Uncle Siphuncle Posted December 19, 2016 Author Share Posted December 19, 2016 Enough of these train wreck specimens. Let's view a few things a little easier on the eyes. A better vert and higher grade piece of tusk material are shown below. 2 Grüße, Daniel A. Wöhr aus Südtexas "To the motivated go the spoils." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Siphuncle Posted December 19, 2016 Author Share Posted December 19, 2016 Quality mammoth teeth have proven elusive for me over the years. I'm pleased to introduce a couple good ones I almost tripped over. Serendipity rings loudest when you find something like this completely unexpectedly while looking for something of a different age. I'm glad my Cretaceous radar didn't put out a blocking signal. 2 Grüße, Daniel A. Wöhr aus Südtexas "To the motivated go the spoils." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Siphuncle Posted December 19, 2016 Author Share Posted December 19, 2016 And then there was the "piece de resistance"....I've hoped for a find of this magnitude for quite a few years. It was upside down when I found it, and I recognized it as a mammoth mandible by contour...but I still approached slowly, savoring the moment....peeking over the top....rolling it toward me....would it be another empty socket...WHOA! This juvie left mandible has a 5 inch long erupted tooth, making it about 10 years old at death. The stripped away bone on the lingual side of the jaw actually adds character in that it reveals the tooth replacement system in great detail. It also makes it clear why this jaw retained its teeth, unlike the other 5 or so I've found over the years. The teeth are cemented into the alveoli with hard matrix. Pleased as punch with this one. 5 1 Grüße, Daniel A. Wöhr aus Südtexas "To the motivated go the spoils." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Siphuncle Posted December 19, 2016 Author Share Posted December 19, 2016 All of the above made for a pretty satisfying couple of years. With a few collecting milestones behind me, my mind began to clear and I began to truly enjoy my field time on a new level as certain self imposed pressures to succeed had been lifted off of me. Then... !!!BOOM!!! Smilodon fatalis! Drop the mic! 4 1 Grüße, Daniel A. Wöhr aus Südtexas "To the motivated go the spoils." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Siphuncle Posted December 19, 2016 Author Share Posted December 19, 2016 I'll never find another one of these canines, and this one wasn't complete, so I put forth my best effort to make it so. 9.5-10 inches along the curve. Restoration process shown below. 4 1 Grüße, Daniel A. Wöhr aus Südtexas "To the motivated go the spoils." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Siphuncle Posted December 19, 2016 Author Share Posted December 19, 2016 I couldn't leave that canine rattling around the house, so I put it in a Riker mount. It looked a little lonely in there, so I threw a few other personal finds in to keep it company. There are my first Ohio trilobites from when I was a kid, my first Ordovician prone Flexicalamene, an Eocene Zanthopsis crab, a Ptychodus occidentalis tooth, Permian Captorhinus skull, my best example of new species of Codiopsis echinoid, my best mosasaur tooth, and a few things shown earlier in this report. I like to pull out this Riker for a look every now and then. 2 1 Grüße, Daniel A. Wöhr aus Südtexas "To the motivated go the spoils." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Siphuncle Posted December 19, 2016 Author Share Posted December 19, 2016 There is more to the saga, but I'll stop there. Thanks for looking. 1 Grüße, Daniel A. Wöhr aus Südtexas "To the motivated go the spoils." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcbshark Posted December 19, 2016 Share Posted December 19, 2016 Wow Dan! Incredible finds and awesome pics. Felt like I was there 1 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...
Ludwigia Posted December 20, 2016 Share Posted December 20, 2016 You did a great job at restoring that Smilodon canine! And that youthful mammoth jaw must have left you drooling on the spot! Not to mention all those cretaceous ammonites....and the echis...got any snails? 1 Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnBrian Posted December 20, 2016 Share Posted December 20, 2016 WOW! Great post & pics! 1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted December 20, 2016 Share Posted December 20, 2016 1 hour ago, Uncle Siphuncle said: And then there was the "piece de resistance"....I've hoped for a find of this magnitude for quite a few years. It was upside down when I found it, and I recognized it as a mammoth mandible by contour...but I still approached slowly, savoring the moment....peeking over the top....rolling it toward me....would it be another empty socket...WHOA! This juvie left mandible has a 5 inch long erupted tooth, making it about 10 years old at death. The stripped away bone on the lingual side of the jaw actually adds character in that it reveals the tooth replacement system in great detail. It also makes it clear why this jaw retained its teeth, unlike the other 5 or so I've found over the years. The teeth are cemented into the alveoli with hard matrix. Pleased as punch with this one. The collection You have shown so far is amazing, but this piece is way beyond fantastic amazing find!!! Thanks for sharing!! Tony 1 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...
