DeloiVarden Posted April 4, 2012 Share Posted April 4, 2012 (edited) Hey Guys, I can only imagine most of you are similar to me in at least the simple fact that you each have a particular spot you would really like to go fossil hunting. We all make due with spots pretty close to where we live and often times center our fossil collection around the fossils in our area, but inevitably you see fossils from other locations or read about fossil hunting adventures you would really like to share. It really doesn't have to be crazy exotic, but on the other hand don't hold back. Let us know where that one place is and why. I know I have many, but one place stands out. For me, it is the desserts of peru looking for colorful megalodon teeth. I know I can get them here too, but I want to go as much for the adventure as I do the finds. Now it is your turn to share! Jason Edited April 4, 2012 by DeloiVarden Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted April 4, 2012 Share Posted April 4, 2012 Taranaki. I would love to hunt fossils with Dave Allen. I wouldn't even expect to keep anything. New Zealand just does that to me. For that matter, the same goes for accompanying other Forum members at their favorite spots; so much could be learned! Were I to chose a place to hunt on my own, Hell Creek comes to mind, prospecting for pre-K/T birds. "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caleb Posted April 4, 2012 Share Posted April 4, 2012 This is an easy one for me. I would love to go the the Walcott Rust Quarry and collect that historical site. Caleb Midwestpaleo.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bullsnake Posted April 4, 2012 Share Posted April 4, 2012 New Zealand came to mind for me also, but Astrinos' posts are very compelling... oh, I don't know. Why do you ask such hard questions? Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xonenine Posted April 4, 2012 Share Posted April 4, 2012 i'd like to find fossils on Mars, but failing that, the desert in Nevada is where I'd like to end up collecting and living... "Your serpent of Egypt is bred now of your mud by the operation of your sun; so is your crocodile." Lepidus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted April 4, 2012 Share Posted April 4, 2012 3 way tie between the Green River FM, The Trilobite Jam, and the Beecher beds. Someday.... :sigh: Regards, Tim - VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER VFOTM --- APRIL - 2015 IPFOTM -- MAY - 2024 _________________________________________________________________________________ "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir ~ ~ ~ ~ ><))))( *> About Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranha Posted April 4, 2012 Share Posted April 4, 2012 Walcott's Quarry would be the crescendo moment for me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranha Posted April 4, 2012 Share Posted April 4, 2012 Not to be confused with Walcott-Rust mentioned by Caleb... Yoho National Park and I get to keep whatever I find Hey it's only a wish list... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caleb Posted April 4, 2012 Share Posted April 4, 2012 Not to be confused with Walcott-Rust mentioned by Caleb... Yoho National Park and I get to keep whatever I find Hey it's only a wish list... The Burgess shale would certainly be a treat as well! Caleb Midwestpaleo.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lordpiney Posted April 4, 2012 Share Posted April 4, 2012 Alberta. either the badlands, or Ammonite hunting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcolmt Posted April 4, 2012 Share Posted April 4, 2012 Not that it is legal but the Burgess shale would be at the top of my list followed closely by Black Cat Mountain, Walcott Rust quarry and the Beecher trilobite bed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
squalicorax Posted April 4, 2012 Share Posted April 4, 2012 Paleozoic - Waldron Mesozoic - Bear Paw Cenozoic - Caloosahatchee My Flickr Page of My Collection: http://www.flickr.com/photos/79424101@N00/sets Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siteseer Posted April 4, 2012 Share Posted April 4, 2012 Jason, I don't know about that. The photo looks too much like Mohave. Bakersfield is dry but it's not as dry as that. I've never been to South America but that one and the Atacama are said to be among the driest. You should go to Bakersfield in the summer and see how you like that first. Yeah, like Auspex and Bullsnake, I've thought of going to New Zealand too (I want to see a tuatara and a kiwi) though I heard that you can find fossil shark teeth on Tahiti as well. Still, a trip to Texas to look for shark teeth (any formation really) or Kansas (Niobrara Chalk) would be great. Jess Hey Guys, I can only imagine most of you are similar to me in at least the simple fact that you each have a particular spot you would really like to go fossil hunting. We all make due with spots pretty close to where we live and often times center our fossil collection around the fossils in our area, but inevitably you see fossils from other locations or read about fossil hunting adventures you would really like to share. It really doesn't have to be crazy exotic, but on the other hand don't hold back. Let us know where that one place is and why. I know I have many, but one place stands out. For me, it is the desserts of peru looking for colorful megalodon teeth. I know I can get them here too, but I want to go as much for the adventure as I do the finds. Now it is your turn to share! Jason Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyrannoraptor Posted April 4, 2012 Share Posted April 4, 2012 Anywhere in Hell Creek... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Missourian Posted April 4, 2012 Share Posted April 4, 2012 I too would pick New Zealand, even if there's nothing more than broken clam shells to find. Context is critical. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockwood Posted April 4, 2012 Share Posted April 4, 2012 The fishbowl, Monte Bolca. All keepers of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glacialerratic Posted April 4, 2012 Share Posted April 4, 2012 The McAbee fossil beds! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimB88 Posted April 4, 2012 Share Posted April 4, 2012 easy one..Bear Gulch for a complete Helodus shark! Or a Belantsea!! oh...oh...oh..a complete Helicoprion!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cowsharks Posted April 4, 2012 Share Posted April 4, 2012 I've often imagined what it would be like to be able to hunt Lee Creek after it has been closed for 3 years, with no one else collecting there and all of the great piles of Yorktown and Pungo weathered away exposing all kinds of stuff. To go and collect without time limits or anything and go day after day until I've scoured the whole area. Then, I'd set up a huge sifting station so I could sift the piles of material in the huge ponds of water. I'd go crazy! Daryl. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramo Posted April 4, 2012 Share Posted April 4, 2012 I'd like to hunt the chalk of western Kansas back before it was hunted by many, and you could just hunt wherever you wanted, without having to try to find the land-owner, and getting premission. I guess my one place would be where I hunt now, but at a different time. Ramo For one species to mourn the death of another is a new thing under the sun. -Aldo Leopold Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Siphuncle Posted April 4, 2012 Share Posted April 4, 2012 (edited) While I'm quite skeptical of what I see for sale from Morocco, I think it would be pretty cool to do a grand tour of the place, personally collecting a suite of treasures spanning the ages. Also Pleistocene in the Siberian tundra during the summer thaw...... Edited April 4, 2012 by danwoehr Grüße, Daniel A. Wöhr aus Südtexas "To the motivated go the spoils." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeloiVarden Posted April 4, 2012 Author Share Posted April 4, 2012 Awesome places guys! You have suggested many places I hadn't thought about, but now I want to go! Maybe travel will become cheaper, safer, and I will magically get more free time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Missourian Posted April 4, 2012 Share Posted April 4, 2012 If I'm not limited to the present, I'd like to hunt for eurypterids when they were working on the Erie Canal. Or the Mazon Creek spoil piles in the mid-20th century. Context is critical. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crinoid Queen Posted April 4, 2012 Share Posted April 4, 2012 Hunt crinoids in Germany! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave pom Allen Posted April 4, 2012 Share Posted April 4, 2012 Hi All, firstly I would love to visit and hunt in South America Chile and Peru both appeal to me. i am surprised so many off you lovely folk out there would come to little Ole New Zealand, we do have some of the best scenery in the world and some odd birds and the like, but i am sure its the amazing rare fossils found right here on my door step that i am sure a few of you would come here for.And my hand goes out to any of you that may someday venture down here for a fossil adventure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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