South Texas Siphuncleage

[Uncle Siphuncle]

I found a couple ammonites this summer that needed very little prep.  

 

The first is a Pecan Gap fm Pachydiscus travisi, not remarkable for quality of preservation, but rather for presentation.  With both impressions and the steinkern found eroded out together, I have “all the pages of the book”, something that doesn’t present often, in my experience.

[Uncle Siphuncle]

The other one is the Georgetown Fm, Mainstreet Member Graysonites sp. that I found last weekend, only the third I’ve found down south in 15 years.  

 

One side had a mud plug melt when it hit the water bucket, leaving one side hollowed out, so I opted not to scribe the center due to thinness.  I spent 10 minutes scribing the matrix off the obscured horns, and I decided to stop with a light touch.  Part of the charm is the peanut butter color, and another part is the roughness imparted by attachment of marcasite crystals.  I’m happy with it as-is.

[Uncle Siphuncle]

Parting shots.

[Raggedy Man]

I have to say that top one has an interesting presentation. I would definitely have kept that one to.

[Heteromorph]

Nice ammonite duo! The tubercles on the Graysonites sp. are pretty extreme. 

[Miocene_Mason]

Nice Ammos

[ynot]

Like the puzzle piece. That is a nice story piece.

The other is a nice ammo too.

[KimTexan]

Very nice. I do like Graysonites.

I’ve only found 2 so far. The first one was shattered trying to remove it from the Grayson marl by another person I was with. Arrgh. It had horns about 1.5 inches. The little brother found nearby was much more modest, but still cool.

It was covered with oysters. I am not good at prepping and don’t really have great tools for it, but here is mine.

 

 

@Heteromorph , Matthew talk your mom into driving up and I’ll take you hunting where I found it. I found some nice Mariella brazoensis there too.

[Ludwigia]

Nice to have found some conversation pieces. Congrats!

[Heavy_D]

Couple of awesome pieces! Love that first one for sure. 

[RJB]

Always nice to have ammo's just pop out of the rock, but im assuming thats a bit rare.  It is for me.   Nice stuff man.

 

RB

[Tidgy's Dad]

Very nice indeed.

You do have some lovely specimens.