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From the album: Upper Cretaceous New Mexico
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Hello, This is my best 2D Ammonite that a friend generously gave to me. It is 4cm in diameter and is from Holzmaden,Germany. Could somebody tell what specie of ammonite this is? Or any additional info. Tell me if you need more pictures. Thanks,Regards
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Hi I found ammonites in the south of Morocco but I could not identify if anyone can help me.
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From the album: Upper Cretaceous New Mexico
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I found this back around Thanksgiving, the end of November, in the Grayson Formation in Tarrant County Texas. I believe it is a Graysonites ammonite, but I was trying to narrow it down to a species. I only have one reference book for Texas ammonites and it doesn’t mention any Graysonites ammonites in Tarrant County. The book is a bit older so some of the nomenclature may have changed too. In the book there are 4 species compared in a table. There are a few more mentioned briefly, but not well described. Only 2 species in the table are reported in the Grayson formation, lozoi and wooldridgei I think this may be the Graysonites lozoi species unless anyone can direct me otherwise. It is 200 mm in diameter and had a max whorl height of 76 mm with a breadth of 49 mm. The number of ribs per whorl is 16. I was hunting with another person the day I found this. He found a much larger one in embedded under the marl ledge about 30 feet from this one. He tried to extract it and shattered it in the attempt. The horns on that one were about 45 mm long! It was an impressive little beast. Any thoughts? Can anyone direct me to additional references with Graysonites in Texas? I probably need to search @Fruitbat‘s PDF library. Or maybe @doushantuo has a good reference. I have others I will be attempting to ID soon as well. The last shot you can just see suture patterns if you zoom in. Hopefully the quality didn’t suffer too much when I attempted to downsize them to put on here.
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From the album: Upper Cretaceous New Mexico
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I have recently been preparing one of my ammonites in my collection that I have had for a while. I am quite happy with what I managed so far. And also if anyone can help with the ID that would be great because I have no information on it.
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Spathites puercoensis (Herrick & Johnson, 1900)
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From the album: Upper Cretaceous New Mexico
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Herrickiceras costatum (Herrick and Johnson, 1900)
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From the album: Upper Cretaceous New Mexico
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This mini Mortoniceras block was one of my 3 a.m. head torch finds from several weeks ago. The smallest specimen was a prep time find discovered by happenstance while blowing through matrix with the scribe. I had to glue it back in place. Due to that and other flaws, I didn’t put my best prep foot forward, as I’m backlogged with better specimens. Still, in aggregate, they lend each other a symbiotic appeal.
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From the album: james herrmann
Heteromorph is my most recent sculpture with a paleontological theme. This is the rear view of the sculpture showing the shell spines. -
I would like to introduce myself and my work. I grew up on a small farm in southwestern Ohio loaded with great locations for the collection of ordovician fossils. I earned my BA in geology and taught fro approximately 30 years. I retired from education in 2015 and have been working as a sculptor since. I do some animal and wildlife work, some fantasy sculptures and some paleontology themed pieces. I aways try to have my pieces looking and behaving in a lifelike and believable fashion as well as being technically accurate. My sculptures are created in clay, I then make rubber molds, cast a wax in the mold and then have the wax cast in bronze in a foundry. Sculpting in bronze is more expensive than resin but the material is strong and incredibly durable. I am currently working on another sculpture of a heteromorphic ammonite that I also need help with. Let me first attach sample of my sculptures to show you my work. Thank you.
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Did another lunch hour prep today. Heteromorphic ammonites Mariella brazoensis, Grayson Fm, North Texas. None perfect, but security in numbers.
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From the album: james herrmann
In this right side view of the sculpture I would like to show the green marble base. I chose this mottled green marble as a continuation of the kelp forest theme. I envision this ammonite pulling its way along the waving fronts of a kelp forest as it forages for small crustaceans. Kelp forests are contrasts of warm, bright beams of light and deep shadow. The marble is mottled in various shades of green much like looking down onto the kelp forest's waving fronds.- 2 comments
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In this view I again wanted to show the cantilevered structure of the sculpture and the subtle color differences in the patination of the shell vs the body of the ammonite. -
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In this front left view I wanted to highlight the waving of the kelp. The challenge was to strongly support the heteromorph while still making the sculpture feel like there was movement and a lightness to the work. -
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This left side view of the sculpture shows the attachment of the ammonite to the kelp, actually there is a lot of bronze in the mass of tentacles. From the base to the top of the sculpture is approximately 40 inches. -
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I like the complex repeating nature of the spines in this view of the sculpture. I am supporting the mass of the bronze ammonite with the bronze kelp leaves welded into a trellis-like pattern to carry the weight down to the base. -
An ammonite from the Cretaceous of Madagascar, what species?
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Hello guys, does anyone knows the species of this ammonite from the Moroccan Anti-Atlas? Thanks in advance, Miguel
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Hi, Dactylioceras I have had a while after prepping it, it is pyrite so was a bit stubborn, pretty big Dac though, the monkey puzzle stump is a recent find and is laced with jet, makes a nice stand for the Ammonite or whatever I decide to put on next, wanted to share, thanks, Alan.
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You guys were a ton of help with the plant fossils, now it's time for round 2 A little background for those that didn't see my last post, I have been asked to help ID and sort the fossils in a local history museum's basement. I do not have the time or resources to commit to do the job completely by myself, so I am asking for any help I can get. These are mostly bivalves and one ammonite. As with before, I do not know the formations, but they are more likely to be from the New Mexico/Texas area than from elsewhere, although they could be from anywhere. And as I took these pictures last week, we still have a Sharpie as a size reference. Thanks for the help!
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Hello everyone, I've recently been put in charge of emptying a fossil collectors secondary collection (the non-prepped fossils he collected himself in the sixties and seventies). I found several plates hidden underneath a built-in aquarium inside a wall, see pictures attached. They seem to be flattened shale ammonites from Whitby, and they seem to be flaking. I guess because they were being used as a crutch to keep the aquarium in place. Is there any emergency prepping, maybe a coating of somesort I can do to keep these plates from flaking any further? Or maybe some tips to safely transport them? I've already moved crates full of smaller plates, but these are very large and unstable. I'm a hobbiest fossil hunter and I've never prepped a plate like this, so any help is welcome. I only have 6 days left to move and secure these plates in one piece. If not moved by then, they will be dumped in a thrash container :(. Thank you in advance!
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Hi I found this part of a large ammonite in car boot sale this morning. For the price of a £1 . Does anyone have any idea of the ID. Thanks all Bobby
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I got these ammonites a few months ago and I was wondering if I should put any kind of protective coating on them. I have them in storage now. When I display them they will not be near any direct sunlight but I was still worried the color may fade plus the shell is very delicate. I’d prefer to leave them natural but if there is a chance they will fade then I’d prefer to put some kind of protective coating on them. Will they fade over time even if they are not in sunlight? should I coat them or leave them as is? If I so what is the best product to use and how should I apply it? Thanks
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