No but I couuld see the interest in it, some of the bigger ones at a gem fest the wife and i went to last year were incredible , as was the prices.
But there were plenty of reasonably priced and intersting specimums on offer to.
Hello all been a long time! I want to know if anyone here is also interested in collecting fossils?
Yes my wife, Margaret, and I are interested in fossils.
Margaret had a display at Brisbane Museum of a set of fossils she found in 1986ish even had a letter from the head fossil guy at Brisbane Museum explaining the fossils had never been recorded in the area before . We still have samples of the fossils. Recently we went to Hughenden and found a few fossils. I will see if I can post some pictures when I get home tonight.
My Mum has always had an interest in fossils and rocks in general, she's passed it on to me.
I have a couple of small slabs that are full of fossils that I bought very cheaply at the markets.
When out camping once I found a rock with a very clear outline of a fern embedded in it.
Mum has a very clear shard of rock, can't be quartz, 5" tall, Dad found it. It has a clump of fine straw coloured grass in it as well as a fossilized fly.
These are some Fossils that my wife and I found in an old underwater reef on the surface of the ground. They are in the Mt Britton area west of Mackay.
I bought a collection of fossils from America the largest being a large unidentified rib bone about 20cms long. We also got some wood from the petriefied forest.
A great place to collect exquisitly preserved fossilised leaves and twigs and bits of petrofied wood that's probably a well kept secret is the shale stone outcrops overlooking The Soldiers' Pool here at Newcastle and the scree field under the cliff just north of Susan Gillmore Beach.
We have a few very intresting pieces, one of which is a complete fossilised crab, about 20cm in length. My son's favorite piece of ours is a chunk of fossilised wood. My kids also love looking for treasures in amber.
My dad has a fantastic rock and fossil collection that my sister and I used to paw all over when we were kids (almost long enough ago to be fossils ourselves, it seems!).
Has anyone got any opalised fossils? They truly are a sight to behold. Amazingly beautiful.
There are so many great places in Australia that you can go to see fossils, both 'in the wild' and in beautifully presented collections. One very exciting project that is underway at the moment at Lightening Ridge can be found here : http://www.australianopalcentre.com/index.php
Yes it's a bit of a plug - my sister is a paleontologist who is involved in the project. Well worth supporting and having a look.
I thought a paleontologist was just a profession they made up for that famous American SitCom. I didnt think they actually existed.
They're real all right! Either that or Jen (my sister) is an ASIO spy living in Lightening Ridge (with her friends) who is using it as a convenient cover! Nah. She's a paleo all right.
They're real all right! Either that or Jen (my sister) is an ASIO spy living in Lightening Ridge (with her friends) who is using it as a convenient cover! Nah. She's a paleo all right.
Kerrie
I saw this Get Smart episode once where Max and 99 cornered the Chinese spies at the dry cleaning place, to which one spy said "The spy rings just a front. The real money's in the laundry". So I think you might need to question Jen just a bit more about this so called, you know, "palaeontology" profession she talks about.
That's one of the things that got me into Geology...fossils. Being a geo' I keep my eye out for any interesting places when I go bush. I've collected quite a few fossils in my time...corals, bits of lycopods Glossopteris and tree ferns, nautiloids, brachiopods, crabs and prawns, fish etc. I can take you to some out of the way places not many people know about
If you like the big stuff, not more than 100 miles from home there are Diprotodon, Procoptodon, Thylacoleo and other fossils...mostly Dip's, though, and about 250km NW there's Megalania and snake fossils.
I've only got a piece of tetracoral I brought back from a geo field trip and a fulgurite (which is not a fossil) I found one day at Jervis Bay. Other than that I just look at the ones at work.
I've got a bunch of fossils somewhere, packed away...my dad used to work with a guy who used to go fossil hunting. I never got any Trilobite ones though
This is one we found near Hughenden last year. Its about 85mm long.
When I get the other fossils out I will post pictures of them as well.
Somewhere packed away we also have part of a leg(?) bone from some dinosaur.
This is one we found near Hughenden last year. Its about 85mm long.
When I get the other fossils out I will post pictures of them as well.
Somewhere packed away we also have part of a leg(?) bone from some dinosaur.
As an ex geo I have more than a passing interest in fossils and enjoy fossicking when I get the chance (not as often as I would like to).
Over the years I have built up quite a nice collection of ammonites and trilobites as well as some small fish and ferns. there is also a few purchased ones as well in the way of sharks teeth and some early mammal bones.
There are a lot of graptolites and brachiopods close to Melbourne if you know where to look. Also, Monash have a regular summertime dig at Inverloch collecting Dinosaur Bones etc. When I was in WA, we collected some huge ammonites about half a metre across. Lots of other marine fossils also.
As an ex geo I have more than a passing interest in fossils and enjoy fossicking when I get the chance (not as often as I would like to).
Over the years I have built up quite a nice collection of ammonites and trilobites as well as some small fish and ferns. there is also a few purchased ones as well in the way of sharks teeth and some early mammal bones.
Cheers
I'd like to get a Megalodon tooth or two...that would be spicky!!!!
. We still have samples of the fossils. Recently we went to Hughenden and found a few fossils. I will see if I can post some pictures when I get home tonight.
