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[Wrangellian]

I like that piece too... and 'tuning fork' is a good descriptive name for that type of graptolite so I don't think it will be dropped any time soon (until people forget what a tuning fork is, which may not be long now the way things are going!)

[Yoda]

9 hours ago, Bobby Rico said:

@Yoda another piece from this collection. It is not great but I like it. 

There is a nice book on coal measure plants : 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Fossils-Measures-Palaentology-Christopher-1996-04-05/dp/B01K0Q1V9M/ref=sr_1_5?crid=2NMNSJVMY68Y3&keywords=Coal+measure+plants&qid=1690354844&s=books&sprefix=coal+measure+plants%2Cstripbooks%2C81&sr=1-5

 

Well worth getting if you can find a decent copy 

[Bobby Rico]

16 hours ago, Tidgy's Dad said:

I think Kallirhynchia sp. but I need to see it from all angles. 

 

Not the best light today but maybe ok. 
 

thanks so much mate 

[Tidgy's Dad]

I'll stick with Kallirhynchia for now.

Nice. 

[Bobby Rico]

8 minutes ago, Tidgy's Dad said:

I'll stick with Kallirhynchia for now.

Nice. 

Cheers Adam 

[Bobby Rico]

This is a random pick out of my cabinet. 
 

Acervularia ananas Wren's Nest Hill in Dudley. I founds this in the late 1980s. As the specific name suggests, it can look like a pineapple but this one does not. I would love to find one or purchase a good pineapple shaped specimen.

 

Lithostrotion vorticale - this is from a 1930’s collection that I picked up, sadly the label has gone, most of the collection was from the North of you U.K. I been told this is very similar in it’s preservation Arnside, Cumbria.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited July 27, 2023 by Bobby Rico

[Bobby Rico]

A little silly but sweet gift off Mrs R, to cheer me up. She noticed that I enjoyed getting a Moroccan Mosasaur tooth. We don’t really have spare cash anymore, so this tooth and it’s condition is what it is. I am really chuffed with it. I am not really a big dinosaur fossil collector but as you know vintage dinosaur postcards and art is definitely an interest . 

 

I thought I would show this vintage bug eyed Spinosaurus, painted by Tony Morris. Firstly: I really like the sky and the scaly texture n the Spinosaurus in the foreground. This is a very typical and not-all-that unreasonable reconstruction of Spinosaurus for the early time it was painted. I call this the Dimetrodon style . I hear you, any excuse to bring up Dimetrodon I will take it. 
 

thanks for reading Bobby
 

Kem Kem Basin, Province of Ksar es Souk, Moroccan Sahara.

 

 

 

Edited July 27, 2023 by Bobby Rico

[grandpa]

That Lady is a real Keeper!  And a real Lady!

[Bobby Rico]

33 minutes ago, grandpa said:

That Lady is a real Keeper!  And a real Lady!

She is indeed, thank you.

[Tidgy's Dad]

Splendid! 

[Wrangellian]

17 hours ago, Bobby Rico said:

This is a random pick out of my cabinet. 
 

Acervularia ananas Wren's Nest Hill in Dudley. I founds this in the late 1980s. As the specific name suggests, it can look like a pineapple but this one does not. I would love to find one or purchase a good pineapple shaped specimen.

 

 

 

This one is interesting. Is a whole colony supposed to look like a complete pineapple, or is it the corallites look like slices of pineapple? It looks a little like an oldtime ham with slices of pineapple covering it.   

Edited July 28, 2023 by Wrangellian

[Yoda]

12 hours ago, Bobby Rico said:

A little silly but sweet gift off Mrs R, to cheer me up. She noticed that I enjoyed getting a Moroccan Mosasaur tooth. We don’t really have spare cash anymore, so this tooth and it’s condition is what it is. I am really chuffed with it. I am not really a big dinosaur fossil collector but as you know vintage dinosaur postcards and art is definitely an interest . 

 

Kem Kem Basin, Province of Ksar es Souk, Moroccan Sahara.

 

 

 

 

Nice to see this addition to your collection 

[Bobby Rico]

3 hours ago, Wrangellian said:

It looks a little like an oldtime ham with slices of pineapple covering it

Haha the Hawaiian topping coral , it is when the corallites line up. 

Edited July 28, 2023 by Bobby Rico

[Bobby Rico]

59 minutes ago, Yoda said:

Nice to see this addition to your collection

Something a little bit different for me. Cheers pal 

[Yoda]

1 hour ago, Bobby Rico said:

Something a little bit different for me. Cheers pal 

I also do not have much dino material 

But I do have one of these Spinosaurus teeth. It would probably disintegrate if i dipped it in acetone.  

But it's  decent enough representative and affordable example. 

[Bobby Rico]

55 minutes ago, Yoda said:

Spinosaurus teeth. It would probably disintegrate if i dipped it in acetone.

Haha probably made at Adam’s Spinosaurus factory as Doren always said.  

Edited July 28, 2023 by Bobby Rico

[Bobby Rico]

As they say from the sublime to the ridiculous. Serpulid worm fossil from Lyme Regis, Jurassic coast. Some interesting patterns and one on the underside  seams to be attached to some shall like material. Maybe @Tidgy's Dad Adam will know what I have photographed. 

cheers Bobby 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited July 28, 2023 by Bobby Rico

[Tidgy's Dad]

It's all got very confusing. 

Serpulids are present in the Lower Jurassic and I reckon the more straight one you photographed might be one. 

But the coiled ones are likely microconchids, which survived the Permian extinction and are quite common until the Middle Jurassic when they became extinct, their niche seemingly filled by Spirorbis and its kin in the Cretaceous and after. 

Edited July 29, 2023 by Tidgy's Dad

[Bobby Rico]

24 minutes ago, Tidgy's Dad said:

But the coiled ones are likely microconchids, which survived the Permian extinction and are quite common until the Middle Jurassic when they became extinct,

Thanks Adam i never heard of microconchids i will look that up now. Underneath the the small one is that furrowed pattern what could that be, thanks again mate your are always a great help to me.

[Tidgy's Dad]

Microconchids are a coiled group of encrusting beasties belonging to the Tentaculita. 

Possibly lophophorates, so maybe distantly related to bryozoa and brachiopods. 

I've posted a few over the years in my threads, mainly encrusting brachs and Ralph @Nimravis finds them quite often in his Mazon Creek stuff, on plant leaves. 

[Tidgy's Dad]

No idea what those furrows are. 

[Bobby Rico]

28 minutes ago, Tidgy's Dad said:

Microconchids are a coiled group of encrusting beasties belonging to the Tentaculita. 

Plenty to lookup and read other the weekend. 

[Bobby Rico]

A postcard from Wales today with this nice little partial bug again found in the early 90s .

Middle Cambrian Trilobite from Dolgellau, North Wales  Parabolina spinulosa ? 500 Million Years Old still the idea of this ages blows my tiny mind. 
 

Edited July 29, 2023 by Bobby Rico

[Bobby Rico]

British Middle Ordovician Trilobite from Bron-y-Buckley woods outside Welshpool, Wales Broggerolithus broggeri . This location is known as the famous Trilobite Dingle. Very rare.
 

Edited July 31, 2023 by Bobby Rico

[Bobby Rico]

Another not great but for a no good trilobite hunter like myself it is worth keeping. Don’t know if partial specimen are worth showing. 

 

Lloydolithus lloydi,
Ordovician, Llanvirn series , Meadowtown, Shropshire 

 

Edited July 29, 2023 by Bobby Rico