Darktooth Posted March 25, 2020 Author Share Posted March 25, 2020 @Wrangellian Thanks for sharing! Here in New York, most of the larger Crystal's have internal fractures like yours, though there are exceptions. There is a certain layer that produces larger vugs. Here the Dolomite is even harder than the surrounding layers. Quality and quantity are much better. Sometimes the bugs are big enough for a person to crawl in. These can contain over 1000 Crystal's or can be totally empty. Larger Crystal's can be bigger than your hand. I like Trilo-butts and I cannot lie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darktooth Posted March 25, 2020 Author Share Posted March 25, 2020 2 minutes ago, Tidgy's Dad said: Looks like the Palaeocene Oleneothyris harlani to me. But @frankh8147 probably knows more than I. You might be right Adam. I was given this when we met up for a hunt and I didnt have anything to right down information. So unfortunately I am trying to use my dwindling memory and piece together what I remember him talking about that day. Which was over a year ago! 1 I like Trilo-butts and I cannot lie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hokietech96 Posted March 25, 2020 Share Posted March 25, 2020 My favorite find from Big Brook (NJ) - mosasaur 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darktooth Posted March 25, 2020 Author Share Posted March 25, 2020 1 hour ago, hokietech96 said: My favorite find from Big Brook (NJ) - mosasaur Not too shabby Mark! I like Trilo-butts and I cannot lie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darktooth Posted March 25, 2020 Author Share Posted March 25, 2020 As primarily a sharktooth lover, and collector, I find that Squalicorax teeth hold a special place in my heart. While they are probably the most common sharktooth found in the New Jersey Cretaceous, there are characteristics which make them special. First they are the only shark in the Cretaceous with serrations. Secondly the shape of the teeth is totally unique from other sharks. Thirdly these sharks only lived during the Cretaceous. Here are just a few that I still have left. 4 I like Trilo-butts and I cannot lie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ricardo Posted March 25, 2020 Share Posted March 25, 2020 Quartz [18 mm specimen] herkimer-style var. from my collection with negative crystals. Those are liquid-filled cavities enclosed by crystal faces and are shaped like a real crystals. Ps. specimen from Middleville (Herkimer Co., NY) 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hokietech96 Posted March 25, 2020 Share Posted March 25, 2020 1 hour ago, Darktooth said: As primarily a sharktooth lover, and collector, I find that Squalicorax teeth hold a special place in my heart. While they are probably the most common sharktooth found in the New Jersey Cretaceous, there are characteristics which make them special. First they are the only shark in the Cretaceous with serrations. Secondly the shape of the teeth is totally unique from other sharks. Thirdly these sharks only lived during the Cretaceous. Here are just a few that I still have left. Great teeth! I love finding them. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darktooth Posted March 25, 2020 Author Share Posted March 25, 2020 10 minutes ago, ricardo said: Quartz [18 mm specimen] herkimer-style var. from my collection with negative crystals. Those are liquid-filled cavities enclosed by crystal faces and are shaped like a real crystals. Thanks for Sharing this Ricardo. Do you know where that one came from? Looks like one from New York. We get those same type of inclusions here as well. I like them and feel that they give a specimen more character. Sometimes a mineral called anthaxalite will be found as inclusions and if dispersed in the crystal just right, will look similar to Smoky quartz even though it technically isn't. I like Trilo-butts and I cannot lie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ricardo Posted March 25, 2020 Share Posted March 25, 2020 The specimen is from Middleville (Herkimer Co., NY) near the lower end you can see small hydrocarbon inclusions [anthraxolite]. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darktooth Posted March 25, 2020 Author Share Posted March 25, 2020 So, it definitely took awhile for my wife to buy a ticket to board the Sharktooth train. My love of finding "rocks" annoyed her for many years. That being said, she has been on alot of my adventures. As she does enjoy finding shells, sand dollars and beachcombing in general. So for the past couple years she has tagged along on my sharktooth hunts and has a tiny collection of her own. Here is a riker with some of her finds. 5 I like Trilo-butts and I cannot lie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darktooth Posted March 25, 2020 Author Share Posted March 25, 2020 4 minutes ago, ricardo said: The specimen is from Middleville (Herkimer Co., NY) near the lower end you can see small hydrocarbon inclusions [anthraxolite]. Ah, I thought so! Some of the best crystals come from that locale. I like Trilo-butts and I cannot lie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankh8147 Posted March 25, 2020 Share Posted March 25, 2020 3 hours ago, Tidgy's Dad said: Looks like the Palaeocene Oleneothyris harlani to me. But @frankh8147 probably knows more than I. That is correct! Great idea for a topic too! Here is one of mine I dont believe I've ever shown on here; this is one of my favorite Mosasaur teeth. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darktooth Posted March 25, 2020 Author Share Posted March 25, 2020 2 minutes ago, frankh8147 said: That is correct! Great idea for a topic too! Here is one of mine I dont believe I've ever shown on here; this is one of my favorite Mosasaur teeth. Hi Frank! Good to hear from you! That is one sweet Mossy! Excellent condition! 1 I like Trilo-butts and I cannot lie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darktooth Posted March 25, 2020 Author Share Posted March 25, 2020 @frankh8147Just for clarification is @Tidgy's Dad correct about the ID, or that you know more then him? 1 I like Trilo-butts and I cannot lie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darktooth Posted March 25, 2020 Author Share Posted March 25, 2020 Here is another display of my wife's finds. These were the first teeth she ever found. 