Bobby Rico Posted May 23, 2020 Share Posted May 23, 2020 Happy World turtle day all. In celebration of one of this planets most wonderful and successful creatures. Let’s see your tortoise/turtle family members or your turtle fossils. Have a great day all. Bobby turtle material Pleistocene Alachua county, Dixie county Florida USA . 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Rico Posted May 23, 2020 Author Share Posted May 23, 2020 Winnie and Phyllis Rico wishing Tidgy a happy turtle day “have a good one , sister “ 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darktooth Posted May 23, 2020 Share Posted May 23, 2020 Cute Tortoises Bobby! Happy World Turtle day! 2 I like Trilo-butts and I cannot lie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Rico Posted May 23, 2020 Author Share Posted May 23, 2020 12 minutes ago, Darktooth said: ! Happy World Turtle day! cheers Dave this is from NHML 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snolly50 Posted May 23, 2020 Share Posted May 23, 2020 An important message.... A prep by snolly circa 1992... The Riker mount seen behind the fossil contains an assortment of pottery shards from the Anasazi culture. Here is a fascinating article exploring the subject of that somewhat mysterious, ancient civilization. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/riddles-of-the-anasazi-85274508/ 12 Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, also are remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. - Douglas Adams, Last Chance to See Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troodon Posted May 23, 2020 Share Posted May 23, 2020 To help celebrate here are some of my turtle skulls Axestemys byssina (8 1/2" - 22cm) Long Hell Creek Formation Perkins Co., South Dakota Bubaena cephalica the atlas vertebra was found with the skull. (3 1/2" -8.9cm) Square Hell Creek Formation Powder River Co., Montana Palatobaena choen approximately 2 1/4" (5.7cm) square. Very odd shaped nasal opening Hell Creek Formation Powder River Co., Montana 15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Rico Posted May 23, 2020 Author Share Posted May 23, 2020 10 minutes ago, snolly50 said: An important message.... Haha brilliant, a boy after my own heart . Nice display snolly I definitely going to read that article later today. Any chance of a close up to the artefact @snolly50 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Rico Posted May 23, 2020 Author Share Posted May 23, 2020 24 minutes ago, Troodon said: To help celebrate here are some of my turtle skulls You certainly know how to celebrate an occasion Wow stunning, beautiful specimens. Later I will post my favourite turtle material In my collection from Hell Creek that I got in the grand Christmas auction . Thank you Frank Bobby 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dracarys Posted May 23, 2020 Share Posted May 23, 2020 Happy world turtle day! Here’s mine from Badlands. 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Rico Posted May 23, 2020 Author Share Posted May 23, 2020 2 minutes ago, Dracarys said: Happy world turtle Very nice thanks for playing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted May 23, 2020 Share Posted May 23, 2020 Hey guys! Don't forget to tag @Tidgy's Dad ! 3 Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Rico Posted May 23, 2020 Author Share Posted May 23, 2020 Netsuke. Turtle. Made of silver. British museum. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tidgy's Dad Posted May 23, 2020 Share Posted May 23, 2020 30 minutes ago, Ludwigia said: Hey guys! Don't forget to tag @Tidgy's Dad ! Thanks, Roger. I am actually a bit disappointed Bobby didn't tag Tidgy. I don't have a lot of tortoise fossils, though the specimens posted here are magnificent and I have studied turtle evolution quite extensively. I'll have to try to get photos of the one or two bits I have, but for now, on the left is a nice chunky bit I had sent to me by Mike @minnbuckeye(and a few smashing corals as well.) And then, of course, i have my fossil prepping companion : And dear friend : Hats courtesy of Lori @GeschWhat 13 Life's Good! Tortoise Friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Rico Posted May 23, 2020 Author Share Posted May 23, 2020 10 minutes ago, Tidgy's Dad said: am actually a bit disappointed Bobby didn't tag Tidgy. I thought you just find it in time and then like the little message to Tidgy a bit of a surprise . 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted May 23, 2020 Share Posted May 23, 2020 4 minutes ago, Tidgy's Dad said: Thanks, Roger. Looks like someone has been doing some commission work for you 2 Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Pristis Posted May 23, 2020 Share Posted May 23, 2020 Not a tortoise, but certainly a turtle: 8 http://pristis.wix.com/the-demijohn-page What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time? ---Shakespeare, The Tempest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tidgy's Dad Posted May 23, 2020 Share Posted May 23, 2020 6 minutes ago, Bobby Rico said: I thought you just find it in time and then like the little message to Tidgy . Thanks, Bobby, but I couldn't understand that sentence earlier! Silly me. And I've added a couple more piccies. Tidgy sends hugs in return to your gorgeous torts. We're off out in the sun to play cricket, so speak later. 2 Life's Good! Tortoise Friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FossilNerd Posted May 23, 2020 Share Posted May 23, 2020 I don’t have any turtle/tortoise material to show, but I have informative video links! Happy Turtle Day! 6 The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it. -Neil deGrasse Tyson Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't. -Bill Nye (The Science Guy) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tidgy's Dad Posted May 23, 2020 Share Posted May 23, 2020 4 minutes ago, Ludwigia said: Looks like someone has been doing some commission work for you Indeed, though I only paid with gratitude. 4 Life's Good! Tortoise Friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Rico Posted May 23, 2020 Author Share Posted May 23, 2020 6 minutes ago, Tidgy's Dad said: play cricket Watch out for them googlys 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Rico Posted May 23, 2020 Author Share Posted May 23, 2020 12 minutes ago, Harry Pristis said: Not a tortoise, but certainly a turtle Fantastic thank you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Rico Posted May 23, 2020 Author Share Posted May 23, 2020 16 minutes ago, FossilNerd said: Happy Turtle Day! And to you my friend Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pagurus Posted May 23, 2020 Share Posted May 23, 2020 I don't have any turtles in my immediate family that I know of, though I did carve a red cedar turtle for my wife soon after we met. I guess it made a good impression, or at least cemented the impression that I wasn't normal. We did have this wood turtle come to visit us in our yard a few years ago: 8 Start the day with a smile and get it over with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Pristis Posted May 23, 2020 Share Posted May 23, 2020 Now that this thread has the attention of a group of "chelonians" ("chelonistas"?), I wonder if anyone here can identify this vertebra. I think it's either Macroclemys sp. or Hesperotestudo sp. Hulbert's turtle expert is incommunicado (working from home). Hulbert thought this was likely a cervical vertebra, but what do you think? (in the last two images, I've inserted a short paper tube into the neural canal simply for orientation purposes.) No age certain -- it was float on the bottom of the Suwannee River, Dixie County, Florida. 8 http://pristis.wix.com/the-demijohn-page What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time? ---Shakespeare, The Tempest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Rico Posted May 23, 2020 Author Share Posted May 23, 2020 Maybe after cricket and afternoon tea Adam @Tidgy's Dad could have a go with the ID. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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