Recker Posted March 3, 2019 Share Posted March 3, 2019 I've been trying my hand at prepping this hash plate that I found on the Whitewater River in Southeast Indiana. Gotta do something when the river is high and the weather sucks!! There is a lot of bits and pieces going on in this one and the color of the fossils are odd compared to the matrix they are in which is really soft. Thought I'd share, what caused this jumble of fossils, and what do you see? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recker Posted March 3, 2019 Author Share Posted March 3, 2019 This is another one I've been pecking away at with my pin LOL. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted March 3, 2019 Share Posted March 3, 2019 Nice hash plates. The first one has a number of brachiopod valves on it, ... maybe some Leptaena sp. The backside of that piece is showing lots of cross sections of many shells. Something like this occurs when high energy environments dump debris of similar size in one place, and they become cemented together. The second item has what appear to be trilobite bits, and branching coral, or bryozoans. Neat finds. 3 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...
Recker Posted March 3, 2019 Author Share Posted March 3, 2019 1 hour ago, Fossildude19 said: Nice hash plates. The first one has a number of brachiopod valves on it, ... maybe some Leptaena sp. The backside of that piece is showing lots of cross sections of many shells. Something like this occurs when high energy environments dump debris of similar size in one place, and they become cemented together. The second item has what appear to be trilobite bits, and branching coral, or bryozoans. Neat finds. Thanks Fossildude, I'll keep pecking away at the back side of if and we will see what it reveals. the trilobite bits are exciting, the first that I've found! I'm learning so much, never realized that while the area in which I live was the bottom of the Ordovician sea, yet weather events occurred like hurricanes. Pretty amazing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hrguy54 Posted March 4, 2019 Share Posted March 4, 2019 Due to their size, maybe they should be referred to as "hash saucers". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siteseer Posted March 5, 2019 Share Posted March 5, 2019 Pin vises work on many matrices. It's just slower, requiring more patience but there's also less risk with breaking something as sometimes happens with a scribe if you're not super-careful with something delicate. Some preparators make their own pin vise by taking a piece of 2-part putty and shaping it so that it's more comfortable in holding position than a vise you can buy, inserting the pin of your choice so you have a custom tool when it hardens. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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