Terry Dactyll Posted April 2, 2010 Share Posted April 2, 2010 I love the ammonites, but I have concentrated on one layer so not to 'dilute' my efforts in collecting.... and also the rock that is under where I live, the Upper Carboniferous, I find allsorts in that, I collect the layer not something specific from it..... Good luck with your collecting..... Cheers Steve... And Welcome if your a New Member... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MOROPUS Posted April 2, 2010 Share Posted April 2, 2010 I really loooooove snails and shells from the Neogene(I think they are a sort of "nuisance" by paleontologists and fossil hunters), but anything that is already extinct, will be on my collection... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted April 2, 2010 Share Posted April 2, 2010 btw, what is a "hash" plate? A plate of (usually) sea floor that is full of bits and pieces of the ancient denizens. I like to play Paleo Where's Waldo "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RomanK Posted April 2, 2010 Share Posted April 2, 2010 Nobody will be surprised if I say Carboniferous fossil plants, like this Sigillaria davreuxi Roman http://s1143.photobu.../donbassfossil/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wakaritai Posted April 2, 2010 Author Share Posted April 2, 2010 (edited) A plate of (usually) sea floor that is full of bits and pieces of the ancient denizens. I like to play Paleo Where's Waldo In that case I'll have to take some pics of some that I have. Those hash plates are pretty common here. And I've found several that seem to be both well preserved and exposed to the point where many of the pieces may be identifiable. They are mostly microfossils, though. I'll make a hash fossil thread here in the near future. still loving the replies btw, and nice example pics Edited April 2, 2010 by Wakaritai Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigade Posted April 2, 2010 Share Posted April 2, 2010 I really like Dino bones any type, although I have never found any yet. I dare say they are more easily found over there in the US, judging by the amount on this forum. Other than that I like anything that I find, obviously it's great to find something I have never found before. Ade Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nala Posted April 2, 2010 Share Posted April 2, 2010 I like every kind of nice looking fossils but my favorite are the calcified and the pyritised,this is a group of mine,cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted April 2, 2010 Share Posted April 2, 2010 I like every kind of nice looking fossils but my favorite are the calcified and the pyritised,this is a group of mine,cheers <sigh> "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Smilodon Posted April 2, 2010 Share Posted April 2, 2010 How could I forget? In addition to "big honkin' cats," I'm also partial to polished petrified wood. I see a white river rushing into a tunnel or vortex, don't you? C'mon, don't you too? BTW that's a limb coming out at about 9:00 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
micropterus101 Posted April 3, 2010 Share Posted April 3, 2010 I would have to say anything in a concretion. Second I would say any mortality plates. Cheers, Jason fossil crabs website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grampa dino Posted April 4, 2010 Share Posted April 4, 2010 Just about anything from the Late Cretaceous, mostly Dinosaur Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just Bob Posted April 4, 2010 Share Posted April 4, 2010 Ammonites! "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." Upton Sinclair Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siteseer Posted April 5, 2010 Share Posted April 5, 2010 Well I think it has something to do with location and the era the fossils are from as for me there are tons of shark teeth to find but personally I love skulls my favorite happens to be croc. Over all I love teeth. I started out collecting ammonites and a little of everything so I could have a representation of life across time but soon found myself really getting into shark teeth. As you said, it had to do partly with where I live since there is a lot of Miocene and Pliocene marine rock in California. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
megalania Posted April 9, 2010 Share Posted April 9, 2010 Australian megafauna -primarily megalania and diprotodon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fossisle Posted April 9, 2010 Share Posted April 9, 2010 Pretty much any well preserved fossil, but crabs and heteromorph ammonites are tops on my list of fossils to find! Cracking open a concretion and finding something cool is just about as good as it gets Cephalopods rule!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bootsie Posted April 18, 2010 Share Posted April 18, 2010 I love finding trilobites, sea lilys, complete detailed brachiopods , and cephelopods. Combing over the bottom of a roadcut reminds me of the I SPY books I used to read to my kids. I also like to take certain specimens and cut them in half and polish them to see the interior details- Cool! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted April 18, 2010 Share Posted April 18, 2010 Bootsie: Cool cephalopods! I can see the attaction there! Tim - VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER VFOTM --- APRIL - 2015 __________________________________________________ "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir ~ ~ ~ ~ ><))))( *> About Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paleoworld-101 Posted October 9, 2011 Share Posted October 9, 2011 Hmmm i guess for me it would have to be dinosaur teeth, particularly Moroccan dino teeth (Carcharodontosaurus, Spinosaurus, Raptor etc). "In Africa, one can't help becoming caught up in the spine-chilling excitement of the hunt. Perhaps, it has something to do with a memory of a time gone by, when we were the prey, and our nights were filled with darkness..." -Eternal Enemies: Lions And Hyenas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyrannotitan Posted October 9, 2011 Share Posted October 9, 2011 MAMMALSAND SHARKS Fossils fossils and again fossils _________________________________ Kyivsharks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kosmoceras Posted October 9, 2011 Share Posted October 9, 2011 Arthropods! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andreas Posted October 9, 2011 Share Posted October 9, 2011 Triassic and Liassic calcified Ammonites. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BisonJim Posted October 9, 2011 Share Posted October 9, 2011 Bison. The bigger the better. Then, any warm-blooded giants, particularly those with head ornaments of some kind, be it antlers, horns or tusks. Then their predators, the bigger the better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kipper Posted October 12, 2011 Share Posted October 12, 2011 Used to be ammonites when I lived in England, but is now Devonian fish since I now live in Orkney. I guess that's what determines the choice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fengw03 Posted October 13, 2011 Share Posted October 13, 2011 Trilobite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrangellian Posted October 14, 2011 Share Posted October 14, 2011 I have to 2nd something Auspex said - taxonomic mysteries... Not too many of them in my Cretaceous area, though, they tend to occur more in the earlier ages of which there isn't much accessible to me (Paleozoic, Precambrian). Stuff from the lagerstatten. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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