The Growing Collection of Ziggycardon

[Phos_01]

On 8/16/2021 at 7:52 PM, ziggycardon said:

A block with a Mosasaur tooth found in the Ouled Abdoun Basin, Khouribga, Morocco (Cretaceous, 70 mya) 

While it is a nice tooth I actually bough this piece to dissolve the matrix to look for some cool other fossils and micro's. 
I once had another block from Khourigba with 2 rooted Igdamanosaurus teeth with after some prepping yielded 2 macro shark teeth, multiple fish verts, 1 mosasaur tooth, 1 Enchodus tooth and a couple of coprolites. 
And because this block was cheap and showed some great potenial with some fish verts and coprolites visable I thought it would be fun to see what else could be in there. 

Hi Ziggy! Awesome to read and scroll trough this topic and see your collection, it looks amazing! The topic title definitely stands its ground on the 'growing' part 
Im looking forward to this Mosasaur with Matrix to see what else is perhaps buried inside! 

 

Cheers,

Egon

[ziggycardon]

1 hour ago, Nchapman said:

I must say this is a very impressive collection!  If I had an 1/8 of what you have I would be a happy camper. 

 Thank you, I must say I am indeed very proud on the collection I managed to cumalate in quite a short time

 

1 hour ago, Tidgy's Dad said:

Nice additions, of course.

Very glad to see a brachiopod in there. 

Love the Cooksonia too. 

Thank you! 

I had a feeling you would like the brachiopod, I love it too  

I am hoping to get some more nice specimens in the future. 

Would love to get a giant specimen one, I've been in awe ever since I saw a giant Gigantoproductus giganteus in the NHM of Brussels. 

1 hour ago, pachy-pleuro-whatnot-odon said:

 

Wow! Very nice specimens! I have no idea where you got these from, as I too have been looking to add some to my collection, yet haven't been able to find any. Excellent addition to your collection, sir, and a great find

Thank you, I am beyond happy as well as they stood on my wishlist for years now.  

But you might be in luck as well, as I only intended to keep one for myself, I am just posting the other 2 in the sales section of the forum  

 

42 minutes ago, Phos_01 said:

Hi Ziggy! Awesome to read and scroll trough this topic and see your collection, it looks amazing! The topic title definitely stands its ground on the 'growing' part 
Im looking forward to this Mosasaur with Matrix to see what else is perhaps buried inside! 

 

Cheers,

Egon

Thank you!

Yes I did believe it to be a clever title for the topic indeed  

I currently still sorting out all the teeth from Cadzand, will probably take a week or more. After that I do intent to tackle to Mosasaur block  

[Tidgy's Dad]

1 hour ago, ziggycardon said:

 

Thank you! 

I had a feeling you would like the brachiopod, I love it too  

I am hoping to get some more nice specimens in the future. 

Would love to get a giant specimen one, I've been in awe ever since I saw a giant Gigantoproductus giganteus in the NHM of Brussels. 

Here's mine, not perfect and not the biggest, but self-collected in the UK nearly 40 years back.

 

 

[ziggycardon]

1 minute ago, Tidgy's Dad said:

Here's mine, not perfect and not the biggest, but self-collected in the UK nearly 40 years back.

 

 

Wow that's still a droolworthy piece in my book 

And that much cooler when it is indeed self found, truly a piece to treasure!  

 

[ziggycardon]

Here are my latest aqcuisitions! 

 

A beautiful rooted Prognathodon anceps tooth found in the Ouled Abdoun Basin, Khouribga, Morocco (Cretaceous, 70 mya)

after closer inspection the tooth are some neat serrations which is quite rare with Mosasaurs (I'll post some pictures in the coming weeks of it)

 

 

A huge undescribed Tylosaurus sp. tooth found in the Ouled Abdoun Basin, Khouribga, Morocco (Cretaceous, 70 mya)
By far my favorite tooth in my entire collection now! 
Thanks @pachy-pleuro-whatnot-odon for helping me confirm the ID on this one!

 

 

I also got incredibly lucky to have managed to aqcuire this beauty, a Carinodens Belgicus tooth found in the Ouled Abdoun Basin, Khouribga, Morocco (Cretaceous, 70 mya)

I might post my other Carinodens tooth which I previously purchased for sale now I aqcuired this magnificent beauty.  

