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Collected in 3 pieces and repaired.
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One of my customers is keeping me quite busy lately. Last week he brought me among other things a relatively large, 22cm. diameter Callovian Choffatia ammonite from the Wutach Valley with another few smaller ones plus a belemnite attached. He asked me to send him play-by-play photos, which I did, so I figured I might just as well show them to you guys as well. Here are pics of both sides in the raw. As you can probably tell, it was extracted in 3 pieces which he glued back together. You can barely see the belemnite on the right in the middle of the first p
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I recieved a large (32cm. in diameter) ammonite on commission recently which turned out to be rather complicated to prepare. It's a Fissilobiceras sp. from the ovale zone in the Early Bajocian from the Wutach valley. Most of it was imbedded in matrix, so it wasn't possible to judge at first in what kind of condition the inner whorls were and it was too fragile to just have a quick go at it with hammer and chisel in order to find out, so I had to take the slower route peeling off layer after layer with the stylus. Here's how both sides looked to begin with. After
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From the album: Nautiloidea
18cm in diameter trigonalis zone Early Bajocian Middle Jurassic Wedelsandstein Formation -
I have a very proficient and capable customer (actually he's become more of a friend and colleague with time) when it comes to seeking and finding good fossils, and he struck again last week, bringing me quite a large ammonite with a diameter of ca. 40cm. for preparation. He sent me a photo of it which he took during the extraction procedure. The matrix was pretty tough, so he ended up having to extricate it in several pieces, most of which he glued back together before he brought it to me. I did some stylus work on it to begin with and then we were faced with the deci
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From the album: Middle Jurassic Ammonites from Southern Germany
24cm. discites zone Early Bajocian Wedelsandstein Formation Found in the Wutach area I had to do some modelling on this one. Here's how it looked beforehand:- 2 comments
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From the album: Middle Jurassic Ammonites from Southern Germany
Fissilobiceras ovale. 40cm. ovale zone Wedelsandstein Formation Early Bajocian Middle Jurassic From the Wutach area.-
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Yesterday I posted something here from my recent trip to the Callovian and now I've just finished prepping something else worth showing. It's a somewhat compressed Macrocephalites jacquoti ammonite with a diameter of 12cm. You may have noticed, particularly in the second photo, that there's a crack running through it. And this is what happens when you open it up. It had already broken into these two pieces as I was extracting it at the outcrop. Instead of glueing them back together as I usually do, however, I decided to leave it as is aft
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From the album: Middle Jurassic Ammonites from Southern Germany
Containing 4 Choffatia sp. ammonites and a piece of belemnite rostrum. 12x12x6cm. The 4th ammonite is hidden on the back side and can only be seen in profile in the last photo. herveyi zone Early Callovian From the Wutach Valley area. -
I'm almost done with prepping this huge Procerites on commission and I figured I'd just show this as an example of how long it sometimes takes to get one of these whoppers finished. It has a diameter of 35cm. (14 inches). I've already been working almost 17 hours on it and still have some filling and modelling to do. This came to me in 2 pieces which had been removed from 2 neighboring blocks with a thin layer of calcite which had seeped into the tectonic spalt between the two. There was also a small piece of the puzzle missing which couldn't be extracted, which is why I still have some modell
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From the album: Middle Jurassic Ammonites from Southern Germany
19cm. diameter. Index fossil for the orbis zone. Phragmocone. Late Bathonian. Found in the Wutach Valley -
From the album: Middle Jurassic Ammonites from Southern Germany
21cm. Practically complete with shell. bradfordensis zone Late Aalenian Achdorf Formation From the Wutach area -
From the album: Middle Jurassic Ammonites from Southern Germany
Not quite identical twins measuring 16 & 18cm. bradfordensis zone, staufensis bank Late Aalenian From the Wutach Valley -
From the album: German Gastropods and Bivalves
6cm. long staufensis bank bradfordensis zone Late Aalenian Middle Jurassic Found in the Wutach area -
From the album: Middle Jurassic Ammonites from Southern Germany
9,5cm. Wutach Valley find. Upper Aalenian. -
From the album: Middle Jurassic Ammonites from Southern Germany
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Ludwigia (Pseudographoceras) umbilicata (Buckman 1905)
Ludwigia posted a gallery image in Members Gallery
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From the album: Middle Jurassic Ammonites from Southern Germany
11cm. murchisonae zone Late Aalenian Achdorf Formation From the Wutach Valley -
Hyperlioceras sp.(Waagen 1867) + Sonninia sp.(Bayle 1878)
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From the album: Middle Jurassic Ammonites from Southern Germany
A rare double block. The Hyperlioceras has a diameter of 18cm., the Sonninia one of 11cm. Ovale zone Early Bajocian Wedelsandstein Formation Found in Wutachtal, S.W. Germany -
Yesterday I reported on a trip into the Kimmeridgian, and now I'm happy to say that I spent the day today in the Callovian. I was suffering from cold turkey, since I hadn't been out for a proper hunt (not counting the short stints on the bike to the shark tooth site) for at least 3 weeks. This time it only started raining 10 minutes before I left the site, so I managed to skirt the danger of slipping down the slope on the way back up to the car. This time I had 5 hours to play around. There was a lot of work to do, so I was pretty tuckered out by the end of the day, but I stopped in for meatba
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From the album: Middle Jurassic Ammonites from Southern Germany
11cm. ovale Zone Early Bajocian Wedelsandstein Formation From the Wutach area. With an Entolium demissum bivalve attached on one side. -
From the album: Middle Jurassic Ammonites from Southern Germany
20cm. Phragmocone. Wedelsandstein Formation Early Bajocian ovale Zone From Wutachtal-
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From the album: Middle Jurassic Ammonites from Southern Germany
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I've been working on another commission assignment this past week which is pretty interesting, so I figured I'd show the progression here. It's been a somewhat time consuming project, having already spent 16 hours at it. The pen work and abrading is done now, but there's still some repair work to do with epoxy putty which I'll probably get down to tomorrow. This is what I got to begin with. As you can see, the customer had already trimmed off a lot of matrix and had also glued a couple of pieces back on which had broken off during extraction with the exception of
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From the album: Brachiopoda
3cm. bucklandi zone Sinemurian Early Jurassic Site: Mundelfingen, Wutach, Germany -
From the album: Middle Jurassic Ammonites from Southern Germany
12cm. staufensis bank bradfordensis zone Late Aalenian Achdorf Formation Found in the Wutach valley