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Hi all, I haven't been very active on this forum in a while, but I've still been collecting and prepping. Thought I would share a bit of a milestone with you guys.and talk a little about what I've been up to in the time I haven't been active on here. First up, my first Pulalius vulgaris! I had the great pleasure of doing some hunting in the Lincoln Creek Formation with Will @Fossilis Willis a little over a year ago and found this small concretion just over 2 inches in width. How it looked when I got it home: Knocked the extra matrix off quickly, and set it aside to be prepped when I felt more confident in my ability and tools. A few months ago I finally got to work on this conc. Lots of scribing later I found some shell material! From then on it was just a matter of dialing the 9361 way down, and slowly chipping away at the matrix. Some of it had really great separation, and lots of it was the stickiest material I've worked with. Hours were spent holding my breath scribing off layers of matrix less than 1mm thick. Slowly but surely the ventral side of the crab started to appear. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out, especially for my first attempt. Really wish the legs had come out better, the prominent leg on the left is disarticulated and dives so deep into the matrix I can't expose it further. The end of another one runs off the concretion below it but no sign of the rest of the leg. And on the right I found a few busted up floating pieces that don't show up super well in the photos, but nothing substantive. I suspect there might be more leg material deeper in but the stylus of the scribe needs to be sharpened and I need to work on other projects so I'm calling it done for now at least. Overall a fun and informative prep, really pushed my limits. I definitely feel a lot more confident about scribing up close and in tight quarters after this one. Massive thanks to Will for his help finding this! As for what I've been up to lately, an even bigger thanks to Will for mentioning a local paleontology group while we were out hunting. I joined NARG (the North American Research Group) and I've been collecting with the group, writing articles for their newsletter, and presenting at their meetings. I've also been taking Geology and Zoology classes at my local community college. This hobby has become a pretty big part of my life, I bet most of you can relate. I find it almost unbelievable looking back at my journey since I joined this forum in 2019. At the time I was 13 years old, looking to get an ID for a trilobite I'd come across online. The forum has been an amazing tool for learning about everything paleontology related and played a huge role in helping me grow my passion. I remember reading through posts of fossil hunts and prep-work on this forum and wishing I could do that someday, and now here I am. Thanks in no small part to the inspiration of this forum, and all the input and help I've gotten from forum members over these past 4 years. In 2 weeks I'll be graduating High School, and in a few months I'm moving out to study geology at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. I honestly don't know what to say except, Thanks TFF!
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I just picked up this small fossilized crab, I am told it is from the Oligocene period and was found in the Lincoln Formation SW Washington. My research leads me to believe it is a Pulalius Vulgaris. If anyone can confirm its identity I'd be grateful. There are also these cylindrical cross sections seen in the second picture. Are these fragments of limbs, buried under the matrix or something else?
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I went on a fossil trip to the state of Washington and bought a bunch of fossil concretions, agatized Aturia and clams and a couple other odd things. Whilst buying and making trade deals, part of one deal was to do my majic on this large crab in a concretion. Funny thing is, I knew this crab from several years ago. I offered the guy who found this crab money for it every year for a few years but he just didnt want to let go of it. I cant blame him, its a really big crab. He had traded it to my new freind for a really really nice and really exspensive agatized Aturia. As part of a trade I offered my services and told him I go do my majic on it. He had heard of me and seen some of my work so he let me bring it home. Seems like im getting known as the 'Crab Guy'? Nice. So, today I went on the prep attack on this rock. Its got a really soft 'rine' and trying to save it is really hard. Lots of glue. also removed lots of rock to get it to where I want so I can do the 'smoothing' and make the rock contour to the crab. The guy who prepped this out went really deep in places, so its making for more difficulty and not what im used to. Gunna be interesting to see this play out. 1sr pic is how I received it. 2nd pic is me trying to save the 'rine'! 3rd pic is after a bunch of rock removal. A long ways to go still. RB
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