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So for several years i knew that getting better prepresults would have to include a air abrader. With my Junair silent compressor this was problematic as there is not enough airflow, so these last years i was limited to pen work.... A few month’s ago my beloved Junair got a leak in the tank, repair was not very cheap, so i upgraded to a much more powerful compressor, not silent but workable....I also bought a very old Renfert abrader, very cheap, which after replacing the filter set started to work very fine.... So here’s some prep results with this setup. At last i was able to prep a few of my finds from my 2012 trip to the Lafarge quarry at Belmont, France. Allthough i ‘m really happy with the results so far, it’s a very slow process, even with the replaced filterset on the Renfert. Some matrix is just too problematic for this Renfert machine. I’m not sure why, maybe it’s not effective enough, or maybe it’s because the unit is limited to 6 bar, so i cannot push it more..... At the moment i’m waiting my custom build Eckhard Petersen abrader, this unit should cover it. So i hope for more and better pix in the future....
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Greetings I'm a new member from upstate New York, Saratoga Region as well as a periodic visitor to Florida and happy to be on this forum. I'm not new to fossils having been introduced at a very young age you could say I'm "actively"returning after a short retirement. I find myself in an area rich in so many fossils and have major questions on collecting and more.......pardon the new guy and hoping to hear from like minded folks like myself. I'm actively seeking to find examples of trilobites and eurypterides near me. I've been to some of known local sites and not having much luck. Are there any clubs in my area.
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Hi, everyone! Recently I got some ammonites from Nigeria, but I can not found any reference. So I have no idea how many species of them, I need your help!
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Hello, I have found these ammonites a few years ago in Bavaria, Germany. These are found in an area roughly 20km from Solnhofen (Jurassic). I beleave the geological formation in this area is a little older then the formations in Solnhofen but i can't find proof if this. I hope these pics are of enough quality to provide an ID. Regards, Arno
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Ammonite Ammolite Disaster! How Should I Fix/ Clean This Specimen?
Kurufossils posted a topic in Fossil Preparation
Hello everyone, I recently received this large 14inch ammonite and the shipper had no care in the world to put even an ounce of protection thus this is the result I'm not experienced with much prep and not confident superglue would cut it so what would you all recommend to help repair this specimen as well as clean off some of the dirt/dust layer coating alot of it?
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ok to Dinosaur World, Plant City and there is this museum that has load of fossils and also has an exploration cave show in there and has loads of ammonite fossils but for 3 pics of these ammonite fossils is i dont know the species and the genus of them.
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It was raining this morning, so my best site was near Yaxley. The fossils really pop there when wet. In one hour of searching I had 13 fragments of ammonite. I thought it was 14, but when washing them realised one was a miffed snail, who is now in the garden. Mostly the ammonites are pyratised, and preserve sutures and ornamentation well. I found 8 crinoid sections, including round ossicles - I normally only find star shaped ones.
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From the album: 1925 Body & Trace Fossil Collection - Ocean
Once you start looking at this specimen the tiny ammonites just keep appearing. Worm holes have not been vacated. -
From the album: 1925 Body & Trace Fossil Collection - Ocean
Once you start looking at this specimen the tiny ammonites just keep appearing. Worm holes have not been vacated. -
From the album: 1925 Body & Trace Fossil Collection - Ocean
Once you start looking at this specimen the tiny ammonites just keep appearing. Worm holes have not been vacated. -
From the album: 1925 Body & Trace Fossil Collection - Ocean
Once you start looking at this specimen the tiny Crinoid Ossicles just keep appearing. Worm holes have not been vacated. -
From the album: 1925 Body & Trace Fossil Collection - Ocean
Once you start looking at this specimen the tiny Crinoid Ossicles just keep appearing. Worm holes have not been vacated. -
From the album: 1925 Body & Trace Fossil Collection - Ocean
Once you start looking at this specimen the tiny Crinoid Ossicles just keep appearing. Worm holes have not been vacated. -
From the album: 1925 Body & Trace Fossil Collection - Ocean
Once you start looking at this specimen the tiny Crinoid Ossicles just keep appearing. Worm holes have not been vacated. -
From the album: 1925 Body & Trace Fossil Collection - Ocean
Once you start looking at this specimen the tiny Crinoid Ossicles just keep appearing. Worm holes have not been vacated. -
From the album: 1925 Body & Trace Fossil Collection - Ocean
