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Aaaaaaaalrighty then. I havent been out in the prep garage too much, but went out today and picked out 4 "iffy' concretions. One looked better than the rest, so,,, started on that one. This is what happened. Might be a good crab? Oh, this concretion is 2nd from the left. Looks to have a 'rear end', thats always a good thing! Time will tell for the rest of the crab? RB
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Its been a tuff 3 weeks with this dang stroke, but ive been out n the garage twice now and did some prep. Im a bit slower nowadays, but super really nice to get out to the garage, (Prep Lab). Here is 3 concretions. One turned out to be a BFN!! I hate those, but its very common. I hit carapace on the other two. Im gunna need some time to get these finished, but the good thing for me is that Its practice that will get me good enough to finish up that Tumido I was working on before this happened. More pics later as I get out to the garage and do more prep. RB
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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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Every year for Easter week, I go to the Atlantic coast near Biarritz. Walking on the beach and looking for fossils is very nice. We can find echinoids (Stegaster, Schyzaster,...), ammonites (Pachydiscus), crabs (Harpactoxanthopsis) and also vertebrate (Ray)
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I ran into these the other day while going through a box of my fossil stuff. These are both Orbitoplax weaveri from the state of Oregon but from two different sites. The one on the left is in much softer rock and about 90 miles from the other unprepped one from another site where the same crab is found but in much tuffer rock!!! Just nasty rock and very very hard to prep. I can see now that the good one needs more work. I wasn't very good at prepping in those days. Ive got about 20 more concretions of this crab to prep, but that will take some time. Not that I need any more prep projects!!! And also one of my best ever of this crab. This one used to be my avitar. A really good specimen for this species!!! RB
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At long last, I got around to prepping these 3 Longusorbis cuniculosis crabs. Fortunately, prep went very fast compared to the Megokkos and Pulalius crabs I found on my Pacific Northwest trip last summer. Let's have a peek at them one by one. No.1:
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I think we have all seen the crabby beauties that @RJB and @Doctor Mud have revealed from their Stony Concretion prisons. Now I want to get in on that action, but I don't (currently) have a passport for a trip to NZ. Any sites in the US anyone knows of?
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Im starting to run out of room in my crab display case so i put some on my desk. Quite nice for me. I do have two guys who want to buy a Tumido from me, but I have a really hard time letting these go. I seem to fall in love with them while prepping? And its really hard to get a really good Washington crab. I guess the collection will just keep on growing. I dont think i will have a problem with that. Life is good. RB
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I have really been itching to go out and get some crab concretions from the Lincoln Creek formation. I am not l looking for any extreme high quality specimens I just want to be able to get my hands on some concretions, so if anyone has locations that put out quantity over quality (preferably public land) please reply below or pm me. Any help is greatly appreciated!
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Dr Mud, 6ix & TinBum - more crabs than you could poke a stick at.
6ix posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
The good Dr is back in NZ and we caught up again. Time to hit the old hunting spot again - and we werent let down! Of course TinBum found the first couple of crabs, but Doctor Mud and I very quickly caught up. In the end, I stopped photographing them all as the battery was going flat... but wow what a blast. Have a look at this vid after browsing the photos.....thumb.jpg.6daffa248cc6ec5e475f9acc56d03291.jpg)
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Prepping out crab concretions that are in two or more pieces
RJB posted a topic in Fossil Preparation
Ok, today I did a bunch of work on getting some crab concretions ready for prep. Took me most of the day, but got 7 of them glued up and ready for prep once the glues sets up. Im going to do a step by step for only one crab though. Hope it turns out to be a good one? here are some pics of my work today. The first two pics are of the same crab that I will show the prep process of. RB
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Dave's Down To Earth Rock Shop and Prehistoric Life Museum
Nimravis posted a topic in A Trip to the Museum
Today I took a quick ride to the small suburb of Evanston, right out side of Chicago. This is the home of Dave's Down To Earth Rock Shop and Prehistoric Life Museum. If memory serves me correct, Dave's has been in Evanston for the past 40+ years and it is a family owned business. Dave's recently moved to it's new home on Main Street and if you every get a chance to be in the Chicago area, this is a must see- you will definitely not be disappointed. From the outside, you would not believe that this store has a museum that houses such a great variety of fossil life and the most extensive collection / variety of Mazon Creek fauna that I have ever seen, including 3 Holotype Mazon Creek fossils named after Dave and his parents who found them. Here are some overview pictures of the Museum. Here are some overview of the various displays.
