The Growing Collection of Ziggycardon

Hello to everybody! I'm kinda new here, but before I start I must say I really love this forum! It has really great vibes and you instantly can tell that this is a good and friendly community! So, I am ziggycardon, I live in Belgium, close to the border of the Netherlands and when we start speaking geologically, I live on the same cretaceous sediments as where the first major Mosasaurus discoveries where done! Unfortunatly I have never been on a fossil hunt myself and everythi

Recieved two very cool and some of the rarest fossils in my collection today! A very exciting day! The first package was a Messel Gar "Atractosteus messelensis" found in the Messel Pits, Bituminous Shales, Messel, Darmstadt-Dieburg, Hesse, Germany. (Eocene, 47 mya). Really excited for this one for a couple of reasons: 1) I always wanted a Messel fossil, the location is just so amazing and well known, the preservation on the fossils is exceptional and I love the way ho