Any Home Bakers Here?

So you just pick up a piece of rock, smack it in an appropriate way and hope it has a fossil in that plane?


Tough job but someone has to do it!

yeah, that’s basically it.


Pardon me while I grab my hammer and some gravel

Try a rock that is made up of many small rocks, like sedimentary rock. I found a few gastropods that way once.

I’ll attach a picture of what I mean later.
 
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This is the type of rock I found once that led to my first fossil discovery. I found two gastropods, some petrified wood, (which is in the picture) and five vertebrae pieces in a rock just like this one in my hand. I found them all when I slowly broke it open. Emphasis on SLOWLY. You don’t want to damage the fossils.

For this type of rock, I did not split it like the ones in Wyoming. I just slowly chiseled pieces away.
 

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