FossilGuy.com: A resource for fossil collectors in and around the mid-Atlantic region. Including virtual tours of fossil sites, and fossil identification.

Welcome to FOSSILGUY.COM

The purpose of this site is:

  • To give general information about fossils, fossil collecting, and collecting sites.
  • To help fellow collectors I.D. their finds.

    Since we live in the mid-Atlantic, this site focuses on fossils mainly collected from the mid-Atlantic states.

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    UPDATES

    June 2009
  • Trip: I took a trip to Red Hill. This is a devonian site in central PA that contains armored fish, early sharks, and one of the worlds oldest tetrapods. This trip was taken back in April, but I have now just added it to the website.

    • March 2009
  • Trip: The spring season to Aurora has begun. Check out our wet trip into the mine and the monster megalodon that was found!

  • The Aurora site has been updated to reflect the new finds from the recent trip.

    • January 2009
  • I have taken allot of trips recently, but non of them fossil related. Sorry. Anyhow, the server has a new and improved spam filter, so there should be no more lost emails! If you send me an email, I will actually receive it! I estimate that about 20% of the real emails were getting deleted before.

  • The Aurora Fossil Museum has just launched a new website: I Dig Aurora. It's a Kid friendly site that has links for kids, parents, and teachers. It also has links to the museum website and the museum store. Check it out!

  • The Chesapeake Bay/wind/meteorological data page has been updated with the 2009 data.

    • November 2008
  • The Aurora site has been neglected for the last few years. So, over the last few weeks I leisurely added a few dozen new fossils to the Aurora site and made some minor changes.

    • October 2008
  • Trip: The last weekend in September was our date to enter the PCS Phosphate mine in Aurora, NC. Check out the finds!

    • September 2008
  • Trip: We took a trip down to Charles County, MD to set up at the Nanjemoy Heratige Day, and for a fossil hunt along the Potomac.

  • Site Update: Amy and I just took a trip to the Aquia Formation along the Potomac River. I added a few fossils and updated some images in the Potomac site page.






    • SITE MAP


    Fossil Collecting and Fossil Sites around the mid-Atlantic
    Take virtual fossil tours to collecting sites!
    This link includes fossils found at specific locations, collecting info, tips, site photos, etc...

    Collecting trips
    Read about our latest fossil collecting trips & see what we found.


    Articles
    Articles on featured collecting sites, such as fossil trips and excavations.

    Topics
    Topics about prehistoric creatures from collecting sites, general paleontology, etc..


    Great Links to useful places

    References



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    Questions, Suggestions, Answers? Email us at:
    Please don't send emails asking for the monetary value of a fossil, for that check out the fossils on Ebay.com, or other commercial web sites.


    All of the fossils we found are identified to the best of our ability. In many cases we used books as well as the help of very knowledgeable people to identify them.
    If you think any fossils are miss-identified, please email us so we can change them.
    On the same note, if you know that info on a collecting area featured here is wrong, or has been closed, please let us know.

    Thank you!
    Also, I would like to thank everyone who has corrected any information and/or helped identify any fossil found on these pages, via email or in person. Thank you very much for making this web site a better place!


    DISCLAIMER / About the Author
    Jayson Kowinsky