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Crimbo gift off MrsR

 

British Nautilus Fossil Sherborne, Dorset Inferior Oolite Jurassic. 

Sadly the site is no longer accessible to the fossil collector. I will need to do work on it for a better iD. 

 

 

 

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On 1/1/2023 at 5:45 PM, Bobby Rico said:

gift of MrsR

 

 

Remind her that July 21st is my birthday!!!!

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A couple of  years ago  in the pandemic MrsR and I made about 2500 face masks for MrsR online shop. This was a lot of hard work and some long hours but it felt like we doing good work. MrsR as thank you gave me this Pterosaur metatarsal - from the Kem Kem beds of Morocco. It been glued but I don’t mind.  MrsR purchase to from a retired  palaeontologist from Birmingham Museum. 

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8 hours ago, grandpa said:

Have I ever told you?  That lady is a real keeper!

I can’t remember you saying this before but thank you anyway.  :ighappy:

MrsR always finds something really interesting that I would not normally buy for myself . Cheers Bobby 

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On 1/20/2023 at 1:48 PM, minnbuckeye said:

 

Remind her that July 21st is my birthday!!!!

Will do, she got a lot of TFF members to buy for this year.

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Hi all

Sorry I have not been able to keep this thread going as late but I will try harder . 
 

I really think the Hadrosaurs were very cool dinosaurs and not just as a food source for the T.rex.  So in celebration of the great beasts here is my Hadrosaurs stuff.

 

Edmontosaurus annectens  Metacarpal V found at the famous Hell Creek Formation... 

Late Cretaceous Period  Montana. The missing one in photo that Frank supplied . 

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Edmontosaurus toe bones, South Dakota, Hell Creek Fm.

 

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Edmontosaurus annectens Harding County, South Dakota

First tooth natural tip not broken. 

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Finally I had share this ace dinosaur illusion by Joseph Smit the Dutch illustrator of the 19th century.

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Ok I don’t have a clue about IDs on Belemnites so for that I apologise. This plate is from Staiths North Yorkshire . Maybe Tarquin  can and some educational content to this post. @TqB please and thank you Bobby.
 

 

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The next instalment to my thread is a Grand Christmas Auction win for keeping of lights on TFF

A juvie Megalodon is from Lee Creek and now a lost location. So that add a rarity to it. I also the tooth shows possible predation. 

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4 hours ago, Bobby Rico said:

Ok I don’t have a clue about IDs on Belemnites so for that I apologise. This plate is from Staiths North Yorkshire . Maybe Tarquin  can and some educational content to this post. @TqB please and thank you Bobby.
 

 

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It's a piece of the belemnite mass mortality bed in the Ovatum Band (Falciferum Zone) of the Lower Toarcian Whitby Mudstone Formation. The belemnites are Acrocoelites subtenuis (the more slender ones, which is most of them) and A. vulgaris (the fatter one at the bottom). :)

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22 hours ago, TqB said:

The belemnites are Acrocoelites subtenuis (the more slender ones, which is most of them) and A. vulgaris (the fatter one at the bottom).

Thank you Tarquin much appreciated . I am glad I can add this info to the label now. I may have to find some shelve space instead of keeping it in a drawer. Cheers Bobby 

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Beautiful shark  tooth was in my Grand Christmas Auction win. C. auriculatus from Harleyville, Santee Limestone, ( I believe this quarry is now closed down)  South Carolina  Eocene 2" Diagonal. 
 

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Gagaticeras sp. 

 Robin Hood's Bay, North Yorkshire, England

Approximate age: Lower Lias, Lower Jurassic . This was not prepared by my regular guy because he has retired. To me it is slightly over prepped . This is  I think just a preference. 

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Posting a link to my ammonite collection here because It just took me ages to find this thread

 

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Not a fossil but gold vain in quartz I found near Barmouth northwestern Wales .

 

This is interesting all of the gold was deposited on our planet . It was formed during the explosions of stars and collisions of asteroids, and eventually found its way to earth over time.There are two main theories about how gold is originally formed, both involving stars. One involves the explosion of supernova stars and the resulting nuclear fusion creating atoms of gold, and the other, the collision of neutron stars that results in a gamma-ray burst, one of the most powerful explosions possible. pardon the pun but it blows the mind.


 

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A fantastic Grallator footprint for  Burniston bay Scarborough. Hard to photograph much nicer in reality.

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Hi all ,
MrsR got me this years ago and is my top 5 favourite item in my collection. This grallator footprint was found in France.  
This really gets me when I  considering it , the fleeting moment when a extinct bipedal animal shifted along the edge of a river bank. A footstep left unknowingly in now mudstone, which was laid down at the very beginning of the Jurassic period. A trace recording of a briefest moment in a dinosaurs life, just a split second in the mud but becomes millions of years in our planet’s past. This footprint over this vast amount of time has became hardened, fossilised and then identified and collected by “man” 200 million years after it was stamped into the wet mud. Cheers Bobby 

 

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This is a treasured specimen but small and not perfect. It is rare from this location . 
Coloborhynchus from Bexhill Wealden UK .  Coloborhynchus was a giant pterosaur flying reptile and the largest toothed pterosaur. Size of tooth: 11mm in length. 
 

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Just a thought a few years ago I made a stand for this tooth. It make the most of it. I just drilled out a small acrylic block added cotton wool and a label. It work well I think. 
 

 

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This really beautiful botryoidal grape shaped mineral on petrified wood. Blue Forest Wyoming .
 

This was found by  @minnbuckeye and thank you Mike for donating it to my fossil display.
 

cheers Bobby 

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