hrguy54 Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 Following my visit to the Trilobites for America lab I spent 5 hours at a southern OH site. Flexicalymene meekis....I've got some prepping to do. I hope to pull 5-6 good ones out of all this. I don't usually collect "pieces" but these Isotelus parts were pretty cool, so.... I'll update with the good ones in the future Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
squalicorax Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 Wow congrats. That site is full of bugs! My Flickr Page of My Collection: http://www.flickr.com/photos/79424101@N00/sets Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MakoMeCrazy Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 Jeez nice finds! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Siphuncle Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 looks like an excellent site. i grew up there and have found 1 good isotelus for each 50 good flexis. Grüße, Daniel A. Wöhr aus Südtexas "To the motivated go the spoils." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herb Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 Nice! "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence"_ Carl Sagen No trees were killed in this posting......however, many innocent electrons were diverted from where they originally intended to go. " I think, therefore I collect fossils." _ Me "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."__S. Holmes "can't we all just get along?" Jack Nicholson from Mars Attacks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erose Posted May 1, 2013 Share Posted May 1, 2013 Oh very nice. Can't wait to see how they prep. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snakebite6769 Posted May 3, 2013 Share Posted May 3, 2013 Pretty cool area, looks loaded! Looking forward to seeing them prepped Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ohiofossilhunter Posted May 4, 2013 Share Posted May 4, 2013 did you find anything surface collecting sunday or did you split shale? I was there splitting shale on saturday and at the prep lab, i'm still waiting for the trilobites to dry out slowly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crinoid1 Posted May 6, 2013 Share Posted May 6, 2013 Looks like a good site! Thats a lot of prep time right there... Gabe I like crinoids...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hrguy54 Posted May 7, 2013 Author Share Posted May 7, 2013 did you find anything surface collecting sunday or did you split shale? Did both but found nothing surface collecting, it was very wet until maybe 1:00-ish. Had to hug the wall a few times as downpours sped through. I spent my time at the east end working the hard clay looking for flexis. A few others were working the shale at the west end but with minor success. Sadly, many of the ones shown in my initial picture began to crumble as soon as I tried to prep them...very soft clay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hrguy54 Posted May 14, 2013 Author Share Posted May 14, 2013 After a few weeks of prepping, here are the results: The good to great complete Flexacalymenes, Those Flexis that were 50 - 80% complete (many of these were so fragile I had to stop the prepping process), Those that all I ended up with was parts, Overall, some nice pieces. Around a 25% return rate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Siphuncle Posted May 14, 2013 Share Posted May 14, 2013 hats off... i think that in one day you upstaged my lifetime collection of stretched out flexis! Grüße, Daniel A. Wöhr aus Südtexas "To the motivated go the spoils." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erose Posted May 15, 2013 Share Posted May 15, 2013 You did well that day! The prep work is great. I need to get busy myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted May 15, 2013 Share Posted May 15, 2013 Great prep job, hrguy54. Thanks for posting the results. Regards, 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...
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