#fossil collecting

[ancientfrozenglaciershark]

AAH this is such a hard question haha

Thanks so much for asking @insectsinthestars ! I felt like this required some photos!

I truly do not think I have a favorite, I tried to pick one but I could not. I love them all so much. Here are a few that mean the most to me though!

This blob of Bryozoans! This one is special to me because it is a chunk of just pure Bryozoans, it is actually super light and REALLY delicate. Every time I set it down, it sheds some particles. The fact that this survived the elements for potentially hundreds of millions of years makes my heart tighten up.

These are also the largest branches I have found, by far! (Bryozoa are tiny tiny animals that live in colonies, similar to coral)

Of course, I have to include my ONE trilobite haha. Yeah, that was a good day. I kinda love that it is just his little booty, hehe. Maybe one day I will work up the courage to attempt to chisel the rest of it out, I just reallllly do not wanna damage it. But yea.. man, do i cherish it

And I would honestly feel bad not including any Brachiopods, since they make up 80% of my fossils. But again, I really can’t choose a favorite:( I have a lot and I love them all. So these one’s are from the very beginning of my fossil hunting days (2019) and I can still remember finding them and crying in the woods :’)

#devonian period #my fossils #bryozoan colony #bryozoa #bryozoans #trilobite #trilobites #devonian fossils #devonian fossil #devonian #fossilblr #rockblr #fossils #fossil #amateur paleontology #paleontology #brachiopods #brachiopod #rocks #geology #earth science #natural science #nature #fossil hunting #fossil collecting

[prasemvanguardgerman]

The last wednesday, i found the round urchin from before post, with this mold of an rare fossil in my area. I suggest it if, it is the case. 🔍👀

Absolutly rare to seen in the northern region of germany, myself not knowing these are also here to find.

I havent seen those before on the search for minor fossils and rocks on sand and land, without any local modern river or mountains in the near area.

Likely an mold of an tiny trilobite, the form with an missing head piece probably are on the missing other side of the rock.

The rock is not flint, some other sediment stone in rusty brown color with little metallic spots held in light.

After washing, it retains moisture longer then other stones in drying.

The print mold has the size of an fingernail.

Identification where appreciate great to know of its an case for an trilobite family speciemen or some other suggestion what its belongs of pattern in rock.

It would be great to know & also for other rock fans with maybe have seen those pattern .

I know nothing about limestone or iron rock variations in my area, and seen not common these stones or fossils from them here myself.

Super lucky, and it does resembles the larger trilobite in contrast of an mold in the lining struckture.

#fossils #rocks #geology #fossil hunt #fossil collecting #fossil identification #fossil #trilobite #fossils in germany #fossils 2024

[vastderp]

every couple of years i get too focused on concerta and go macro hunting on my favorite fossil find.

someday i will find a trilobite on this piece of 570 million year old equatorial seafloor. maybe just the tail, or maybe more. there is one here somewhere. like a limestone where’s waldo.

edit to add: collected in 2006 or 2007 at Lilydale Park fossil area. There’s some exposed fossils in southern MN too, but most of that is horn coral eroded loose from matrix.

most of what you find in lilydale is gray-buff-rust orange and deteriorated but this one is five pounds of blue deliciousness and the brachiopods have all turned to translucent white calcite. Look at those gorgeous zigzag growth lines! Magical.

#lilydale fossil specimen #photo post #ordovician #lilydale park #rockhounding #fossil collecting

[casually-cool-collecting]

My Fossilized Fish Collection!

#rock collection #fossil collection #fossil #fossils #fossilized fish #fish fossil #rock collecting #fossil collecting #personal collection

[ornithologyorthodoxy]

NEW EPISODE OUT NOW ON INDIGENOUS AMERICAN PALEONTOLOGY

(We’d also love to hear from anyone whose community has fossil collecting traditions!)

#paleontology #new podcast episode #native american history #american history #fossil collecting #thunderbird

[reddpenn]

I got a Geiger counter!

Let’s look through my collection for some Spicy Rocks!  I’ve never deliberately collected radioactive specimens, so I have no idea what I’m going to find.

