500-5,000 years old. More experienced locals like @JohnJ might think differently though. Twenty minutes after seeing this, I hopped to a bank and froze dead in my tracks - sticking out of the side of the bank, I saw THIS: ...and a closer insitu below: After taking a descriptive video of the area, so that I can be sure I won't forget, and inspecting the immediate surrounding for the usual evidence of a camp (charcoal, snail shells, flint flakes, bone, other points, etc..) I gently used my pick to pry it loose. Strangely enough, the exposed portion was the part in the best shape. I suspect it's also a Bulverde While I was very pleased an impressed with these, I still walked home without my target. The interesting consolation prizes made it well worth the effort though. Fast forward a day (to today). My older step brother, Christian, has recently picked up an interest in flint knapping, and he's become very good at it in this short time. It stems from his interests in the local artifacts we've found, and while he's not of the personality to specialize, his focus right now is understanding the local archaeology. We decided then, to kill three birds with one stone today by a trip to my usual middle campanian stomping grounds a little further south today. This creek in particular is probably better known for points, but it has great cretaceous exposures, satisfying both our interests. Thirdly, it has nodules of quality flint, to be collected for flint knapping. The plan was to shoot relatively quickly to a massively tall cretaceous exposure that seems to yield everything except cretaceous fossils. In the creek below this exposure, I usually see artifacts and Bison teeth. For example, it was right here that my friend who I was introducing to hunting found that large "Friday Bi-face". It was slow business on the way up. Most of the way up, we saw several sets of footprints ahead of us, and by their movement pattern, it seemed they were hunters. However, when sitting down, I by complete luck noticed a great, thin point next to my backpack: (EDIT: I believe this is a "Hoxie" point, and therefore my oldest artifact find. A google search revealed that it would be between 6,000 and 8,500 years old) 20 minutes after this find, we finally made it to the huge exposure. Maybe it's from child hood habits of growing up together, but we were both hit with an impulse to climb to the top. Perhaps it would not be so impressive in a purely aesthetic sense, but the fossil hunter in me thought it was the most beautiful thing I've ever seen. (Backpack on left shoreline for size reference) From up high, we noticed that some parts of this exposure may be just protruding enough to stand on. What a difficult adventure that ended up being... We carefully descended to the upper third of the exposure, looking at yellow layers, that, much to our surprise, ended up being cretaceous - I'd always assumed that the grey shale at the bottom was the extent of the cretaceous strata on this cliff, and that the yellow strata above it was Pleistocene or Holocene. It was still super difficult keeping our feet even in the more "stable" parts. The ground was soft, steep, and easily collapsed. It felt awesome balancing on that stuff while scanning side of the cliff for marine fossils though. (Christian, below, on a more stable patch) (pointing to the patch we stayed on) We were mostly messing around here until Christian yelled "tooth!". I almost became past tense from moving way too quickly on that soft soil to get to him, but when I finally made it over, I saw perhaps the best Squalicorax tooth I've ever seen. We spent the rest of our time there - half trying not to teeter over, half looking for fossils, and Christian noticed another small Scapanorynchus blade. The irony that I was the only one finding projectile points while he was the only one finding fossils was immense. Squalicorax, not quite insitu- it was shifted a millimetre or two here. The finds were small but the day wasn't - I'm glad I had the opportunity to see this old spot from another angle-
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I have been experiencing the most unusual predicament for over a month now - I've been finding more artifacts than I have my target fossils. I happen to live in one of the most prolific areas in the U.S. for impressive paleoindian and other native artifacts, and while I certainly have an appreciation for these, it's like "giving pearls to swine" - since my first interest right now is firmly cretaceous vertebrates. However, I am still regularly blown away by some of these artifacts, even though I don't know much about them. So, purists be warned! This trip report is yet another one where artifacts are a regular feature -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- While some people my age use social media to doom scroll or burn time, I use it to