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Hello everyone. Been a while since I've been back on....life amiright!? Anyways coming back on the hunt with 2 kids now plus myself. Got some sites up my sleeve to pay a visit and re-visit. Lot of posts to go thru to look at others collections. Again...hello
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I was given these many years ago by a relative so i unfortunately dont have the location they were found but there is a good chance it was in Australia. I'm hoping someone can help me ID just what is i them. I've put my thoughts for each here under the image names. Fossil 1: Some sort of brachiopod? Fossil Imprints 2: I know its leaves so im just wondering if anyone knows what species they came from? Fossil 3: Possibly some sort of shell? Fossil 4: Incredibly light weight and almost feels chalky. Never been sure whether the fossil in the stone is a plant like some sort of fern or fishbones? Fossil Imprint 5: Obviously a shell. Imprint from an Ammonite or some other shelled creature? Fossil Imprints 6: This is in a big chunk of rock that also features leaf imprints. Same type of stome as Fossil Imprints 2 and from the same location I'd assume. Is this fish skin or something else?
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I was fortunate enough to be able to visit Morocco last year in May and tour the wonderful geology of the country. This will be a very short recap of the experience because frankly there are just too many things to share. For starters, the culture is fantastic. Morocco consists primarily of the Berber people and they are some of the friendliest people I've encountered. Very welcoming and ready to share some tea with you. Tea is by far the most common thing you will drink in country. I'm quite certain there were days that I had tea at least 8 separate times, and the tea was fantastic. If you've never had Moroccan tea then you are missing out (the mint tea in particular is wonderful). The cuisine is beyond amazing, and there honestly wasn't anything in country that I didn't like. Trying to replicate some of the foods has been a challenge (my tagine is getting close), but I suppose that just means I'll need to return some day. The country is also very safe throughout. As a solo female traveler, I felt comfortable at all times and was not concerned. However you should know that few people speak English. The most common languages people know are Arabic, French, and Berber, so there was some language barrier but as with most things, it was doable. My arrival to Morocco began in Marrakech where I was met by my guide who drove me out of the city, through the Tizi n'Tichka mountain pass at 2200m in elevation. Eventually we made our way to Tamdahkte and I stayed at a wonderful riad that was (as I would come to find out) quite open air just as most riads and buildings are in Morocco. On the way we stopped at a salt mine and walked through.
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Not sure what I have here. Any ideas?
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A trip to The Beneski Museum of Natural History Part-2
veenasaur posted a topic in A Trip to the Museum
I'm back with Part-2. I am adding the fossil specimens that weren't included in the last post. I will try my best to arrange all the specimens in the order of their origin just to make this post a little interesting. Feel free to point out if I make any mistakes. Let's start with Cambrian.. Ordovician period Silurian Period Devonian period Mississippian Period Pennsylvanian Period Well I have hit the post picture limit again. So I will continue in the comments of this post..thumb.JPG.d661d6486e15d2fac31047a3ed49b7b4.JPG)
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Hello everyone! Especially the experienced trilobite collector I need some reccomendations for my trilobite collection, kinda like what trilobite i should get and some demanding trilobite i should know and have in my collection.
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Where would i buy fossils in Australia, money is not a concern but i'm just curious where i would be best off searching. Hayden
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https://astrobiology.com/2024/02/470-million-year-old-fossil-site-from-earths-lower-ordovician-period-uncovered-in-france.html
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Hello Everyone.. New Member From San Bernardino CA
HideousCorrectness posted a topic in Member Introductions
Hello! My name is Elaine Scott. I am a new member to the forum. Exploring the mountains in the high desert and rock/fossil hunting is a hobby of mine. I have a small collection of interesting items. Some of which I will ask for help identifying, I look forward to feedback! I see there's soo much content to explore on this site I'm pretty sure I'll spend the next several hours (and many more in days to come) scrolling through it all. I hope everyone has a great day! -
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New here, love fossils. My collection in attached images. Coral and others I can not identify. Beautiful pieces.
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Hi, I´m living in Germany and I love fossils since I´m a little boy. Me and my brother grew up in an old coal mining area in West Germany and would found fossilized plants and ferns behind our garden.
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A trip to The Beneski Museum of Natural History Part-1
veenasaur posted a topic in A Trip to the Museum
The glorious warm weather we encountered this Saturday prompted us to go check out Doane falls in Royalston, MA. After spending a couple of hours hiking along the beautiful waterfalls, we decided to pay a visit to one of our favorite museums in Amherst. Located on the campus of Amherst College is the Beneski Museum of Natural History which houses an extensive collection of Edward Hitchcock's “Dinosaur tracks from the Connecticut river valley” and a large collection of fossils from mammoths to ammonites to rocks. The admission is free of cost. The museum has 3 floors and is accessible. Even though it's not too big. It has a nice variety of specimens. Words are not enough to describe the museum so I took some pictures of everything that caught my eye. Hope you enjoy the pictures. Please forgive me for any glare that you see in the pictures. Let’s start with Dinosaurs, Mammoths and skeletons of other species. This is the specimen of a Moose like creature. The specimen on top is a Mammoth and the one on the bottom is the ancestor of present day bears. The specimen on top is a Colombian Wooly Mammoth,the one on the bottom right is a saber-toothed cat and the one on the left is an ancestor of modern day wolves and dogs. Forgive me for not including the scientific names. Closeup of the relative of modern day wolves and dogs. A collection of mammals from ancestors of rhinos,cows to camels. Let's move on to a bit older and bigger beasts and everyone's favorite Dinosaurs. A plaster cast of a T-Rex skull and a dinosaur nest. Now moving onto the much awaited Dinosaur tracks... Here's a link to the playlist which has an audio and video tour of some of the dinosaur trackways and things like fossilized rain droplets and water ripples. Audio/Video Tour Here’s a link to the PDF Version if someone wants to read. This post has already become a bit too heavy to edit. So keep an eye out for Part-2. Hope you enjoyed my post so far.
