ynot Posted May 20, 2018 Share Posted May 20, 2018 Cool finds Roger! Glad You got the opportunity to hunt this site. 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...
Ludwigia Posted May 20, 2018 Author Share Posted May 20, 2018 4 hours ago, ynot said: Cool finds Roger! Glad You got the opportunity to hunt this site. Thanks, Tony. Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max-fossils Posted May 20, 2018 Share Posted May 20, 2018 Incredible finds! Did they just pop out as such from the matrix (or just laying on the ground), or did you find them encased in lots of matrix (and used your formidable prepping skills to make them look this way)? Max Derème "I feel an echo of the lightning each time I find a fossil. [...] That is why I am a hunter: to feel that bolt of lightning every day." - Mary Anning >< Remarkable Creatures, Tracy Chevalier Instagram: @world_of_fossils Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted May 20, 2018 Author Share Posted May 20, 2018 4 hours ago, Max-fossils said: Incredible finds! Did they just pop out as such from the matrix (or just laying on the ground), or did you find them encased in lots of matrix (and used your formidable prepping skills to make them look this way)? I removed them directly from the bank and had a few hours of prep to do. 2 Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erose Posted May 20, 2018 Share Posted May 20, 2018 Most in our Texas rocks are crappy steinkerns. That is a beautiful specimen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeR Posted May 20, 2018 Share Posted May 20, 2018 On 5/17/2018 at 7:35 PM, Jeffrey P said: That Trigonia is magnificent and you know how much I love bivalves! Congratulations Roger. Glad you were able to take advantage collecting in a site that is normally off limits. Here are some Cretaceous Trigonia in Ralph's collection: Those are nice Trigonias. I always assumed that the NJ Cretaceous mollusks were impressions or internal casts. "A problem solved is a problem caused"--Karl Pilkington "I was dead for millions of years before I was born and it never inconvenienced me a bit." -- Mark Twain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted May 20, 2018 Author Share Posted May 20, 2018 4 hours ago, erose said: Most in our Texas rocks are crappy steinkerns. That is a beautiful specimen. They're often nicely preserved here in the middle Jurassic. Here's a single valve that I just finished prepping. The matrix was soft enough to be able to easily expose the hinge. I figure I might as well also show the last prepped find from this bank. It's a Grammatodon subdecussata together with a terebratulid brachiopod and another bivalve which I haven't been able to identify yet. 4 Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted May 20, 2018 Share Posted May 20, 2018 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...
Tidgy's Dad Posted May 20, 2018 Share Posted May 20, 2018 The preserved detail of the shells ans even the epibionts is astounding! Life's Good! Tortoise Friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted May 20, 2018 Author Share Posted May 20, 2018 56 minutes ago, Tidgy's Dad said: The preserved detail of the shells ans even the epibionts is astounding! Yup. Those bivalves were a favorite abode for tube worms, oysters and other such settlers. Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monica Posted May 22, 2018 Share Posted May 22, 2018 You've outdone yourself, Roger - those are beautiful finds and amazing prep work!!! I love the bivalve with the star on it - what a nice association! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max-fossils Posted May 22, 2018 Share Posted May 22, 2018 That hinge came out surprisingly well! Such intricate detail doesn't often get preserved so well on a 170 million-year-old shell. In fact, many of my 120'000-year-old shells are much more worn than that, even though less than a thousandth of the age! Impressive, is all I have to say. Again, superb prep job (I seem to be frequently repeating myself when looking at your fossils ) Max Derème "I feel an echo of the lightning each time I find a fossil. [...] That is why I am a hunter: to feel that bolt of lightning every day." - Mary Anning >< Remarkable Creatures, Tracy Chevalier Instagram: @world_of_fossils Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted May 22, 2018 Author Share Posted May 22, 2018 12 hours ago, Monica said: You've outdone yourself, Roger - those are beautiful finds and amazing prep work!!! I love the bivalve with the star on it - what a nice association! Thanks, Monica 9 hours ago, Max-fossils said: That hinge came out surprisingly well! Such intricate detail doesn't often get preserved so well on a 170 million-year-old shell. In fact, many of my 120'000-year-old shells are much more worn than that, even though less than a thousandth of the age! Impressive, is all I have to say. Again, superb prep job (I seem to be frequently repeating myself when looking at your fossils ) I also never cease to be amazed at the marvelous preservation of some of these middle Jurassic fossils. It helped with these particular ones that their shells were permineralized into the stable form of calcite and were incased in an oxygen and solvent free environment which kept any erosive forces at bay. 1 Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJB Posted May 24, 2018 Share Posted May 24, 2018 The poor lonely lowly bivalve...... These are magnificent Roger! someday, when I run into my bivalve collection, I will some photos. Thanks for showing these. RB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted May 24, 2018 Author Share Posted May 24, 2018 3 hours ago, RJB said: The poor lonely lowly bivalve...... These are magnificent Roger! someday, when I run into my bivalve collection, I will some photos. Thanks for showing these. RB You're welcome, Ron. I look forward to seeing yours someday. Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Rico Posted May 24, 2018 Share Posted May 24, 2018 @Ludwigia Hi I hope you don’t mind I just wanted to show you my favourite in my collection. It is from an old Victorian collection and I really love the copperplate style of writing on it. Thank you for showing your beautiful bivalves. All the best Bobby 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted May 24, 2018 Author Share Posted May 24, 2018 3 hours ago, Bobby Rico said: @Ludwigia Hi I hope you don’t mind I just wanted to show you my favourite in my collection. It is from an old Victorian collection and I really love the copperplate style of writing on it. Thank you for showing your beautiful bivalves. All the best Bobby Nice one with an historic touch. 1 Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max-fossils Posted May 25, 2018 Share Posted May 25, 2018 15 hours ago, Bobby Rico said: @Ludwigia Hi I hope you don’t mind I just wanted to show you my favourite in my collection. It is from an old Victorian collection and I really love the copperplate style of writing on it. Thank you for showing your beautiful bivalves. All the best Bobby Looking good Bobby!!! 1 Max Derème "I feel an echo of the lightning each time I find a fossil. [...] That is why I am a hunter: to feel that bolt of lightning every day." - Mary Anning >< Remarkable Creatures, Tracy Chevalier Instagram: @world_of_fossils Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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