In this area, we celebrate our amateur contributions to the paleontological sciences. Whether by volunteering their time (lab work, collections maintenance, organized field work), or through the donation of significant specimens to scientific institutions, amateurs have always played an important but unheralded part!

2025年2月25日 · That is a really location too. It's surprising how many locations along the SL foothills have an abundance of fossils. I have done a fair amount throughout the state but mostly only rockhounding near Green River and not fossil hunting specific. There is …

2020年9月21日 · So these fossils were actually exotic yard ornaments in Florida. I learned a valuable lesson about being skeptical of locations where people claim they have found something. I appreciate yall's earlier posts and pictures which gave me very good context for the information that our emeritus geologists shared with me.

2021年9月7日 · I’ve recently gotten back into prospecting fossils and I’m looking for some suggestions on sites to visit in western Pennsylvania. I frequently visit Ambridge PA to find fern and Calamite fossils from the Mahoning fm and would like to find more. I also would like to find fossils of early Permian (tetrapods, plants, or invertebrates).

2022年12月21日 · Clearly some nice fossils can be found, if you know exactly where to look, but there is a reason we don't see a lot of Puerto Rican fossils. Don Paleontology is a very scarce hobby and barely any locals here have any knowledge of fossils, and a lot of them still have the thought that fossils are only found in museums.

2019年10月15日 · The Maysville West roadcut has produced some fantastic fossils, including rare edrioasteroids, “pockets” of glyptocrinid crinoid heads, cyclocystoids (including at least one unnamed& undescribed species), large Rusophycus carleyi burrows (made by Isotelus maximus asaphid trilobites), etc., etc. Maysville West is a great place for obtaining ...

2018年10月10日 · The Echinoid was found at St.Stephens Quarry years ago in the Yazoo Clay . The little Trilobite came from a site near Russelville in the Tuscumbia Formation . I have found fossils all over , these are the ones that are most convenient to photograph at this time . The arrowhead was found in a creek while collecting fossils .

2024年5月26日 · Geology is a crucial tool for understanding these fossils and how they were preserved; in the interest of providing greater context, I will offer some brief comments on the rock these fossils were found in and their taphonomy (how they were fossilized). The host rock these fossils come from is a loose sandstone conglomerate.

2024年9月29日 · Thanks! We just happen to live near some smaller rivers that cut through the ice age River Warren's gravel deposits along the Minnesota river. It takes lots of looking but ice age and older stuff is in the area. My friend has found some cretaceous leaf fossils also. I'll add them.

2023年5月10日 · For most of the collectors on this trip, sharks teeth are the primary target, but there are other fossils to be found in the rock. First off, a couple of pictures of the group (there were about 50 participants) getting organized, heading down into the quarry and out collecting.