My childhood fossil collection

[DinoToyForum]

Today I posted the following on Mastodon and thought it might be of interest here as well.

"Little wonder I became a curator...

While most other 14-year-olds were outside kicking a ball around, I was inside writing labels for my fossil collection. You know, on my own, for *fun*. 🤓

Here's my childhood fossil collection 'cabinet' today with some examples of the contents and labels.

I credit my mum and dad for fostering this passion and especially my dad for taking me fossil hunting around the UK."





If anyone here's interested I can take more photos of this collection. I found everything myself.

[Crackington]

Wow! Looks like the young Dr Admin gathered quite a collection there! The trilobite at Number 1, I'd like to see more of that please.

Nice for you to give a shout out to your Dad too. Just got back from Dad taxi-ing my girls to their music lesson, so hopefully they'll appreciate all this too when they look back in the future. It's wonderful to see your children's interests blossom.

[Faelrin]

Man I'm a little envious. Great collection, and good that you had the opportunity to do such when you were younger, especially supportive parents. Just from that selective I think the ammonite is reallly eye catching. I'm sure all are great finds though.

[Halichoeres]

So great that your parents facilitated your hobby and eventual career. The only fossil I had as a kid was a tiny trilobite (probably Elrathia?), although I'm embarrassed to say I have no idea what became of it.

[Gwangi]

Thanks for sharing! It's fantastic that your parents were so supportive of your passion, and look where it got you! My own weren't really supportive or unsupportive, just kind of indifferent which had its pros and cons. Lucky that you grew up in such a fossil rich location too. I have my own collection of childhood fossils, mostly Devonian in age. I never made a cabinet or labels for them though, I wish I had.

[Libraraptor]

Thanks for sharing, I would really like to see more of it. 

[Blackdanter]

I was very similar in that respect but I now restrict my fossil collecting to my local area which means I acquire less but it's far more satisfying when I do find something nice,

Here's a Hybodus sp fin spine I found last week, only the second complete one in twenty years of fossiling locally.