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It looks different from Pulalius Vulgaris, has a more flattened carapace, and one claw is noticeably larger.
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This tooth was found on a beach on the eastern side of the Olympic Peninsula of Washington State (Puget Lowlands area). There are active eroding bluffs along the beach.
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Around 17,000 years ago, as the Puget lobe of the Cordilleran ice sheet retreated, the melted ice formed Glacial Lake Russel in the depression carved out by the ice, now the southern part of Puget Sound. This wood was in that lakebed before the ice sheet retreated past the Strait of Juan de Fuca, allowing oceanic saltwater to flood into the area. From Eld Inlet, Puget Sound.
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Fossil ID found in Washington State, on the western half near the Cascades - specifically Shelton Washington. I was walking the railroad tracks and there came an area where the railroad people had to blast their way through in order for the train tracks to be put down, and while looking through some of the remnants, I found what looks to me like an egg. It's shiny, with the shell - the inside is brown. If anybody can help ID this I would greatly appreciate.
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Was out shifting through some rocks on the beach and found some agates. Just curious if anyone has any knowledge of what these may have been. Was found in Washington State, near Joyce on the Juan De Fuca Straits.
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I'm very belated with this report, but it took until today to finish all the prep work on the pieces I picked up on this trip. This time was fun and quite productive, I went out with my brother and 2 of our friends. None of them are of the fossil hunting persuasion, but they enjoyed it nonetheless. This Liracassis apta was a great opportunity to test out the chisel attachment on my new air scribe.
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Just wanted to share the results of the post crab cleanup I did using some acrylic paint. The first crab had a number of small dings. I wasn't able to find an exact match in terms of color, but the end result looks more like it could be natural variation in the color of the fossil, rather than screaming "here is where Neanderthal Shaman nicked the carapace"! I used a combination of bronze and brown, and added a little more paraloid to make it shinier, which helps visually wash out the color differential. With the second crab, I just added some brown to the little chipped areas. Again, not a perfect match, but much more visually appealing in my opinion. Before After Before After
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Far from perfect, but a considerable improvement over the last one.
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Finished up the 2nd Pulalius of my career. Overall I am pleased with it, but I have had to endure the great disappointment of having the claws cave in on me. On the left, just part of the claw broke off; hardly noticeable. On the right the whole propodus crumbled, a great tragedy considering how beautiful it was...you could see all the little nodules on it. Perhaps I have to reevaluate my desire to expose the whole front side of the claw...the fact they are so small and hollow tells me I may end up with this result over and over again if I keep being greedy.
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Scale: Approx 11-12cm square in all directions (LxWxH) Location Found: Washington State (supposedly) I believe this to be the lower part of a femur from some kind of dinosaur but for all I know it could be part of a completely different bone and/or from a completely different animal. See note below photos. Note: This and all posts I'll create are from a tub full of unknown, supposedly all dinosaur fossils collected around areas of Washington State which I recently acquired from a collector. However, I don't know for certain when or where they were collected. I am not an expert whatsoever. Hoping the community can help me figure out what they are.
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Finally got my compressor and air scribe set up, and am now getting to work on the concretions I gathered over the summer and fall. Just to see if I could do it, I took a crack at the smallest one I knew had a crab in it, at barely more than 3 cm wide. My friend lent me a scribe with a smaller bit than the one I bought 3 months ago, and it handled itself pretty well here. Did ding the carapace a handfull of times, but pleased with the outcome of this first crab venture. Prepping one this small was stressfull, so I'm looking forward to working on larger ones that don't demand as much precision.
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Another productive day hunting early Oligocene marine deposits of the Lincoln Creek Formation in Washington state, US. with James Goedert and Cheng Hsiu Tsai. Overcast day with showers, rare for a summer day here. I was finding mostly glendonite when I spotted a nodule that's a bit more rare than the overcast day we were experiencing: a tympanic bulla of an early cetacean. Donated to Tsai of the National Taiwan University for study.
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Hi I believe these to be fossils but I'm not qualified to say for sure and I definitely don't know what they are. Any help appreciated thank you. They were found in a partially dried area of the skykomish river between Sultan and Monroe off Ben Howard Rd.
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Found this today 7/21/23 around Westport, Washington, USA beach.
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Here's an aturia angusta nautiloid with some chunky calcite from the Lincoln Creek Formation in Washington state, US. Also, a recent paper on a bivalve of the same location, pliocardia? guthrieorum, named after my wife and myself by the author. We're aggressively searching for late Eocene and early Oligocene cetaceans, especially the odontocete variety. Maybe this will be our lucky year!
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Looking for agates and Eocene forests in central Washington
Neanderthal Shaman posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
A friend of mine knows some great spots for rockhounding in central Washington near the town of Cle Elum, so we took a day to go check it out. We started by driving up Old Blewett Pass where he'd previously found some stuff representing an Eocene wetland about 50 million years ago. Sure enough, the outcrops on the pass yielded some neat finds. If you zoom in, you can see that it looks like this plant had some sort of leaf spot disease in life. More leaves, excuse the shininess of the paraloid. I think this is a horsetail. Palm frond impressions..thumb.jpg.6eaf9346dc496590e1471b3c84cc9cb9.jpg)
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I hate to be a newbie who joins a forum just to get help identifying a mysterious item, but since that's what I'm doing - I promise to attempt to be a valued member in the future! I found this 8.4" item yesterday on a Pacific NW beach. It is very heavy, gray rock - like slate. I know next to nothing about fossil bones, but it just doesn't look like a 'natural' rock to me. Any thoughts would be appreciated.
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It's not much to look at, but I finally got one! It wasn't in a concretion, so happening upon it was sheer luck.
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Marine snails of the Lincoln Creek Formation
Neanderthal Shaman posted a topic in Member Collections
Hey all, Been absent from the forum for a while, life's been busy. I thought it would be fun to show off some of the deep sea marine gastropods I've found from 2 Lincoln Creek Formation exposures. Top: Whitneyella lincolnensis x 2, Priscofusus chehalisensis Middle : Turricula washingtonensis x 5, moon snail x 4 (either Natica sp. or Polinices sp., hard for me to tell) Bottom: Exilia lincolnensis x 3, moon snails x 2
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Anyone have an ID for these Lincoln Creek Formation Gastropods?
Neanderthal Shaman posted a topic in Fossil ID
Normally I would use the Burke's paleontology database to ID these, but they have informed me that it may be months before they can get their database system back up and running again. Lincoln Creek Formation, Grays Harbor County WA, oligocene. Largest one measures around 2 cm.
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A few odds and ends I picked up on Sunday from Twin Beach, Washington. The Burke Museum Paleontology Database is still down (PLEASE BURKE, GET IT BACK ONLINE!!!), so I can't really ID the snails right now, but one of them is clearly a moon snail, and if I had to hazard a guess, the big one is maybe some sort of spindle snail? Prepping it was very easy and zen. And of course a Callianopsis clallamensis ghost shrimp that the beach is so well known for. Till' next time!
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I have no idea what this is. Someone thought it was a tooth, but it doesn't look like one to me. It's 7.5 inches long, 2 inches at its widest, and about 0.75 inch at its thickest. The distance from the piece away from the scale distorts the size and makes it look a little bigger in the photos than it actually is. Thank you! Edited to add location. Washington State
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