 

 

A Ginglymostoma tooth found in the Ouled Abdoun Basin, Khouribga, Morocco (Cretaceous, 70 mya)

 

My current Khouribga Mosasaur display

[ziggycardon]

Here are a couple of my most recent aqcuisitions!

 

An Otodus auriculatus tooth found in the Lede Formation, Oosterzele, Belgium (Eocene, 44 mya)

 

 

An Otodus sokolovi tooth found in the Western Sahara, Dakhla, Morocco (Eocene, 38 - 34 mya)

 

 

A block with a shark tooth and Acutostrea unicella found in Sibbe, Limburg Chalk, The Netherlands (Cretaceous, 68 mya)

 

 

An Enchodus sp. tooth found in Sibbe, Limburg Chalk, The Netherlands (Cretaceous, 68 mya)

 

 

A Listracanthus sp. spine found in the Stark Shale, Kansas City, Missouri, USA (Carboniferous)

 

 

A Rhamphorhynchus tooth found in Solnhofen, Bavaria, Germany (Jurassic, 150 mya)

 

 

An Avisaurus archibaldi tooth found in the Hell Creek Formation, Garfield County, Montana, USA (Cretaceous, 66 mya)

 

 

A Plesiadapis tricuspidens molar found in Cernay-Les-Reims, France (Paleocene, 58 - 56 mya)

 

[Yoda]

@ziggycardon

 

You have some unusual pieces in your collection 

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I've been a wee bit absent these past month on the forum but luckily the same isn't true for my fossil collection as I managed to get some cool new stuff these past months which I am eager to share with you lot  

 

I finally "completed" my proboscidean collection (which means I reached my goal of getting the 9 species on my wish list)

A piece of American Mastodon jaw with a partial molar found in Florida, USA (Pleistocene) 

 

 

I also bought this nice looking molar which was listed as Kubanochoerus gigas, but I am quite convinced it is in fact a juvenile proboscidean molar belonging to one of the many Gomphothere species that can be found in Tongxin, Ningxia, China (Miocene, 11 mya)

 

My finished Proboscidean display  

 

 

A Poebrotherium wilsoni jaw found in White River Group, Brule Formation, Fall River County, South Dakota, USA (Oligocene, 33 - 30 mya)

 

 

A Dakosaurus tooth found in Haus, Schleicher, Tuchplatz, Reidlingen, Germany (Jurassic, 150 mya)

 

 

Ofcourse they are the many lovely ammonites and piece of Whitby jet which I got from my Secret Santa @Welsh Wizard

 

Dactylioceras commune found in Whitby, UK (Jurassic, 175 mya)

 

Pseudolioceras lythense found in Whitby, UK (Jurassic, 175 mya)

 

Hildoceras lusitanicum found in Whitby, UK (Jurassic, 175 mya)

 

Hildoceras bifrons found in Whitby, UK (Jurassic, 175 mya)

 

Grammoceras thouarsense found in Whitby, UK (Jurassic, 175 mya)

 

 

A small rodent incisor which I found myself while searching for Shark teeth in Kruibeke (Pleistocene)

 

 

Some rearranged displays:

My enlangered Maastricht chalk display which I had to enlarge after our fossil hunt to Eben-Emael.

 

My new Trilobite display

 

 

And last but not least, I managed to buy a couple fo boxes with fossils from @Manticocerasman & @Natalie81 who where so generous that I left with almost double the amount of boxes  
The items include lots of fossils (mainly ammonites) from the Turonian & Cenomanian from Cap Blanc Nez, as well as a box with fossils from the Gault Clay from Cap Blanc Nez, some ammonites from Cap Gris Nez, a box full of fossils from Ault, lot's of Devonian material from Lompret, some Echinoids from Lixhe and much much more.
I am still going through many of the boxes but I'll post some of it here today

[Misha]

I can't wait to see the Devonian material! I've seen some really cool stuff from there

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8 minutes ago, Misha said:

I can't wait to see the Devonian material! I've seen some really cool stuff from there

Kevin & Natalie do find some amazing stuff there, I'll post some of the cool stuff I got from them in a moment  
I also went hunting in Lompret myself in october, will make a topic about that hunt as well, I've been a bit behind with my hunting topics. 

