Let's see your latest mailbox score - 2019!

[paulyb135]

Another UK tooth added to my collection  

 

Oplosaurus cf Armatus

Chilton Chine 

Isle of Wight 

[Abstraktum]

Well this is a beauty 

It's an Afrovenator abakensis tooth. Yes it's one of the teeth that got out of Niger from this one special lot. I think this went already well around TFF 

Now it arrived in Germany 

 

 

Thanks to @lone5wolf117 for selling this beautiful tooth and for the fast shipping

 

And thanks to @Runner64 for providing some background information 

 

 

[Darktooth]

5 hours ago, ziggycardon said:

A new month means new fossils! 
Ordered quite a lot of new stuff and these were the first to arrive!

 

My first "zwerfsteen" fossil with the imprints of crinoïds found in Lathum, The Netherlands but it originates from Sauerland in Germany (400 million years  old)
These fossils are quite common in the Netherlands as they were transported with glacial movements during the Ice Age.

 

A Parotodus benedeni tooth from Hoevenen in Belgium

 

Very rare desert roses found in Roekeberg, Hessen in Germany

These are Selenite Crystal's which are a form of Gypsum. Here in the US. There is a form of Selenite which we call Desert Rose but they actually resemble the petal pattern of the Rose flower.

[Tidgy's Dad]

42 minutes ago, paulyb135 said:

Another UK tooth added to my collection  

 

Oplosaurus cf Armatus

Chilton Chine 

Isle of Wight 

Golly, that's great! 

I thought the genus was only known from single tooth.

[Tidgy's Dad]

24 minutes ago, Abstraktum said:

Well this is a beauty 

It's an Afrovenator abakensis tooth. Yes it's one of the teeth that got out of Niger from this one special lot. I think this went already well around TFF 

Now it arrived in Germany 

 

Thanks to @lone5wolf117 for selling this beautiful tooth and for the fast shipping

 

And thanks to @Runner64 for providing some background information 

 

 

Glad it arrived safely!

It's a lovely tooth.

[paulyb135]

18 minutes ago, Tidgy's Dad said:

Golly, that's great! 

I thought the genus was only known from single tooth.

 

I messaged the Isle of Wight museum just now and the guy confirmed it is from an oplosaurus

 

You are correct regarding it only being known by a tooth however

[thelivingdead531]

Yesterday my parcel from @Coco arrived, but I was out running errands all day so I missed it and had to pick it up at the post office after work today. The horse teeth are beautiful! They look very nice in front of my equine cannon bone. She was very generous to throw in a beautiful ammonite, also. 

 

The fish was delivered over a week ago, but I’m just now able to get to it. It’s a pretty fish from a locale I didn’t have before. And it was really cheap (shipping was more than the fish itself)!

[Tidgy's Dad]

@thelivingdead531

Nice teeth and ammonite, Candace.

And the fish is gorgeous. 

The dendrites on the edge of the piece look quite like water weed and set it off nicely.

[Coco]

Happy that the parcel is arrived safe and that you the fossils @thelivingdead531

 

Coco

[thelivingdead531]

3 hours ago, Tidgy's Dad said:

@thelivingdead531

Nice teeth and ammonite, Candace.

And the fish is gorgeous. 

The dendrites on the edge of the piece look quite like water weed and set it off nicely.

Thank you, Adam! I agree, the dentrites give it a unique touch!

3 hours ago, Coco said:

Happy that the parcel is arrived safe and that you the fossils @thelivingdead531

 

Coco

I absolutely  the fossils, Coco! Thank you so much!  They will have a good home with me. 

[LiamL]

I got a fantastic deal on this Phylloceras from Whitby online! They're quite rare complete on the Yorkshire coast. 

Here's how it came

 

 

 

I did a little clean up and coating and I think it looks great.

 

 

@JohnBrewer

[Al Tahan]

I never really buy fossils but this forum got me “surfing” our favorite auction site for fun and just to see what’s out there. Well I actually made a purchase! 

 

This is my latest mailbox find.....it was not advertised as anything else besides “estate sale fossil trilobite” with blurry pictures. I quickly realized this was a Bolivian trilobite and this auction would end very cheap due to improper labeling.

