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Some weeks ago I went "digging" to a huge fair in France. You never know what you´ll find, so I was happy to get a biiiiiig Stylemis from the badlands. Approx. 45 cm long, its the second biggest we ever had. But, the conditon... eroded, but the turtle-shell is great. So, we decided to buy and prepare. Takes longer than expected, just working on it and hope to finish before Christmas... Lets start with some pics, I add new ones when I went on with preparation..., enjoy first pic was done at the fair, first steps are: cleaning, cleaning, cleaning... and remount / glue
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From the album: Vertebrates (other than fish)
5cm. long. Piece of tortoise bone. From the Oligocene deposits at Crawford Nebraska, USA. Thanks to my Secret Santa Crusty Crab. -
Finally getting to work on some of the fossils we got on our last trip to Wyoming! After some pretty simple wash jobs we decided to start on a little Stylemys we found the first night. We think we got most of him, some of the shell was washing out but we caught it pretty early and picked up most all the frags we could see. There's a pretty stark shift in color between the exposed shell (white) and the dark purple of the shell we uncovered. Pretty quick job of getting it out, but apparently I packed it up before the consolidant had really set
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