nala Posted December 24, 2018 Share Posted December 24, 2018 I went saturday on my fav carbobiniferous sites to find few fossils,a lot of mud and water,but few good rewards 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted December 24, 2018 Share Posted December 24, 2018 I assume you had your rubber boots and oilskins on? Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nala Posted December 24, 2018 Author Share Posted December 24, 2018 Merry Christmas! 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nala Posted December 24, 2018 Author Share Posted December 24, 2018 And it was possible to take a shower Roger 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pagurus Posted December 24, 2018 Share Posted December 24, 2018 1 hour ago, nala said: Wonderful photo. The tire tracks seem appropriate for a Carboniferous site, with their resemblance to leaves and bark. It looks like you did well on your hunt. Merry Christmas, Gery. Mike 1 Start the day with a smile and get it over with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caldigger Posted December 24, 2018 Share Posted December 24, 2018 34 minutes ago, nala said: And it was possible to take a shower Roger It rained, so your good on bathing for another month or so. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted December 24, 2018 Share Posted December 24, 2018 Merry Christmas to you, Geri! Thanks for posting your fine report and wonderful finds! Tim - VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER VFOTM --- APRIL - 2015 __________________________________________________ "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir ~ ~ ~ ~ ><))))( *> About Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeepTimeIsotopes Posted December 24, 2018 Share Posted December 24, 2018 15 minutes ago, Pagurus said: Wonderful photo. The tire tracks seem appropriate for a Carboniferous site, with their resemblance to leaves and bark. It looks like you did well on your hunt. Merry Christmas, Gery. Mike I thought they looked like Arthropleura tracks which would also be consistent with the age. 1 Each dot is 50,000,000 years: Hadean............Archean..............................Proterozoic.......................................Phanerozoic........... Paleo......Meso....Ceno.. Ꞓ.OSD.C.P.Tr.J.K..Pg.NgQ< You are here Doesn't time just fly by? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tidgy's Dad Posted December 24, 2018 Share Posted December 24, 2018 Lovely photos and great finds! Happy Christmas! Life's Good! Tortoise Friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Archie Posted December 24, 2018 Share Posted December 24, 2018 Amazing specimens as always! Merry Christmas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lissa318 Posted December 24, 2018 Share Posted December 24, 2018 Man that is some gorgeous material you find there!!!! It would be hard for me to chose which plate is my favorite... Nice job hunting! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xonenine Posted December 24, 2018 Share Posted December 24, 2018 Fantastic find and photos as always Gery, Merry Christmas!! "Your serpent of Egypt is bred now of your mud by the operation of your sun; so is your crocodile." Lepidus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrangellian Posted December 25, 2018 Share Posted December 25, 2018 Spectacular finds, as always. Wish I could get out an hunt this time of year but my local shale is not so good to work with when it is wet. Just falls apart! (There are times I have done it, even New Year's Eve once but the weather has to be unseasonally good.) I guess tire tracks are going to be preserved in a number of places and will confuse future paleontologists! Not to mention shoe prints. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monica Posted December 26, 2018 Share Posted December 26, 2018 I love the variety of colours in your plant finds, Gery - simply beautiful! Merry Christmas to you, too, by the way! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
t-tree Posted December 27, 2018 Share Posted December 27, 2018 Great Carboniferous flora. John Be happy while you're living for you're a long time dead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nala Posted December 29, 2018 Author Share Posted December 29, 2018 Thanks for the comments,few close up pictures 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dalmayshun Posted December 29, 2018 Share Posted December 29, 2018 amazing amount of detail, and variety. does anyone unerstand the mechanism behind such beautiful plates...obviously not preserved from a mud slide which pushes sideways. these are all preserved as if in a flower press...so the burying matieral must have have come straight down, and upon live, healthy plants...these all look like they are still growing. So was it silt in water, or a falling of vulcanic ash..... Can someone fill me in on the proposed process. Thanks. Again, they are all gorgeous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeffrey P Posted December 30, 2018 Share Posted December 30, 2018 Congratulations Gery. You collected some really nice ones. I love the preservation and detail in your specimens. Excuse me. What is that animal? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FossilDAWG Posted December 30, 2018 Share Posted December 30, 2018 Apparently we have a different concept of "few good finds". Looks like a lot of excellent finds to me! When I think of carb hunting at Christmas I think of something more tasty, but probably less healthy than a day spent hunting for fossils. Don Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nala Posted December 30, 2018 Author Share Posted December 30, 2018 Thanks Don,Jeffrey P(only few tracks on the neuropteris) ,one explanation is sometimes the plants were covered by water(the level made a lot of variation at these times ) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plantguy Posted January 1, 2019 Share Posted January 1, 2019 Hey Geri, enjoyed seeing the latest! Yes we had a bunch of rain as well a couple weeks ago and a few small tornadoes locally and have a fair share of mud still hanging around in low spots. As crazy as it sounds I have been outside in the warmth here in Florida the past couple of weekends with a pressure washer blasting off algae from the driveway/sidewalks...I'd rather have been fossil hunting! Continued hunting success! Happy New Year. Regards, Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nala Posted January 1, 2019 Author Share Posted January 1, 2019 Happy new year Chris! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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