 

Eldredgeia venusta 

 

I guess all these trilobites come in concretions way up in the mountains of Bolivia. Really cool! This was under $15 total after shipping. I was the only bid. I’m seeing them go for 3-4x that value so I was happy. 

 

Neat fossil and inexpensive so not much regret involved. 

[Darktooth]

1 hour ago, Al Tahan said:

I never really buy fossils but this forum got me “surfing” our favorite auction site for fun and just to see what’s out there. Well I actually made a purchase! 

 

This is my latest mailbox find.....it was not advertised as anything else besides “estate sale fossil trilobite” with blurry pictures. I quickly realized this was a Bolivian trilobite and this auction would end very cheap due to improper labeling.

 

Eldredgeia venusta 

 

I guess all these trilobites come in concretions way up in the mountains of Bolivia. Really cool! This was under $15 total after shipping. I was the only bid. I’m seeing them go for 3-4x that value so I was happy. 

 

Neat fossil and inexpensive so not much regret involved. 

      

Nice score Al! I received one of these from @Fossildude19 last spring as a Birthday gift. A bunch of us had met up for a group hunt at Deep springs Rd. He labeled it as Eldredgeops venustus, Bolivia.

[Darktooth]

Mine is a roller.

[Fossildude19]

@Darktooth 

 

Sorry Dave, Typo on my part. Should be Eldredgia venustus. 

[Darktooth]

27 minutes ago, Fossildude19 said:

@Darktooth 

 

Sorry Dave, Typo on my part. Should be Eldredgia venustus. 

Tim made an error!? Good to know!

[Tidgy's Dad]

7 hours ago, LiamL said:

I got a fantastic deal on this Phylloceras from Whitby online! They're quite rare complete on the Yorkshire coast. 

Very nice and you've done a good job prepping it .

Quite unusual there, as you say.

Good buy.

[Tidgy's Dad]

1 hour ago, Al Tahan said:

I never really buy fossils but this forum got me “surfing” our favorite auction site for fun and just to see what’s out there. Well I actually made a purchase! 

 

This is my latest mailbox find.....it was not advertised as anything else besides “estate sale fossil trilobite” with blurry pictures. I quickly realized this was a Bolivian trilobite and this auction would end very cheap due to improper labeling.

 

Eldredgeia venusta 

 

I guess all these trilobites come in concretions way up in the mountains of Bolivia. Really cool! This was under $15 total after shipping. I was the only bid. I’m seeing them go for 3-4x that value so I was happy. 

1 hour ago, Darktooth said:

Mine is a roller.

 

Nice pieces, chaps, I love these.

I have one as well!

Also a roller. It does have a nice cephalon on the other side, honest, but I can't find the photo!

[Darktooth]

On 2/9/2019 at 4:36 PM, Tidgy's Dad said:

Nice pieces, chaps, I love these.

I have one as well!

Also a roller. It does have a nice cephalon on the other side, honest, but I can't find the photo!

Adam, you know what they say, if you don't have a pic it's not true!

[Al Tahan]

Thanks! @Darktooth I thought it was a neat piece. Seems like everyone has some of these Bolivian critters

[FossilFrenzy]

This Asaphus kowalewskii!

[Wrangellian]

On 2/9/2019 at 2:35 PM, Al Tahan said:

That's a decent one. Looks like you lucked out in a small way...

Only problem is you're missing precise location/formation info. The info I found for mine is Eifelian stage, Belen Fm, Upper mbr, Calamarca, Bolivian Altiplano. But I gather there's a few different formations and locations, and I'm not sure if this taxon only occurs in one of them or more than one.

[Al Tahan]

@Wrangellian yea unfortunately I won’t know very exact information. I did a very minimal amount of research but they all seem to come from a certain area in Bolivia. I wish I could have more info but for the price I’m happy with the country and species. I bet with research I could probably narrow down a location based on rock lithology. I read one article about the history of the Bolivian trilobites.....locals would hike way up in the mountains for them for years and sold them to tourists.....Scientific expeditions couldn’t really reach the area for a long time cause it wasn’t economical to send a paleontological expedition. Eventually scientists went and described the trilobites. They are quite well known and seem to only be found in Bolivia. Interesting story really. I should read about it more it was pretty fascinating 

[Tidgy's Dad]

16 hours ago, FossilFrenzy said:

This Asaphus kowalewskii!

