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Pictures: 2018 Tucson Fossil Show (PICTURE HEAVY)


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All I can say for the first preview of the show is WOW!

I have been trying to find a way to fit the show into my schedule over the next few weeks.

Now I have to find a way. :fingerscrossed:

Thanks for sharing.

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Appreciate all the replys, enjoy getting the feedback. Its a pretty cool show with only a few doors open.  A majority of dealers in these two venues will be open on Wed with the 22nd Street show opening their large tents on Thursday as well as the big ballroom at the Tucson Hotel.  AND let's not forget all the other venues around  town.

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Looks like Tucson is as incredible as ever. Thanks for the pics, Troodon!

Looking forward to meeting my fellow Singaporean collectors! Do PM me if you are a Singaporean, or an overseas fossil-collector coming here for a holiday!

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WOW ! ! ! 

Extraordinary. 

I couldn't possibly attend .

It would all end in tears and a nasty divorce. 

Some of those trilobites from Morocco I have never seen before. 

Incredible. 

Life's Good!

Tortoise Friend.

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14 hours ago, Macrophyseter said:

Oh come ON! You have a family that would love that kind of stuff and the time, while I'm stuck here trying to save my History A grade for a 3.9 first-semester weighted GPA (It's funny how a stupid decimal can determine so much) :P

If it is any consolation, the Tucson show will still be going well after your 3.9 has been put to good use in college.   

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Today there was a significantly larger amount of dealers working hard to get set up.  Only a few new ones opened but activity is definitely at a peak.

 

I will start off my photos again at the Tucson Hotel.   The photos I take are primarily from fossils dealers since this is a fossil site but the majority of dealers at this venue are mineral from every continent in the world.  The specimens they have are incredible and worth just visiting the show if that's your area of interest.  You would need days just to check them out.  Now on to more important subjects fossils :D

 

Tucson Hotel

 

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One of the largest Tronychidae turtles to come out of the Green River Formation, Wyoming an unbelievable specimen as big as a person 6ft long.  The photo do not do it justice.

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Another unbelievable specimen from the same quarry and worth just going to the show to see is this Eocene horse called "The Dawn Horse" collected in 2003.  It was examined by the Chicago Field Museum for study but the owner and Museum could not come to terms on a sale.  its about the size of a midsize dog.  Very complete.

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Same quarry a Garfish

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Always room for Kem Kem material

 

A Croc vert

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Sauropod and Pterosaur teeth

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Theropod Teeth

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Canada Fossils always brings an extraordinary number of large ammonites.  These are outside the ballroom where they reside its still closed.

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A dealer from Down Under provided these beautiful crinoid specimens, not cheap

 

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The Ramada Inn is next

 

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Believe Sabercat skull is from Asia

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Modern Shark Jaws

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Fossil reconstructed Jaws

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For Dino lovers

Toe bones 

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A large dino bone in need of some surgery

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Ornithomimid Caudal Vertebra, Hell Creek

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Sorry my bad pic but a pair of Ornithomimid Feet,  Hell Creek

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Anzu Foot Digit, Hell Creek

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Anzu hand Digit, Hell Creek

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Theropod Humeri from Hell Creek and Horseshoe Canyon Fm, AB

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Two Medicine Fm Montana Tyrannosaurid Teeth

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Thescelosaurus Foot, Hell Creek, Some reconstruction

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Ceratopsian horn,  Hell Creek sitting outside waiting its turn to the room

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Huge Mammoth Tusk from Alaska -  

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Lots of Green River Dealers here is another

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Triassic Ammonites from Timor, Indonesia

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One more set to follow

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Love the Dawn Horse. 

Though shudder to think how much it would cost. 

Life's Good!

Tortoise Friend.

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2 minutes ago, Tidgy's Dad said:

Love the Dawn Horse. 

Though shudder to think how much it would cost. 

Incredible fossils I have never seen a fish and horse fossils together before . Seahorse :dinothumb:

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2 minutes ago, Bobby Rico said:

Incredible fossils I have never seen a fish and horse fossils together before . Seahorse :dinothumb:

Or hippopotamus. :)

Life's Good!

Tortoise Friend.

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Wow, truly amazing things! Hope the dawn horse is not lost from science though.

“...whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been and are being evolved.” ~ Charles Darwin

Happy hunting,

Mason

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At the Ramada some Russian Bugs that were super pricey but incredible in person.  My basic camera did not do a good job with all the harsh cabinet lighting and glass.  So here are a few that were on display to be sold, just a few....

A lot of the european dealers do not let you take pictures so I was fortunate with this one.

 

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10 minutes ago, Troodon said:

At the Ramada some Russian Bugs that were super pricey but incredible in person.  My basic camera did not do a good job with all the harsh cabinet lighting and glass.  So here are a few that were on display to be sold, just a few....

A lot of the european dealers do not let you take pictures so I was fortunate with this one.

 

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50 minutes ago, Bobby Rico said:

Incredible fossils I have never seen a fish and horse fossils together before . Seahorse :dinothumb:

I asked that question and when it was studied a number of theories came out, one include a large Bird "eagle" had it and dropped it in flight.  Another more plausible was it was just caught in a flood and washed in a river bed.

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