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In this area, we celebrate our amateur contributions to the paleontological sciences. Whether by volunteering their time (lab work, collections maintenance, organized field work), or through the donation of significant specimens to scientific institutions, amateurs have always played an important but unheralded part!
So these fossils were actually exotic yard ornaments in Florida. I learned a valuable lesson about being skeptical of locations where people claim they have found something. I appreciate yall's earlier posts and pictures which gave me very good context for the information that our emeritus geologists shared with me.
Ahh. “Bradyodant” … Found a short paragraph in my Paleozoic fossils book. Didn’t mention your species but does show variation in bradyodant teeth. Some , like the Cladotus sp look like modern sharks teeth. It explains they are like “pavement teeth”. Speculating they ate crinoid calyx’s.
As for the cabinets where I display fossils I use 3 things. The Archive cabinet I just mentioned. These low IKEA bookshelf boxes, which are just my favorite thing to display. They are really everywhere in my house. And like @Masp just mentioned the Ikea Detolf display cabinet are great for displaying fossils and other thing.
If you have a lot of specimens like that one with the huge mix of fossils, you might take one of the "worse" ones and soak it in vinegar overnight. If the matrix is limestone and the fossils are silicified, the acid will react with the matrix and remove it leaving the fossils intact because the acid can't react with silicate material.
Can't figure out what that fossil is? Share bright, sharp images in .JPG format, and general location info here for identification!
Fossils can also be found in Western Massachusetts and the Connecticut River Valley. Western Massachusetts is known for it's dinosaur footprints (Our state fossil). You can also find plant/fish fossils out in western Mass. Additionally, trilobites have been found in Braintree and a few other areas in the Mass/Rhode Island area, but these are rare.
In this area, we celebrate our amateur contributions to the paleontological sciences. Whether by volunteering their time (lab work, collections maintenance, organized field work), or through the donation of significant specimens to scientific institutions, amateurs have always played an important but unheralded part!
Cape May: While not a fossil loocality per se, Sunset Beach at the southernmost tip of NJ past Cape May is a fun place to stop, One can always find reworked Paleozoic fossils in chert pebbles (brachiopods, corals, bryozoans, I've even found a trilobite pebble), and sometimes small shark teeth (black, phosphatized), as well as "Cape May Diamonds" (small, transparent quartz), carnelian, cherts ...
And yeah, it's interesting that Cretaceous fossils are very common there, and yet the NC Geo Survey bulletin never mentioned them in its writeup for the site in the Fossil Collecting book. Not sure the level of overlooking that would take, or if something just changed in the creek since that time.