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It was too cool and windy, for 2 hours of walking and looking for surface finds in a great wide open area 2-4-24; but I guess I heard that old siren's call again?
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I want to share this amazing experience. This was in San Sebastián, Puerto Rico. The Gozalandia waterfall is one of the most beautiful spots in the island, and because of this, it is a tourist attraction. I always fossil hunted near but I never went to this specific waterfall. I live close by so I went to take a simple dip but I absolutely could not hold back the urge to fossil hunt as soon as I got here. It is absolutely beautiful! After going down the wooden stairs, I immediately started checking out the rock beds. There's even a cave under the waterfall! After just 30 minutes of checking the stones, I found a beautifully preserved echinolampas. This formation is known to preserve fossils from the oligocene and paleogene period according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fossiliferous_stratigraphic_units_in_the_Caribbean#Puerto_Rico and San Sebastián has been my favorite spot to fossil hunt. I always find many beautifully preserved specimens.
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Pics from Tucson-show: is someone doing this year?
rocket posted a topic in General Fossil Discussion
As I am tooooooooooooooooooo far away to visit myself this year, but love to see how it is going, is someone doing some pics from the show? The last years Troodon did, this year someone else has to fit the gap thanks -
Can anyone identify what these might be? The 1st one is 1 of hundreds found identical to it but of different sizes. There seems to be serrated teeth like a very fine saw blade on the edges of the spike shaped rock.. They are all exactly the same. And the other 1 looks like the head of like a turtle or something. You can actually see a tongue inside the mouth. It looks like it suffered an injury & its head was smashed in . Looks to have skin on the outside & a bone inside the neck. Also teeth inside the mouth. Its for sure some kind of creature. Just don't know what. Thanks in advance.
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I have been collecting rocks for a few years. I mostly just have them in bins but sometimes I look through just to see what I have. I have so many that I would like your feedback on what you think I have. I only posted a few pictures but trust me when I say they don't even begin to cover the amount I have
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It is From the lower jurassic And it comes From Luxemburg
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I've wanted to make a video about some of the jobs in paleo for a while now. I was lucky enough to interview 12 professionals from across New Zealand, Australia, the United States and UK about how they got started in their roles. I tried to have a mix of different roles but I have only scratched the surface! I would love to hear about other potential careers I could highlight! Edit: Here are the links to the different segments in the video: 01:10 Sophie Kelly (just completed masters) 04:54 George Young (just completed masters) 06:56 Adele Pentland (PhD candidate) 17:02 Felix Marx (Curator vertebrates) 22:23 Alan Tennyson (Curator vertebrates) 27:06 Cheng-Hsiu Tsai (Associate professor) 32:18 Andrew Cuff (Postdoc researcher) 37:52 Nic Rawlence (Associate professor) 44:54 Carl Mehling (Senior museum specialist) 57:08 Mary Chitjian (Archeologist) 01:04:27 Keely Sweeny (Fossil prepper & business owner) 01:09:57 Al Mannering (Fossil prepper)
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Recently, I found many fossilized bones, including a lower jaw, buried in clay next to a riverbank in Greece. I surfed the internet to get more information about that place and discovered it was very close to another site on the same river where Miocene bones were found (about 50 species, mainly mammals). I cleaned the jaw bone and then noticed that the teeth were missing, and I couldn't identify whether it was a carnivore or a herbivore. I would appreciate it if anyone could recognize any characteristics and maybe find what animal it belonged to. (In the known locality there were found rhinoceros, apes, turtles, hyenas, gazelles, lions, saber-toothed cats, other felines, various species of giraffes, bovines, bears, deer, horses, boars, primitive elephants and chalicotheres)
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Found on the beach in my hometown (Charleston, SC) a few months ago-
DoubleD843 posted a topic in Fossil ID
Upon first glance I was thinking potentially trilobite related, however trilobite’s caudal region typically tapers down/smaller. Secondly- I noticed that the gray striations area of the fossil seemed to have once been completely intact circumferentially around the black porous portion. Needless to say- I am stumped!
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For those of you in the Chicago area, ESCONI (Earth Science Club of Northern Illinois) is having their annual show March 16-17 this year. More details on their website: ESCONI 2024 Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show! March 16th and 17th, 2024 #gem #mineral #fossil #show #2024 #fossils #minerals #gems - Earth Science Club of Northern Illinois - ESCONI
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Myliobatis Latidens(?); Eagle Ray- tooth plate? **bonus points** anyone able to ID the rock/mineral as well??
DoubleD843 posted a topic in Fossil ID
Initial thoughts after doing quite a bit of research- Eagle Ray tooth plate. Not 100% sure on this. As far as the specific rock/mineral containing the fossil….perhaps rose quartz? Totally a shot in the dark here. Would appreciate any feedback!
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