Pictures: 2018 Tucson Fossil Show (PICTURE HEAVY)

[Wrangellian]

Stupendous.

I know you have favoured the vertebrate stuff but I guess you showed some of the best of the inverts too... Stuff I've never seen before in both categories. Those heteromorph ammo's, the trilos.. a whole shelf of Moroccan Eldonia/Discophyllum? I can only imagine what else there was for invert nuts.. Must make the pilgrimage someday.

Given the prices, I also imagine there are lots of rich people walking thru there, to make all this worthwhile.

Also I get the impression there are a lot more people digging and prepping fossils than we are made aware of here on TFF!

Such a big show, I guess there is no lingering at any booth unless there is one that has a load of the things you're interested in.. otherwise you would have to walk thru at a brisk pace and scan everything quickly to be able to see everything (that is if there aren't crowds blocking your progress?) Or do you plan out ahead of time which spots/sellers you're going to see and got directly there?

[Troodon]

9 hours ago, Wrangellian said:

Stupendous.

I know you have favoured the vertebrate stuff but I guess you showed some of the best of the inverts too... Stuff I've never seen before in both categories. Those heteromorph ammo's, the trilos.. a whole shelf of Moroccan Eldonia/Discophyllum? I can only imagine what else there was for invert nuts.. Must make the pilgrimage someday.

Given the prices, I also imagine there are lots of rich people walking thru there, to make all this worthwhile.

Also I get the impression there are a lot more people digging and prepping fossils than we are made aware of here on TFF!

Such a big show, I guess there is no lingering at any booth unless there is one that has a load of the things you're interested in.. otherwise you would have to walk thru at a brisk pace and scan everything quickly to be able to see everything (that is if there aren't crowds blocking your progress?) Or do you plan out ahead of time which spots/sellers you're going to see and got directly there?

Thanks there is a lot to photograph and dealers just don't want you in their room to take pictures and some don't allow it.  One trilobite dealer said his customers do not want to see their specimen on the internet.  I did not miss any room regardless what they were.  For the show in these venues Minerals/Meteors are king 10-1 over fossils so its very biased but you really need to attend to see everything.  Yes there is tons more that did not get photographed.

 

Lots of the better dealers/diggers only do the big shows and if you just shop online or do local shows you would never know who they are and miss out on the best items.  

There are no crowds at these venues since they are spread of weeks and multiple venues the biggest issue is parking.   Since I live in the area my strategy is to get to these dealers as they set up before they open to talk to them what they have an put an item aside for me.   The first dealer opens on Monday and I'm his door as it opens and since most dealers open at their convenience other than the 22nd street show its works.  After I visit my key rooms I'll do the rest of the show.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

2 hours ago, Troodon said:

Thanks there is a lot to photograph and dealers just don't want you in their room to take pictures and some don't allow it.  One trilobite dealer said his customers do not want to see their specimen on the internet.  I did not miss any room regardless what they were.  For the show in these venues Minerals/Meteors are king 10-1 over fossils so its very biased but you really need to attend to see everything.  Yes there is tons more that did not get photographed.

 

Lots of the better dealers/diggers only do the big shows and if you just shop online or do local shows you would never know who they are and miss out on the best items.  

There are no crowds at these venues since they are spread of weeks and multiple venues the biggest issue is parking.   Since I live in the area my strategy is to get to these dealers as they set up before they open to talk to them what they have an put an item aside for me.   The first dealer opens on Monday and I'm his door as it opens and since most dealers open at their convenience other than the 22nd street show its works.  After I visit my key rooms I'll do the rest of the show.

 

You don't happen to have a spare bedroom do you, Frank?

Guess not, I expect it's full of Kem Kem bits. 

[Max-fossils]

Again more awesome photos, thanks a lot for sharing! That bird is incredible too...

[Troodon]

1 hour ago, Tidgy's Dad said:

You don't happen to have a spare bedroom do you, Frank?

Guess not, I expect it's full of Kem Kem bits. 

