My ichthyosaurus collection

[JohnBrewer]

Here is my small ichthyosaur collection. I keep all my fossils in 19th century draws as it fits with our living room which is a Victorian cabinet of curiosities or Wunderkammer. 

 

 

Paddle

 

basioccipital

[JohnBrewer]

[JohnBrewer]

Humerus 

 

teeth

 

verts

 

Coprolite

 

Rostrum (jaw/snout) with 3 teeth

[JohnBrewer]

Box of bits. The two bottom bones are likely to be skull pieces. 

 

[Bobby Rico]

Fantastic collection  

 

thanks for showing us .  I love curiosities cabinets I find the idea of opening a draw to view such treasures compelling. I have a really nice but small old wooden engineering tool cabinet that is full to the top with fossils , that's my curiosities cabinet.

 

really nice fossil John.

 

cheers Bobby 

[Jeffrey P]

Your "small" Ichthyosaurus collection is way bigger than mine. Actually I have none. Congratulations on some excellent specimens nicely displayed. Thanks for sharing. 

[Pagurus]

Small? Maybe, but not from my perspective. Impressive? Definitely!  I jumped back into fossil collecting a few years ago after reading about Mary Anning, her ichthyosaurs and her "curiosities."   You've put together quite a nice collection in that cabinet of yours, John. Thanks for sharing it.

 

 Mike

[JohnBrewer]

Anyone spot the mistake? 

[Troodon]

Very nice thanks for showing us.  Love ichthyosaur material. I especially like your matrix blocks.

[thelivingdead531]

That's an amazing collection John! 

[Miocene_Mason]

Very Nice collection

[Kane]

A cracking good collection, John! 

[caldigger]

Sorry I'm a bit hard of hearing...what's all this you say about having " itchy sores"?!

 

Mighty impressive collection you've got there son.

[-Andy-]

Fascinating creatures they are. A great collection you have.

[LordTrilobite]

Lovely stuff!

[Wrangellian]

On 10/29/2017 at 5:57 PM, caldigger said:

Sorry I'm a bit hard of hearing...what's all this you say about having " itchy sores"?!

 

Mighty impressive collection you've got there son.

Itch thee, o sores!

[jcbshark]

Very nice collection you have there 

[jpc]

NIce stuff.  I just scanned for the mistake... I am guessing there is a plesiosaur bone in there somewhere misidentified, but that is just a guess.  

[DPS Ammonite]

On 10/29/2017 at 12:02 PM, JohnBrewer said:

 

 

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The conical fossils in the top piece look like belemnites rather than icthyosaur pieces. Any other ideas of what the conical pieces might be?

[TqB]

1 hour ago, DPS Ammonite said:

 

The conical fossils in the top piece look like belemnites rather than icthyosaur pieces. Any other ideas of what the conical pieces might be?

 

They are belemnites, from a "belemniten schlactfeld"  horizon - all or mostly Dactyloteuthis sp. (Upper Jurassic, Toarcian).

[JohnBrewer]

1 hour ago, DPS Ammonite said:

 

The conical fossils in the top piece look like belemnites rather than icthyosaur pieces. Any other ideas of what the conical pieces might be?

They are belemnites but on both matrices there is an ichthyosaur vert. 

10 minutes ago, TqB said:

 

They are belemnites, from a "belemniten schlactfeld"  horizon - all or mostly Dactyloteuthis sp. (Upper Jurassic, Toarcian).

Yep. 

[JohnBrewer]

2 hours ago, jpc said:

NIce stuff.  I just scanned for the mistake... I am guessing there is a plesiosaur bone in there somewhere misidentified, but that is just a guess.  

Ahem, there’s no misidentification. However....

[JarrodB]

Great collection John. If you ever decide to sell or trade one of the matrix blocks you have posted let me know. 

[jpc]

54 minutes ago, JohnBrewer said:

Ahem, there’s no misidentification. However....

OK... I will look a little harder...

 

edit:  I did not see the above replies about belemnites.  I'm not sure if that is the 'mistake' but I was wondering about those as well.  The only other mistake is that you call this a 'small' collection.  I would argue it is bigger than small.  : )

[JohnBrewer]

1 minute ago, jpc said:

OK... I will look a little harder...

 

What I mean is I know the ID so not misidentified. However it shouldn’t have been in that collection. You’re more than warm tho!

4 minutes ago, JarrodB said:

Great collection John. If you ever decide to sell or trade one of the matrix blocks you have posted let me know. 

Could do one of the verts with the belemnites @JarrodB. If you’re interested drop me a pm.