Let's see your latest mailbox score - 2019!

[Tidgy's Dad]

Then there were a couple of insects from the Parachute Creek Member. 

I used to have a Knightia fish from the Green River, but had to sell it when times were hard. Nice little thing. 

Anyway, i don't really do much in the way of insects and wasn't too attracted by these, though i have a couple of insects that i love, one or two in amber and some beetle bits from the UK.

Oh, and i did have a tar beetle from the US at one time. 

But I digress, again. 

 

However, when I got them in my greedy paws and had a closer look at them, they are astounding! 

Very, very happy with these! 

 

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Finally, there was the small matter of a dinosaur bone, a possible hadrosaur partial pubis added on to boost the bids. 

Not my thing at all, but quite interesting for some.

Jigsaw puzzle?

You ain't seen nothin' yet. 

Sadly this seemed to be packed at the top of the parcel, but it was delivered upside-down. 

The hadrosaur bits were pretty mangled and in some places reduced to dust, i'm afraid. 

 

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

All in all it was the most marvelous Christmas present I had! 

Thank you so much, Tom! 

[caldigger]

54 minutes ago, Tidgy's Dad said:

Finally, there was the small matter of a dinosaur bone, a possible hadrosaur partial pubis added on to boost the bids. 

Not my thing at all, but quite interesting for some.

Jigsaw puzzle?

You ain't seen nothin' yet. 

Sadly this seemed to be packed at the top of the parcel, but it was delivered upside-down. 

The hadrosaur bits were pretty mangled and in some places reduced to dust, i'm afraid. 

 

 

He just wanted to put your repair skills to the test.  

Too bad, I hate it when things break in postage. 

[ShoreThing]

@Tidgy's Dad Wow, looks like a great Christmas! You have some very nice finds there!

[Tidgy's Dad]

7 hours ago, ShoreThing said:

@Tidgy's Dad Wow, looks like a great Christmas! You have some very nice finds there!

Thanks, I'm delighted with these fossils.

[Tidgy's Dad]

10 hours ago, caldigger said:

He just wanted to put your repair skills to the test.  

Too bad, I hate it when things break in postage. 

Yeah, it's tragic.

Survives for millions of years and then postal workers smash it to dust. 

[fishguy]

Both of these are from Montana

19 hours ago, Tidgy's Dad said:

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? 

 

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

3 minutes ago, fishguy said:

Both of these are from Montana

 

Thanks! 

Both wood? 

[ziggycardon]

Got some new acquisitions today! 

 

A replica of the famous Berlin specimen of Archaeopteryx lithographica found in Blumenberg, Eichstätt in Germany (150 million years old)

 

A Baryonyx walkeri claw replica, Isle of Wight, UK (135 - 125 million years old)

 

A replica of the largest Tyrannosaurus rex tooth (33 cm), Montana USA (66 million years old)

 

A piece of Rutile Quartz from Brazil

 

A piece of Falcon's Eye, the blue variant of Tiger's Eye, from South Africa

 

A piece of Nephrite (Jade) found in China

 

A piece of Cavansite found in Poona, India

 

A piece of rare yellow Brucite, found in Killa Saifullah district, Pakistan

 

A piece of black Opal found in Honduras

[Darktooth]

43 minutes ago, ziggycardon said:

Got some new acquisitions today! 

 

A replica of the famous Berlin specimen of Archaeopteryx lithographica found in Blumenberg, Eichstätt in Germany (150 million years old)

 

A Baryonyx walkeri claw replica, Isle of Wight, UK (135 - 125 million years old)

 

A replica of the largest Tyrannosaurus rex tooth (33 cm), Montana USA (66 million years old)

 

A piece of Rutile Quartz from Brazil

 

A piece of Falcon's Eye, the blue variant of Tiger's Eye, from South Africa

 

A piece of Nephrite (Jade) found in China

 

A piece of Cavansite found in Poona, India

 

A piece of rare yellow Brucite, found in Killa Saifullah district, Pakistan

 

A piece of black Opal found in Honduras

Nice stuff could you take a close-up of the black opal?

[ziggycardon]

16 minutes ago, Darktooth said:

Nice stuff could you take a close-up of the black opal?

I will try to make a few close ups next friday in daylight, my camera has a hard time capturing all the details on the opal in the current light.

 

[Darktooth]

Ok Thanks.

[ziggycardon]

42 minutes ago, Darktooth said:

Ok Thanks.

Did manage to make some pictures with my cellphone microscope though!  
The special thing about black opal is that it is a matrix opal that consists of black basalt as matrix dotted with colourful shiny opal.

[ziggycardon]

And today I recieved my other other of fossils! 

 

A Merycoidodon skull with jaws, found in Meng Farm Site, Souix County, White River Formation in Nebraska, USA (Oligocene age)

 

A Megalagus turgidus jaw fragment, found in the Brule Formation (White River Formation), Souix County in Nebraska, USA (Oligocene age)

 

Ischyromys rypus jaw fragment, found in the Brule Formation (White River Formation), Souix County in Nebraska, USA (Oligocene age)

 

Palaeolagus heydeni jaw fragment, found in the Brule Formation (White River Formation), Souix County in Nebraska, USA (Oligocene age)

 

Leptomeryx evansi jaw fragment, found in the Brule Formation (White River Formation), Souix County in Nebraska, USA (Oligocene age)

 

Shark Coprolite slice (Hybodus sp.) found in the Charmouth Mudstone Formation, Lyme Regis in Dorset, UK (Lower Jurassic)

 

Strelley Pool Stromatolite found in Pilbara, Australia (3,4 billion years old)

 

Cyclus americanus found in Francis Creek Shale, Pit 11, Mazon Creek in Illinois, USA (309 - 307 million years old)

 

Mosasaurus tooth (ID' as Eremiasaurus heterodontus) found in Oued Zem in Morocco (70 million years old)

 

Mosasaurus vertebrae found in Oued Zem, Morocco (70 million years old)

 

Egyptian clay necklace beads, 1100 - 300 B.C.

