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I have decided to start a thread showing pieces from my collection. I usually post in the "mailbox score" thread, but have found that my additions get lost in the volume of postings in the thread. So my collection will be in my own thread.
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Happy almost Halloween! Show us the scariest thing that has ever happened to one of your fossils or something about fossils that is related to halloween. Mine is this. I'd bought a fake mosasaur jaw but I didn't know it was fake. I'd put it in the sink to clean it off and then the whole thing crumbled. I did get some mosasaur teeth out of it though.
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My album is get. Thanks, Fossildude!!!!
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How would I prepare to go to a creek? Like mostly gear and clothing. Is there anything specific I need to wear if I’m also gonna go in the water?
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Where in California is there a place to go exploring for fossils? I live near Sacramento California.
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Alberta Paleontological Society fossil collection scans!
Joy_Fossils posted a topic in General Fossil Discussion
Hi everyone! My son and I are members of the Alberta Paleontological Society (APS), and my son made a really cool contribution to the APS! Last Decemeber he proposed the idea of making some 3D scans of the APS fossil collection, and recently all of the scans went up on the website! The level of detail in the scans are not good enough for scientific standards, but they are perfect for public education, which is one of the main goals of the society! If you have any free time, check them out! https://albertapaleo.org/resources/fossilcollection -
Singapore Fossil Collectors 2023 End-year gathering!
-Andy- posted a topic in General Fossil Discussion
2012 gathering 2013 gathering 2014 gathering 2015 gathering 2016 gathering 2017 gathering 2018 gathering 2019 gathering Hi everyone, the Singapore Fossils Collector had our annual meet-up again! I last stated in 2019 it'd be the last event at my place due to my new responsibilities with marriage and a new house looming. Little did we know that the biggest hurdle of all would be Covid And so for 4 years, all SG collectors gatherings were suspended. Much has changed. I am now a father, and I just got my own place 4 months ago! With my wife's permission, I finally got to host the annual gathering for Singapore fossil collectors again! This time, we even had friends from Malaysia and Vietnam joining! To be honest, my new place is still messy, and most of the labels have not been printed. Still, I didn't want to delay the gathering to 2024, else we might not get to meet our overseas friends, so I hosted the meet-up First up, a quick look at some of my cabinets: And soon, guests began to pour in: Some good trades going on! Group photos: Some of my acquisitions for the day: (For those wondering, these are mostly a mix of Malaysia and Vietnamese fossils. There are many copal from Malaysia that I did not photograph here) Thank you for viewing, and see you again next year! All in all, everyone seemed to enjoy themselves and form new friendships, so all in all, I'd say it's a success! If any of you are visiting Singapore, don't hesitate to ring me up!
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I was wondering what all your biggest Dinosaur or (marine) reptile teeth look like. As they can vary in size, weight and shape so much. The biggest Dinosaur tooth I own myself is a fully rooted and non restored Spinosaurus Sp. tooth measuring just over 16 centimeters in length!
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Hello! My family and I are making our yearly trip to Bonita Springs for fall break and I have been wanting for YEARS to drive up and hunt Peace River. Does anyone have any good recommendations on sites or guides available? Thank you!!!
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Fossil hunting in Patagonia - recommendations
PrehistoricPerson posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
I’m planning a trip to Chile and Argentina and I’m very keen to try and fit in some dinosaur themed activities while I’m in Patagonia. Other than a couple museums I can’t find much from my research. Does anyone have any recommendations? I would especially like to see an active dig site or go fossil hunting. -
Can anyone give me some top recommendations for fossil hunting tours/companies (mainly but not limited to being near Charleston area)? And Georgia as well? If anyone has beach recommendations - would love those too. Trying to plan a trip and would love some recommendations for the best ranked tours to book and beaches to visit in those states. Thank you 🙏🏼
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New site for me: NY rte 9W opposite Glenerie Falls, NY
Bob Clouser posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
Back in August I spent about an hour at a new site for me: along NY Rte 9W opposite and a little north of Glenerie Falls. Mostly limestone. I think it's mapped as Onondaga but I'm not sure. Early or middle Devonian. Below are some pictures. I was hoping some of the experts could suggest identification for them. Any help is appreciated. Lots of spiriferid brachiopods. Two trilobite pygidia. One I think is Phacops. The other I'm not sure: Dechenella, Dalmanites, or Odontochiles. And a tiny little brachiopod with both valves. Thanks, Bob
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How to store microfossils? Thanks.
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Hello to everybody! I'm kinda new here, but before I start I must say I really love this forum! It has really great vibes and you instantly can tell that this is a good and friendly community! So, I am ziggycardon, I live in Belgium, close to the border of the Netherlands and when we start speaking geologically, I live on the same cretaceous sediments as where the first major Mosasaurus discoveries where done! Unfortunatly I have never been on a fossil hunt myself and everything currently in my collection was bought or given to me. But I hope to change that soon, as I am dying to go hunting myself. Maybe the Chalk sediments 3 km from my home would be a good place to start! For the rest, my job, my major hobby and my other main interest besides fossils are living animals. I currently work as the head of terrarium & aquarium in 3 different pet stores and I have quite a collection of reptiles, amphibians, invertebrates and tropic fish myself. In my spare time I often take my own living animals along with my fossils and other educational natural history material to schools so I can teach kids about nature and it's history and hidden mechanics. For the rest are my other hobbies mainly based around movies and televisions as I collect a lot of stuff drom my favorite franchises like "Lord or the Rings" & "The Hobbit", "Game of Thrones, "Pirates of the Caribbean", ... And I also attent a lot of comic cons and other events related to those franchises. But then this topic! In this topic I will show my collection of fossils (and also minerals, stones and meteorites) as it is right now and then I will highlight each group of fossils bit by bit. I am currently starting with a own specialized fossil room, so ofcourse the progress and end result will also be posted here! And ofcourse when something get's added to my collection, I'll show it here as well. Sometimes a photo of my "special" pets or taxidermy specimens might pop up, but this topic will mainly be about the fossil room and my fossil collection. For the rest, if you have any comments or questions about the collection or about me or about anything, feel free to ask! I'd love to reply!
