rocket Posted March 12, 2023 Share Posted March 12, 2023 (edited) I am just doing a rare Coccosteus from Egerton fish beds, Tain, Scotland Normally not worth for a story, but this is a fossil I stored now for nearly 40 years... Got it from a friend in parts, never started the prep because I expected it will be bad Last weeks I started to finish it, glued and filled the cracks and started working Only with air pen (HW70 and 10). Wow, the skull and the complete armour are preserved and perhaps the body. Never expected this.... Have not done a pic when I started, but today I thought it iw worthy The site is closed due to vandalism in the 80th, so its nearly impossible to get material from there Fishes are preserved more 3-dimensional, not flat, always in nodules Lenght of the nodule is approx 30 cm I will update when its ready, think in April the second pics shows the situation when I started, only the inner parts could be seen and mainly covered with matrix Edited March 12, 2023 by rocket 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocket Posted March 13, 2023 Author Share Posted March 13, 2023 (edited) little bit more done, all the scutes and parts are free. Little bit of the body is under the matrix, will be removed next days. Looks like the scleral ring is preserved and lower jaw, wow Next work will be to finish it, remove the scratches and make it more beauty Edited March 13, 2023 by rocket 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJB Posted March 13, 2023 Share Posted March 13, 2023 Cool fish Rocket RB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advantage Posted March 13, 2023 Share Posted March 13, 2023 Loving this, especially as its from a classic site, sadly like many many others here in the UK, no longer accessible. Looking forward to the prep completed. Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocket Posted March 13, 2023 Author Share Posted March 13, 2023 (edited) 20 hours ago, Advantage said: Loving this, especially as its from a classic site, sadly like many many others here in the UK, no longer accessible. Looking forward to the prep completed. Steve thanks, I will do my very best. Many sites had been closed to vandalism. Cannot understand why collectors do like this... next steps are: prepp away some parts around the skull, go deeper in the front and search for parts of the column. And, prep the sleral-ring, looks like most of it is preserved, but... Edited March 14, 2023 by rocket Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advantage Posted March 14, 2023 Share Posted March 14, 2023 21 hours ago, rocket said: thanks, I will do my very best. Many sites had been closed to vandalism. Cannot understand why collectors do like this... next steps are: prepp away some parts around the skull, go deeper in the front and search for parts of the column. And, prep the sleral-ring, looks like most of it is preserved, but... I think now there are so many ways to buy specimens, greed is involved, so classic localities are plundered for financial gain . Plus over zealous collecting whereby collectors take everything they can take home. Hope the preparation and development of the fish specimen is coming on well. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocket Posted March 15, 2023 Author Share Posted March 15, 2023 13 hours ago, Advantage said: I think now there are so many ways to buy specimens, greed is involved, so classic localities are plundered for financial gain . Plus over zealous collecting whereby collectors take everything they can take home. I know two of the three guys who destroyed the place with the nodules 40 years ago... Greed, nothing more than greed. Moremoremoremore, mymymymymy, this was there aim. I have seen the cellar of one of them, full of unprepped fossils from good sites.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advantage Posted March 15, 2023 Share Posted March 15, 2023 .... such a shame and the fossils are lost to science and the chance of specialist to study them and record them for future researchers... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocket Posted March 21, 2023 Author Share Posted March 21, 2023 going on slowly, started prepping the body and some more parts of the armour, takes time .. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocket Posted June 9, 2023 Author Share Posted June 9, 2023 going on, acid-cleaning 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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