Tucson Fossil Show 2022 **PHOTOS**

[Troodon]

I did go to the Marketplace venue nothing open yet, just lots of folks working hard to make it happen

 

 

 

ID label not yet added but a huge plate

 

Even Pete Larsen was helping unload vehicles

[Troodon]

Back at the Days Inn

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Indonesian Megs

 

 

 

 

[Troodon]

NOTE for those attending the show.  The Moroccan tent city venue on Oracle Road does not appear to be set up this year.   Not sure why, availability of visas was a concern during the 2020 show since all the dealers were Moroccan.   

[Guns]

wow Frank !  thank you for the photos tour of the show . always love to see cool dino material 

 

Guns

[FB003]

Thanks for posting these! Neat to see the volume of stuff people bring to sell.  Definitely a spot I have to get to one of these years. I'd have walked away with alot of new dino teeth to add to the budding collection already just based on whats been open so far!

[Guns]

Just now, FB003 said:

Thanks for posting these! Neat to see the volume of stuff people bring to sell.  Definitely a spot I have to get to one of these years. I'd have walked away with alot of new dino teeth to add to the budding collection already just based on whats been open so far!

what a opportunity you guys have to see these cool stuff every year . I really hope there a BIG fossil show like this in my country but guess it will never happen .

 

Guns

[Nimravis]

Nice pics again Frank. It looks like P. Larson was unloading a case of Miller lite lol.

 

It is nice to see some Mazon Creek material represented. Again, I wish I could attend, I would bet that I could get my hand on some of my new favorite fossils- Echinoids.

 

Thanks again

 

 

[FF7_Yuffie]

Some amazing fossils. I really hope I get the chance to go one day.

[caterpillar]

A big thank you for these pictures.

We can visit the show without getting out of our chair.

[carch_23]

9 hours ago, Troodon said:

Spent a couple of hours at the show today with lots of activity by all setting up.   A couple of European dealers at the Days Inn were having major problems getting delivery of their fossils.  One had been stuck in the Port of Houston since last year, probably a no go for the show another was close, it entered the port in the east coast last year then railed to LA now being trucked to Tucson.  Another dealer air freighted his material at a significant cost but he has product to sell.

 

Some photos from today

 

 

 

East Coast Megs

 

Trex metatarsal

 

 

Siamotyrannus  teeth from Thailand,  Carch from Kem Kem

 

Another big Siamotyrannus

 

 

Morrison Formation:  believe its a foot claw from a Nanosaurus

 

 

Morrison Fm Sauropod phalanx and Claw

 

California Tar pit bones

 

 

 

Oh my. Those really wide east coast megs on the middle right shelf is just absolutely beautiful

[Troodon]

7 hours ago, Nimravis said:

some Mazon Creek material represented

 

Hey its allowed and I took that shot just for you   Lots of Echinoids around and Pete is a smart dude but I doubt you will find beer at the show 

[Troodon]

Some Spino vertebrae

 

 

Indeterminate humerus from the Kem Kem, big and looks like Sauropod

 

 

Green River Plate

 

 

[Pixpaleosky]

22 hours ago, Troodon said:

 

Forgot this one...  Most of the European dealers have great invertebrate material, truly outstanding and can get quite expensive.   Dino material not much is around, few have a small assortment other than the key UK dealer that deals in high quality Moroccan items and supplies everyone.   I would like to see more UK and French material at the show.

 

In France amateur fossil hunters have less and less rights and possibilities to dig fossils and professionals are against them to protect their small notoriety. So i dont think we can expect to see more in future...

[caterpillar]

And in France, there is much less possibility of finding vertebrate beds. The plant cover is much greater, much less outcrops as in countries with more desert areas (Morocco, China, USA, Mongolia, etc.). It is often thanks to road works that we can find material. Or else during large-scale excavations carried out mainly by scientists.

So yes, vertebrates are a rare commodity in France

[Bone Daddy]

Are any of these photos hosted elsewhere? I'd like to view them without the price tags obscured. I have no interest in buying anything shown in the photos, I am just curious what the pricing is like on some of this stuff. I understand it is forum policy not to discuss pricing and valuations on specimens, so I am wondering if any of these photos are also visible elsewhere?

