2024 June Utah Ammonite trip

[rickeclectic]

This pic shows pretty much all I found in my June hunt for ammonites for a few days south of Wellington Utah. Just an impression and a few pieces of some small ones. Got some info on likely places from fossil forum folks but honestly did not find hardly anything. Bit of a downer. These were from some small (fist sized) concretions. The concretions were pretty hard rock and when I banged them open (did some of that at home  in Texas later) they were full of small shell type fossils, but almost nothing that looked like ammonites. Seems like a numbers game and luck of the draw in finding a spot that has not been picked over. Oh well.

[Fossildude19]

I've found that most successful fossil hunters end up playing the long game, and with more trips, more success.

It takes time to find the good stuff, usually. 

[FossilDAWG]

Sorry about the bad luck.  We have all been there and done that.  I’ve had more busts than successes in the last few years.  One trip, a previously great ammonite site was completely buried by a river bank stabilization project.  The next year, I tried to revisit a site in Northern California.  After a long flight and a four hour drive, the site had been posted and the land manager was completely unmovable.  I could see the outcrop but had to turn around and go back.  You just have to keep trying, as Fossildude said.  It’s always good to have a local guide who knows the area, but not everyone is willing to share their honey hole.

 

Don

[rickeclectic]

Finishing digging through my June Utah trip I found one more small ammonite impression and piece. Here tis.