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Hello there, Today an ankylosaurid scute was in my mail Information from seller: Euoplocephalos tutus Cretaceous Judith river formation Alberta, Canada One question about this: is Judith River fm the correct name if it is from Alberta? Isn't it Oldman Fm, or Dinosaur Park Fm then (territories of the Judith River group in Canada)? Based on the information I found online.. in these two formations in Canada the following ankylosaurids were found: Oldman fm: Scolosaurus Dinosaur Park fm: Anodontosaurus, Dyoplosaurus, Edmontonia, Euoplocephalus, Panoplosaurus, Platypelta, Scolosaurus I will ask the seller again for the exact location but I also wanted to ask some experts here.. Thank you in advance. Best regards Max

Hello everyone, This summer, I’ve begun volunteering at the MNCPPC Dinosaur Park in Laurel, MD. It’s somewhere I’ve known about and visited since I was a kid, and it feels great to be a part of the park now that I’m older. For now, I planned to help out this summer as I go back to college in late August, but I’m really enjoying it so I do hope to return on breaks and after I graduate. This park is an early-Cretaceous oxbow lake deposit and is the best source of early-Cretaceous fossils on the east coast. I’ll let you do your research if you’re interested, I don’t want to go on too long. But in essence, the volunteers at the park help the public when they come on the first and third Saturdays of the month to freely surface collect (their finds are kept with the park and catalogued) to help the scientific process. We have some other duties too, but otherwise, we get to fossil hunt for several hours! It really is a dream-job for me. I’ve had this dream of finding dinosaurs close to home since being a kid, and now I get to actually live that dream. I thought I’d start this thread to show what I find over the course of this summer, and hopefully the years to come of volunteering here. I’ll start small, I’ve only volunteered for two Saturdays at the park so far, so my finds will mostly be indeterminate bone fragments, but eventually I’ll probably dial down the small stuff in the hopes I train my eye more and find better specimens. I’ll also potentially post other finds from nearby Potomac Group exposures, and I’ll give background info on all of the posts. I’m so excited to be able to post about Cretaceous fossils, so bear with me! Feel free to offer opinions and IDs, and feel free to ask me questions about what I’m doing and I’ll do my best to answer them. And if you volunteer at the park and are on the forum, please let me know!

Looking for help on identifying these three claws. The two on the left are from the scollard formation, and the one on the right is from the Dinosaur Park formation.

I will warn you all now that this is a photo heavy post, especially for The Mammoth Site. I wanted anyone to see everything that I was able to since they might not get there on their own. I'll start with The Mammoth Site in Hot Springs, South Dakota. It's still an active paleontological site that was first discovered in 1974 while building for a housing development. The story of how the site came to be can be found on mammothsite.org. Please forgive my succinct description, my family has been driving around for several days and we're tired. I'm happy to try to answer any questions though! More photos to come.

Found lots of new fossils this weekend, mostly hadrosaur material & another tyrannosaur tooth but these two I’m not sure about. They were collected from the Dinosaur Park formation, on private land northwest of the park. Hoping some of you could help. The fossil orange in colour only sparked interest because of the strange texture on one side, and the white bone I realize will be hard to tell what animal it’s from but if I could at least know what type of bone that one is it would be helpful. Thanks in advance.

I wanted to try some new spots that are closer to home, so a family here was nice enough to take me out to their land near Dinosaur Provincial Park and allow me to surface collect. I only kept two things (wasted a good portion of the day searching for tyrannosaur teeth to no avail) but I did find some neat stuff so I thought I’d share. Please excuse the circling and the caption, those were for Instagram. Nice & green this time of year. Won’t look like that for long. Heres something I found a few times today; random pits of petrified wood just shattered. Here’s a good 10 inch chunk that I kept. More petrified wood. Dino bones. Most of them were broken and difficult to tell what they were, as the dinosaur park area bones usually are. Please excuse the circling. It was for Instagram. This was the largest bone I seen today, was over 2 feet long most likely but it was at an awkward place so I didn’t climb any higher to get close. Excuse the caption. This one was fairly large as well. This one I kept because it was one of the only good condition bones that wouldn’t require excavation. Hadrosaur toe bone. (thanks jpc for the help)

Found on flat ground by itself in Dinosaur Park, southern Alberta. Approximately 5 cm long, 3 wide, and 1.5 thick. I’m really curious as to what this one is. Ask if you need more details