Once you start looking at this specimen the tiny Crinoid Ossicles just keep appearing. Worm holes have not been vacated. -
From the album: 1925 Body & Trace Fossil Collection - Ocean
Once you start looking at this specimen the tiny Crinoid Ossicles just keep appearing. Worm holes have not been vacated. -
From the album: 1925 Body & Trace Fossil Collection - Ocean
Once you start looking at this specimen the tiny Crinoid Ossicles just keep appearing. Worm holes have not been vacated. -
From the album: 1925 Body & Trace Fossil Collection - Ocean
Once you start looking at this specimen the tiny Crinoid Ossicles just keep appearing. Worm holes have not been vacated. -
From the album: 1925 Body & Trace Fossil Collection - Ocean
Once you start looking at this specimen the tiny Crinoid Ossicles just keep appearing. Worm holes have not been vacated. -
From the album: 1925 Body & Trace Fossil Collection - Ocean
Once you start looking at this specimen the tiny Crinoid Ossicles just keep appearing. Worm holes have not been vacated. -
From the album: 1925 Body & Trace Fossil Collection - Ocean
Once you start looking at this specimen the tiny Crinoid Ossicles just keep appearing. Worm holes have not been vacated. -
This is getting to be a regular visit of mine, but this may be the last time for this garage sale that was being held by the daughter of two older ESCONI members who collected rocks and fossils all over the US and Canada. They had so much stuff, it could not be put out at one time, thus the weekly Saturday visits to see what was new. But before i put up the multiple picture heavy posts that will follow, I want to show a couple pictures of how some of the stuff was arranged. Today I was again got to meet the great Fossil Forum and ESCONI member Rich @stats, we spent time talking and revisiting items to make sure that we did not miss anything. Here are a picture of Rich searching for something good. Here are a couple pictures of the sale. Now before I post the items that I picked up today I want to show a couple pieces of Mazon Creek (MC) fossils that I picked up from the daughter after I went for an arrange showing of MC fossils on Tuesday. I wanted to see what they had since the were never put out before and I knew that others had set up similar visits in the past with her. I picked up the following pieces for $40.00 and though I do not generally buy MC fossils, I do love Annularia, and fertile ferns and I did get some. I also picked up Neuropteris, Alethopteris, Pecopteris and the Leech Coprinoscolex ellogimus. Now to my surprise, I picked you a couple pieces that struck my fancy and I sent a PM to Jack Witry @fiddlehead who gave me some surprising ID's to plants that I did not have in my collection. This piece I did not know the ID of this piece, but I did like the way it looked and I got it for $2.00. Jack stated that it "is a rare sterile example of Myriotheca scaberrima. He stated that an example of this species will be in his new Mazon Creek Flora book that will be coming out soon. This other piece I thought was a fertile Pecopteris and I just happened to send him a picture of it and my ID was wrong. Jack stated that it is an exceptional example of a fertile Diplazites unita. He stated that one of the interesting mysteries of the Mazon Creek flora is why 2 out of 3 examples of this taxon fertile. He further stated that no other fern except for some very rare taxa is anywhere near that ratio. Jack thanks again for your expertise and I can't wait to get your new book. Starting with the next post I will show some of the great stuff that I picked up today.
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Ammonites, Trilobites, Fossil Fish: Another Western Adventure
Jeffrey P posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
Barely a month had gone by since my last trip to New Mexico and Colorado, but I already had plans for this trip in the works. Primary focus this time, which was a solo trip, was fossil collecting, visiting well known sites that have been on my radar for quite some time. I flew out to Salt Lake City and drove directly to Kemmerer, WY. My first stop there was Fossil Butte National Monument: Here is a view of the visitors center (free admission) and the surrounding barren, but awesome landscape that surrounds it:
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I mentioned here about a week ago that I had discovered a promising new exposure in that Kimmeridgian ditch at the side of the road which I thought I'd pretty well exhausted over the last few years. I also said that I would probably go back again soon and true to my own word, I did. This time I took the car. I spent about 2 hours there and made some more good finds. They are all out of a concretionary horizon in the hypselocylum zone of the Lochen Formation sponge facies. It looks like there could very well be more to be found, so I guess I'll be going back there again before the snow sets in. Ataxioceras (Parataxioceras) hypselocylum, the ammonite which gives the zone its name. Parataxioceras sp. Streblites tenuilobatus together with a partial Ataxioceras sp. Taramelliceras sp. Taramelliceras sp., Lingulaticeras sp. and a Laevaptychus obliquus, part of the jaw aparatus from an ammonite.
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