Ideas for showy Showcase

[Mahnmut]

Hello together,

I have been wanting to replace the missing top of my favorite showcase with some selfcarved ornaments for a long time.

The roof shaped bright part on top is what I had prepared for years, maybe I can finish it this decade.

I thought about a "frontispiece" representing the life of the geologic ages with, for now:

a Cambrian (?) trilobite

an Ordovician carpoid (?)

Silurian placoderm (?)

Devonian spiriferid

Carbonian plant

Permian Pelycosaur

Triassic Sauropterygian (with small ammonites?)

Jurassic Stegosaur or Archeopteryx

 

For the Cretaceous I thought about a Ceratopsid head in the top middle, alternative a sun/moon symbol in the middle with the Ceratopsian in pofile to its left.

For the cenozoic I have not so clear an idea, or to many. could include an Archeocete.

 

I hope for your suggestions,  concrete species, replacements of my first selection... should be relatively simple forms (they will be anyway).

Thanks in advance

J

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

I would go with:

Cambrian: Kutorginid.

Ordovician: Orthid

Silurian: Pentamerid

Devonian: Atrypid

Carboniferous: Spiriferid

Permian: Productid

Triassic: Rhynchonellid

Jurassic: Terebratulid

Cretaceous: Craniid.

Cenozoic: Thecideide

Edited May 3 by Tidgy's Dad

[Doctor Mud]

4 hours ago, Tidgy's Dad said:

I would go with:

 When brachiopods ruled the Earth. 
 

I like your style @Tidgy's Dad 

[Doctor Mud]

Gosh Cenozoic is a tough one. 
Cetaceans are a major part of the Cenozoic story so I like an archeocete.

bit biased by our record down here but what about a penguin? 

 

Wondering if there is room for Ediacaran fauna? 

[North]

How about Mammoth or Sabre-toothed cat?

[Mahnmut]

Thanks all for your input!

 

@Tidgy's Dad, I think your selection would make a rather beautiful display, and would be easier to carve than some of my other ideas.

It would on the other hand shed to much light on the regrettable lack of brachiopod diversity in my collection.

I chose the devonian spirifers because they are among the few fossils I had the luck to collect myself.

Must someday ask you for a better ID, back in school they where always just "spirifers", and I never questioned that since then.

 

13 hours ago, Doctor Mud said:

Gosh Cenozoic is a tough one. 
Cetaceans are a major part of the Cenozoic story so I like an archeocete.

bit biased by our record down here but what about a penguin? 

 

Wondering if there is room for Ediacaran fauna? 

Cetaceans must be in there somewhere because they are one of my special interests, much overrepresented among my models, sadly not so much among the real fossils...

Penguin would also be nice, maybe a recent one for the right side

room is indeed the question, but putting a nice tribrachidium at the left corner wont hurt.

 

@North I put in a Deinotherium for now, because they are my favorite proboscideans and I recently made a model of one.

Smilodon is of course also iconic.

 

Here comes a quick and dirty sketch,

I will of course have to make a drawing to make them fit nicely ....

Best regards,

Jan

[Tidgy's Dad]

4 minutes ago, Mahnmut said:

 

Must someday ask you for a better ID, back in school they where always just "spirifers", and I never questioned that since then.

Yeah, everything was "spirifer", "rhynchonella", "lingula" etc.

Made things much easier, but horribly general and innacurate.

[Wrangellian]

On 5/3/2024 at 8:54 AM, Mahnmut said:

Thanks all for your input!

 

@Tidgy's Dad, I think your selection would make a rather beautiful display, and would be easier to carve than some of my other ideas.

It would on the other hand shed to much light on the regrettable lack of brachiopod diversity in my collection.

I chose the devonian spirifers because they are among the few fossils I had the luck to collect myself.

Must someday ask you for a better ID, back in school they where always just "spirifers", and I never questioned that since then.

 

Cetaceans must be in there somewhere because they are one of my special interests, much overrepresented among my models, sadly not so much among the real fossils...

Penguin would also be nice, maybe a recent one for the right side

room is indeed the question, but putting a nice tribrachidium at the left corner wont hurt.

 

@North I put in a Deinotherium for now, because they are my favorite proboscideans and I recently made a model of one.

Smilodon is of course also iconic.

 

Here comes a quick and dirty sketch,

I will of course have to make a drawing to make them fit nicely ....

Best regards,

Jan

I like this idea of a personalized display cabinet. Could look quite nice when you're done. I wonder if you might engrave your name and the date, to add to the element of time, if there is room e.g. "[your name] me fecit 2024", like you see on old harpsichords.