Ramo Posted July 7, 2014 Share Posted July 7, 2014 We finally got some good rains last month, and I finally got around to hunting some of my favorite spots. I came across the usual shark tooth, and fish vertebrae, and then I found this. The first photo is how it was sitting. Didn't take much of any eye, just some good luck. It is a huge chunk of limestone with a bunch of can-sized vertebrae, and rib fragments throughout. I've done a few hours of prep on it and have a bunch of hours ahead of me. Looks like a winter or rainy project. I think it is the only find that I have ever made where I was visibly shaking after finding it. Ramo 1 For one species to mourn the death of another is a new thing under the sun. -Aldo Leopold Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_ed Posted July 7, 2014 Share Posted July 7, 2014 Wow that is something to shake about.. very nice find. Ed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stonebone Posted July 7, 2014 Share Posted July 7, 2014 I don't blame you for shaking! Nice find Ramo!!! Top of the Greenhorn? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted July 7, 2014 Share Posted July 7, 2014 Awesome, Ramo! Congratulations! Is this mosasaur material? It's pretty amazing - thanks for posting it. 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...
vertman Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 Awesome fossil! And nice prep work too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramo Posted July 8, 2014 Author Share Posted July 8, 2014 It's plesiosaur, and it's from near the bottom of the Greenhorn. It was "washed-out" so I'm unable to determine exactly where it came from. Ramo For one species to mourn the death of another is a new thing under the sun. -Aldo Leopold Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 Awesome, Ramo! Congratulations! Is this mosasaur material? It's pretty amazing - thanks for posting it. Regards, Even better; this is Plesiosaur! Great find! EDIT: He lapped me on the post... "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KansasFossilHunter Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 Awesome, Ramo! That's fantastic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KansasFossilHunter Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 Just siting out like that, wow. Glad it finally rained out there, should make for some great hunting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fossilized6s Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 Wow! Awesome find Ramo! I can't wait to see her prepped out! That would make a beautiful wall-hanger if you could manage the weight. ~Charlie~ "There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why.....i dream of things that never were, and ask why not?" ~RFK ->Get your Mosasaur print ->How to spot a fake Trilobite ->How to identify a CONCRETION from a DINOSAUR EGG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bullsnake Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 Congratulations, Ramo! Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Siphuncle Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 kick<snarge>! Grüße, Daniel A. Wöhr aus Südtexas "To the motivated go the spoils." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 Fantastic! Even better! Congratulations, again. 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...
Guest Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 Awesome find bud! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PFOOLEY Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 Holy smokes Ramo!!! I know that has to be an awesome feeling...good for you and congrats on an exceptional fossil. "I am glad I shall never be young without wild country to be young in. Of what avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?" ~Aldo Leopold (1887-1948) New Mexico Museum of Natural History Bulletins Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xiphactinus Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 Super find!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcoSr Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 Ramo Really nice!!!! It is too bad that you can't find where it washed out from. Probably more of the specimen there. When you find something that washed out like this piece, how far can it be from where it washed out from? Are these recent washouts or from millions of years ago? Marco Sr. "Any day that you can fossil hunt is a great day." My family fossil website Some Of My Shark, Ray, Fish And Other Micros My Extant Shark Jaw Collection Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KYAL Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 Fantastic find, Congratulations!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramo Posted July 8, 2014 Author Share Posted July 8, 2014 That's a good question Marco. The exposure isn't that big where it was found. However, the fact that the edges of the rock are kind of rounded I tend to think that it broke away some time ago. But then again, the other pieces should be in the general area. I've lived here in the Greenhorn for 5 years, and this is one of the things I have dreamed of finding since I've been here. I once found a similar chunk with a bunch of ptychodus teeth, and I have never found any more of that rock either, even though I'm pretty sure it broke of freshly. Ramo For one species to mourn the death of another is a new thing under the sun. -Aldo Leopold Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bullsnake Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 Can you extrapolate how big it might have been? Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramo Posted July 8, 2014 Author Share Posted July 8, 2014 I'll have to work that out. I don't know a lot about Greenhorn Plesiosaurs. And it would depend on if it is of the short or long necked variety. I can tell you that when I lifted that rock to put it in the back of my truck it was as light as a feather. Later when I unloaded it and the adrenalin had worn off it was HEAVY!! Ramo For one species to mourn the death of another is a new thing under the sun. -Aldo Leopold Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnJ Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 Wow, Ramo! For something to get you shaking says it all.... Congrats. The human mind has the ability to believe anything is true. - JJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hokiehunter Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 Ha. When I first read the title of this I interpreted "My best Greenhorn find" to mean "my best find as a newbie collector" and expected to see a post with a small tooth or chunk of bone. Then I looked at your history Ramo and and put 2 and 2 together about the Greenhorn formation and doh.... Awesome find. I can only imagine how cool that must have been to set eyes on the first time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcoSr Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 That's a good question Marco. The exposure isn't that big where it was found. However, the fact that the edges of the rock are kind of rounded I tend to think that it broke away some time ago. But then again, the other pieces should be in the general area. I've lived here in the Greenhorn for 5 years, and this is one of the things I have dreamed of finding since I've been here. I once found a similar chunk with a bunch of ptychodus teeth, and I have never found any more of that rock either, even though I'm pretty sure it broke of freshly. Ramo Ramo Looking at your piece and how the bones are distributed, it definitely looks like adjacent pieces of matrix could also have contained associated bones. Hopefully, you will find some more at some point in the future. Good luck! Marco Sr. "Any day that you can fossil hunt is a great day." My family fossil website Some Of My Shark, Ray, Fish And Other Micros My Extant Shark Jaw Collection Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 Ramo Looking at your piece and how the bones are distributed, it definitely looks like adjacent pieces of matrix could also have contained associated bones. Hopefully, you will find some more at some point in the future. Good luck! Marco Sr. Here's hoping that what Ramo found was not the last to weather out... "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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