Bell shale|rockport quarry limestone|ferron point formation partridge point Recently, i spent 5 days at lang’s quarry collecting fossils and hanging out with some friends Are best find was a small incomplete proscorpius, pictured below This quarry provides fossil collectors fantastic access to the shale layers of the florissant formation, a late eocene (priabonian, ~34 million years old give or take) lagerstatte known for its diverse fauna of fossil insects, in addition to plants, gastropods, and very rarely vertebrates. A couple of days ago i returned from a fieldtrip to the solnhofen region in germany The trip was organized by my fossilclub the bvp as well as my friend and professional paleontologist jonathan wallaard who led the trip
During our 4 day stay we visited 3 different quarries and the. My wife and i just returned from a trip out west (western usa for our international friends) which featured a trip to the famous miocene site near bakersfield Ernst quarry or sharktooth hill, whichever name you prefer As most of you know this site it well known for the rich fauna of sharks teet. The quarry is a bit pricey but the workers are very friendly and the rock is easy to split My recommendation is to bring your own tools
The workers pull rock out of the wall and let it dry in piles You split from these piles There’s picnic tables with umbrellas and the weather was great. Fossil insects and pollen found in cretaceous ecuador amber albian amber araucariacean conifers conifers cretaceous cretaceous resinous interval ecuador genoveva quarry hollín formation napo region Hi everyone, from now on i will post my hunting trip reports to eben emael as i often forget to make separate posts for them I visit the romontbos quarry in eben emael multiple times a year with our fossil club, the bvp (belgische vereniging voor paleontologie)
It's one of the last active locat. From what i can tell online the warfield quarry looks like it's the best (feel free to correct me on that if that's inaccurate) I plan on spending the whole day splitting rock in the split fish layer, but their website says they also have a vip night dig where you get to hunt the 18 inch layer with the crew.
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