Idaho Baculite Identification
Baculite is a realistic Idaho fossil profile built around straight-shelled ammonite common in western seaway chalk and shale. In this state, success usually comes from learning dinosaur-bearing mudstones, glacial gravels, and marine shales, then timing runoff, reservoir drawdown, surf cuts, or road work that exposes fresh fossil-bearing rock instead of hunting blindly.
Key Traits
- ●straight chambered shell
- ●ribbed exterior
- ●suture lines
- ●Check dinosaur-bearing mudstones, glacial gravels, and marine shales
Era
Late Cretaceous
Type
cephalopod
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