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Apr 1, 2025 · Now, go find your fossil, do your research, and make an entry! Best of success to all, and good hunting! ***** Rules for The Fossil of the Month Contests Find a great Vertebrate …

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 …

Feb 1, 2023 · Since last year I’ve been to a commercial Bone Valley fossil operation in Wauchula for the best fossil hunting in Florida. They bring rich dirt from Bone Valley to Wauchula for …

Jan 24, 2025 · I found this little tooth today here in SE Texas on a river gravel bank where I usually find Pleistocene material. It is the Beaumont Formation. I figured it was Equus, but …

Jun 1, 2025 · Hydroxyapatite is an inorganic compound of calcium, phosphate, and hydroxide which is organized in a crystal latticework that gives bone (and teeth) structural rigidity. It …

May 1, 2025 · Water can also be used to dissolve the matrix into a paste as well - which is what I normally do if I don't immediately see a fossil in any of the pieces, with me breaking only the …

Apr 7, 2025 · From macrostrat: missisippian boone formation, st joe limestone member, Other than one small outcrop of chattanooga shale, clifty limestone and penters chert, which are …

Jan 9, 2025 · The thread above identifies both Llama and Horse earbone = periotic= petrosal. Both of those earbones are larger than yours, so my 1st insight is that you have a mammal …