4 I like Trilo-butts and I cannot lie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FranzBernhard Posted March 25, 2020 Share Posted March 25, 2020 Back to the roots, ehm, woods... There are no proper pics of the coalified wood from Lauferwald in the draft I have linked above. Just tried to make some: Coalified wood (pitch coal) without wood texture, but you can get the idea that the specimen to the right is a part of a thin stem. Notice the "sandy" surface due to weathering. Coalified wood with clear wood texture from the same site. If you cut this parallel to layering, it looks nearly like a board/plank made of actual wood. Have such a polished piece, but unable to make a good pic. This is not usual layered coal, its still a piece of coherent, but strongly compressed wood. All this stuff is of subbituminous rank. Franz Bernhard 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darktooth Posted March 25, 2020 Author Share Posted March 25, 2020 Another Brownies Beach Meg. One summer, my parents wanted to take my kids for a week. Always looking for an excuse to sneak in a hunt plans where made to meet my parents on the outskirts of Washington D.C. to pick them up. My parents live in Pennsylvania but wanted to take the kids to see the sites in D.C. on the last day. Me being the quick thinker that I am decided that I would drive down the night before, hunt at Brownies until I had just enough time to meet them later that evening. I remember as soon as I hit the beach that morning it started to pour rain just enough to completely saturate my clothes and then it stopped. Atleast it was warm out. At this point in my sharktooth career I had only found a few small megs. I was hoping this trip would produce something bigger. After a few hours of finding some decent stuff (but no megs) I got to a section of beach that had alot of pebbles sticking out of the sand. My mind saw nothing but possible meg roots sticking out so a spent I dont even now how long plucking pebbles until this showed up. Has to be about the worst condition of any I have ever found but it's a meg none the less. And at that time, the biggest. 3 I like Trilo-butts and I cannot lie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tidgy's Dad Posted March 25, 2020 Share Posted March 25, 2020 4 hours ago, Darktooth said: @frankh8147Just for clarification is @Tidgy's Dad correct about the ID, or that you know more then him? It's nice to be right every now and again. But I expect Frank knows more than I. Life's Good! Tortoise Friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darktooth Posted March 25, 2020 Author Share Posted March 25, 2020 17 minutes ago, Tidgy's Dad said: It's nice to be right every now and again. But I expect Frank knows more than I. But your hair is more luxurious. 1 I like Trilo-butts and I cannot lie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankh8147 Posted March 25, 2020 Share Posted March 25, 2020 3 hours ago, Darktooth said: @frankh8147Just for clarification is @Tidgy's Dad correct about the ID, or that you know more then him? Haha he was absolutely correct!! I'm definitely not saying I know more than him though 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FranzBernhard Posted March 26, 2020 Share Posted March 26, 2020 Thanks, @Ruger9a and @Darktooth for your appreciation of the rudists! Today something mineralogical: A sphere made of lazulite, diameter 7.3 cm. To the left the corresponding rough piece. Its from Höllkogel, Fischbacher Alpen, Styria, Austria, collected 1995. Lazulite Höllkogel (link to mindat page) Franz Bernhard 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darktooth Posted March 26, 2020 Author Share Posted March 26, 2020 5 hours ago, FranzBernhard said: Thanks, @Ruger9a and @Darktooth for your appreciation of the rudists! Today something mineralogical: A sphere made of lazulite, diameter 7.3 cm. To the left the corresponding rough piece. Its from Höllkogel, Fischbacher Alpen, Styria, Austria, collected 1995. Lazulite Höllkogel (link to mindat page) Franz Bernhard I love the color of the sphere! Looks like a mini Earth! 1 I like Trilo-butts and I cannot lie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ptychodus04 Posted March 26, 2020 Share Posted March 26, 2020 Since we’re talking minerals as well, I thought I would show off a couple. Fluorite from the Weardale Mine, Durham County, England. picture inside Picture outside. Material from this mine will fluoresce in sunlight (the longer it is in the sun, the more purple it turns). The next 2 are milky quartz from Hot Springs, Arkansas with a pyrite cube on each. The last is 2 clear quartz, also from Hot Springs. 7 Regards, Kris Global Paleo Services, LLC https://globalpaleoservices.com http://instagram.com/globalpaleoservices http://instagram.com/kris.howe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darktooth Posted March 26, 2020 Author Share Posted March 26, 2020 5 minutes ago, Ptychodus04 said: Since we’re talking minerals as well, I thought I would show off a couple. Fluorite from the Weardale Mine, Durham County, England. picture inside Picture outside. Material from this mine will fluoresce in sunlight (the longer it is in the sun, the more purple it turns). The next 2 are milky quartz from Hot Springs, Arkansas with a pyrite cube on each. The last is 2 clear quartz, also from Hot Springs. Very nice Kris! I love the color of the fluorite! 2 I like Trilo-butts and I cannot lie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darktooth Posted March 26, 2020 Author Share Posted March 26, 2020 Here are more goodies from my Secret Santa. My first ever Mazon creek nodules! Atleast I think? You see as much as I simply adore @MSirmon he unfortunately is lacking just a smidgen in the labeling department. Atleast one is labeled as Jellyfish, I think one is plant (branch)?, and the other possibly worm? 4 I like Trilo-butts and I cannot lie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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