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My question today is: What do you guys collect precisely? I've been struggling over the years what to collect exactly. As I love dinosaur fossils. And most of the budget and time goes in there. I still want collect some other things, that may look good on display for example. Premium big shark teeth or Mammalian/pleistoceen stuff. It's more fun collecting this way instead of limiting myself. What about you guys and girls? What do you collect. Do you collect a specific thing or just what is nice to look at? Bit of both?
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Found this the other day, looks like a fossill of a claw but not a clue really...? Anyone want to throw in ?
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Ok so once you see it you can unsee it, left and front jaw bones and ear cavitys line up, teeth are crystalized, it looked like a piece of mammoth bone and heavy like a meteorite... I posted it on Reddit and got alot of dumb replies like it's iron ore... So I washed it with a soft bristle brush and teeth showed up, then I saw it, it also has a almost perfect 90 degree angle hacked into it then got it's skull smashed in... If your response is it's a rock then don't respond.. nature does not produce matching features and a 90 degree angle . Last pic shows a vertebrate...
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My collection got quite shaken up. So from here on now I will be posting my updated collection and the additions that will be added in the future. Here is one of my crown jewels, Spinosauridae indet. tooth 6.50 inches Kemkem Basin, Morocco
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Hello to all)) Help me to find name of this) I want to ask to help - to figure out - what is that?) Maybe some one have some ideas? It was found far from people deep in the sand in the Baltic Sea) Some people said it can be fossil skin - but who?))
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I took a little trip up to Eureka Springs Arkansas and figured I'd get a little quick hunting in along the way....because North Texas is, as we say, a "bit of a drive" (which means anywhere from 3-6 hours, with "fairly close" being anything under 3 hours.....). I scouted out a few locations and contacted a friend who gave me a few more locations and it's amazing what you can find in 20 minutes when you are motivated by temperatures around 106 F. It really makes you not want to be out for terribly long. Plus, my husband was waiting patiently in the car with the windows down and I didn't want him to melt. But I stumbled upon a couple of nice patches of Texas Cretaceous that I initially thought were Del Rio/Grayson Formation, but I am now convinced are Duck Creek Formation. The first spot yielded my best preserved (large) ammonite I've collected so far.....most ammonites need some prep work to get the inner whorls clean, but this one came out of the ground...just like this! (The micro ammonites which I usually collect are much cleaner, typically) Cleaned up it looks like THIS. Nice suture patterns visible. I think it is a Mortoniceras nodosa. It's 4 inches. I also found a Mortoniceras cf. ootatoorensis, but it is going to need some prep work. A few feet over was a lovely little Pliotoxaster whitei echinoid. Just a little busted test, but overall, a real beauty. 1 1/4 inch I was very confident that these were Duck Creek formation (what is shown on the Texas Geo Map for this area) but when I checked on another site directly across the road - it seemed to be a VERY different ecosystem....no large ammonites, no heart urchins, but more of the small oysters (Plicatulas) and other fauna that I associate with the Grayson formation, and pretty quickly I found a little Goniophorus echinoid that i KNOW is found in the Del Rio/Grayson formation. But right next to it was a big Bivalve Trigonia that I had not ever seen in the Del Rio! So I was confused. Getting home and looking through the HGMS book, the trigonia is a Scabrotrigonia which indeed, is found in the Duck Creek formation and apparently, to my surprise, so is Goniophorus echinoids! So okay, I'm up Duck Creek WITH a paddle.....metaphorically. LOVE these little Goniophorus scotti Big one is 3/8 inch. The Scabrotrigonia emoryi : 1 inch I also found a very small pyritized ammonite and an even smaller fish vert. But again, it was VERY hot and so that concluded my 20 minutes of fossil hunting! a pretty little Neithea texana So I collected a little bit of matrix from another site a bit off the road and it yielded some very nice little micro finds which helped to confirm my Duck Creek idea with this little Scaphites bosquensis (at least that is what I am fairly positive it is). I also had a chance to stop in at Post Oak Creek, but that will be another post! The weather has turned for the better here and the Austin Paleo Society has their Lake Texoma Field Trip planned for this month, so I may just be making my way back up to North Texas ..... fingers crossed!
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I’m a newbie to this, but am already hooked. These are some of my finds from tonight’s creek trip. My question is how do I know if this is a sweet spot for Megalodon teeth? I’m determined to find one, I’ve been searching in a creek near Summerville, SC. This is only my third trip and am in need of some tips, searching advice, and an answer to my main question. Based off my finds is it possible to find a Megalodon tooth in this location?
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I thought this was Petrified wood, however Ive never seen any petrified wood like this before. I really do not know
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