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i’ve been taking a look at some geology papers on ISGS library in search for some potentially interesting fossil sites, and i’m a little confused on something… whenever i see a stop along the trip, it will have something like “SE 1/4, SW 1/4, NE 1/4, Sec. 10, T. 28 N. R. 11E., [county]” with the stop. Is this the location of that stop? And if so how do i “read” it? Like, what does it all mean and if it does suggest its location, how do i figure out where that location actually is? thanks for any help!
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Fossil Goal Achieved! Plesiosaur Tooth! Ash Grove Quarry Field Trip
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Well, you have probably already seen a few posts about the Dallas Paleontological Society's field trip to Ash Grove Quarry in Midlothian Texas. And Here's ANOTHER ONE! As it turns out, quite a few of us went on the same field trip but DIDN'T REALIZE WE WERE ALL ON THE SAME FIELD TRIP. That's what happens when you are mostly online friends and havn't actually met in real life! That and there were 50 people on the field trip....but it's a big quarry! Sorry I missed connecting in real life with @EPIKLULSXDDDDD, @PaleoPastels and @ClearLake! This actually was my first field trip with DPS and first time to this quarry so I wasn't very sure how things would play out, but we had a beautiful mostly cloudy day with a very nice breeze. As many of you know...quarrys in Texas can be brutal. We've been having surprisingly rainy and coolish weather, so it truly was a great day for hunting. Nice big rain the night before but not super muddy. Driving into the Quarry: I told you, there were a BUNCH of us The guy leading the trip, Francisco was really nice, made sure we were all geared up in our very very fashionable vests. He led us down to the bottom of the quarry where they had just placed a big pile of the strata we were looking for, so we didn't have to wander very far to find the right geology. Roger Farish, the DPS trip leader showed us what we were looking for...greyish rocks with lots of phosphate nodules. Most of the fossils are phosphatized, so the black was somewhat easy to see against the dryer grey, but in areas where it was still wet....that black was a bit tricky to see against the background. My first nice find was a good size Scapanorhynchus (goblin shark) about 3/4 inch long. And then a bit later in some of the pools of water, a lovely vertebra, also 3/4 inchish And there were some very nice big spiders. Don't worry. They were friendly. But.....what made my day, my month, my year was the next find. I found a Plesiosaur tooth. Yep. It was just sitting all nice and pretty on top of a small bank of mud and rocks off to the side, just sitting there waiting for me. It's kinda scrappy, but I don't care. I love it. I literally was shaking when I took it over to Roger F for confirmation it was indeed what I thought it was. So thank you Mother Nature! Here's some cleaned up and better pictures. It is one inch long So after that, I was just happy to wander around, maybe find something else...kind of wanting a Ptychodus tooth but content if I didn't find one and lo and behold....I see a tiny edge sticking out of a big chunk of rock and thought that sure looks like a ptychodus. I chipped it out and yep, a nice, if slightly broken, Ptychodus atcoenses. Not quite as nice as the one @ClearLake found, but I'm pleased with it. So a 3 1/2 hour drive up, a few hours of hunting and then drive back home again turned out to be totally worth it and an epic day for me. I found a plesiosaur tooth!!!!- 35 replies
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2022-09-17 ESCONI Field Trip to a Spoil Pile Near Danville, IL
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On September 17th, 2022, ESCONI held a field trip to a coal mine spoil pile near Danville, IL. It was a fairly hot day with temperatures in the upper 80's. However, it was a productive field trip. There had been quite a bit of work on the hill this summer and it was looking quite different from the spring. The road to the top went around from the left instead of the right. There weren't as many exposed fossils in "Red Dog" found this time, but concretions were readily available for collecting. There were a few Forum members present. @deutscheben @connorp I'm sure I'm forgetting a few, please announce yourself! Here are some photos of the trip. Some of the photos were taken with a drone. I need to take some more photos of fossils, so stay tuned... I'll post concretions if/when they open. There was a bunch of poison ivy all around outside of the hill. Mushrooms were plentiful. And, of course fossils! -
I was recently reorganizing my fossil collection and thought I would share some pieces I collected during Paleontology field trips in undergrad at Alabama. I'm glad I took thorough notes at the time! The demopolis chalk is a popular formation for finding Exogyra/ostrea/pycnodonte shells and shark teeth. We visited a site in Tupelo, MS many times for surface collecting. Some of the cool pieces I found were many fragments of a mosasaur jaw (top pic, top 2 slots), a Squalicorax kaupi tooth, a scyliorhinus(?) tooth, bony fish vertebrae, and bony fish teeth. I was told the dark fossils at the right of the third picture might be ray plates, but I'm not sure. Turritella in pic 1 are from a different formation.
