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Belgrade Mine

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Belgrade Mine

A group for FOSSIL’s trips to the Belgrade Mine and Aurora Fossil Festival. FOSSIL partnered with members of the Special Friends of the Aurora Fossil Museum to search for rare extinct land mammals at the Belgrade Mine in North Carolina and uncovered an exquisite Miocene terrestrial and marine fauna.

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  • Profile picture of maria mikhaylova

    maria mikhaylova posted an image in the group Group logo of Belgrade MineBelgrade Mine from the myFOSSIL app 5 months, 1 week ago

    5 months, 1 week ago
    5 months, 1 week ago

    this bone of the southern elephant was found in the Crimea #fossil #event #collection_site #method

    • Profile picture of maria mikhaylova
      maria mikhaylova replied 5 months, 1 week ago

      this bone of the southern elephant was found in the Crimea

  • Profile picture of Dustin Newingham

    Dustin Newingham posted an image in the group Group logo of Belgrade MineBelgrade Mine from the myFOSSIL app 7 months, 4 weeks ago

    7 months, 4 weeks ago
    7 months, 4 weeks ago

    I don’t know what this is can someone help plz #fossil #collection_site

    • Profile picture of A Trilobite
      A Trilobite replied 7 months, 4 weeks ago

      Tabulate coral

  • Profile picture of Habibe Hasan

    Habibe Hasan posted an image in the group Group logo of Belgrade MineBelgrade Mine from the myFOSSIL app 8 months ago

    8 months ago
    8 months ago

    This is a very nice and very big fodsil #fossil

    • Profile picture of Gabriel Alves
      Gabriel Alves replied 8 months ago

      is this a horse fossil?

    • Profile picture of Jason Patrow
      Jason Patrow replied 6 months ago

      Idk looks fake

  • Profile picture of Habibe Hasan

    Habibe Hasan posted a new specimen in the group Group logo of Belgrade MineBelgrade Mine from the myFOSSIL app. 8 months, 1 week ago

    8 months, 1 week ago
    8 months, 1 week ago

    Habibe Hasan has contributed specimen mFeM 133840 to myFOSSIL!

    • Profile picture of Mason Hintermeister
      Mason Hintermeister replied 8 months, 1 week ago

      @habibe-hasan nice fossil! If you want this to be marked research grade, you will have to include more information about the location (nearest town), post pictures from more angles, and post a picture with a scale (ruler or coin).

    • Profile picture of Paulo sérgio Da silva magalhães
      Paulo sérgio Da silva magalhães replied 8 months, 1 week ago

      this is a great ammonite fossil, nice fossil!

    • Profile picture of Habibe Hasan
      Habibe Hasan replied 8 months ago

      tenks

    • Profile picture of Gabriel Alves
      Gabriel Alves replied 8 months ago

      this is an amazing fossil! and quite large and is perfectly preserved! where did you find it?

    • Profile picture of Jason Patrow
      Jason Patrow replied 5 months, 1 week ago

      How much is it worth I’ll buy it

  • Profile picture of Chad Nusdisn

    Chad Nusdisn posted an image in the group Group logo of Belgrade MineBelgrade Mine from the myFOSSIL app 9 months, 3 weeks ago

    9 months, 3 weeks ago
    9 months, 3 weeks ago

    Not sure what it is but I found it in the limestone bluffs #fossil #collectionsite

    • Profile picture of Mason Hintermeister
      Mason Hintermeister replied 9 months, 2 weeks ago

      @chad-nusdisn Nice find! Doesn’t look like a fossil but perhaps some nice vugs of calcite, pretty crystals are always fun. Keep looking in that area though, limestone is sometimes fossiliferous

  • Profile picture of Harry Townsend

    Harry Townsend posted an image in the group Group logo of Belgrade MineBelgrade Mine from the myFOSSIL app 1 year, 1 month ago

    1 year, 1 month ago
    1 year, 1 month ago

    Woolly mammoth beads
    #fossil

    • Profile picture of Aiden Gore
      Aiden Gore replied 1 year, 1 month ago

      Nope. Rock beads

  • Profile picture of Harry Townsend

    Harry Townsend posted an image in the group Group logo of Belgrade MineBelgrade Mine from the myFOSSIL app 1 year, 1 month ago

    1 year, 1 month ago
    1 year, 1 month ago

    Cave bear bone #fossil

    • Profile picture of Aiden Gore
      Aiden Gore replied 1 year, 1 month ago

      Nope.

