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Aug 29, 2021 · Hi everyone! So I am planning on doing some fossil hunting this year before it gets to cold and I am trying to find some good places. Thanks in advance!

Fossil Hunting Trips This is the place to share your fossil collecting adventures or see what other members of the community have been finding lately.

Jan 1, 2017 · Going back several decades I have attempted to have an annual extended field trip; call it a fossil collecting vacation. Some years this happens, some it doesn't but this past November I had …

Jul 31, 2025 · Can't figure out what that fossil is? Share bright, sharp images in .JPG format, and general location info here for identification!

Nov 8, 2024 · Hi fellow fossil lovers! I'm new to this forum and very grateful to have found such a wealth of knowledge here! I'm preparing for my trip to Venice Beach and Peace River in late January, with …

Jun 3, 2017 · Collected on a field trip to U-Dig Utah and prepared at the U-Dig site station. After a light mechanical brush exposed the shale, mineral oil was applied with another brush for a polished finish.

Sep 23, 2023 · Getting confused because I’ve been posting on the fossil forum and the fossil forum on Facebook. As far as Trilobite Ledge goes,I know and old historian who actually worked the ledge and …

Sep 7, 2021 · Greetings, I’ve recently gotten back into prospecting fossils and I’m looking for some suggestions on sites to visit in western Pennsylvania. I frequently visit Ambridge PA to find fern and …

May 27, 2013 · Saturday the Paleontological Society of Austin visited the "Waco Pit". For those of you who are not familiar this is a very large borrow pit from which the US Army Corp of Engineers dug …