John S. Posted March 5, 2018 Share Posted March 5, 2018 The gift that keeps on giving! I’d like to thank you personally for not entering the fossil of the month for Feb btw North Central Texas Eagle Ford Group / Ozan Formation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
believerjoe Posted March 5, 2018 Author Share Posted March 5, 2018 1 hour ago, John S. said: The gift that keeps on giving! I’d like to thank you personally for not entering the fossil of the month for Feb btw Lol. I don’t know how this fits into all of that. I found the site in Jan, so not eligible. I am not trying to win any awards, just enjoying collecting this critter. Holler if you want to dig sometime. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John S. Posted March 5, 2018 Share Posted March 5, 2018 25 minutes ago, believerjoe said: Lol. I don’t know how this fits into all of that. I found the site in Jan, so not eligible. I am not trying to win any awards, just enjoying collecting this critter. Holler if you want to dig sometime. Ha I hear that. No rush if you enter, just when prep is done. I’d love to go hunt with you North Central Texas Eagle Ford Group / Ozan Formation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
believerjoe Posted March 8, 2018 Author Share Posted March 8, 2018 On 3/4/2018 at 10:21 PM, John S. said: Ha I hear that. No rush if you enter, just when prep is done. I’d love to go hunt with you We just need to pick a day. I have a day mext week I can go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paciphacops Posted March 8, 2018 Share Posted March 8, 2018 While this is a really awesome find, I'm more impressed by how well you have put the broken bits of bone back together. You must be very good at jigsaw puzzles! Great job! "Don't force it, just use a bigger hammer" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
believerjoe Posted March 9, 2018 Author Share Posted March 9, 2018 7 hours ago, Hal said: While this is a really awesome find, I'm more impressed by how well you have put the broken bits of bone back together. You must be very good at jigsaw puzzles! Great job! Some of it was easy, but what you didn’t see was try a piece here, then there, and then everywhere! Also should note that you keep things together when you can during the removal. Still a pain, but lots of trial and error. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted March 9, 2018 Share Posted March 9, 2018 You have been lucky at that site! Can We see a new picture of Your progress and finds. You can enter it all in the fossil of the month when You are done with the prep, as long as You have pre prep pictures. 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...
MeargleSchmeargl Posted March 9, 2018 Share Posted March 9, 2018 Are you thinking of donating this to a museum once you find almost everything you can? I bet they'd be really happy to have a fresh-from-the-field Mosa skeleton. Every single fossil you see is a miracle set in stone, and should be treated as such. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Siphuncle Posted March 9, 2018 Share Posted March 9, 2018 2 hours ago, MeargleSchmeargl said: Are you thinking of donating this to a museum once you find almost everything you can? I bet they'd be really happy to have a fresh-from-the-field Mosa skeleton. Interesting personal decision, no right or wrong answer. I tend to be in the camp of donating something new to science, but if it isn't new, the scales of justice can or should tip toward the private collector who expended the effort to bring it to possession, if that is his/her wish. I like to see the collector keep or donate according to his own will, ignoring all voices but the one in his own head, and being satisfied with that personal decision. Keep in mind that it is very easy to suggest how another collector dispostion his finds, if you haven't yet found something huge and significant, broken your own back on it, then given it away. 5 Grüße, Daniel A. Wöhr aus Südtexas "To the motivated go the spoils." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SailingAlongToo Posted March 9, 2018 Share Posted March 9, 2018 23 minutes ago, Uncle Siphuncle said: Interesting personal decision, no right or wrong answer. I tend to be in the camp of donating something new to science, but if it isn't new, the scales of justice can or should tip toward the private collector who expended the effort to bring it to possession, if that is his/her wish. I like to see the collector keep or donate according to his own will, ignoring all voices but the one in his own head, and being satisfied with that personal decision. Keep in mind that it is very easy to suggest how another collector dispostion his finds, if you haven't yet found something huge and significant, broken your own back on it, then given it away. Uncle Siphuncle, I/we also have to take into account that we have a 2 year old German Shepard (named Zeus) that really fancies tasting fossil bones and shells, even if only for a few seconds. He crunched one of Mrs.SA2's Ecphora right after we got him and about 6 months ago I caught him walking around with a nearly complete Deinosuchus vertebrae in his mouth. He was proud and prancing with that vert in his mouth. Must have known he had something quite special. Mrs.SA2 and I will always donate for scientific study / research or for display purposes. We will never donate something to be another "thing" in a collection or sit in a box in a basement or warehouse. I will say though, the decision to donate is made much easier when you have a personal relationship with the paleontologist(s) and/or the receiving facility. (Caveat - I do not have a mossy skeleton I spent hundreds of hours excavating, recovering, packing out of the bush and then cleaning / prepping. If I did, I'm sure Zeus would want a "taste" of that too.) 1 Don't know much about history Don't know much biology Don't know much about science books......... Sam Cooke - (What A) Wonderful World Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted March 9, 2018 Share Posted March 9, 2018 1 hour ago, SailingAlongToo said: about 6 months ago I caught him walking around with a nearly complete Deinosuchus vertebrae in his mouth. He was proud and prancing with that vert in his mouth. Must have known he had something quite special. Sounds like You should take that dog into the field with Your next hunt. (train him well). 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...
