Rock and fossil hounds: where can I purchase reasonably priced plant fossils?
If you’ve got a collection of spare invertebrate fossils, you may be able to find collectors of plant fossils with whom to trade. Here’s some of the advice on this possible approach given at the above website: “Trading Fossils” by Mike Bruggeman GMS Fossil Section Chair, 1997-1999 “How to swap your extras for someone else’s extras.” Trading fossils is simply a great idea. For the price of postage, you get fabulous fossils for specimens that you were probably going to throw away… STEP 1) Keep your spares. STEP 2) Label everything. “If it’s worth picking up, it’s worth a label.” … Start with an accurate notation of the site on a map, and find out the geologic age (and formation if possible). Local collectors, club members, or the friendly folks at your town’s University or Museum are the best source of this information. Now you have a bucket of dirty, unidentified fossils with a label like this: Road cut on US 27 N. of Lumpkin, GA Cretaceous, Ripley formation STEP 3) Clean your speci
