Let's see your latest mailbox score - 2021!

[FF7_Yuffie]

My first fossil of the new year. Hopefully the first of many. A Hadrosaur vertebra from the Judith River Formation. Quite worn, but well priced and I've been keeping an eye out for a decent priced Hadrosaur vertebra for a while

 

[Abyss]

On 12/28/2020 at 10:28 PM, MarcoSr said:

I've been buying a bit of petrified wood from Indonesia lately.

 

These two colorful petrified wood pieces arrived today:

 

 

These two pieces of agatized petrified wood with Botryoidal Chalcedony are in the mail from Indonesia:

 

 

Marco Sr.

 

Absolutely beautiful pieces of petrified wood ! even the ones you've posted before that are not in this post.

Makes me 

 

 

On 12/29/2020 at 7:38 AM, TOM BUCKLEY said:

Absolutely beautiful. I had no idea that petrified wood could be so colorful.

 

Tom

 

Really ? You've been staring at bland fossils ( Bones, teeth, etc..) for too long !

With all the minerals petrified wood gets saturated with, they're like a master piece of art that mother nature (& time) has created. Any color or pattern will happen through out the world, while some locations are well known for their certain unique petrified wood that doesn't happen anywhere else in the world except their location.

I'd say explore petrified wood & their beauty & buy one you like !

[MarcoSr]

2 hours ago, Abyss said:

 

Absolutely beautiful pieces of petrified wood ! even the ones you've posted before that are not in this post.

Makes me 

 

 

I've posted in another post a good number of closeup pictures of the Indonesian blue copper slabs and black and white slabs that were in the earlier posts that you reference.  Here are a couple of closeup pictures from an Indonesian blue copper slab that show the vivid colors.

 

 

 

 

 

Marco Sr.

[Kiros]

A partial huge machairodus upper canine, it's my Christmas present 

[TOM BUCKLEY]

17 minutes ago, Kiros said:

A partial huge machairodus upper canine, it's my Christmas present 

 

You must have been a very good boy last year. I can only dream of having one of those. Congratulations.

 

Tom

[Kiros]

1 minute ago, TOM BUCKLEY said:

 

You must have been a very good boy last year. I can only dream of having one of those. Congratulations.

 

Tom

Ahaha thank you, being a partial I could get at an affordable price for me ahah. Complete ones are out of my league. Nonetheless it must have been a very big specimen 

[msantix]

Ended the year by buying a few fossils and they just arrived today  

 

Afrovenator Abakensis? teeth from the Tiouraren Formation

 

Diprotodon Optatum lower incisor tooth tip

 

[Jesuslover340]

This was an altogether lovely surprise 

Miocene amber from Australia 

[PrehistoricWonders]

I’ve acquired all of these teeth since September.

In my case I have: 4 dire wolf canines, 2 dire wolf carnassials, one dire wolf molar, 1 red wolf, 3 coyote, 5 spectacled bear, 1 spectacled bear molar, 1 black bear, 1 bear dog, 1 jaguar, 2 panther, 1 bobcat, 3 raccoons, and 1 jaguar incisor.

my favorite canine, a really nice jaguar canine from Venice beach.

[pachy-pleuro-whatnot-odon]

8 hours ago, Familyroadtrip said:

my favorite canine, a really nice jaguar canine from Venice beach.

Oh, wow! That's a spectacular piece. That'd definitely still be on my bucket list

[PrehistoricWonders]

4 hours ago, pachy-pleuro-whatnot-odon said:

Oh, wow! That's a spectacular piece. That'd definitely still be on my bucket list

Thank you! They’re hard to come by for sure, but every once-in-awhile they pop up. 

[PrehistoricWonders]

I also got this awesome Big cat canine from @Harry Pristisin October!

 

[Top Trilo]

A couple days ago I received these two teeth, O angustidens and O chubutensis

the chub is just over 2.5 inches

 

[Misha]

I'm really excited about some of my recent purchases,

This is my first fossil from the Mid Silurian

 Waldron Shale in Indiana,

It's a pyritized brachiopod, labeled as Chonetes nova-scotica with beautifully preserved hinge spines.

