American Fossil Quarry Day 1 ... The Mortal remains of those who lived in an ancient lake
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- čas přidán 20. 08. 2024
- American Fossil Quarry ... WOW !! I spent two days here I could have spent my entire 2 weeks, this place is simply amazing if you love fossils like I do.
For real put it on your bucket list of places to go, this may become a yearly trip.
#kemmerer #wyoming #fossil #fishing #fishfossil #rockhounding #rockhound #ancienthistory #fossils
Dude I’m ready to go next time! This place looks so freaking cool!!! Had a blast hanging out with you guys yesterday. Can’t wait to see the rest of your trip! I know it’s going to be good.
Yesterday was a great time and I am 100% ready to get out there again ... we need to get some cool rocks and fossils this week
Thank you for sharing the beautiful Video 🥰🥰 big like 🤠
You are very welcome
Wow…some really cool fossils! Some of them have so much detail. I love that diplomystus you found. Captured an amazing profile.
Thanks for sharing the adventure, Master Jeff! Looking forward to the next one!
The next one should have all of the fossils cleaned ... there maybe a 3rd one cause I got a lot of fish 🤣
@@huntingrocks I can’t help wondering…what sort of find there would be worth $100K or more? Articulated megalodon vertebra? 😂
I had the same question , apparently a lot of the larger mammal fossils and of course the big ol crocodile up on the cliff I wasn't able to get video of , It was a lucky find they made while pulling stuff down for the next days customers ... needless to say he stayed up there for them to work on and can't say I blame them 🤣
Those fish are awesome !!!!! Congrats !!!! Can't wait to see more.
I split the videos up a bit but they are coming I needed more time to clean them all ... cleaning fossil fish is as dirty as cleaning regular fish... only its not slimey and doesn't smell bad 🤣🤣
Those are some really nice fossils fish Jeff! You did an amazing job so far! And man, just tons of fish! Awesome video and I think that Google maps needs a nap! Lol but you got there and that's what matters! Thanks for the hunt Jeff!
Thank you so much ... and yes yes it does it only gets worse as I continue to travel out west .... oooohhhh google maps I hates you soooo much
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Wow just wow!! They look so good, great job getting them out, that didn't look easy, looking forward to your next part of these find so cool
Thank you so much, it wasn't bad but it was nerve wracking with as fragile as they are .. I hope to have most of the fossils clean in the next video
This place is officially on my bucket list! You probably should have worn a hat😂. Amazing fossils! I can’t believe you found so many and they let you keep them. Great job and congratulations ❤
It is so flipping cool and worth it to go, you can keep every thing you find up to $100,000.00 over that they will either but it from you for 50k or you can buy it from them for 50k or see how well it does at auction .... I didn't find anything that nice 🤣
Wow Brother, Very Kewl!!! I can imagine the fun and excitement, hard work yes lol fun n exciting memories outweighs lol 😊💘🌞🎉👍🎊🌞💘😊
Indeed that place is truly magical, Like I fell in love with it for just the two days I was there
Wow, so many cool fossils today, that first fish is amazing. Finding fish, never thought about that, it's so cool, what an experience. 2:48 oh wow, awesome. Good deal to bring home those bad boys, so cool! Enjoyed hearing the hammers swinging in the background. This world is special man, thanks sharing this journey! Something about that ping sound in the steel when tapping, I enjoy! Lots of fish fossils! Those are beautiful and so amazing! Hamilton!
I highly recommend you give this place a try it's an 18 hour drive for me maybe 19 20 for you but dude Family vacation 100%
@huntingrocks that's cool, added to our list, thanks man.
Man, lucky you!!! That place was amazing, great video
Thank you I'm still cleaning fish I found ones I didn't even know I had that were behind other fish 😅... If you get the chance to go , go and do it ... just make sure it's your last stop some of them bumpy rough roads out west played hell on more than one I found .... thank God for super glue
Those fossils are so neat!! Wish we had a place like that near where I live.
Same here , I have decent fossils in my area but nothing as cool as those
Sweeeeeet. i had no idea the layer peels off with your fingernails, i thought they had to be "etched out" or whatever you call it with that needle like tool. Definitly making my 1st trip out there soon !
They don't all peel off so nicely, I did have to buy a hand pick set, but an air scribe is not needed ( although it would make things faster) 98% of the material is very soft and easy (well relatively) to get the fish out just work slow
You're our hero for getting out there. That's not a bad price for the dig considering all your finds. Nice work with the super glue too. You're what Red Green was to duct tape, but for you it's glue.
