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Title: web sites with Hell Creek fossils
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frankbliss - March 23, 2005 03:55 AM (GMT)
If you have a website that has good reliable identifications of Hell Creek microsite fossils, I want to know about it. Please respond with any URL's that might be of use. My fossil page address is http://www.cattleranch.org/pages/730804/index.htm if anybody wants to see what I have been up to for the last two years. I live a long way from a research library so I have been mooching pdf's and unwanted reprints for a while. Any such contributions are of great assistance in aiding my identification of the numerous microsite fossils I have been extracting. My site has a tremendous sample of Cretaceous mammal material as well as a pinch of Dinosaur material (all from my ranch). Hope you enjoy it.

fossildude - March 23, 2005 03:10 PM (GMT)
QUOTE (frankbliss @ Mar 23 2005, 03:55 AM)
If you have a website that has good reliable identifications of Hell Creek microsite fossils, I want to know about it.  Please respond with any URL's that might be of use.  My fossil page address is http://www.cattleranch.org/pages/730804/index.htm  if anybody wants to see what I have been up to for the last two years.  I live a long way from a research library so I have been mooching pdf's and unwanted reprints for a while.  Any such contributions are of great assistance in aiding my identification of the numerous microsite fossils I have been extracting.    My site has a tremendous sample of Cretaceous mammal material as well as a pinch of Dinosaur material (all from my ranch). Hope you enjoy it.

Wow, you've collected some nice fossils! There's a friend of mine here in town (Memphis, TN) who sells Hell Creek microfossils collected from ant hills in South Dakota. The ants excavate the fossils, along with dirt, as they build their nests. These fossils are out of their original position and therefore are not extremely useful to academic paleontologists. My friend is very knowledgable on the subject and has quite a collection of identified microfossils. Here's a website for a few of the mammal teeth: http://www.ddfossils.com/cretmam.html
I hope this helps you out a little.

fossildude - March 23, 2005 03:17 PM (GMT)
Let me make it clear that I'm not condoning the sale or purchase of vertebrate fossils. I'm just suggesting a site where you might be able to get some identifications for your fossils.

frankbliss - March 23, 2005 09:57 PM (GMT)
Thanks for the link. I am still looking for more of course. He has a nice selection but he should donate them as he would get much more value for his buck taking it off his taxes. Of course one would assume that he is making money to start with. Most commercial collectors are only part time and typically have an underground economy.

fossildude - March 25, 2005 04:04 AM (GMT)
My friend sells small fossils on the side, which is no excuse of course, but he does give museums first refusal on all of his material. He has contributed quite a few significant fossils to several museums.




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