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I'm starting to get into mechanical prep seeing as with the quarantine I have extra time on my hand. My equipment arrived before my projects did so I've been practicing on this invert I had on hand. I believe this is a gastropod? Or is it a bivalve? I can never keep them straight in my head. Anyways, I forgot to take a before picture so I apologize for this awful photo as it was the only one I had: And this is it currently: Obviously not done yet, needs some more work and then some serious clean up to make it look nice but I'm thinking to put it aside for a while. The matrix is very annoying. There is less than a millimeter of rock covering the left side but as I learned the hard way on a small section, haste leads to immediate damage of the fossil. Prying upwards is great for chipping the rock away quickly but wants to take the fossil with it I'll finish it eventually but it will be slow, slow going. On a more exciting note one of my real projects arrived today. Here in a bit I'll draw up and post a plan of attack and tomorrow I'll probably get a start on it. My hope is that with this thread I can get your guys' opinions and advice to help prevent me from adding another cautionary tale on the bungled extractions thread
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For the invert crowd Peace river echinoids and sand dollar
hoffy posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
These are so hard find in the Peace River. I've only found one echinoid and small chunks of sand dollars in 20+ years then kabóom 4 echinoids and 2 complete sand dollars. The sand dollar maybe Melitta Carolinas I'm sure I did not spell that correctly. As soon I manufacture some extra time these and more are gong to FLMNH. -
I headed out to Mazon Creek IL a few days ago and came back with some fair nodules. I found a big nodule(6) and used the freeze thaw method to open it, I think it might be a jellyfish but I’m unsure, as I guess it could be nothing. 1 and 2 just have irregular shapes and I believe are made of pyrite. 3,4 and 5 are nodules that did not open from freeze thaw so I broke them with a hammer, and they have some white marks but I’m not sure if they are anything at all. Help with any of these finds would be awesome, and I had quite the adventure at Mazon as it rained and was quite filled with ticks!
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With the last week of July officially upon us, I want to squeeze a last minute trip somewhere I haven't been before I get dragged back to school kicking and screaming. I've been so far looking to Alabama, with many Cretaceous and Paleocene formations everywhere it seems. I have quite a bit of interest in the Demopolis chalk, which has some dinosaurs, and also anything with good invertebrates, particularly echinoids. Anywhere I can go for a last minute blast in the past in 'bama?
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After a long idle period, I finally did a good sized update to my galleries here on the forum. Most of the new images went into my invert gallery, but the trilobite and shark teeth galleries got a few as well. There are a few rarities in there and a few things I've never seen for sale elsewhere. Enjoy.
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I would like to get some fossils to seed some areas for both my sons to find some interesting things and to better learn the diversity of what is out there. I was thinking shark teeth , ammonites and trilobites stuff like that can any one help with this. I could ether trade or buy doesn't matter I'm just looking for a variety of stuff.
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November is the closing month for shows here in northern Spain. Although I wasn't going to spend a lot of money, I see this group, and I couldn't say no... It came home with me... Ya know! Hehehe! Most of it pliocene stuff, except for the very well preserved Persististrombus latus, from middle pleistocene. All of it comes from an old collection. From pliocene/pleistocene layers of southern Spain
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