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Snapshot in Jurassic time: fish caught catching pterosaur before both died
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That's so cool! My family are rockhounds. Hubby is a sports nut, and we take a lot of road trips to follow Oregon State Football. A couple of years ago, we were driving through Utah in route to Colorado, and detoured through Dinosaur National Monument. It's super cool, and well worth checking out https://www.nps.gov/dino/index.htm. I love, love, loved that place.
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Yes, I'm familiar with that monument. I believe it is one face of the quarry worked around the turn of the last century by the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh. Upper Jurassic. Very good state of preservation.
I've been hooked on fossils since I first visited the American Museum of Natural History in NYC in the early 50s.
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The Dino Monument's fossils look almost fake. They are embedded in bedrock that looks a lot like cement.
I've only ever dug sea fossils. I have some nice pieces of pretty petrified wood (found locally) and some large ancient sand dollars that were found in the Mohave dessert. I have one rock, that I was told was probably Coprolite (prehistoric poo) as cross sections of plants in it look like alphabet soup.
I've only ever dug sea fossils. I have some nice pieces of pretty petrified wood (found locally) and some large ancient sand dollars that were found in the Mohave dessert. I have one rock, that I was told was probably Coprolite (prehistoric poo) as cross sections of plants in it look like alphabet soup.