First, though, let’s test the baseline level of radiation in my house.

It’s fun to hear the Geiger counter click as it detects radiation.  20 counts per minute.  Nice!  You’re unlikely to ever see a count of zero, as pretty much everything in the world, including the human body, gives off a little bit of radiation. 

20 is a normal baseline, nothing to be concerned about.  Standing in my house, I’m getting a radiation dose of about 0.00013 milliseieverts per hour - or a little over one mSv a year.  This is an average yearly dosage of radiation for people in my country, and is something my body can easily process.  For context, a dosage of 100 mSv would slightly increase my risk of cancer, and a dosage of 1000 mSv would immediately give me radiation sickness.

But enough about these boring, safe amounts of radiation.  I want to see some spice!  Let’s check over by the Rock Wall!

Hm, I’d expected the CPM to be noticeably higher around my rock collection, but I’m getting nothing!  Even testing each individual rock, nothing’s more than a few ticks above the baseline.  So far, my fancy new toy is looking like wasted money.  :c

WAIT!  THERE!!  62 CPM!  That’s three times higher than the base reading in the rest of my house!!!  YESSS!!  THIS ROCK IS SPICY!!!!

Here’s the rock that’s setting off my Geiger counter.  (Yes I’m touching the spicy rock with my bare hands, don’t worry about it.) 

This fossil, which is as big as my head, is part of the femur bone of a Megalonyx, a North American giant ground sloth!

These huge animals could grow as big as ten feet tall.  They lived alongside humans during the last ice age, and it’s theorized that humans may have hunted them to extinction.  This particular fossil was found in a phosphate mine!

Why is it radioactive?  Because... sometimes fossils are just radioactive!  They spend a lot of time in the ground, which is full of radioactive minerals, and often radiation just gets all up in there.  There are some fossils on display in museums which are so radioactive that they have to be coated with lead paint for the safety of curators and museum-goers!  Compared to those, this femur bone is barely radioactive at all.

So is it really safe for me to have this in my house, much less handle it with my bare hands?  Well, yeah!  Remember, despite having this spicy rock in my collection, the radiation baseline in my house is completely normal.  Here’s why.

Even just a few centimeters away from this specimen, the Geiger counter’s reading is halved.  A few inches away, and it can’t detect any radiation at all.  It basically has to be directly touching the rock to get an abnormal reading.  Which means I also have to be touching the rock to receive a meaningful amount of radiation exposure.

But even holding this rock in my hands, I’m only getting a dosage of about 0.0004 mSv per hour.  If I never let go of this rock for an entire year, I would get a dose of about 3.5 mSv.  Which is... still completely within the safe threshold for my body to process.  Nothing to worry about!

Man, I gotta start collecting some spicier rocks.

#rock collecting #red pen has cool rocks #fossils #north american giant ground sloth #geiger counter #radiation

[nemfrog]

"Fossil leaves of typical cretaceous plants." Geology, Vol.III. 1907.

Internet Archive

#fossils #leaves #collection #processed image #nemfrog #1907 #early 1900s

[srlgemstone]

Stromatolite Fossil

When I first saw this stone, I was excited. I was even more excited when I found out what it was. A record of the first life forms on Earth. Information from billions of years ago. How could I not be excited? I would love to know all the information hidden inside this beautiful fossil.

Stromatolite Fossil

#fossil #fossils #paleontology #paleoart #special collections #stone aesthetic #collectibles #geology #geological formations #paleontography #stromatolite fossil #microbiology #rock collection #rocks and minerals #the collector

[shadyufo]

Super cute little curiosity collection in a vintage bone china trinket box. Includes a fossilized deer tooth, a mantis shrimp raptorial claw, some neat mineral specimens, and more!

Get it HERE in my Etsy shop!

#curiosity collection #curiosities #oddities #trinkets #vulture culture #fossils

[spaceguy44]

My fluorescent (glowing) rock and radioactive materials collection that I've been building for about a year with my partner. Looks cooler IRL than what my phone camera can do. I've labelled everything with the color they glow as the text color.

