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Hi all, I am going to be in the Tucson area for 10 days soon. Is there anything to collect in that area (say 120 mi radius). I have never been to AZ. If you have some collecting information to share please PM me. Thanks a lot. Herb
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[videos & photos] My collection of fake fossils
adriano posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
Hello everyone, I'm an Italian amateur collector with a small but nice collection of fossils and minerals that I started when I was 5yo in 1995. Then at 15yo I put apart my passion until few days ago when, using my 3D printer, I made some nice modular drawer to reorder in my collection of +-1000 pieces. I will finish the project in the next weeks and I will share it with you, as it can be of inspiration for your collection as well. Doing this hard work, I looked with a more mature point of view some big fossils that my parents and friends (not experts!) gave me as present many years ago. I already noticed that some are painted or assembled, but I would like to hear your opinion about them. #1 Let's start with a good one. This was a present from my mom, so I know she spent not few moneys to buy this fossil fish. I think that it 99% real. My only concern is the right side/section of the matrix that has a change in color (you can see it in the video). Maybe just a not-too-bad restoration... I drew circles around fishes with the pencil when I was a child... I should delete them! #2 Now a bad one... In this example I noticed that maybe the fish body is real (but low quality), it is mounted on a new matrix, and fins are painted... Am I right? #3 Another bad one... This ammonoidea seems painted. The matrix has some fossil shells, it is cracked and repaired (you can see the crack in the video, back side). I'm wondering if it is totally fake/sculpted or only painted. What do you think? #4 The last assembled fossil fish. This one is funny! Sedimentary layers are not parallel with the fossil... Overall I think that the body is real but bad preserved and with some painting. What do you think? #5 This was one of the first fossils of my collection. I personally bought it in Morocco in 1995. I think that this is a real one, joint is perfect. Agree with me? #6 Finally, the last piece: a cambropallas trilobite. About this one, I know that it was bought in a good shop and I think it is not too bad. I'm not sure about the matrix (see the back side), but the main body seems real. It, of course, has some restorations. I'm looking to hear from you. Final thoughts... I'm considering giving away false ones, in particular #2, #3 and #4. But it is also nice to have them to show how fossils are faked/retouched - I think they're part of the amateur paleontology history. I hope you appreciate the photos/videos I took to show some of my fossils. Thanks in advance and best regards! -
Nice to meet everyone. I hail from MS and travel all over the US. My hobby is to dig and surface collect fossils, gems, crystals, rocks, etc.
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Possibility of Getting Abelisauridae Fossils
JurassicParkCarnotaurus posted a topic in Questions & Answers
My favorite dinosaur is the Carnotaurus (hence the name) and I would love to have a fossil of one but I am aware that they are nearly impossible to come by. I was wondering if any of it’s relatives fossils are more common or easier to obtain. Thanks in advance!- 17 replies
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Mobile (Alabama) Police Seek Owner of Briefcase Filled with Fossils
Oxytropidoceras posted a topic in Fossil News
Mobile Police seeking owner of briefcase filled with fossils Yellowhammer News, Mobile, Alabama, August 23, 2018 https://yellowhammernews.com/mobile-police-seeking-owner-of-briefcase-filled-with-fossils/ Yours, Paul H. -
We took the family over to Ireland this past week. Sadly no time for fossil hunting expeditions. But that doesn't mean I wasn't scoping out areas. While fossil hunting doesn't appear to be popular in Ireland you could tell there's plenty of potential. Especially for marine fossils. Over at Rope Bridge near Giants Causeway in the North you could see shells embedded in the cliff face (100' above the beach). In the Aillwee cave by the Cliffs of Moher there was evidence of more shells and other marine life. I would have loved to have been able to get on the beach below some of these cliff faces and do some exploring. A local shop has these small samples. Nothing great but always like to pick up local stuff.
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While fossil hunting at the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains in North Carolina, I came across this interesting looking (possible) fossil. Two of the pictures are similar, and the last picture is a side view of the rock that it's on. Sorry, that seems to be about the most clarity and zoom that I can get. Any thoughts or help would be greatly appreciated. Joe Thanks in advance Joe
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Good morning! Found this fairly pronounced coral on a jog this morning. I'll never know really where it came from since central Indiana is not known for any level of fossils due to glaciers but I'm assuming this was transported from southern Indiana or Ohio. It matches a coral from the Ordovician period timeline.... I just can't nail down what kind. I'm for sure going to leave it in the stone. I think it looks pretty sweet with how it is housed. .... my wife hates how whenever I come home from anywhere I have a new find.
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Hey all! Just an FYI that sifting does not only apply to beach front fossil hunting. Outside of pulling rock from the ground, one great way to find smaller fossils is digging up a bucket worth of dirt at a good dig site and sifting through the debris. I dig for and collect Ordovician fossils, so I will not only excavate land for fossilized fossil plates but I will sift through the loose dirt for corals, trilobites, smaller shells, rogose...etc...
