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3 hours ago, minnbuckeye said:

Beautiful specimen!! Wish they were around in the Ordovician.

I agree. This one’s looks like Heterodiadema libycum (Agassiz & Desor, 1846), but are much more bulbous. 

 

10 minutes ago, caterpillar said:

Beautiful echinids but very hard to clean

Yes they are. I will clean and take out some of the matrix, but part of it will be embed. I have no tools. The most difficult ones are some of the Anorthopygus michelini Cotteau, 1860 from the our D level.

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On 5/29/2019 at 1:25 PM, FranzBernhard said:

Has anyone something to post for this thread?

These are fantastic ... does it take much to find these or are they eroded out ?

 

Cheers,

Brett

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Headed out with the kayak to the river after the end of the quarter .. got caught in a storm so that was fun ... but still found some fun pieces.  A few of these come from my little hole on the river.  Not a day that it won't kick out something .. usually of the Carcharhinus sp. variety.

 

A sperm whale tooth and rodent tooth were the fun finds of the day .. (probably capybara)

 

The meg tooth is just shy of 6 inches.

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Ahhh ha ! .. but no .. it's busted !

 

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Cheers,

Brett

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5 hours ago, Brett Breakin' Rocks said:

Headed out with the kayak to the river after the end of the quarter .. got caught in a storm so that was fun ... but still found some fun pieces.  A few of these come from my little hole on the river.  Not a day that it won't kick out something .. usually of the Carcharhinus sp. variety.

A sperm whale tooth and rodent tooth were the fun finds of the day .. (probably capybara)

The meg tooth is just shy of 6 inches.

Ahhh ha ! .. but no .. it's busted !

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Cheers,

Brett

Awesome finds! Sounds like a great day despite the storm.

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From material collected last year, "found" and prepped today. Snails from the last somewhat marine influenced (brackish) strata of Austria - sediments of Lake Pannon.

From a small outcrop in a creek in Göttelsberg near Weiz, eastern Styria. Outcrops are not that bad there, and several thin lignite seams up to 0.5 m thick are intercalated within the clay-silt-sand layers. One clay-silt-layer, only a few dm thick, contains abundant molluscs. Mostly very small Congeria, but also Melanopsis species etc.

Franz Bernhard

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Next one from Göttelsberg, see post above!

Anybody else having something new today :)?

Franz Bernhard

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Found today (07/04/2019), about 3:00 pm. Vaccinites species, as usual freshly pulled out of the dirt. The pocket knife (9 cm) is sitting in the void left by the rudist.

Point 36, west of Kalchberg, St. Bartholomä, Styria, Austria.

Campanian St. Bartholomä-formation, Gosau-group, Eastern Alps.

I have already posted two rudists from this site this year. Visited it again today, mostly tidied the site up a bit, but also found this. Very happy again :)!

Anybody else has something to show off? It´s fossil hunting season!! ;)

Franz Bernhard

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My finds of the day were on the White River formation in Wyoming. If you want to read more about it I posted it under fossil hunting trips- here's the link.

My finds today included many pieces of turtle/tortoise shell, fragments of titanothere teeth and a few other random bits and pieces.

Here are some of the tooth frags

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And my favorite find today was a piece of a canine tooth from a titanothere-

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On 7/4/2019 at 1:31 PM, FranzBernhard said:

Found today (07/04/2019), about 3:00 pm. Vaccinites species, as usual freshly pulled out of the dirt. The pocket knife (9 cm) is sitting in the void left by the rudist.

Point 36, west of Kalchberg, St. Bartholomä, Styria, Austria.

Campanian St. Bartholomä-formation, Gosau-group, Eastern Alps.

I have already posted two rudists from this site this year. Visited it again today, mostly tidied the site up a bit, but also found this. Very happy again :)!

Anybody else has something to show off? It´s fossil hunting season!! ;)

Franz Bernhard

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That's a big one !

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"On ne voit bien que par le coeur, l'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux." (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)

"We only well see with the heart, the essential is invisible for the eyes."

 

In memory of Doren

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9 hours ago, fifbrindacier said:

That's a big one !

After cleaning, it was clear that it is a Vaccinites vesiculosus. It seems to be quite average in diameter for this species in this formation. But that´s just a gut feeling, maybe I should measure all of them....? Lengthwise, it could be a little bit above average, but its just a fragment. And it is upside down in the pic...

Do you have something to show off :)?

Franz Bernhard. 

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No, i haven't been fossil hunting for a while.

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"On ne voit bien que par le coeur, l'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux." (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)

"We only well see with the heart, the essential is invisible for the eyes."

 

In memory of Doren

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Went on a ridiculous paddle on the river yesterday. Have I mentioned I bought a trolling motor for my kayak ? (Yeah, so that happened) The 11mile round-trip can be a bit iffy if the tides or weather toss something at me unexpectedly. 

 

I'll be mounting the motor this week hopefully.

 

A beautiful Great White lower. With a small nick on the tip. 

 

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3 hours ago, Ludwigia said:

A beaut!

Thanks ... pretty much made my day.

 

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2 hours ago, FossilDAWG said:

Gorgeous tooth! :wub: :wub:

 

Don

Thanks Don ... the red staining is nice in these teeth.

 

Cheers,

B

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  • 4 weeks later...

It’s been almost a month since anyone posted here. Thought I would give it a bump! 

 

My 4 year old found this little Rugose (Horn) Coral today in some of our landscaping rock. It’s about 1 inch (2.54cm to the rest of the world ;) ) long. It’s nothing spectacular, but he was so excited to find it that I had to show it off. It made his day (and mine)! :wub:

 

 

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Today, 10/01/2019, I made my first visit to the area around St. Josef, Western Styria, Austria ("Florianer Schichten", Langhian-Miocene) since about 11 months. Checked out 6 sites in 5 hours, three of them were made public by me 2-3 years ago:

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Nothing spectacular or new was found, but all sites had easy surface pickings of small fossils from debris. Outcropping sediment with fossils is exposed in 5 of them, in one you have to dig a little bit, but its still easy going. I guess I have collected about 40 mollusc species today. So, situation around St. Josef is still very good (if you like miocene molluscs and small fossils, though :D).

 

Now to the "fossils du jour" :):

This one waited for me just below the outcrop nearly as it is, only cleaning and minimal "prepping" involved, no gluing :o!!

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Its by far the nicest Amalda matrix specimen I have found so far. Already slightly weathered, but I don´t bother.

 

This one I have freshly cracked open from remains of another collector, again just cleaning and minimal "prepping" and no gluing:

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Fragmentary tellinid bivalve, fragment of Turritella partschi, Pecten styriacus. Everything is somewhat weathered, but its still a nice compo specimen.

Bramberg-1, collected 10/01/2019, width of specimen 7 cm.

Thanks for looking!

Franz Bernhard

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