Rockin' Ric Posted July 28, 2023 Share Posted July 28, 2023 Hello y'all! I got an opportunity to visit a trackway site locally. It was a hot steamy day for the crazy in me. When I got to the site, it had overgrown considerably since the last visit. There were patches of exposure that could be seen... while walking around scanning those exposures I see this five foot boulder thinking it could be split into, ... surprisingly it was easy peasy. It contained Mariopteris Fern fossils and the find of the day, Attenosaurus tracks of a large tetrapod amphibian affectionately called "Frogzilla" that predates the dinosaurs! Another surprise was that I didn't destroy the fossil by whacking off excess stone... 99% of the time I wind up having to glue pieces back together! It split in half beautifully, providing the negative plate with both prints and separate positive prints of those tracks! My day was done... the tracks are my first find ever! It was a bucket list item for this site where I have found many tetrapod trackways in the past. Carboniferous Period, Pottsville Formation, Southeastern USA. 18 WELCOME TO ALL THE NEW MEMBERS! If history repeats itself, I'm SO getting a dinosaur. ~unknown www.rockinric81.wixsite.com/fossils Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Misha Posted July 28, 2023 Share Posted July 28, 2023 Wow! Amazing fossils as always Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bockryan Posted July 28, 2023 Share Posted July 28, 2023 Nice finds! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FossilDAWG Posted July 28, 2023 Share Posted July 28, 2023 @Rockin' Ric Hey Ric, was there supposed to be some text with your post instead if a big empty space? Excellent fossils!! Don Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted July 28, 2023 Share Posted July 28, 2023 33 minutes ago, FossilDAWG said: @Rockin' Ric Hey Ric, was there supposed to be some text with your post instead if a big empty space? Excellent fossils!! Don Text was in a larger, white font. I removed the formatting to make it visible. 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...
FossilDAWG Posted July 28, 2023 Share Posted July 28, 2023 Hmmm. Was that supposed to be some sort of a puzzle for us to solve? If so it was over my head. Thanks Tim for figuring it out. Don Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nimravis Posted July 28, 2023 Share Posted July 28, 2023 Great finds- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
traveltip1 Posted July 28, 2023 Share Posted July 28, 2023 (edited) Nice tracks & ferns Edited July 28, 2023 by traveltip1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tidgy's Dad Posted July 28, 2023 Share Posted July 28, 2023 Really nice! Life's Good! Tortoise Friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Collector9658 Posted July 29, 2023 Share Posted July 29, 2023 Amazing tracks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeffrey P Posted August 1, 2023 Share Posted August 1, 2023 Gorgeous specimens! Congratulations and thanks for posting them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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