digit Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 Interesting. So the gray spot at the top is a darker inclusion rather than a place where paint chipped off then. I've seen people paint in the outlines of poorly preserved Green River Formation fishes or stain the rock to enhance footprint trace fossils and wondered if this was some "enhancement" but its just chalkiness. Cheers. -Ken Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Notidanodon Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 15 minutes ago, digit said: Interesting. So the gray spot at the top is a darker inclusion rather than a place where paint chipped off then. I've seen people paint in the outlines of poorly preserved Green River Formation fishes or stain the rock to enhance footprint trace fossils and wondered if this was some "enhancement" but its just chalkiness. Cheers. -Ken Yes it’s a darker inclusion, on the back there is a brachiopod , I don’t think that painting a specimen would add to it, i hope that’s not too common practice cheers will 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pachy-pleuro-whatnot-odon Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 5 hours ago, digit said: Interesting. So the gray spot at the top is a darker inclusion rather than a place where paint chipped off then. I've seen people paint in the outlines of poorly preserved Green River Formation fishes or stain the rock to enhance footprint trace fossils and wondered if this was some "enhancement" but its just chalkiness. Cheers. -Ken I guess you could say you can chalk it up to chalkiness 2 'There's nothing like millions of years of really frustrating trial and error to give a species moral fibre and, in some cases, backbone' -- Terry Pratchett Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TOM BUCKLEY Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 7 minutes ago, pachy-pleuro-whatnot-odon said: I guess you could say you can chalk it up to chalkiness AVOCATIONAL PALEONTOLOGIST STROKE SURVIVOR CANCER SURVIVOR CURMUDGEON "THERE IS A VERY FINE LINE BETWEEN AVOCATIONAL PALEONTOLOGY AND MENTAL ILLNESS" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digit Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 3 hours ago, pachy-pleuro-whatnot-odon said: I guess you could say you can chalk it up to chalkiness You said it not me (for once). Cheers. -Ken 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcoSr Posted February 16, 2021 Share Posted February 16, 2021 Some fossil agatized black coral pieces and a few more petrified wood slabs in the mail from Indonesia. Marco Sr. 2 "Any day that you can fossil hunt is a great day." My family fossil website Some Of My Shark, Ray, Fish And Other Micros My Extant Shark Jaw Collection Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted February 16, 2021 Share Posted February 16, 2021 These are my latest mailbox scores: Viperfish (Eurypholis sp.) from Lebanon: Mioplosus from the Green River Formation: 2 10 Tim - VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER VFOTM --- APRIL - 2015 __________________________________________________ "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir ~ ~ ~ ~ ><))))( *> About Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digit Posted February 16, 2021 Share Posted February 16, 2021 2 hours ago, MarcoSr said: Some fossil agatized black coral pieces and a few more petrified wood slabs in the mail from Indonesia. Nice! Tammy picked up a necklace pendant when we were in Bali a decade back. Came from really nice silicified corals that they find uplifted in the highlands. Look really pretty cut into cabs and polished. Cheers. -Ken Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossilis Willis Posted February 16, 2021 Share Posted February 16, 2021 6 hours ago, Fossildude19 said: These are my latest mailbox scores: Viperfish from Lebanon: Mioplosus from the Green River Formation: I like the mio, I have an almost complete one in my collection I found a few years back. The viperfish is gnarly, seems like they're mostly teeth! Nice acquisitions. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bthemoose Posted February 17, 2021 Share Posted February 17, 2021 These arrived today: Carcharocles chubutensis from Peru, Carcharocles auriculatus from Kazakhstan, and Squalicorax bassani from Morocco. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrehistoricWonders Posted February 17, 2021 Share Posted February 17, 2021 Love the Peruvian Chub!