The Daily Fossil Record

[Bobby Rico]

12 hours ago, doushantuo said:

I love the fact that you see the brush stokes with Burian.

Nice one ,Bobby!

Thank you , he really is an amazing painter . I personally think he was underrated by the art world. I would to go to his museum in Stramberk . I did see quite a few of this paintings in Prague.

[Bobby Rico]

For the last two Christmas’s MrsR has given me vintage postcard sets. First up a cool collection of reptile fossil postcards and envelop 1923 dated. British museum of natural history . Secondly just as collection of fish postcards again from 1923 and with envelope . 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I hope you all don’t mind the lack of fossils on this weeks posts. MrsR and I have been found raising for the Ukraine refugees by making pin badges and I don’t have time to photograph them properly. 
 

cheers Bobby 

Edited March 17, 2022 by Bobby Rico

[doushantuo]

You are a humanitarian,Bobby.

My respect for you went up a notch,and then some.

Simply wonderful

Ben

 

edit: my respect for you was high anyway,but you knew that already

Edited March 18, 2022 by doushantuo

[Bobby Rico]

13 hours ago, doushantuo said:

You are a humanitarian,Bobby.

My respect for you went up a notch,and then some.

Simply wonderful

Ben

We don’t have any money to donate ourselves but we have got a badge maker and some design skill. So thats the little helps we can give .  Thanks Bobby 

Edited March 18, 2022 by Bobby Rico

[Bobby Rico]

A set of postcards that join up to make a landscape panorama. Set timeline is from the Permian to the late Cretaceous . I had this collection since childhood they where made for Birmingham museum in the 1970s (my home town).  
 

 

 

Edited March 18, 2022 by Bobby Rico

[Bobby Rico]

They called 3-D Dino Cards but they not all dinosaurs, they are reptiles , fish and mammals illustrations too. They are quite fun the lenticular  are all made of vintage imagery and include works by Zdeněk Burian , Charles R. Knight and some illustrations of the Crystal Palace Dinosaurs . 

[Bobby Rico]

Finely for this week some vintage book illustrations. I don’t have any ideas to what book they came from but they are really nice. If anyone has an idea please let me know.

[Bobby Rico]

A fossil from one of my favourite prehistoric critters dimetrodon claw from the Premarin of waurika jefferson county, USA.

[Bobby Rico]

Very tiny shell piece from Pleistocene age turtle from Florida.

[Bobby Rico]

This is probably one of sweetest little  fossils. At under 6mm this tiny crab claw from the Paw Paw Formation in Texas . The strata date back to the late Albian stage of the Early Cretaceous. 

[Bobby Rico]

 

Micro Matrix from the Lower Permian 290 million years from Richard's Spur locality of Oklahoma. Fossils range from fragments to complete and include toe bones, jaws, vertebra,skull plates, teeth, intercentra, limb bone ends etc. The majority of specimens are Captorhinus magnus and C. aguti but undoubtedly there are other species

 

 

 

 

 
my favourite a all most transparent bone 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited March 22, 2022 by Bobby Rico

[Bobby Rico]

Today’s post has been very time consuming so may have to be a couple of days worth. I chose a drawer out of my cabinet for today’s show and tell. @grandpa I thought you may enjoy this thread .
 

 

 

1. Peanut wood because of the pattern . Carnarvon. Australia

 

2 Monkey puzzle wood Madagascar

 

3. Petrified wood Triassic Stinky Springs, Oregon USA

 

4. South Carolina beautiful grain 

 

5. Next is a gift from Mrs Rico a petrified piece of wood with an extract of one of my favourite poems scratched into the surface. A beautiful piece of art she made . That Silent Evening by Galway Kinnell

 

6. Central Oregon with woodworm holes.

 

7. S.E Oregon

 

Arizona

 

Finley a cool piece of pet wood found 1974 by Doren. It is a very tactile piece. The pet wood is from Oregon which is just outside of Eugene in the middle of the state. Found on the banks of Willamette River ( one of the only three rivers in the U.S. that flows north ).  The Willamette is well known for its abundance of pet. wood that is found in it’s  river gravels. 

Edited March 22, 2022 by Bobby Rico

[Bobby Rico]

The petrified wood is really interesting though a macro lens.

This is the Central Oregon sample. 
 

 

 

 

 
 

 

 

Edited March 22, 2022 by Bobby Rico

[grandpa]

9 hours ago, Bobby Rico said:

@grandpa I thought you may enjoy this thread .

Wow, Bobby, thanks so much for flagging me on this.  I have somehow totally missed this series.  I LOVE it and that last entry is in fact very beautiful.  I'm following this thread now and and will really be watching for each entry with glee.

 

Thanks again!

[grandpa]

On 2/7/2022 at 3:33 AM, Bobby Rico said:

This week I have a birthday

Happy belated B-Day Bobby.

[grandpa]

On 2/9/2022 at 1:53 PM, FossilNerd said:

this is my favorite so far Bobby

Actually, I have to agree with @FossilNerd on this.  (No real surprise there; I often find that he and I are on the same wavelink.)  I love the artwork that nature's wonders brings to us.  This specimen is a great example of that.

[Bobby Rico]

13 hours ago, grandpa said:

Happy belated B-Day Bobby.

Thank you and thanks for the kind comments much appreciated.

Cheers Bobby 

[Bobby Rico]

Found on a spoil heap of Carboniferous coal measures I did find some more bits but I think i gave them away maybe Secret Santa .

 

Forest Of Dean

Gloucestershire.

I think it  is Pecopteris sp ?

 

 

 

Edited March 23, 2022 by Bobby Rico

[Bobby Rico]

I maybe busy tomorrow so I am getting out in front of it and posting tomorrow’s instalment now. 

 

Scottish Coprolites

Location: Leith, in Scotland. Scotland, Carboniferous 329-337 million yrs old fish fences. I did have a drawer full of them but over the years I been giving them away . I did enjoy hand polishing them.
 

 

Buckland’s coprolite table.

This Victorian pine and walnut table is a famed piece of geological history, whose surface is inlaid with 64 sliced nodules of fossil coprolite. Made for the reverend William Buckland, the first professor of Geology at Oxford University and friend of Mary Anning.. it was given to the Lyme Regis museum in England by his grandson Frank Gordon in commemoration of Buckland’s nearby origins in Axminster. Coprolite from Leith, in Scotland. MrsR’s photos of Buckland table .

 

Edited March 24, 2022 by Bobby Rico

[Bobby Rico]

A quite nice Theropod indet from Morocco with somec crystal growth inside , I hope you like this little toothy geode . 

[FranzBernhard]

22 hours ago, Bobby Rico said:

Buckland table

Holly sh... !!

Franz Bernhard

[Bobby Rico]

1 hour ago, FranzBernhard said:

Holly sh... !!

Franz Bernhard

And they said it can’t be polished . 

[Sjfriend]

On 3/23/2022 at 12:48 PM, Bobby Rico said:

 

 

Pretty but don't know if I'd want to eat any food off it 

[Sjfriend]

2 hours ago, Bobby Rico said:

A quite nice Theropod indet from Morocco with somec crystal growth inside , I hope you like this little toothy geode . 

This is a great piece.. 2 of my favorites fossil and geode!

[Bobby Rico]

12 minutes ago, Sjfriend said:

This is a great piece.. 2 of my favorites fossil and geode!

Yes it is a pretty tooth. Thanks . I only noticed the crystal after I got a macro lens for my phone.

Edited March 24, 2022 by Bobby Rico