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Just wanted to show you some things I found recently on a plowed-up field in the southwestern German region of Klettgau. My wife and I were there for a hike last week and I heard that it was possible to find fossils in the area. So when I got home I did a bit of research and headed back down there the other day. There is supposed to be an exposure in the middle of a forest, but I didn't have the coordinates, and despite an hour or so of driving up and down the loggers roads, I wasn't able to track it down. However, a few fields which can expose Early Jurassic fossils were also mentioned, so I had a go at them and after criss-crossing them for a couple of hours I managed to come up with a couple of things. As is often the case, I forgot to take my camera along, so I'm afraid I can't show you the landscape, which, by the way, is very nice. Sorry 'bout that. Anyway, here are the two finds after prep. The first is a Chlamys sp. bivalve 2.5cm. in length. Two bits of shell popped off which I had to glue back on. The second and last find took quite a few hours to prep, since it was stuck in a concretion. I wasn't even sure if it would be worth the effort, but it turned out very well in the end. I just had to fill in a bit of the outer whorls with Apoxie Sculpt and carve the inner whorls in order to complete the picture. It's a Lytoceras fibriatum with ø 20cm. The geological map marked the field only as Early Jurassic, but this species can be placed somewhere in the Pliensbachian.

Here is my Lytoceras fimbriatum as found and after preparation.First one I have found at this location after 10 years of searching.I believe its a macroconch and it measures about 14 cm across.Happy times!

hi, i bought this big ammonite to prepare, a megalytoceras maybe, any suggestions? i dont want to ruin it.