Any members rock hounds or fossil collectors?

[gunfan72]

I recently aquired a megladon tooth around 10-15 million years old. Its 5 x 3 unrestored. I just put it on Craigslist but it if doesn't sell I'm happy to keep it. I just would like to know more. This is my first fossil purchase but there is something about owning a piece of earth's history I love. I would have offered this first to ingo members but I'm too new not enough post.

Megladon Fossil Tooth

 

[Indy_Guy_77]

I'm a rock hound / fossil buff...

But I can't bring myself to BUY any.

Well, other than the Orthoceras dinner plates I bought several years ago. What a waste of $100 that was... *sigh*

I haven't been out actually fossil hunting in many moons. Current job doesn't have me out and about like a previous one did. Now I'm never around any prime hunting grounds. That + family obligations precludes me from taking a day and going to play in the dirt.

I do tend to poke around places if I'm able. Even on the tar & gravel covered roofs I'm on for work - I'll pick out the coral & gastropod fossils out of the mix.

 

[BiscuitNaBasket]

Not so much a fossil hunter but I'll walk dry river beds to find neat rocks and I've stumbled upon caches of arrowheads in the Ohio River valley while digging to push a cave. That's always a really neat find!