Another trip to the Volga site

[Jeffrey P]

Wow! What a wonderland of finds there. As usual your photographs are stunning. It is easy to faun over the ammonites and marine reptiles finds, but I find the bivalves and gastropods are also especially cool. Congratulations and thanks for sharing your harvest.

[Jackson g]

Wow the scenic shots are very eye appealing. I can't believe the abundance, and the different preserved fossils too. Thanks for taking us along!

[RuMert]

Thank you! I posted a bit too many pics this time, but wanted to convey the atmosphere and in-situ finds. Glad you liked it

[pachy-pleuro-whatnot-odon]

Stunning landscape! I just love cliffs like that, so towering and overwhelming, yet so colourful...

 

Boy, would I like the opportunity to go for a fossil hunt there sometime! For though it seems true that the material from the Jurassic Coast and its French counterparts may be more impressive in a way, finding this amount of vertebrate material - or even this amount of finds in general - is just unthinkable at these sites. There are so many people searching them these days, that just finding a single nice vert makes me very happy over there, makes the whole week-long trip worth it. I'd be very happy with what you found! Especially the tooth-tip

[RuMert]

Thanks! I'm happy to have this site available and unlikely to ever be destroyed like many sites with a rich history: Mnevniki, Eganovo quarry, Lopatino phosphorite mine, etc. Hope to visit it again in 2 months

 

3 hours ago, pachy-pleuro-whatnot-odon said:

There are so many people searching them these days, that just finding a single nice vert makes me very happy over there

The focus must have shifted to Yorkshire - there are so many Youtube channels devoted

[jpc]

You posted this in October... I must have missed it completely then.  Great report.  I feel like I was right there with you.  What a fun place to go fossiling.  Thanks for sharing.   

[RuMert]

Thanks! Better late than never

[AK hiker]

Coming out of hibernation here and the ground hog predicted 6 more weeks of winter;( The  pictures are most appreciated and not too many. 
Thanks for the bump as I had missed this too.

Bob