Fossil-Hound Posted June 6, 2017 Share Posted June 6, 2017 Well I managed to lure the wife into another beach excursion. The only stipulation was that I was in charge of cooking barbecue dinner. We packed up the car and drove 90 minutes to our destination with a four month old. My daughter was good for the most part but she had her moments. Here's the trip in a nutshell. Mrs Fossil-Hound with baby and I at the top of the cliffs. The drive was certainly worth it. The beach office had a custom Miocene Shark Tooth display with a lot of large teeth. A box of free shark teeth for travelers! A coveted fern plate from the Pennsylvanian of St. Clair PA. Massive prehistoric whale vertebrae. The office manager said he found this on the shoreline after a storm. Found some beautiful Chesapecten nefrens from the Choptank and St Mary formations. Went to my secret spot and starting seeing Ecphora's poking out of the mud. This one looks complete but was broken on the inside. This large Ecphora was another heart breaker. Found a marble sized Ecphora and began the long trek back towards the cabins when out of the corner of my eye I spotted a few large ribs sticking out of the mud. I worked carefully around the edges and took my time. The result was an Ecphora gardnerae the state fossil of Maryland and one of my favorite fossils. The back side view. This specimen is in dire need of cleaning. That night I began to clean the Ecphora. After a light cleaning, super glue was applied to all of the cracks. Referring to a complete specimen on the right I continued to carefully remove sand and mud from the gastropod. This morning more glue was applied along with some more light cleaning. Still a lot of cleaning to do. Notice the crack on the left side. I applied a lot of super glue to this snail. Made leaps and strides in cleaning it tonight. Here it is after the initial phase of cleaning. More cleaning and possibly another coat of superglue to some small cracks will be underway tomorrow. 2 Do or do not. There is no try. - Yoda Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted June 6, 2017 Share Posted June 6, 2017 Nice finds! It is good to start the kids off young! 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...
RJB Posted June 6, 2017 Share Posted June 6, 2017 Looks like a fun trip. RB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrangellian Posted June 6, 2017 Share Posted June 6, 2017 That is a very distinctive-looking snail. Sounds like the work involved in gluing/stabilizing them is comparable to what I have to go through with my local splintery Cretaceous shale.. Meanwhile in other places people can just bend down and pick up ready-to-display fossils... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted June 6, 2017 Share Posted June 6, 2017 Nice report, Jason. Thanks for bringing us along. 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...
Darktooth Posted June 6, 2017 Share Posted June 6, 2017 Nice report and finds! Great way to spend time with family! I like Trilo-butts and I cannot lie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pagurus Posted June 6, 2017 Share Posted June 6, 2017 I enjoyed reading your report. Thanks for sharing your trip with us. Nothing better than a day a the beach fossil hunting with family. When my kids were the age of your daughter we could never make it more than an hour without a driving break. It was worth it when we got to the beach though. That snail you're working on looks good! Start the day with a smile and get it over with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PFOOLEY Posted June 6, 2017 Share Posted June 6, 2017 Lovely report. "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...
JohnBrewer Posted June 6, 2017 Share Posted June 6, 2017 Great report and such diverse finds John Map of UK fossil sites Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nimravis Posted June 6, 2017 Share Posted June 6, 2017 Nice report- great pics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossil-Hound Posted June 8, 2017 Author Share Posted June 8, 2017 Thanks guys! @SailingAlongToo and @drobare you beach goers will appreciate my prep work on this little terror of the seas. There is a little bit of sand where the super glue was placed. I can't do much about that without removing the super glue with nail polish and I don't want to compromise the shell. See below. Do or do not. There is no try. - Yoda Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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