What's your oldest find?

[RedGinger]

Those are very nice examples, Mike. Where did you find them? Joe has one that has a tiny footprint on it. I think it was a baby dinosaur. Any fossil experts out there?? I haven't felt up to it, but one of us will post a picture or two of our finds. We have fossils EVERYWHERE here. The state PA fossil is the Trilobite. We're just over the line. We even have them in our driveway. Whatever was used to fill it in, was taken from nearby. Sometimes, if I'm super-bored, I'll go out and pick around in the driveway. The first time Joe ever took me bottle digging up here, I was amazed at the fossils and held us up for awhile while I examined them.

 

[LC]

I just did a search on Google and found I was off quite a bit as for the spelling of it Mike . It is spelled BRYOZOA .

 

[RedGinger]

ORIGINAL: cobaltbot

Here's my oldest find!

LOL! Everyone likes Cap.
Oops, I replied before I saw Mike's response about where he found his fossils.

 

[LC]

Here are a few of the enrolled trilobites I have found Mike . They are the Flexicalymene Ratrosa species , they are found up to around one and a half to two inches in length . I have others that are layed out flat in cases , I have posted them on here before some time back .

 

[madman]

thanks laur and lc love to see some trilobites ginger , i think i may try fossil hunting again in the spring.........

 

[bearswede]

enrolled trilobites

Did something cause them to curl up at the time of interment...?

Ron

 

[sandchip]

RoadDog, you must be from NC, with all those killer Hardaways and rhyolite.

And LC, if you found one, there are probably more in your creek. I'd never found one in the creek I bottle hunted for 30 years, until I heard of folks finding points in creeks, and having "programmed" my eyes for bottles, there's no telling how many points I walked over. So now, I set my eyes more for points, that way if the usually larger items like bottles enter my field of sight, I'll still see them, if that makes sense. Here's one I found after changing my way of looking.

 

[sandchip]

Here's my oldest lithic find. I found it in a little creek not 3 feet wide where spring floods had busted a beaver dam. The impact fracture broke my heart, but at least it's prehistoric damage.

 

[sandchip]

This Cowhouse Slough probably runs a close second with the Simpson.

 

[sandchip]

Backlit shot.