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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 …

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!

Sep 28, 2012 · 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. PLEASE be circumspect about …

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 …

Jul 6, 2014 · In addition, fossil rock from the Devonian and earlier indicates the land was submerged in water. Curiosity, Mike. I always wonder about the fossils I find. About 3 years ago, in the Peace …

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 …

Apr 28, 2017 · Thought I would share some simple, inexpensive display stands I made for some of my smaller fossils. I don't suggest these are museum quality, but hopefully this will encourage others to …

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Sep 15, 2024 · Sponge Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Porifera Grant 1836 Class: Demospongea Sollas, 1883 Order: Protomonaxonida Finks & Rigby, 2004 Family: Hazeliidae De Laubenfels, 1955 Genus: …