Belemnite fossil collection - rikermounts

[Fossilsforever]

Hello all,

 

I bought a collection box (rikermount) for some of my late Cretaceous belemnites (Belemnitella and Belemnella (pachybelemnella) sp.).  The fossils are 70-66 million years old (to be more detailed: 70-68 and/or 70-67 mya). Just like other fossils, belemnites can be stored quite well in this kind of vitrine/case. Also good for storing some shark teeth or other fossils like (flat) plant fossils/impressions.

Other collectors that have rikermounts with fossils? (perhaps a picture?)

 

Edited December 7, 2022 by Fossilsforever

[rocket]

sounds great. Cannot see the pic, does not open 

Could you try again?

The belemnites, are they all from the Netherlands? (I would assume, Maastrichtian is full of nice nice ones from sw-NL)

Edited December 7, 2022 by rocket

[Fossilsforever]

Yeah. They are from the Netherlands. Late late Campanian - early Maastrichtian. 

[Ludwigia]

Nice. Perhaps this topic could interest you.

[RuMert]

I use them. The main advantage is being able to store dust-free and easily manipulate large numbers of smaller fossils and also position them vertically, saving space

[MarcoSr]

2 hours ago, Fossilsforever said:

Other collectors that have rikermounts with fossils? (perhaps a picture?)

 

 

I hope I'm not posting too many pictures.  Some of my Riker Mounts (sizes listed above pictures) from 5 different states with different types of self collected fossils.

 

I lived in MD for 25 years so I have a good amount of fossil material from Maryland.

 

Display 1 Eocene/Miocene, Nanjemoy/Calvert Formations, Popes Creek, Charles County, Maryland shark specimens 16X12 inches

 

 

 

 

Display 2 Eocene/Miocene, Nanjemoy/Calvert Formations, Popes Creek, Charles County, Maryland, bony fish, marine mammal and reptile specimens 16X12 inches

 

 

 

 

Display 12 Paleocene, Aquia Formation, Potomac River, Liverpool Point, Maryland reptile specimens 8X12 inches

 

 

 

 

Display 13 Paleocene, Aquia Formation, Potomac River, Liverpool Point, Maryland shark, ray and Chimaera specimens 8X12 inches

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I currently live in Virginia (for 22 years now) and have a good amount of fossil material from Virginia.

 

Display 3 Miocene, Virginia, shark and ray specimens 16X12 inches

 

 

 

 

Display 4 Miocene, Virginia, bony fish specimens 16X12 inches

 

 

 

 

Display 5 Miocene, Virginia, reptile specimens 16X12 inches

 

 

 

 

Display 6 Miocene, Virginia, marine mammals specimens 16X12 inches

 

 

 

 

Display 9 Miocene, Virginia, crab specimens 1 8X12 inches

 

 

 

 

Display 19 Eocene, Nanjemoy Formation, Virginia, shark, ray and bony fish specimens 8X12 inches

 

 

 

 

 

A nice Riker Mount with fossils from both MD and Virginia.

 

Display 14 Miocene, Maryland/Virginia specimens 8X12 inches

 

 

 

 

Some of my North Carolina fossils collected at the Lee Creek Mine.

 

Display 18 Miocene/Pliocene/Pleistocene, Pungo River/Yorktown/James City Formations, Lee Creek Mine, North Carolina specimens 16X12 inches

 

 

 

 

Some of my California fossils collected on the Ernst Ranch in California.

 

Display 11 Miocene, Round Mountain Silt Formation, Ernst Ranch, Bakersfield, Kern County, California specimens 8X12 inches

 

 

 

 

Some of my Nebraska badlands fossils collected on my sons M&M Ranch.

 

Display 15 Eocene/Oligocene, Chadron/Brule Formations, M&M Ranch, Sioux County, Nebraska specimens 8X12 inches

 

 

 

 

 

Marco Sr.

 

[Fossilsforever]

Thanks for all reactions. @MarcoSr: very impressive and nice displays/collections! 

