Kerrsharpeyoung Posted June 21, 2017 Share Posted June 21, 2017 Found a month ago west coast new zealand seal jaw with a beautifully preserved tooth still in it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted June 21, 2017 Share Posted June 21, 2017 Nice find. 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...
Kerrsharpeyoung Posted June 21, 2017 Author Share Posted June 21, 2017 Cheers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fossilized6s Posted June 22, 2017 Share Posted June 22, 2017 Nice piece. Congratulations. Will this be prepped more? ~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...
Darktooth Posted June 22, 2017 Share Posted June 22, 2017 Really cool find! I like Trilo-butts and I cannot lie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kerrsharpeyoung Posted June 22, 2017 Author Share Posted June 22, 2017 1 hour ago, fossilized6s said: Nice piece. Congratulations. Will this be prepped more? How much more and which parts do you think should be worked more? I am new to fossil working Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caldigger Posted June 22, 2017 Share Posted June 22, 2017 Ya looking at the piece, I'm not sure how much more you can uncover without risking the integerty of the bone. Seems like it may be rather fragile. Maybe some consolidation might be in order to stabilize before any further excavation is done. Right nifty piece I must say. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
izak_ Posted June 22, 2017 Share Posted June 22, 2017 That is amazing! Was it on a beach, quarry, or? Just curious. Do you have a name for it yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kerrsharpeyoung Posted June 22, 2017 Author Share Posted June 22, 2017 19 minutes ago, Foozil said: That is amazing! Was it on a beach, quarry, or? Just curious. Do you have a name for it yet? No name for it yet but will know in the coming weeks hopefully. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doctor Mud Posted June 22, 2017 Share Posted June 22, 2017 Nice find! Are you in touch with someone to help you with the ID? The Canterbury museum and university of Otago geology department would be good contacts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted June 22, 2017 Share Posted June 22, 2017 @Boesse should be able to help with a name for this fossil. 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...
Vieira Posted June 22, 2017 Share Posted June 22, 2017 Fantastic find. Congratulations Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnBrewer Posted June 22, 2017 Share Posted June 22, 2017 Cool find! there is a prep area further down on the forum. You'll get good advice there. John Map of UK fossil sites Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kerrsharpeyoung Posted June 22, 2017 Author Share Posted June 22, 2017 4 hours ago, JohnBrewer said: Cool find! there is a prep area further down on the forum. You'll get good advice there. Wicked I'll go have a browse. Some.of the prep work is amazing om this site. I have to up my game! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FossilizedJello Posted June 23, 2017 Share Posted June 23, 2017 that is really awesome, any idea what sediment this is preserved in? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJB Posted June 23, 2017 Share Posted June 23, 2017 Very nice! If your new at prepping im not sure what more you can do, but there is a lot of clean up that can be done to that plus all the tool marks around it can be made to 'disapear' with the right prep. Its really a very cool fossil. here is one I did years ago. Ron Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boesse Posted June 24, 2017 Share Posted June 24, 2017 Nice specimen - not very much phocid material is known from Australasia, and most of it is from that locality you prospect in Taranaki (though, as a U. Otago/Fordyce lab grad, west coast to me means Fiordland). I encourage you to consider donating the specimen to one of the north island museums like Te Papa for scientific study - since very little is known about NZ fossil pinnipeds (I'm either first or second author on the only papers published on NZ fossil pinnipeds from the last 20 years). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kerrsharpeyoung Posted June 27, 2017 Author Share Posted June 27, 2017 On 6/24/2017 at 10:06 AM, RJB said: Very nice! If your new at prepping im not sure what more you can do, but there is a lot of clean up that can be done to that plus all the tool marks around it can be made to 'disapear' with the right prep. Its really a very cool fossil. here is one I did years ago. Ron Your fossil looks wicked! Lots of learning for me to do! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boesse Posted June 28, 2017 Share Posted June 28, 2017 To leapfrog off Ron's point - he donated that specimen, which is now at UC Berkeley and in 2011 I published one of my first peer-reviewed papers on the specimen in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1080/02724634.2011.550362 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kerrsharpeyoung Posted June 29, 2017 Author Share Posted June 29, 2017 6 hours ago, Boesse said: To leapfrog off Ron's point - he donated that specimen, which is now at UC Berkeley and in 2011 I published one of my first peer-reviewed papers on the specimen in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1080/02724634.2011.550362 Oh snap that's wicked! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJB Posted June 29, 2017 Share Posted June 29, 2017 Just to add a bit of interesting information, that double jaw specimen was found in a HUGE concretion about twice the size of a beachball!!! When I found it i yelled at my buddy to come over, dig it out of the river bed, and whack it open. He said he wasnt interested. I wasnt about to leave it there so i went on the attack and this double jaw was sitting smack dab in the middle of the big boulder. RB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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