Terry Dactyll Posted December 8, 2012 Author Share Posted December 8, 2012 Astrinos.... crassostrea gryphoides and barnacles!.... Very nice.... I done a little more work on the Plagiostoma gigantea shells and they are by far from finished yet... My friend pointed out they are both the same hand so cant be from the same bivalve....The proximity of the hinge and the damage to the top edge of the lower shell had me fooled for a while that they were associated but maybe not... I'll try and get them finished sometime soon and let you see.... Cheers Steve... And Welcome if your a New Member... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry Dactyll Posted December 8, 2012 Author Share Posted December 8, 2012 Job done... Plagiostoma gigantea... I took a LOT of rock off... Back to prepping the ammonites starting with the lasr one ^... Was a nice change.... Cheers Steve... And Welcome if your a New Member... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astron Posted December 8, 2012 Share Posted December 8, 2012 (edited) Job done... Plagiostoma gigantea... I took a LOT of rock off... Back to prepping the ammonites starting with the lasr one ^... Was a nice change.... Awesome double plagiostoma gigantea, Steve, and a giant ammo is on the way... I don't have any dentalium giganteum that could reach the 20 cm in length but I've found this 15 cm long tusk shell scaphopod dentalium sp.. Very rare that size for this species... Edited December 8, 2012 by astron Astrinos P. Damianakis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry Dactyll Posted December 9, 2012 Author Share Posted December 9, 2012 Astrinos.... Thanks... Giant ammo on the way ' hopefully ' (Dont count your chickens before they hatch!) ... Seriously though...they are from a new spot on the coast that I have never prepped material from before... They look quite chunkier to so maybe a slightly different species.... Hopefully I'll get one decent shell out of the 2 new finds... Cheers Steve... And Welcome if your a New Member... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dromiopsis Posted December 9, 2012 Share Posted December 9, 2012 Awesome double plagiostoma gigantea, Steve, and a giant ammo is on the way... I don't have any dentalium giganteum that could reach the 20 cm in length but I've found this 15 cm long tusk shell scaphopod dentalium sp.. Very rare that size for this species... Hello Astron, even it's.."only" 15 cm long.....what a amazing Dentalium!...it's a monster for me!.... D Gallery pictures http://www.flickr.com/photos/supergrevling/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astron Posted December 9, 2012 Share Posted December 9, 2012 Hello Astron, even it's.."only" 15 cm long.....what a amazing Dentalium!...it's a monster for me!.... D Thanks, Christian! I do like it, as well Astrinos.... Thanks... Giant ammo on the way ' hopefully ' (Dont count your chickens before they hatch!) ... Seriously though...they are from a new spot on the coast that I have never prepped material from before... They look quite chunkier to so maybe a slightly different species.... Hopefully I'll get one decent shell out of the 2 new finds... Nice saying, Steve, but I trust this one, as well : ''If you meet a snake in the country, be sure that it will be crawling''... Any way, good luck with this prep... In the meanwhile, here is a strombus sp. conch of mine... Astrinos P. Damianakis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry Dactyll Posted December 9, 2012 Author Share Posted December 9, 2012 Astrinos..... The strombus sp. is a really impressive shell....Thanks fo sharing it with us.... Cheers Steve... And Welcome if your a New Member... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glacialerratic Posted December 10, 2012 Share Posted December 10, 2012 Yeah, that's a beauty Astrinos! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrangellian Posted December 10, 2012 Share Posted December 10, 2012 (edited) That egg reminds me of the movie 'Caveman' with Ringo Starr et al (1982, I think).... Someone asked for a big Inoceramus... Unfortunately I no longer own this one, but I found it just minutes from here a couple years ago. Arrows delineate (former) extent of shell, which possibly went even further. Brush is 19cm long. Edited December 10, 2012 by Wrangellian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astron Posted December 10, 2012 Share Posted December 10, 2012 Steve and Tim, Thanks much! Eric, Very nice inoceramus associated with fossil wood!! At least one more is expected... Xiphactinus Your promise hasn't been forgotten... ''Keep away from any promise to a saint or to a ... mad'' Untill then here is a plate like crassostrea sp 23 cm long. I like the shell colors there... Astrinos P. Damianakis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry Dactyll Posted December 11, 2012 Author Share Posted December 11, 2012 Eric.... Very nice....I keep spotting fossil wood lately... I opened a chunk of limestone up with a poorly preserved ammonite next to a piece... I keep checking for a gooden now.... Astrinos.... You definately the big shell king... Keep them coming.... Cheers Steve... And Welcome if your a New Member... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrangellian Posted December 13, 2012 Share Posted December 13, 2012 Thanks Astrinos, I hope you're right and I will find another one... there are some up my local hill but I haven't had the chance to excavate them yet since the weather turned bad. They will not be quite as big, maybe 1 foot across. Huge ones like the one I posted seem to require road construction to expose... BTW I like your shell assortment with the snail/scaphopod/etc.! