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It's also good to know common names or nicknames if they have any. And make sure to have important things like Burgess Shale and Feathered Dinosaurs. I remember last year at states, the night before I was doing last minute work on the binder and I was so glad that I put in a article about Burgess Shale because the next day they had a whole station on it.

blufoster6 wrote:It's also good to know common names or nicknames if they have any. And make sure to have important things like Burgess Shale and Feathered Dinosaurs. I remember last year at states, the night before I was doing last minute work on the binder and I was so glad that I put in a article about Burgess Shale because the next day they had a whole station on it.

I did a book report on a book about the Burgess Shale, I wish we had a station on it, that would have been awesome.

gneissisnice wrote:

blufoster6 wrote:It's also good to know common names or nicknames if they have any. And make sure to have important things like Burgess Shale and Feathered Dinosaurs. I remember last year at states, the night before I was doing last minute work on the binder and I was so glad that I put in a article about Burgess Shale because the next day they had a whole station on it.

I did a book report on a book about the Burgess Shale, I wish we had a station on it, that would have been awesome.

Wonderful Life, perhaps?

Flavorflav wrote:

gneissisnice wrote:

blufoster6 wrote:It's also good to know common names or nicknames if they have any. And make sure to have important things like Burgess Shale and Feathered Dinosaurs. I remember last year at states, the night before I was doing last minute work on the binder and I was so glad that I put in a article about Burgess Shale because the next day they had a whole station on it.

I did a book report on a book about the Burgess Shale, I wish we had a station on it, that would have been awesome.

Wonderful Life, perhaps?

Why yes, in fact. That's where my Assassination clue came from =)
It was actually pretty interesting.

Does anyone have any new test they have created over the summer to be put on the Test Exchange. I may be good to make a new one for this year and leave the old one in the archive as it is. This years fossils list is mostly the same which is good because I put a lot of time to make a complete binder last year, how many pages does everyone have in the binder you have made my had about 320 last year.

What's the best field guide to use?

amerikestrel wrote:What's the best field guide to use?

I was put into this event today by my coach... I don't really find it that interesting, but oh well.

A lot of people use National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Fossils cost about $15-20 on Amazon. I use a book that is over 20 years old called Simon & Schuster's Guide to Fossils (to me this is more detailed than the Audubon one is) the other major one I have seen was the Smithsonian Fossil book. There are many others out there, I wish I would have bought this cheap 5 dollar book that had all but 5 or 6 fossils in it, so go to a book store and go through all the Fossil handbooks they have with the fossil list and see how many are in the book.

packer-backer91 wrote:

amerikestrel wrote:What's the best field guide to use?

A lot of people use National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Fossils cost about $15-20 on Amazon. I use a book that is over 20 years old called Simon & Schuster's Guide to Fossils (to me this is more detailed than the Audubon one is) the other major one I have seen was the Smithsonian Fossil book. There are many others out there, I wish I would have bought this cheap 5 dollar book that had all but 5 or 6 fossils in it, so go to a book store and go through all the Fossil handbooks they have with the fossil list and see how many are in the book.

Thanks. My parter has the Smithsonian one, so we'll probably use that.

I'm assuming that this event is like ornith and A+R, just with fossils.

Does anyone have any websites that just cover the basics?

amerikestrel wrote:

packer-backer91 wrote:

amerikestrel wrote:What's the best field guide to use?

I was put into this event today by my coach... I don't really find it that interesting, but oh well.

A lot of people use National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Fossils cost about $15-20 on Amazon. I use a book that is over 20 years old called Simon & Schuster's Guide to Fossils (to me this is more detailed than the Audubon one is) the other major one I have seen was the Smithsonian Fossil book. There are many others out there, I wish I would have bought this cheap 5 dollar book that had all but 5 or 6 fossils in it, so go to a book store and go through all the Fossil handbooks they have with the fossil list and see how many are in the book.

Thanks. My parter has the Smithsonian one, so we'll probably use that.

I'm assuming that this event is like ornith and A+R, just with fossils.

Does anyone have any websites that just cover the basics?

You could, you know, read this thread.
Or check my awesometastic fossils wiki.

gneissisnice wrote: You could, you know, read this thread.
Or check my awesometastic fossils wiki.

I did skim it, but I didn't see any websites.

And yes, you're wiki is awesome.