Let's see your latest mailbox score - 2019!

[FossilNerd]

7 hours ago, ziggycardon said:

 

I didn't really have much time to post them yet, but this is my last haul from a fossil fair a week ago!

 

Very nice! 

[Nimravis]

I have always loved Aracucaria mirabils cones from Jurassic La Matilde Formation - Patagonia, Argentina.

 

Here is a smaller, sliced and polished cone that I can add to my other cones.

 

[caldigger]

1 hour ago, Nimravis said:

I have always loved Aracucaria mirabils cones from Jurassic La Matilde Formation - Patagonia, Argentina.

 

Here is a smaller, sliced and polished cone that I can add to my other cones.

 

So it was as hoped...good!

[Brett Breakin' Rocks]

On 11/13/2019 at 3:17 PM, Misha said:

Then some cambrian brachiopods from Utah Schizambon typicalis

Those brachiopods are very cool ... having searched the Latham shale over in California I can attest that primitive brachs are not always a common occurrence. 

 

Congrats,

Brett

[Brett Breakin' Rocks]

Here are a few Florida Bone Valley fm. teeth I picked up on our favorite auction site. I couldn't pass up a great deal.

 

 

 

[Misha]

55 minutes ago, Brett Breakin' Rocks said:

Here are a few Florida Bone Valley fm. teeth I picked up on our favorite auction site. I couldn't pass up a great deal.

 

 

 

The colors on those are very beautiful!

[Brett Breakin' Rocks]

3 hours ago, Misha said:

The colors on those are very beautiful

Thanks ... you really don't know what you've got in the parcel until you get them back home and turn up the magnification. 

 

B

[Abstraktum]

Got myself some associated Mosasaur verts from Morocco

 

[Bobby Rico]

5 hours ago, Brett Breakin' Rocks said:

Here are a few Florida Bone Valley fm. teeth I picked up on our favorite auction site. I couldn't pass up a great deal.

Beautiful hues in these teeth. I have seen a few of your post in this thread and I was wondering how you display your shark teeth?

[Bobby Rico]

8 hours ago, Nimravis said:

have always loved Aracucaria mirabils cones from Jurassic La Matilde Formation - Patagonia, Argentina.

I have to agree with you I also love these cones but in the UK they are very spendy and out of my reach.  Nice buy 

[Nimravis]

2 minutes ago, Bobby Rico said:

I have agree with you I also love these cones but in the UK they are very spendy and out of my reach.  Nice buy 

They can be very expensive here too Bobby.

[Bobby Rico]

1 minute ago, Nimravis said:

They can be very expensive here too Bobby.

I can imagine they are beautiful cut and  polished . They are also hard to get. I have a nice slice of one .  

[caldigger]

1 hour ago, Brett Breakin' Rocks said:

Thanks ... you really don't know what you've got in the parcel until you get them back home and turn up the magnification. 

And subject them to your mad photography skills! 

[Brett Breakin' Rocks]

6 hours ago, caldigger said:

And subject them to your mad photography skills! 

Aww shucks .. thanks Doren.

 

7 hours ago, Bobby Rico said:

Beautiful hues in these teeth. I have seen a few of your post in this thread and I was wondering how you display your shark teeth?

Currently nothing fancy .. they are in Riker boxes in an old flat (?) filing style wood cabinet that is mid-refinish. One day I suspect I will finish it in a flurry of activity as is usual.  But for now it sits ... waiting. 

 

Eventually something fancier for the teeth would be nice. Give them a good lift with custom stands and displays. Multiple levels etc... for now they are being archived and manipulated digitally. I'm slowly making my way into the collection but eventually I hope to have high quality prints for most of them.    -and maybe even a book?-  (Speaks quietly)

 

Cheers,

B

[britishcanuk]

Here’s a couple planus teeth i recently picked up. There were some beauties in this lot, I’ll snap some more photos when I get a minute.

[fossilsonwheels]

We had this nifty little fossil arrive yesterday, a 2.6” piece of Ceratopsian frill from the Aguja Formation. Our first fossil from this formation. We can add Agujaceratops to the roster of dinosaurs we talk about too ! 

 

 

[Macrophyseter]

On 11/21/2019 at 7:19 PM, britishcanuk said:

Here’s a couple planus teeth i recently picked up. There were some beauties in this lot, I’ll snap some more photos when I get a minute

The lower tooth is especially appealing and colorful 

[Macrophyseter]

Here's a recently acquired sort-of bargain Platypterygius kiprijanolfi ichthyosaur tooth from Kursk, Russia! 

