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  • 2 months later...

I've been home for a few days now, so I've had time to finally prepare and work on some more brachiopods I've had stowed away.  28

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34 Is a rather nice surface find that probably won't receive any prep. A big sized brach although weathered, with some hash.

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37 I like the color difference in this one, you can clearly see where the surface was exposed. Prepped out of the rock it has a nice look as well. I threw in another that's close to being finished, but it's much harder material.

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Nice! I like the ones where you have gotten them to “pop out” of the matrix showing the negative impression. Especially number 28. :) 

The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.  -Neil deGrasse Tyson

 

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On 8/13/2019 at 1:27 AM, Ludwigia said:

Thanks for regularly showing us your finds here. Very nice stuff!

Thank you for checking them out, glad you like them!

On 8/13/2019 at 4:34 AM, FossilNerd said:

Nice! I like the ones where you have gotten them to “pop out” of the matrix showing the negative impression. Especially number 28. :) 

Thanks! I too like this type of display, 28 is pretty special to me as it's one of the few that i have that preserved and shows some of it's internals. I like to think over the months I'm getting better at this.

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I'm drifting away from brachs here again, only because I've been finding more crinoids than anything latley. I probably should have titled the thread something like Jackson's finds lol. These are all pretty much finished besides some matrix clean up to do. First is a crinoid calyx steinkern that cleaned up nice. It took far too long to prep for how small (and fragile) it is.

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More calyxs. This one appears to be a Uperocrinus species. I worked both of these next two calyxs to pop out and fit back in their home. I'm sure some will shriek at this practice due to a little damage to the bottom that happened in the process, but I rather like it.20190827_024557.thumb.jpg.46d6eb17c3b99120137a940c09b89d3d.jpg 

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Another steinkern calyx, appears to be a Physetocrinus species. This piece has a cool little Platyceras gastropod coated in druzy also. 

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41 Back to brachiopods. Just got back from a 3 day camping trip and I found the biggest steinkern of a brachiopod. It's pretty weathered, but fortunately required no prep as it was weathering out from a bluff. It has lovely pyrite crystals covering it too!

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