fifbrindacier Posted December 23, 2023 Author Share Posted December 23, 2023 35 minutes ago, Coco said: If I well understand you @fifbrindacier all my answers are good except rocket ? It would be too beautiful ! Coco You understood well. "On ne voit bien que par le coeur, l'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux." (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry) "We only well see with the heart, the essential is invisible for the eyes." In memory of Doren Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coco Posted December 23, 2023 Share Posted December 23, 2023 Val Horn's SS is Rhiguita. Coco ---------------------- OUTIL POUR MESURER VOS FOSSILES : ici Ma bibliothèque PDF 1 (Poissons et sélaciens récents & fossiles) : ici Ma bibliothèque PDF 2 (Animaux vivants - sans poissons ni sélaciens) : ici Mâchoires sélaciennes récentes : ici Hétérodontiques et sélaciens : ici Oeufs sélaciens récents : ici Otolithes de poissons récents ! ici Un Greg... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snolly50 Posted December 23, 2023 Share Posted December 23, 2023 Snolly, having opened his Secret Santa package... He chortles, "hoo hoooo" A bounty of material from the famous Eocene deposit of Florissant, CO!!!!!! Larvae, cool, really cool under 10X magnification! Leaf and bug! Leaf! Leaf! A parcel of petrified wood! All that and then, this crafty Santa in a display of perspicacity and just plain good taste; included a poem! This Claus even provided a hand drawn diagram of each specimen! Below is the poem. Snolly has obscured the signature so as not to provide any more clues to ID guessers. It should be clues enough that this Santa is especially intelligent and cultured. How do we know? 'Cause he like snolly's poetry and photography. This is surely a hallmark of a proper upbringing and sterling judgement! Again, thanks Santa for the worthy additions to any collection and mostly for the kind gesture in your festive offering. 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...
rocket Posted December 25, 2023 Share Posted December 25, 2023 Our postmen seems to be in holiday, looks like that my secret santa gift will be a secret after santa gift 😀 hope my arrived well, have not seen a reaction about in the thread 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fifbrindacier Posted December 25, 2023 Author Share Posted December 25, 2023 1 3 "On ne voit bien que par le coeur, l'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux." (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry) "We only well see with the heart, the essential is invisible for the eyes." In memory of Doren Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fifbrindacier Posted December 25, 2023 Author Share Posted December 25, 2023 1 "On ne voit bien que par le coeur, l'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux." (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry) "We only well see with the heart, the essential is invisible for the eyes." In memory of Doren Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fifbrindacier Posted December 25, 2023 Author Share Posted December 25, 2023 (edited) Edited December 26, 2023 by fifbrindacier 3 "On ne voit bien que par le coeur, l'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux." (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry) "We only well see with the heart, the essential is invisible for the eyes." In memory of Doren Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocket Posted December 25, 2023 Share Posted December 25, 2023 14 minutes ago, fifbrindacier said: always depends how hungry I am 🙄 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhiguita Posted December 25, 2023 Share Posted December 25, 2023 I got an amazing secret Santa this year, I love these fossils, especially the amber and large brachipod, and the matrix looks like it is full of micro fossils to try to identify. 1 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
svcgoat Posted December 26, 2023 Share Posted December 26, 2023 I'm going to post mine when I get back home on Wednesday 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam86cucv Posted December 26, 2023 Share Posted December 26, 2023 I finally unwrapped my secret Santa package. It appears I made the good list this year. Santa was so generous he also sent a beautiful trilobite to my oldest son. Now for the pictures in no particular order. And last my son's surprise trilobite Thank you very much Santa for the wonderful assortment. 1 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pagurus Posted December 26, 2023 Share Posted December 26, 2023 On 12/23/2023 at 5:59 PM, snolly50 said: Wonderful! Merry Christmas. Start the day with a smile and get it over with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opabinia Blues Posted December 26, 2023 Share Posted December 26, 2023 Thanks so much to my secret Santa, who delivered down the chimney a fantastic mix of unique fossils! I received a fantastic assortment of items, all of which are either from localities I did not have yet or taxa I did not yet have in my collection, covering all three eras of the Phanerozoic. My Santa also provided a very thoughtful hand written note, which was very touching. I’m new to Secret Santa, so I hope my gift brought its recipient as much joy as this one brought me! Everything received: Carboniferous plants, including Alethopteris ferns from the Lewellyn Formation of Pennsylvania: Gerastos sp. Trilobite from the Devonian of Morocco: A mud shrimp claw (identified as Callianopsis clallamensis) in a concretion from the Oligocene or Miocene Olympic Peninsula in Washington state: A Triarthrus beckii trilobite cephalon and graptolite from the Utica Shale of New York: The body of a fish (Redfeldius gracilis) from the lower Jurassic Shuttle Meadow Formation of Connecticut: A Mucrospirifer mucronatus Brachiopod from the Moscow Formation of New York: 8 “The worse the country, the more tortured it is by water and wind, the more broken and carved, the more it attracts fossil hunters, who depend on the planet to open itself to us. We can only scratch away at what natural forced have brought to the surface.” - Jack Horner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr.cheese Posted December 26, 2023 Share Posted December 26, 2023 I have just got home and unwrapped my secret santa, such generosity! I will post pictures tomorrow when i get my eye glass out and do some serious googling too! Thank you SS! