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  • Scaphite

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    By davidcpowers

    Taxonomy

    Ammonite

    Kingdom: Animalia
    Phylum: Mollusca
    Class: Cephalopoda
    Order: Ammonitida
    Family: Scaphitidae
    Genus: Hoploscaphites
    Species: Hoploscaphites spedeni

    Geological Time Scale

    Eon: Phanerozoic
    Era: Mesozoic
    Period: Cretaceous
    Epoch: Late
    International Age: Campanian

    Stratigraphy

    Pierre Shale Formation

    Provenance

    Collector: David C Powers
    Date Collected: 10/12/2018
    Acquired by: Field Collection

    Dimensions

    Length: 5.5 cm
    Width: 2.5 cm
    Height: 5 cm

    Location

    Cedar Creek
    Dawson
    Montana
    United States

    Comments

    I was seven miles south of Glendive; Montana on October 12, 2018; time 1400; exploring a drainage cut into the Pierre Shale Formation while looking for concretions. This scaphites was partly exposed on the surface of a concretion. Later, I removed most of the surrounding matrix. 

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    The Amateur Paleontologist

    The Amateur Paleontologist

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    Nice one :) Love that Hoploscaphites

    -Christian

     

     

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    Innocentx

    Excellent find! Is it's matrix shale as well?

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    davidcpowers

    The area is mostly fissile shale with varying size concretions. These concretions appear to be made of the same minerals as the shale. (

    See the picture of a concretion and surrounding shale.)  All of the fossils I found were in concretions. 

     

    Here is a picture of the Hoploscaphite in the concretion. I used a diamond blade attached to a flex shaft Dremel and running water to cut away the surrounding matrix. Then I used a small diamond grinding bit and hand dental picks to remove the matrix off of the fossil.

     

     

    ammonite-in-concretion.jpg

    concretion.jpg

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    Innocentx

    Thanks for explaining. Your result is very fine.

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    Ludwigia

    Excellent prep work as well!

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