Kosmoceras Posted March 28, 2015 Share Posted March 28, 2015 In situ during extraction and after - Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bone digger Posted March 30, 2015 Author Share Posted March 30, 2015 Great stuff everyone, such amazing treasures! Here is a large Titanites sp. ammonite I had the pleasure of molding and casting. It was found in 1947 by a geologist and is on the side of a mountain near Fernie British Columbia. T rex escargot! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bone digger Posted March 30, 2015 Author Share Posted March 30, 2015 On the same trip we made casts of these sauropod and tyrannosaur tracks. They are hard to see but there is 2 big sauropod tracks from a trackway going left to right and 2 tracks going bottom to top of a tyrannosaur in the picture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KansasFossilHunter Posted March 30, 2015 Share Posted March 30, 2015 Cool topic idea! A very large Xiphactinus skull in the worst chalk imaginable: Huge Cretoxyrhina tooth. Definitely made my heart skip a beat. Finally, a beautiful Xiphactinus skull with orbital bones, just waiting to be collected: -KansasFossilHunter 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paleoflor Posted March 30, 2015 Share Posted March 30, 2015 In-situ Calamites, southern France. 1 Searching for green in the dark grey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted March 30, 2015 Share Posted March 30, 2015 (7).JPG In-situ Calamites, southern France. And apparently in life position! It is interesting to see the deformation, following the dip/strike of the strata. "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...
Cam28 Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 (edited) Sweet posts so far. Here's a few from bone valley, a nearly 2" meg I found then mostly excavated A lemon or sand tiger and a vert ( 5 mm diameter, shark?, lower right) And of my Orthacanthus teeth "in situ" Edited March 31, 2015 by Cam28 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bone digger Posted March 31, 2015 Author Share Posted March 31, 2015 Here is another beauty of a theropod claw I found a couple years ago. Even still had the tip laying beside it for once lol! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andreas Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 fresh found block of Upper Triassic ammonoid mass occurrence. The block bear a small grown, and well preserved fauna of Tuvalian age like on similar fauna pic. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Dente Posted April 2, 2015 Share Posted April 2, 2015 Here are some Carolina teeth. Auriculatus: Angustidens: Megalodon: Great White: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amour 25 Posted April 2, 2015 Share Posted April 2, 2015 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. So if it comes home with you any complaints then? Jeff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted April 2, 2015 Share Posted April 2, 2015 Looking for Miocene leaves and found them! Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plantguy Posted April 3, 2015 Share Posted April 3, 2015 Dang I like this thread! Great photos and specimens! Regards, Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stats Posted April 3, 2015 Share Posted April 3, 2015 (edited) Find the trilobite. This is from Kansas a few years ago. It's an enrolled Ditomopyge from the Permian of Kansas. I have a close up if no one can find it. Cheers,Rich Edited April 3, 2015 by stats Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bone digger Posted April 3, 2015 Author Share Posted April 3, 2015 I think I see it just down and to the right of center, the head is showing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bone digger Posted April 3, 2015 Author Share Posted April 3, 2015 So if it comes home with you any complaints then? I have no room for a hadrosaur! I will just go visit her every couple years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted April 3, 2015 Share Posted April 3, 2015 I have no room for a hadrosaur! I will just go visit her every couple years. Part of your 'global, free-range collection'... 1 "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...
Fossildude19 Posted April 3, 2015 Share Posted April 3, 2015 Find the trilobite. This is from Kansas a few years ago. It's an enrolled Ditomopyge from the Permian of Kansas. I have a close up if no one can find it. Cheers, Rich Found it! 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...
paleoflor Posted April 3, 2015 Share Posted April 3, 2015 And apparently in life position! It is interesting to see the deformation, following the dip/strike of the strata. Yes, more-or-less in life position, and associated with large specimens of Annularia in the same rocks. At the time, I decided this Calamites simply looked too beautiful right there, so I did not even try to collect it (instead, I made many, many photographs). Later I came across the same fossil, figured in Martín-Closas and Galtier (2005), where it was used to argue autochthony. Though it was published prior to my visit, this literature encounter made me extra happy that I left it "in its place", in the field... Searching for green in the dark grey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted April 3, 2015 Share Posted April 3, 2015 "Field Collections" can be of great quality, and indeed have their own great rewards. "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...
stats Posted April 4, 2015 Share Posted April 4, 2015 Found it! gallery_161_2233_176271.jpg Correct. He is enrolled and flattened. I have 4 in many years of searching… Cheers, Rich Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockin' Ric Posted April 4, 2015 Share Posted April 4, 2015 (edited) Thought I'd jump in on this thread with some Carboniferous flora from the Pottsville formation in-situ.... Large Stigmaria with rootlets, stone was too large to carry out so I had to settle with a picture! 3D Stigmaria, wished I had the tools at the time to extract them. 3D Calamite, Lepidodendron, Stigmaria stems littered the ground at a construction site. Edited April 4, 2015 by Rockin' Ric 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...
PennyT. Posted April 4, 2015 Share Posted April 4, 2015 My first prone flexi from the Indiana Ordovician Thank you for starting such an interesting topic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old dead things Posted April 4, 2015 Share Posted April 4, 2015 (edited) I may have used some of these photos in years past and will chalk it up to failing memory if I have previously posted them. Some insitu pictures from the past years. Unfortunately a few of the ranches I use to hunt have sold and I no longer have access, but it was great collecting while it lasted. Not all the concretions have fossils, but you got to bust them to find out . (Wyoming) These dunveganoceras were relatively easy to find. (Wyoming) You never know what you'll find in these concretions from scaphites to baculites (Montana) Broken placenticeras (Wyoming) There is also a section of baculite in the photo, can you find it? Just for fun: Free range pigs. When they get a little larger my trespass fee requires I buy one. (Montana) Jim Old Dead Things Edited April 4, 2015 by old dead things 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bone digger Posted April 4, 2015 Author Share Posted April 4, 2015 Here is one of my larger tyrannosaur teeth, found one January day several years ago. It is around 3 1/2" (can't find a tape measure at the moment). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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