Sorry, they are all full of guests enjoying the show.  Maybe I should charge and make money to buy fossils 

[Tidgy's Dad]

1 minute ago, Troodon said:

Sorry, they are all full of guests enjoying the show.  Maybe I should charge and make money to buy fossils 

Good plan. 

Six to a bed. 

[Troodon]

On 2/1/2018 at 5:16 AM, akazaran said:

I mean the one on page 8 of this topic. It s the 12th pic starting from the top. Sorry I dont know how to re-post the pic.

Checked it out today and its a replica

[Troodon]

Had an opportunity to take a close look at the BHI booth.  I typically stay away from them since the area is very busy the first week.  Here are some pictures.  All of the ammonites/other are South Dakota

 

 

Plant

[Troodon]

More BHI

 

Hadrosaur

 

 

Sauropodl Verts from the Moorrison

 

Visited a new venue the Mineral and Fossil Marketplace.   This venue is primarily focused on bulk material to dealers but anyone can buy fossils at excellent prices.  Great bargains with volume

 

 

 

 

these are huge +40 cm across

[Troodon]

More Marketplace

[Troodon]

More Marketplace

[akazaran]

12 minutes ago, Troodon said:

Checked it out today and its a replica

 Thank you.

[JohnBrewer]

3 hours ago, Troodon said:

Sorry, they are all full of guests enjoying the show.  Maybe I should charge and make money to buy fossils 

I’ll sleep in the garage next year Frank. And I’ll pay

[JohnBrewer]

18 hours ago, Troodon said:

Had difficulty uploading these but finally success.  Images quite small hard to read labels.

 

 

British dealer at Tucson  hotel

 

 

 

 

 

I recognise some of these, saw them at one of the UK shows. Must be BB’s stall!

[JohnBrewer]

Awwww, a fossil pet dog

 

[Troodon]

1 minute ago, JohnBrewer said:

I recognise some of these, saw them at one of the UK shows. Must be BB’s stall!

[Troodon]

1 minute ago, JohnBrewer said:

Awwww, a fossil pet dog

 

Yes but make sure you keep him well fed

[Tidgy's Dad]

Love some of those cephalopods and crinoids. 

Marvelous. 

[-Andy-]

 

On 2/2/2018 at 4:47 AM, HamptonsDoc said:

These are actually very real and always look like that. They’re called Cairanoolithus dughii and are thought to be from a type

of titanosaur from southern France. They’re very different looking from other dinosaur eggs and even other eggs from France. 

 

I agree with Jason that these are real. But I disagree with the Cairanoolithus ID. I think they are far more likely to be Megaloolithus indet. sp. (though you might find them being labelled as Hypselosaurus) due to the ornamentation of the eggshells. Cairanoolithus eggshells are known to be very smooth, and are now thought to be laid from ankylosaurs. Here's several pictures of their egg and eggshell.

 

Please also refer to this documentation as well.

  

[Troodon]

There are many incredible fossils here at the show.  One of the top

 

An Ichthyosaur from the 180-million-year-old Jurassic Posidonia Shale of Holzmaden in southern Germany.  If you look closely you will notice four babies, if that's their mother or lunch 

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

The babies look much more mangled than the adult, though they are of course much more delicate but partially protected inside the big one. 

Could that suggest they were chomped? 

Do we know if its possible to tell if this is a female ichthyosaur? 

[Miocene_Mason]

I think they are babies, if they were eaten I would guess they would be super dis articulated and all jumbled together. I find it hard to believe that could gulp 4 all down its throat in one piece, all four being about one fifth of the size of it.

[Tidgy's Dad]

You may be right, but the food would have been bitten and gulped almost whole, not chewed into mangled bits.

I can imagine the icthyosaur swimming in a group of babies and gulping them down one after another! 

But I do tend to let my imagination get the better of me. 

[*THEO*]

Yep these are her babies.Such specimens has been found before and the theory that they are her prey is outdated.

I guess the baby that stick out of the mother die during the birth due to lack of oxygen,its head stuck in the mother and cause her dead.

This is one similar unluky Ichtiosaur the stuck baby is shown in purple color -

[Max-fossils]

That is an awesome ichthyosaur, wow!