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Galerie de Paléontologie et d’Anatomie comparée (Paleontology and comparative Anatomy Gallery)
FossilsAnonymous posted a topic in A Trip to the Museum
This was a really cool museum. I especially liked their selection of fish and marine reptiles. They also sported a largely complete tyrannosaurus skeleton, an Ammonite five feet tall and four feet wide, and a large completely intact mammoth. Pelagosaurus Typus A Mary Anning Icthyosaur (Two more were present) Plesiosaur Eryops A large fish (One of the Many on display) A perfectly preserved Crinoid The nicest ammonite (My opinion) Perfect spiral pattern And much more that we didn't get photos of........
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This was the first plate I actually discovered from my dig site two years ago. Recently, I brought it back out of storage for review. The dry view or the wet view is pretty neat. Let me know your thoughts.
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Found this that I believe is a cephalopod today at a devonian spot with imported material, I haven't seen a cephalopod with a bulbed tip before so I am not sure if it's some sort of pathology of a species or it's own species.
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I washed up another plate from my dig site in southern Ohio and found two extremely visible trilobites encased. Upon closer review I found nine other smaller trilobites within the plates in varying positions. Along with some smaller impressions. Plate is 25 cm in length and 14.5 cm wide. I'm not sure abrasion is the way to get them out or just leaving them in there is a better way to appreciate the awesomeness. I've never found this many in one sampling. This is the fourth time I've found them at a certain segment of my site. I have one whole one as well that was loose in the soil. I tested the CLR on another plate with nothing but Bryzoa and Brachiopods and as long as the exposure was time controlled I was able to breakdown much of the matrix to and then use abrasion to remove much of the rock.... I'm a little skeptical to do that with this set of fossils. Thoughts?! I get jazzed when I find Trilobites.
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More Moroccan ID Listing Help
Masp posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
Some more Moroccan fossil listings. Wondering if any are worth looking into. Trying to properly ID. #1 Partial unidentified dino limb bone or Croc?
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Fossil Forum Family, Soon I’ll be making a trip over to southern Italy (in the Apulia and then Sicily Catania area) . Don’t know what my trip will consist of because I’m always all over the place when I’m there...but in the event I have some time to kill, does anybody have any suggestions for any cool dino activities, like must see footprints, fossils, museums, etc? I was thinking of making a trip to Altamura, where I hear that there are many dinosaur tracks to see. I may also make a trip over to Naples. I hear it has a cool dino museum there. Lastly, anyone know of any cool areas for fossil hunting/collecting ? (Namely Mesozoic fossils) Thanks everyone
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Hi, I'll be visiting the Buxton area of Derbyshire and hope to find some fossils. I've read that Halldale Quarry and Butts Quarry are good sites. Are these sites still accessible and is collecting allowed? Thanks for any info.
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Hi all! My name's Emma and I'm brand new to fossil hunting. I came across the site while trying to find out any information i could on fossils and what to keep an eye out for and on where to even start on prepping. It all began last year when me and my partner when on a break in Torquay and a visit to the quarry at Berry Head in Brixham... Which led to us stopping at Lyme Regis on the way home where we picked up a few nodules and concretions.. a year down the line and another visit to Lyme I've started my first prep work on a gryphaea (I think) that we collected last year. I've learnt a fair amount from the site so far and really looking forward to learning more as time goes on. If anyone has any tips or pointers I'm open to all the help I can get. photo of first prep
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Hello! I happened across your site while searching for more information about fossils. I live in Florida but often visit relatives in Missouri. I've always liked to collect rocks that seemed interesting, but this year I brought home some neat fossils (maybe.) I look forward to posting in the ID forum to get some of your ideas.
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when i was in miami during the summer i went to this mall in palm beach where they had this museum that has dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals but they are some fossils in there that i dont know what they are so i wanted them to have IDed.
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Hello all, I am new to fossil hunting. I found these on my in-laws ranch in Montana. They are still in place and exposed to weather. Is there any way to find out what they are from? They are definately bone fossils. What part of an animal would have a thin area of bone surrounded by thick bones? The center area are very thin bones and the perimeter is much thicker bone. Thanks, Joe
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Since was a child I have looked for a nice and comfortable way to display my fossils. Finally, I have found the solution! I have bought an old typographic furniture and I have restored it.
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Wow. I recently got back from a trip to visit some family in Buffalo, New York and Canada, Eh?. In Buffalo my Aunt and Uncle have a house on Lake Erie. It never occurred to me to look for fossils on the beach (mostly rocks down there), until this trip. So I went down for about an hour or so and broke a few rocks but mostly just found the fossils lying around. I can tell you, this was the most productive hour of fossil hunting in my life. I could barely go a minute without stumbling on one! I don’t even know what to do with all these. A great expirece overall and my Uncle especially enjoyed seeing all the treasures. So without further a due here we go... (sorry if the pics are a bit blurry my camera is trash) Enjoy! Brachiopods and such
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National Fossil Day, October 17, 2018 Events hosted by Museum, Institutions and Schools by States are listed in the attachments http://blogs.plos.org/paleocomm/2018/08/15/national-fossil-day-2018-events-part-1/#.W3dNgWUBCek.twitter
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Hello everyone! My son found this today on the shore of Topsail. Any idea what it is or what it may be from?
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