SailingAlongToo Posted March 9, 2018 Share Posted March 9, 2018 2 hours ago, ynot said: Sounds like You should take that dog into the field with Your next hunt. (train him well). He loves being on fossil expeditions and has brought me many bones, all from dead fish, deer or extant birds. I want to take him on a fossil hunting trip out west. Would be interesting to see him dragging back a dino limb bone, with fresh scavenging marks. Don't know much about history Don't know much biology Don't know much about science books......... Sam Cooke - (What A) Wonderful World Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
believerjoe Posted March 10, 2018 Author Share Posted March 10, 2018 I have found and donated a much more rare mosasaur. This one is common, but just so you know more about me, a local paleontologist will be checking the specimen out in the morning. If there is anything significant about it, we will work out something. I like having the connection with the school. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
believerjoe Posted March 12, 2018 Author Share Posted March 12, 2018 So a paleontologist came over and we had a few hours of fun looking at the specimen and anything else I had. Turns out there are some details that are hard to find and rarely seen, so we will have to have another talk when the site no longer seems active. I did get a lesson on how some bones fit together and that was eye opening. I did end up sending him away with some parting gifts: a Globidens tooth, Globidens jaw bone, and a Halisaurus vert. It was the only one of its kind that I had seen, so gladly let it go. We will see what the future holds. I have not added a ton since some last updates. From here on out, it could be very slow. I will give you a couple of pics for entertainment. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heteromorph Posted March 12, 2018 Share Posted March 12, 2018 36 minutes ago, believerjoe said: So a paleontologist came over and... Every time I see this specimen of your’s it just amazes me. For me this find would be knock-your-socks-off exciting, though at this point any mosasaur material would be exciting for me. Thanks for the update! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted March 12, 2018 Share Posted March 12, 2018 Looks like You have found quite a bit of that mossy! Looking forward to seeing the final assemblage. 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...
JustPlainPetrified Posted March 12, 2018 Share Posted March 12, 2018 On 2018-02-06 at 4:48 PM, believerjoe said: Wow! Nice find and nice preservation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
believerjoe Posted March 12, 2018 Author Share Posted March 12, 2018 20 hours ago, Heteromorph said: Every time I see this specimen of your’s it just amazes me. For me this find would be knock-your-socks-off exciting, though at this point any mosasaur material would be exciting for me. Thanks for the update! It has been exciting. It has now turned into a boatload of work. Lol. The good kind, but it takes a bit of effort to get things out. Pieces are spread out for now and hoping for another pile of bone soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goatinformationist Posted March 13, 2018 Share Posted March 13, 2018 On 2/6/2018 at 6:57 PM, believerjoe said: There is more. I think maybe about 6 feet of verts and 50% of the skull.... If there is more than that, then hasn't shown itself yet. Time to pitch the tent, get a bucket of KFC and a case of Lone Star. You hav'ta stay with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
believerjoe Posted March 13, 2018 Author Share Posted March 13, 2018 3 hours ago, goatinformationist said: Time to pitch the tent, get a bucket of KFC and a case of Lone Star. You hav'ta stay with it. That would be great if I was in a chair watching others do the work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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