lickit
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Post by lickit on Nov 24, 2016 17:37:27 GMT -5
Partial spine found in situ. Whiteriver formation in South Dakota...anyone want to take a stab at ID?
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Post by jakesrocks on Nov 24, 2016 17:55:39 GMT -5
Nice find. Unfortunately it's a leaverite. Leave r right where you found it. It's illegal to collect vertebrate fossils in South Dakota, and almost anywhere else in the U.S As for ID, your guess would be as good as mine.
If you have a GPS location, take your pics & the GPS local to the South Dakota School of Mines in Rapid City. If they think the find is important enough, they'll send out a team to excavate & preserve it.
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Fossilman
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Post by Fossilman on Nov 24, 2016 21:23:34 GMT -5
Yuppers,as Don said-leave it be..........................Not worth the prison time! Nice find though.....Are ya' a Paleontologist.....
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lickit
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Post by lickit on Nov 24, 2016 22:20:33 GMT -5
Coyote and Agate Hunter...and a Pastor. The Fossils we just stumbled on.
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Post by Fossilman on Nov 25, 2016 10:39:29 GMT -5
Coyote and Agate Hunter...and a Pastor. The Fossils we just stumbled on. Got a good friend in ND,he "Yote" hunts too,just starting out this winter and doing great... He calls them in...
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Fossilman
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Post by Fossilman on Nov 26, 2016 10:28:48 GMT -5
PS: Welcome to the forum.........
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huskeric
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Post by huskeric on Nov 30, 2016 11:27:32 GMT -5
So I understand it's illegal to collect that, but wouldn't SOMEONE (Museum, the state, etc.) want to know where that is and at least preserve it? That is an AMAZING discovery, and I would think that it was somewhat newsworthy. It is to me, anyway!
I'm afraid if it had been me that had discovered it, I would have found out that it was illegal AFTER I took it home. =)
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Fossilman
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Post by Fossilman on Nov 30, 2016 13:40:45 GMT -5
So I understand it's illegal to collect that, but wouldn't SOMEONE (Museum, the state, etc.) want to know where that is and at least preserve it? That is an AMAZING discovery, and I would think that it was somewhat newsworthy. It is to me, anyway! I'm afraid if it had been me that had discovered it, I would have found out that it was illegal AFTER I took it home. =) Fossil hounding in Montana (myself),if I find a dino bone,Structure of more than one bone,I have to turn it in to a University or etc... Leaving it,where it lays and with directions and place....
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Fossilman
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Post by Fossilman on Nov 30, 2016 13:41:49 GMT -5
By the way "Lickit" that was an awesome find!!! Two thumbs up
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huskeric
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Post by huskeric on Nov 30, 2016 19:10:39 GMT -5
So I understand it's illegal to collect that, but wouldn't SOMEONE (Museum, the state, etc.) want to know where that is and at least preserve it? That is an AMAZING discovery, and I would think that it was somewhat newsworthy. It is to me, anyway! I'm afraid if it had been me that had discovered it, I would have found out that it was illegal AFTER I took it home. =) Fossil hounding in Montana (myself),if I find a dino bone,Structure of more than one bone,I have to turn it in to a University or etc... Leaving it,where it lays and with directions and place.... The ironic thing is, the people who would take it and sell it will probably still do so illegally, and the people who would notify someone who could preserve would also do that even if the law weren't there. I guess it just puts a penalty on those who are caught. That said, if the rules were not as they are in National Parks, I would have absolutely wanted to take home some rocks from our trip to RMNP in Colorado. As it was, there were SO many other places to find rocks legally, that preserving the National Parks is pretty easy. I think that finding a dino bone and seeing it in a museum would be WAY more rewarding than selling it on the black market and trying to live with myself.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 30, 2016 21:59:00 GMT -5
Reconstructed properly that would make a very bitchin coffee table. Fossil under glass.....
Tragedy of the commons, the public land laws are probably just.
Any chance this was private property?
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