Mazon Creek Collection- Purchased

[Nimravis]

3 hours ago, Tidgy's Dad said:

I love the Mazon Creek dialect; "aitch", 'tully', "blade" etc. 

Really like these fleas shrimps too. 

I like the flea shrimp too, and with the thousands of concretions that I have gone through, I do not recall ever finding one. So far, I have come across 2 nice examples in this collection and will see if there are anymore.

[Nimravis]

1 hour ago, Mark Kmiecik said:

This one is truly sweet, and most of the recent flora you posted are definitely not pit 11 material, unless they are from way NE

towards pit 5. They resemble Cinder Ridge material, of which I have many. Those are the ones I have not yet begun cataloging. (I just had to brighten this photo -- my apologies, Ralph.)

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks for doing that Mark, and yes that  I believe is the Goldblatts area.

[Nimravis]

Cyperites bicarinatus-

 

 

This is a new favorite of mine- Calamites, but I do not know which species, I am thinking cistii, but I am not sure.

 

 

 

A couple larger Pecopteris.

 

 

 

Annularia inflata-

 

 

Odontopteris aequalis-

 

 

 

Annularia sphenophylloides-

 

 

A cool double Neuropteris.

 

 

 

 

Cyclopteris orbicularis-

 

 

Neuropteris ovata-

 

 

Neuropteris vermicularis-

 

Edited July 14, 2022 by Nimravis

[stats]

Neuropteris vermicularis... one of my favorites.  Langford writes of Goldblatts.  He calls it Goldblatt's farm.   It was to the north of Cinder Ridge.

 

Cheers,

Rich

 

[Nimravis]

I am thinking Drevotella proteana- Hydroid

 

 

 

Priapulites konecniorum-

 

 

 

 

I thought that I whacked open a nice Octomedusa pieckorum last month, but it does not stand up to this one.

 

 

 

Lepidodendron acutum-

 

Edited July 14, 2022 by Nimravis

[Nimravis]

5 minutes ago, stats said:

Neuropteris vermicularis... one of my favorites.  Langford writes of Goldblatts.  He calls it Goldblatt's farm.   It was to the north of Cinder Ridge.

 

Cheers,

Rich

 

Thanks for the info Rich.

[stats]

2 minutes ago, Nimravis said:

Thanks for the info Rich.

The last one.  The other is Neuropteris ovata as you said.

 

Cheers,

Rich

[Nimravis]

I came across this piece this evening. Looking at it, I knew that Bob must have received it from my mentor, Walter. They way that I could tell was by the shine on the concretion. It is hard to tell in the picture, but it is there. You may wonder what did Walter put on it to make it shine, well he did what several of his collecting buddies did, brush egg (edited) Whites on the fossil. They did this only on flora and it was done to bring out the detail. Me being a young and impressionable collector, I did the same thing for a while and a short time later stopped that process.

 

 

 

Edited July 15, 2022 by Nimravis

[Mark Kmiecik]

I used egg white on a few specimens when I first started collecting, which is what some of the old-timers did. It does enhance the appearance and brings out detail if you can avoid creating bubbles. Later on I used yellow dextrin on a few specimens, and like you said basically the flora only.

[FossilDAWG]

Egg yolks?  Yuck!  How did he keep things from growing mold?

 

Don

[Nimravis]

21 minutes ago, FossilDAWG said:

Egg yolks?  Yuck!  How did he keep things from growing mold?

 

Don

Never had a problem.

[Nimravis]

Here are a couple pieces from tonight-

 

Anthracomedusa turnbulli- a rare find.

 

 

 

Rhabdoderma exiguum- with embryonic egg sac. (Coelacanth)

 

 

 

 

 

Another Rhabdoderma that was found opened in the field- a bit weathered.

 

 

 

 

Macroneuropteris scheuchzerii

 

 

A cute Cyclus americanus-these have always been one of my favorites.

 

 

A couple pretty Annularia.

 

 

 

 

Here maybe a couple oddly preserved Essexella asherae, the second one kids of reminds me of a Tully tail, but not too much.

 

 

 

 

Hystriciola delicatula-  I put this one up in the ID section yesterday and @deutscheben agrees with my ID, thanks again Ben.

 

 

 

 

This last piece of flora has me stumped- any help - @connorp @deutscheben @Mark Kmiecik

Radicites- roots

 

 

 

 

Edited July 15, 2022 by Nimravis

[connorp]

@Nimravis I think it's just a root (Radicites), albeit one of the nicer roots I've seen.

[stats]

Can you remove the egg yoke later?  I've seen some old-time stuff that looked enhanced at a friend's house.  They also had them handing on the wall.

 

Cheers,

Rich

 

[stats]

19 minutes ago, connorp said:

@Nimravis I think it's just a root (Radicites), albeit one of the nicer roots I've seen.

I agree.  

 

Cheers,

Rich

[Nimravis]

15 minutes ago, stats said:

Can you remove the egg yoke later?  I've seen some old-time stuff that looked enhanced at a friend's house.  They also had them handing on the wall.

 

Cheers,

Rich

 

Yes- by soaking in water and using a soft toothbrush.

[Nimravis]

@connorp and @stats thanks for the ID, I will update above.

[Mark Kmiecik]

13 hours ago, stats said:

Can you remove the egg yoke later?  I've seen some old-time stuff that looked enhanced at a friend's house.  They also had them handing on the wall.

 

Cheers,

Rich

 

 

I used egg white, not the yolk, back in the day of painting them. Maybe I was supposed to use the yolk, but I'm pretty sure yolk would not be transparent when dry. Someone at E.S.C.O.N.I. suggested yellow dextrin which I tried and was very satisfied with the results because of the contrast it created as well as not tending to bubble like albumen. Both are water-soluble and therefore reversible.

Edited July 15, 2022 by Mark Kmiecik

[Nimravis]

25 minutes ago, Mark Kmiecik said:

 

I used egg white, not the yolk, back in the day of painting them. Maybe I was supposed to use the yolk, but I'm pretty sure yolk would not be transparent when dry. Someone at E.S.C.O.N.I. suggested yellow dextrin which I tried and was very satisfied with the results because of the contrast it created as well as not tending to bubble like albumen. Both are water-soluble and therefore reversible.

Lol- I am getting old, it was not the yoke, it was the whites.

[Nimravis]

17 hours ago, FossilDAWG said:

Egg yolks?  Yuck!  How did he keep things from growing mold?

 

Don

I had a brain cramp, it was egg whites. Lol

[Rock Hound]

Very nice collection.of fossils.

[Nimravis]

Here are a couple from tonight-

 

Mazoglossus ramsdelli- Acorn Worm

 

 

 

Winged Insect-

 

 

 

Fish Scale-

 

 

 

Reticulomedusa greenei-

 

 

 

 

I am thinking that this is a portion of Myriacantherprstes sp.-

 

 

 

I am thinking that this is the seed, Rhabdocarpus sp.

 

 

 

 

[FossilDAWG]

So many amazing specimens! 

Don

[connorp]

Nice scale. I think it is a coelacanth scale as opposed to the usual lungfish.

[Nimravis]

Here are a few Esconichthys apopyris-Blades

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A lot of the worms look the same to me, I am thinking that this is a Astereptoscolex anasullosus-Plain Worm, but I am not positive.