Let's see your latest mailbox score - 2019!

[ricardo]

I was   in Graf…. for Ordovician Maquoketa shale!

 

 

Not really, I found it in my mailbox  thanks to Mike.

[Brett Breakin' Rocks]

A mailbox Santa Gift to myself (?) .. yes .. to myself.  A beautiful etched C. auriculatus from North Carolina. It's as if a little worm went on a chewing spree .. but it gives these chompers some character.

 

Cheers,

Brett

 

[Bobby Rico]

4 hours ago, Brett Breakin' Rocks said:

beautiful etched C. auriculatus

That is stunning indeed. The etching and the beautiful hues really add to this tooth. 

[Brett Breakin' Rocks]

10 hours ago, Bobby Rico said:

That is stunning indeed. The etching and the beautiful hues really add to this tooth. 

Thanks ... it was a nice discovery. Teeth with markings are sometimes hard to come by .... 

 

Cheers

[Tidgy's Dad]

On 1/5/2019 at 9:05 PM, ricardo said:

I was   in Graf…. for Ordovician Maquoketa shale.

 

Not really, I found it in my mailbox  thanks to Mike.

I have some of these.

They're wonderful and the whole bed is just packed with millions of them! 

[ricardo]

1 minute ago, Tidgy's Dad said:

I have some of these.

They're wonderful and the whole bed is just packed with millions of them! 

Like in Erfoud... 

[Tidgy's Dad]

I finally got my Christmas present from wifey today, which is great as it's the second Christmas Day for us. 

It was an auction win from this very site, courtesy of Tom @fishguy

And how wonderful it was, you may have to bear with me for a while whilst I post a shed load of photos.

First up, from the Cretaceous Pierre shale, from which i already have some lovely pieces, is this marvelous Eutrephoceras nautiloid from Glendive, Montana.

Here is the reverse where you can see more of the whorls :

Unfortunately, it got broken into three in transit.

But one can actually see more of the internal structure and innner whorls, so I'm quite happy! 

And I found this tiny little bivalve among the broken bits.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Next up was a living chamber from a large baculite from the same location.

[Tidgy's Dad]

From the same location, some nice ammonites.

The block is actually in two pieces. Not the postal service, it's in two bits.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

And another ammonite. This one was a bonus, not in the auction. Thanks, Tom 

 

[Bobby Rico]

Hi all

I hope Adam does not mind me sharing his second Christmas Day but I received a fantastic little lot in the post of @Pixpaleosky. First I would just like to recommend him as a seller. The fossil are fantastic , the prices where very reasonable and most of all they was packed very well.

 

First up is a great addition to my plant collection. Leaves , oligocene, south of france. 

 

 

 

Marine vertebrae, miocene, aix en provence, he added it for free..

[Bobby Rico]

And the best to last a real stunning avian eggshells on matrix, Gastornis sp, Sparnacian , south of France, 

 

Thank you so much I really appreciate them. All the best Bobby 

 

What a creature this must have been.

[Bobby Rico]

17 hours ago, Tidgy's Dad said:

auction win from this very site,

That’s a really good win indeed . Happy second Christmas. 

[Tidgy's Dad]

32 minutes ago, Bobby Rico said:

That’s a really good win indeed . Happy second Christmas. 

Thanks, Bobby, it's Boxing Day today.

You've got some nice things there, especially the egg piece, very decent! 

[Tidgy's Dad]

The  last piece from the Pierre Shale was this bivalve coquina.

 

 

[Bobby Rico]

48 minutes ago, Tidgy's Dad said:

Thanks, Bobby, it's Boxing Day today.

You've got some nice things there, especially the egg piece, very decent! 

Oh ok I opened my late then not a problem. I like the egg piece too. Cheers 

[Tidgy's Dad]

The next batch of my awesome auction win and Christmas present from wifey was Devonian material from Independence, Iowa.

It was these two nautiloids that attracted me to the lot most of all as not only do i love brachiopods, but I like to build up a picture of the communities that they lived in, and always wonder what was preying on them. Maybe these nautiloids ate brachiopods, perhaps trilobites or smaller nautiloids, I don't know, but these are great, most of the nautiloids I do have are pretty small.

The one on the left is quite large, but the one on the right must have been a monster! And it's a curved nautiloid as well, my first, I think! 

And two more bonus items in the box were these smaller nautiloid pieces.

 

[fishguy]

Adam the large nautiloid is the last few chambers and living chamber of one of these.

 

 

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

20 minutes ago, fishguy said:

Adam the large nautiloid is the last few chambers and living chamber of one of these.

 

Wow! ! ! Thanks, Tom! 

Gyroceras. 

Do we know the genus of the orthoconic ones? 

 

[fishguy]

I don't.  We find them a lot but hard to identify.  We think the gyroceras is Tetranudocerus transversum not sure of the spelling.  It is i the Index Fossils of North America by Shimer and Shrock 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Also attractive to me were these lovely corals, also Devonian and I guess the same location.

 

 

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

And my favourite of the bonus items was this marvelous brachiopod, Atrypa independensis also from the same quarry in Iowa.

 

 

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

The last of the Devonian pieces was this amazing hash plate from the Cerro Gordo member of Dumont, Iowa.

Packed with brachiopods, stick and fan bryozoans, gastropods, crinoid stem columnals, tentaculitids...................

 

And these seem to be Upper Devonian too, which is nice as most of my US Devonian material seems to be Middle Devonian. 

 

 

 

 

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

A chunk of really crumbly matrix from the Cretaceous of Milbank, South Dakota.

It is full of shark's teeth and bits. 

And a tooth I found loose! 

Any ideas what it's from, anyone?

 

 

 

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Another couple of bonus items were included in the box. 

I think the brown piece is of polished fossilized wood, maybe from Montana?

This black rock, i have no idea.

@fishguy Tom?