Let's see your latest mailbox score - 2020!

[FranzBernhard]

1 hour ago, will stevenson said:

i can see where you're coming from but if you zoom in, the pieces seem to fit quite well so i think its just a slightly rushed repair

 

1 hour ago, TOM BUCKLEY said:

I was in communication with the seller and he stated that he saw very little restoration if any. Just a small crack here and there filled with glue to stabilize it.

 

Thanks to both of you! Something new learned today - those teeth are a tricky thing!

Franz Bernhard

[TOM BUCKLEY]

8 minutes ago, FranzBernhard said:

 

 

Thanks to both of you! Something new learned today - those teeth are a tricky thing!

Franz Bernhard

 

Franz,

Thank you for starting this discussion.

Tom

[Misha]

Just received another fossil in the mail,

It arrived here a lot quicker than I thought it would, and I couldn't have been more excited to finally get it open. This fossil has been on my bucket list for the longest time now.

I was really surprised to see that it is much larger than I expected and looks so much better than in any pictures I had seen of it.

Osteolepis macrolepidotus:

[Pagurus]

Congratulations on your new acquisition!

[Yoda]

@Misha

 

Very nice. 
It is an iconic fish. 

[TOM BUCKLEY]

Exquisite fish. Enjoy your acquisition. 

 

Tom

[Huntonia]

 Glad to see you finally got your white whale @Misha! That's a particularly beautiful one! 

[Misha]

2 hours ago, Yoda said:

@Misha

 

Very nice. 
It is an iconic fish. 

 

2 hours ago, Pagurus said:

Congratulations on your new acquisition!

 

1 hour ago, TOM BUCKLEY said:

Exquisite fish. Enjoy your acquisition. 

 

Tom

 

7 minutes ago, Huntonia said:

 Glad to see you finally got your white whale @Misha! That's a particularly beautiful one! 

Thank you guys!

[ziggycardon]

@Misha that is indeed a lovely specimen as well  

[Leahlulu]

On 2/27/2017 at 12:59 AM, Ludwigia said:

Nice idea. It's not like I'm far away from any deposits, but I still do sometimes buy or trade for some hard-to-get fossils. This is my most recent one. Euaspidoceras douvlillei from the Oxfordian at Villers in Normandie.

 

 

 

AWESOME

[FF7_Yuffie]

On 09/12/2020 at 5:44 PM, pachy-pleuro-whatnot-odon said:

The tooth is definitely a nothosaur tooth, but the vertebra would indeed be hard to identify, especially since there are different species of nothosaur and these vary greatly in size. One of the smallest and most primitive ones, and one I've seen a lot of vertebrae on this matrix identified as, is Anarosaurus sp.. I suspect that's what you're dealing with here as well, seen as in terms of overall morphology the vertebra does seem to match nothosaurids.

 

Thanks for the info. Anarosaurus isnt a species i know anything about, so its one for me to have a read up on. Cool to have a different species vert on the piece. 

[Wrangellian]

On 12/8/2020 at 9:59 AM, Yoda said:

@Wrangellian

Have had a brief look with my 10x magnifying glass

Lots of oval blobs and short twiggy looking items

 

I need to do some research and try and get more info on what I am looking at 

Yes, I have a hard time identifying the things in mine, too, but I can be satisfied to know that I have a famous piece with early land plants in it.

[MarcoSr]

On 12/6/2020 at 8:14 AM, MarcoSr said:

I don't usually buy fossils but I've developed recently an interest in petrified wood.  I can't collect specimens like this in MD/VA.  The below pictures show two different lots of petrified wood coming from Indonesia.  The first (8.7 kg total) is in the mail.  The second (10.7 kg) is being shipped.  My fingers are crossed that these make it to me with the Christmas rush on.  I really only wanted a couple of pieces in each lot but got a much better deal buying the whole lot.

 

 

Marco Sr.

 

The first package of petrified wood arrived.  Looking at these slabs with the white silica patterns on the black carbon background is like looking up at clouds and seeing all kinds of animal shapes.  I really think I see bats in flight for sure on a couple of these slabs.  

 

 

 

 

 

Marco Sr.

