Nothos Posted May 1, 2017 Share Posted May 1, 2017 Hi fossils friends, here is a little taphonomic accumulation plate with many Olenekian (lower Triassic) Ammonoids. It comes from the Vikinghøgda Formation - Sassendalen group (Sassendalen valley - Spitsbergen island - Svalbard archipelago - Norway) Most of the Ammonoids are Svalbardiceras spitzbergensis (Freblod, 1930). Associated on the plate is an unidentified orthoconic Nautiloid (never seen this in the associated litterature), a bivalve and a partial Ammonoid from the Hedenstroemiidae family (at the top-left). Size of the plate is 11,5 X 9,5 cm. I prepared it with my Dremel engraver in about 8 hours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted May 1, 2017 Share Posted May 1, 2017 Wow, that is quite a mortality plate! Very nice. Thanks for posting! 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...
Fossil-Hound Posted May 1, 2017 Share Posted May 1, 2017 This is stunning! Love the cephalopod. Do or do not. There is no try. - Yoda Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnBrewer Posted May 1, 2017 Share Posted May 1, 2017 Not only is that a great find its fantastic prep using a Dremel which in my experience is a really hard tool to use for prep. Well done! John Map of UK fossil sites Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJB Posted May 1, 2017 Share Posted May 1, 2017 Wow! That is really cool Nothos! RB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted May 1, 2017 Share Posted May 1, 2017 Very nice accumulation plate! You don't get to see stuff from Spitzbergen all that often. Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peat Burns Posted May 1, 2017 Share Posted May 1, 2017 Beautiful. Thanks for posting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeffrey P Posted May 2, 2017 Share Posted May 2, 2017 That is a very impressive cephalopod slab and the preparation brought out its beauty. Nice job and thanks for sharing it. Would love to see more Triassic material from Spitzbergen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnBrian Posted May 2, 2017 Share Posted May 2, 2017 Great assemblage! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- John I had a friend once, but the wheels fell off. Sad, very sad. - Nightwing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fossisle Posted May 2, 2017 Share Posted May 2, 2017 WOW!! Cephalopods rule!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrangellian Posted May 2, 2017 Share Posted May 2, 2017 Interesting... How do you acquire stuff from Svalbard? Like Roger said, you don't see much stuff from that remote location. Olenekian is pretty soon after the P/T extinction, too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nothos Posted May 3, 2017 Author Share Posted May 3, 2017 Hi fossil friends, sorry for the late answer. Well 1st, I would thank you all for your congrats ! I collect only Permian and Triassic Cephalopods, and as we say "He who seeks finds" But for sure, this material is quite unusual. I was lucky to find some on european shows, and for the last lot I acquired (to which belong the plate and some other isolated Ammonoids), I got it from a friend who dug there a few years ago. I attach a few photos of Spitsberg material from my collection. Most of the Ammonoids are quite small, rarely more than 5 cm. Also a photo of the digging place, Sassendalen is a valley on the west center coast of Spitsberg. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ptychodus04 Posted May 3, 2017 Share Posted May 3, 2017 Very well done. 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...
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