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Fossil ID - The Fossil Forum ANSWERING FOSSIL ID REQUESTS: Identification Posting For The Uninitiated 2 0 (NEW MEMBERS PLEASE READ) 1 2 3 By paleoflor, November 26, 2013 answering
The Waco Pit, Del Rio Formation - The Fossil Forum In fact the cloud cover and breeze made for a nice day But lord it was still muddy The clay sticks to everything and for every ten steps you pick up 10 pounds of muck As you try to pick up the little micros they would get covered in mud and you just hoped the ball of clay you slipped into a bag still had the fossil with it
2025 Fossil Hunts - Fossil Hunting Trips - The Fossil Forum Hi All, I thought I would start a thread to highlight my fossils hunts throughout 2025 With three in the bag, I have some catching up to do! Weather has been less than cooperative My first hunt of the year was in February 23rd Visited a few sites in the Kinzers Fm of Lancaster Co, PA Found m
How can I soften up Dutch Belgian cretaceous matrix ? - Fossil . . . Water can also be used to dissolve the matrix into a paste as well - which is what I normally do if I don't immediately see a fossil in any of the pieces, with me breaking only the remaining, unbreakable chunks by hand Never use vinegar, since the high chalk content of the fossils that make up the matrix mean the whole block will be eaten away
Megalodon Shark tooth - Fossil ID - The Fossil Forum I found this Meg tooth a few days ago at Beverly Beach right by Newport, Oregon I wasn’t 100% sure it was a tooth till I very carefully exposed part of the tooth’s surface and serrated edge but the rock it’s encased in is incredibly hard to remove, and I don’t want to go any further or it might
Allosaurus hunting strategy - New Theory - General Fossil Discussion . . . (I translated this with ai) **A Novel Hypothesis for *Allosaurus* Predatory Behavior: The "Strike and Lock" Mechanism** *Allosaurus fragilis*, a dominant theropod predator of the Late Jurassic, has long fascinated paleontologists While its size and formidable dentition are well-established, the
Sea Robin Skull? - Fossil ID - The Fossil Forum Found on a Mississippi beach from an early to mid Holocene marine deposit It’s definitely bone After some googling, sea robin skull seems to be the right shape and size, and they seem fairly common
ammonite identification - Fossil ID - The Fossil Forum Hi, my son and I have a large collection of fossils, some of which we found ourselves on the Jurassic coast of England As we are now mostly confined to our houses here we were hoping to better document our collection and we were hoping to put the correct names to them all To start I was hoping
Spinosaurus Reconstruction - General Fossil Discussion - The Fossil Forum hi my lord for the moment , i understand must existing some different morphotypes, i mostly have now everything for scanning and modifying on a computer and realizing the neck of spinosaurus i allready have the axis in good conditions and C7 in bad conditions