#fluorescent #crystals #radioactive #minerals #collection #calcite #petrified wood #fossils #agate #fluorite #ruby #yooperlite #uranium glass #uranium #radium #kunzite #glow in the dark #phosphorescent #lapis lazuli #rocks

[katarinanavane]

Just made this super fun batch of pins and pendants featuring doll eyes, dental caps, sea urchin spines, snake bones, jewel beetle shells, fossils, and more! Haven't listed any of these yet as of posting (11/2/2023) so message me if you want to call dibs on any of them.

#oddities #goblincore #vulture culture #cabinet of curiosities #crowcore #shinies #curio collection #curio #oddities and curiosities #natural history #eyeballs #eyeball #scopophobia #it watches #biblically accurate angel #biblically accurate #seraphim #keys #insect jewelry #fossils

[ancientfrozenglaciershark]

So apparently it is ‘Fossil Friday’:) I like this term!

I cracked open that one from my last post and was rewarded with my favorite genus of Brachiopod, ✨ Leptaena ✨!! so beautiful..

Also I cracked open this mush

I managed to weasel this lady out!!

I am honestly not too sure what I am looking at in the 2nd photo, I am 93% sure this is half of a Brachiopod, so I am guessing those are the innards, so I am also guessing that that circle is the pedical, maybe? It is just so large?. I have never found one with the inside visible like this. And I just can not find any references I need .. anybody know?

Also another Leptaena was also in there

And an adorable Bryozoan sheet that makes me crave honey:)

And here is a better photo of the chisel project I was working on the other day! I am a little stuck on this one, I really do not want to damage the Crinoid, it seems so fragile..

#fossil friday #devonian fossils #devonian period #my fossils #amateur paleontology #paleontology #fossils #fossil #fossil hunting #fossil collecting #geology #devonian #fossilblr #brachiopod #devonian fossil #brachiopods #bryozoan colony #bryozoa #bryozoans #bryozoan #crinoids #crinoid #rocks #rockblr #brachiopod fossils #earth science

[prasemvanguardgerman]

More photos are coming.

Have an free Sunday with Fossils & Coffee.

Found probably three flints with mussels, two shards from urchin molds.

And then the fragmented & intact urchins. Three have bad effect from the naturell erosion progress, but it‘s the work of time, so it‘s fine.

The one little in gray urchin fossil is intact.

Also found the matching pieces of an brocken intact echinodea family speciemen.

#fossils #rocks #geology #fossil hunt #fossil collection #fossil collecting #fossils in germany #fossils 2024 #sea shells #sea urchin

[megpricephotography]

Flynn likes to be involved with everything I do. If he sees me crouch down to look at something &/or pick it up, he likes to come & inspect it as well. In case it's interesting. Or edible. Or both.

In this case, I'd found a fossil. According to Flynn this falls in the "Not Interesting" category but he gave it a polite sniff all the same. Like I politely praise him when he finds & shows me puddles & molehills. We humour each other.

Such a teeny tiny fossil! It's one of the smallest I've found. Probably at least 420 million years old, which is just completely wild.

#I've got a fair sized collection of fossils now #mostly either brachiopods - which look like bi-valve molluscs but aren't... & corals #some of the shell fossils are very well preserved & almost look like they came off a beach that day! #I find them on farmland - ploughing turns the soil & they pop up to the surface. also there are 1 or 2 old quarries in the woods #this one was on the footpath - I bent down to pick up Flynn's toy & spotted it #silurian #fossil #shell #england #dog #flynn

[casually-cool-collecting]

An actual chunk of Dinosaur Bone!

#rock collecting #fossil collecting #dinosaur #dinosaur bone #dino bone #bone #fossil #bone fossil #personal collection

[birdietrait]

nervous subject as the cool older brother in a teen movie

#ts4 #ts4 cas #ts4 simblr #simblr #show us your sims #i tried to replicate his ts2 self while also making him in my style #i've been wanting to make nervous forEVER #i like to imagine he’s in a band with his old high school friends #and he works at a pet store and he likes to sit and watch the fish 😌 and he named all of the rats #and he has a massive collection of fossils and geodes 😌