Let's see your latest mailbox score - 2021!

[fifbrindacier]

13 hours ago, Paleorunner said:

The Christmas tree is going to be overflowing with quantity, variety and quality. 

Yes, sure !

[fifbrindacier]

30 minutes ago, FossilNerd said:

Yes. Yes you are! Looks like some nice gifts there from many different Santas. You must have been extra nice this year!

[Paleorunner]

Hello.

I would have liked to publish it earlier, but they had to find out who my Secret Saint was first. 

 

It all started with a joke to @FranzBernhard in the thread of Santa Secreto Espectacular. That in the end I finished this nice, I have an interesting gift.

 

 

Thank you very much Franz for your generous gift. 

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PS: I want to make a special mention to the following members, for previous mailbox entries.

 

-Thank you @fifbrindacier  for including extra gifts in your ongoing auction lot that you win. 

 

-Thank you   @will stevenson  for those brachiopods and fossil wood that you gave me.  

 

-thank you    @Harry Pristis for the extra goodies in the purchase of a sand dollar that I buy from you.  

 

-thank you  @Monica for offering that interesting, beautiful lot M at the winning christmas auction.  

 

 

• Thank Thank you for those brachiopods and fossil wood that you gave me. very much Franz for your generous gift.

Al corriente 1 hora antes 

 

 

                                                        Turritella Partschi                                            Terebralia Bidentata 
                                                                                 
                                                                                          Lucina Columbella                              

 

  Favosites Styriacus. 

 

 

 

                                                Trochacteon

 

 

Rudists.

 

 

• Cita

[Paleorunner]

And this is my last mailbox score, which was won at auction.
A beautiful Mosasaur tooth .......

Mosasaur: Prognathodon sp. 68x37x37 mm
Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian). Ouled Abdoun. Morocco.

 

 

[fifbrindacier]

4 hours ago, Paleorunner said:

And this is my last mailbox score, which was won at auction.
A beautiful Mosasaur tooth .......

Mosasaur: Prognathodon sp. 68x37x37 mm
Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian). Ouled Abdoun. Morocco.

 

 

Yes man !

[lesofprimus]

Just received a new batch of shark teeth, a few of which are my first specimens of the species...

[lesofprimus]

This Tethysaurus nopcsai jaw section just showed up today...

[fifbrindacier]

Another Santa from Netherlands sent me a package  or sponges

 

Thank you very much @badeend 

[fifbrindacier]

12 hours ago, lesofprimus said:

This Tethysaurus nopcsai jaw section just showed up today...

That's a wonderful pièce of jaw.

[lesofprimus]

Thanks!

[digit]

6 hours ago, fifbrindacier said:

Another Santa from Netherlands sent me a package of sponges

 

Wow, those don't look very absorbent at all--though one does look reminiscent of a luffa.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luffa

 

Seriously though, nice assortment. What age do these fossil sponges come from?

 

 

Cheers.

 

-Ken

[thelivingdead531]

This mailbox score was never intended to be a Christmas gift, but it ended up being just that. About a month ago, Tim @Fossildude19 kindly offered to send me package with some fish bits as we both have an affinity towards fossil fish. Fast forward a bit and it hastily arrived on Christmas Eve. I wrapped it nicely and placed it under the tree, not knowing just how much unwrapping I would be doing the next day. To keep a long story short-ish, it took me over an hour to unwrap, admire, and photograph everything! I had to take a lunch break halfway through to regain some energy. Just when I thought I was nearing the end there would be another layer of fossils! There are so many beautiful fossils here, some of which I've only dreamed of owning! I cannot begin to describe how full my heart is because of the generosity of Tim. Ok, enough yapping... here they are. 

 

 

I know Tim is sick of hearing this, but thank you! I cannot express what this means to me. 

[Paleorunner]

@thelivingdead531 enjoy that good gift. 

[thelivingdead531]

3 minutes ago, Paleorunner said:

@thelivingdead531 enjoy that good gift. 

