JustPlainPetrified Posted October 20, 2015 Share Posted October 20, 2015 Nice! You find so many you might as well just hunt in the dark...go by feel! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpc Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 Great fossils, Roger. Having collected in Europe and the western USA, i wonder why aptychi are common in Europe and incredibly rare out here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nandomas Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 Great fossils, Roger. Having collected in Europe and the western USA, i wonder why aptychi are common in Europe and incredibly rare out here. I have the same question roaming in my mind since a long time Erosion... will be my epitaph! http://www.paleonature.org/ https://fossilnews.org/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FossilDAWG Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 So, is the "ditch" still just a ditch? With the amount of material you have taken out of there, I'm imagining something approaching the Grand Canyon. I'm happy for you that you have such a productive site available, but I'm kind of envious too. I love them Jurassic ammonites, but it's probably about 2,000 miles from where I live to the closest decently productive sites for such fossils, and even those are in remote sites up in the mountains, or they require a boat able to weather Pacific Ocean waves. Don Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted October 21, 2015 Author Share Posted October 21, 2015 (edited) Nice! You find so many you might as well just hunt in the dark...go by feel! You mean like I should use a Braille hammer? Great fossils, Roger. Having collected in Europe and the western USA, i wonder why aptychi are common in Europe and incredibly rare out here. I have the same question roaming in my mind since a long time Maybe Don's comment about the rarity of Jurassic sites in the USA explains that a bit. In my experience they tend to turn up there much more than in triassic or cretaceous layers, particularly in the upper Jurassic. I suppose it also has to do with the type of sedimentation, but I can't really say exactly why, though. So, is the "ditch" still just a ditch? With the amount of material you have taken out of there, I'm imagining something approaching the Grand Canyon. I'm happy for you that you have such a productive site available, but I'm kind of envious too. I love them Jurassic ammonites, but it's probably about 2,000 miles from where I live to the closest decently productive sites for such fossils, and even those are in remote sites up in the mountains, or they require a boat able to weather Pacific Ocean waves. Don I suppose you could get that impression, but the ditch itself isn't any deeper than it was before I started going at it here. There is however a slight indentation roughly 20 meters long and 1 meter in height in the cliff directly above it I can well understand your longing for the Jurassic since I have the same feelings about paleozoic trilobites or mesozoic land reptiles which generally just don't show up here in southern Germany. Edited October 21, 2015 by Ludwigia Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted January 6, 2016 Author Share Posted January 6, 2016 I went back to the ditch again the other day to see if I could find some more things from up top. No luck there this time, but I did do some more digging at the bottom in the end (did I say that right?) and came up with this: Another Crussoliceras sp. The shell between 9-11 o'clock had broken out and some bits of a Streblites tenuilobatus ammonite were washed into the gap. Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FossilHunter99 Posted January 6, 2016 Share Posted January 6, 2016 Wow awesome finds Roger! We have some nice ammonite places here in Hungary aswell, but I've never been to one personally. Might have to make a trip in spring! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnJ Posted January 6, 2016 Share Posted January 6, 2016 I love the subtle colors. Well worth the effort. The human mind has the ability to believe anything is true. - JJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted January 6, 2016 Author Share Posted January 6, 2016 Wow awesome finds Roger! We have some nice ammonite places here in Hungary aswell, but I've never been to one personally. Might have to make a trip in spring! Thanks. Yes, you should do that and have some fun! I hear there are some nice sites in the middle Jurassic. Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted January 6, 2016 Author Share Posted January 6, 2016 I love the subtle colors. Well worth the effort. Thanks, John Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PFOOLEY Posted January 6, 2016 Share Posted January 6, 2016 I love the subtle colors... I must agree. Very beautiful. "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...
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Ludwigia Posted January 6, 2016 Author Share Posted January 6, 2016 Thanks guys. Although we've had a bit of snow, I'll probably still be going back over the next few weeks since the vale is pretty protected and relatively temperate. Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twinlukers Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 Wow!!!! Must be nice to just be close to your honey hole!!! I have to drive about three hours before I'm in an area that is worthy of finding treasures-- Nice pieces!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted January 7, 2016 Author Share Posted January 7, 2016 That's one advantage of living in Europe. Everything is so close at hand. The disadvantage is that it's hard to find a peaceful place to meditate. Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taj Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 Well , not that hard . Depends where you're living in Europe ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FossilHunter99 Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 Yes we have lots of places where you can find these kinds of ammonites There are places with nicer ammonties but most are protected. I would love going for a hunt now but theres so much snow in the mountains... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted January 7, 2016 Author Share Posted January 7, 2016 Well , not that hard . Depends where you're living in Europe ! I was only joking. My living room is pretty peaceful when the grandchildren don't happen to be there for a visit. Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted January 7, 2016 Author Share Posted January 7, 2016 Yes we have lots of places where you can find these kinds of ammonites CULTiRiS_116220_web_.jpg There are places with nicer ammonties but most are protected. I would love going for a hunt now but theres so much snow in the mountains... Nice! Hope you find somewhere nice to hunt. The snow is arriving here as well. Have to be patient now.... Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry Dactyll Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 Roger.... Very nice specimensand prepwork.... I'm 12 minutes away from my favoroute hunting grounds but they are much less productive than yours... ) Cheers Steve... And Welcome if your a New Member... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted January 7, 2016 Author Share Posted January 7, 2016 Thanks, Steve. I am pretty lucky since I've also got this site pretty well all to myself. A number of my colleagues know about it, but as yet I'm the only one working on it. Someone I know has recently asked me if I'd be interested in working on a scientific article about it with him, so we'll see what comes of that. Now that the winter has arrived, things are slowing down a bit. Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaleoWilliam Posted January 8, 2016 Share Posted January 8, 2016 I went back to the ditch again the other day to see if I could find some more things from up top. No luck there this time, but I did do some more digging at the bottom in the end (did I say that right?) and came up with this: 9a.jpg Another Crussoliceras sp. The shell between 9-11 o'clock had broken out and some bits of a Streblites tenuilobatus ammonite were washed into the gap. Amazing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted January 8, 2016 Author Share Posted January 8, 2016 Amazing! Glad you like it Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry Dactyll Posted January 9, 2016 Share Posted January 9, 2016 Roger.... It would be good for your efforts to be formally recorded in a paper... Well done.... Cheers Steve... And Welcome if your a New Member... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted January 9, 2016 Author Share Posted January 9, 2016 Like I say, we'll see what happens. This fellow is good at ids, but he has no experience writing a paper as yet and would like to try his hand at it. My part would be to do profiles, measurements, etc. at the site and minutely record which layers the fossils come from, which I haven't been doing all that seriously up til now. It should be a learning experience anyway, even if we don't manage to do a good enough job of it to have the paper accepted. Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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