Its funny you should mention duct tape , I used to hold the broken fish pieces together so I could find them easy when I got home LOL
....... OMG I am Red Green 😲
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Great Red Green reference. LOL
Great finds! Some of those rocks you're breaking apart seem pretty fragile (fra-GEE-lee). I would love to make it out there one day. Thanks for all of the info, costs, map, etc.
Also, somebody got a haircut...
Super fragile, next trip that will be my last stop and not first... Oh yeah I did and I really should have worn a hat all day the first day 🤣
Nice fossils !!!!!!
Thank you, I was blown away by just how amazing the fossils there are
Fantastic - looking forward to the rest of the series. I bet you had fun at U-dig. It was amazing when I went a few years ago. Thanks for the road/google maps details.
It was an amazing dig I for sure know I have one more coming of it but I was like a kid in a candy store and shot enough video for 3 or 4 videos 😆
U-Dig is always a fun time , I went more for quality this year and let me tell you I got it .. I really wish I lived closer to these to quarrys , but for the sake of my bank account it's probably best I don't 🤣🤣
@@huntingrocks I hear that. Just got back this week from a Hell Creek dig where you have to purchase commercial-grade finds, and figuring out just how much I'd like to shell out.
That's on my list but haven't pulled the trigger yet because I haven't talked to any one who has done it ... How was it , should I go ??
@@huntingrocks It was incredible, to be honest. We did 2x 2day digs with PaleoAdventures. The break down of what my group of 3 people found is:
Common material we got to keep right away: an 8'' turtle rib with attached shell, 5lb chunk of dense indeterminate Dinosaur bone, ~25 Triceratops shed ("spitter") teeth fragments, maybe 10 whole ones, 60 gar scales, 10 fragments of fossilized wood, 20 alligator teeth, most of a small turtle or alligator scapula, ~10 fragments of Edmontosaur tooth, ~10 small ray plates, partially rooted Triceratops tooth, tiny piece of gemmy amber, hundreds of small to palm-sized chunks of indeterminate (mostly) dinosaur, turtle and alligator bone.
Items collected by the guides for science or commercial appraisal: small therapod limb bone, piece of dinosaur skull element (taken for science), tiny raptor or bird vert (taken for science), un ID'd dinosaur astralagus (taken for science, maybe commercial), un ID'd dinosaur ischium, T rex premaxillary tooth, 2x Ankylosaur teeth, adult Nanotyranus tooth 1.5'', 2x T rex tooth fragments, about 3/4'' each, juveline Nanotyranus tooth about 3/4'', good condition, Edmontosaur chevron bone 1'.
Other highlights we saw other people uncover: 4'' T rex tooth, 3x 3'' T rex teeth, Edmontosaur femur, T rex vert, Thescelosaur tibia, rooted Triceratops tooth, Thescelosaurus pelvis bone, etc. etc.
So yeah, I recommend. Happy to answer questions in DM if you want.
Man I couldn’t wait to watch this!!! I’ll get out there one day and find some of my own but looks like you found a lot. Some beautiful pieces as well. My one question is how in the world did you transport those fish fossils? I’d be worried about them shattering 😱
So getting them required a large tote, some shipping blankets from harbor freight, and a whole lot of prayer.. Next time I go, they will be my last stop, so that I do less driving on very bumpy roads with very fragile cargo
@@huntingrocks shipping blankets. That makes sense. In my head I was thinking bubble wrap but that didn’t seem right. And I bet there was some prayer involved lol. I can’t imagine driving that all the way back let alone not being your last stop
This is perfect timing for me. I am working on planning a trip there. I was even looking at that Best Western. Any tips on what I should bring with to the quarry with us? Stools, tools, or glues? I personally would love to go all day, I am not sure that my husband will be into it though. He is an easy going fella, but I don't like to take advantage of that. Do you know if they have internet there? That might keep him happier longer. Thank you for putting this video out here.
