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Hello y’all! Since my last brach prep thread, I have actually prepped another brachiopod that I intended to make this thread about, but it turns out that it had been crushed prior to fossilization. I decided that it wasn’t worth writing home for, so I present to you: Project Sticky! Here it is before any prep: Now, the name is self explanatory: the matrix is so sticky, it’s pulling off a layer of shell with every rock flake!!! You can see an area where it pulled off much more than everywhere else: I decided that while this one will be a rough brach, I might as well finish it. I’m still trying to learn, so really this is partially a practice prep. Anyways, here it is after a total of 40 min prepping: Still far from done. Aaand, when I went to hammer some of the excess matrix, this got exposed: Looks like this rock will have a double brach prep. Should make it look more eye-appealing when done. Anyways, I did all this yesterday, and it took about 1 1/2 hours. Didn’t take any pics, but I did paraloid the exposed parts of the main shell. Next update may come tonight, or tomorrow morning. Hope y’all enjoyed this, have a great day!

I have a few things I found in my grandfathers garage and he has passed away. I have no idea if there are real or what they are. Help!! Very cool but any info is appreciated.

I was given this Stromatolite as a gift from a family member who knows I have started to collect fossils. It came with no provenance and all the this person was told was that it is 3.5 billion years old. It looks genuine to me. Any comments? And any further info?

Hello, another one from Ayios Athanasios hills, 5km from shore, this one I already prepped, it's a bit confusing, at some point there seems to be a shell over a shell, when I tried to prep the inside, there were white and red parts, also a small round shell part, so I stopped till I get your advice. Is it half a brachiopod again or something else? It is white/pearly with light shades of grey as opposed to which was more brown/orange and bigger Here are the photos the size is 38mm from one far side to the other, yet the one side is slightly broken so ...