dhiggi Posted July 26, 2020 Share Posted July 26, 2020 My 9 year old daughter’s collection had outgrown the old shelves so we took a trip to Ikea today to get something more suitable. Though I don’t think it’ll be long before this one is full too... From top to bottom; ‘Ice Age’ A mammoth tooth, couple of mammoth ribs and a few other bits Purchases A few things we’ve bought, including some fish, a nice display of pecten and a few teeth (plesiosaur, mosasaur, spino) North Yorkshire finds The best of our finds on the coast (excluding ammonites) including a lot of belemnites, bivalves and a couple of ichthyosaur verts Other purchases A potamon and a pea crab, a few trilobites and other bits and pieces Ammonites Nearly all found ourselves on the coast but a couple of purchases too. Local river finds Some rugose coral, crinoids, stigmaria and a few brachiopods Hoping to add plenty of interesting new fossils with a week on the Jurassic Coast in August 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Praefectus Posted July 26, 2020 Share Posted July 26, 2020 Nice collection! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrehistoricWonders Posted July 26, 2020 Share Posted July 26, 2020 Great display!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhiggi Posted July 26, 2020 Author Share Posted July 26, 2020 @Praefectus & @Familyroadtrip Thank you both, it’s exactly what I wanted when I was her age so I’m glad that she’s as keen and interested now as I was then and that we can share this together Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TyBoy Posted July 26, 2020 Share Posted July 26, 2020 Super display Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darktooth Posted July 26, 2020 Share Posted July 26, 2020 Very nice! It is good to start while they are young. Just imagine how nice her collection will be as she gets older. I like Trilo-butts and I cannot lie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
connorp Posted July 26, 2020 Share Posted July 26, 2020 Very nice collection and display! I like the Lego paleontologist. Do you happen to remember Ikea's name for that shelf? It's quite lovely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhiggi Posted July 26, 2020 Author Share Posted July 26, 2020 2 minutes ago, connorp said: Very nice collection and display! I like the Lego paleontologist. Do you happen to remember Ikea's name for that shelf? It's quite lovely. Thank you, the Lego is another interest that she gained from me and I’ve enjoyed getting back into. Certainly; it’s in the Hemnes range, comes in a range of colours and was £115. Didn’t take too long to put together 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhiggi Posted August 23, 2020 Author Share Posted August 23, 2020 Some recent additions to the collection. Firstly; my daughter insisted on joining me on a work trip to Edinburgh recently, to spend her pocket money in the fossil shop there. Her first Meg tooth and a nice shiny little ammo Otodus Megalodon, South Carolina, USA Cleoniceras Cleon, Madagascar 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhiggi Posted August 23, 2020 Author Share Posted August 23, 2020 Pocket money went on this Ichthyosaur vert on a recent trip to Whitby (Ichthyosaurs are her current obsession) Brachyptergius extremis, (Oxfordian) Abingdon, UK 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhiggi Posted August 23, 2020 Author Share Posted August 23, 2020 Daughter’s holiday money (and a bit more!) went on these ichthyosaur pieces. Nothing known about the vert & rib piece but local to Lyme Regis Ichthyosaur humerus, Watchet, Somerset Any suggestions of genus welcomed 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruger9a Posted August 23, 2020 Share Posted August 23, 2020 I'm really envious of you, I could never get my girls interested in fossils or any of my hobbies for that matter. :-( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhiggi Posted August 23, 2020 Author Share Posted August 23, 2020 2 minutes ago, Ruger9a said: I'm really envious of you, I could never get my girls interested in fossils or any of my hobbies for that matter. :-( I was always interested in fossils at her age but didn’t have much opportunity to get into it. My collection was never more than about four ammonites but my daughter found them last year and it’s just gone from there really. Now nearly every Sunday that she’s with me is spent on a beach in the Whitby area 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Rico Posted August 23, 2020 Share Posted August 23, 2020 Nice collection I do like the top shelf . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhiggi Posted August 23, 2020 Author Share Posted August 23, 2020 45 minutes ago, Bobby Rico said: Nice collection I do like the top shelf . Thank you, mammoth are her other main interest, she wants a tusk for Christmas (might have to settle for a little bit of one!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Rico Posted August 23, 2020 Share Posted August 23, 2020 39 minutes ago, dhiggi said: Thank you, mammoth are her other main interest, she wants a tusk for Christmas (might have to settle for a little bit of one!) Me too but MrsR does not have that sort of cash. I really like my Mammoth bark collection, that is small piece of ivory from U.K., Netherlands, USA and Siberia. One more Christmas stocking idea this book is great. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomasz Posted August 25, 2020 Share Posted August 25, 2020 Very nice collection! My daughter is 15 and no more interested in fossils... Enjoy! Best, Tom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhiggi Posted November 14, 2020 Author Share Posted November 14, 2020 So the collection has outgrown the shelves I bought a few months ago so today I got an Ikea Detolf to house the Ichthyosaur obsession; can’t remember where on the forum I saw the recommendation for this unit, but thanks to whoever it was. The new addition looks a little sparse now but Santa already has two large Ichthyosaur pieces and I have my eye on another in auction 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LiamL Posted December 7, 2020 Share Posted December 7, 2020 Awesome collection, i don't blame her for being ichthyosaur obsessed. 1 Yorkshire Coast Fossil Hunter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhiggi Posted December 13, 2020 Author Share Posted December 13, 2020 On 07/12/2020 at 3:11 PM, LiamL said: Awesome collection, i don't blame her for being ichthyosaur obsessed. Thanks Liam, I must admit it’s rubbing off on me too. I daren’t tell anyone how much I spent on her two fossils for Christmas! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LiamL Posted December 13, 2020 Share Posted December 13, 2020 42 minutes ago, dhiggi said: Thanks Liam, I must admit it’s rubbing off on me too. I daren’t tell anyone how much I spent on her two fossils for Christmas! Are they in this thread? or wrapped up under the tree? Yorkshire Coast Fossil Hunter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhiggi Posted December 13, 2020 Author Share Posted December 13, 2020 13 minutes ago, LiamL said: Are they in this thread? or wrapped up under the tree? Got a bit of a shock when the paddle arrived as I hadn’t taken much notice of the measurements; it’s huge. Definitely not going in the glass cabinet! The seller put quite a nice Ich rib in with it too so I’ve wrapped that up as well 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LiamL Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 On 13/12/2020 at 9:04 PM, dhiggi said: Got a bit of a shock when the paddle arrived as I hadn’t taken much notice of the measurements; it’s huge. Definitely not going in the glass cabinet! The seller put quite a nice Ich rib in with it too so I’ve wrapped that up as well Lovely display pieces! Thanks for sharing. I love how the paddle is so satisfyingly spaced out. Yorkshire Coast Fossil Hunter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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