marine fossils

I saw these in Imperial County in Southern California, USA. The fossils there are supposed to be around 6 million years old. There were lots of fossils of scallops, gastropods, and oysters mixed in with many of these cone-shaped fossils. Many of them had 4 ridged columns running the length of...

I am new to this current pursuit of rocks and minerals....specifically fossils. I have been taking the common steps of just going out here and there based on what I do know about physical geology to search for marine fossils mainly around road cuts and places with high levels of erosion. It has...