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Last Sunday I was able to find a piece with some jaw bones and teeth of an Ichthyosaur in the quarry Kromer near Holzmaden. I was very pleased with that find because the situation in the quarry is not the best. There is only a kinda small pile of stones where you are allowed to search (and where you can find marine reptile fossils, in the other regions of the quarry its very unlikely to find a bone or a teeth of a marine reptile). And this pile consists at the moment only out of very small rocks because they were laying until the beginning of the year there. So many collectors already searched there. And it's very likely that they don't get new material in this summer... :shakehead:

 

Here is a bad picture of the quarry:

 

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And here are some pictures of the jaw bone with the teeth:

 

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The prep work took about 5 hours. It's a pity that I lost that missing part in the quarry. I searched about 1 hour for it but couldn't find it. But at that time I didn't know that its a jaw bone (no teeth were visible). Now about 65 small Ichthyosaur teeth are visible. They are from a very small Ichthyosaur, maybe even from a juvenile!

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Many greetings from Germany ! Have a great time with many fossils :)

Regards Sebastian

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Great find well done :envy:

John

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Outstanding find, Sebastian!

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1 hour ago, Abstraktum said:

Stunning find! Always enjoying your field reports :) 

Thanks :) I am less active at the moment because I am quite busy with studying and also with preparing my fossils. Hopefully I can be a bit more active active in the future! 

 

1 hour ago, t-tree said:

Great find well done :envy:

John

 

57 minutes ago, TqB said:

Beautiful find, Sebastian, what an evocative scattering!

 

52 minutes ago, Natalie81 said:

Another great find, congratulations! 

 

43 minutes ago, JohnJ said:

Outstanding find, Sebastian!

 

29 minutes ago, RuMert said:

65 teeth! nice

Thank you all :D It's my first "jaw with teeth" find, so I am also very happy about it. 

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Many greetings from Germany ! Have a great time with many fossils :)

Regards Sebastian

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Fantastic find! I bet there will be afew more nice finds from you too before the year ends!

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That's Lovely! :wub: 

Way to go, Sebastian!

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Great find- I love the way all of the teeth are laying around, I like it that way versus being in the jaw.

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Oh ! Marvelous ! POTD ?

 

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Congratulations on an incredible find Sebastian, especially given the current conditions there which make such finds even rarer. Hopefully conditions improve since I love to collect there someday. 

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Nice find! 

 

The quarry really has changed since when i was there in May, it looks like a Bulldozer has been through 

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2 hours ago, Phevo said:

Nice find! 

 

The quarry really has changed since when i was there in May, it looks like a Bulldozer has been through 

Or hundreds of fossil hungry tourists :raindance:

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14 hours ago, Bobby Rico said:

Beautiful find congratulations   :wub:

 

14 hours ago, Darktooth said:

Awesome find! Congratulations!

 

13 hours ago, Fossildude19 said:

That's Lovely! :wub: 

Way to go, Sebastian!

Thanks guys! I really appreciate your kind words :)

 

13 hours ago, LiamL said:

Fantastic find! I bet there will be afew more nice finds from you too before the year ends!

Thanks Liam! I doubt it but maybe I will try to prep some more pieces from this year. Last year it was the same. At the beginning there was new good material but then the whole year nothing new ...

 

13 hours ago, Nimravis said:

Great find- I love the way all of the teeth are laying around, I like it that way versus being in the jaw.

Thanks! Yeah it's not bad but if they would have been in the jaw it would be much easier to prep it.

 

12 hours ago, Coco said:

Oh ! Marvelous ! POTD ?

 

Coco

Thanks! Sorry for my stupidness but what does POTD mean? ;)

 

10 hours ago, Jeffrey P said:

Congratulations on an incredible find Sebastian, especially given the current conditions there which make such finds even rarer. Hopefully conditions improve since I love to collect there someday. 

Thanks! At the beginning of the next year it's going to be good again I guess!

 

5 hours ago, Phevo said:

Nice find! 

 

The quarry really has changed since when i was there in May, it looks like a Bulldozer has been through 

Thanks!

2 hours ago, LiamL said:

Or hundreds of fossil hungry tourists :raindance:

You normally don't see too many tourists searching at the pile where I search but there are actually quite a couple more or less professional collectors, who are regularly there. But in the other parts there are of course many tourists...

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Many greetings from Germany ! Have a great time with many fossils :)

Regards Sebastian

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that location is still on our bucket list :P

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@belemniten I mean POTM -> pic of the month, the contest of the month for the most beautiful fossil ;)

 

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Amazing find Sebastian :D That jaw is simply wonderful - and it's made even cooler by the conditions it was found in!

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6 hours ago, belemniten said:

 

 

Thanks guys! I really appreciate your kind words :)

 

Thanks Liam! I doubt it but maybe I will try to prep some more pieces from this year. Last year it was the same. At the beginning there was new good material but then the whole year nothing new ...

 

Thanks! Yeah it's not bad but if they would have been in the jaw it would be much easier to prep it.

 

Thanks! Sorry for my stupidness but what does POTD mean? ;)

 

Thanks! At the beginning of the next year it's going to be good again I guess!

 

Thanks!

You normally don't see too many tourists searching at the pile where I search but there are actually quite a couple more or less professional collectors, who are regularly there. But in the other parts there are of course many tourists...

If i lived near there i’d be there all the time! They’d be sick of me haha

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