[Darktooth]

On 1/9/2019 at 3:50 PM, ziggycardon said:

Did manage to make some pictures with my cellphone microscope though!  
The special thing about black opal is that it is a matrix opal that consists of black basalt as matrix dotted with colourful shiny opal.

Beautiful!

[britishcanuk]

I recently got a few mixed bags of small shark teeth from dakhla, I enjoy going through these mixed bags to see what hidden gems I can find. I was pretty stoked to pick out this Misrichthyes stromeri teeth, including a good sized upper and lower! They seem to be pretty rare and we’re a new species for my collection.

[Tidgy's Dad]

3 minutes ago, britishcanuk said:

I recently got a few mixed bags of small shark teeth from dakhla, I enjoy going through these mixed bags to see what hidden gems I can find. I was pretty stoked to pick out this Misrichthyes stromeri teeth, including a good sized upper and lower! They seem to be pretty rare and we’re a new species for my collection.

Nice! 

Always good to add a new species to ones collection. 

[gigantoraptor]

Today I arrived at my grandparents home after school. There was a package from Canada waiting for me. 

 

It was very safe packaged.  All fossils arrived safely and in one piece. 

 

 

So here they are. Excuse me for the blurry pictures, but my phone seems to be as old as some of the fossils in this package. Not all fossils are showed (because some are too small) but they should all be mentoined. 

1: Mucrospirifer from the South pit of Hungry Hollow

Arkona, Ontario, Canada

2: Cretaceous Scapanorhynchus (Goblin shark) from Cambridge crossing, NJ, USA.

3: Amber from New Jersey, USA. Nice additions. Another place I can cross from my list.

4: Horn coral: Heliophyllum? from the South pit of Hungry Hollow. Arkona, Ontario, Canada. This one is soooooo amazing. Within the coral there are a lot of cool small fossils (crinoid parts). I will have to look at this through my microscope. Very, very cool. It's like a mini-ecosystem on it's own.

 

5: Eldredgeops rana cephalon from Penn Dixie. Hamburg, NY, USA. Cool cephalon. I think I could prep it a bit further. 

6: Greenops pygidium, also from Penn Dixie.

7:Spinocyrtia granulosa from Penn Dixie. Amazing detail on this beautifel brachiopod.

8: My very first Hash plate. Super cool. A lot of cool fossils. Also from the South Pit.

 

Besides the ones on the pictures I also received:

- Nucleocrinus elegans blastoid. From the Devonian of Silica Shale, Paulding in Ohio.

- Some orthoconic nautiloids Bactrites arkonensis from the mid-Devonian South pit of Hungry Hollow, Arkorason, Canada 

-  Horn coral: Steredasma rectum from Penn Dixie. Hamburg, New York, USA. Also mid-Devonian.

 

Thank you @Monica for these amazing fossils. Including my first hash plate, my first blastoid, my first Canadian fossils and a lot of other 'firsts'.  I especially like those Hungry Hollow fossils. I definetly should get more from there.

[Tidgy's Dad]

8 minutes ago, gigantoraptor said:

 

 

Thank you @Monica for these amazing fossils. Including my first hash plate, my first blastoid, my first Canadian fossils and a lot of other 'firsts'.  I especially like those Hungry Hollow fossils. I definetly should get more from there.

Lovely parcel! 

I adore the Hungry Hollow stuff, too. Fascinating and complex fossil community. 

[Monica]

@gigantoraptor

 

You're very welcome for the fossils - you definitely earned them since you managed to figure out my "mystery message" a few weeks ago!

 

I'm glad the fossils arrived safely and that you like them - I, too, love hash plates 

 

Congratulations again on the win!

 

Monica

[JohnBrewer]

What a great parcel @gigantoraptor!

[Bobby Rico]

Hi mailbox enthusiast 

Today I received an awesome fossilised bison horn.  It measures approx 13" long and approx 6” tall.    There is a tiny sticker inside which reads Maxey Peterborough 2/1/84. I did some research and there is not that much Bison material found in the uk. I  did after some time start looking online at nearby  museums to Maxey and found one that has locally found Bison bones in their collection. So the label is good I think. Quite rare for the UK Sorry the picture is not great.

 

And on display

[Bobby Rico]

I was just thinking about the Bison and the links to early man . Sometimes it is nice just to stand back and wonder about the specimens in our collections, even more so when the history is close and entwined.  

 

 

It’s a depiction of a bison from the cave of Altamira in Spain, painted during the paleolithic period, around 22,000 years ago . The image is from the Smithsonian

[Adam86cucv]

A couple of Burmese amber pieces with insects.  Found on a certain auction site for a cheap price and free shipping. I need to read up taking pictures of amber to see if I can show the bugs. One is a beetle and the other a fly.