Let's see your latest mailbox score - 2018!

[DeepTimeIsotopes]

On 12/11/2018 at 9:39 PM, MrR said:

OK, relative to what I'm seeing, this meg tooth barely qualifies as a fossil, age-wise,...

Any Meg I’ve seen was definitely old enough to be a fossil. Stuff that barely qualifies as a fossil, in my opinion, is 10,000 years old. 

 

On 12/12/2018 at 10:23 AM, Ptychodus04 said:

What is its age? It would have to be much younger than any known megs to qualify as barely a fossil.

Agreed.

[minnbuckeye]

Page 100 !!!!!!!! 

Awhile ago @DanKurek asked members for samples of bivalves representing their region. I obliged his request with bivalves I have collected. There was not expectation of a return gift, but Mr. Dan provided this special group of fossils from down under. I had ZERO fossils from Australia so these are now very special to me. Thanks so much!!!   Can their IDs be made???

 

How goes the bivalve collection??  Maybe some more forum members will reach deep into their pockets seeing it is Xmas season and offer up some bivalves for you. It can't hurt to try and help you, I hope!.

 

 

1.  Oysters??

 

 

2. Micantapex rhomboidalis. What a beauty!

 

 

 

 3. Bivalves from Fossil Beach, Victoria. No,no,no, you can't have them, @Tidgy's Dad

 

 

 

 4.  My favorite, unknown echinoderms:

 

 

[caldigger]

Echos are Lovenia

[Tidgy's Dad]

27 minutes ago, minnbuckeye said:

Page 100 !!!!!!!! 

2. Micantapex rhomboidalis. What a beauty!

 

 3. Bivalves from Fossil Beach, Victoria. No,no,no, you can't have them,

 4.  My favorite, unknown echinoderms:

 

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Page 100 

The gastropod is lovely. 

The echinoid is Lovenia, I believe, but not sure of the species. 

You may keep the bivalves as, gorgeous as they are, i prefer brachiopods. 

[Tidgy's Dad]

1 minute ago, caldigger said:

Echos are Lovenia

SNAP  ! ! ! 

[Dan 1000]

@minnbuckeye

 

Great to see the package arrived! 

 

Sorry that I didn't add the names for the fossils.

 

The oysters are Ostea sp and are from the Pliocene Shell Hill, South Australia. The only known oyster deposit of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere.

 

The echinoids are lovenia woodsi and are from the Beaumaris Sandstone Formation (Late Miocene - Early Pliocene)

[Wrangellian]

1 hour ago, caldigger said:

Echos are Lovenia

Was that the autocorrect, again?

[Wrangellian]

Maybe at some point in the new year I'll have some of my local bivalves to offer you but right now things are too busy and money is to scarce!

[caldigger]

18 minutes ago, Wrangellian said:

Was that the autocorrect, again?

Echos shortened version of Echnoids.

OK, sure let's blame this one on auto-correct. 

[Wrangellian]

I usually see 'echies', but 'echo' is already a word!    (I knew what you meant)

[minnbuckeye]

10 hours ago, DanKurek said:

The only known oyster deposit of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere

 

Interesting. Any explanation for oysters only being "north of the border"?

[Nimravis]

Doren @caldigger and I do trades from time to time an today (Sunday) I received a package from him via USPS- they were delivering today - Thanks again Doren.

 

Here are the great pieces that I received today-

 

Aulophyseter morricei (Pygmy Sperm Whale Tooth).

Middle Miocene

Round Mountain Silt Member

Temblor Formation

Hart Park Bluffs, Bakersfield, California

 

 

Petrified Wood

Upper Triassic

Chinle Formation

Holbrook, Arizona

 

 

Lygenopteris hoeninghausi

Pennsylvanian Period

Pottsville Formation

Mary Lee Coal Group

Jefferson County

Bosomer, Alambama

 

 

Woodworthia arizonica (Conifer)

Triassic Period

Chinle Formation

Wolvorine Pertrified Forest

Circle Cliffs Region

Southern Utah

 

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

7 minutes ago, Nimravis said:

Doren @caldigger and I do trades from time to time an today (Sunday) I received a package from him via USPS- they were delivering today - Thanks again Doren.

 

Here are the great pieces that I received today-

 

Aulophyseter morricei (Pygmy Sperm Whale Tooth).