    • Profile picture of A Trilobite
      A Trilobite replied 1 year, 1 month ago

      Where was this found?

    • Profile picture of Harry Townsend
      Harry Townsend replied 9 months, 2 weeks ago

      Hungary

  • Profile picture of Mohmmad Matin rafiee

    Mohmmad Matin rafiee posted an image in the group Group logo of Belgrade MineBelgrade Mine from the myFOSSIL app 1 year, 6 months ago

    1 year, 6 months ago
    1 year, 6 months ago

    Ammonite Fossil #fossil

    • Profile picture of sameen zabir
      sameen zabir replied 1 year, 6 months ago

      nice finding

    • Profile picture of Mohmmad Matin rafiee
      Mohmmad Matin rafiee replied 1 year, 6 months ago

      thanks 👍

  • Profile picture of Matin Rafiee

    Matin Rafiee posted an image in the group Group logo of Belgrade MineBelgrade Mine from the myFOSSIL app 1 year, 8 months ago

    1 year, 8 months ago
    1 year, 8 months ago

    Ammonite fossil #fossil

  • Profile picture of Benedek Horváth

    Benedek Horváth posted an update in the group Group logo of Belgrade MineBelgrade Mine 1 year, 8 months ago

    1 year, 8 months ago
    1 year, 8 months ago

    what is your favorite prehistorist

  • Profile picture of Benedek Horváth

    Benedek Horváth posted an image in the group Group logo of Belgrade MineBelgrade Mine from the myFOSSIL app 1 year, 8 months ago

    1 year, 8 months ago
    1 year, 8 months ago

    I know it’s not fosilia but it’s very interesting #event

    • Profile picture of Benedek Horváth
      Benedek Horváth replied 1 year, 8 months ago

      someone guesses what spider is?

    • Profile picture of Aiden Gore
      Aiden Gore replied 1 year, 8 months ago

      Looks like a wolf spider or something else

    • Profile picture of Benedek Horváth
      Benedek Horváth replied 1 year, 8 months ago

      yes👍

  • Profile picture of Neven Popov

    Neven Popov posted an image in the group Group logo of Belgrade MineBelgrade Mine from the myFOSSIL app 1 year, 9 months ago

    1 year, 9 months ago
    1 year, 9 months ago

    Could this be petrified wood, id no what is it. Found it in gravel #fossil #event #collection_site #method

    • Profile picture of Matin Rafiee
      Matin Rafiee replied 1 year, 9 months ago

      good ☺️

    • Profile picture of Bill Heim
      Bill Heim replied 1 year, 9 months ago

      Quartz crystals

    • Profile picture of Robert Wilson
      Robert Wilson replied 1 year, 7 months ago

      This may be a type of metamorphic known as quartzite…

  • Profile picture of Nikki Langley

    Nikki Langley posted a new specimen in the group Group logo of Belgrade MineBelgrade Mine from the myFOSSIL app 1 year, 11 months ago

    1 year, 11 months ago
    1 year, 11 months ago

    Nikki Langley has contributed specimen mFeM 103971 to myFOSSIL!

  • Profile picture of Henry Almeida

    Henry Almeida posted an image in the group Group logo of Belgrade MineBelgrade Mine from the myFOSSIL app 2 years, 5 months ago

    2 years, 5 months ago
    2 years, 5 months ago

    A model of a Tyrannosaurus rex tooth that the biggest spieciesmen
    #method

    • Profile picture of Bill Heim
      Bill Heim replied 2 years, 5 months ago

      cast

  • Profile picture of Matthew Haase

    Matthew Haase posted an image in the group Group logo of Belgrade MineBelgrade Mine from the myFOSSIL app 2 years, 6 months ago

    2 years, 6 months ago
    2 years, 6 months ago

    Does anyone know ? It has like old Indian symbols , or like pictures #collectionsite

    • Profile picture of Chloe Geddes
      Chloe Geddes replied 2 years, 6 months ago

      Just small fractures, sorry! They are really cool though!