I absolutely will! Between this and my secret Santa gift, I think I need a bigger fossil room! Or something with a lot of drawers. 

[Paleorunner]

This is one of my last mailbox scores.
Another gift from Secret Santa.
A wonderful batch that @Misha sent to my mailbox. 

Thank you again, it has made me very happy to receive this gift. (I like to collect marine invertebrates). 

[Misha]

1 hour ago, Paleorunner said:

This is one of my last mailbox scores.
Another gift from Secret Santa.
A wonderful batch that @Misha sent to my mailbox. 

Thank you again, it has made me very happy to receive this gift. (I like to collect marine invertebrates). 

Glad you enjoyed it!

[Paleorunner]

And here, the last entry of this year.
One complete tooth with Plesiosaur root. 

6.3x1.4 ctms From Ouled Abdoun, Morocco.  (Cretaceous Mastritchian).

 

 

 

[Nimravis]

I love echinoids and today I received this one in the mail and it is a beauty.

 

Psammechinus miliaris from Morocco.

 

 

 

 

 

[Wrangellian]

1 hour ago, Nimravis said:

I love echinoids and today I received this one in the mail and it is a beauty.

Psammechinus miliaris from Morocco.

Looks pretty nice, but is this for sure a fossil? Apparently this species still lives today.

[Nimravis]

13 hours ago, Wrangellian said:

Looks pretty nice, but is this for sure a fossil? Apparently this species still lives today.

You know- you could be onto something. It is pretty perfect and being Moroccan it might be. I do have recent echinoids that are not filled with anything and it does look different, but your comment does give me a reason to take a pause on it, since it is so perfect. I will have to check it out again in the morning, but if it is recent, someone did a great job at it and I did get it for a cheap price. Thanks for the info and getting my mind thinking.

 

For the heck of it, I should buy another one and take all of the fill out and see what it left.

[Coco]

Hi,

 

4 hours ago, Nimravis said:

J'adore les échinides et aujourd'hui j'ai reçu celui-ci par la poste et c'est une beauté.

 

Psammechinus miliaris  du Maroc.

 

 

 

 

When I saw your pictures, I thought, "Oh, it’s well preserved". Then I found it very similar to the present species found on our coasts (edible sea urchins), up to the slightly greenish colour.

I’ve already recovered sea urchins online, which were filled with a kind of cement with pebbles when it was not visible in the photos...

 

This is one of my current Psammechinus miliaris. If periproctus and peristoma were removed and filled with a relatively liquid mixture of sand and plaster/cement, the same result would be achieved.

 

 

For me too it seems to be a current filled with sediment to make believe in a fossil.

 

Coco

[Bobby Rico]

 MrsR got me something nice for Christmas from a charity shop, no labels and marked as bookends, It was under £10, so a bargain for a nice display piece. Scott kindly  ID it for me Asaphiscus wheeleri from the Middle Cambrian Wheeler Shale (Red Beds) House Range, Utah. Asaphiscus wheeleri from the Middle Cambrian Wheeler Shale (Red Beds) House Range, Utah.  It is an interesting chunk with the red circle staining , 

[caterpillar]

5 hours ago, Nimravis said:

Psammechinus miliaris from Morocco.

 

 

I think it's not a Psammechinus but a Paracentrotus

And I think it's recent

Edited December 28, 2021 by caterpillar

[lesofprimus]

Got a couple new items for Christmas time to show off...

 

A nice BV Galeocerdo mayumbensis tooth, which rounds out my Tiger Shark evolutionary lineage chain...

 

A pretty hard-for-me to find Otodus mugodzharicus tooth, which rounds out my Megalodon evolutionary lineage chain...

 

And a great looking Otodus auriculatus tooth...

[Bobby Rico]

29 minutes ago, lesofprimus said:

Christmas time to show off

You too must have been very good this year. There are some stunning specimens here.