fuel unrealistic day dreams of huge Cretoxyrhina teeth. A north texas fossil hunter I follow on Instagram recently posted a broken 2.5" Cretoxyrhina tooth they found, and I couldn't stop thinking about it. Furthermore, while stuck at home with a cold I caught from the impulsive, freezing creek stomping excursion I took recently, I organized part of my collection and realized that ALL of the 5 non-ptychodus shark teeth I've found at my local Eagle Ford outcrop are Cretoxyrhina mantelli - even my biggest, which I assumed from one glance in the field to be a broken Scapanorynchus raphiodon, due to the super curved root. With my largest tooth being just 1.1 inches (albeit with a broken tip), I figured I could only go up from there. So, Saturday afternoon, after a morning spent rock climbing with a friend, I swung by my new local spot. I found one, tiny beat up blade walking up, not id'able to any species. At my turn around point though, I looked down and saw this: Here it is in hand: Again - I don't know anything about points, but I think this Atlatl point is a "Bulverde", and so 3,500-5,000 years old. More experienced locals like @JohnJ might think differently though. Twenty minutes after seeing this, I hopped to a bank and froze dead in my tracks - sticking out of the side of the bank, I saw THIS: ...and a closer insitu below: After taking a descriptive video of the area, so that I can be sure I won't forget, and inspecting the immediate surrounding for the usual evidence of a camp (charcoal, snail shells, flint flakes, bone, other points, etc..) I gently used my pick to pry it loose. Strangely enough, the exposed portion was the part in the best shape. I suspect it's also a Bulverde While I was very pleased an impressed with these, I still walked home without my target. The interesting consolation prizes made it well worth the effort though. Fast forward a day (to today). My older step brother, Christian, has recently picked up an interest in flint knapping, and he's become very good at it in this short time. It stems from his interests in the local artifacts we've found, and while he's not of the personality to specialize, his focus right now is understanding the local archaeology. We decided then, to kill three birds with one stone today by a trip to my usual middle campanian stomping grounds a little further south today. This creek in particular is probably better known for points, but it has great cretaceous exposures, satisfying both our interests. Thirdly, it has nodules of quality flint, to be collected for flint knapping. The plan was to shoot relatively quickly to a massively tall cretaceous exposure that seems to yield everything except cretaceous fossils. In the creek below this exposure, I usually see artifacts and Bison teeth. For example, it was right here that my friend who I was introducing to hunting found that large "Friday Bi-face". It was slow business on the way up. Most of the way up, we saw several sets of footprints ahead of us, and by their movement pattern, it seemed they were hunters. However, when sitting down, I by complete luck noticed a great, thin point next to my backpack: (EDIT: I believe this is a "Hoxie" point, and therefore my oldest artifact find. A google search revealed that it would be between 6,000 and 8,500 years old) 20 minutes after this find, we finally made it to the huge exposure. Maybe it's from child hood habits of growing up together, but we were both hit with an impulse to climb to the top. Perhaps it would not be so impressive in a purely aesthetic sense, but the fossil hunter in me thought it was the most beautiful thing I've ever seen. (Backpack on left shoreline for size reference) From up high, we noticed that some parts of this exposure may be just protruding enough to stand on. What a difficult adventure that ended up being... We carefully descended to the upper third of the exposure, looking at yellow layers, that, much to our surprise, ended up being cretaceous - I'd always assumed that the grey shale at the bottom was the extent of the cretaceous strata on this cliff, and that the yellow strata above it was Pleistocene or Holocene. It was still super difficult keeping our feet even in the more "stable" parts. The ground was soft, steep, and easily collapsed. It felt awesome balancing on that stuff while scanning side of the cliff for marine fossils though. (Christian, below, on a more stable patch) (pointing to the patch we stayed on) We were mostly messing around here until Christian yelled "tooth!". I almost became past tense from moving way too quickly on that soft soil to get to him, but when I finally made it over, I saw perhaps the best Squalicorax tooth I've ever seen. We spent the rest of our time there - half trying not to teeter over, half looking for fossils, and Christian noticed another small Scapanorynchus blade. The irony that I was the only one finding projectile points while he was the only one finding fossils was immense. Squalicorax, not quite insitu- it was shifted a millimetre or two here. The finds were small but the day wasn't - I'm glad I had the opportunity to see this old spot from another angle
