The best of my ammonites 2.0

[Bobby Rico]

For my friends Yoda and Adam

Caloceras Johnstoni 

Watchet, Somerset, UK

 

best colour I have seen from Watchet . 

[Yoda]

@Bobby Rico

That is a nice one 

Mine is a less colourful 

 

 

Edited May 5, 2023 by Yoda

[Bobby Rico]

20 minutes ago, Yoda said:

That is a nice one 

Mine is a less colourful 

Yes hard capture the colours in a photo. That’s pretty nice . Cheers Bobby 

[Bobby Rico]

Nice little piece.

 Promicroceras in a fragment of Caenesites Lyme Regis uk

 

The black and white photo is from 1839. I do love old photos.

 

 

Edited May 6, 2023 by Bobby Rico

[Bobby Rico]

Quite rare.
Jurassic Ammonite from Oxenton, Gloucestershire, Pleuroceras salebrosum

 

 

 

 

[Bobby Rico]

Not great but to good to throw away . 
 

Nodicoeloceras

Ilminster uk

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

6 hours ago, Bobby Rico said:

Not great but to good to throw away .

I think it's lovely. 

[Bobby Rico]

36 minutes ago, Tidgy's Dad said:

think it's lovely.

Nice ammonite emoji I don’t think I ever seen this been used before, Nice to see you around theses parts again mate, cheers Bobby 

[Bobby Rico]

Promicroceras large at 30mm ammonite which have been replaced with a golden calcite, collected from the Lyme Regis England. It is almost translucent and have been nicely prepared so that they display very well. 
 

 

 

Lyme Beach (1900s). Looking towards the site of the Museum

 

 

Edited May 17, 2023 by Bobby Rico

[Bobby Rico]

Stemmatoceras .

Sherborne Dorset uk
 

This is a big classic ammonite .The ammonite has been preserved in solid calcite. This Stephanoceras was discovered over 20 years ago from a temporary exposure on the outskirts of Sherborne.

 

This for my friend  @Rockhound . 

[Bobby Rico]

Early days find , late 80s . Don’t why I varnished it. 

Leioceras opalinum

British Bajocian, Middle Jurassic Ammonite from Burton Bradstock, Dorset, England. 

[Bobby Rico]

Now here is one of the classic gift shop fossils In my opinion. 
 

Aioloceras sp.

Lower Cretaceous

Madagascar

 

The shells often advertised as opal, which they are not but are aragonite which is a form of calcium carbonate. This type of aragonite is sometimes called nacre. Nacre appears iridescent because the thickness of the aragonite platelets is close to the wavelength of visible light. These structures

interfere with different wavelengths of light at different viewing angles, creating the beautiful  rainbow colours. Much like I believe a light prisms work . 
 

Hard to capture true iridescent colour. 
 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited August 23, 2023 by Bobby Rico

[Bobby Rico]

Just a heads up Eric @Wrangellian here is my Aioloceras sp.. 
 

cheers Bobby 

Edited August 23, 2023 by Bobby Rico

[Wrangellian]

That's a nice one Bobby, not been tampered with like 99.9% of the ones you see out there. How long ago did you acquire it?

[Bobby Rico]

13 minutes ago, Wrangellian said:

That's a nice one Bobby, not been tampered with like 99.9% of the ones you see out there. How long ago did you acquire it?

It was sometime ago now. Thank you , the iridescent colour Is much better with the naked eye. 

[Wrangellian]

4 minutes ago, Bobby Rico said:

It was sometime ago now. Thank you , the iridescent colour Is much better with the naked eye. 

I can imagine... I have a few examples of the smaller ones from that same place.

[Yoda]

1 hour ago, Bobby Rico said:

here is my Aioloceras sp.. 
 

Very nice

This is definitely on my "to get" list 

[Tidgy's Dad]

On 8/23/2023 at 7:44 AM, Yoda said:

This is definitely on my "to get" list 

You can't do that, it's Bobby's! 

[Bobby Rico]

A nice large section of fossilised wood and a number of small/partial Xipheroceras spiney ammonites.

 

Black Ven, Lyme Regis,  coastline in Dorset, England.

Edited December 27, 2023 by Bobby Rico

[LiamL]

On 8/27/2021 at 3:19 PM, Bobby Rico said:

On 8/27/2021 at 3:19 PM, Bobby Rico said:

This was given to me because I like old labels from old collections. For me the Label makes this specimen . 
 

Harpoceras Exaratun

Upper Lias Jet rock. Whitby North Yorkshire .

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Is the ID correct? I found one with the exact same beautiful preservation and could not put my finger on an ID.

Cheers

 

Edited February 4 by LiamL