[ziggycardon]

A graptolite (Climacograptus sp.) found in Fauquez, Belgium (Ordovician, 445 mya)

 

 

A bunch of Cyrtospirifer verneuilli found in Aye, Marche-en-Famenne, Belgium (Devonian, 382 - 372 mya)

 

A gorgeous Mantelliceras sp. found in Lompret, Belgium (382 - 372 mya)

 

An Orthocone nautiloid found in Lompret, Belgium (382 - 372 mya)

 

A Hexagonaria coral found in Lompret, Belgium (382 - 372 mya)

 

Goniatites (Manticoceras) found in Lompret, Belgium (382 - 372 mya)

 

A large Crickites sp. found in Lompret, Belgium (382 - 372 mya)

 

And while these don't look like much they are quite remarkable and rare. 
They are bone fragments from Placoderm fish (could even be Dunkleosteus) found in Lompret, Belgium (382 - 372 mya)
I can't thank @Manticocerasman enough for parting with these, I really treasure them  

[Misha]

Those bone fragments and Cyrtospirifers are really cool!

[pachy-pleuro-whatnot-odon]

4 hours ago, ziggycardon said:

A Dakosaurus tooth found in Haus, Schleicher, Tuchplatz, Reidlingen, Germany (Jurassic, 150 mya)

 

That's a mighty fine croc tooth!  I know I I recently managed to acquire quite a nice Dakosaurus sp. from Cap Gris Nez myself, but I wouldn't mind adding a tooth this quality to my collection still! Wherever did you find it? 

 

1 hour ago, ziggycardon said:

A gorgeous Mantelliceras sp. found in Lompret, Belgium (382 - 372 mya)

 

A large Crickites sp. found in Lompret, Belgium (382 - 372 mya)

 

Impressive pieces! 

[ziggycardon]

On 12/9/2021 at 4:57 PM, Misha said:

Those bone fragments and Cyrtospirifers are really cool!

Thank you I love them too!  

 

On 12/9/2021 at 5:30 PM, pachy-pleuro-whatnot-odon said:

 

That's a mighty fine croc tooth!  I know I I recently managed to acquire quite a nice Dakosaurus sp. from Cap Gris Nez myself, but I wouldn't mind adding a tooth this quality to my collection still! Wherever did you find it? 

 

 

Impressive pieces! 

Thank you, I am very happy with it as she a true beauty!  
Got it from one of the well known uk fossil stores, glad I bought it as soon as I saw it. I was just uploaded an hour earlier and knowing how fast such items sell on that shop I am glad I did not hesitate.  

[charlie3425]

On 9/16/2021 at 11:02 PM, ziggycardon said:

Here are a couple of my most recent aqcuisitions!

 

An Otodus auriculatus tooth found in the Lede Formation, Oosterzele, Belgium (Eocene, 44 mya)

 

 

An Otodus sokolovi tooth found in the Western Sahara, Dakhla, Morocco (Eocene, 38 - 34 mya)

 

 

A block with a shark tooth and Acutostrea unicella found in Sibbe, Limburg Chalk, The Netherlands (Cretaceous, 68 mya)

 

 

An Enchodus sp. tooth found in Sibbe, Limburg Chalk, The Netherlands (Cretaceous, 68 mya)

 

 

A Listracanthus sp. spine found in the Stark Shale, Kansas City, Missouri, USA (Carboniferous)

 

 

A Rhamphorhynchus tooth found in Solnhofen, Bavaria, Germany (Jurassic, 150 mya)

 

 

An Avisaurus archibaldi tooth found in the Hell Creek Formation, Garfield County, Montana, USA (Cretaceous, 66 mya)

 

 

A Plesiadapis tricuspidens molar found in Cernay-Les-Reims, France (Paleocene, 58 - 56 mya)

 

Hi Ziggy, quite a collection there! Very nice! Are you a Limburger ;)?  I am quite new to the forum. Exiting place to spend a gloomy sunday afternoon. I live pretty close to the Balegem/Oosterzele site where one of your fossil tooth were found. Unfortunately the gravel pits are used as dumpsters since a few years... A true shame.

Kind regards and greetings from Heusden (Destelbergen).

[ziggycardon]

On 1/16/2022 at 6:13 PM, charlie3425 said:

Hi Ziggy, quite a collection there! Very nice! Are you a Limburger ;)?  I am quite new to the forum. Exiting place to spend a gloomy sunday afternoon. I live pretty close to the Balegem/Oosterzele site where one of your fossil tooth were found. Unfortunately the gravel pits are used as dumpsters since a few years... A true shame.

