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Hey all, was recently fossil hunting at Calvert cliffs and got lucky enough to come across a huge discard pile about 10 feet in the woods from the parking lot. It was very overwhelming and I don't understand why there would be 50-100 bones of mammals from vertebrates to ribs to various other pieces. They are not pristine quality, although a few vertebrates are pretty nice. So, I was just wondering what is everyone's thoughts. Do people not care about bones like this? Are they just that common and only pristine ones are kept? Did someones girlfriend get mad and toss out there bone collection? I personally have been to several locations where bones can be found and have only found one nice vertebrate and a couple other nice pieces of bones. But to find 50-100 bones with decent vertebrates and others. I would say 5-10% of the bones really fit what I would keep display but I kind of hoard everything somewhere.
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A while ago a thread was made for discard pile trades, where people would trade their unwanted/common/low quality fossils they've collected in exchange for someone else's excess fossils. I have discards from the following formations that I'm willing to trade: Green River Formation, Pierre Shale, and the Wheeler Shale. If anyone is interested, I am willing to ship over seas
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