jpc Posted October 21, 2020 Share Posted October 21, 2020 Here is something from last week's virtual SVP conference... my colleague and I made the news, and not for our use of banned words. https://www.livescience.com/pterosaurs-walked-in-rain.html?fbclid=IwAR0fn9ovHHOHdCcuc0P0tdYJNi0E7D_KULlPv7ajP2KngC-Yc4LMHaJ3asg 25 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troodon Posted October 21, 2020 Share Posted October 21, 2020 Very very cool nice work. Congrat on the find. Were the slabs found loose and on the ground or were cutting tools required? Much prepping needed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fossilsonwheels Posted October 21, 2020 Share Posted October 21, 2020 I would say that is worthy of tooting your horn lol Very cool stuff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted October 21, 2020 Share Posted October 21, 2020 Way to go, JP. Tim - VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER VFOTM --- APRIL - 2015 IPFOTM -- MAY - 2024 _________________________________________________________________________________ "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir ~ ~ ~ ~ ><))))( *> About Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digit Posted October 21, 2020 Share Posted October 21, 2020 Very cool, indeed! Can you share some images of individual slabs? Cheers. -Ken Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpc Posted October 21, 2020 Author Share Posted October 21, 2020 The first one were found as loose slabs at the base of the cliff. With a little detective work, I was able to find what layer they were coming form... the bottom one, of course. The pointy end of the rock hammer in the cliffside photo shows the source layer. We could only extract about a foot into the cliff so we got this long slab with very little depth. Some of those piece near the backpack have prints in them. Here is a slab with both footprints and one handprint and lots of raindrops. (manus is the 'double-comma' to the left of the image of a dino track on the ruler). 20 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpc Posted October 21, 2020 Author Share Posted October 21, 2020 I tried to add another photo but it tells me I am only allowed 3.95 mb. I think I have to wait til someone else comments.... or do I need to downsize the above pix? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnJ Posted October 21, 2020 Share Posted October 21, 2020 Refresh your browser and upload more. The human mind has the ability to believe anything is true. - JJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpc Posted October 21, 2020 Author Share Posted October 21, 2020 refreshed... (thanks, John) It is hard to see the tracks. The only place I could set these out (13 feet =4 meters long) was in a classroom with overhead lighting. I used low angle lighting to actually see the tracks myself to draw them in in the second photo. Red is pes prints, orange is possible pes prints, blue is manus prints, purple is possible manus prints. (Not all prints are obvious). Yellow is areas with raindrops. Green is areas where the footprint layer is either missing or buried (not visible). As for preerpping... toothbrush and water. 14 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tidgy's Dad Posted October 21, 2020 Share Posted October 21, 2020 I love these little glimpses into a 'day' in the past. The sea creating ripple marks, then rain and the pterosaurs wandering the beach seeing what they could find. It was a Tuesday, i think. 2 Life's Good! Tortoise Friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ancient Bones Posted October 21, 2020 Share Posted October 21, 2020 I find this SO interesting , thank you and congrats. ' Keep calm and carry on fossiling ' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troodon Posted October 21, 2020 Share Posted October 21, 2020 Thanks for the follow-up. So it did take some elbow grease but you have to like the prepping. Are you planning to work the site for additional finds or are you all finished. Plans for the tracks? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcbshark Posted October 21, 2020 Share Posted October 21, 2020 Awesome find!!! Every once in a great while it's not just a big rock down there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Top Trilo Posted October 22, 2020 Share Posted October 22, 2020 Wow that’s awesome. It’s so cool how you can see what they were doing when they were alive, what the weather was like, and some people can tell what day of the week it is I’d have to agree with Tuesday 1 “If fossils are not "boggling" your mind then you are simply not doing it right” -Ken (digit) "No fossil is garbage, it´s just not completely preserved” -Franz (FranzBernhard) "With hammer in hand, the open horizon of time, and dear friends by my side, what can we not accomplish together?" -Kane (Kane) "We are in a way conquering time, reuniting members of a long lost family" -Quincy (Opabinia Blues) "I loved reading the trip reports, I loved the sharing, I loved the educational aspect, I loved the humor. It felt like home. It still does" -Mike (Pagurus) “The best deal I ever got was getting accepted as a member on The Fossil Forum. Not only got an invaluable pool of knowledge, but gained a loving family as well.” -Doren (caldigger) "it really is nice, to visit the oasis that is TFF" -Tim (fossildude19) "Life's Good! -Adam (Tidgy's Dad) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpc Posted October 22, 2020 Author Share Posted October 22, 2020 2 hours ago, Troodon said: Thanks for the follow-up. So it did take some elbow grease but you have to like the prepping. Are you planning to work the site for additional finds or are you all finished. Plans for the tracks? Not much elbow grease, there was just a wee bit of decomposed shale in between the lower sandstone imprints and the upper shale infills. No more plans... the layer is under that cliff in the photo. Not going to trash the cliff. There was an area to the left of the photo above where the cliff had fallen so we were aiming to get a 6 by 3 foot (at least) section. Turns out the tracks did NOT continue into that area. The tracks are here at the Tate Museum forever. I hope to get them on display someday. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pemphix Posted October 22, 2020 Share Posted October 22, 2020 Very nice find ! Congrats ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
minnbuckeye Posted October 22, 2020 Share Posted October 22, 2020 15 hours ago, jpc said: The only place I could set these out (13 feet =4 meters long) was in a classroom What about Tate Museum!!!! The combo of pre and post raindrops with the prints is unbelievable. Then to see where you pulled the pieces from!!! Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeannie55 Posted October 22, 2020 Share Posted October 22, 2020 I concur with our fellow members. When you have work worthy of tooting, you owe it to yourself and those before and after you to toot away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpc Posted October 22, 2020 Author Share Posted October 22, 2020 Thanks for the kind words, folks. I have worked with enough people who toot their own horns as they pedal down the middle of the street that it makes them look like an idiot. I do so with hesitation. But , yeah, a cool project. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digit Posted October 22, 2020 Share Posted October 22, 2020 Think of it less as horn-tootage than giving us the inside track on interesting developments and discoveries. Cheers. -Ken 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LabRatKing Posted October 22, 2020 Share Posted October 22, 2020 36 minutes ago, digit said: Think of it less as horn-tootage than giving us the inside track on interesting developments and discoveries. Cheers. -Ken Inside track...I see what you did there... Grats on a very cool find JPC! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Misha Posted October 22, 2020 Share Posted October 22, 2020 Wow, that is super cool! I don't know how I didn't see this earlier Congratulations Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randyw Posted October 23, 2020 Share Posted October 23, 2020 Great discovery! And that is amazing! Congratulations and hats off to you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FossilNerd Posted October 23, 2020 Share Posted October 23, 2020 Nice discovery JP! Congrats! 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...
Jeffrey P Posted October 23, 2020 Share Posted October 23, 2020 Congratulations and thanks for sharing this. Great story and awesome fossil! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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