Omono Posted December 12, 2022 Share Posted December 12, 2022 Hi everyone, hope you're all doing well. I've found this fossil on the pebble beach of Lyme Regis and I just wanted to know your opinion. Do you think is possible to prep this fossil or maybe it will only cause damage? It's 2x2 cm Thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted December 12, 2022 Share Posted December 12, 2022 This looks like it could be prepped, but probably only with air abrasion. The coating of matrix looks too thin to be mechanically removed. 1 Tim - VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER VFOTM --- APRIL - 2015 __________________________________________________ "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir ~ ~ ~ ~ ><))))( *> About Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Notidanodon Posted December 15, 2022 Share Posted December 15, 2022 This looks like a calcite beef Ammonite, best left as is imo they are very distorted and poorly preserved 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pachy-pleuro-whatnot-odon Posted December 15, 2022 Share Posted December 15, 2022 Yeah, fossils found in what they locally call "beef" can't really be prepared, as there's no actual fossil left. Just a hardened cast enmeshed in the surrounding matrix. 1 'There's nothing like millions of years of really frustrating trial and error to give a species moral fibre and, in some cases, backbone' -- Terry Pratchett Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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