 

Either way, great photos and thanks for sharing them.

 

[Diplocaulus]

17 hours ago, Troodon said:

Triceratops Humerus 

 

Hexanchus Chile

 

 

 

Crabs anyone

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

That's a nice Trimerus! Hopefully its still there by the time I get there!
(Thanks to Kane for helping me properly identify the bug)

Edited January 27, 2022 by Diplocaulus

[Kane]

14 minutes ago, Diplocaulus said:

That's a nice Dipleura! Hopefully its still there by the time I get there!

I’m thinking that’s a Trimerus. Dipleura have a more effaced pygidium.

Edited January 27, 2022 by Kane

[Diplocaulus]

16 minutes ago, Kane said:

I’m thinking that’s a Trimerus. Dipleura have a more effaced pygidium.

I always thought they were different names for the same thing! 

[piranha]

1 hour ago, Diplocaulus said:

I always thought they were different names for the same thing! 

 

A lot of the older literature expresses this taxon as "Trimerus (Dipleura)"  that signified the previous classification of Dipleura as a subgenus of Trimerus.

 

Tomczykowa 1975 reclassified Trimerus and Dipleura as separate and distinct genera:

 

Dipleura is considered by Sdzuy (1959) as a subgenus of the genus Trimerus, with T. mongolicus Tchernycheva, 1937 as transitional between the two genera. On the basis of an analysis of type species, Trimerus delphinocephalus Green and Dipleura dekayi Green, as well as of other species of the two genera, the present writer believes that the differences in trilobation and segmentation of pygidium and in the shape and lobation of glabella entitle her to consider them as quite different genera (Table IV). On" the other hand, the descent of Dipleura from Trimerus is confirmed by two new species, closely related with each other, that is, Trimerus lobatus sp.n. and Dipleura praecox sp.n., which may thus be treated as transitional links between Trimerus and Dipleura. The remaining species of these genera have strongly expressed generic characters, which is particularly, distinct in Lower Devonian species.

 

Tomczykowa, E. 1975.

The Trilobite Subfamily Homalonotinae from the Upper Silurian and Lower Devonian of Poland. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 20(1):3-46  PDF LINK

[siteseer]

3 hours ago, caterpillar said:

And in France, there is much less possibility of finding vertebrate beds. The plant cover is much greater, much less outcrops as in countries with more desert areas (Morocco, China, USA, Mongolia, etc.). It is often thanks to road works that we can find material. Or else during large-scale excavations carried out mainly by scientists.

So yes, vertebrates are a rare commodity in France

 

Yes, this has happened at a lot of once-productive sites all over the U.S. too.  Sometimes, construction brings a temporary bonanza but then a housing development, parking lot, or road takes away a site.  Areas not covered in concrete or asphalt receive landscaping (layers of transported dirt, rock, and plants) to prevent erosion. 

Edited January 27, 2022 by siteseer
punctuation

[Troodon]

3 hours ago, Bone Daddy said:

Are any of these photos hosted elsewhere? I'd like to view them without the price tags obscured. I have no interest in buying anything shown in the photos, I am just curious what the pricing is like on some of this stuff. I understand it is forum policy not to discuss pricing and valuations on specimens, so I am wondering if any of these photos are also visible elsewhere?

 

Either way, great photos and thanks for sharing them.

 

No

[Troodon]

I attend the gong show today at the 22nd Street Venue which opened today.   There were a few dinosaur/fossil dealers but 98 percent of the venue is minerals, beads, jewelry, trinkets and pure junk.   The tent is very long please beware and wear comfortable shoes

 

Here are some of the photos.

 

 

 

AZ petrified wood

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you ever wanted to know the minerals making up the colors

 

Carts brought in to haul junk out.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Troodon]

a fossil dealer with some dino

 

Camarasaurus verts and breast plate

 

Trex teeth

[Troodon]

This was super cool and worth a visit. 

  Apatosaurus vertebrae, check out the size

 

 

 

Associated Apato leg

 

 

[Troodon]

 

 

 

Triebold Museum

 

 

 

 

Another fossil dealer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

One of the outside adjacent tents

 

There is some good material in the following photos but you have to be very careful