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I recently took two of my friends out fossil hunting, both for the first time. We've actually found a cool fossil together before, a large partial from the ammonite Oxytropidoceras (by complete chance, we were just creek stomping for fun that evening), but this is the first time they've ever been fossil hunting with intent. It took about 30 minutes to get warmed up and start finding things - Annika was the first to see something, a point in this instance. My knowledge of points is significantly lacking, since they aren't my immediate interest, but I suspect its probably a Darl. Our next find was a bison metatarsal, sitting plainly on the bank - I'm glad, because a metatarsal is literally the only bone where I can differentiate between bison and cow. A few feet away sat a vertebra, and I think it can be same to guess that they're associated, despite the fact that they sat in flood gravel. This whole time, I was leading them to get to an enormous cretaceous exposure, one that I've mentioned before in a trip report. Right before rounding the corner to get there, Siri, Annika's sister, found this bizarre bone covered in pyrite - it's currently in the Fossil ID section. We got to the exposure, which, I should mention, is far away into the middle of nowhere (or about as close as you can get to the middle of nowhere in central texas), plopped down on the bank, and made some hot cocoa with a little butane burner. Sitting among that beautiful geology, far away from anything while having a hot drink with old friends.... that's what it's about. Finishing our hot cocoa, we got up to poke around a little more before heading back. Annika found another bison tooth, and I should mention that despite the enormous, conspicuous late cretaceous shale exposure, I usually find Pleistocene and Holocene stuff here. I then heard Siri casually say "oh, that's cool", from the little gravel island she was looking at in the middle of creek. I looked over and almost collapsed -in her hand was the largest artifact I've ever seen, later ID'd as a Friday Biface, and between the ages of 1,500 and 4,000 years old. This, I should remind you, is the first artifact she's ever found. Here it is in my hand: It was a crazy day with great finds, needless to say.
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I recently took two of my friends out fossil hunting, both for the first time. We've actually found a cool fossil together before, a large partial from the ammonite Oxytropidoceras (by complete chance, we were just creek stomping for fun that evening), but this is the first time they've ever been fossil hunting with intent. It took about 30 minutes to get warmed up and start finding things - Annika was the first to see something, a point in this instance. My knowledge of points is significantly lacking, since they aren't my immediate interest, but I suspect its probably a Darl. Our next find was a bison metatarsal, sitting plainly on the bank - I'm glad, because a metatarsal is literally the only bone where I can differentiate between bison and cow. A few feet away sat a vertebra, and I think it can be same to guess that they're associated, despite the fact that they sat in flood gravel. This whole time, I was leading them to get to an enormous cretaceous exposure, one that I've mentioned before in a trip report. Right before rounding the corner to get there, Siri, Annika's sister, found this bizarre bone covered in pyrite - it's currently in the Fossil ID section. We got to the exposure, which, I should mention, is far away into the middle of nowhere (or about as close as you can get to the middle of nowhere in central texas), plopped down on the bank, and made some hot cocoa with a little butane burner. Sitting among that beautiful geology, far away from anything while having a hot drink with old friends.... that's what it's about. Finishing our hot cocoa, we got up to poke around a little more before heading back. Annika found another bison tooth, and I should mention that despite the enormous, conspicuous late cretaceous shale exposure, I usually find Pleistocene and Holocene stuff here. I then heard Siri casually say "oh, that's cool", from the little gravel island she was looking at in the middle of creek. I looked over and almost collapsed -in her hand was the largest artifact I've ever seen, later ID'd as a Friday Biface, and between the ages of 1,500 and 4,000 years old. This, I should remind you, is the first artifact she's ever found. Here it is in my hand: It was a crazy day with great finds, needless to say.
