Rankin Museum Fossil Fair 9-2016
Members of the North Carolina Fossil Club participated in the Rankin Museum Fossil Fair from 9am to 3 pm on Saturday, September 24, 2016. Fossils were displayed by Jonathan Fain, Richard Chandler, Joy Harrington...
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NCFC Meeting September 2016
Members of the NC Fossil Club held their bimonthly meeting at the NC Museum of Natural Sciences on Sunday, September 18, 2016. The featured speaker was Vince Schneider, Research Curator, Paleontology, NC Museum of...
NCFC Meeting May 2016
The May meeting of the NC Fossil Club was held Sunday, May 15. Presentations were made by Julie Neiderkorn and Mary Harbison about their experience in Florida at the Paleoblitz, and by Linda McCall who...
Old Dock May 2016
We had a beautiful sunny warm day to collect ~2mya fossils from Old Dock, meeting first at the Master Mart on Rt. 130 and caravanning to the site. Libby Smalley expertly lead the trip...
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NCFC Meeting March2016
The presentation for this month, The Rise of Archosaurs and Their Close Relatives in the Triassic Period, was given by Dr. Sterling Nesbitt, Asst. Prof. of Paleobiology at Virginia Tech’s Department of Geosciences. During the...
NC Fossil Fair/PaleoPalooza 11-2015
Ten members of the NC Fossil Club displayed at the annual Fossil Fair (PaleoPalloza 2015) at the NC Musuem of Natural Sciences on November 14.
Greens Mill Run 10-2015
Greens Mill Run Fossil Collecting Trip-October 17, 2005. The day started out quite cool and a couple of the planned participants ended up cancelling but those brave few that did show up at Greens...
Aurora Cook Out/ National Fossil Day 2015
The NCFC Fall picnic was held in conjunction with National Fossil Day.
Belgrade October 2015
Walking through the washed out area, a large triangular shape jumped into my sight. Picking it up, I was holding the largest tooth I had ever found at this quarry, a 3 ½ inch...
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NCFC Meeting July 2015
The July 2015 meeting included the roll out of Fossil Book Volume 3.
Citizen Science Symposium – Calvert Marine Museum 5-2015
Following the Aurora Fossil Festival, several club members headed up to the Calvert Marine Museum to participate in the The Fossil Project’s Citizen Science Symposium.
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Norwood Arbor Day and Fossil Fair April 2015
The Norwood Fossil Fair was held on a cool and rainy Saturday, April 23, 2015. This was the 6th year for the NC Fossil Club outreach to this Piedmont community. Jonathan, Kathy and Arianna...
Castle Hayne April 2015
I was pleased with the new area Martin Marietta provided us to hunt this year. The hunting area was rather small compared to years past but we had both Cretaceous (Peedee) and Eocene areas...
NC Science Olympiad April 2015
Members of the NC Fossil Club coordinated the Fossil Frenzy activity for the 2015 Science Olympiad.
Why are there no Dinosaur fossils in NC’s Mountains?
Dinosaurs are more likely to be found in sedimentary rock formations out West, but most every state has areas where they roamed, died and were preserved underground. Except for Western North Carolina, where the...
Why are dinosaur fossils hard to find in in North Carolina?
We do get a number of dinosaur bones … a fair number – 40 to 60 dinosaur bones, decent bones. If you take that in the amount of area that we actually have exposed,...
VMNH Dino Days 1-2015
The Virginia Museum of Natural History in Martinsville, VA celebrated celebrated Dino Days from 9 am to 3 pm on January 24, 2015 with an animatronic Tyranasaurus rex, life-sized dinosaur skeleton casts and a...
Rucks Pit – Florida 1-2015
Day 3 found the 5 of us at the Fort Drum Crystal Mine (aka Rucks Pit), a farm field turned into a large collecting are where spoil piles of material are dumped from...
Peace River – Florida 1-2015
Day 2 of the trip found us in Arcadia, FL, teaming up with Mark Renz to do some screening in the Peace River. Andy and Yvonne had only come along for the Quarry ...
SMR Quarry – Florida 1-2015
Its cold, its snowing and Im cooped up inside and want to go fossil hunting. The solution? Go to Florida, of course! And that is how a plan was hatched to go do some...
NCFC Meeting/Fossil Fair November 2014
A short business meeting was held following the Fossil Fair on Saturday, November 15. The results of the 2014 NCFC Board elections were announced. David Sanderson was re-elected and three new Board Members were...
Onslow 11-2014
Deborah Young led a NC Fossil Club trip into Onslow Quarry on Saturday November 8, 2014. A last minute attempt was made to see if the club could hunt in this quarry, and the...
Castle Hayne 11-2014
During the fall, David Sanderson led two collecting trips to Martin Mariettas Castle Hayne quarry. The first was October 3rd and the second one was on took place on November 7th. Between the two...
Aurora Cookout November 2014
NC Fossil Club annual picnic, November 1st, 2014. The Aurora Fossil Museum kindly hosted our annual picnic, attended by 19 NCFC members plus two AFM staff. AFMs Museum Educator, George Oliver, Jr., M.D., and...
Hanson 10-2014
Thirteen plucky NC Fossil Club members turned out for a perfect fall day of collecting the Yorktown Formation at Hanson Quarry in Rocky Mount. We have only been coming to this locality since April,...
Fossil Day at Discovery Place 10-2014
Discovery Place 2014 Fossil Day was held at Discovery Place in Charlotte, NC from 9am to 5 pm on Saturday October 11, 2014. The day included the opening of the Dinosaurs in Motion Exhibit...