So here is the cool thing they have all the tools , I recommend a couple of packing blankets for the fossils, hat and light weight longsleve shirt to keep thebsun off of you .. I sit on the ground but that's just me you may want a stool and glue you won't need till you get home ... also water, drinks and snacks because if you are there all day you won't want to leave
Sorry I missed the internet thing .... No ... at the motel yes of course but up at the quarry NOoooo big NO LOL
Bring a gameboy or something , but he may have fun its fairly easy work albeit a little dusty and you never know what you will find
When you get a chance check them with a UV light. Some interesting details stand out around the fossils. Most of the fossils are not reactive. I have one that's fluoresces white.
Oh I'm gonna check that if they do I will throw it in the part 2 video because that will be very cool .. thank you for the heads up
I hope there will be a video to come showing how you "clean up" a fish fossil.
There is indeed it's gonna be a few months off though
Very carefully. There's a couple ways people do that. Very delicate work.
It is very delicate. However I do enjoy it more than cleaning my Trilobites from Illinois due to how soft the material is
Do you have a list somewhere of all these different sites where we can publicly search? There's a couple people I follow on CZcams in Missouri and when I come down from Nebraska, it's information overload trying to find all these different sites on all different videos. Do you have a single list that you keep somewhere? Some of these sites are super cool that you visit and I'd like to check them out sometime when I'm down in Missouri.
I don't, but I am going to put one together to share with people because I really like that idea ... drop me an email and I will send you a draft of it with GPS coordinates to parking and searching areas
@@huntingrocks sure will, will you shoot me your email address and I can reach out? Love what you're doing on the channel. There's tons of channels of people bragging over what they find (and the jealousy is high on my part), but I love that you educate other rockhounds on where to go and what to look for!
Google maps don't work well in Wyoming at all. You found some great fish. Did you go jade hunting in Wyoming?
No, I wish I would have. That will be next year's trip, and fish fossils will be my last stop ... them bumpy off road places played havoc on some of the fossils
@huntingrocks oh yeah, we have some bumpy roads here. Sorry about that. I'm glad you guys had fun, though.
I knew they would be, thebpaved roads are a lot nicer than the roads in my old home state of Illinois though and just about the same as St.Louis 🤣🤣
Great Video. I'm planning a trip there in July and think I'll do the 8 hour experience (price is now $160). Do they keep you well-supplied with rock, or is it pretty competitive w/ the other fossil hunters?
Thank you.When I was there, they kept us well supplied. They lay it out in rows, and if more people come, they open up more rows, but you don't have to stay in your row. You can bounce around. And thank you for the price update $160 is still a great price, I was finding about 30+ fish a day and selling the ones I didn't keep for cheap ( $10 and under ) made my money back for this year's dig.I hope to be back in June , running my western trip in reverse this year.
Had to edit I got so excited about giving info I forgot to say thanks
@@huntingrocks Great info. Thank you. I'll reserve an 8 hour block for my trip. I was torn between Fossil Safari (now called Fossil Era) across the road, and American Fossil. After talking to the owner of American Fossil on the phone, and the good info from you, I'll go for American Fossil. Do you sell your $10 and under pieces back in your hometown, on Craigslist? That's a good idea.
I throw them up on Ebay a lot of times and do rockshows and the such. Sometimes, facebook marketplace ... but that place is scammer central so you have to be careful there
Let me add that now I can show my husband this video and he can tell me how long he can tolerate watching me do this. He loves to see me happy, so it should all be good. Are there any other "must see" things around that area?
There is Fossil Bute National Park which is pretty cool ( No digging there ) or if you head to Rozel Point in Utah there is selenite ... however selenite digging is dirty dirty dirty but a lot of fun and this time of year a little stinky too ( that's next week's video) the road is washboard but not bad and it's near the Golden Spike National Park if he and you like trains and history or the Northrop Grumman - Propulsion Systems Rocket Museum if he is into space and big flipping rockets ... I wanted to go to that but they were not open yet as I drove to Nevada ... it's about a 3 hour (Give or Take ) from Kemmerer... also the selenite is a free dig just fill in your holes
@@huntingrocks I thank you for all the info. The Rockd ap is cool. But I am sad that where I live has no fossils. I am SE of the twin cities on the Mississippi.
@@Gingerwalker. I say I loved the comment, but alas I do not, no fossils is a very sad thing 😢
However this link may I hope help , it is for Statewide Geology Data for Minnesota... If you find something cool because of it, you got to tell me ... unless its a full mammoth then don't tell me, the jealousy would be too much to bear LOL
www.mngeo.state.mn.us/chouse/geology/statewide.html
Good luck and good fossil hunting