I'm not sure that the ID is accurate though, online I can only find references to Chonetes novascotius and nothing about that being present in the Waldron. 

Currently, I am looking for papers which may help with the identification of this brachiopod but I have not found much.

[Top Trilo]

Beautiful fossil, I love the pyrite ones.

[ClearLake]

That is a very beautiful brachiopod. I’ll bet @Tidgy's Dad or @Ken K can help with the ID. If it was Pennsylvanian in age I could probably help you but I am not well versed in the Waldron material. 

[Misha]

35 minutes ago, Top Trilo said:

Beautiful fossil, I love the pyrite ones.

I agree, although I have to say I was a bit hesitant to purchase it because I was afraid that it may succumb to pyrite disease.

But I asked @Ken K who is very knowledgeable on this and he has told me that this variety of pyrite does not seem to experience it, or at the very least it is quite resilient to it, looking at the description the seller also said that it was collected 20 years ago so now I am not as concerned that this will be a problem.

[piranha]

1 hour ago, Misha said:

I'm really excited about some of my recent purchases,

This is my first fossil from the Mid Silurian

 Waldron Shale in Indiana,

It's a pyritized brachiopod, labeled as Chonetes nova-scotica with beautifully preserved hinge spines.

I'm not sure that the ID is accurate though, online I can only find references to Chonetes novascoticus and nothing about that being present in the Waldron. 

Currently, I am looking for papers which may help with the identification of this brachiopod but I have not found much.

 

 

 

Kindle, E.M., Barnett, V.H. 1908

The Stratigraphic and Faunal Relations of the Waldron Fauna in Southern Indiana.

Indiana Department of Geology and Natural Resources, Annual Report, 33:393-416  PDF LINK

 

 

Williams, H.S., Breger, C.L. 1916

The Fauna of the Chapman Sandstone of Maine, including descriptions of some related species from the Moose River Sandstone.

United States Geological Survey, Professional Paper, 89:1-347  PDF LINK

[Misha]

@piranha

Thank you for the help!

That will be a helpful resource for some other brachiopods I will be getting soon

[musicnfossils]

On 2021-01-08 at 1:25 PM, Familyroadtrip said:

I also got this awesome Big cat canine from @Harry Pristisin October!

 

It’s insane how similar the left one looks to some of my tyrannosaurid teeth. that’s what I thought it was at first. Very nice pickups btw 

[Bobby Rico]

12 hours ago, Misha said:

really excited about some of my recent purchases,

This is my first fossil from the Mid Silurian

 Waldron Shale in Indiana,

It's a pyritized brachiopod, labeled as Chonetes nova-scotica with beautifully preserved hinge spines.

I'm not sure that the ID is accurate though, online I can only find references to Chonetes novascotius and nothing about that being present in the Waldron. 

Currently, I am looking for papers which may help with the identification of this brachiopod but I have not found much.

Very beautiful brachiopod. I believe that some of  pyrite disease occurs because of the environment it is kept in, like humid or damp conditions. I have kept plenty of Pyrite fossil without any problems for over twenty years. Cheers Bobby 

[Notidanodon]

Some nice chimaerroids from Russia 

[Notidanodon]

And some more bits

[Ken K]

Misha,

 

Subfamily: Strophochonetinae

Strophochonetes novascotica (Hall)

 

To reiterate, Waldron pyrite is very stable and you should have no issues.  This species of brachiopod is not uncommon in some beds of the Waldron.  Nice specimens with undamaged, and well prepared, hinge spines are harder to secure.  That is a terrific specimen so you did good!

[Misha]

@Ken K thank you very much for the information!

 

Today I got a couple more beautiful brachiopods from Indiana.

The first piece is another one from the Waldron Shale, this one was labelled as Rhynchonella acinus. I am not sure about this ID either, I will have to do some more reading to find out.