Vieira Posted January 29, 2020 Share Posted January 29, 2020 With your sharing I get the idea that I'm there at the Tucson Show too Thank You Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troodon Posted January 30, 2020 Author Share Posted January 30, 2020 Its been a very busy week and the show starts tomorrow Here are some photos from the Market Place Venue 8 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troodon Posted January 30, 2020 Author Share Posted January 30, 2020 There is a main building in the Market Place and here are some shots from inside lots of good quality moroccan material and green river fish... they were still setting up 15 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troodon Posted January 30, 2020 Author Share Posted January 30, 2020 Back outside I was helping a dealer friend of mine unpack.. A North Sea Mammoth Tooth Triceratops Nasal Horn A pair of juvie Nanotyrannus Foot Claws Edmontosaurus Tooth Battery Kansas Pterosaur Wing bone A couple of Trike Nasal horns laying around..you cannot have too many 15 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troodon Posted January 30, 2020 Author Share Posted January 30, 2020 Continued Some Pachy Skull material They are selling a Composite Spinosaurid arm...here is the Claw from one. This is what a real one should look like Back to the days inn, you are walking around and no encounter should surprise you How about a Spinosaur Skull just hanging around 21 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arlie Posted January 30, 2020 Share Posted January 30, 2020 Looks like an awesome place to be for a week or two. The pictures are great thanks! 6500 for that skull? Seems like a deal compared to a lot of the prices or are Spinosaurus skulls that common? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troodon Posted January 30, 2020 Author Share Posted January 30, 2020 5 minutes ago, Arlie said: Looks like an awesome place to be for a week or two. The pictures are great thanks! 6500 for that skull? Seems like a deal compared to a lot of the prices or are Spinosaurus skulls that common? Its a replica skull...why so cheap.. I dont think a complete one has ever been found 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arlie Posted January 30, 2020 Share Posted January 30, 2020 Ah makes since still really cool! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troodon Posted January 30, 2020 Author Share Posted January 30, 2020 Here are some more photos from inside the Market place building.. Not the venue you find junk, tampered with Moroccan material all real Anyone looking for teeth Left this cutie out of my photos from the Days Inn... A Dugong Skeleton....Looks like he or she is looking for a better home... 13 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troodon Posted January 30, 2020 Author Share Posted January 30, 2020 Today was the official opening... the THCC was pretty empty as well as its ballroom...the 22nd Street Show was mobbed 90% trinkets and junk moroccan . Only a couple of good fossil dealers left and hopefully all will be gone next year. First up today is a cast of the Torosaurus skull by Mike Trebold's company. Its a cast of the skull from the Tate Museum that @jpc shared with us on Fossil Friday. What is very striking about it is how large it is compared to others I've seen. Let me say it was beautiful in person. 10 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troodon Posted January 31, 2020 Author Share Posted January 31, 2020 A taste of trinkets One of the few fossils dealers with Morrison Material. Not much small and no teeth. Far cry from what he was showing last year. 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Rico Posted January 31, 2020 Share Posted January 31, 2020 The Tucson show is like a really great museum with the best gift shop of them all. One day 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troodon Posted January 31, 2020 Author Share Posted January 31, 2020 Nice Moroccan material from one of the better dealers My BIG surprise from the show at this point is this theropod vertebra from the Kem Kem from the above dealer. The Spine was broken in two so I was holding it to get a better sense of what it is. It was laying on the table so I rotated and inverted the photo to see how it properly sits. Is it a Spinosaurid? Probably but this spine is not flat and rectangular like all of the others we see. This one is flat near the centrum then quickly becomes oval and ends at a point and its very long. This one is not unique I have an identical one in my collection but it only has a portion of the spine. So is this what a Sigilmassasaurus vertebra looks like, possibly but it appears to be lacking the diagnostic pedestal on the ventral side of the centrum, but matrix is making hard to make that call. Another Kem Kem mystery.. Why these shows are fun you never know what may pop up. @LordTrilobite @-Andy- Here is a good look at the base for those that are interested 17 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troodon Posted January 31, 2020 Author Share Posted January 31, 2020 More from the 22nd street show This is the Meteorite Men booth AND here is some BIG iron from above the heavens We have great petrified wood here in Arizona. Here are some logs to make some beautiful tables and slabs 8 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troodon Posted January 31, 2020 Author Share Posted January 31, 2020 To conclude the 22nd street shoot is the a shark and marine dealer 15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troodon Posted January 31, 2020 Author Share Posted January 31, 2020 55 minutes ago, Bobby Rico said: The Tucson show is like a really great museum with the best gift shop of them all. One day That it is 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TyBoy Posted January 31, 2020 Share Posted January 31, 2020 Wonderful show thanks for taking the time to post the photos. Boy that Spino vertebra is sure different. Very very cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AncientEarth Posted January 31, 2020 Share Posted January 31, 2020 Must've missed you at the marketplace, if you swing by again come and say hi. I'm setup near the exit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HamptonsDoc Posted January 31, 2020 Share Posted January 31, 2020 Loved that spino vert. The dealer didn’t want to sell it, put a ridiculous price on it and it was gone within an hour. 22nd Street is a nightmare venue... huge and disorganized. 40 minutes parked on the freeway service road (3 lanes of cars not moving) since they wouldn’t open the gate until 10am to let people park... they made it dangerous. The police finally showed up and moved things along. I hope the last remaining fossil dealers pull out so I don't have to go back next year. Only 3 or 4 key fossil dealers left there, otherwise all trinkets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RCFossils Posted January 31, 2020 Share Posted January 31, 2020 I was there today. Some amazing material. I was told the vertebra was sold to a museum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
White Feather Posted January 31, 2020 Share Posted January 31, 2020 Thank you for sharing these great photos of the show. Amazing for sure....I can see some of that stuff being loaded with fork lift and more... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AncientEarth Posted January 31, 2020 Share Posted January 31, 2020 1 hour ago, HamptonsDoc said: Loved that spino vert. The dealer didn’t want to sell it, put a ridiculous price on it and it was gone within an hour. 22nd Street is a nightmare venue... huge and disorganized. 40 minutes parked on the freeway service road (3 lanes of cars not moving) since they wouldn’t open the gate until 10am to let people park... they made it dangerous. The police finally showed up and moved things along. I hope the last remaining fossil dealers pull out so I don't have to go back next year. Only 3 or 4 key fossil dealers left there, otherwise all trinkets. Many of us are at the Mineral & Fossil Marketplace this year. The city needs to do something about the traffic and other concerns the 22nd St show brings. So glad I never invested in the "building" project they wanted to do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Andy- Posted January 31, 2020 Share Posted January 31, 2020 Thanks for sharing these amazing pics Frank! I am headed to the army camp so I won't be able to view anything for now. Can't wait to see this thread in 2 weeks and properly digest everything you posted Looking forward to meeting my fellow Singaporean collectors! Do PM me if you are a Singaporean, or an overseas fossil-collector coming here for a holiday! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troodon Posted January 31, 2020 Author Share Posted January 31, 2020 Variety is the name here at the show This dealer has been here the last couple of years A few Trilo's from Russia 8 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troodon Posted January 31, 2020 Author Share Posted January 31, 2020 Black Hills Institute had a few displays This is the Skull on an unusually small ADULT Triceratops skull, 5 foot versus typical 8 feet. Pete does not know if its a new species or an individual variation. Needs further study. More Ceratopsian goodies 11 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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