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Ooh, now things are getting interesting! Nice dino jaw section, the teeth look quite amazing! :dinosmile:

Every single fossil you see is a miracle set in stone, and should be treated as such.

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Date of Discovery:                                  December 27, 2020

Scientific and/or Common Name:        Diplocalamites

Geologic Age or Geologic Formation:   Middle Pennsylvanian

State:                                                       New Mexico, USA

 

Hiking on the Sunday after Christmas. A couple of miles from where I live in the back country in an unexplored area I discovered a small plateau composed of alternating layers of glauconite sandstone and shale. A few small calamite sections were floating on the surface. I noticed a stub of another section protruding out of the debris field.

 

Using my hori hori (Japanese digging shovel) I excavated it, then more sections back into the hillside. After 2 feet of easy digging I started to hit a thick layer of sandstone I needed to excavate. The further I dug into the hillside the thicker the formation became. By the time I gave up my shovel was bent and the formation was a foot (30 cm) thick. To discover more I will need a pry bar, hammer and chisels. 

 

I'm personally excited about this because we don't have the best preservation environment for large or lengthy specimens.

 

Field photo showing the results from where I stopped digging. The rock overburden showing at the top.

 

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Photo of extended length of specimen. 54 inches or 137 cm in length.

 

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Close up showing vascular tissue of specimen

 

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Branch scar. With help from @Rockwood and @paleoflor the specimen was narrowed down to Diplocalamites due to opposite branch scars per node.

 

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I can tell a Carboniferous logger had his way with that. :ighappy:

 

Pretty amazing piece.

Every single fossil you see is a miracle set in stone, and should be treated as such.

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my entry for December:

 

found on 24th of december 2020

Mammites nodosoides

Early Turonian

Cap-Blanc-Nez (France )

30cm diameter

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