PRK Posted January 14, 2016 Share Posted January 14, 2016 A couple years ago I filled a display case for a local show. The unifying theme was showy fossils "on matrix". Does anyone else have some other matrix ideas? Ill start here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PRK Posted January 14, 2016 Author Share Posted January 14, 2016 AH, I found it. A pic of that display Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted January 14, 2016 Share Posted January 14, 2016 Are skulls OK? Miocene Ostrich; China: (The long bone is mammal) Pleistocene Passerine; McKittrick, California "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...
PRK Posted January 14, 2016 Author Share Posted January 14, 2016 Of course!!!!! As long as it is a matrix piece Those are beauts auspex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NSRhunter Posted January 14, 2016 Share Posted January 14, 2016 Holy schnikes i can see that monster hastalis with the other mako on top of it in the display case. Here's my contribution to this post. 2 1/4 inch Hastalis found screening at Slow Curve with a piece of turtle shell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PRK Posted January 14, 2016 Author Share Posted January 14, 2016 That tooth is my fave color from that local.---purple, or as I call it GRAPE There was a hill just in behind STH proper where teeth were all teeth were purple, and the bones were dark purple 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElToro Posted January 14, 2016 Share Posted January 14, 2016 Cool stuff. Here is some BAD matrix. Worse than the third Matrix film. Thalassina anomala from Queensland mudflats (Australia). "That belongs in a museum!" - Indiana Jones Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erose Posted January 14, 2016 Share Posted January 14, 2016 I have chunks of the Cincinnatian (Upper Ordovician) seafloor covered in multitudes of small fossils. Working with a hand lens you can find several types of trilobites, brachiopods, crinoids, bryozoa, tentaculites, gastropods, bivalves, etc. I have set them out with a small printed page showing what the various species looked like and a magnifier. You can spend hours going over them. I'll try and snap some photos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PRK Posted January 14, 2016 Author Share Posted January 14, 2016 YES, Erose, pics would be great !! Another cambrian matrix specimen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcbshark Posted January 15, 2016 Share Posted January 15, 2016 fossils in matrix are rather uncommon here in Florida but I do have a couple pieces, here's my favorite Little posterior Meg, even with the tip missing I'll take it Every once in a great while it's not just a big rock down there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PRK Posted January 15, 2016 Author Share Posted January 15, 2016 (edited) Here ya go NSRhunter. The large tooth is 2.85 inches STH. However not from grape hill Edited January 15, 2016 by PRK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NSRhunter Posted January 16, 2016 Share Posted January 16, 2016 Here ya go NSRhunter. The large tooth is 2.85 inches STH. However not from grape hill What a gorgeous matrix specimen! Very nice find congrats Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElToro Posted January 16, 2016 Share Posted January 16, 2016 I love the Chinese Chengjiang matrix. The fossils have amazing colour against the matrix background. Guangweicaris spinatus abdomen (with a tiny trilobite pygidium) "That belongs in a museum!" - Indiana Jones Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gilthead Posted January 16, 2016 Share Posted January 16, 2016 I think fossils look nicer in matrix personally I have a few loose ichthyosaur verts but I really want to find some in matrix Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJB Posted January 16, 2016 Share Posted January 16, 2016 I think this is one of the first things I ever bought on ebay back in the 90's. Back then there were lots of these megs teeth from South America on ebay, but this one was on matix. Only reason I bought it. RB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PRK Posted January 16, 2016 Author Share Posted January 16, 2016 Very sweet aquisition Ron. Must've been "right place right time"! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted January 16, 2016 Share Posted January 16, 2016 Good idea for opening up a thread. It's bringing some great responses and I'm sure there's still lots to come. I'll start with a matrix block with some Eldredgeops rana trilobites, Amplexiphyllum hamiltoniae corals and a Spinocyrtia granulosa brachiopod which I pried out at Penn Dixie a few years ago on a trip over there. Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PRK Posted January 17, 2016 Author Share Posted January 17, 2016 Pretty piece ludwigia. esp. Since you collected it yourself !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry Dactyll Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 Most fossils I do find are in matrix....Some great examples so far... I did want to post my Chile Meg in matrix but Ron beat me to it... I really like seeing shark teeth in matrix but for something different occasionally the matrix is the fossil.... Here's an example of that.... Upper carboniferous ripple marks.... Cheers Steve... And Welcome if your a New Member... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PA Fossil Finder Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 These two fossils are some of my favorites from my trip to Red Hill last year. Both are embedded in red siltstone the site was named for. The first is an unidentified bony fish tooth, my largest from the site. The second is the scale of an unknown species of megalichthyidid fish. These are both Famennian stage Devonian from the Duncannon member of the Catskill Formation. The fish tooth is about an inch long. Stephen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PRK Posted January 18, 2016 Author Share Posted January 18, 2016 Nice to see there actually is an interest in this thread! uno mas Oligocene acorn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpc Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 whoa.... Oligocene acorn. That is cool. Where is that from? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PRK Posted January 18, 2016 Author Share Posted January 18, 2016 Hi JPC that acorn is out of a concretion from one of my favorite crab locales here in the PNW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 Nice to see there actually is an interest in this thread! uno mas Oligocene acorn Did you find Scrat lying in the immediate viscinity? Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manticocerasman Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 I’ll start with this picture: Late cretaceous Belemnites: Belemnitella junior, Maastrichtian from around Maastricht. They are mostly collected as loose fossils, but it sometimes helps to collect them in situ on matrix as you sometimes get some nice surprises: The one on top has a part of his phragmocone preserved. But I really like the one on bottom right: the rostrum was broken before fossilization. growing old is mandatory but growing up is optional. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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