piranha Posted November 12, 2010 Author Share Posted November 12, 2010 cones - Araucaria 7cm Ctenis sp 15cm Jurassic - China Podozamites sp 11cm Jurassic China Tilia sp 3cm John Day Fm 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranha Posted November 12, 2010 Author Share Posted November 12, 2010 enuff for one day - the dinner bell is ringing here's a preview of the friday shelf - enjoy! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tracer Posted November 12, 2010 Share Posted November 12, 2010 i may have to put a bag over my head to keep from hyperventilating. i need to go search my collection to see if i have even one thing of this quality... ...no, that's a bad idea. tj would find out about it and <poof!>, it'd be gone... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranha Posted November 12, 2010 Author Share Posted November 12, 2010 (edited) Beautiful collection Could you give us a closeup on that Gar? Here's the gar - old picture but I'll repost a new one when I get to that shelf. It's only 47cm but easily one of the best and a hands down top 10 favorite. The E.O. Wiley monograph has a outline drawing of an oblique lateral skull (AMNH P.4302) that I swear is the doppelganger of my fish. (attached) this one came directly from Jim Tynsky in Kemmerer and has less than 1-2% resto. (half of a scale(X2) and a few mm of a fin ray) His shop is next to the original JC Pennys store - a great place to check out if you ever make the trip RE: Wiley, E.O. 1976. The phylogeny and biogeography of fossil and recent gars (Actinopterygii: Lepisosteidae). University of Kansas Museum of Natural History, Miscellaneous Publ. 64:1-111. Edited November 20, 2010 by piranha 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicholas Posted November 12, 2010 Share Posted November 12, 2010 That's a lot of nice fossils, words can't describe how much I enjoy seeing them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cris Posted November 12, 2010 Share Posted November 12, 2010 Incredible, incredible collection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tracer Posted November 12, 2010 Share Posted November 12, 2010 gardang! for the only 47 cm doppelganger... <sprinting for his bowfishing gear, which he doesn't really have, but merely references for comic effect on how perfect-as-if-alive that specimen is> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Menser Posted November 12, 2010 Share Posted November 12, 2010 Here's the gar - old picture but I'll repost a new one when I get to that shelf. It's only 47cm but easily one of the best and a hands down top 10 favorite. The E.O. Wiley monograph has a outline drawing of an oblique lateral skull (AMNH P.4302) that I swear is the doppelganger of my fish. (attached) this one came directly from Jim Tynsky in Kemmerer and has less than 1-2% resto. (half of a scale(X2) and a few mm of a fin ray) His shop is next to the original JC Pennys store - a great place to check out if you ever make the trip RE: Wiley, E.O. 1976. The phylogeny and biogeography of fossil and recent gars (Actinopterygii: Lepisosteidae). University of Kansas Museum of Natural History, Miscellaneous Publ. 64:1-111. Now that is a FISH Be true to the reality you create. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest N.AL.hunter Posted November 12, 2010 Share Posted November 12, 2010 Well I am sort of late seeing this posting, but WOW!! What a collection you have put together!! Those trilobites are really amazing. Some top qualty specimens you have. Thanks for sharing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranha Posted November 12, 2010 Author Share Posted November 12, 2010 Thank you everyone for all of the great compliments on the collection The gift is knowing other folks are enjoying my fossils as much as I enjoy seeing fossils on TFF Our appreciation really honors the passion for all things paleo and I am only the caretaker of these amazing time travelers. I guess the old saying is true - you have to give it away to keep it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mexx Posted November 12, 2010 Share Posted November 12, 2010 I second that dang! Dangarangaraaaaanga...Dang...Dang...DAAAAANG!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranha Posted November 12, 2010 Author Share Posted November 12, 2010 a few extra shots from the previous grouping and then another shelf or two today Wenndorfia planus double: 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted November 12, 2010 Share Posted November 12, 2010 Now that's what I call real Quality!!! And extremely tastefully presented! Please do carry on. Best wishes, Roger. Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranha Posted November 12, 2010 Author Share Posted November 12, 2010 (edited) this shelf features a top trilo: It is known by many monikers and most infamously as "ELVIS" this is one of the most often faked bugs out of Morocco - lucky to own one that is complete and REAL included is an attachment from 1846, "The Organization of Trilobites" by Dr. Hermann Burmeister which he called Homalonotus armatus. Another name with kudos to the Doctor is Burmeisteria or Burmeisterella. It has been formally assigned as Scabrella propradoana. This one 22 cm in straight line measurement. Elvis is in the house Edited November 20, 2010 by piranha 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranha Posted November 12, 2010 Author Share Posted November 12, 2010 Asaphus cornutus 14cm Ordovician - Russia Eudolitites sp. 11cm Ordovician - Morocco Zlichovaspis sp. 11cm Devonian - Morocco 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranha Posted November 13, 2010 Author Share Posted November 13, 2010 (edited) Four Miocene plants Shandong Province, China: Acer 17cm Morus 7cm Toona 11cm Santa Vittoria d'Alba, Italy: Quercus 8cm Edited January 16, 2011 by piranha 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranha Posted November 13, 2010 Author Share Posted November 13, 2010 Brachyphyllum 16cm Cretaceous - Brazil Callipteridium 8cm Carb - Netherlands Pecopteris 14cm Carb - Mazon Creek Zamites 10cm Jurassic - France Hadrosaur egg 18cm Cretaceous - China 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFossilHunter Posted November 13, 2010 Share Posted November 13, 2010 just saw this topic...unbelievable quality...and an amazing collection...i am green with envy :sick: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranha Posted November 13, 2010 Author Share Posted November 13, 2010 Saturday preview - looks like I actually have an organized process happy to report that I only melted one small bubble on a external halogen light source hopefully that will be the extent of the collateral damage so far no fossils or monkeys have been harmed in any way 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phoenixflood Posted November 13, 2010 Share Posted November 13, 2010 Amazing collection!!! :wub: Walliserops trifurcatus has always been one of my favorites Looking forward to seeing more The soul of a Fossil Hunter is one that is seeking, always. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranha Posted November 13, 2010 Author Share Posted November 13, 2010 Asaphopsoides yongshunensis 23cm Asaphopsoides yongshunensis 11cm Psilocephalina lubrica (2) 8.5, 7.5cm Ordovician - China Arctinurus boltoni 15cm (6 INCHER) Silurian - New York [pyritized pygidium] Eldredgeops wad (4) 4.5cm Devonian - Ohio 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranha Posted November 13, 2010 Author Share Posted November 13, 2010 (edited) couple of oddballs in this group: Fenestraspis amauta 900+ facets = 50 vertical files of up to 22 lenses each (I didn't count 'em ) makes Erbenochile look blind as a bat :ph34r: Sphaerexochus romingeri is from a group that mostly went to FMNH. see R.L. Setti: Trilobites 2nd ed. PL 178 Fenestraspis amauta 5cm Devonian - La Paz, Bolivia Sphaerexochus romingeri 2cm Silurian - Wisconsin [cranidia] (2) Trimerus delphinocephalus 5cm Silurian - New York Xystridura templetonensis 5.5cm Cambrian - Australia Edited January 15, 2011 by piranha 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranha Posted November 13, 2010 Author Share Posted November 13, 2010 (edited) Nemiana simplex 12cm Ediacaran - Ukraine Asaphiscus wheeleri (2) 5.5cm Elrathia kingi [meraspid 1cm] Cambrian - Utah Astraeospongia sp. 7cm Devonian - Germany Pleurocystites squamosus 8cm Ordovician - Canada [ventral - dorsal] Edited January 15, 2011 by piranha 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranha Posted November 13, 2010 Author Share Posted November 13, 2010 Aulacopleura konincki 12mm Silurian - Czech Republic Ameropiltonia lauradanae 1.5cm Mississippian - Missouri Bumastus barriensis 3.5cm Silurian - New York Greenops widderensis 2.5cm Devonian - Canada 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranha Posted November 13, 2010 Author Share Posted November 13, 2010 (edited) Giant Ohio Crassi 8cm 3+ incher - "Mini Drotops" Giant Indiana Flexi 5cm Sponge sp(?) 14cm in situ Edited November 13, 2010 by piranha 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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