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrangellian Posted February 17, 2021 Share Posted February 17, 2021 16 hours ago, MarcoSr said: Some fossil agatized black coral pieces and a few more petrified wood slabs in the mail from Indonesia. Marco Sr. Very showy stuff! Do you know much about this stuff (the geology etc)? I have a couple small pieces but it's not quite the same as yours, and I wish I knew more about it. I don't know how many different areas or formations it comes from or anything like that, so my labels have several questions marks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcoSr Posted February 17, 2021 Share Posted February 17, 2021 20 hours ago, digit said: Nice! Tammy picked up a necklace pendant when we were in Bali a decade back. Came from really nice silicified corals that they find uplifted in the highlands. Look really pretty cut into cabs and polished. Cheers. -Ken Ken A lot of agatized Indonesian coral gets turned into cabs and other jewelry. The agatized coral can have vivid natural colors. However, to get higher prices for their coral, some vivid red, yellow, black etc. Indonesian coral has been dyed by soaking the coral in different chemicals. I'm not sure how to tell the natural from the dyed agatized coral. Marco Sr. 5 hours ago, Wrangellian said: Very showy stuff! Do you know much about this stuff (the geology etc)? I have a couple small pieces but it's not quite the same as yours, and I wish I knew more about it. I don't know how many different areas or formations it comes from or anything like that, so my labels have several questions marks. Unfortunately I don't usually get much data on the different pieces that I buy from Indonesia. From what I have read the Indonesian agatized coral is Miocene in age. You might check out the following link: https://www.indoagate.com/coral2.html The following are experts from the above link: "Fossil Corals have been found in several provinces across the western Indonesian Islands of Sumatra and Java. These materials are the buried remnants of ancients reefs thrust up onto the land mass by plate collisions. They lie situated in the mountainous regions of the Bukit Barisan Range from central to southern Sumatra and the rugged mountains of western and eastern Java. In east Indonesia, there are fossil corals found on remote mountainous parts of Halmahera Island." "During preservation, the original calcium carbonate of the coral skeletons reacted with silica bearing fluids of volcanic origins. Geochemical studies have documented cases of hydrothermal (hot water) deposition of copper, iron, zinc and silver along with the silica.............. Low temperature silica minerals like opal and chalcedony (Agate) are the most common components of the fossilized coral. Some fine and micro-crystal aggregates (druse) or quartz have filled pockets in the leached portions of the stone. Some druses filled the channels which housed the soft parts of the coraline critters and were later cemented with clear agate causing the polished surfaces to glitter." "Locally there are pyrite crystals and other minerals disseminated in the agate which enhances the attractiveness and defines the structure of the original coral species. " Marco Sr. 1 "Any day that you can fossil hunt is a great day." My family fossil website Some Of My Shark, Ray, Fish And Other Micros My Extant Shark Jaw Collection Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bthemoose Posted February 17, 2021 Share Posted February 17, 2021 12 hours ago, Familyroadtrip said: Love the Peruvian Chub!! Thanks! I’ve been looking for a good one and this one checked the boxes with the right “Chubutensis” look from a neat location. My next one will hopefully be one I find myself from the Calvert Cliffs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thelivingdead531 Posted February 17, 2021 Share Posted February 17, 2021 On 2/16/2021 at 7:33 AM, Fossildude19 said: These are my latest mailbox scores: Viperfish (Eurypholis sp.) from Lebanon: Mioplosus from the Green River Formation: They’re both beauties, but that viperfish is magnificent! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digit Posted February 17, 2021 Share Posted February 17, 2021 9 hours ago, MarcoSr said: A lot of agatized Indonesian coral gets turned into cabs and other jewelry. The agatized coral can have vivid natural colors. However, to get higher prices for their coral, some vivid red, yellow, black etc. Indonesian coral has been dyed by soaking the coral in different chemicals. I'm not sure how to tell the natural from the dyed agatized coral. Tammy's cab was a nice faint pinkish color as I recall. Really a pretty piece. I need to see if she can locate it and I'll snap a photo to show what this material looks like in a jewelry setting. Cheers. -Ken Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fossilsonwheels Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 I got some matrix in the mail today. Two different Cretaceous formations from Texas, Aguja and Atco. I’m trying very hard to finish up a couple of our shark displays and micros are a great way to do that. I didn’t bother photographing the matrix but instead some of the teeth I’ve already found from the Aguja. Restesia and Lonchidion were the target species so yay ! 