Middle Miocene

Round Mountain Silt Member

Temblor Formation

Hart Park Bluffs, Bakersfield, California

 

Petrified Wood

Upper Triassic

Chinle Formation

Holbrook, Arizona

 

Lygenopteris hoeninghausi

Pennsylvanian Period

Pottsville Formation

Mary Lee Coal Group

Jefferson County

Bosomer, Alambama

 

Woodworthia arizonica (Conifer)

Triassic Period

Chinle Formation

Wolvorine Pertrified Forest

Circle Cliffs Region

Southern Utah

 

I like the sperm whale tooth, but the colour of that wood is beautiful. 

Splendid gifts, Doren. 

[Bobby Rico]

The sperm whale tooth is a absolute  winner . Wood has beautiful hues. It must have felt like Christmas Day. 

[Nimravis]

3 hours ago, Bobby Rico said:

The sperm whale tooth is a absolute  winner . Wood has beautiful hues. It must have felt like Christmas Day. 

Well since he is not my Secret Santa, I can't say Christmas, but it did seem like my Birthday.

[caldigger]

I just recieved via postal another bargin purchase. A lot of 33 Sand Tiger Shark teeth from Belgium.

 

[Brett Breakin' Rocks]

50 minutes ago, caldigger said:

I just recieved via postal another bargin purchase. A lot of 33 Sand Tiger Shark teeth from Belgium.

 

 

I'm liking those chompers ! Nice big ones too ....

 

Here is a transitional great white tooth from Chile.  I don't have many (any ?) transitional teeth. It seems quite a few teeth like this come out of Chile.

 

 

Cheers,

Brett

 

[-Andy-]

On 9/7/2018 at 9:19 AM, Tidgy's Dad said:

I only have the one version, but i watched it when it came out and always loved this film. 

I love the concept that you are with your friends but one (or maybe more of them) is not your friend any more, how can you tell who's real? 

And who's going to kill you? 

And if it reaches civilization it's the end of everything. 

Brilliant! 

 

 

Not sure if I ever replied you on this, but the sequel comics confirmed both McReady and Childs were human. Unfortunately, some other idiot soldier touched the corpse of the Thing at the ice base, restarting the whole infection process again.

[Adam86cucv]

Got a nice package of goodies from a fellow forum member. 

I'll start with the smaller items first.  Some of the pictures are a bit off due to lighting. Need to figure out a better set up.

Couple of snails and a crinoid stem?

 

Clam I assume?

 

Some Mazon Creek halves

 

Ammonite and clam of some sort with some neat geological growth at the end of the ammonite

 

Dino bone

[Dan 1000]

@minnbuckeye

 

Hello.

 

Sorry for the late reply. I am a bit confused as to what you mean by 'north of the border'. Here is a photo of the site: 

It is around 5m tall and is around 20m long I'd say. Before the site was quarried and used in fertilizer, shell hill was probably hundreds of meters wide! This is what's left nearly 80 years after the quarry was closed in 1942. Roadcuttings a couple kms away from shell hill are also packed full of oysters so it could even be possible that shell hill was a couple kms wide! That is what makes the site so unique.

 

 

[LiamL]

Received these beautiful small verts in the mail from Lyme Regis in England. 

The big one at top middle of my hand is a Plesiosaur and the rest are Ichthyosaur.

 

 

[caldigger]

I meant to post this the other day, got called away and it slipped my foggy mind.

Apparently, my buddy Mr. Nimravis wanted to retaliate my retaliation with an awesome ammonite from the Jurassic of France, a Oreodont leg bone on matrix, a small Eocene Green River fish and several membrane display stands.

Thank you muchly Ralph!

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

On 12/20/2018 at 8:40 AM, DanKurek said:

@minnbuckeye

 

Hello.

 

Sorry for the late reply. I am a bit confused as to what you mean by 'north of the border'. Here is a photo of the site: 

It is around 5m tall and is around 20m long I'd say. Before the site was quarried and used in fertilizer, shell hill was probably hundreds of meters wide! This is what's left nearly 80 years after the quarry was closed in 1942. Roadcuttings a couple kms away from shell hill are also packed full of oysters so it could even be possible that shell hill was a couple kms wide! That is what makes the site so unique.

How extraordinary! 

[Tidgy's Dad]

On 12/18/2018 at 4:56 AM, Brett Breakin' Rocks said:

I'm liking those chompers ! Nice big ones too ....

 

Here is a transitional great white tooth from Chile.  I don't have many (any ?) transitional teeth. It seems quite a few teeth like this come out of Chile

 

Cheers,

Brett

 

Unusual and rather beautiful.

[Tidgy's Dad]

On 12/18/2018 at 7:03 PM, Adam86cucv said:

Got a nice package of goodies from a fellow forum member. 

I'll start with the smaller items first.  Some of the pictures are a bit off due to lighting. Need to figure out a better set up.

Very nice parcel of treats! 

Beautiful things.