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My main interest is fossil fish, but you will also find some other vertebrates like amphibians, mammals, reptiles and birds here in this album:
Fossils from Solnhofen, Messel, Holzmaden, Liaoning, Bergisch Gladbach, Green River, Linton, Mazon Creek, Monte Bolca, Fiume Marecchia.....and other places around the world.

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Tomasz

This collection is simply spectacular! I am collecting paleozoic fishes from couple of years but my collection is not comparable at all. 

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Malcolmt

An absolutely amazing congregation of vertebrate fossils. Makes my few meager green river common stuff look pathetic!!!!!!!

 

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Fossildude19

This is one of the best collections of fossils I have seen anywhere. Bar none.

Thank you for posting this, Thomas!

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trilobites_are_awesome

trilobites_are_awesome

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This is one of the coolest collections i have ever seen.

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LSCHNELLE

LSCHNELLE

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What a huge collection of so many excellently preserved vertebrate fossils from so many different aquatic species. Very impressive! I imagine it has taken you a long time to reach this magnitude of a collection. If you wouldn't mind sharing, are these your purchases? Or are they your finds with prep? Or some combination?

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Paul1719

Truly amazing!!! I was aware you had a pretty extensive collection but this is like a major museum collection over a hundred years. 

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syl1219s

syl1219s

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Awesome!!

Nice collection!

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oilshale

oilshale

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My grandfather (born 1851, Max Bastelberger - Wikipedia) started the collection, my father continued and now it's my turn. 

Not so surprising if the collection is large.

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DPS Ammonite

DPS Ammonite

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16 minutes ago, oilshale said:

My grandfather (born 1851, Max Bastelberger - Wikipedia) started the collection, my father continued and now it's my turn. 

Not so surprising if the collection is large.


Do have any fish that your grandfather collected? Show us please. Did your father personally collect more fish?

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oilshale

oilshale

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My grandfather was more interested in insects, mostly recent ones but also in fossils from Solnhofen. I still have some of his fish from Solnhofen, the UK, and from Holzmaden, some of which I have reworked. My father regularly traveled to Solnhofen and other locations and collected in the quarries there himself. Later he played more of a chauffeur and drove me to the quarries. But he and my mother were still busy collecting - they just left the work with the pickaxe and crowbar to me.
I focused more on fish first (but I also have a lot of other stuff).

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Brian James Maguire

Brian James Maguire

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Just simply fantastic! Both the story and the collection, well done.

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    • Sumatra Blue Amber (Sinamar Fm., ~30 Ma)

      By Barrelcactusaddict · Posted

      Correction (May 6, 2024):
       
      I would more accurately list the insects in this piece as being within the Pseudomyrmecini tribe; modern distribution of its members would possibly suggest a Tetraponera sp. rather than Pseudomeyrmex.
       
      Also, after conferring with the seller of the amber itself, this material was mined from lignite deposits associated with the Gumai, Air Benakat, and Muara Enim Formations of the South Sumatra Basin: these range in age from 30-6.3 Ma.
    • Sumatra Blue Amber (Sinamar Fm., ~30 Ma)

      By Barrelcactusaddict · Posted

      Correction (May 6, 2024):
       
      I would more accurately list the insects in this piece as being within the Pseudomyrmecini tribe; modern distribution of its members would possibly suggest a Tetraponera sp. rather than Pseudomeyrmex.
       
      Also, after conferring with the seller of the amber itself, this material was mined from lignite deposits associated with the Gumai, Air Benakat, and Muara Enim Formations of the South Sumatra Basin: these range in age from 30-6.3 Ma.
    • Sumatra Blue Amber (Sinamar Fm., ~30 Ma)

      By Barrelcactusaddict · Posted

      Correction (May 6, 2024):
       
      I would more accurately list the insects in this piece as being within the Pseudomyrmecini tribe; modern distribution of its members would possibly suggest a Tetraponera sp. rather than Pseudomeyrmex.
       
      Also, after conferring with the seller of the amber itself, this material was mined from lignite deposits associated with the Gumai, Air Benakat, and Muara Enim Formations of the South Sumatra Basin: these range in age from 30-6.3 Ma.
    • Sumatra Blue Amber (Sinamar Fm., ~30 Ma)

      By Barrelcactusaddict · Posted

      Correction (May 6, 2024):
       
      I would more accurately list the insects in this piece as being within the Pseudomyrmecini tribe; modern distribution of its members would possibly suggest a Tetraponera sp. rather than Pseudomeyrmex.
       
