kolleamm Posted June 24, 2010 Share Posted June 24, 2010 please post your best find along with its age, im really curious to see what you guys post! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpc Posted June 24, 2010 Share Posted June 24, 2010 (edited) This is like asking what's your favorite Grateful Dead song. Depends on the day or the mood. OK, Led Zeppelin will do... On the other hand, the best fossil I've ever prepared is a small Cretaceous crocodile skeleton I did last year for my friends at Ohio U. Sorry no pix until it is published. Or wait. maybe its the Lepticits skelton I prepared many years ago. This one's one of the prides of my collection. the first pic shows the skeleton, the second is the block witht the skull in it. This is Oligocene White River Fm of Wyoming. Finding stuff like this is one of the joys of living here. Edited June 24, 2010 by jpc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ravsiden Posted June 24, 2010 Share Posted June 24, 2010 My best pickup were a piece of amber of 227 gram. Found here in Denmark www.ravsiden.dk Guide to amber worldwide www.fallen-skies.webs.com My meteroite forum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry Dactyll Posted June 24, 2010 Share Posted June 24, 2010 Kolleamm...... yes a tough question.... I'm afraid I cant pin it down to one, and to be honest I'm struggling tying it down to two..... The first is a North Somerset Coast Nautilus (cenoceras) with an Arietites ammonite leaning on it.... I looked up to the sky when I found it and its special to me for so many reasons besides being TOTALLY irreplaceable .... If someone said grab a fossil and run this would be it..... Its Lower Jurassic 195 myo.... The second is Sulciferites cf. greenoughi (Sowerby). , I walked past this MANY times sat on the beach poking out of the rock.... so did thousands of others.... one day when pickings were slim, I had a 'propper' look.... Glad I did now..... its roughly the same age as the Nautilus.... Cheers Steve... And Welcome if your a New Member... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MOROPUS Posted June 24, 2010 Share Posted June 24, 2010 Perhaps this one is not the most impressive or big, but it is the rarest find I have done in my local outcrop. Is so rare, that now is on the local museum! It was found last year, during my summer holidays. Hexanchus Griseus shark teeth (six gill shark). Very rare on Pliocene age, this was found on early (Zanclean)spot.Malaga region. In the invert discoveries, I think, a very big Conus Mercatii(exclusive Pliocene Conus shell), that was found 5 years ago.The preservation is not the best, but it was my first Conus ever found! It was found somewhere in Malaga region (I will preserve the location!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MOROPUS Posted June 24, 2010 Share Posted June 24, 2010 Ooops! Pic is missing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kolleamm Posted June 24, 2010 Author Share Posted June 24, 2010 Everyone here has some very impressive finds, congrats everyone, and a job well done on finding them! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted June 24, 2010 Share Posted June 24, 2010 Great stuff! Let's hope this continues on. I've got a number of favorites, but this one's rather special since this specimen represents the hitherto stratigraphically oldest record of the genus Emileia in Germany and one of the oldest records worldwide. It should be getting published this winter. Emileia contrahens. Ovale Zone, Bajocian, Middle Jurassic. From the Wutach area in south Germany. Best wishes, Roger. Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darwin Ahoy Posted June 25, 2010 Share Posted June 25, 2010 I feel like I've posted this tooth too many times by now, but this would have to be my best find so far. Xiphodolamia ensis, from Shark River in Neptune, NJ. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stonebreaker Posted June 25, 2010 Share Posted June 25, 2010 JP I really need to go hang out with you and pick up your scraps and it would be Chinacat sunflower or going to california Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpc Posted June 25, 2010 Share Posted June 25, 2010 Stonebreaker.... indeed a Chinacat is always a topnotch choice. If you ever get the chance to come down this way some weekend call me at work and maybe we can figure something out, but I'm not guaranteeing anything... Next year's Tate Conference will likely include a field trip to where the Leptictis came from. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tracer Posted June 25, 2010 Share Posted June 25, 2010 my best find was my wife, prolly, and i think she's around fifty, but i'm not posting a picture of her online... as far as my best fossil find, i don't have any, because my son walks beside me and leaps on everything good like it's a live grenade, only without the altruism. tj, you too lazy to post your best find? he's been "busy" lately. not sure doing what... it was a good day when he found the big old eremotherium tooth, because finding those isn't common in our part of the world. i can count on one flingure how often we've found those... course that t-rex skeleton he found is cool too... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grampa dino Posted June 26, 2010 Share Posted June 26, 2010 My best find is my Wife and I wont say how old But all my fossils are the best Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Menser Posted June 26, 2010 Share Posted June 26, 2010 This isn't a particularly rare item in it self. However, the locality (S.Fla) makes this a rare find. Plus the site (in Parkland-Broward CO) is now completely developed which makes this Mammoth tooth the only one that will ever be found there. Finally, there is the pleasure I got from finding this when hunting with my friend, who is one of those annoying people that finds everything. The age is under 10,000 yrs. Be true to the reality you create. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted June 27, 2010 Share Posted June 27, 2010 Hey Grampa! Nice to see some Canadian humor slipping in here , eh? Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grampa dino Posted June 27, 2010 Share Posted June 27, 2010 Hey Grampa! Nice to see some Canadian humor slipping in here , eh? right on, EH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharks of SC Posted June 27, 2010 Share Posted June 27, 2010 Best find and Dead song - Dire wolf (tooth). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patrick hendriks Posted July 4, 2010 Share Posted July 4, 2010 My best find is a Tapir tooth. Although pritty common in the USA, it is a super rare find in Europe. In my country (The Netherlands), it's the second fossil of a Tapir one ever found. The first fossil was found in 1930. In was a jaw with 9 teeth init. The person who found it didn't know what it was an took the teeh out of the jaw. He put the teeth in his pocket and threw the jaw away. In his pocket there was a hole and so he lost two teeth. The other seven one are now located in the museum of natural historie in Maastricht. These teeth are all very, very damaged. The one i found is from a totally different location, and it's assumed to be much older. So maybe they have to rewrite Dutch history. It's now in the museum of natural historie "NATURALIS" on lone. At this moment they are doing a research on it. A paper problably will be published later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vari Raptor Posted July 4, 2010 Share Posted July 4, 2010 (edited) My best is certainly that it finds: sorry for picture but is difficult... Size: 15mm Source: South West France, Charente (16) Ages: Berriasian, Early Cretaceous, 4--140.2 -145.5 ± ± 3 Ma Rating: Kingdom: Animalia Class: Archosauria Order: Saurischia Sub-Order: Theropoda Family: Dromaeosauridae? There could be a Dromaeosauridae like Velociraptor Asia after publication of Smith 2005. This is a tooth very rare, such remains are exceptional in France. The place of discovery and very similar to the level that can be found on the coast of England. Sorry for my english Edited July 4, 2010 by Vari Raptor Ignorance is bliss... facebook.com/TheStoneHouse.fr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tracer Jr. Posted July 4, 2010 Share Posted July 4, 2010 i will admit that the big daddy sloth tooth is one of my favorite finds, but the other favorite would have to be my first "mega fauna" tooth. it is fairly rare for texas, and although it isn't complete the coloration and preservation are very nice and i really like it. my other favorite would have to be the tooth in the center of this photo. based on my time looking and what i know about texas, i would consider it quite rare and it definitely makes my itty bitty shark tooth collection complete. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frozen_turkey Posted July 11, 2010 Share Posted July 11, 2010 (edited) This a Astraeospongia meniscus from the middel devonian period and found in linn county, IA. I found it as is (no prep work), and it is probably the best fossil of its species ever found (not confermed). It even beats out the two displayed in the smisonian (sory cant spell today) by a long shot. -Frozen PS And mine is the oldest in this thread so far!!! It is around 370-390 million years old Edited July 11, 2010 by frozen_turkey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nandomas Posted July 11, 2010 Share Posted July 11, 2010 (edited) Great stuff you found :) Hi guys... I am sorry for the photo, but give a look at 5th fossil cowrie (first on the right) That is the rarest fossil Fossili Veraci finder Edited July 12, 2010 by Fossili Veraci Erosion... will be my epitaph! http://www.paleonature.org/ https://fossilnews.org/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siteseer Posted July 15, 2010 Share Posted July 15, 2010 I didn't realize it until recently but there are quite a few people who collect fossil cowries but are not really interested in shells in general. I was visiting a friend, also a fossil collector, when another friend brought some material to show him. There were a couple of nice ammonites and some vertebrate pieces, but my friend immediately asked about the Pleistocene cowry from Indonesia - nice brown color. I heard about at least two other collectors who look for cowries from different parts of the world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nandomas Posted July 16, 2010 Share Posted July 16, 2010 (edited) I didn't realize it until recently but there are quite a few people who collect fossil cowries but are not really interested in shells in general. I was visiting a friend, also a fossil collector, when another friend brought some material to show him. There were a couple of nice ammonites and some vertebrate pieces, but my friend immediately asked about the Pleistocene cowry from Indonesia - nice brown color. I heard about at least two other collectors who look for cowries from different parts of the world. Yes, there are people crazy about cowries. This cowrie is left-handed (sinistral) specimen, it is the only one I saw in my life. I or my wife (we are not sure)found this beauty in a road-side gravel dump in Florida. Edited July 16, 2010 by Fossili Veraci Erosion... will be my epitaph! http://www.paleonature.org/ https://fossilnews.org/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amber-inclusions.dk Posted August 10, 2010 Share Posted August 10, 2010 (edited) I know this topic is old - but it is so general a title that it remained relevant. So it was better to post here than to create a new topicMy very best discoveries may be the two inclusions here - both are possible new species.Inclusion are in New Jersey amber (90-94 MYO). At present, for examination at AMNH (http://www.amnh.org/) with David Grimaldi. One is a wingless female of a scale insect - 3 mm and the other male scale insect - 1 mm. Both are extremely rare, but a wingless female of a scale insect is extremly! rare, just in itself. (If you want to see more from New Jersey amber, I just made a gallery with some of my pictures). Edited August 10, 2010 by amber-inclusions.dk AMBER - A window to the past... www.amber-inclusions.dk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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