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astron Posted December 15, 2012 Share Posted December 15, 2012 (edited) Steve, thanks but I couldn't say so when seeing so all these beautiful shells every one has already brought here, as to those ones that have been displayed in other threads of the Forum to date. Eric, thanks. I wish you to find some more!!! Waiting for some more nice shells to come, I am adding my big shell ... bird. When I was still young, some more than 20 years ago, those big crassostrea sp. oysters had born to me some creative inspirations. This construction is approx. 30 x 30 x 30 cm and weights about 15 kilos. Edited December 15, 2012 by astron Astrinos P. Damianakis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrangellian Posted December 16, 2012 Share Posted December 16, 2012 (edited) Thanks Astrinos, I do have some more Ino's, I just need to get the onto my computer and edit them for posting. You have a whimsical creative sense! Now you'll start a new topic for fossil 'art'! (or is there one already that I have not seen?) Edited December 20, 2012 by Wrangellian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry Dactyll Posted December 16, 2012 Author Share Posted December 16, 2012 Astrinos.... Very creative .....Certainly beats stickibng shells to a plant pot..... Cheers Steve... And Welcome if your a New Member... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astron Posted December 19, 2012 Share Posted December 19, 2012 (edited) Eric, Good idea. I have to search if already there is. Thanks! Steve, Extensive mixture indeed. Thanks At the moment, this is one epifauna example. A crassostrea sp. oyster with some juvenile scleractinian corals attached to both of the valves... Edited December 19, 2012 by astron Astrinos P. Damianakis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry Dactyll Posted December 19, 2012 Author Share Posted December 19, 2012 Astrinos... Another top class specimen... and corals to... Nice!... Cheers Steve... And Welcome if your a New Member... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astron Posted December 19, 2012 Share Posted December 19, 2012 Astrinos... Another top class specimen... and corals to... Nice!... Thanks much, Steve While in the previous case corals are attached to the oyster, this one crassostrea sp. colony (of three oysters) is attached to a porites sp. coral branch... Astrinos P. Damianakis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrangellian Posted December 20, 2012 Share Posted December 20, 2012 Those are definitely top-drawer fossils, Astrinos! (or top-of-cabinet fossils, more like) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry Dactyll Posted December 20, 2012 Author Share Posted December 20, 2012 Astrinos....Another fabulous specimen... Have you ever had one of these beauties air abraided to remove the very last traces of the matrix?...I dont think they need it but it might be interesting to see the results on say a minor specimen to see if it brings out more detail... Just a thought... Cheers Steve... And Welcome if your a New Member... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astron Posted December 23, 2012 Share Posted December 23, 2012 (edited) Those are definitely top-drawer fossils, Astrinos! (or top-of-cabinet fossils, more like) Thanks much, Eric Edited December 23, 2012 by astron Astrinos P. Damianakis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astron Posted December 23, 2012 Share Posted December 23, 2012 Astrinos....Another fabulous specimen... Have you ever had one of these beauties air abraided to remove the very last traces of the matrix?...I dont think they need it but it might be interesting to see the results on say a minor specimen to see if it brings out more detail... Just a thought... Thanks much, Steve No, I haven't ever had any of the shells I have presented to the Forum air abraded, partly becouse this process is (as and you refer) of a low necessity for these specimens, partly becouse I haven't the appropriate equipment. No doubt, though, that if that was possible, I'd have even better results... More than that, your suggestion brought to my mind some cemented sand chunks containing oysters colonies with just a bit of them exposed and I can imagine how attractive display pieces they would be if they were in your magic hands. I haven't any pic of these samples available, but hopefully at least some of them still exist and I'll have a chance to take a shot of them sometime. I have to check it out and to update... At the moment, the bigger shell of my collection that was completely hidden into cemented sand is the attached single valve of an argopecten irradians. It's about 23 x 18 cm and it had took me uncountable hours of work to remove (using sandpaper) the very hard matrix! Speaking of these scallops, I was so impressed when I read that they may have up to 100 eyes (third pic under a microscope I found in internet)!!!....... :o Astrinos P. Damianakis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted December 24, 2012 Share Posted December 24, 2012 WOW! Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry Dactyll Posted December 24, 2012 Author Share Posted December 24, 2012 (edited) Astrinos.... Fabulous specimen taking many hours work as you say... You are definately the ' King of the Shells '.... 100 eyes... Amazing.... Edited December 24, 2012 by Terry Dactyll Cheers Steve... And Welcome if your a New Member... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeR Posted December 24, 2012 Share Posted December 24, 2012 We have big oysters in the states as well. Ostrea sinuosa Rogers & Rogers, 1837. Upper Paleocene Bells Landing Marl of the Tuscahoma Formation, Monroe County, Alabama. "A problem solved is a problem caused"--Karl Pilkington "I was dead for millions of years before I was born and it never inconvenienced me a bit." -- Mark Twain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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