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last weekend on our field trip where we usually search for cenomanian ammonites we also found a few phosphate ammonites on the beach that were washed out on the beach from the lower albian layers.

 

most of them were only fragments or encrusted with phosphate, but I managed to prep  few of them with very good results:

 

 

the specimen on the bottom of the picture: Anahoplites planus

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Hoplites sp.

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Euhoplites ochetonus

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Nice ones. Are they pyrite-filled, and did you need to soak them in consolidant/sealer?

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9 hours ago, Tidgy's Dad said:

Nice ammos! :default_clap2:

Thx Adam :)

 

6 hours ago, Wrangellian said:

Nice ones. Are they pyrite-filled, and did you need to soak them in consolidant/sealer?

Thx :)

No, they are composed out of phosphate, but pyrite inclusions are common.

 

6 hours ago, Ludwigia said:

Nice ones. They’re not very common finds there, aren’t they?

Thx Roger.

They are indeed uncommon, the albian at this location is located under the sand on the beach. But after rough weather conditions those fossils are somtimes thrown on the beach and most of the time in fragments. So I am very happy to  have found a few that are mostly complete :)

 

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