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Cathy Young posted an update 7 years, 1 month ago
7 years, 1 month ago7 years, 1 month agoActually, I finally have my Phoebus collection cleaned, separated in boxes, identified, numbered, and put into my computer. All this is thanks to the help of myFOSSIL’s PaleoBlitz last year. We learned the proper way to curate our collections there. I wanted the next step to be putting my collection on myFOSSIL. When that’s finished, I’ll start doing the same with my collection of another site.
Awesome, @cathy-young! I’m so glad to hear that the PaleoBlitz was useful to you. (Did you see this, @vperez and @rleder?) Cathy, be sure to check out Ronny’s digitization video tutorial (under the Resources->Videos & Tutorials tab); it could help you take the best photos of your specimens.
Very nice, @cathy-young. I’m interested to see the representation of species in the fossils you recently posted. In your comment above, you say it’s your Phoebus collection. These are all river-collected? I see a lot of them say “collected in a lag deposit” when I click on them in the fossil gallery.
Hi @llundgren . Yes, Phoebus Landing is a fossil site along the Cape Fear River near Elizabethtown, NC. You can only get there by boat. Although the formation that the fossils are from are the Black Creek (Donoho) formation, it’s a lag deposit. You won’t find a complete dinosaur, deinosuchus or anything else – but we do find bones and teeth. It’s a fabulous site. We try to go there twice a year. I’m not quite finished posting my collection – I have a few more dinosaur teeth and bones that I collected to post. I’ll probably do that next week.