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Geologist-style Legal Disclaimer for Geology Field Trip (Also open access FOP Guidebooks)
Oxytropidoceras posted a topic in Fossil News
I was looking through a Friends of the Pleistocene (FOP) fieldtrip guidebook when I came across a "legal disclaimer" as only a geologist could have written one on pp. 270-274 of Seitz (2012). The guidebook is: Seitz, Gordon, 2012, Guidebook Neotectonics of the Lake Tahoe and Carson and Sierra Valleys. Friends of the Pleistocene Pacific Cell, Sept. 13-16. It can be downloaded from: http://www.fop.cascadiageo.org/pacific_cell/2012/FOP2012-guidebook.pdf and it and other Friends of the Pleistocene Pacific Cell Field Trips gudiebooks at: http://www.fop.cascadiageo.org/?page_id=25 Guidebooks for various other cells of the Friends of The Pleistocene field trips can be found at http://www.fop.cascadiageo.org Yours, Paul H.- 9 replies
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Hi! Here is a trip report on visiting a locality near Carlin, Nevada (one of our early videos). I'm not sure if what we decided to call "octopus beaks" (see 1:44 and image attached) are the real thing and not just fragments of brachiopods. Perhaps, somebody more knowledgeable can weigh in with the right answer. Thanks in advance!
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Hello everyone! Regrettably, it has been a while since I contributed in any significant way on the forum. I’ve found myself busier than expected, and I haven’t been fossiling as much as I’d like to. Anywho, I got out on a hunt today that was special for me. I came to this forum two years ago. I had just been on a field trip with the same geology teacher who’d led my mother and my aunts and uncles on field trips. I had a blast and learned that fossil hunting could actually be done in Maryland by normal people, a fact which now seems so obvious to me. I had been hooked, and now I needed to identify some strange finds. So I came here, and from here I was able to learn many things from many people, and I was propelled into a world I now can hardly see myself without, the paleontological one. Now, two years later, I had the chance to volunteer and help out at the very same field trip with the very same teacher! Though none of the students seem to have gotten hooked quite like I did, they all took home a fossil or two, learned quite a bit, and had a good time. That was a good thing to see. I’ll definitely be volunteering next year! Here’s some pictures I took of myself taking a nostalgic walk through some fossil/geological sites (privacy concerns prevent me from showing any with other people), please excuse my ineptitude at smiling for photos:
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General preparations for Niobrara Fm. field trip
The Amateur Paleontologist posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
Hey everyone Though it'll probably take place next summer, I'm already running through some preparations for my field trip to the Niobrara Chalk Fm. of western Kansas. Based on what I've heard from other collectors (and my own experiences in other sites), I drew up a list of stages I should go through for excavating and preparing any vertebrate material (especially fish) I might encounter.. 1) Surrounding matrix/overburden is brought down to expose the bone layer 2) Shellac/Vinac/other consolidant is applied to the exposed surface 3) Fossil is covered in plaster 4) Plaster slab is removed and brought back home 5) Removing the underlying matrix of the fossil ->Surface that has never been seen before -Proceed with care ->Using picks/dental tools 6) Consolidating the fossil by brushing it with polyvinyl acetate (PVA or Vinac) dissolved in Acetone (50:1 ratio – acetone being the 50 parts) ->Vinac gives a nice appearance to the bones 7) Removing the excess rock on the sides and smoothening the chalk for aesthetical effect Does this look good? If so, what should be changed? @KansasFossilHunter @Ramo @grokfish @MikeE @Xiphactinus @Castle Rock Thanks for the help -Christian P.S. Would any of the steps need to be changed in case I encounter reptile material?- 22 replies
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As monthes passed in 2017, i wasnt under the impression the year was that good fossilwise. But now it's over and after rewieing what i found during my different trips, i must say it has been a hell of a year. So here come most of my 2017 best finds. This is a trip in some french hunting place, mostly nothern half, From west to east, from ordovician to cretaceous. I hope you will enjoy the diversity
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Hello there, my name is Cameron and i'm starting this topic to have an open page for the flow of ideas and information about the possible formation of a Hill Country Fossil Club for San Antonio, Austin, and the surrounding areas . This idea has been proposed before on the forums, but it didn't work out, so i'm doing my best to pull everyone together to form some sort of club. It could be anything from an organized monthly meetup for group fossil hunting trips, guest speakers, etc. to a simple email list for members to invite a couple tag-alongs on their upcoming trips. However it takes shape, it'd be beneficial to alot of the central Texas members of the forum to form a local fossil community. So far, my idea is to maintain the facebook page created last time (for those who prefer facebook) and make an email and phone number list so each club member gets a reminder when someone plans an open-invite fossil hunting trip, or if there is a meeting coming up, or anything else of that nature. If interested in making a list, pm me your email and texting phone number with whatever name you like to be called. If alot of people prefer to meet first, thats fine too. Maybe we can make a field trip out of it. Just reply with your thoughts and let's all start exchanging ideas. If it doesnt work long-term again at least we have a few new locals to hunt with, lol.
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