Mar 24, 2025 · Had a great field trip with the SoCal Paleo team in January 2025 to the Newport Beach Back Bay area to look for Pleistocene fossils roughly ~100K years old and also some Miocene Fish …

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!

Jul 21, 2022 · I’m looking for fossil collecting sites within 3 hours’ drive from Seattle to visit and do a little hobby collecting while I’m in WA for work. I’m most interested in fossil plants, mollusks, or …

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Nov 11, 2023 · For the last 15 years most of our fossil collecting has been in the Devonian and more recently in the late Devonian (Famennian). Interestingly, This represents a period between two …

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 …

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Oct 6, 2024 · I'm interested in purchasing air abrasive tools for preparing small fossils, such as brachiopods, crinoid ossicles, and bivalves found in shale and sandstone. Most of these fossils are …

Nov 19, 2020 · I threw together a guide to manual prep tools for one of my students who is interested in trying her hand at some peck and scratch work on fossils. Figure I'd share a version of it with yinze. …