Ludwigia Posted November 23, 2010 Share Posted November 23, 2010 This is the Ichthyosaurus I found this past summer in Texas.. My first... Now that's a good size as well. Got a prepped photo? Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roz Posted November 23, 2010 Share Posted November 23, 2010 Now that's a good size as well. Got a prepped photo? This is about as prepped as it will get. I ran into a problem and am lucky it's intact.. Here it is though Welcome to the forum! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frozen_turkey Posted November 23, 2010 Share Posted November 23, 2010 This is about as prepped as it will get. I ran into a problem and am lucky it's intact.. Here it is though whats the problem? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roz Posted November 23, 2010 Share Posted November 23, 2010 Frozenturkey I used a full size screwdriver as a leverage with a hammer to chip off the matrix. Huge mistake.. It already had a stress fracture when found. One of those hits split it in two, surprisingly not at the fracture. Now it is glued back together. I wish I would have thought to get a picture of the inside.. (fascinating looking).. I am now afraid to prep it further but I like the way it is.. I'll get better the more things I prep.. Welcome to the forum! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frozen_turkey Posted November 23, 2010 Share Posted November 23, 2010 Frozenturkey I used a full size screwdriver as a leverage with a hammer to chip off the matrix. Huge mistake.. It already had a stress fracture when found. One of those hits split it in two, surprisingly not at the fracture. Now it is glued back together. I wish I would have thought to get a picture of the inside.. (fascinating looking).. I am now afraid to prep it further but I like the way it is.. I'll get better the more things I prep.. ya that could be a problem. But nothing a engaver, super glue, and a needle tool cant handle! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Markovic Posted November 23, 2010 Share Posted November 23, 2010 Dang, you guys have some awesome fossils (and Lagerstätte)!!! :blink: These photos were taken several months ago, on Stara Planina mountain (Eastern Serbia - Western Bulgaria). These are fossil-bearing limestone formations, rich in Triassic-Jurassic cephalopods, mostly ammonites (Cladiscites is the most common) tho I believe there might be some nautiloids, as well. Beside these two groups, I found several belemnites (mostly Belemnopsis sp.) and brachiopods, but it seems I didn't make any photos of them. I'll try not to make that mistake again. I hope you'll like them... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted November 23, 2010 Share Posted November 23, 2010 This is about as prepped as it will get. I ran into a problem and am lucky it's intact.. Here it is though Like frozen turkey says, a good engraver will do the job for you. It looks like it'll be quite alright to look at afterwards. Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted November 23, 2010 Share Posted November 23, 2010 I hope you'll like them... Yes they look very interesting. Thanks for sharing. Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cris Posted November 23, 2010 Author Share Posted November 23, 2010 One of those hits split it in two, surprisingly not at the fracture. Now it is glued back together. I wish I would have thought to get a picture of the inside.. (fascinating looking).. It hurts too bad when you break a nice fossil to think about anything besides fixing it ASAP to mend your broken heart I speak from experience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roz Posted November 23, 2010 Share Posted November 23, 2010 It hurts too bad when you break a nice fossil to think about anything besides fixing it ASAP to mend your broken heart I speak from experience. Oh yeah, I felt half sick... One of those moments you wish you could take back.. Welcome to the forum! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MOROPUS Posted November 25, 2010 Share Posted November 25, 2010 My fossils aren`t so spectacular as other`s...(green with envy!) A rare and fragile Korobkovia Obolonga, with both of the shells in situ (Zanclean-Early Pliocene).South Spain. A belemmite wall (mixed up with crinoid stems, ammonite and some brachs), from the middle Jurassic.Eastern Spain. An ancient sea bed (middle Cretaceous), with multiple giant ichnofossils.Northern Spain. Giant freshwater gasteropod fauna. Middle Miocene. Spanish central plateau. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Markovic Posted November 25, 2010 Share Posted November 25, 2010 My fossils aren`t so spectacular as other`s...