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Hello Guys, after a long time ago i'm back now with my best off Tumido Giganteus ever.Prepped out in 3D with "safed cover" Tumido giganteus Glen Afric Beach New Zealand 15 Mill years ago Enjoy, Axel
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Hey there! I'm back again, and again I'm on another continent I moved to New Zealand at the beginning of the year, and in between the incredible fishing and birding I forced myself to head out to Glen Afric (2 hour drive) for a stab at some crabs. The day started out with a couple belemnites, quite long and skinny. The concretions were various shades of khaki to black, some of them still more clay than rock. There were various shells encrusted in them. I kept my eyes peeled for a 'crab' shaped concretion, however this was easier said than done. After a full lap (about 400m) I was nearly back where I started when I picked up a rock, turned it over and holy moly it had legs! Please tell me they're crab legs and not belemnites trolling me haha!! If it's a crab, would an air scribe be safe in the hands of an amateur? Anyway I had to go, but I'll be back!
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Forgive any inaccuracies, I haven’t hunted for fossils since childhood on the South coast of England so very much a novice. I found this whilst scouting out a new vineyard site in Waipara Gorge, New Zealand which is a pretty rich area for fossils (mostly Paleogene, and Cretaceous from what I’ve read). It was at the very top of an escarpment rather than the river banks where most are found and definitely in limestone, though I couldn’t tell you the exact type. There’s not much structure left to it (close up picture gives a better idea) but are these vertebrae and any idea what from? About 2cm diameter and 30cm in length. If anyone has any experience with this area I’d love to know more!
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https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2018/04/18/New-species-of-ancient-whale-found-in-New-Zealand/8111524066374/?utm_source=sec&utm_campaign=sl&utm_medium=2 https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/04/180418100507.htm
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In the past, for us Easter has been a time of cracking open presents at our local, but we had other plans and headed to a different spot for our holiday (Still did some fossil hunting & found some nice oysters but I never posted as I thought its a bit boring - I dont know if they are that exciting to others..). Anyway, I am a creature of habit and had to have a crack at getting some crabs and although we didnt find anything special as the sand and driftwood had covered everything, we still all came home with some "pocket crabs" and some prep training ones for me. Tinbum bought back some bone and even the girl found herself a couple of nice crab pebbles. Following @Doctor Mud's advice and soaking the tools afterward, I think I'll give em a light oil this time too as I have been mistreating them.
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https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/apr/04/on-fossil-poo-and-picky-eaters-a-new-study-sheds-light-on-new-zealands-past-ecosystem
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Like many times I put aside what im working on for one reason or another and then pick up another project and start prepping again. I put in about 6 hours into this concretion from New Zealand. I started by digging a hole cause I could not 'read' the rock and got lucky and hit carapace. but then I could see just how calcited it was! Holy cow!!! This is the absolute worst calcited crab ive ever run into,, bar none!!! Even calcite under parts of the shell material!!! Just a freakin nightmare!!! The thing is, I payed $200 for this dang thing plus about $70 for shipping so ive got to finish it and see how it turns out? Im scared! Not happy with this one at all! Could be a cool crab, but soooooooo many hours to find out? My wife told me that if I didnt have any 'bad' ones then the good one wouldn't seem so good? Not sure about that. Gots a long ways to go, but tomorrow my hands will be very stiff. A rather large rock and lots of pushing my Super Jack through this rock. Tuff job for sure!!! RB
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I posted this awhile ago, but today I prepped out the other claw that I always wanted to do but didnt cause its just a so-so crab. I had this for sale awhile ago also, didnt sell, but someday if and when it does sell someone will at least have both claws exsposed. Plus it gave me something to do today. Just love to prep even if its not the best crab. Still needs a bit more work. Someday? RB
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Hi there, I'm new to fossil hunting and came across this today in the newly surfaced coast land mass at Kaikoura, New Zealand. It's quite large; at least a foot long. Move read about the fossils of ancient dolphins being found in the area and was wondering if there was any possibility of this being linked to those finds? any help in identifying it would be greatly appreciated!
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It seems that amber fossils have decided that they will be making headlines all this 2018 long http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC1802/S00017/otago-researchers-uncover-new-zealands-first-fossils.htm
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So as some of you may know, the good Dr has been back in New Zealand and we have had 2 incredible trips so far with the results being accepted by the Canterbury Museum for prep and identification!! So I took the opportunity of a day off work to take the Good Dr and a friend to a local spot for a nosey around looking for more great Gastropod hash plates like I have all around my garden.