 

[Jackson g]

It took a while, but I just got home from work to see a nice package from Russia. I ended up buying a nice, recently described trilobite (Trigonillaenus) Illaenus slancyensis. It's a small, but beautiful trilobite.

 

[caldigger]

That is a really nice trilo Jackson,  it looks like ivory!

Very cool.

[fossilsonwheels]

On 11/23/2019 at 10:22 PM, Macrophyseter said:

Here's a recently acquired sort-of bargain Platypterygius kiprijanolfi ichthyosaur tooth from Kursk, Russia! 

 

Fantastic tooth. 

[piranha]

On 11/25/2019 at 8:49 PM, Jackson g said:

It took a while, but I just got home from work to see a nice package from Russia. I ended up buying a nice, recently described trilobite Illaenus slancyensis. It's a small, but beautiful trilobite.

 

 

The Russian illaenids have been reclassified by Krylov 2017.  Illaenus slancyensis Krylov 2016 is now a subgenus: I. (Trigonillaenus) slancyensis

 

The article focuses on the trilobites of the genus Illaenus Dalman, 1827 of Darriwilian-Katian Stages from East Baltoscandia. As a result morphological and stratigraphic distribution data for 23 species of the genus Illaenus Dalman, 1827, were united in five subgenera: Illaenus Dalman, 1827, Pseudoillaenus subgen. nov., Trigonillaenus subgen. nov, Baltillaenus subgen. nov. and Rutheniaeillaenus subgen. nov. The new subgenus is based on relations of length and width of cephalon and pygidium, outlines of dorsal furrows of cranidium, width of relations of rachis of thorax and thorax, length of rachis of pygidium and quality of terrace lines. Three new species: Illaenus (Trigonillaenus) kotlukovae sp. nov., I. (T.) volkhovensis sp. nov., Illaenus (Rutheniaeillaenus) dubari sp. nov. have been described in Saint-Petersburg region and Estonia. The article also presents diagnosis for three species and subspecies: Illaenus (Illaenus) chiron stacyi Holm, 1886, I. (I.) planifrons Jaanusson, 1957, Illaenus (Baltillaenus) glabrisculus Jaanusson, 1957, which include new morphological data about these species and are reported here for the first time. Two rare species: Illaenus (Trigonillaenus) schmidti Nieszkowskii, 1857, Illaenus (Illaenus) intermedius Holm, 1886, have been described from the Ordovician strata of the Saint-Petersburg and Novgоrod Regions. The neotype of (Trigonillaenus) schmidti Nieszkowskii, 1857 and the lectotypes of Illaenus (Illaenus) chiron stacyi Holm, 1886 and Illaenus (Illaenus) intermedius Holm, 1886, are stated in this article. A new phylogenetic scheme for East Baltoscandian representatives of the genus Illaenus Dalman, 1827, which includes 5 phylogenetic branches, often with parallel development, is put forward. In the base stratigraphic scheme used in this article 9 layers with trilobites of genus Illaenus Dalman, 1827 which were given correlation of the Ordovician deposits of the East Baltoscandia and the West Baltoscandia Regions are stated.

 

Krylov, A.V. 2017

New data on the Ordovician trilobites of the genus Illaenus Dalman, 1827 of East Baltoscandia.

Baranovichi State University Bulletin - Geological Sciences (General Biology) 5:17-47  PDF LINK

[Bobby Rico]

14 hours ago, Jackson g said:

took a while, but I just got home from work to see a nice package from Russia. I ended up buying a nice, recently described trilobite Illaenus slancyensis. It's a small, but beautiful trilobite.

That is probably the most beautiful mineral preservation I have seen on a bug. 

[Troodon]

On 11/19/2019 at 4:36 PM, Nimravis said:

I have always loved Aracucaria mirabils cones from Jurassic La Matilde Formation - Patagonia, Argentina.

 

Here is a smaller, sliced and polished cone that I can add to my other cones.

 

 

Nice cone.  Just a few years ago before the embargo from Argentina the Tucson show was full of these.  I would go into one of the dealers room and just drool over what he showing.   Branches with 2 or 3 cones.. Beautiful colors on sliced specimens, several different types,  just gorgeous.   I've also always loved them.

[Jackson g]

@piranha Good to know this, thanks. I shall be changing some labels it looks like. 

22 hours ago, Bobby Rico said:

That is probably the most beautiful mineral preservation I have seen on a bug. 

I agree it is very pleasant to the eye. Small, but very nice!