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bthemoose Posted February 19, 2021 Share Posted February 19, 2021 Sphenodus sp. from the Late Jurassic (Tithonian), Republic of Tatarstan, Russia: 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gigantoraptor Posted February 19, 2021 Share Posted February 19, 2021 So I got this package with some really nice Kem Kem fossils in my mailbox this week. First of: Rooted crocodile tooth. I'm not certain of the species yet but I hope I'll be able to find it out. The next one has to be my favourite fossil in my collection so far. A partial associated crocodile tail with 10 vertebrae and multiple scutes. Something went wrong with the shipping of this piece, which resulted in this piece seeing more continents than I have. But eventually it finally arrived at the prep bench of @Haravex, who did a truely amazing job on freeing this piece of it's stone jacket. And here is a before picture: Last one is a huge, 6 cm pterosaur tooth. They very rarely seem to get to this size. 1 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhiggi Posted February 19, 2021 Share Posted February 19, 2021 A few recent auction wins, since we can’t get out collecting... Partial Plesiosaur Humerus Ichthyosaur Vertebra Three small Ichthyosaur Verts Three Pyrite Ammonite Promicroceras All from Lyme Regis area 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TOM BUCKLEY Posted February 19, 2021 Share Posted February 19, 2021 Double Hadrosaur egg nest. Cretaceous. Thanks to @Troodonfor tutorial on eggs. It helped a lot. 3 AVOCATIONAL PALEONTOLOGIST STROKE SURVIVOR CANCER SURVIVOR CURMUDGEON "THERE IS A VERY FINE LINE BETWEEN AVOCATIONAL PALEONTOLOGY AND MENTAL ILLNESS" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FF7_Yuffie Posted February 20, 2021 Author Share Posted February 20, 2021 Some great fossils posted. Especially love the croc verts & scutes. Looks a great piece. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IsaacTheFossilMan Posted February 20, 2021 Share Posted February 20, 2021 Heya! Just today, my first EVER mailbox score arrived! A 40 million year old Baltic amber piece, with a scuttle fly (phoridae) inside! It passed the tests I did for legitimate amber, so it's the real deal! Attached picture has a magnified image of it under the amber. Oh also, over 45 pyritised ammonites from Lyme Regis, UK, came, and my, am I in love! These three aren't in the above picture, as I believe they deserve their own one... Needless to say, they're my favourites - they're perfect on both of their sides!!! Ignore the blurriness, I have a very shaky hand... 1 4 1 ~ Isaac; www.isaactfm.com "Don't move! He can't see us if we don't move!" - Alan Grant Come to the spring that is The Fossil Forum, where the stream of warmth and knowledge never runs dry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IsaacTheFossilMan Posted February 20, 2021 Share Posted February 20, 2021 Also, how isn't this topic pinned yet!? 240 pages and still going strong, wow! ~ Isaac; www.isaactfm.com "Don't move! He can't see us if we don't move!" - Alan Grant Come to the spring that is The Fossil Forum, where the stream of warmth and knowledge never runs dry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Top Trilo Posted February 20, 2021 Share Posted February 20, 2021 Amazing fossils! Petrified wood, fish, shark teeth, vertebrae more teeth dinosaur eggs, amber and pyritized ammonites! 8 minutes ago, IsaacTheFossilMan said: Also, how isn't this topic pinned yet!? 240 pages and still going strong, wow! Its always at the top anyway 1 “If fossils are not "boggling" your mind then you are simply not doing it right” -Ken (digit) "No fossil is garbage, it´s just not completely preserved” -Franz (FranzBernhard) "With hammer in hand, the open horizon of time, and dear friends by my side, what can we not accomplish together?" -Kane (Kane) "We are in a way conquering time, reuniting members of a long lost family" -Quincy (Opabinia Blues) "I loved reading the trip reports, I loved the sharing, I loved the educational aspect, I loved the humor. It felt like home. It still does" -Mike (Pagurus) “The best deal I ever got was getting accepted as a member on The Fossil Forum. Not only got an invaluable pool of knowledge, but gained a loving family as well.” -Doren (caldigger) "it really is nice, to visit the oasis that is TFF" -Tim (fossildude19) "Life's Good! -Adam (Tidgy's Dad) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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