I guess it depends on which part of SD youre in. Dinos are pretty well restricted to the NW part of the state, but there are fossil all over it. Which area are you in?

@diggun it's worth it. You'll never forget the experience

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not selfish at all! I have done that in other videos, but I definitely need to do it in all of them.

@@TheFossilFiend I’m subbed either way - keep up the great work!

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Thank you! You too!

Glad you enjoyed. Part 2 has some very cool stuff!

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Thanks for watching

I had it looked at by a paleontologist who said it was very definitely probably predation marks (for some of them) lol. Some could be natural (to the bone while living) but some looked to have secondary and possibly predation.

@@TheFossilFiend Not surprised. It def seems like predation/scavenging. Isn't it nice to find a slice of life like that? - a moment of activity preserved in stone, rather than just a static presence? Though I never had (or noticed?) bone like that, I had quite a few Fox Hills bivalves with the little round predation hole.

Glad you enjoyed, thanks for the sub! While the dino stuff is big and cool, there are some very amazing smaller finds closer to your neck of the woods, just like I have some very cool ammonites and echinoids in S. Oklahoma, and have some Dimetrodon very close to where I live.

that really depends on area of paleo you want. If you have any natural history museums in your area, see if you can volunteer. Become a volunteer in the prep lab if they have one. See if any universities are looking for volunteer field workers. Paleo is a very small field, get your foot in the door and get to know people.

@@TheFossilFiend thank you! i live in utah so theres a lot of good museums here i could try volunteering at

Agreed, definitely volunteer in the paleo labs. Down the line a less exciting foot-in-door opportunity might be in hydro/petro-geology. I don't know the extent they use paleontologists, but index fossils serve as mile markers for natural resource explorers. Maybe they update those mile markers from time to time....? I used to donate "bags of frags" to a private organization who would give the fragments out to kids on field trips to their lab. The frags were unusable stuff weathered from Hell Creek and wood chunks from other Dakota formations. You could easily tell it was fossil bone and petrified wood, but that was about all. Then I discovered Barebones and Nature Company stores _selling_ bone frags not nearly as cool as the ones I was giving away. I never pursued an income stream from that, but there might still be something all these years later. Best of luck.

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I hope so, it would be very cool if they are.

nice. did you take it with you? If you can send a pic to my email reddirtfossils @ gmail.com I can try to get an ID for you.

I did, I will get some pictures emailed to you. I really enjoy your videos! Thanks for the reply 😃

shape, size and age of the rock strata.

PaleoBond has a wonderful range of glues, and what I prefer for many situations.

@@TheFossilFiend Hmm. "PaleoBond" rings a faint bell. Back when on my very informal little trips I used polyvinyl butaryl ("butvar"), which showed up as bags of powder. Maybe they were from PaleoBond? There was a similar bonding agent that started with an 'A' which I forget. Everything I used was acetone soluble, and I loved putting super low-viscosity cyanoacrylates into medical needles and injecting into the tiny cracks which hadn't yet distorted the fossil's shape (but were still weak spots). Of course you prolly have better methods than I did. This stuff brings too many memories!

@@VaraLaFey Butvar as a glue is great, but its biggest problem in the field is the much longer cure time. The PB-02 is a super thin cyanoacrylate so its good for solidifying highly fractured fossils without waiting a long time to remove.

@@TheFossilFiend I'm trying to recall just how I thinned the cyanos to use in the needle.... don't remember PB-02, but it's possible that's what I used 25-ish years ago . Def that was my favorite trick though. It just felt good to see tiny lines of the cyano spreading into cracks I hadn't even seen. Field stabilizing is definitely a skill, and I only ever had a little of it. My first trip with butvar I found a couple cracked-ice turtle shells and essentially dumped butvar on them. When came time to clean them at home, I decided to never do that again. The cure time I don't recall, but the _cleaning_ time was exorbitant. Honestly I wouldn't know what to do with shell like that now. Maybe just put it in a box as in-situ as possible, and fit it together later? Better than a butvar bath. TANGENT: In S central ND (pretty sure Bullion Creek, TB, mid-upper Paleocene) I found a roadcut with the typical grass growing around the fossils, and I'd swear with my hand on a copy of Dinosaur Heresies that the same grass genus _was_ the fossil. To my untrained eye it looked nearly identical. Not a crushed tubular stem; this was winding and flowing like blades of grass do in the mud. "No, there was no grass in the Paleocene", they all told me. 25 years later it turns out that grass existed in the Cretaceous, at least in India. So I feel a bit vindicated that what I think was Paleocene grass might actually be Paleocene grass. I checked Google Maps and I can narrow down that roadcut to a 1/2 mile strip.... Geez, I'm starting to miss this.

Your guess is as good as mine! thanks for adding to the opinion!

You can't add unknown species from non fossil creating biomes into the the known species of well researched deposit formations. BUT your point is valid to the point that you can never know 100% what animal created any specific trace marks. What it usually comes down to is taking the most likely option for an assumption

He refers to the possibility of thousands of unknown species in the fossil record over millions of years from the Triassic through the Cretaceous Periods. In the Hell Creek Formation, where they are working, only several carnivorous dinosaurs are known in the fossil record from that period. These include Richardoestesia, Troodon, Dakotaraptor, Acheroraptor Tyrannosaurus rex, and Nannotyrannus. The smaller carnivores would produce very narrow small bite marks, while T rex bite marks would be fairly deep on Edmontosaurus bone, especially from a large adult. Juvenile Tyrannosaurus and Nanotyrannus marks would appear lighter like the other smaller meat eaters. Many times, Edmontosaur fossils have deep bite gouges attributed to T rex. Generally, in all ecosystems that are either modern or prehistoric, carnivores are rarely represented. More than half a dozen carnivores species compared to hundreds of herbivores found in association. Interestingly, both Acheroraptor and Dakotaraptor have only been recently discovered in the Hell Creek Formation, and Nannotyrannus is still controversial and may be a sub adult T rex. The Tyrannosaur in the fighting dinosaur specimen now housed in the North Carolina Natural History Museum may solve this issue. When I started collecting dinosaurs in the 1950s, only about 300 species of dinosaurs were known Now several thousand are recognized, and several each month are discovered.

​@@davidletasi3322u know the most, there are soo many dinos we will never hear of so its not very realistic to say everything was a trex just bc he is so popular

Yeah, "scientists" make up a theory in their head and then write their own story to fill in the blanks.

wrong!

@@TheFossilFiend I am surprised that’s what all the dinosaurs are called in that game.. They must do it for copyright or something.. I am dinosaur mad my self and live in the UK wish I could do something like that but wouldn’t know where to start here..

@@VastGamingPOT they've been called by abbreviated names for as long as I've been alive (and that's old)

@@TheFossilFiend I didn’t realise that was the case but it makes sence.. Keep up the good work hard to find videos like this online..

@@VastGamingPOT thank you for the kind words!

More are in the works, I promise!

They are found all the time.

@@TheFossilFiend Then why we only see dino fossil displays but never on any human being who lived say 100 thousand years ago ?? what do they look like ?

@@Cableman-hr2uu you really need to spend more time in museums. Everything you say is missing is present

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