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Hello everyone. I recently bought this heavy piece of Mosasaur spine in matrix. During transport the top of one of the vertebra got smashed to little pieces and dust (not the sellers fault, it coulnd't be packed better). The fossil now shows the inside of the vert (wich is also beautiful to my opinion). Where the piece broke off the fosfat stone is quite soft though. Should I stabilise/fixate it and how can I do this? Thanx for tips! Jerry
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Hello everyone, I went out this weekend in the Oligocene of southern France to look for fishes. I have found some, but I have many questions since they are my first fish fossils and I am having several problems for preparation, and stabilisation. First here are some examples of fossils found: Some of the layer are extremely thin (as paper) and the fossil start to ondulate as long as it gets dry and I was wondering how could I overcome this problem? Some of them are more thicker, but still ondulating. My second question is how do I prepare them in order to keep the bones? I have tried to prepare small chunks, but as long as I separate the two layers its very hard to keep all the bones intact. I have tried with some HCl, but it doesn't gets through the most blacky parts, which are the richest in OM. Maybe a small schisel ? Before starting to do anything I wanted to have some advices from you guys. Thanks for your help !
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