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Found this today. Polished quartz, almost perfectly rounded. Bottom is slightly tapered. My guess is indigenous jewelry - checking with my museum contact for his opinion.

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Pieces of amphibian dermal bone. Late Triassic, 220 mya, Shinarump Formation

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Some varieties of black and white pottery from the Pre Pueblo people.

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Dead stuff! Dearly departed deer.

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Fossil centipede tracks. Middle Triassic. Moenkopi Formation. 240 mya. A companion rock to the one I collected a few years ago.

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Underside of a slab of rock with partial chirothere tracks - one facing up, one down and one to the left. The left facing track seems to be more of a claw drag rather rather than a footstep type impression. 240 mya, Middle Triassic, Moenkopi Formation.

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Animal skull I haven’t identified.

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A nose by any other name would smell as sweet. Just a rock that amused me.

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This is a large chirotherium track. It’s crappy but it is the first one I found in a new area so that is promising.

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Approximately one quarter of a billion years between the petrified wood and current wood.

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These are Chirotherium rex tracks. The blue are the pes or rear, the red is a manus or front. These are deformed due to a very liquid substrate.

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This is a partial amphibian jawbone. The two circular objects are the roots of fang or tusk like teeth. Below that is a row of smaller teeth.

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Out exploring and found this interesting piece of sandstone.

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It is no longer unseasonably warm

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A nice piece of petrified wood. I find basically two colors - this natural wood and a purple ish color that comes from manganese. Probably 240-220 mya.

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I don’t know what these shapes are. Possibly vegetation or roots of some kind. 240 mya. Middle Triassic