Kind regards and greetings from Heusden (Destelbergen).

Thank you very much and welcome to the forum! 
Yes I am indeed from Limburg  

It's a real loss of a great fossil location, I have always found the preservation of the Oosterzele shark teeth quite amazing, would have loved to go for a hunt if it still was accessable.   

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Here are multiple of the ammonites from the haul Cap Blanc Nez & Cap Gris Nez which I recieved from @Manticocerasman & @Natalie81

 

But first, the updated and expanded Ammonite display with all the new addition!

 

And I also freed a new shelf for the smaller cephalopod fossils from the haul, mainly Gault Clay ammonites and Belemnites as well as some of my own finds from Lompret, Tontelange and Cap Blanc Nez.

 

A Metasigaloceras sp. from the Turonian of CBN

 

 

A Lewesiceras peramplum from the Turonian of CBN

 

A large Lewesiceras peramplum from the Turonian of CBN

 

A nautilus (Cymatoceras sp.) from the Cenomanian of CBN

 

An Aspidoceras sp. found in Wilmereux, Cap Gris Nez (Jurassic, Kimmeridgian, 156 - 151 mya)

 

A Schloenbachia sp. from the Cenomanian of CBN

 

Schloenbachia sp. from the Cenomanian of CBN

 

Mantelliceras sp. specimens from the Cenomanian of CBN

 

Mammites nodosoides from the Turonian of CBN

 

A nice Hamites sp. from the Albian Gault Clay from CBN

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Turrilites acutus from the Cenomanian of CBN

 

 

Still a lot more material to go through (and there are still some boxes in the garage as well!

 

 

A fish tooth (Gyrodus cuvieri?) found in Wilmereux, Cap Gris Nez (Jurassic, Kimmeridgian, 156 - 151 mya)

 

A lovely Brachiopod from CBN, Cenomanian I believe from the preservation. 
Perhaps @Tidgy's Dad might want to take a look at this one as I haven't gotten to ID'ing it yet.

 

 

A Fish vert from the Cenomanian of CBN

 

 

A sponge (Laosciadia sp.?) from CBN

 

 

An Urchin spine from the Albian Gault Clay of CBN

 

Inoceramus labiatus from the Albian Gault Clay of CBN

 

Inoceramus concentricus from the Albian Gault Clay of CBN

 

Astele conoideum from the Albian Gault Clay of CBN

 

Nummocalcar fittoni from the Albian Gault Clay of CBN

 

Perissoptera parkinsoni from the Albian Gault Clay of CBN

 

Unidentified Gastropods from the Albian Gault Clay of CBN

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Naticopsina (Gyrodes) gaultina from the Albian Gault Clay of CBN

 

 

Nummocalcar cirroides found in the Gault Clay of CBN. 
But I read somewhere that these are probably Cenomanian in age instead of Albian and that they rolled from the Cenomanian layers into the Albian clay hence the different preservation. Not entirely sure if that's true though.

 

Inoceramus sulcatus from the Albian Gault Clay of CBN

 

Pectinucula pectinata from the Albian Gault Clay of CBN

 

A coral from the Albian Gault Clay of CBN

 

 

The updated shelves for my Bivalves & Gastropods

 

 

Included in the boxes was also some other Cretaceous material from other locations:

Like a box full of urchins from Ault, France (Cretaceous, Turonian)

Some of the ones I cleaned (Micraster sp.)

 

A Spondylus spinosus from Ault, France (Cretaceous, Turonian)

 

Gibbithyris semiglobosa from Ault, France (Cretaceous, Turonian)

 

 

One of the many urchins (Echinocorys sp.) from Lixhe, Belgium (Cretaceous, Maastrichtian)

 

 

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And I have also started to go through a bucket full of material from the Tielt Formation, Egem, Belgium (Eocene, Ypresian, 53 mya). 
A location of world renown regarding shark teeth but long closed unfortunately. I am all the more gratefull to @Natalie81 and @Manticocerasman for giving me the oportunity of giving me unprepped material to go through from this location!

