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Some more Riker mount displays from the Miocene and Pleistocene of Virginia and the Miocene of Maryland


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Here are three more Riker mount displays (8”X12”) that I just put together with my macro specimens from the Miocene and Pleistocene of Virginia.

 

The first two displays contain Miocene crab specimens in concretions. My sons and I have probably several hundred of these crab concretions. Unfortunately the quality of these specimens isn’t like the great crab specimens that come out of the state of Washington but they are still interesting to find.  The second display also has a few borrows.

 

 

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The third display contains some miscellaneous specimens like petrified wood from Pleistocene bog iron of Virginia, Miocene terrestrial mammal teeth including a piece of a Gomphothere tooth, bony fish specimens like opercular series bones, tilly bones and sturgeon scutes, and some bivalve shell internal casts. Also in the display, bottom far right, is the only piece of a burrfish mouthplate that I’ve found in the Maryland/Virginia Miocene.

 

 

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Here is another 8”X12” Riker mount display that I just put together with macro specimens from the Miocene of Maryland and Virginia.   This display contains some of the very first fossils that I ever collected dating back to the 1970s.  In the early days of my collecting I only separated my macro fossils by age/time period and not by formation or location also.  So I’m not sure of the location that a lot of these specimens were found at.  Most are from the Miocene of Maryland.  However I do remember that the two dark gray Otodus megalodons were found by me on the same day diving at Governor’s Run Maryland and that they were my first megalodons ever collected.  I also remember collecting the ocean going sunfish jaw at Plum Point Maryland and the thickest sperm whale tooth at Stratford Hall Virginia.

 

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Marco Sr.

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"Any day that you can fossil hunt is a great day."

My family fossil website     Some Of My Shark, Ray, Fish And Other Micros     My Extant Shark Jaw Collection

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You have a wonderfully diverse collection of fossils.

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I am loving these displays! I hope that you keep them coming.:popcorn:

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I like Trilo-butts and I cannot lie.

 

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