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GallinaPinta Posted December 26, 2023 Share Posted December 26, 2023 I was very surprised when I opened my secret Santa package and couldn't believe it, I was absolutely shocked and blasted away. Santa nailed it. This is my first solid full tooth, my first complete BIG MEG. It nearly covers my full hand. The pendants are absolutely beautiful and I already wore the ammolite for Christmas Eve and the dinosaur bone for Christmas. THANK YOU SANTA. VERY BEAUTIFUL!!! 1 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishguy Posted December 26, 2023 Share Posted December 26, 2023 Opened my secret santa gift and I love the echinoids. Its a Texas sampler from the cretaceous. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Opabinia Blues Posted December 26, 2023 Share Posted December 26, 2023 19 minutes ago, GallinaPinta said: I was very surprised when I opened my secret Santa package and couldn't believe it, I was absolutely shocked and blasted away. Santa nailed it. This is my first solid full tooth, my first complete BIG MEG. It nearly covers my full hand. The pendants are absolutely beautiful and I already wore the ammolite for Christmas Eve and the dinosaur bone for Christmas. THANK YOU SANTA. VERY BEAUTIFUL!!! Oh wow, you must have been really high up on the nice list! 1 3 “The worse the country, the more tortured it is by water and wind, the more broken and carved, the more it attracts fossil hunters, who depend on the planet to open itself to us. We can only scratch away at what natural forced have brought to the surface.” - Jack Horner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GallinaPinta Posted December 26, 2023 Share Posted December 26, 2023 I also received a surprise package from my dear fossil friend, Nimravis. This sweet package had the perfect combination of awesome fossils, chocolate and the warmest decorative socks I've ever had the chance to obtain, and they are perfect for enjoying hot cocoa. Just like every year since I participated in the exchange, I have been blessed to received absolutely shockingly awesome gifts and fossils and I will always be grateful for the forum. Cheers and merry Christmas for all! 9 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GallinaPinta Posted December 26, 2023 Share Posted December 26, 2023 12 minutes ago, Opabinia Blues said: Oh wow, you must have been really high up on the nice list! First in line, according to santa!!lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nimravis Posted December 26, 2023 Share Posted December 26, 2023 32 minutes ago, GallinaPinta said: I also received a surprise package from my dear fossil friend, Nimravis. This sweet package had the perfect combination of awesome fossils, chocolate and the warmest decorative socks I've ever had the chance to obtain, and they are perfect for enjoying hot cocoa. Just like every year since I participated in the exchange, I have been blessed to received absolutely shockingly awesome gifts and fossils and I will always be grateful for the forum. Cheers and merry Christmas for all! Christaleen, I am glad you liked the package. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grandpa Posted December 26, 2023 Share Posted December 26, 2023 @fishguy is @JamieLynn possibly your Secret Santa? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
svcgoat Posted December 26, 2023 Share Posted December 26, 2023 Whoever got mine I'm sending you a new years bonus with a proper card! Sorry next year I'll make sure I get everything in the package the first time it was a big mail day and things got missed. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coco Posted December 26, 2023 Share Posted December 26, 2023 Hi, 2 hours ago, grandpa said: @fishguy is @JamieLynn possibly your Secret Santa? If @JamieLynn isn't @fishguy's SS, I think @ClearLake is. coco ---------------------- OUTIL POUR MESURER VOS FOSSILES : ici Ma bibliothèque PDF 1 (Poissons et sélaciens récents & fossiles) : ici Ma bibliothèque PDF 2 (Animaux vivants - sans poissons ni sélaciens) : ici Mâchoires sélaciennes récentes : ici Hétérodontiques et sélaciens : ici Oeufs sélaciens récents : ici Otolithes de poissons récents ! ici Un Greg... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClearLake Posted December 26, 2023 Share Posted December 26, 2023 5 hours ago, Coco said: sn't @fishguy's SS, I think @ClearLake is. Sorry, it is not me. But that is a nice selection of fossils. @Adam86cucv, your SS has to be @minnbuckeye? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClearLake Posted December 26, 2023 Share Posted December 26, 2023 Oh, I should note, I opened my package Christmas Eve, what a wonderful assortment of fossils it is!!! Very exciting! I will get pictures posted later today for your enjoyment. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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