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Got home from the Quartzite show on monday and was sick as a dog. Made for a brutal 2 day drive home! But today, feeling a bit better and finally went out to the prep garage. Picked out two small Tumido concretions and decided to do one Ventral and the other Dorsal. I had a lot of fun doing that ventral Pulalius so I decided I needed a ventral Tumido. Anyways, the one I decided ventral on was an easy read and after a few hours hit ventral. Put that one aside and went on the prep attack on the other. Was'nt positive on what was ventral/dorsal so dug a hole. Dang!!! Ventral again! Turned it over and got to work. Hit dorsal and oh boy!!! Hit pay dirt with this one!!! No calcite and the rock came off super good!!! Just that way its suposed to be. This dorsal one looks to be a very very very good crab!!!? Im so excited I can hardly stand it! I had the witherall to call it quits and turned it over and fixed the hole. Cant freakin wait for tommorow. Oh, and im now down 40 freakin lbs. Just a fabulous day!!! Life is good.
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The Largest Known Deep-ocean Silicic Volcanic Eruption of the Past Century
Oxytropidoceras posted a topic in Geology
A close-up look at an uncommon underwater eruption January 10, 2018, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution http://www.whoi.edu/news-release/a-close-up-look-at-a-rare-underwater-eruption https://phys.org/news/2018-01-close-up-uncommon-underwater-eruption.html https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/01/180110141320.htm The paper is: Rebecca Carey, S. Adam Soule, Michael Manga, et al., 2018. The largest deep-ocean silicic volcanic eruption of the past century. Science Advances 10 Jan 2018: Vol. 4, no. 1, e1701121 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1701121 http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/1/e1701121 A related and interesting paper is: Simkin, T., 1993. Terrestrial volcanism in space and time. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 21(1), pp. 427-452. (Volume publication date May 1993) https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.ea.21.050193.002235 http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1993AREPS..21..427S Yours, Paul H.-
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A new genus and species of fossil bat is described from New Zealand’s only pre-Pleistocene Cenozoic terrestrial fauna called Vulcanops jennyworthyae http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11972666 Paper https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-18403-w
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Intrepid New Zealand fossil hunter hopes he has found a dinosaur
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Story of an intrepid fossil hunter in New Zealand who hopes he has found a dinosaur. https://i.stuff.co.nz/oddstuff/100187691/game-of-bones-has-glen-dug-up-a-dinosaur-or-is-it-a-whale-of-a-tale Says the fossil will be 6 foot long when complete. Looks like Miocene siltstone concretion that is common to the area (Taranaki) so I'm betting it could be a baleen whale skull. Alas for this bloke, not a dinosaur @Boesse what do you think? I recommended he get in touch with Ewan.
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Sorry I haven't been very active on here for a while. 2017 was one of the craziest years for me so far, mostly in a good way. Finally, for the last day of 2017 I managed a trip to one of my favourite places - the Miocene sediments in Canterbury, New Zealand. I left the house at 5 AM since low tide was 9:30 AM. I was treated to one of the most spectacular sun rises (sorry no photo!). I am very sore today from lots of boulder flipping and field trimming but it was worth it! Found a split concretion with a string of shark vertebrae. Who knows there could be teeth in there too? The paint brush is 20 cm long. Unfortunately I had to trim the concretion as it would weigh 70 kg (150 pounds). The fossil wasn't harmed but it would have been nice to keep the shape of the concretion.
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What type of fossil is this? I've found specimens from 8inches to 30inches across in chalk cliffs in New Zealand. Thank you for any advice.
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Boom check out what I got my hands on yesterday. Bloody massive rock! Got the other half too. Underside of seal skull with teethkill with teeth
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From the album: Fossil Crabs
one of my best crabs from New Zealand, Miocene. Took 110 hours to prep, A very nice specimen.- 1 comment
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Hi all, On a recent trip to the seaside cliffs of Port Waikato, NZ, I found this little beauty amongst the indistinguishable fossilised plant matter that is common along the beach. Does anyone have an idea of what it might be? According to geological maps, the area that I found this in was a part of the Apotu group (Late Jurassic), although could of also been from the nearby Huriwai group. Cheers, TJ
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From the album: Fossil Crabs
This crab took over 20 hours to prep, but came out purty dang nice givin all the problems! Lot of leg, and a very beautyful face. The rock measures 4 inches across. A very small crab for a Tumido. -
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Hi Everyone My son picked this up at Waiake beach Auckland. I know nothing about animal anatomy (Humans Included ). Could someone help us identify this vertebra? It was found on Waiake beach Auckland and there was some recent cliff slides in the area. Thank you very much everyone.
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Hi, I'm new to this fossil stuff but it fascinates me. I found this in the head waters of an east coast river of the north island of New Zealand while hunting other things. I get around some remote country and every now and then find something like this but my knowledge of this sort of thing is limited. Can anyone please tell me what it actually is and if its of any significance please. Cheers Dayle
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