  • Profile picture of Bruce MacFadden

    Bruce MacFadden posted an update in the group Group logo of Belgrade MineBelgrade Mine 2 years, 6 months ago

    2 years, 6 months ago
    2 years, 6 months ago

    I’ d be interested to know if anyone has been back to the mine in 2020 to collect, and if so what have you found?

  • Profile picture of Liam Anderson

    Liam Anderson posted a new specimen in the group Group logo of Belgrade MineBelgrade Mine from the myFOSSIL app 2 years, 8 months ago

    2 years, 8 months ago
    2 years, 8 months ago

    Liam Anderson has contributed specimen mFeM 87368 to myFOSSIL!

    • Profile picture of Leonardo Miranda
      Leonardo Miranda replied 2 years, 8 months ago

      love that you used a fossil in aquarium decoration. I’ve done the same before. that fossil is of an orthocone shell

    • Profile picture of Leonardo Miranda
      Leonardo Miranda replied 2 years, 8 months ago

      or probably belemnite

    • Profile picture of Chloe Geddes
      Chloe Geddes replied 2 years, 8 months ago

      Something I am currently working on is setting up a small tank filled with trilobite fossils and then I am going to grow triops in them. A window in to a prehistoric ocean! Well sort of

    • Profile picture of Leonardo Miranda
      Leonardo Miranda replied 2 years, 8 months ago

      @chloe-geddes that is by far the most amazing sounding aquarium setup I’ve ever heard. excuse me but I’m going to copy your idea, it’s too clever!!!

    • Profile picture of Chloe Geddes
      Chloe Geddes replied 2 years, 8 months ago

      Please do! I am only the co-thinker anyways, haha! I am SO excited for it to be done!!

    • Profile picture of Chloe Geddes
      Chloe Geddes replied 2 years, 8 months ago

      Please do! I am only the co-thinker anyways, haha! I am SO excited for it to be done!! Will definitely share once it is!

  • Profile picture of Victor Perez

    Victor Perez posted a new specimen in the group Group logo of Belgrade MineBelgrade 2018 from the myFOSSIL app 2 years, 11 months ago

    2 years, 11 months ago
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    Victor Perez has contributed a new specimen to myFOSSIL!

    • Profile picture of Bill Heim
      Bill Heim replied 2 years, 11 months ago

      Galeocerdo casei if it is actually from Belgrade. Also don’t post specimens sideways.

  • Profile picture of Bruce MacFadden

    Bruce MacFadden posted an update in the group Group logo of Belgrade MineBelgrade Mine 3 years, 2 months ago

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    3 years, 2 months ago

    I’m seeing that we have many new members of this group. Does anyone have any mammals fossils that they have found at the Belgrade mine from North Carolina?  If so, send me photos, or upload them to our EMUSEUM. I then can explain why they are interesting.

    • Profile picture of Gwen Kilian
      Gwen Kilian replied 3 years, 2 months ago

      I’m here in Craven County, NC but turned down a chance to go into Belgrade. (Didn’t think there were mammals there.)

      • Profile picture of Bruce MacFadden
        Bruce MacFadden replied 3 years, 2 months ago

        Oh yes, and they are very interesting–I study ancient mammals that lived on land. At Belgrade these include horses, carnivores, rodents, tiny deer-like mammals, peccary, giant pig-like mammals, and possibly rhino. These are otherwise found from other early Miocene (about 20 million years old) localities elsewhere in the US, including California,…[Read more]

  • Profile picture of Bruce MacFadden

    Bruce MacFadden posted an image in the group Group logo of Belgrade MineBelgrade Mine from the myFOSSIL app 3 years, 12 months ago

    3 years, 12 months ago
    3 years, 12 months ago

    Dave Bohaska examining Belgrade fossil matrix being processed in new fossil lab at Smithsonian. #collectionsite #method

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