Let's see your latest mailbox score - 2018!

[Sagebrush Steve]

39 minutes ago, Tidgy's Dad said:

I received a lovely parcel from Ralph earlier today!

He sent me a wonderful batch of Mazon Creek fossils, as follows

Fist off a couple of Pecopteris fern fronds. 

Nice specimens!  Here is an idea for how I chose to display a similar one.  Not too hard to put together, at least in th US.  I don’t know about Morocco.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

And to top it all off, two coprolites from the Oligocene White River :

it seems people in the US like to post me coprolites, that's the third parcel recently containing poop and one of them wasn't even a TFF member. 

Not that I'm complaining ! 

Thanks so much Ralph, I love it all and it got here despite going round in circles in Illinois and then stuck at my local sub-post-office whilst one of my neighbours was walking around with the delivery note!

Golly! 

But all's well that ends well! 

Thanks again, much appreciated.  

[Tidgy's Dad]

10 minutes ago, Sagebrush Steve said:

Nice specimens!  Here is an idea for how I chose to display a similar one.  Not too hard to put together, at least in th US.  I don’t know about Morocco.

 

 

That looks great! 

I love your display cabinets and stands. 

I might have a bash, come summer.

How do you do your labels?

[Troodon]

On 1/6/2018 at 7:03 AM, Bobby Rico said:

Got this of the postman today, he does get around a bit. The last couple of weeks I have spotted some footcasts online been sold very cheaply.  Following in the wise footsteps of other TFF members I decided to buy one for the bargin price of £14

all-in. 

Juvenile Herbivorou's Dinosaur Footcast  from Wealden , Sussex. U.K. 

 

 

 

Very nice, is there some information that describes who these footcasts belong too?

[Troodon]

43 minutes ago, Tidgy's Dad said:

And to top it all off, two coprolites from the Oligocene White River :

 

it seems people in the US like to post me coprolites, that's the third parcel recently containing poop and one of them wasn't even a TFF member. 

Not that I'm complaining ! 

Thanks so much Ralph, I love it all and it got here despite going round in circles in Illinois and then stuck at my local sub-post-office whilst one of my neighbours was walking around with the delivery note!

Golly! 

But all's well that ends well! 

Thanks again, much appreciated.  

Very cool any idea who they are from?

[Tidgy's Dad]

Just now, Troodon said:

Very cool any idea who they are from?

This parcel was sent by Ralph @Nimravis, one was from a member of Tortoise Forum in Florida who knows I collect fossils and the third is yet to be revealed............

[caldigger]

Well Adam, I am sorry to say the package that I sent you does not contain poop.  I know it's a let down and you were hoping for more, but deal with it!

[Tidgy's Dad]

11 minutes ago, caldigger said:

Well Adam, I am sorry to say the package that I sent you does not contain poop.  I know it's a let down and you were hoping for more, but deal with it!

No poop??????

Waaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Doren won't share his poop with me! 

 

[Bobby Rico]

6 hours ago, Sagebrush Steve said:

Nice specimens!  Here is an idea for how I chose to display a similar one.  Not too hard to put together, at least in th US.  I don’t know about Morocco.

 

Hi @Tidgy's Dad Adam nice collection off @Nimravis Ralph his fossils are always beautiful and you got some of them fantastic Georgia trilobites.  Nice .

 I said just an old sweet fossil

Keeps Georgia trilobites on my mind. 

 

Also look at one of @snolly50 posts on display stands he makes , they are really nice looking and his posts are very informative .

 

cheers Bobby 

[Bobby Rico]

9 hours ago, Troodon said:

Very nice, is there some information that describes who these footcasts belong too?

Hi @Troodon yes I have, funny enough our TFF family member @JohnBrewer also acquired from the same seller a footcasts  by same creature we think. John got the better deal as he got the right footcast and I got the lelft footcast who would want the left when you can have the right.

 

I think it is from a ornithopod . 

 

[RJB]

On 12/29/2017 at 3:03 PM, RJB said:

I got me a round rock, and no, its not a dinosaur egg.     A good freind of mine sent this to me cause ive been very good to him and he reciprocated.  Also, if this guy says its a good crab, there is a 99.9% chance that it really is a good crab!!!  I wont be able to get to preppin this thing out till Febuary but im very excited about this concretion!   Gunna be real fun this one!!! 

 

RB

 

Here is my round rock when i first recieved it, and here is after quite a few hours of prep over several days. 

 

RB

[caldigger]

1 hour ago, Bobby Rico said:

Hi @Troodon yes I have, funny enough our TFF family member @JohnBrewer also acquired from the same seller a footcasts  by same creature we think. John got the better deal as he got the right footcast and I got the lelft footcast who would want the left when you can have the right.

 

I think it is from a ornithopod . 

 

Maybe you kids can work out a trade of sorts so one of you can end up with the complete set of right and left sides.

It's not like shipping would be exorbitant. You could probably just walk it over to the others house.

[Nimravis]

Today in my mailbox, I received a nice package from Tony @Peat Burns, that contained some great fossils. Thanks again Tony, much appreciated.

 

Zamites sp. (Cycad)

Boren Clay Products Quarry

Chatham County, North Carolina

Pekin Formation / Yellow Siltstone Strata

Late Triassic

Collected 1991

 

 

 

 

Holoptychius sp. (Lobefish Scales)

Williamsport, Pennsylvania

Catskill Formation

Upper Devonian

Collected 2007

 

[Nimravis]

I prepped this one out a bit.

 

Zamites sp. (Cycad)

Boren Clay Products Quarry

Chatham County, North Carolina

Pekin Formation / Yellow Siltstone Strata

Late Triassic

Collected 1991

 

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Nice goodies and a nice prep job! 

[Bobby Rico]

Very nice @Nimravis Ralph great addition to your incredible plant collection. Postman has been  good to you this week. 

 

Cheers bobby

[Nimravis]

Thanks Adam @Tidgy's Dad and Bobby @Bobby Rico , it was very nice matrix to work on, comes off like butter.

[caldigger]

Yes, thats the famous North Carolina Butterstone. 

 

Since it is so soft, do you have to consolidate?

[Peat Burns]

@Nimravis Ralph, I'm very pleased that you liked the fossils.  I was hoping I could select something that you might not already have.  I appreciate your generosity in sending me (at the time, a perfect stranger) the Ordovician hash plate and the Cambrian trilobites from Georgia and was happy to reciprocate in some way.

 

With kind regards,

 

Tony 

[taj]

So I missed out ( was outbidded ) on the forum Christmas auction . I compensated  by grabbing this little but nice and exquisitely prepped  Muramotoceras Yezoense from Hokkaido , Japan .

[caldigger]

Whoo, thats insane! Look at the way it twists into a pretzel. A beautiful piece Thierry. Congrats on your new addition.

[LiamL]

3 small articulated Ichthyosaur vertebrae from Lyme Regis!

 

Does anyone know if this is a juvenile or maybe the tail end of an adult?

[oldtimer]

@taj  That is an awesome specimen.  Congrats.

[taj]

Thanks Doren and Oldtimer  . Thought I needed some eye candy to stand the long winter .....

[Ludwigia]

19 hours ago, taj said:

So I missed out ( was outbidded ) on the forum Christmas auction . I compensated  by grabbing this little but nice and exquisitely prepped  Muramotoceras Yezoense from Hokkaido , Japan .