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Re:Eating Fossils by jstrieb on Saturday September 23, 2023 @10:11PM (#37629539)
Tangential to the article: I have had decent luck finding fossils at random spots in the US. When I'm traveling by car, I tend to map out spots based on this list of about 15,000 fossil spots in the US and Canada:

http://donaldkenney.x10.mx/FOSSITE_INFO.HTM (listings by state here: http://donaldkenney.x10.mx/FOSSINDX.HTM)

Not all of the listed spots are findable, since the list is based on index cards of unknown origin transcribed from years ago. But I have had success with some of them, and it's often a fun detour.

Next time I go, I'll have to try licking some rocks!

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Re:Eating Fossils by maxerickson on Saturday September 23, 2023 @10:18PM (#37629566)
Petoskey stones are a good fossil to search for if you are looking to lick some rocks.

Pretty location specific though.

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Re:Eating Fossils by jeffmc on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @03:06PM (#37664301)
Interesting data. I grabbed the CSV, cleaned it up and created an interactive searchable map with RAMADDA - https://ramadda.org/repository/a/fossil_locations
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