Twin Beach-Washington

[Neanderthal Shaman]

Weather was pretty decent Monday-Tuesday, so I thought a trip back out to the Peninsula would be nice. 

 

 

Twin Beach is good place to find marine Oligocene fossils. I read a paper recently that proposes that the fossils here may have been part of a 300+ meter deep sea shelf community that was slowly uplifted. 

 

Callianopsis clallamensis ghost shrimp claws, extremely common here. Regret cracking this one, would have looked really good prepped. 

 

Many of the shrimp fossils have calcite crystals that have formed inside them. 

 

Lucina hannibali clams, next to the trace fossil shrimp burrows, probably the most common fossil at the beach. 

 

 

 

A Lirracassis sea snail! But obviously it either weathered out or someone beat me to it. 

 

Luckily I found my own! 

 

Here it is after I prepped it out. I'm really new to prepping, but I think it turned out pretty well. I think I used too much paraloid, it's a little shinier than I would have liked. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited June 3, 2022 by Neanderthal Shaman
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[Neanderthal Shaman]

 

Just to keep this post interesting, here's a small Lirracassis internal mold I found last year. 

 

Some Solemya dalli clams. 

 

 

A Turritella that I superglued to a cross section of a ghost shrimp burrow that had been filled in with calcite. 

 

 

 

And of course, some concretions. I didn't take that many this time. I'll of course post if any of them yield some really nice shrimp claws.

[jpc]

I collected a bunch of these shrimp claws about 30 years ago.  Tough to prep as they tend to be hollow.

[Sjfriend]

For the "shiny" shell. Use a little acetone on a swab and give it a gentle wipe. That will help reduce the shine

[Ludwigia]

Thanks for showing. Couldn't you glue that concretion with the shrimp claw back together and prep it from the other side?

[RJB]

  First picture of that place ive seen with that huge bulkhead removed.  Enjoyed your trip report.

 

RB

[Neanderthal Shaman]

10 hours ago, Ludwigia said:

Thanks for showing. Couldn't you glue that concretion with the shrimp claw back together and prep it from the other side?

That's something to consider. I'm also wondering if I could flake off the little bits on the right half and then glue them back into place on the left half. Would probably be difficult, but could possibly work, or it might fail spectacularly. 

[Pixpaleosky]

That cant work. I would follow ludwigia advice !

[Ludwigia]

10 hours ago, Neanderthal Shaman said:

I'm also wondering if I could flake off the little bits on the right half and then glue them back into place on the left half.

 Don't even bother to try. That would never work.

[CH4ShotCaller]

The Pysht Formation is one of my favorite sites. Nice finds. 

[jpc]

On 6/4/2022 at 3:10 PM, Neanderthal Shaman said:

That's something to consider. I'm also wondering if I could flake off the little bits on the right half and then glue them back into place on the left half. Would probably be difficult, but could possibly work, or it might fail spectacularly. 

I agree on the fail spectacularly.  Gluing them back together is much better.  Additionally, if you could prep just a wee bit so that after you glue them back together you have a bit of the fossil exposed, you could save a lot of time and energy by not having to re-find the thing.