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While I haven't made a trip report in a while, I certainly have been hunting a lot: As I get better at it, I've become more selective about what trips warrant getting posted, but this weekend was worth it even though none of the finds were truly spectacular (to most people, I have a different opinion ) Saturday was spent exploring the Ozan (and possibly Dessau) formations. Like usual, I did far more exploring than actual searching, but I did start off with a nice Scapanorynchus rear tooth, plucked from a gentle current. From here, the cretaceous finds stagnated. After coming across a bison tooth (a constant in this creek), I was stopped dead in my tracks with a large projectile point sitting plainly on the surface. The ID on this one ended up being a "Nolan", dating between 4,000-6,000 years old. Unlike most points, Nolans can be attributed to a culture- the Clear Fork culture. Within 10 minutes, maybe 8 feet away in the same gravel bank, I then saw this: After removing it, I had to take a moment to recover: I'm brand new in my journey in learning about artifacts, so all I knew in the moment was that this was intricate, large, and much different from anything I've found before. Turns out it's a "Castroville", aged between 2,500-3,000 years old. Here are three artifacts from that day. I should mention after that exciting 10 minutes I got practically skunked of both fossils and points for another 2.5 hours before heading home. Funny it always happens that way Today found me in a different part of town - this time exploring a walk upstream of my usual Eagle Ford spot. While I couldn't find the source exposure (darn erosion control wall..), I did find several extremely fossiliferous slabs. It seems like someone came through and beat me to it, getting nerve-wrackingly close to my usual spot. They did miss quite a bit though, and in between the smashed slabs I found dozens of shark teeth - too many to collect, especially as most were very small / broken. Some highlights: A long tooth of some sort next to a Squalicorax tooth. I'm very much looking forward to prepping this and seeing what it is. Also, here's a shark tooth root poking out- I'm optimistic, as I find very few teeth in central texas that aren't small - this would be a decent size for the area. I'll update this when I finish that prep And lastly, a sight that I didn't think I'd encounter soon - a Ptychodus in solid limestone of all places:
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I had a great half day at the North Sulphur River Texas before the rain got me. I found a mix of everything to include artifacts, Xiphactinus vert, swordfish tooth, coprolite, turtle shell, partially rooted mosasaur tooth, killer mosasaur paddle bone, Enchodus jaws, shark teeth and old toys. My buddy racked up on mosasaur verts.
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After taking a little time off from hunting due to a new job and holidays I decided to hit the North Sulphur River with a friend. We had a great day. I love the Tylosaur scapula with shark bites. We found a large Xiphactinus washing out and ended up with one left maxilla and three verts from it. We will go back and check that area again.
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good morning all a recent post of mine and then the response of 2 members concerned keeping (or not) of found modern bone. which got me wondering - WHAT DO YOU FOLKS COLLECT OR KEEP? (not exactly sure what the difference is). For me, collecting in Cretaceous Big Brook, fossil shark or other teeth are my main finds and hence my main collection. But i collect, or at least keep pretty much anything i find that i like so i also keep belemnite, fossil shells, modern bone, interesting stones and artifacts ranging from pottery shards to glass bottles (and even odd stuff like shell casings). (I even have a glass vase full of translucent rocks). What do you collect or keep?
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Thanks for letting me join...looking forward to learning a lot of new things.
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Aloha, here is the best of my collection. Since I moved together with my girlfriend, only the small and nice samples are on display, one showcase out of three. Looking forward to the day when we will have some more space. So it is a crowded mix of fossils, minerals, recent beachfinds and mosty selfmade or altered skeleton models. Sadly, only a small percentage of my fossils is selffound, although nearly all of the beach stuff is. There is the "poultry showcase", dedicated to Birds and pterosaurs (Parrot skull is a replica of course, as is the Pterosaur plate regrettably) The big showcase is a composite image because I could not get all into one foto. The whales you may know from the Palaeorecreation thread. Best Regards, J
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Hello from Tennessee. My name is Julie. I've been collecting fossils for 10 years or so along with artifacts. I have to identify several fossils. I have several that are a mystery to me. It's time to head out with my buckets and tools soon. I'm eager to learn more about what I've found.