DevonianDigger Posted February 23, 2018 Author Share Posted February 23, 2018 Ok, I'm done for now. Jay A. Wollin Lead Fossil Educator - Penn Dixie Fossil Park and Nature Reserve Hamburg, New York, USA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted February 23, 2018 Share Posted February 23, 2018 Great Collection Jay! Nice pictures and variation. Hope the health issues are behind you now! Thanks for showing us. Tim - VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER VFOTM --- APRIL - 2015 __________________________________________________ "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir ~ ~ ~ ~ ><))))( *> About Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DevonianDigger Posted February 23, 2018 Author Share Posted February 23, 2018 35 minutes ago, Kane said: I’ll get you a full one this year. Lol, I won't complain! I have just about run out of "entry-level" bugs to collect. I think I bought one of every bug that I could get my hands on for less than 50$. My new prize I'm after is a Lonchodomas rostratus. Look it up if you're not familiar, there's one for sale on ...um... the auction site that will not be named. But they want $1200 for it. Too rich for my blood. Maybe after I make tenure, lol! Jay A. Wollin Lead Fossil Educator - Penn Dixie Fossil Park and Nature Reserve Hamburg, New York, USA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted February 23, 2018 Share Posted February 23, 2018 Nice collection You put together. Thanks for sharing. 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...
ischua Posted February 23, 2018 Share Posted February 23, 2018 Nice! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tidgy's Dad Posted February 23, 2018 Share Posted February 23, 2018 Nice photos of a beautiful collection. Or at least the new additions to it. Some smashing trilobites and plenty of interesting extras. Thanks for sharing. Life's Good! Tortoise Friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DevonianDigger Posted February 23, 2018 Author Share Posted February 23, 2018 7 minutes ago, ischua said: Nice! Mike!!!! How the heck are you!? I've missed you man! Sorry I've been MIA for so long. Looking forward to getting into some trouble at the site this year! Jay A. Wollin Lead Fossil Educator - Penn Dixie Fossil Park and Nature Reserve Hamburg, New York, USA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DevonianDigger Posted February 23, 2018 Author Share Posted February 23, 2018 38 minutes ago, Fossildude19 said: Great Collection Jay! Nice pictures and variation. Hope the health issues are behind you now! Thanks for showing us. Health issues are undetermined. Everything has been inconclusive, been almost a year dealing with it. But, on the plus side, I'm not dead yet! Nor does it seem to be causing anything but discomfort. Are you going to be out this way this season? Jay A. Wollin Lead Fossil Educator - Penn Dixie Fossil Park and Nature Reserve Hamburg, New York, USA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DevonianDigger Posted February 23, 2018 Author Share Posted February 23, 2018 18 minutes ago, ynot said: Nice collection You put together. Thanks for sharing. Thanks for looking! Not many people see it in my living room, lol! Jay A. Wollin Lead Fossil Educator - Penn Dixie Fossil Park and Nature Reserve Hamburg, New York, USA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DevonianDigger Posted February 23, 2018 Author Share Posted February 23, 2018 4 minutes ago, Tidgy's Dad said: Nice photos of a beautiful collection. Or at least the new additions to it. Some smashing trilobites and plenty of interesting extras. Thanks for sharing. Thank you! I'm missing some of the newer trilobites still, haven't got around to photographing them. Always looking for more! Jay A. Wollin Lead Fossil Educator - Penn Dixie Fossil Park and Nature Reserve Hamburg, New York, USA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tidgy's Dad Posted February 23, 2018 Share Posted February 23, 2018 2 minutes ago, DevonianDigger said: Thank you! I'm missing some of the newer trilobites still, haven't got around to photographing them. Always looking for more! I know exactly how you feel. Life's Good! Tortoise Friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DevonianDigger Posted February 23, 2018 Author Share Posted February 23, 2018 Just now, Tidgy's Dad said: I know exactly how you feel. Happen to be a big fan of Moroccan material too! Probably will never make it there unfortunately. :/ Jay A. Wollin Lead Fossil Educator - Penn Dixie Fossil Park and Nature Reserve Hamburg, New York, USA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miocene_Mason Posted February 23, 2018 Share Posted February 23, 2018 Very impressive! So many bugs I’m surprised the spiders don’t come out to catch’em “...