>>2590232Dinosaurs are hard to beat, but whats better is something you haven't found before. I spend just as much time nowadays looking for artifacts as I do looking for dinosaur material, even though I live in one of the best places in the world for dinosaurs and one of the toughest places in NA for artifacts. The value of a find is relative to where it came from. A tosser point somewhere might be a find of a lifetime somewhere else just because of location. It's also why any find that doesn't have provenance becomes a trinket eventually.
Tangential PSA and rant: if you find something good, turn on GPS tagging on your phone and take a pic of your find in situ. Failing to do so is marginally better than smashing it in the long run. There's a mammoth tusk on display at one of the offices I go to occasionally, and a couple years ago somebody dropped and shattered it. Mammoth material is very rare here. But what's worse than the fossil being broken is that there is no provenance for it. I can't even get excited when seeing it because I have no way to know if it's from a local creek or Florida. It's just a trinket. If somebody told me it was from my area, I'd be heading out to the spot the next day. I like the idea that something I found will inspire somebody like myself to go /out/ and walk the same places I did long after Ive died.
>>2591098I'm usually in the upper horseshoe canyon fm, but on that trip I was either in the Oldman or the dinosaur park fm. Both are exposed and I don't know the area well enough to say which it was. I take GPS of my finds so if I ever need to go back and get formations I can.
