TqB Posted February 11, 2019 Share Posted February 11, 2019 A perfect gift I reckon - I won this on the usual auction site a couple of weeks ago and was allowed to unwrap it today. It's a 22", 3.3lb Megateuthis suevica (formerly gigantea). (They do get longer, supposedly well over 30", even a yard. One day...) It's now probably the star attraction of my belemnite collection (roughly a thousand specimens). I have collected the same species in the UK but I've not heard of any reaching this sort of size here, about 14" being the maximum I know of. My longest Yorkshire coast one, 10", is shown in photo 3. Middle Jurassic, Bajocian, reportedly from the Subfurcatum Zone (they're usually Humphriesianum, the zone below), temporary roadworks near Osnabrück, N. Germany, 1985. With 10" Yorkshire, UK specimen from the Scarborough Formation. 12 Tarquin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Rico Posted February 11, 2019 Share Posted February 11, 2019 Happy birthday Tarquin. I am glad you also get very sensible gift too. That is a beautiful monster of a belemnite, stunning addition to your collection . All the best Bobby 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted February 11, 2019 Share Posted February 11, 2019 How lovely... It's an excellent gift, Tarquin! Happy birthday to you! 1 " We are not separate and independent entities, but like links in a chain, and we could not by any means be what we are without those who went before us and showed us the way. " Thomas Mann My Library Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kosmoceras Posted February 11, 2019 Share Posted February 11, 2019 Happy birthday Tarquin! That's a spectacular specimen, congrats on your acquisition. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pagurus Posted February 11, 2019 Share Posted February 11, 2019 That is one amazing belemnite fossil! Congratulations on your acquisition, and happy birthday! 1 Start the day with a smile and get it over with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ricardo Posted February 11, 2019 Share Posted February 11, 2019 Happy birthday! Great and big belemnite. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted February 11, 2019 Share Posted February 11, 2019 @TqB I was following that one! So you're the lucky guy that won it! It couldn't have found a better home! Congratulations!!! Yes, they can get quite large in the Subfurcatum Oolite. That's the lithographic formation. Zone is the niortense. 1 Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tidgy's Dad Posted February 12, 2019 Share Posted February 12, 2019 Not just big, but a jolly nice specimen too! Happy birthday, Tarquin. 2 Life's Good! Tortoise Friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goatinformationist Posted February 12, 2019 Share Posted February 12, 2019 Happy Birthday, and don't sleep with it under your pillow. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted February 12, 2019 Share Posted February 12, 2019 Happy birthday! Great acquisition. 1 Darwin said: " Man sprang from monkeys." Will Rogers said: " Some of them didn't spring far enough." My Fossil collection - My Mineral collection My favorite thread on TFF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TqB Posted February 12, 2019 Author Share Posted February 12, 2019 @Bobby Rico @abyssunder @Kosmoceras @Pagurus @ricardo @Tidgy's Dad @goatinformationist @ynot Many thanks, everyone, much appreciated! Tarquin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TqB Posted February 12, 2019 Author Share Posted February 12, 2019 10 hours ago, Ludwigia said: @TqB I was following that one! So you're the lucky guy that won it! It couldn't have found a better home! Congratulations!!! Yes, they can get quite large in the Subfurcatum Oolite. That's the lithographic formation. Zone is the niortense. Many thanks, Roger, I wasn't going to let it get away though the bidding was a bit fierce! Thanks for confirming Subfurcatum - the seller said he found Garantiana and Strenoceras with it, and Trigonia. Re Niortense - having looked it up, I see that it's the sub-Mediterranean equivalent, which includes southern Germany. Northern Germany is N.W. European province so would still be Subfurcatum under that scheme - or has it changed again?!! (This one's from Osnabrück.) Tarquin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted February 12, 2019 Share Posted February 12, 2019 1 hour ago, TqB said: Many thanks, Roger, I wasn't going to let it get away though the bidding was a bit fierce! Thanks for confirming Subfurcatum - the seller said he found Garantiana and Strenoceras with it, and Trigonia. Re Niortense - having looked it up, I see that it's the sub-Mediterranean equivalent, which includes southern Germany. Northern Germany is N.W. European province so would still be Subfurcatum under that scheme - or has it changed again?!! (This one's from Osnabrück.) Hmmm...Looks like I might not have been quite up to date, or I was going by the southern German situation, so I checked out our Lithographisches Lexikon (Sorry. It's only in German). The northern German lithographic unit is called the Garantianenton Formation, the upper part being designated as the Garantianen "Schichten" (Beds) and the lower as the Subfurcaten "Schichten", the former corresponding to the garantiana zone and the latter to the niortense zone. So it appears that the sub-Mediterranean definition still applies in Osnabrück. I suppose that if the seller used the name Subfurcatum, then it must have been found in the lower section. 1 Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rebu Posted February 12, 2019 Share Posted February 12, 2019 Happy birthday what a monster your belemnite, amazing 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KimTexan Posted February 12, 2019 Share Posted February 12, 2019 Awesome birthday present. Happy belated birthday. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TqB Posted February 12, 2019 Author Share Posted February 12, 2019 34 minutes ago, Ludwigia said: The northern German lithographic unit is called the Garantianenton Formation, the upper part being designated as the Garantianen "Schichten" (Beds) and the lower as the Subfurcaten "Schichten", the former corresponding to the garantiana zone and the latter to the niortense zone. So it appears that the sub-Mediterranean definition still applies in Osnabrück. I suppose that if the seller used the name Subfurcatum, then it must have been found in the lower section. Many thanks for the clarification, Roger. That's all clear and I've added it to the label. 1 Tarquin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted February 12, 2019 Share Posted February 12, 2019 Excellent addition, Tarquin! A Happy Belated Birthday to you! 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...
TqB Posted February 12, 2019 Author Share Posted February 12, 2019 @rebu @KimTexan @Fossildude19 Thanks all, I had a great birthday and even found a piece of Stigmaria on a local waterfall river walk. Not much you might think but the rock's mostly igneous. 2 Tarquin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
belemniten Posted February 12, 2019 Share Posted February 12, 2019 Belated happy birthday Tarquin And congrats to the great acquisition!! Many greetings from Germany ! Have a great time with many fossils Regards Sebastian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TqB Posted February 15, 2019 Author Share Posted February 15, 2019 On 12/02/2019 at 10:16 PM, belemniten said: Belated happy birthday Tarquin And congrats to the great acquisition!! Thanks, Sebastian! Tarquin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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