Pliosauroidea Rib bone cross section replaced by Pyrite

by | May 30, 2016 | Blog

Pliosauroidea Rib bone cross section replaced by Pyrite- Volga RIver, Village of Gorodishche, Ulyanovsk, Russia. 2″ across Pliosauroidea is an extinct clade of marine reptiles. Pliosauroids, also commonly known as pliosaurs, are known from the Jurassic and...

Fossil Mammoth tusk-cross section

by | May 30, 2016 | Blog

  Fossil Mammoth tusk-cross section- Kotzebue, Alaska. 5.5″ across The woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) was a species of mammoth, the common name for the extinct elephant genus Mammuthus. The woolly mammoth was one of the last in a line of mammoth...

Petrified wood-Hickory

by | May 29, 2016 | Blog

Petrified wood-Hickory- Yakima Firing Range, Yakima Valley, Central Washington. 5.75″ across . Miocene epoch. An old location that has been off limits for decades, specimen collected in the early 1960’s.

Specular Hematite with Quartz

by | May 28, 2016 | Blog

As an appreciation for reaching 4000 FaceBook likes, I am posting a very special specimen. While not valuable monetarily, it holds a special place in the evolution of the LGF Foundation. This is one of the first specimens I found while rockhounding with my late...

Neanderthal Mousterian Burin

by | May 28, 2016 | Blog

Neanderthal Mousterian Burin- Fontmaure, West central France. Middle Paleolithic Period. 80,000-40,000 years ago. Yellow Jasper… 4.5 cm across

Limb cast

by | May 28, 2016 | Blog

Limb cast – Tusher Canyon, Morrison Formation, Yellow cat Mining District, Grand Co. Utah. 2.25″ across.