jpc Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 Here are a few White River specimens I have been working on this winter. The first is an oreodont skeleton. I posted pix of this guy many moons ago as a group of blocks of rock with bones. Here is that photo. And here it is a few months later... I did this one for a friend. He owns a ranch with White River outcrops and lets me collect there. It is a good set up. He collected this one and had me prep it for him. These next pix are of a little rodent skull I found on his place. and a kind of head on view. It is missing the front left incisors and I used a little putty to keep the bottom right one in place. And here it is among a few other 35 million year old mammals. Working on another one that I will show you guys later this week...if all goes well. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 Very nice finds! Thank You for sharing! Tony Darwin said: " Man sprang from monkeys." Will Rogers said: " Some of them didn't spring far enough." My Fossil collection - My Mineral collection My favorite thread on TFF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry Dactyll Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 jpc.... Very nice work and great collection.... Thanks for sharing them.... Cheers Steve... And Welcome if your a New Member... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PFOOLEY Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 Beautiful creatures! You are lucky. "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...
Troodon Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 Great looking Oreodont in how it's posed in the block. Very cool critters, nice job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaleoWilliam Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 Wow! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snolly50 Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 Those look great. Did you prep each Oreodont fragment separately and then assemble; or glue all the matrix fragments and prep as a whole? I was once advised on a broken piece to prep each fragment and then glue together. I can't understand the logic of that. It would seem the fragments would fit less well after being handled for individual prep and the "flow" from fragment to fragment would not be as precise. Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, also are remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. - Douglas Adams, Last Chance to See Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sseth Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 Great work. _____________________________________ Seth www.fossilshack.com www.americanfossil.com www.fishdig.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpc Posted February 9, 2016 Author Share Posted February 9, 2016 Thanks guys. Yes, you could say I am lucky, but then you could also say that I moved to Wyoming for the fossils. snolly...a combination of both. Smaller pieces are easier to work on, but you also have to keep them related to each other so you don't overprep and make it so things don't fit together any more. This was certainly an issue with the skull piece on this guy. At the same time, if I had glued them all together early on, it would have been too big to work effectively. The answer to your question is a bit of both. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fossilized6s Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 Nice prepping and finds, JPC. ~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...
Uncle Siphuncle Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 Awesome stuff, JP. For added fun, my kid and I like to knock out the lights, then shine a UV flashlight on the White River stuff. The teeth light up crazy, esp the rhino teeth....takes me back to 1977, in the back of Spencer's Gifts... Grüße, Daniel A. Wöhr aus Südtexas "To the motivated go the spoils." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJB Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 You do some dang nice work JP. Putting that back together like that is really impressive. and by the way, did you ever get that one in your basement done? Cant remember if it was one specimen or two? I remember wanting it. RB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpc Posted February 9, 2016 Author Share Posted February 9, 2016 You do some dang nice work JP. Putting that back together like that is really impressive. and by the way, did you ever get that one in your basement done? Cant remember if it was one specimen or two? I remember wanting it. RB Thanks, RB. No, it still sits there under a couple of old t shirts.... yes, it was a pair of oreo skeletons. Dan... I like to shine my black light on the whole fossil display.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Andy- Posted February 10, 2016 Share Posted February 10, 2016 That's some really impressive prep work! Looking forward to meeting my fellow Singaporean collectors! Do PM me if you are a Singaporean, or an overseas fossil-collector coming here for a holiday! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amour 25 Posted February 10, 2016 Share Posted February 10, 2016 Nice stuff and you all have it made living around in that area. Great display. Jeff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted February 11, 2016 Share Posted February 11, 2016 Great stuff, JP! I'd love to go for a dig in those layers someday. Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted February 11, 2016 Share Posted February 11, 2016 Excellent finds and prep, JP! Congratulations. Those mammals are so interesting. Thanks for posting this. 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...
astron Posted February 11, 2016 Share Posted February 11, 2016 JP, great finds and neat prep work!!! Thanks for bringing them here!!! Astrinos P. Damianakis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpc Posted February 19, 2016 Author Share Posted February 19, 2016 (edited) Thanks for the compliments,folks. Here is another one I recently finished... a rodent partial skeleton. The colored lines point to: red - lower jaws (incisors on fornt end missing) orange - skull; looking up onto chewing surface of left tooth row black - see below yellow - shoulder blade pale green - ribs green - vertebrae purple - femur pink - toe bone dark blue - proximal ulna bright blue - distal humerus (these two are the elbow joint) light blue - impression of the rest of the humerus And here is a better view of the skull and lower jaws. The snout was missing when I found it. And I was really excited to find this last piece, on the right edge of the block between the rodent's skull and the long bone. (black line in above photo). This is the snout of a second animal... I am calling it the marsupial Peratherium (same as the skull in my avatar). I imagine this might be the remains of a small carnivore den. Here is the back side of the block..you can see the Peratherium snout and the top view of the rodent skull, with its very wide zygomatic arch. These are small animals.. the rodent is mouse sized. Edited February 19, 2016 by jpc 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xiphactinus Posted February 19, 2016 Share Posted February 19, 2016 Great fossils!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bcfossilcollector Posted February 21, 2016 Share Posted February 21, 2016 Fantastic specimens! What an interesting environment to work in. A combination of art and science, thanks for posting! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RiseOfTheExtinct Posted September 22, 2017 Share Posted September 22, 2017 awesome finds! Good work! RiseOfTheExtinct Quote "There's no shame in being weird. I'm have the obsession of mollusks. You're the one who always forgets your coffee. We're all weird in our own ways. Don't forget that, weirdo whose even weirder than me..." 5 minutes later... Said by someone else... "Hey, weirdo, you forgot your coffee on your desk..." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nimravis Posted September 23, 2017 Share Posted September 23, 2017 JP, just saw this post- very nice. Gotta love White River fauna. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vieira Posted September 29, 2017 Share Posted September 29, 2017 Amazing Thanks for sharing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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