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From the album: Troyes - nov 2015 - albian
Eucorystes carteri : an albian crab from the clay of Troyes -
From the album: Troyes - nov 2015 - albian
Eucorystes carteri : an albian crab from the clay of Troyes -
From the album: Troyes - nov 2015 - albian
Eucorystes carteri : an albian crab from the clay of Troyes -
From the album: Troyes - nov 2015 - albian
Etyus martini : an albian crab from the clay of Troyes -
From the album: Troyes - nov 2015 - albian
Etyus martini : an albian crab from the clay of Troyes -
From the album: Troyes - nov 2015 - albian
Etyus martini : an albian crab from the clay of Troyes -
From the album: Troyes - nov 2015 - albian
Etyus martini : an albian crab from the clay of Troyes -
From the album: Troyes - nov 2015 - albian
Etyus martini : an albian crab from the clay of Troyes -
From the album: Troyes - nov 2015 - albian
Etyus martini : an albian crab from the clay of Troyes -
From the album: Troyes - nov 2015 - albian
Etyus martini : an albian crab from the clay of Troyes -
From the album: Troyes - nov 2015 - albian
Etyus martini : an albian crab from the clay of Troyes -
From the album: Troyes - nov 2015 - albian
Etyus martini : an albian crab from the clay of Troyes -
From the album: Troyes - nov 2015 - albian
Cretacoranina broderipii : an albian crab from the clay of Troyes -
From the album: Troyes - nov 2015 - albian
Cretacoranina broderipii : an albian crab from the clay of Troyes -
From the album: Troyes - nov 2015 - albian
Cretacoranina broderipii : an albian crab from the clay of Troyes -
From the album: Troyes - nov 2015 - albian
Indet crustacean claw from the albian clay of Troyes -
From the album: Troyes - nov 2015 - albian
Indet crustacean claw from the albian clay of Troyes -
From the album: Troyes - nov 2015 - albian
Indet crustacean claw from the albian clay of Troyes -
From the album: Troyes - nov 2015 - albian
Indet crustacean claw from the albian clay of Troyes -
From the album: Troyes - nov 2015 - albian
Indet crustacean claw from the albian clay of Troyes -
From the album: Troyes - nov 2015 - albian
Indet fish vertebra from the albian clay of Troyes -
So yeah, this took me about a week to make. I handpainted it, and tried to add as much detail as I can. It isn't accurate, but it seems good to me. What do you think? (sorry for the stuff and stickers in the background, my little nieces came over )
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From the album: Abian of Troyes - nov 2014
Fossil crab : Etyus Martini from Troyes - albian (100 MYO) -
Im looking to restore a few of my very delicate Mazon Creek fossils and im looking for something that can be sculpted but will harden over time without baking. I'm trying to fill small cracks, tiny voids and sculpt very detailed missing parts. I'll post some pics a bit later of what pieces im talking about, so you can get some insight of what im trying to do. Thanks, Charlie
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So glad I joined the forum recently. Years ago, I was an undergraduate in PA in Geology, and finished some other degrees in Climatology along the way. Although my academic geology days are gone, I collected a lot and visited areas along the east coast, including the now defunct Fruitville Quarry for the Kinzers formation - and finally did some field work in Montana (I will post another thread shortly about a fossil I found in Elk Basin that I would love some pointers on). I found these bones in Maryland along the coast around 7 years ago. My notes are poor, but I believe them to be from the St. Marys formation (?) though please correct me if I am wrong here. My guess is from a field trip to Calvert Cliffs, or the area where the Mary's may outcrop. The matrix is a grey, very dense, putty/cement like clay that I remember sticking to everything. Over the years, it has dried forming a tough cement. I believe these are Whale. I would love some pointers on what you think I should do, if anything, to preserve and better display these pieces. I dread the idea of them slowly drying out and turning into dust. I have a few more small bones (finger bone maybe?) from the same location, one of which is a gorgeous brown tone. You can see the tone coming through a little bit on the larger rib bone but the clay material covers it up a bit - and fills some cracks along the side. The bones are very heavy. Should I work this with a toothbrush, an air abbrasive unit, a scribe.... and butvar-76 it? Any thoughts, comments, suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I have never done any prep. and have some great rough laying around with parts of trilobites, bones and other bits and bobs that would be great to work on! Note: I know the rib is rotated - I didn't want it convex-up as I would think it would stress it. - I don't know how to add photos efficiently to the forums yet... so I will add more images in reply posts.