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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tidgy's Dad Posted February 23, 2018 Share Posted February 23, 2018 1 minute ago, DevonianDigger said: Happen to be a big fan of Moroccan material too! Probably will never make it there unfortunately. :/ Well, as I'm unlikely to make the USA in the next century or two, we'll have to arrange an exchange, sometime. Life's Good! Tortoise Friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DevonianDigger Posted February 23, 2018 Author Share Posted February 23, 2018 Just now, Tidgy's Dad said: Well, as I'm unlikely to make the USA in the next century or two, we'll have to arrange an exchange, sometime. Probably don't have much worth your efforts, but I'm always game for dropping some boxes in the mail! Jay A. Wollin Lead Fossil Educator - Penn Dixie Fossil Park and Nature Reserve Hamburg, New York, USA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Rico Posted February 23, 2018 Share Posted February 23, 2018 I really enjoyed looking at your very interesting collection. I also like your displays too. Thanks for showing us. cheers Bobby Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DevonianDigger Posted February 23, 2018 Author Share Posted February 23, 2018 4 minutes ago, WhodamanHD said: Very impressive! So many bugs I’m surprised the spiders don’t come out to catch’em But yet still, no where near enough!!! Only 31 species so far... so many more to go! Jay A. Wollin Lead Fossil Educator - Penn Dixie Fossil Park and Nature Reserve Hamburg, New York, USA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DevonianDigger Posted February 23, 2018 Author Share Posted February 23, 2018 3 minutes ago, Bobby Rico said: I really enjoyed looking at your very interesting collection. I also like your displays too. Thanks for showing us. cheers Bobby Thanks, Bobby! Glad people are getting to see them! Jay A. Wollin Lead Fossil Educator - Penn Dixie Fossil Park and Nature Reserve Hamburg, New York, USA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Rico Posted February 23, 2018 Share Posted February 23, 2018 Yes and it is also a nice visual way of documenting your collection. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrangellian Posted February 23, 2018 Share Posted February 23, 2018 2 hours ago, DevonianDigger said: A nice little display given to me by @drobare last year, along with some other oddities. Some nice quartz, along with some fluorite from a prospector friend of mine. A pretty rad piece of red alum. Two pieces of Trinitite, (glass created from the sand during the very first atomic bomb test in New Mexico.) Also, fragments of four different meteorites, (Sikhote-Alin [IIAB Coarse Octahedrite], Bilet Winselwan [Carbonaceous CM2 Chondrite], Campo del Cielo [Iron IAB mg], and Chelyabinsk [LL5 Chondrite]) What is that green geode? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DevonianDigger Posted February 23, 2018 Author Share Posted February 23, 2018 6 minutes ago, Wrangellian said: What is that green geode? Food coloring, lol! I bought it online as a standard issue geode, (quartz I presume,) because I thought it looked amazingly cool in the photo, and real or otherwise, I thought it would compliment the red alum in my display nicely... Showed up looking like garbage with green dye dribbled down the outside of the geode. Definitely won't fall for that one again. What it was supposed to look like... (next post will be what showed up.) Jay A. Wollin Lead Fossil Educator - Penn Dixie Fossil Park and Nature Reserve Hamburg, New York, USA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DevonianDigger Posted February 23, 2018 Author Share Posted February 23, 2018 What actually arrived... 1 Jay A. Wollin Lead Fossil Educator - Penn Dixie Fossil Park and Nature Reserve Hamburg, New York, USA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrangellian Posted February 23, 2018 Share Posted February 23, 2018 Oh.. ha! At least they still sparkle, but that spill over the outside edge does give it away somewhat... I've always liked that 'aqua aura' quartz that is artificially enhanced but never bothered to acquire a piece. (so many other things to spend money on) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DevonianDigger Posted February 23, 2018 Author Share Posted February 23, 2018 2 minutes ago, Wrangellian said: Oh.. ha! At least they still sparkle, but that spill over the outside edge does give it away somewhat... I've always liked that 'aqua aura' quartz that is artificially enhanced but never bothered to acquire a piece. (so many other things to spend money on) It was fairly cheap, less than $10, so I'm not exactly heartbroken over it, but I was disappointed. The one in the sales photo looks really sharp. I'm not really a gem/mineral guy, but once I started collecting the meteorites, it was a slippery slope and now I've started a case for minerals as well. Oops. There goes another paycheck! Jay A. Wollin Lead Fossil Educator - Penn Dixie Fossil Park and Nature Reserve Hamburg, New York, USA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DevonianDigger Posted February 23, 2018 Author Share Posted February 23, 2018 Here's a better photo of the red alum, looks awesome under good light. Jay A. Wollin Lead Fossil Educator - Penn Dixie Fossil Park and Nature Reserve Hamburg, New York, USA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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