 

 

While I haven't starting prepping the material (I am waiting for spring weather to arrive) 
I did manage to find the first shark teeth by just going through the material for a peek

 

 

Some Bivalves

 

 

Another Bivalve

 

A Gastropod

 

Another Gastropod

 

Gastropod

 

A coral (Turbinolia sulcata)

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And here are some of the other fossils I've recently purchased! 

 

Schizambon typicalis found in the Weeks Formation, Utah, USA (Cambrian, 500 - 497 mya)

 

 

Paraconularia crustula Finis Shale, Graham Formation, Jacksboro, Texas, USA (Carboniferous, 304 - 299 mya)

 

 

Huntoniatonia oklahomae found in the Cravet Member, Bois d'Arc Formation, Clarita, Oklahoma, USA (Devonian, 419 - 410 mya)

  

 

Palaeospondylus gunni found in Old Red Sandstone, Orcadian Basin, Achanarras Quarry, Caithness, Scotland, UK (Devonian, 385 mya)

Another one from my wishlist! Really love this little guy/lass. Nobody really knows what this creature really is...
Last theories believe it is a larval lungfish but previous theories theorised that it could be an armorless placoderm, agnathan, tetrapod larvae, etc...

 

 

A Procamelus sp. molar found in Bone Valley, Polk County, Florida, USA (Miocene, 15 - 10 mya)

 

 

I also purchased some pre-sorted microfossils from the Brooksville 2 material rich in mammal & reptile fossils. 
I'll eventually post most of them in my microfossil topic but here is one of the Bat molars from that material.

 

 

A Lissodus selachos tooth found in the Hell Creek Formation, Harding County, South Dakota, USA (Cretaceous, 66 mya)

 

 

A Cretorectolobus frequens tooth found in the Kimmeridge Clay, Portland, Dorset, UK (Jurassic, 157 - 152 mya)

 

 

A Cetorhinus huddlestoni found in Round Mountain Silt, Sharktooth Hill Bonebed, Bakersfield, Kern county, California, USA (Miocene)

 

 

Cosmopolitodus (Isurus) planus found in Round Mountain Silt, Sharktooth Hill Bonebed, Bakersfield, Kern county, California, USA (Miocene)

 

Squalicorax (falcatus) teeth found in South Bosque Shale, Eagle Ford Group, North, Austin, Travis County, Texas, USA (Cretaceous)

 

 

A fly larvae cocoon found in the Hell Creek Formation, Wibaux County, Montana, USA (Cretaceous, 66 mya)

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A fossil mayfly (Ephemeropsis sp.) with multiple clam shrimp found in the Yixian Formation, Huangbangi Valley, Beipiao, Liaoning Province, China (Cretaceous, 129 - 122 mya)

 

 

A fossil triops (Weichangiops triangularis) found in the Yixian Formation, Huangbangi Valley, Beipiao, Liaoning Province, China (Cretaceous, 129 - 122 mya)

 

 

An Allodesmus kernensis baculum ( bone) found in Round Mountain Silt, Sharktooth Hill Bonebed, Ernst Ranch, Bakersfield, Kern county, California, USA (Miocene)

 

 

A Necrolemur antiqua jaw found in Phosphorites de Quercy, La Bouffie, Quercy, France (Eocene, 37 - 36 mya)

 

 

An injection mold cast of Pikaia gracilens originally found in the Burgess Shale, Stephens Formation, Field, British Columbia, Canada (Cambrian, 508 mya)

 

A Direwolf (Canis dirus) jaw fragment found in the Rancho La Brea Formation, Maricopa Tar Pits, Kern County, California, USA (Pleistocene)

 

 

Unidentified bird bones found in the Rancho La Brea Formation, Maricopa Tar Pits, Kern County, California, USA (Pleistocene)

 

 

My updated Mesozoïc display

 

 

My updated Cenozoïc display

 

 

My updated Paleozoïc displays

 

My updated Paleocene/Eocene display

 

 

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And I almost forgot my Cave Hyena jaw (Crocuta crocuta spelaea) found in the Yakoetsk region, Siberia, Russia (Pleistocene, 40 000 - 30 000 years old)

[Tidgy's Dad]

Great collection, Ziggy, you do have some beautiful pieces. 

Sorry, can't help with the brachiopod other than to say it's a rhynchonellid. 

 

[Yoda]

@ziggycardon

Just catching up with your latest additions

Very nice