The purpose of this general is to encourage people to go /out/ and find cool fossils and artifacts. This thread is also a place to share our own collections and things we find when we are /out/ hunting.



Rules are as follows,

>To just post and discuss fossils and other related geological subjects.

>When you post about a fossil in your collection, please label it with what formation it is from, what it is, and where in the world it is from.

>If you don't know where it originated or the species that is ok, just label it as so

Helpful Links

https://paleobiodb.org/navigator/

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/

https://zoom.earth/

Geologic maps of US states (usgs.gov)

A Beginner's Guide To Fossil Hunting - Fossil Hunting Trips - The Fossil Forum



Finally gating around to posting general number 3. College has kept me busy for the last few weeks and just haven't had the time to post what I've been finding. To start the tread are some shark's teeth I founds and posted last trad to get us going. These teeth are coming from the Eagle Ford/ Auston Chalk boundary zone Denton Co. Texas

>>2566935 (OP)

Finally managed to make it out to look for artifacts again. I'm in my rooftop tent right now in -7 C freezing my ass off but I found some points yesterday.

nice to know anon, I'm prepping out some ammonites I found yesterday, no pic's yet though.

my ammonite prepping is still going on, the shale is a bitch to get off so in the meantime ill post this scallop like shell from the Auston Chalk I found a week or two back

Here are some gypsum shards I've found in the past

>>2566935 (OP)

but I am not allowed to take fossils from the Burgess Shale as it is a UNESCO World Heritage Site...

Thats to bad anon, do they give any group activities in local paleontological groups?

Let's say 

>i was walking in desert.

>old area where deep erosion happened 

>walk in cut about six feet deep and 4 foot wide.

>see sticks poking out of side.

>look closer and recognize its ribs, huge ribs.

>look at ground and realize the trail cuts through a huge bone like a thigh bone thick as a plastic five gallon bucket.

>bone is trampled in half but I managed to lift one end and carry back out.

What now if this had happened?

you probably found a dead cow or something that fell into a crevasse caused by the rains

>thigh bone thick as a plastic five gallon bucket

Found some nice points yesterday
