bone digger Posted April 16, 2009 Share Posted April 16, 2009 Grampa Dino and I went out last weekend and found some stuff. Bits of dino I guess! Couple small teeth! and some thing that looks like a claw! and something with a lot of teeth in it that I'm still waiting to get a better picture of! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shamalama Posted April 16, 2009 Share Posted April 16, 2009 Nice finds, Where did you go? What age are the sediments? -Dave __________________________________________________ Geologists on the whole are inconsistent drivers. When a roadcut presents itself, they tend to lurch and weave. To them, the roadcut is a portal, a fragment of a regional story, a proscenium arch that leads their imaginations into the earth and through the surrounding terrain. - John McPheeIf I'm going to drive safely, I can't do geology. - John McPheeCheck out my Blog for more fossils I've found: http://viewsofthemahantango.blogspot.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted April 16, 2009 Share Posted April 16, 2009 Spring is here!!! "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...
CreekCrawler Posted April 16, 2009 Share Posted April 16, 2009 Looks like some nice finds there.Could you possible enlarge the picture a little? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bone digger Posted April 22, 2009 Author Share Posted April 22, 2009 Ok, I'm slowly getting back into this after a very long winter! It's kinda like coming out of hibernation! Here is a couple close up pics from the other week. The first is a hadrosaur jaw that has all the teeth, it is about 10" long. I still have to do a bunch more work on it to get all the sand off but WOOOOOHOOOOO, what a way to start off the year! Following that is a beaut of a therapod tooth about 2" long and finally a therapod claw, the best I have ever found (right to the tippy tip) and it is 2 1/4" long. I've done a couple more trips since this one so I'm a little behind but I will try and get pics up soon. Oh ya, the wife came down on this trip and wanted to try a little geocaching so we brought along the GPS coordinates for an old quarry site to try and find. The one we were after was quarry #25 and was excavated by Levi Sternberg in 1920 or 1926. I think it was a partial Chasmosaurus that was found there. Anyways while I had my nose to the ground in search of fossils she took off on the hunt for the quarry stake. After a while she came back saying she'd found it, turns out I had walked within 10 feet of it and had even picked up a partial ceratopsian jaw not 30 feet from the quarry. Attached is a pic of the stake, unfortunately it's a little blury. I find it very cool to be able to read books about the Sternbergs, Barnum Brown, and other collectors and then be able to go out in the field and find the exact spots they excavated dinosaurs soooooo many years ago, sure brings history to life!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tracer Posted April 22, 2009 Share Posted April 22, 2009 amazing. it's hard to imagine how cool it would be to live somewhere where such finds are possible. thanks for the photos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted April 22, 2009 Share Posted April 22, 2009 Fantabulous Finds! And an especially good story "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...
Frank Menser Posted April 22, 2009 Share Posted April 22, 2009 Does...WOW...say it? Be true to the reality you create. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevinG Posted April 22, 2009 Share Posted April 22, 2009 Walking among the legends? Becoming one? Kevin Goto, Lafayette,CA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bone digger Posted April 22, 2009 Author Share Posted April 22, 2009 thanks guys, I'll try and get some good pics of the really small therapod teeth I've found on the last few trips and also some more of the quarry markers from the same area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CreekCrawler Posted April 23, 2009 Share Posted April 23, 2009 Man that tooth is just too cool of a find. Great preservation on the enamel. Hope you find the rest of that beast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicholas Posted April 23, 2009 Share Posted April 23, 2009 JEALOUSY!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
worthy 55 Posted April 23, 2009 Share Posted April 23, 2009 Very cool finds . It's my bone!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest N.AL.hunter Posted April 23, 2009 Share Posted April 23, 2009 Man I sure wish I could hunt in a dino area and then keep what I found (as long as it wasn't of much use to science of course). Nice finds Bone Digger!! Keep posting them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bone digger Posted April 23, 2009 Author Share Posted April 23, 2009 Here is my days finds from last weekend when Grampa Dino and I went fossiling. I found four little tiny therapod teeth and two around 1 1/2". Also a nice size Ankylosaur scute in good shape. It's only my second scute that size, they always seen to be broken beyond hope. You would think armour would be a little stronger lol! These are all late Cretaceous, approx 75 mya. Some of the pics suck but you get the idea! all the fossil from last trip Troodon tooth 3/16" rooted croc tooth (from a couple trips ago) 1/2" Troodon tooth 3/8" Saurornitholestes or Dromaeosaurus tooth? 1/2" same as above! 5/16" killing claw pedal phalanx (claw was found last year) Ankylosaur armour scute (top view) Ankylosaur armour scute (side view) edited and added sizes of teeth! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted April 23, 2009 Share Posted April 23, 2009 I can't get over the fact that you're walking around in a beautiful place picking up dinosaur pieces! Do either of these little teeth have a figure-eight cross-section at the root? (Guess why I'm asking ) "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...
bone digger Posted April 24, 2009 Author Share Posted April 24, 2009 no I don't see any figure eights, but I'll keep looking for ya. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gatorjames85 Posted April 24, 2009 Share Posted April 24, 2009 That is insanely cool! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmorefossil Posted April 24, 2009 Share Posted April 24, 2009 wow what great finds! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bone digger Posted April 24, 2009 Author Share Posted April 24, 2009 thanks guys! I didn't notice till I posted the pics but it looks like my Troodon teeth need some flossing lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest N.AL.hunter Posted April 24, 2009 Share Posted April 24, 2009 I just looked at this post again. Why do you post these pictures!! Do you want me to cry all the time!! What you do and find is what I dream of doing and finding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Boy Posted April 24, 2009 Share Posted April 24, 2009 Amazing! Congratulations!!! Kevin Wilson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bone digger Posted April 24, 2009 Author Share Posted April 24, 2009 I just looked at this post again. Why do you post these pictures!! Do you want me to cry all the time!! What you do and find is what I dream of doing and finding. Thanks Del, glad you like them! It really is a thrill to be able to find these things. One of my dreams would be to find a nice megalodon tooth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hawkeye Posted April 25, 2009 Share Posted April 25, 2009 Those are so dang cool! If you believe everything you read, perhaps it's time for you to stop reading... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grampa dino Posted April 25, 2009 Share Posted April 25, 2009 I don't know what is better, You finding that sort of stuff or the look on your face when you first discover it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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