(green with envy!) Nice specimens. Did you try to isolate any of them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cris Posted November 27, 2010 Author Share Posted November 27, 2010 Here's an old in situ of a small whale vertebra in a Florida creekbed. Believe it or not, this is exactly how it was found, as "placed" as it may look...My only guess is that it eroded out of the creek bank and was deposited like that...or it fell out of the backpack of another collector Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ohiofossilhunter Posted November 27, 2010 Share Posted November 27, 2010 Amazing stuff, guys...especially the Tyrannosaurid tooth and raptor claw (do you have pics of it cleaned off?). This is my only pic of it part. prepped because it went straight to the museum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FossilForKids Posted November 27, 2010 Share Posted November 27, 2010 Here are pictures of my biggest texas ammo before and after hammering. If only my teeth are so prized a million years from now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cris Posted November 29, 2010 Author Share Posted November 29, 2010 This is my only pic of it part. prepped because it went straight to the museum. Very nice. Thanks for sharing....dino stuff isn't shown nearly as often enough on the Forum. Here are pictures of my biggest texas ammo before and after hammering. Ahh, I remember this one. Your "baby", right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrangellian Posted December 7, 2010 Share Posted December 7, 2010 My fossils aren`t so spectacular as other`s...(green with envy!) A rare and fragile Korobkovia Obolonga, with both of the shells in situ (Zanclean-Early Pliocene).South Spain. A belemmite wall (mixed up with crinoid stems, ammonite and some brachs), from the middle Jurassic.Eastern Spain. An ancient sea bed (middle Cretaceous), with multiple giant ichnofossils.Northern Spain. Giant freshwater gasteropod fauna. Middle Miocene. Spanish central plateau. That's a nice ichnofossil bed... It reminded me I have a few from a site not far from me.. Upper Cret (Santonian) - Not as nice as yours but perhaps still worth posting, with the ripples and all. The layers are tilted more than 45 degrees but happened to be at a good sun angle to get the shadows. I forgot to include a scale but the larger tracks you see average about 1cm thick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PRK Posted February 6, 2013 Share Posted February 6, 2013 (edited) Musashia indurata, giant Oligocene volute. shown with the rock brushed off. I collect these in the Astoria fm. Edited February 6, 2013 by PRK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichW9090 Posted February 6, 2013 Share Posted February 6, 2013 (edited) The "rodent tooth" early on in the thread appears to be an upper M1 of a deer, Odocoileus. Just read further, others got it. Deer. Edited February 6, 2013 by RichW9090 The plural of "anecdote" is not "evidence". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barefootgirl Posted February 6, 2013 Share Posted February 6, 2013 All these in situ picts are great guys. I really miss getting to go out hunting. Nursing school has consumed my life and I can't remember the last time I was out at the Sulphur. I have till May and then I will be done with school for a while. Can't wait to get this over so I can get back out and hunt. Thanks for sharing all these great picts! In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real knowledge, it marks the first step in progress toward victory. Alfred North Whithead 'Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia!' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwcounts Posted February 6, 2013 Share Posted February 6, 2013 I really love in situ pictures. Always try to take them if I don't get too excited and pick it up first. Speaking of the Sulphur, here's a mosasaur vert I found recently... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Siphuncle Posted February 6, 2013 Share Posted February 6, 2013 in situ shots are cool. i shoot many of them per month, but it is most expedient for me to share them thru my monthly reports. Grüße, Daniel A. Wöhr aus Südtexas "To the motivated go the spoils." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PRK Posted February 6, 2013 Share Posted February 6, 2013 (edited) Danw- where do you post your "monthly trip reportz"? Edited February 6, 2013 by PRK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Siphuncle Posted February 6, 2013 Share Posted February 6, 2013 hi prk i post them on a page the brazosport museum was kind enough to give me. i'm not good at links with this phone so let me steer you in. bmns.org will get u2 their homepage, then click "meanderings of a texas fossil hunter" which will open a list of years 2003 to 2012. click on a year to access lists of reports by month. the early ones demonstrate lots of fumbling around and rampant misidentification, but i hope that has improved over the years. in these photo heavy reports you'll see that i'm a generalist. might be best to start with most recent and work backward although things started getting real interesting around 2005 or so. enjoy ! (if you have time) Grüße, Daniel A. Wöhr aus Südtexas "To the motivated go the spoils." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PRK Posted February 6, 2013 Share Posted February 6, 2013 NO WONDER! I couldn't find, there on another site! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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