![]() ![]() I did find one fossil that was mostly buried in matrix. By the time we left I found one small agatized horn coral and several chuncks. We continued to search the area with little luck. While we found pieces of red agate, the agatized horn coral was elusive until my friend Bill found a nive 3 inch horn coral. The searching involved looking for loose rock on the mountain among vegetation. After a hike that resulted in a 3000 foot elevation change from 6000 to 9000 feet we eventually found the horn coral site. Our next stop was Riley Canyon for agatized horn coral. We found some brachiopods in Emigration Canyon but the fossils were not abundant. We left with four flat rate boxes in total.Īfter collecting in the Delta area for fossils and minerals we went back to our condo in Park City, Utah and visited Emigration Canyon for Jurassic marine fossils in Salt Lake and Riley Canyon, near Jericho, Utah. The highlights were Bill's Asaphiscus, a huge 2 inch Asaphiscus I found, two brown trilobites and a 1 3/4 Asiphicus my wife found in the discard pile as we were getting ready to leave. By the end of the day my wife and I had a table covered with trimmed examples of all of the common trilobites. That was the start to a great day of collecting. Within ten minutes of arriving my friend Bill found a beautiful Asaphiscus wheeleri molt. Our first fossil excursion was to U-Dig quarry. Photots from the trip will be posted at the end. Perhaps a post about shipping might be valuable. If anyone wants tips for successful shipping of fossils please PM me as I learned a lot shipping with both USPS and UPS. ![]() ![]() My friends came away with 13 boxes of fossils. The results of the trip was 15 boxes shipped home and many hours of preparation ahead of me. We collected trilobites outside Delta, Utah and Liberty, Idaho, Marine fossils in Emigration and Riley Canyons in Utah and fossil fish in Kemmerer, Wyoming. In addition to collecting, sunstones, topaz, agates and fluorescent minerals we collected Cambrian,Silurian, Jurassic, Cretaceous and Eocene fossils. I got back last week from a two week collecting trip in Idaho, Utah and Wyoming with my wife and our two friends Bill and Jean. ![]()
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