The Fossil Forum - Fossils, Paleontology Science 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!
Geodized fossils from the Mississippian of southern Indiana 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
Greenbrier River fossils and rocks - Fossil ID - The Fossil Forum Recently started hunting fossils and rock hounding and came across a variety of unusual rocks eroding from a gulley in a sandstone mountain and into the Greenbrier River Surface rocks in the area are primarily sandstone, but one can find limestone periodically while traversing the switchback down the mountain
Limestone fossils near Huntsville, AL - The Fossil Forum A bit of background - we moved into a house just outside of the city limits of Huntsville, AL, a couple of months ago After finding a couple of fossils laying around in the yard, I decided to investigate the wooded area at the back of our property a bit more Whoa!!!
Puerto Rico fossils - Fossil Hunting Trips - The Fossil Forum 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
Leaf Fossils with Something Else - Fossil ID - The Fossil Forum I've got something I think is pretty interesting I found some shale with plant fossils in the general area of Darrington, Washington This is in the North Cascades which has about 5 billion different geological changes within on mile Not really, but it's really all over the place up there geologically
Fossils In And Around Pensacola, Florida - The Fossil Forum There are several members of the forum that semi-regularly make day trips to this site Early-Middle Eocene, Tallahata formation, mostly marine fossils, sharks teeth, fish vertebrae, stingray mouth plates and spines, sawfish "teeth", some reptile, (turtle, tortoise, alligator, crocodile, sea snake), echinoderms and the occasional crustacean
Bone Valley Fossils - Fossil Hunting Trips - The Fossil Forum They bring rich dirt from Bone Valley to Wauchula for people to find amazing fossils The experience is unlike no other, it’s a dry dig, which means you do not get wet, you sift through the material exposing the most beautiful teeth and other fossils that have been preserved more than 2 million years
Fossils around Tucson - Fossil Hunting Trips - The Fossil Forum There is a lot of Mississippian, Pennsylvanian, and Permian outcrop in some of the mountain ranges southeast of Tucson, but access involves significant hiking up steep slopes Even worse, the outcrops are mostly massive limestone beds (often meters thick) and the fossils are sporadic and mostly brachiopods, nondescript sponges, or urchin spines
Alabama fossils - Fossil Hunting Trips - The Fossil Forum These are a few other fossis I have found in the past I have collected fossils here for nearly 40 years but most of them have been given away or donated to a local museum here in Birmingham The sharks teeth are Cretaceous form the Mooresville chalk formation The Echinoid was found at St Stephens Quarry years ago in the Yazoo Clay