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  2. Rockwood

    Beach Find ID Please

    It's fossil bone, but I doubt much more can be said about it.
  3. trilobites_are_awesome

    Baby Mosasaur

    It appears like he bought it. Its definitely a composite.
  4. JBkansas

    Baby Mosasaur

    Those look like real verts. I mean, why waste them with such an obvious forgery, you might as well make the whole thing out of plaster.
  5. Brevicolis

    Baby Mosasaur

    Piece of art or junk, whatever you want to call it Real teeth and bones, but ill guarantee you, they're most likely not from the same individual. They're just some random vertebras, bones, and teeth put together whith plaster. Please stay far, far, faaaaar away from it, and please dont buy it.
  6. JorisVV

    Let's see your rarest specimen!

    This is the Hoffmannii
  7. I have decided to cash in my IRA and put the money into this rare, baby Mosasaur, I feel in the long run, with appreciation of the rare piece, I can beat the 16.78% return I had last year in the stock market. I am impressed at how robust infant mosasaurs were. They were obviously strong swimmers from birth! In the off chance, that there may be a small amount of repair; I am posting it here for opinions.
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  9. Sacha

    Florida Fossil IDs

    @minnbuckeye Yes that's better. Unfortunately that doesn't fit any of what we found at Yankeetown. Fully inflated usually means Agassizia clevei, but mouth and anis are not right. Next best guess is a large Fibularia Vaughani but the profile doesn't fit. Sorry can't really help.
  10. Maybe throwing it in some acetone will show If its 100% real or not. But i hope this is real, because, i think you know why. It wasnt cheap. Thats all what i can tell.
  11. Hello everyone, I was wondering if it would be possible to prep Moroccan trilobites with my dremel 290 and ZoicPaleotech bits (and get decent results). I've been wanting to buy some unprepared specimens, but am unsure if I'd be able to do anything to them. Is there any particular matrixes or species you'd recommend? also, where would one aquire affordable, unprepared specimens? I'm not an expert fossil-prepper by any means (as you can tell by my current tools). Thanks in advance.
  12. Kato

    Shell Fossil? (ID needed)

    I think it's a rugose coral. It looks to be a nice specimen missing just a bit of the tip.
  13. LeonardV3

    Shell Fossil? (ID needed)

    Hi everyone, I found this fossil at the beach in the Netherlands in the province of Zeeland. It looks like a shell but I would like to know more about it! Thanks!
  14. Fossildude19

    Hi from Houston, Texas

    Welcome.
  15. BirdsAreDinosaurs

    I ask for artistic advice

    My two cents, if you want to illustrate something from scratch without blending in photographs: I agree with keeping more colours in the foreground and fading to the blueish tones in the back. Add some more details and textures to your creatures. Darken the shadows, both in the sand and other places, to create more depth, coherence and contrast. You could create layers of textures and blend them in at different levels to create depth. I also agree with the suggestion to add some large creatures in the foreground to create depth. They might also function as eye-catchers. Good luck!
  16. Darktooth

    Hi from Houston, Texas

    Hello and welcome to the forum from New York!
  17. I would say it is a mixture, crown was broken and reglued or belongs to two individual animals
  18. Fin Lover

    Hi from Houston, Texas

    Welcome to the forum!
  19. Shellseeker

    Can anyone identify for me?

    Agree,, Here are a couple not so modern.. Where did you find yours?
  20. rocket

    Kem kem dinosaur fossils

    How does the other side look? Did you clean it, too?
  21. minnbuckeye

    Florida Fossil IDs

    @Sacha, do these help? @jpc and @garyc, it looks less likely to be a phalanx now that the sun is shining {been overcast for a week here) but will wait for your expert opinions!!
  22. Mahnmut

    I ask for artistic advice

    That one is made with AI, isn´t it?
  23. Hello everyone, and thanks for making this forum happen! I am from the Houston area. My kids and I got into fossil hunting when we randomly stepped into petrified oysters and bivalves in the TX hill country. Since then, we've been fossil hunting, mainly in the Dallas area. Usually it's just an excuse to get out, but finding old, strange looking, beautiful things does not get old. Happy to join for trips here and there. All the best!
  24. minnbuckeye

    I ask for artistic advice

    I personally would maintain non blue colors but keep them toned down. This is shown nicely in this drawing. Yes reality is blue at the depth you are wanting but my eye prefers some color. As another suggestion, bring more specimens to the foreground as also depicted in this image.
  25. ftlcgi

    I ask for artistic advice

    If you ad a blue filter you should mask out the bottom part of the filter on the seafloor, so it gets blue on the far side, example here https://www.desmog.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/seafloor-nodules_credit-noaa-okeanos.jpeg Ad more algae on the "horizon" to break off the line, and ad some blur on the far algae and make them darker, ad some algae in the foreground to show the view through them, exagerated example here: https://st3.depositphotos.com/6633222/16437/v/450/depositphotos_164377632-stock-illustration-underwater-scene-with-tropical-coral.jpg I just saw that the first image had a faded background with dark algae, i think it looked more natural than the second For even more artistic effect you can ad more backgrounds farther and farther like this https://st4.depositphotos.com/33603760/40774/v/450/depositphotos_407749904-stock-illustration-sea-underwater-background.jpg Keep adding more details like shading, trilobite tracks, a bit of vignette, etc, soft improvements will count but don't overdo Adjust some of the colors, gray out the pink and orange they are not thet visible in deep water, i started with pink and purple seashells but ended up with more muddy colors and i'm more happy with them https://content.invisioncic.com/e327962/monthly_2024_03/bivalves.thumb.jpg.92d278acfc1188b9fb225a9849544334.jpg You can use an underwater image (like the one mentioned by Kane) as a layer on top of your drawing and blend it as screen instead of normal and get something like this if you want
  26. piranha

    Open Access Trilobite Papers 1993–2024

    Wanneria cranbrookense has just been formally published. It only took 27 years since the unpublished thesis of Bohach 1997 informally introduced: "Wanneria dunnae" Trilobite aficionados around the world can finally rejoice with taxonomic clarity and accurate labels! Webster, M., Caron, J.B. 2024 Trilobites of the Cranbrook Lagerstätte (Eager Formation, Cambrian Stage 4), British Columbia. Journal of Paleontology, (ahead-of-print publication – in press) 44 pp. OPEN ACCESS PDF
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