This is a much belated trip report from my vacation out West. My friend and I took a vacation to see a concert in California, but unfortunately the band cancelled the tour. We kept our plans in place though, and had a great time. For followers of this blog, you might remember my post from […]
Mazon Creek Pit 11 Collecting report 5/29/2017- Torino Hill
Mazon Creek Collecting Report #3 I’ve made a few shorter trips to collect Pit 11 so far this summer, technically this would be my 6th or 7th trip to the area, but I reserve this blog for the big and noteworthy ones, which is why this is report #3. It is a special trip, which […]
Peace River Fossil Hunting Report- Spring 2017
Today, American Fossil Hunt welcomes the first guest post on this blog, from Patrick Chasteen of Fossil Funatics. The name should sound familiar. He was a big part of one of the blog’s first trip reports. Patrick is the man behind Fossil Funatics, the tour I took in the afore-linked post. I reached out to Patrick to […]
Mazon Creek Pit 11 collecting report 4/9/2017
Mazon Creek Collecting report #2 I’ve made a couple shorter trips to Pit 11 between this and my last trip report that went undocumented. To be honest, sometimes I do not have the patience to take pictures, or the time to post quality reports, and some are better left as a peaceful, solo venture into nature […]
Trip Planning- Collecting Shark Tooth Hill in Bakersfield, California
In June 2017, I am planning to collect the famous Shark Tooth Hill. This post is everything I’ve found about planning this California fossil collecting adventure. The Trip My entire trip will be one week. I am landing in Los Angeles, to see a rare stateside performance from the UK Doom Metal Band, Warning. From Los Angeles, […]
Mazon Creek Fossil Collecting Opener and Trip Report 3/5/17
Mazon Creek Fossil Collecting Trip #1 This is a field report from the first Mazon Creek trip of 2017. This will be the 3rd consecutive year of keeping record of productive fossil collecting areas across the vast wilderness of the Mazonia Braidwood State Fish and Wildlife Area. The work thus far is documented in an […]
Shark Tooth Hunting the Peace River: 2017 Trip Report
This was an exciting trip. This was the first “field trip” since launching American Fossil Hunt. Call it the very start of a slow and potentially lifelong project to document all remaining and rapidly disappearing public fossil hunting sites in the United States. I hope to visit 2-3 each year, with 2017 being the informal launch. If this is your […]
Mazon Creek- the 4 Tully Monster finds of 2016
This year, 4 excellent specimens of Illinois’ State Fossil, the Tullimonstrum gregarium aka Tully Monsters, were unearthed from the famous fossil beds of Mazon Creek’s Pit 11. 2 were found in early March, coincidentally on the same day, another in July 2016, and then the 4th in November. It is possible that more were found this year, […]