Gorgeous! 

[piranha]

13 hours ago, Al Tahan said:

...They are quite well known and seem to only be found in Bolivia. Interesting story really. I should read about it more it was pretty fascinating 

 

 

Eldredgeia cf. venustus is also described from the Bokkeveld Group, Waboomberg Formation, South Africa, and the Ereré Sandstone, and Pimenteira Formation of Brazil:

 

"Bolivian Eldredgeia venustus (Wolfart, 1968) typically has 26-27 dorsoventral files on each eye with a maximum of eight to nine lenses/file. Cooper (1982) reported that South African Eldredgeia cf. venustus has only 18 dorsoventral files with a maximum of six to seven lenses/file (although the two species have similar Large-Eye Indices). In addition, South African E. cf. venustus has L3 more inflated and L2 and L1 relatively shorter than Bolivian E. venustus. Therefore, at least two species can be assigned to this genus, the Bolivian E. venustus and the South African E. cf. venustus. In addition, a species similar to Eldredgeia venustus is known from the Ereré Sandstone of Pará, Brazil (Figure 2.5, 2.6). lt is referred to as Dalmania paituna Hartt and Rathbun, 1875. (See also Clarke, 1890; Katzer, 1903; Lake, 1906 for Dalmanites paituna.) The material examined from the NYSM consists of several fragmentary cephala and one fragmentary pygidium. These appear to be similar to Eldredgeia venustus (Wolfart), but differ in the greater convexity (sag.) of the glabella and the greater dorsoventral expansion of the frontal lobe. The nature of the figured and available material makes it difficult to declare them as synonymous with E. venustus, and thus the type species of this new genus. Eldredgeia paituna from the Ereré Sandstone is provisionally considered to be a distinct species. Specimens of a species closely related to Eldredgeia venustus are also known from the Pimenteira Formation near Picos, Piaui, Brazil. However, these can be differentiated from Bolivian material by their longer LO and sharply curved S1 (Lieberman et al., 1991). Thus, there may be four slightly differentiated forms of Eldredgeia known from different geographic regions."

 

Bolivia localities

Belen Formation, Huako, La Paz Department, Bolivia (USNM locality 20010)

Glacial rubble fields of Chacoma, La Paz Department, Bolivia (probably the Belen Formation)

Icla Formation, Pujio near Aiquile, Cochabamba Department, Bolivia (AMNH and USNM collections)

Icla Formation, Padilla, Chuquisaca Department, Bolivia

Lower Belen Formation, Ayo Ayo, La Paz Department, Bolivia (USNM locality 17993)

Sicasica Formation, Cruz Loma, La Paz Department, Bolivia (Type locality)

Upper Belen Formation, Pujravi, La Paz Department, Bolivia

Upper member of the Belen Formation, Belen, La Paz Department, Bolivia

 

Brazil localities

Ereré Sandstone, Pará, Brazil

Pimenteira Formation, Parnaíba Basin, near Picos Piauí, Brazil

 

text and localities from:

 

Lieberman, B.S. 1993

Systematics and the biogeography of the "Metacryphaeus Group" Calmoniidae (Trilobita, Devonian), with comments on adaptive radiations and the geological history of the Malvinokaffric Realm. Journal of Paleontology, 67(4):549-570

 

additional references:

 

Cooper, M.R. 1982

A Revision of the Devonian (Emsian-Eifelian) Trilobita from the Bokkeveld Group of South Africa. 

Annals of the South African Museum, 89(1):1-174  PDF LINK

 

Wolfart, R. 1968

Die Trilobiten aus dem Devon Boliviens und ihre Bedeutung für Stratigraphie und Tiergeographie.

[The trilobites from the Devonian of Bolivia and their importance for stratigraphy and animal geography.] pp. 5-202

In: Wolfart, R., Voges, A. Beiträge zur Kenntnis des Devons von Bolivien. [Contributions to the knowledge of the Devonian of Bolivia.]

Beihefte zum Geologischen Jahrbuch, 74:1-241