[Parthicus]

I just received this unidentified Cretaceous ammonite from the Agadir region of Morocco.  The ammonite is about 4 cm across, and even unidentified is pretty cool.  But, unremarked by the seller, there is also a cross-section of a belemnite present!  It's a Cretaceous cephalopod party!

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

On 12/9/2020 at 12:39 AM, thelivingdead531 said:

I swear I'm almost done 

These two ammonites are beauties! Both from Kem Kem beds.

Last, but not least, this gorgeous black barite! I can't get photos to do justice on the colors. 

 

Ok, that's all folks. I hope you enjoy the pictures as much as I enjoy the specimens themselves. That Suchomimus tooth though! 

All great pieces, Candace! 

Merry Christmas! 

[Tidgy's Dad]

On 12/10/2020 at 7:32 PM, Misha said:

Just received another fossil in the mail,

It arrived here a lot quicker than I thought it would, and I couldn't have been more excited to finally get it open. This fossil has been on my bucket list for the longest time now.

I was really surprised to see that it is much larger than I expected and looks so much better than in any pictures I had seen of it.

Osteolepis macrolepidotus:

That's a lovely fishy, my friend. 

Congrats on a great acquisition.  

[Tidgy's Dad]

I received a couple of lovely if fragile specimens from my good friend Dimitris a few days back.

First up, a marvelous Clypeaster altus echinoid from the Miocene of Kythera Island, Greece. 

It'll look super after a bit of prepping. 

 

And secondly, a stunning little group of the barnacle Concavus concavus (Balanus concavus) from the Zanclean (early Pliocene) of Rafina, East Attika, Athens.

 

Thank you so much, @Dimitris, I adore them both! 

[Notidanodon]

Got a decent auriculatis from harleyville to make it up to myself for losing that Christmas auction

[pachy-pleuro-whatnot-odon]

On 2/19/2019 at 4:58 PM, indominus rex said:

I recently received from a collector in France, a super rare French Dakosaurus tooth. Most likely my rarest marine reptile tooth in my collection.

Impressive tooth! Would be happy to add one like that to my collection too! Haven't had chance to add a confirmed and nice Dakosaurus to my collection yet. Where's it from? Vaches Noires?

[Notidanodon]

Nothasaurus from Germany 

did a little prep to this

[FF7_Yuffie]

5 hours ago, will stevenson said:

Nothasaurus from Germany 

did a little prep to this

 

Nice tooth. I always think these Nothosaurus teeth look great--they seem to preserve really well with clear striations.

[Brett Breakin' Rocks]

An early Christmas gift to myself. 

 

More from Kazakhstan has arrived .... I think I see some of the same material on this thread, haha. An O. auriculatus and a string of associated shark verts from Kazakhstan Mangyshlak, Ustyurt plateau.

 

 

This tooth had some interesting pathology at the tip. It ends in a malformed nub with a pair of bumps at the end. 

 

String of associated verts. It would be nice to get them professionally prepped at some point. 

 

Cheers,

Brett

[hokietech96]

10 hours ago, Brett Breakin' Rocks said:

An early Christmas gift to myself. 

 

More from Kazakhstan has arrived .... I think I see some of the same material on this thread, haha. An O. auriculatus and a string of associated shark verts from Kazakhstan Mangyshlak, Ustyurt plateau.

 

 

This tooth had some interesting pathology at the tip. It ends in a malformed nub with a pair of bumps at the end. 

 

String of associated verts. It would be nice to get them professionally prepped at some point. 

 

Cheers,

Brett

Both are amazing!  Congrats

[Bobby Rico]

14 hours ago, Brett Breakin' Rocks said:

An early Christmas gift to myself.

There is so many members on TFF whom purchased such thoughtful gifts for themselves, it lovely to see.    Very nice 

[FF7_Yuffie]

I'm in a pterosaur mood lately---so treated myself to this very small, Triassic pterosaur tooth from Aust Cliffs. I didn't know of any Triassic pterosaurs being found from there, so tried to get more info from an expert at the National History Museum, who couldn't give a more specific species beyond it being a pterosaur tooth because, apparently, only very fragmentary remains have been found from the Triassic beds there.

 

I've got another pair of pterosaur teeth I'm hoping to buy very soon.