cowsharks Posted June 8, 2018 Share Posted June 8, 2018 I found this cool specimen quite a while back in the Paleocene of Maryland and never finished prepping it. I still have a ways to go, especially to reduce the size of the matrix because it is super heavy. This came from a much larger size boulder of matrix. I only saw a tiny piece exposed and kept digging to expose more and break it away from the large boulder. I believe this is a section of plastron from a turtle shell (bottom) from possibly a leatherback turtle. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tidgy's Dad Posted June 8, 2018 Share Posted June 8, 2018 Very nice piece! Good luck with the prepping and thanks for sharing. Life's Good! Tortoise Friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miocene_Mason Posted June 8, 2018 Share Posted June 8, 2018 Beautiful specimen! When your done prepping, FOTM material? “...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...
Auspex Posted June 8, 2018 Share Posted June 8, 2018 You should enter it for FOTM now, if it is your wish to do so. "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted June 9, 2018 Share Posted June 9, 2018 Nice piece, 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...
Jeffrey P Posted June 9, 2018 Share Posted June 9, 2018 So far I've only found small chunks of fossil turtle shell in Maryland's Paleocene beds. That piece is totally awesome!!! Big congratulations on finding and prepping it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max-fossils Posted June 9, 2018 Share Posted June 9, 2018 Cool!!! 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...
Plantguy Posted June 9, 2018 Share Posted June 9, 2018 Yep, that is really neat! thanks for showing us. Regards, Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cowsharks Posted June 10, 2018 Author Share Posted June 10, 2018 Thanks folks. I'm having major back issues right now so I'll be doing more sitting than collecting this month which means I should finish prepping it soon. From the little research I've done, if this is just a small section of the plastron, it's possible that the whole plastron was at least two or three feet wide/long, which means it might have come from a fairly large turtle. I haven't figured out yet if the "side" that is exposed as shown is the bottom/outside (ventral?) or dorsal side of the palstron. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirtdauber Posted June 10, 2018 Share Posted June 10, 2018 Very nice and relatively rare specimen. Thanks for sharing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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