Show Us Some In-Situ Sweetness!

[bone digger]

I searched but couldn't find a thread for in-situ fossil photos so I thought I would start one!

I usually forget to take a picture in the excitment of the moment but they sure are nice if you remember!

Feel free to add yours if you like!

These are dinosaur claws, toe bone and tail vertebrae from the upper Cretaceous Dinosaur Park formation Alberta.

[rejd]

Thats some nice stuff! Here are the 2 teeth from my profile pic and some other in-situ stuff.

[bone digger]

Couple more for tonight, another claw and a nice little tyrannosaur tooth waiting for a keen eye.

[bone digger]

Very nice finds and pics Rejd! Is the large tyrannosaur tooth from down south or Drum area?

[Ludwigia]

Here are a couple of shots from my spot in the ditch in southern Germany. Ammonite and gastropod.

[amour 25]

Nice stuff, so I thought that the Dino stuff up in Canada was kind of off limits.

Maybe not then.

Cool either way I guess.

Have seen areas like that here ,but no Dino stuff in it.

Thanks for sharing.

[FossilDAWG]

Nice stuff, so I thought that the Dino stuff up in Canada was kind of off limits.

Maybe not then.

Cool either way I guess.

Have seen areas like that here ,but no Dino stuff in it.

Thanks for sharing.

Off limits? Yes and no, but for people such as you and I, no. The problem is that in Alberta all fossils remain the property of the Province, and it is illegal to remove anything from the province without a permit. For a permit to be issued, fossils have to be examined by an Alberta paleontologist and signed off on as being of no scientific value. My understanding is that permits are in practice never issued for vertebrate fossils. Bone digger, rejd, and others can collect these amazing specimens because they live in Alberta and so are not removing anything from the Province. If you or I want to collect and legally keep dinosaur teeth or bones, we would have to permanently move to Alberta.

I wonder what the rules would be for someone who lived in Alberta for years and built up a large collection, and then their job required them to move out of province. I suppose that legally they would have to leave their collection behind when they moved.

Don

[Troodon]

Here is a 3 1/2 " Rex tooth I found a couple years back in Wyoming - Lance Formation. Quarry we were in had a 2" hard cap over the layer. Pulled up a 12" cap and found this tooth looking at me

After clean up it was a pretty awesome tooth

[abyssunder]

bone digger,is a very good idea to start a thread for IN-Situ fossil photos.

Here I have some pictures from "The Snail Hill" of Vidra locality,Romania,from a site full with Acteonella,from Lower Gossau sediments of Cretaceous.

Thank you.

Edited March 26, 2015 by abyssunder

[Ludwigia]

Here I have some pictures from "The Snail Hill" of Vidra locality,Romania,from a site full with Acteonella,from Lower Gossau sediments of Cretaceous.

Now that is super! You've got one there as well! Here is one of the original "Schneckenwand" in Gosau, Salzburgerland which is full of Actaeonella and Trochactaeon gastropods.

[busyeagle]

This thread has a bunch of good ones: http://www.thefossilforum.com/index.php?/topic/15776-in-situ-pictures/

Always glad to see more being posted though, keep 'em coming!

[bone digger]

WOW, what a Rex tooth! We have some late Cretaceous up here with Rex fossils but I have spent very little time hunting it!

Abyssunder and Ludwigia, have you ever tried polishing a piece of your gastropods? Great pics!

Thanks busyeagle, I didn't see that thread! Guess you can't have to many in-situ's!

Edited March 26, 2015 by bone digger

[Carl]

I love this thread! I had meant to start something like this many years ago - maybe even a book or a Website called Fossils in the Wild.

Here's a tyrannosaur tooth pointing at a scrap of Triceratops tooth in the South Dakota Badlands from last summer.

[Lmshoemaker]

Here are a few:

Prepped:

(Prep not done by myself)

(Prepped this one)

Edited March 26, 2015 by Cryptidsaurian

[rejd]

Very nice finds and pics Rejd! Is the large tyrannosaur tooth from down south or Drum area?

Thanks! the first 2 teeth are from the Toleman area.

[Ludwigia]

Abyssunder and Ludwigia, have you ever tried polishing a piece of your gastropods? Great pics!

Yup.

[Ludwigia]

I had the good luck of being able to visit the Lafarge quarry in Belmont, France a few years ago where an amazing amount of lower and middle Jurassic fossils are ripe for the picking. Here are a couple of finds in situ and after prep.

[taj]

good times ! God knows when it will be re opened to other people than the club's member ...

[bone digger]

Wow, awesome stuff everyone!

Rejd, I thought that tooth was from up here, almost to big to be from the DPP.

Here is a whole dinosaur skeleton eroding out of the hillside. I reported this one years ago to the Royal Tyrrell Museum. It is a hadrosaur so will most likely never be excavated. They put it in their database of unexcavated articulated skeletons.

[John S.]

I wish had more dinosaurs around here...this is a Mosasaur Vertebra found recently..

[John S.]

And a Mosasaur Platecarpus Skull I found in my first month of hunting. It was all over after that

[taj]

I'm sure you're all sick and tired of all those Huge T. Rex teeth lying on the ground along some semi articulated dinosaur skeletons...here are some ceph pics for a change , dated last week end ...
oops too big , lets try again


from the aptian ...

then , sometimes , just under the aptian ,there is some barremian

[Ludwigia]

good times ! God knows when it will be re opened to other people than the club's member ...

I was lucky enough to get special permission since I showed them my author's credentials and wrote an article about the adventure.

[taj]

and then you have also to look at the underside!

[abyssunder]

...and again from "The Snail Hill"-Vidra,and one polished