Dromiopsis Posted November 5, 2012 Share Posted November 5, 2012 Hello! Here a little movie my hunt of Agnostids in the upper Cambrian of Kinnekulle in Sweden last week...as you know...when you don't have the rigth tools..it's can be tricky!... Ps..the little tree is still alive!!!! Enjoy D Gallery pictures http://www.flickr.com/photos/supergrevling/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kosmoceras Posted November 5, 2012 Share Posted November 5, 2012 Stunning. Where in Sweden is this? Not going back for a couple of years but not heard of this place? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dromiopsis Posted November 5, 2012 Author Share Posted November 5, 2012 Stunning. Where in Sweden is this? Not going back for a couple of years but not heard of this place? Hello Kosmoceras, Kinnekulle is a hill along the lake Vänern, famous place for the Cambrian and Ordovician period. D Gallery pictures http://www.flickr.com/photos/supergrevling/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranha Posted November 5, 2012 Share Posted November 5, 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cowsharks Posted November 5, 2012 Share Posted November 5, 2012 Love the music - Theme song to the old Benny Hill show! That little sapling took a licking but kept on ticking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shamalama Posted November 5, 2012 Share Posted November 5, 2012 Great video and a lot of hard work went into busting that hunk of rock out. Glad you were not hurt as it looked like a big chunk! -Dave __________________________________________________ Geologists on the whole are inconsistent drivers. When a roadcut presents itself, they tend to lurch and weave. To them, the roadcut is a portal, a fragment of a regional story, a proscenium arch that leads their imaginations into the earth and through the surrounding terrain. - John McPheeIf I'm going to drive safely, I can't do geology. - John McPheeCheck out my Blog for more fossils I've found: http://viewsofthemahantango.blogspot.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nala Posted November 5, 2012 Share Posted November 5, 2012 Wow, that's a great report! thanks to share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Missourian Posted November 6, 2012 Share Posted November 6, 2012 It doesn't get better when all you have to do is pull down a mass of rock to get to a mass of fossils. P.S. I'm glad the little tree is ok. Context is critical. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
njfossilhunter Posted November 6, 2012 Share Posted November 6, 2012 I was waiting for the Benny Hill girls to run across the screen.....LOL. TonyThe Brooks Are Like A Box Of Chocolates,,,, You Never Know What You'll Find. I Told You I Don't Have Alzheimer's.....I Have Sometimers. Some Times I Remember And Some Times I Forget.... I Mostly Forget. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahuijsmans Posted November 6, 2012 Share Posted November 6, 2012 amaazing! how many are there on that plate! beautifull..wish we had that down here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dromiopsis Posted November 6, 2012 Author Share Posted November 6, 2012 I was waiting for the Benny Hill girls to run across the screen.....LOL. I would have liked but I had a limited budget..... Gallery pictures http://www.flickr.com/photos/supergrevling/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted November 6, 2012 Share Posted November 6, 2012 Well, that was worth the sweat. Nice work! Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dromiopsis Posted November 7, 2012 Author Share Posted November 7, 2012 Well, that was worth the sweat. Nice work! Thanks Roger! But at 5°C....not too much sweat....I slept in my car....but I am very well equiped for cold nigths in attachments....coffe on Orthoceratid rocks....and my "Huntfossil car"..the morning at Kinnekulle (Hällekis) D Gallery pictures http://www.flickr.com/photos/supergrevling/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saurornitholestes Posted November 7, 2012 Share Posted November 7, 2012 Wow, so dense. Were they mostly disarticulated? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dromiopsis Posted November 7, 2012 Author Share Posted November 7, 2012 Wow, so dense. Were they mostly disarticulated? Hello Saurornitholestes , 99.99999%are disarticulated...researchers have found only 3 specimen complete in theses kind of layers By my side, I perhaps found one....but I have to clean it to see the thorax segments. D Gallery pictures http://www.flickr.com/photos/supergrevling/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carl Posted November 7, 2012 Share Posted November 7, 2012 Sweet! That's maybe a 100 jillion trilobites! Score! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trilobiteruss Posted November 7, 2012 Share Posted November 7, 2012 Great video presentation! Loved the final result. Thanks for sharing! russ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjaak Posted November 7, 2012 Share Posted November 7, 2012 wow! maybe this is what would happen if you hurt the little tree Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dromiopsis Posted November 7, 2012 Author Share Posted November 7, 2012 wow! maybe this is what would happen if you hurt the little tree I promise to make an update about the health of this little tree next time I will go...must wait 2 years I think ...... But..when I look in details the pursuers in the picture...... Gallery pictures http://www.flickr.com/photos/supergrevling/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrangellian Posted November 7, 2012 Share Posted November 7, 2012 Ha! 'Yakety Sax' by Boots Randolph, in case anyone is wondering. At first glance I would not have expected to get that big a chunk out of that outcrop, but I have put even more work into excavating fossils at my local site! Looks like you have a complete one there... at those odds you've won the lottery! I love the Orthoceras slab, too... I wonder if the shell is intact and can these be prepped out? I ask only because every other 'Orthoceras' you see for sale from Morocco, China, etc, is polished down to the septa. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dromiopsis Posted November 8, 2012 Author Share Posted November 8, 2012 Ha! 'Yakety Sax' by Boots Randolph, in case anyone is wondering. At first glance I would not have expected to get that big a chunk out of that outcrop, but I have put even more work into excavating fossils at my local site! Looks like you have a complete one there... at those odds you've won the lottery! I love the Orthoceras slab, too... I wonder if the shell is intact and can these be prepped out? I ask only because every other 'Orthoceras' you see for sale from Morocco, China, etc, is polished down to the septa. Hello Wrangellian, About the Orthoceras (Mainly Endoceras at that location) The shell is intact most of the time but there's no "pattern", the shell is soft and when this one is gone or fine, you can guess the septa between chambers. There's few nautiloids with patterns, Anthoceras vaginatum, lituites.... But If you polish as the morrocan or Chinese specimen...you will have the same result. here a link with a movie in a preview post: http://www.thefossil..._hl__nautiloids pictures : rich slab from öland with Endoceras and Anthoceras Anthoceras vaginatum Lituites lituus Endoceras with shell from Öland, Sweden Endoceras from Kinnekulle polished D Gallery pictures http://www.flickr.com/photos/supergrevling/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dromiopsis Posted February 1, 2014 Author Share Posted February 1, 2014 Hello! here a picture with also Agnostus...but from a another place from Sweden(Furongian period)...we can see pyrite showing the lack of oxygen... D Gallery pictures http://www.flickr.com/photos/supergrevling/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted February 1, 2014 Share Posted February 1, 2014 There certainly were a lot of the little bug...s in one place! Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrangellian Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 Hello Wrangellian, About the Orthoceras (Mainly Endoceras at that location) The shell is intact most of the time but there's no "pattern", the shell is soft and when this one is gone or fine, you can guess the septa between chambers. There's few nautiloids with patterns, Anthoceras vaginatum, lituites.... But If you polish as the morrocan or Chinese specimen...you will have the same result. here a link with a movie in a preview post: http://www.thefossil..._hl__nautiloids pictures : rich slab from öland with Endoceras and Anthoceras Anthoceras vaginatum Lituites lituus Endoceras with shell from Öland, Sweden Endoceras from Kinnekulle polished D I didn't notice this reply until now! Thanks Dromi, It's nice to see the variety and the locations of origin for these things. That in an enviable trip - I could pry up nautiloid slabs all day at a site like that and never get tired! I would keep them more or less as they are, too - the Moroccans would probably polish them all. I recently acquired a decent Lituites from China (from member Aetobatus). (no pic yet) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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