Uncle Siphuncle Posted April 18, 2019 Share Posted April 18, 2019 I was overwhelmed with prep immediately after the 2011 trip my wife and I took to Europe, so I put down some of the more involved prep work until now. Initially I prepped only the flashiest stuff we found. Happy to be all caught up. Prep involved air scribe, dolomite microblast, and coating with a mixture of beeswax and turpentine. Hope you find them as appealing as we do. First, Drügendorf, Germany. 4 Grüße, Daniel A. Wöhr aus Südtexas "To the motivated go the spoils." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Siphuncle Posted April 18, 2019 Author Share Posted April 18, 2019 Next, the Wolfgang Endress Quarry in Gräfenberg, Germany. Wife kinda smoked me at this quarry. 3 Grüße, Daniel A. Wöhr aus Südtexas "To the motivated go the spoils." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Siphuncle Posted April 18, 2019 Author Share Posted April 18, 2019 More from Gräfenberg. 3 Grüße, Daniel A. Wöhr aus Südtexas "To the motivated go the spoils." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Siphuncle Posted April 18, 2019 Author Share Posted April 18, 2019 One of our favorite spots in France was the Lafarge Quarry at Belmont, near Lyon. Insanely productive. There were at least 100 collectors there that morning, many "in the know" showing up with wagons. We only had about 4 hours to collect, but everyone was finding ammonites, gastropods, bivalves, and belemnites hand over fist for the entire time, even walking out. First, let's look at what my wife found in the overlying Toarcian layer. First 2 pics are forward and reverse of the same specimen. 3 Grüße, Daniel A. Wöhr aus Südtexas "To the motivated go the spoils." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Siphuncle Posted April 18, 2019 Author Share Posted April 18, 2019 More Belmont. 3 Grüße, Daniel A. Wöhr aus Südtexas "To the motivated go the spoils." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facehugger Posted April 18, 2019 Share Posted April 18, 2019 Awesome that you have a partner that enjoys this sort of thing too... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Siphuncle Posted April 18, 2019 Author Share Posted April 18, 2019 The underlying Aalenian layer was equally as impressive, if not more so. Ammonites could be found loose as well as in blocks studded with belemnites. Here are some loose ones my wife found. Last 2 pics are forward and reverse of a double. 3 Grüße, Daniel A. Wöhr aus Südtexas "To the motivated go the spoils." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Siphuncle Posted April 18, 2019 Author Share Posted April 18, 2019 More lady luck. 4 Grüße, Daniel A. Wöhr aus Südtexas "To the motivated go the spoils." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Siphuncle Posted April 18, 2019 Author Share Posted April 18, 2019 While walking out, our friend Jean-Louis spotted this killer Porpoceras, and handed it to my wife. I was afraid to mess it up with aggressive prep, so I saved it for last, when I'd hopefully be at the top of my prep game for material from Belmont. We like it. 8 Grüße, Daniel A. Wöhr aus Südtexas "To the motivated go the spoils." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulK Posted April 18, 2019 Share Posted April 18, 2019 They are all very nice fossils. Did you declare them when coming back to the U.S. and did customs have questions about them? I curious as to how difficult it is to leave one country and enter another with a suitcase full of fossils. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Siphuncle Posted April 18, 2019 Author Share Posted April 18, 2019 7 minutes ago, PaulK said: They are all very nice fossils. Did you declare them when coming back to the U.S. and did customs have questions about them? I curious as to how difficult it is to leave one country and enter another with a suitcase full of fossils. We declared everything, about 1000 fossils or so. During 2011 and 2015 trips it was easy to get fossils in and out of both countries...largely why we chose to visit those countries. But with undercurrents of policy change since then esp in Germany, best to check the rules right before a trip. 1 Grüße, Daniel A. Wöhr aus Südtexas "To the motivated go the spoils." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ptychodus04 Posted April 18, 2019 Share Posted April 18, 2019 Those are some nice ammonites Dan! (@Uncle Siphuncle) What does it feel like to be caught up on prep work? I've never experienced that. Regards, Kris Global Paleo Services, LLC https://globalpaleoservices.com http://instagram.com/globalpaleoservices http://instagram.com/kris.howe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted April 18, 2019 Share Posted April 18, 2019 @Uncle Siphuncle Nice to see that you finally got them done. Man, you sure do take your time! I think I got down to mine practically the day after I got home from Gräfenberg. If I remember rightly someone with sticky fingers enlightened you of some of your finds. Man, was that "ärgerlich"! By the way, you've got the names of your Lafarge layers mixed up. The first finds shown, various species of Leioceras, are from the opalinum zone of the early Aalenian. The ones below that are various species from the thouarsense and bifrons zones of the Late Toarcian. If you need any help with ids then just send me a PM. 2 Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Siphuncle Posted April 19, 2019 Author Share Posted April 19, 2019 Thanks for the correction, Roger. Details grow fuzzy over the years. Hope to see you again on site somewhere soon. 1 Grüße, Daniel A. Wöhr aus Südtexas "To the motivated go the spoils." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Everhardus Posted July 3, 2019 Share Posted July 3, 2019 hi Dan, This one i missed, not very much on this forum. I guess this is a post from last april ? Nice to see your finds prepped well. Since i’ve done some investing recently i should be able to get similar results.....when i do i’ll upload some pix...greetz from Holland Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Siphuncle Posted July 3, 2019 Author Share Posted July 3, 2019 2 hours ago, Everhardus said: hi Dan, This one i missed, not very much on this forum. I guess this is a post from last april ? Nice to see your finds prepped well. Since i’ve done some investing recently i should be able to get similar results.....when i do i’ll upload some pix...greetz from Holland Feel free to post your finds as I’d love to see them! Yes this was a recent post. If memory serves, I was pretty overwhelmed by prep after that 2011 trip. Right after we got home, my wife deployed to Iraq and Kuwait for 3 months. While she was gone, I kept busy by collecting and prepping like a madman. When she got home, I wasn’t finished prepping. A bunch of her finds were tucked away forgotten for years. Grüße, Daniel A. Wöhr aus Südtexas "To the motivated go the spoils." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJB Posted July 3, 2019 Share Posted July 3, 2019 Some nice stuff for sure! Always nice to hunt a productive site or two and come home with a bunch of goodies. RB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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