What do you collect exactly?

[Kohler Palaeontology]

I collect whatever is in my area, which is usually trilobites, shells, crinoids, and VERY rarely vertebrates like fish or temnospondyl. However, my favorite material to collect is late cretaceous material from Montana (e.g., Judith River, Two Medicine, and Hell Creek Formations) and if I manage to get my hands on any vertebrate fossils from Alberta, Canada. Haven't been fossil hunting in a while as I'm starting to run out of space, but you can never have too many fossils.

 

Kind Regards,

Kohler Palaeontology 

Edited August 31 by Kohler Palaeontology

[NickG]

On 8/29/2024 at 3:58 AM, JorisVV said:

My question today is: What do you guys collect precisely? 

 

I've been struggling over the years what to collect exactly. As I love dinosaur fossils. And most of the budget and time goes in there. I still want collect some other things, that may look good on display for example. Premium big shark teeth or Mammalian/pleistoceen stuff. It's more fun collecting this way instead of limiting myself. 

 

What about you guys and girls? What do you collect. Do you collect a specific thing or just what is nice to look at? Bit of both?

I mostly collect what I can find. There's something about being able to say, 'I found this.' But I think more than anything it's just collecting the experiences of being outside, breathing air, and enjoying a moment where the only thing in focus is being...

[Quer]

I'm a very local amateur that only collects what it's in his area, of about 25 km. radius.

 

My area is in the Pedraforca Thrust Sheet (SE of the Pyrenees, in Catalonia, Spain), only Upper Campanian strata. This may seem a very limited scope, but it's not. Marine invertebrates abound, mainly rudists, corals, ostreids, echinoids, brachiopods, other bivalves, bryozoans, etc.

 

My "sorties" start at dawn and end at lunchtime, having collected, if it has been a good day, a handful of good specimens and having taken some good pics.

 

 

[Welsh Wizard]

Hi

 

Interesting thread.

 

I collect U.K. dinosaur fossils and Lower Lias material including but not limited to ammonites and marine reptiles.

 

That said I do have material from the rhaetic and middle lias. All mainly U.K. fossils.

 

I have a few Carboniferous things too.

Edited September 4 by Welsh Wizard

[Cicija]

"I only started collecting fossils this year. The main source of fossils is shopping, I can't go to the field due to some health restrictions.. I started with ammonites and nautiloids, a couple of plants, urchins and one Echinoidea flew in as well. Lately I've been focusing on trilobites and the order Phacopida. The collection of fossils is just beginning, about thirty pieces. However, the problem of exposure has already arisen. Obviously I'll have to get a display case or two just for the fossils."

Edited September 5 by Cicija

[mighty micraster]

Unfortunately I don't understand that...?.

English please.

[FranzBernhard]

5 minutes ago, mighty micraster said:

English please.

"I only started collecting fossils this year. The main source of fossils is shopping, I can't go to the field due to some health restrictions.. I started with ammonites and nautiloids, a couple of plants, urchins and one Echinoidea flew in as well. Lately I've been focusing on trilobites and the order Phacopida. The collection of fossils is just beginning, about thirty pieces. However, the problem of exposure has already arisen. Obviously I'll have to get a display case or two just for the fossils."

 

Franz Bernhard

[Cicija]

@FranzBernhard

 

 

Vielen Dank für die Übersetzung ins Englische. Man könnte meinen, dass heutzutage jeder weiß, wie man bei Google eine Sprache auswählt. Anscheinend wissen englische Muttersprachler das nicht.

 

Translation:
Thank you for translating into English. One would think that nowadays everyone knows how to choose a language on Google. Apparently native English speakers don't know this.
 

[FranzBernhard]

19 minutes ago, Cicija said:

Thank you for translating into English.

You are welcome!

For your further posts, please use English anyways. Its an English spoken site and its a thing of kindness to use the language native to the site.

And there are some users here that use automatic translation.

Franz Bernhard

[Fossildude19]

43 minutes ago, Cicija said:

@FranzBernhard

 

 

Vielen Dank für die Übersetzung ins Englische. Man könnte meinen, dass heutzutage jeder weiß, wie man bei Google eine Sprache auswählt. Anscheinend wissen englische Muttersprachler das nicht.

 

Translation:
Thank you for translating into English. One would think that nowadays everyone knows how to choose a language on Google. Apparently native English speakers don't know this.
 

 

Many of us DO know how to do this. But as an INTERNATIONAL website, we default to English when posting here. Most people do.

Sometimes I will post a translation, but sometimes, I am busy with other things, and someone beats me to it.

 

As a matter of course, we use ENGLISH as the default language here. 

 

Please avoid generalizations when speaking about people here.