bone2stone Posted December 20, 2016 Share Posted December 20, 2016 Thank you Dan we can count on you to find and share some of the most amazing Texas fossils nature has to offer. I enjoy the meanderings so much, anticipating the next adventure already. We sure got some good stuff here in Texas but just a little short changed in the Meg tooth department. Hey we make up for it in diversity though. Now for my favorite of what you shared with us. Hmmm... I'll have to say----- darn it, I can't decide! Thanks again and hope you and everyone else a Merry Christmas!!!!! Jessy B. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vieira Posted December 20, 2016 Share Posted December 20, 2016 Thanks for sharing Your finds are completely fantastic and inspiring 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JarrodB Posted December 20, 2016 Share Posted December 20, 2016 Amazing finds buddy. If you ever need a hardcore hunting buddy hit me on FB. I'm hitting NSR and Post Oak Creek hard the next few weeks. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ptychodus04 Posted December 20, 2016 Share Posted December 20, 2016 Wow Dan, after all these years... you still make me SICK!!!!!!!!!!!!! Simply amazing. 1 Regards, Kris Global Paleo Services, LLC https://globalpaleoservices.com http://instagram.com/globalpaleoservices http://instagram.com/kris.howe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shamalama Posted December 20, 2016 Share Posted December 20, 2016 Dan is the fossil man when it comes to collecting. He finds more great stuff than most museums have in their collections! Thanks for the show and feel free to post a sequel anytime! 1 -Dave __________________________________________________ Geologists on the whole are inconsistent drivers. When a roadcut presents itself, they tend to lurch and weave. To them, the roadcut is a portal, a fragment of a regional story, a proscenium arch that leads their imaginations into the earth and through the surrounding terrain. - John McPheeIf I'm going to drive safely, I can't do geology. - John McPheeCheck out my Blog for more fossils I've found: http://viewsofthemahantango.blogspot.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PFOOLEY Posted December 20, 2016 Share Posted December 20, 2016 Dude...this is ridiculous!...stunning finds. This "Meanderings", though waaayyyy toooo late , is one of your finest. I am not sure what I would do with a beach full of large ammonites! You might compare your Coilopoceras with C. Inflatum. 1 "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...
Carl Posted December 20, 2016 Share Posted December 20, 2016 14 hours ago, Uncle Siphuncle said: I couldn't leave that canine rattling around the house, so I put it in a Riker mount. It looked a little lonely in there, so I threw a few other personal finds in to keep it company. There are my first Ohio trilobites from when I was a kid, my first Ordovician prone Flexicalamene, an Eocene Zanthopsis crab, a Ptychodus occidentalis tooth, Permian Captorhinus skull, my best example of new species of Codiopsis echinoid, my best mosasaur tooth, and a few things shown earlier in this report. I like to pull out this Riker for a look every now and then. Absolutely fanTAStic stuff there! An accumulation of fun days and memories! Wow..... Just wow! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Siphuncle Posted December 21, 2016 Author Share Posted December 21, 2016 15 hours ago, bone2stone said: Thank you Dan we can count on you to find and share some of the most amazing Texas fossils nature has to offer. I enjoy the meanderings so much, anticipating the next adventure already. We sure got some good stuff here in Texas but just a little short changed in the Meg tooth department. Hey we make up for it in diversity though. Now for my favorite of what you shared with us. Hmmm... I'll have to say----- darn it, I can't decide! Thanks again and hope you and everyone else a Merry Christmas!!!!! Jessy B. Hi Jess. Accolades appreciated. I have a plan for 2017 that could lead to an upgrade to the ratty, moth eaten 3 inch Meg I found in the Peace years ago. If I meet success, you'll hear about it. Grüße, Daniel A. Wöhr aus Südtexas "To the motivated go the spoils." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Siphuncle Posted December 21, 2016 Author Share Posted December 21, 2016 10 hours ago, Ptychodus04 said: Wow Dan, after all these years... you still make me SICK!!!!!!!!!!!!! Simply amazing. I have that effect on a lot of people! Grüße, Daniel A. Wöhr aus Südtexas "To the motivated go the spoils." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Siphuncle Posted December 21, 2016 Author Share Posted December 21, 2016 10 hours ago, Shamalama said: Dan is the fossil man when it comes to collecting. He finds more great stuff than most museums have in their collections! Thanks for the show and feel free to post a sequel anytime! Hey Dave, one part of this whole gig I get a kick out of is taking my wife and kid to a natural history museum, then listening to them critique the displays against their own personal finds, sometimes feeling sorry for the museum. 1 Grüße, Daniel A. Wöhr aus Südtexas "To the motivated go the spoils." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plantguy Posted December 21, 2016 Share Posted December 21, 2016 Hey Dan, very much enjoyed seeing all the finds, the perils, and love the statement about being abstemious when contemplating spousal approval vs. storage and display space back home. You are killing me. Thanks for sharing with us all...we are definitely in awe! Continued hunting success! Regards, Chris 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Siphuncle Posted December 21, 2016 Author Share Posted December 21, 2016 10 hours ago, PFOOLEY said: Dude...this is ridiculous!...stunning finds. This "Meanderings", though waaayyyy toooo late , is one of your finest. I am not sure what I would do with a beach full of large ammonites! You might compare your Coilopoceras with C. Inflatum. Amigo Mike Family life, as you've recently experienced, can be quite frantic at times. In the last week I've done an oil change, brake job, replaced a seized (open!) bath tub valve, troubleshot and fixed a friend ground fault circuit, troubleshot and fixed failed heat and blower on our home HVAC, just a day before the arctic front rolled through. Oh yeah, and Christmas shopping too. Many weeks unfold in like fashion. All that said, it is easy to understand why fossil reporting takes a back seat quite often. 1 Grüße, Daniel A. Wöhr aus Südtexas "To the motivated go the spoils." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Siphuncle Posted December 21, 2016 Author Share Posted December 21, 2016 4 minutes ago, Plantguy said: Hey Dan, very much enjoyed seeing all the finds, the perils, and love the statement about being abstemious when contemplating spousal approval vs. storage and display space back home. You are killing me. Thanks for sharing with us all...we are definitely in awe! Continued hunting success! Regards, Chris Hello Chris Awe is fine, but feel free to use this thread to fan the flames of inspiration. These finds were extra rewarding since I put in the time and effort to find most of the sites on my own. Grüße, Daniel A. Wöhr aus Südtexas "To the motivated go the spoils." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NSRhunter Posted December 21, 2016 Share Posted December 21, 2016 Congratulations! Loved reading your report on all your recent finds and that Smilodon tooth is wicked! Great job restoring that 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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