SgtZabka Posted July 2, 2018 Author Share Posted July 2, 2018 Bivalve (I believe) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SgtZabka Posted July 2, 2018 Author Share Posted July 2, 2018 Obsidian Arrow Head Ptychodus Anonymous Tooth 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bone guy Posted July 2, 2018 Share Posted July 2, 2018 Those chunks of sea floor are very cool! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SgtZabka Posted July 8, 2018 Author Share Posted July 8, 2018 On 7/1/2018 at 8:16 PM, Bone guy said: Those chunks of sea floor are very cool! Thanks! I could try and find more if you'd like one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SgtZabka Posted July 8, 2018 Author Share Posted July 8, 2018 Because I am now collecting and buying fossils, I will start naming the source on how I got them. Ammonite - given to me by @PFOOLEY 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SgtZabka Posted July 8, 2018 Author Share Posted July 8, 2018 Amber - bought at South West Minerals in Abq, NM. Sold as "blue amber", while I am not sure about the blue part, I know that this is real amber as I did a heat rub on it and an acetone rub, smells like pine and didn't melt or become sticky. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SgtZabka Posted July 8, 2018 Author Share Posted July 8, 2018 Megalodon Tooth 2 3/4" (7cm) long - Bought at South West Minerals in ABQ, NM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SgtZabka Posted July 8, 2018 Author Share Posted July 8, 2018 Hadrosaur Tooth - Bought at South West Minerals in ABQ, NM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miocene_Mason Posted July 8, 2018 Share Posted July 8, 2018 It’s not really blue amber, but most amber from chiapas or the DR will be blue-ish if you shine a bright light on it. 1 “...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...
ynot Posted July 8, 2018 Share Posted July 8, 2018 Looks like You picked up some good additions for Your collection. 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...
SgtZabka Posted July 8, 2018 Author Share Posted July 8, 2018 5 hours ago, ynot said: Looks like You picked up some good additions for Your collection. Thanks! Hope to find more soon! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PFOOLEY Posted July 8, 2018 Share Posted July 8, 2018 11 hours ago, SgtZabka said: Ammonite - given to me by @PFOOLEY Senor Frog, you picked up some nice items (I'm actually surprised you left there with only these ). The Ammonite is Spathites puercoensis, a Middle Turonian cephalopod from the Carlile Sea. 2 "I am glad I shall never be young without wild country to be young in. Of what avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?" ~Aldo Leopold (1887-1948) New Mexico Museum of Natural History Bulletins Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cowboy Paleontologist Posted July 8, 2018 Share Posted July 8, 2018 I hope to make it over to the sea floor over near Albuquerque for some ammonites at some point. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cowboy Paleontologist Posted July 8, 2018 Share Posted July 8, 2018 On 6/28/2018 at 6:14 AM, Bone guy said: Great start! It's good you have a museum that's willing to examine your specimens. I have found the paleontologists at the NMMNH to be very accommodating and willing to take time to look at things. I recently had a Triassic tooth looked at, and when I got it back, received a number of books on the paleontology of New Mexico with it! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJB Posted July 8, 2018 Share Posted July 8, 2018 On 6/27/2018 at 11:17 PM, SgtZabka said: Thanks, have to start somewhere Hi SgtZabka. My very first fossil was just an impression of a clam. You are starting out way better than I did. Its a really cool hobbie and im sure you are going to aquire many more. Keep it up. RB 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SgtZabka Posted July 13, 2018 Author Share Posted July 13, 2018 Large Ammonite (field specimen, too fragile to remove from ground) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SgtZabka Posted July 13, 2018 Author Share Posted July 13, 2018 Large Ammonite (different field specimen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miocene_Mason Posted July 13, 2018 Share Posted July 13, 2018 7 minutes ago, SgtZabka said: Large Ammonite (different field specimen) No silly, that’s George Washington! He may be old but he’s not a fossil Nice ammonites! Did you try digging under the first one and removing it with the matrix? “...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...
SgtZabka Posted July 13, 2018 Author Share Posted July 13, 2018 Just now, WhodamanHD said: No silly, that’s George Washington! He may be old but he’s not a fossil Nice ammonites! Did you try digging under the first one and removing it with the matrix? I did not, next time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caldigger Posted July 13, 2018 Share Posted July 13, 2018 Eh, nothing a couple of sticks of dynamite couldn't dislodge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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