In this area, we celebrate our amateur contributions to the paleontological sciences. Whether by volunteering their time (lab work, collections maintenance, organized field work), or through the donation of significant specimens to scientific institutions, amateurs have always played an important but unheralded part!

Dec 30, 2024 · Welcome to The Fossil Forum Collections! This section is intended to be a database for our members to archive and document distinctive fossil specimens in their collections. It will help our community turn their personal collections into a useful database for fossil identification. A virtual museum, of sorts. In addition, the CRM will also ...

Dec 16, 2022 · Of course, if you're into really BIG game fossil-hunting, you'll want to go to Mastodon State Historic Site, about 20 miles south of Saint Louis in Imperial (off I-55). Pretty sure you can't, um, "collect" any of THOSE, fossils, though!

Dec 8, 2024 · ANSWERING FOSSIL ID REQUESTS: Identification Posting For The Uninitiated 2.0 (NEW MEMBERS PLEASE READ) 1 2 3 By paleoflor, November 26, 2013 answering

Mar 7, 2025 · I collected these unusual fossils from a stream in Lee County, GA. The substrate there is Ocala Group Limestone, Late Eocene (~39 Ma). These two fossils were recovered from a reef of sand dollars (Periarchus lyelli). I put these aside to get them identified, and now maybe someone here will know. ...

Jan 1, 2017 · The youngest Cretaceous deposit in Alabama is the 67 million year old Prairie Bluff Formation. We visited a famous site that exposes the Alabama KPg from which several papers have been published claiming the large blocks between the Prairie Bluff and the Lower Paleocene (Danian) Clayton Formation were formed by a Tsunami from the Chicxulub Meteor impact.

How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications This forum is devoted to illuminating the pitfalls to be avoided when considering the purchase of fossils. From fabrications to restorations, this is the section to discuss.

Oct 28, 2024 · I live in a state that is rich in megs (and other fossil shark teeth). I prefer to collect my own but not everybody has that luxury. Others build collections sitting at their computers and 'hunting' for fossils online (something that you simply couldn't do 30 years ago). It can be an effective way for someone to build a diverse collection.

Feb 2, 2025 · I went out today and will go out again in the morning. I have no time except to show you an outstanding find. It is a Wolf Maxilla segment with 2 Teeth (P3, P4). This was found at a location that spans late Pliocene to early Pleistocene. If Canis Dirus, it is Float into the layers during Middle P...

Mar 12, 2025 · Hello! Just a quick intro, I've been into shell collecting for a long time, and love walking the beaches looking for shells. A while back, when I lived in Baltimore, I saw a YT video on a fossil hunting channel where a guy pulled out a fossil whelk shell from a stream that was bigger than anythin...