Prepping a Green River Mioplosus

[hadrosauridae]

Welcome to another Fossil Friday!

 

My video today is my first time prepping a fish from the Green River formation, 18-inch layer. This fossil was from recovered from outside of Kemmerer, WY by a friend, @Ptychodus04

 

 

[minnbuckeye]

Great video. Very impressed with your overlay. 

  

Mike

[Ptychodus04]

Great video and prep! This is actually from the Bottom Cap, not the 18" Layer. This is why the rock was so stinking hard!

 

One thing I would recommend, get a respirator, or at least an N95 mask when you prep outside your blast cabinet. You don't want to be breathing the rock dust; it will kill you over time. Thanks for the tag in your video as well.

[hadrosauridae]

58 minutes ago, Ptychodus04 said:

Great video and prep! This is actually from the Bottom Cap, not the 18" Layer. This is why the rock was so stinking hard!

 

One thing I would recommend, get a respirator, or at least an N95 mask when you prep outside your blast cabinet. You don't want to be breathing the rock dust; it will kill you over time. Thanks for the tag in your video as well.

dang it, I hate when I screw up details about a fossil or its location.  My dolomite arrived today, so hopefully tomorrow I can sift it and start prepping with it.  Should work faster on this than the soda.

[Pixpaleosky]

Hi, How did you fill the gaps in the fish body ?

[hadrosauridae]

1 hour ago, Pixpaleosky said:

Hi, How did you fill the gaps in the fish body ?

 

I havent.  They dont really show up so I havent worried about messing with it.  If I were to attempt it, I would probably crush/grind/sift some of the matrix bits, mix with glue, fill the crack and texture it, then mix a paint to match the color / sheen of the fish and paint the fill.

 

But since I have no practice doing that, I'd likely make it look even worse.  I plan to practice it in the future on some broken fish I have laying around.

[Randyw]

Great video and nice looking piece! Good job!

[Ptychodus04]

7 hours ago, hadrosauridae said:

dang it, I hate when I screw up details about a fossil or its location.  My dolomite arrived today, so hopefully tomorrow I can sift it and start prepping with it.  Should work faster on this than the soda.

There’s also a chance that I didn’t tell you it was Bottom Cap so as not to scare you off prepping fish.  If you can master BC, 18” stuff is like butter. The only problem is that the fins are a lot softer.

 

Dolomite should work well on this harder material. I wouldn’t use it on 18” material though.

[fossilhunter21]

Awesome prep job!

 

Looking foward to seeing more of your work.

 

[thelivingdead531]

Awesome video! Loved the music too. It’s not everyday that I get to rock out while watching a prep video. 

[hadrosauridae]

3 minutes ago, thelivingdead531 said:

Awesome video! Loved the music too. It’s not everyday that I get to rock out while watching a prep video. 

 

Glad you like it, I hesitated on using that one.  Its far different from my usual background music, but I thought the tempo played well with the sped up timing of the video.

[thelivingdead531]

2 minutes ago, hadrosauridae said:

 

Glad you like it, I hesitated on using that one.  Its far different from my usual background music, but I thought the tempo played well with the sped up timing of the video.

I think it was a good choice, it seemed to fit quite well with the video. 

[Ptychodus04]

I thoroughly enjoyed the music. I felt like I was prepping it myself seeing as there’s often some variety of metal playing in my ear buds while I prep.