      Also, after conferring with the seller of the amber itself, this material was mined from lignite deposits associated with the Gumai, Air Benakat, and Muara Enim Formations of the South Sumatra Basin: these range in age from 30-6.3 Ma.
    • Sumatra Blue Amber (Sinamar Fm., ~30 Ma)

      By Barrelcactusaddict · Posted

      Correction (May 6, 2024):
       
      I would more accurately list the inclusions (workers and alates) in this piece as being within the Pseudomyrmecini tribe; modern distribution of its members would possibly suggest a Tetraponera sp. rather than Pseudomeyrmex.
       
      Also, after conferring with the seller of the amber itself, this material was mined from lignite deposits associated with the Gumai, Air Benakat, and Muara Enim Formations of the South Sumatra Basin: these range in age from 30-6.3 Ma.
    • Sumatra Blue Amber (Sinamar Fm., ~30 Ma)

      By Barrelcactusaddict · Posted

      Correction (May 6, 2024):
       
      I would more accurately list this specimen as being within the Pseudomyrmecini tribe; modern distribution of its members would possibly suggest a Tetraponera sp. rather than Pseudomeyrmex.
       
      Also, after conferring with the seller of the amber itself, this material was mined from lignite deposits associated with the Gumai, Air Benakat, and Muara Enim Formations of the South Sumatra Basin: these range in age from 30-6.3 Ma.
    • Claiborne Amber (Cockfield Fm., 41.3-38 Ma)

      By Barrelcactusaddict · Posted

      Sorry for my late response. That's a good observation. The Cockfield Fm. that hosts this amber belongs to the Claiborne Group, which encompasses a great number of different Formations.
    • My First Peripristis sp. Tooth

      By Samurai · Posted

      Thats the fun thing! the Iola formation as a whole is severly lacking in reported online material, infact the only good source is the KGS website, an old website, and finds reported by @Missourian. 
       
      Here is the website showing the teeth from the Raytown including a similar looking Peripristis. Sadly the locations on google Earth were not mentioned so I could go and see the Iola formation in a sequence instead of an abandoned rockpile.
       
      https://inyo2.coffeecup.com/kansasfossils/kansasfossils.html
       
      Eventhough the spot I hunt is a jumbled rockpile, I know its raytown due to the lithology descriptions listed here, the "Calico" appearance, and other fauna indicators that are listed on the KGS site. 
       
      https://www.kgs.ku.edu/General/Geology/Johnson/05_outcr.html
       
      The Muncie Creek is present via phosphate nodules being reworked into the Paola Limestone but the shale itself is gone. Ive also found the described Conulariids in the Paola Ls that are on my other album. This at least proves its one of those formations, if there is any doubt. I have not found a nodule in the Raytown so its easier to know which layer is which at the site.
       
      Ive also found some fossils not listed on the website from the Raytown such as scarce fish bones and some carbon? chunks. Here are some images I took a while ago.

      Carbon?

       

       
      Fish teeth and Very scarce fish bones are not restricted to the Raytown as ive rarely found them in the thicker Paola strata and somewhat more commonly in the Muncie Phosphate nodules but thats off topic. 
    • My First Peripristis sp. Tooth

      By Collector9658 · Posted

      The second tooth looks alot like Peripristis, I agree. I still am uncertain about the first tooth, I agree more prep would help. Have you checked to see if Peripristis is reported from those deposits?
    • My First Peripristis sp. Tooth

      By Samurai · Posted

      I was thinking so, but I could be wrong. I based it off of this website here but I couldnt find any teeth that closely matched. I still think this is some sort of petalodont if not peripristis. 
      https://www.ammonit.ru/foto/30996.htm
       
      Here are some close ups I tried to take but Prepping this will need to be done to expose more. 
       

       
      I also based it off my other True Peripristis tooth I found a couple weeks ago near the Missouri Iowa boarder. I assumed the specimen pictured above was the opposite side showing. 
       
      other tooth:

       
       
      If you have any idea of what the assumed Peripristis tooth is let me know as I want to learn more. 
       
       

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