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19 hours ago, Big Browns said:

Lets see some pics.

I was at work when I found it.  Conducting a cultural resources survey of a project area.  There were dozens of pieces scattered over an area maybe a couple acres.  Only found a few pieces of skeletal bone but mostly pieces of the shell.  We compared a piece of the scapula to a modern tortoise skeleton and it was almost identical, with the pieces we found being much larger, consistent with the fossil record of other mega sized critters of the Pleistocene era.

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Don't limit yourself to seashell hunting if you're interested in fossils. Seashells do not go through a mineralization metamorphosis  like celled organisms do, they remain calcium carbonate and therefore not so rare. 

Petrified wood is highly collectable, especially if opalized.IMG_20180928_121323086.thumb.jpg.8625fb5c7696d5c880f1eec9ea739e94.jpgIMG_20180928_121644305.thumb.jpg.91cfd2395fa0756fe903ce17b89b27a4.jpgIMG_20180928_121652907.thumb.jpg.797d8fed17174a9014288ce39b041fbd.jpg

Keep an eye out for shark teethIMG_20180928_122320883.thumb.jpg.fc68a6f0240b22d26324252fe975daed.jpg

Be careful where you step..geods or Dino-dung?IMG_20180928_124535442.thumb.jpg.961821354f28346416e7d9fa881e11a8.jpg

Who can name the next specimen?IMG_20180928_121706698.thumb.jpg.3277cc4b808339d176f2ecf5c2777c4f.jpg

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