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Post by texaswoodie on Oct 11, 2009 6:19:00 GMT -5
I've been out hunting fossils whenever possible and have found some nice vertebrae, teeth, and shell type animals. The Mosasaur tooth still hides from me though. Here is a favorite I haven't identified yet. A shark gave this one a little love tap. An unidentified jaw section Horse incisor I do enjoy going out and finding this stuff! Curt
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Post by Toad on Oct 11, 2009 10:39:09 GMT -5
I imagine you keep most as specimens, but do you actually work any of the material?
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Post by texaswoodie on Oct 11, 2009 16:52:20 GMT -5
I've cut and polished a couple of unidentifiable bone fragments. Marine reptile bones are denser than dino bones and although they look good on the outside, when you cut them, the cell pattern is very tight and don't look as nice as dino bones.
Just got the jaw fragment ID. Mosasaur with broken teeth.
Curt
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NDK
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Post by NDK on Oct 11, 2009 20:46:01 GMT -5
These are really cool spcimens Curt. If I may ask, how do you go about hunting fossils? I've never done it.
Thanks,
Nate
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Post by texaswoodie on Oct 12, 2009 7:12:55 GMT -5
Lot's of ways to hunt fossils Nate. I prefer river and creek beds. The water has already washed the matrix off of most of them. You can also look in limestone deposits, but the fossils need a lot of tedious prep work and I'm just not into that. People in Florida and the Carolinas do a lot of diving in the rivers. Not into fighting alligators either. Curt
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Post by Fossilman on Oct 12, 2009 8:30:01 GMT -5
These are really cool spcimens Curt. If I may ask, how do you go about hunting fossils? I've never done it. Thanks, Nate In Montana and a few other states I fossil hunt in,I study where the earth formations are at and what lived in those formations and or died there......... I find marine fossils in the bearpaw and pierre formations and dino bones in the hell creek formations....... It saves on alot of walking............ Oh yes,those are some nice dino finds..........
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