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From the album: Fossil Crabs
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From the album: Fossil Crabs
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Ok, been working on this for quite some time. Trying to find the right size stands for all your fossils can be quite difficult im finding out! So,, I took some pliers and started bending up a snargle smargle storm!!! Now Ive got most of my smaller fossil crabs in stands. Woooooop!!! Woooooop!!! Oh, and a picture of what it looked like without stands too. Top shelf only. RB
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My youngest son and I left for a fossil hunting trip this last thursday and hit many a fossil site in South Dakota. Because there will be lots and lots of prep from this trip I have decided to put all this on this one thread. This is gunna take quite awhile!!! We drove the first day 12 and 1/2 hours. Had some serious road buzz. Only way to take care of that is some 'road buzz liquid'. The next morning we met up with my buddy that ive been working on for 18 months. Didnt find a whole lot, but did come away with some crab concretions of the rare Dakota cancer. 3 of these for certain has crabs in them, the rest? What kind of preservation they have? Complete? But whatever happens with these, I most certainly have none so far, so this is quite exciting for me. Ive only ever seen one that was in a concretion and the poor guy absolutely butchard it!!!! Gunna be very interesting to say the least. Our second camp site. The next day was another 5 hour drive to a freind of mine where we went last year and decided to do that again for some more Fox Hills ammonites. We went to a certain river and picked up some rocks that look promising. Then the next day went to a different river and picked up some more rather nice rocks. Very private land, but nice to have a freind with permission. More to come. RB
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Its been a long time coming, but my biggest display cabinet is finally coming along. Ive got more crabs and lobsters, but no clue as to where they are at right now. I moved about 11 years ago and boxed everything up. In a box or 3 somewhere? I can also see now that ive got a 'display stand' problem. I need some kind of stands for the bigger crabs to be sitting 3 or 4 inches higher than they sit right now. But still, its lookin purty good. and ive also got quite a bit of room left for more, that's a good thing. RB
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A friend of mine and myself took 4 hours to clean up and organize my fossil garage. What a freekin job! But its amazing to me all I forget. I found 2 big milk crates of crab concretions, and lots and lots of unprepped ammonite material and I do mean lots, probably 10 boxesl! Wow!!! Im getting very forgetful nowadays. Ran into about a dozen or so lobsters that still need to be prepped out! Lots of fish slabs! Lots of odds and ends too and some very special things that need to get into my collection display cabinets. I don't really want to push the 'envy' botton, but being in the clean up mode, when he asked me "what about this" I simply would say, "take it" or "its yours". He left for home with lots of fossils to say the least. But what for me that really got my attention was a small box with a lobster conc in it. Its a lobster Ive seen before, but only pieces and this one appears to be somewhat complete even though a bit crushed. Very cool to me being a lobster colletor. Here is a pic of the box. Now ive got tons more prep work to do.
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The misses and I went to quartzite for a small vacation and just got back yesterday. We also went last year and had so much fun that we decided to go again. I have friends that have been going there every year for the last 18 years and it was great to meet up again. I use to sell there for about 8 or 9 years but quit once I realized it was turning into a job. I use to do 7 or 8 shows a year and went down to 0 for the last 10 years. I did take some fossils with me. I had a spot about 4 feet wide. Just to keep me a busy, kinda. I did help my buddy do quite a bit of selling, but for me, I was just there to sip wiskey, shoot the poop and have fun. I didn't even have to try and sell the crabs I took with me. Once people pick them up and hold them in their hands and see them close up, they sell themselves! The crabs I sold payed for the trip and the stuff I bought and the next two trips also. Just a neat hobbie. I took 17 prepped out crabs with me and sold 13 of them. Looks like the price for crabs are going to go up next year yet again!!! I really cant believe how much I get for these. But all in all it was a great trip, made lots and lots of moneys and had a super good time with lots of drinks, lots of good food and lots of good times.
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Hi all, A paper on a new genus and species from the Eocene Castle Hayne Fm. in North Carolina has been published. The holotype and paratypes were found by the Fossil Forum member Plax, who donated them to the Raleigh Museum. Plax is also coauthor of the article. http://www.ojs-igl.unam.mx/index.php/Paleontologia/index- 10 replies
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Doing some spring cleaning in December, and ran across these guys. never did find any info on them before they got misplaced any ideas?
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Just to show off a bit. You can see from this photo how busy Ive been this past year. I can only wish that I had more room on my prep bench to be able to show everything ive done, but there simply isn't room for it all. For me, its just a wonderful hobbie!!! Enjoy. RB
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Get a load of these fossil Pulalius Crabs from Washington. Im calling them cow poop crabs only cause they have lots and lots of problems. They keep me out of the bars and out of trouble and pay for my trips. Too good to toss them away, but they do take a bit of time. I have to do a bit of 'repair' on some of these and I will also make a couple of 'fake' legs on the bigger one. Believe me, most of these crabs have problems, but its mother nature. i do what I can. RB
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Well, this seems to be becoming a family regular - easter fossil hunting! Spent two days in crab heaven.. must have lugged back 50 odd kilo's between us of mixed fossils. Even threw the fishing line out a couple of times just to confirm I'm still useless at fishing.. Shewho spotted little feller, still in the hill.. I did say little?? Then to cap it off, we found this one.. (3Lb hammer for size..) Needless to day, the big fellers are still down there - aint no way I'm dragging that back up! Sadly we found an unsplit conc, weighing easily 150Kg's that we are convinced has a crab in it. Unfortunately it will have to stay there. Great time tho, and even the little girl found herself a crab - great family holiday and a smashing weekend considering its Autumn here!
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From the album: Isle of Sheppey Eocene
A selection of my crab nodules from the london clay on the Isle of Sheppey.
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