Edited December 7, 2022 by Fossilsforever

[digit]

My only Riker type display is a hypothetical composite dentition for the extinct Cookiecutter Shark, Isistius triangulus from SW Florida. Took some time to sort through teeth of the appropriate size and condition for the various tooth positions to build up the set. used my digital microscope and a brush with just a few bristles to apply the B-72 consolidant to the overlapping edges of the teeth to form the tooth set which was then centered in the frame. Presently on display with a few of my other fossils in the Florida Museum of Natural History.

 

 

Cheers.

 

-Ken

 

[Misha]

Nice displays!

 

I really like using riker mounts to display my smaller fossils and open up some space on the shelves.

The shelves I use for my collection have supporting bars running along the back of the shelf and I've 3d printed hooks that allow me to attach the riker mounts there for a vertical display.

Here are some of mine that I recently did for my lower Devonian fossils, when I get home I can also post my other ones:

 

[digit]

[Misha]

Here are my other ones: the first is Upper Devonian, 3 Middle Devonian, and the last is Ordovician. The last one is messy as I couldn't figure out a way to keep the small Zygospira brachiopods as they are very tiny and the fibers of the padding only catch them in certain positions, I may try adding extra padding behind them, or using a white piece of foam to keep them in place orderly in the future but for now it looks like this

[Ludwigia]

8 hours ago, Misha said:

I couldn't figure out a way to keep the small Zygospira brachiopods

 

I've solved that problem by sticking a bit of removeable mounting putty to the back of the objects which holds them in place on the padding. When you look at the photo below, you can see bits of it behind some of the little ammos. I could have made the bits smaller so that you can't see them, but I was just too lazy to correct those few.

 

[Fossilsforever]

@digit@Misha @Ludwigia: all very impressive riker collections and fossils! The shark teeth, the Devonian and Ordovician fossils and the ammonites! 

@digit the teeth of the cookiecutter shark are very interesting and rare. Very cool that some of your fossils are in the Florida Museum of Natural History!

 @Misha the Devonian material (and Ordovician) is really cool. I do not have many Devonian fossils, only, in Dutch, Spiriferen (only a few species of Spiriferida). And only one or two Orthocones from the Ordovician (Morroco material). 

@Ludwigia nice ammonites. I see a phragmocone in the ammonite display. Is that correct? cool!

Its great to see all those fossils specimens and the beautiful forms and colours. 

[Ludwigia]

29 minutes ago, Fossilsforever said:

I see a phragmocone in the ammonite display. Is that correct?

 

They are all phragmocones, or the inner parts thereof. They're also all pyritized....or are you talking about that belemnite phragmocone? If so, then correct.

[rocket]

I love the rikermounts, too. Very helpful to store and display fossils.

Many nice samples to see 

Only problem we sometimes have with the rikermounts is the glass. The adhesion is sometimes weak, but as it is cardboard and glass it could be easily repaired

[Fossilsforever]

1 hour ago, Ludwigia said:

 

They are all phragmocones, or the inner parts thereof. They're also all pyritized....or are you talking about that belemnite phragmocone? If so, then correct.

Yeah, the belemnite phragmocone. Cool! (the pyrite on the ammonites is also beautiful). 

[jpc]

5 hours ago, Ludwigia said:

 

I've solved that problem by sticking a bit of removeable mounting putty to the back of the objects which holds them in place on the padding. When you look at the photo below, you can see bits of it behind some of the little ammos. I could have made the bits smaller so that you can't see them, but I was just too lazy to correct those few.

 

No photos of it, but I have also done something similar.  I don't like to use sticky stuff like this but I have some small things in Rikers that I mount onto a sewing needle with carbowax and then the needle goes into the foam and the fossil stays put.  

 

Carbowax is a water soluble wax that leaves no (or minimal) trace if you remove it.  I used to have to get free samples from Union Carbide and Dow Chemicals but recently found that Miralax is pure carbowax (polyethyene glycol 3500).  In the States, Miralax is a digestive aid easily found at the pharmacy.  Not sure if this stuff is easily available overseas.