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Congratulations Nimravis ! Great find and beautiful detail !  Those scales.... Wow !

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Amazing fossil, I knew there had to be a FOTM or two in all those buckets! Congrats on the well-deserved win!

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Thanks much everyone- I am very excited for this. When I first cracked it open and it shattered a bit, I felt something in the pit of my stomach, one I saw the scales and thought- “What did I do?”  Sometimes the blow of Thor’s hammer to too hard on these concretions.

 

Thanks again for the nice comments, and all of the other entries were spectacular.

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Congratulations Nimvaris on a wonderful find

 

Mike

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Congrats Ralph !

 

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Wait a minute, something seems a little fishy about this win!!!  :rofl:

 

I knew it would, good show 'ol man.

 

 

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Congratulations Ralph. That is a truly remarkable specimen. Nice to see your fish win it.

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4 hours ago, Jeffrey P said:

Congratulations Ralph. That is a truly remarkable specimen. Nice to see your fish win it.

Thanks Jeff

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Such a great example of this fish. Congratulations, sir. 

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Thats a great find! Congrats :envy: Well deserved win!

Many greetings from Germany ! Have a great time with many fossils :)

Regards Sebastian

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Congratulations on this amazing fish!

On The Hunt For The Trophy Otodus!

 

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Awesome fish, Ralph "Thor's Hammer" Nimravis! :P

 

I remember seeing examples of this species on my recent visit to the Field Museum and thinking that those must have been found decades ago and that nobody finds those these days. Only took you 15 years to get this one open. Who knows what's hiding on your other old stubborn nodules? Time to play Whac-A-Mole with them. ;)

 

 

Cheers.

 

-Ken

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Congrats on the win, great preservation on that piece:yay-smiley-1:

Every once in a great while it's not just a big rock down there!

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Congratulations, Ralph! Excellent find.  :)  :wub: 

You don't see too many fish coming from those concretions these days.

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4 hours ago, digit said:

Awesome fish, Ralph "Thor's Hammer" Nimravis! :P

 

I remember seeing examples of this species on my recent visit to the Field Museum and thinking that those must have been found decades ago and that nobody finds those these days. Only took you 15 years to get this one open. Who knows what's hiding on your other old stubborn nodules? Time to play Whac-A-Mole with them. ;)

 

 

Cheers.

 

-Ken

Thanks Ken and I am doing it on a daily basis, it will just take a long time.

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