Ordovician_Odyssey Posted November 7, 2010 Share Posted November 7, 2010 hey everyone, i was just looking up pictures of complete crinoids and found this thing! http://www.gamineral.org/_pictures/t06-mf_co-op_big-c-plate.jpg theres gotta be atleast 20 complete crinoids on it! biggect plate of crinoids i have ever seen! but the question is, could a plate like this actually excist!? -shamus -Shamus The Ordovician enthusiast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oilshale Posted November 7, 2010 Share Posted November 7, 2010 (edited) How about this slab? It is a Seirocrinus from Holzmaden / Germany. The slab ( a humble 100m², more than 1000 square feet) is on display in the "Urweltmuseum Holzmaden". Prep work lasted 18 years. Unfortunately not in my collection Edited November 7, 2010 by oilshale Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes (Confucius, 551 BC - 479 BC). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tracer Posted November 7, 2010 Share Posted November 7, 2010 "so what do you do for a living?" "well, i'm prepping a fossil crinoid plate." "no, i mean what's your career? your job?" "um, it's prepping a crinoid plate. been doing it for seventeen years now, probably be through before long and have to go job hunting..." x-man, you gonna let those people get away with having a bigger project than yours?!1 we gotta find you a whale to prep! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frozen_turkey Posted November 7, 2010 Share Posted November 7, 2010 Seeing these makes me wonder if there well be any left for us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pleecan Posted November 7, 2010 Share Posted November 7, 2010 How about this slab? It is a Seirocrinus from Holzmaden / Germany. The slab ( a humble 100m², more than 1000 square feet) is on display in the "Urweltmuseum Holzmaden". Prep work lasted 18 years. Unfortunately not in my collection Now that is one beauty of a crinoid slabs collection.... 18 yrs of prep time must have cost a small fortune in prep time... lets see now $25 an hr x 40hr per week x 52 weeks/yr x 18 years...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crabfossilsteve Posted November 7, 2010 Share Posted November 7, 2010 That is an amazing piece. Yeah 18 years to prep it!!!! Wow. Finding and exposing that thing most have been a "life threating" experience. Crabfossilsteve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oilshale Posted November 7, 2010 Share Posted November 7, 2010 (edited) "so what do you do for a living?" "well, i'm prepping a fossil crinoid plate." "no, i mean what's your career? your job?" "um, it's prepping a crinoid plate. been doing it for seventeen years now, probably be through before long and have to go job hunting..." x-man, you gonna let those people get away with having a bigger project than yours?!1 we gotta find you a whale to prep! After 18 years, want me to tell ya what'll happen? They'll take ya to the booby hatch. (modifyed cit.: John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men) Edited November 7, 2010 by oilshale Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes (Confucius, 551 BC - 479 BC). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpc Posted November 8, 2010 Share Posted November 8, 2010 Back to trilobite guy's original question... I htink these come form Morocco. I've seen smaller peices like this one, but that is a doozey. My bet is that it is real. Just a huge chuink out the same stuff. If anyone knows anything different, please say so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darwin Ahoy Posted November 8, 2010 Share Posted November 8, 2010 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taxman56 Posted November 8, 2010 Share Posted November 8, 2010 I want that big Trilo plate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oilshale Posted November 8, 2010 Share Posted November 8, 2010 This is another giant crinoid plate in the National Geopark of Guanling Biota, China: A Traumatocrinus from the Triassic attached to driftwood. Sorry, the picture is not really good. Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes (Confucius, 551 BC - 479 BC). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry Dactyll Posted November 8, 2010 Share Posted November 8, 2010 Yikes.... They are brilliant.... Oilshale... is that a big chunk of wood running through the centre of the Holzmaden crinoid? Cheers Steve... And Welcome if your a New Member... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oilshale Posted November 8, 2010 Share Posted November 8, 2010 Yikes.... They are brilliant.... Oilshale... is that a big chunk of wood running through the centre of the Holzmaden crinoid? Yes, they are attached to driftwood. Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes (Confucius, 551 BC - 479 BC). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest N.AL.hunter Posted November 8, 2010 Share Posted November 8, 2010 Some amazing pictures here, thanks a lot for those who posted them. I really need to visit Germany to see the museums!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oilshale Posted November 8, 2010 Share Posted November 8, 2010 Some amazing pictures here, thanks a lot for those who posted them. I really need to visit Germany to see the museums!! You are certainly welcome. Let me know when - I would be glad to arrange something. Thomas Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes (Confucius, 551 BC - 479 BC). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nandomas Posted November 8, 2010 Share Posted November 8, 2010 (edited) the "Oilshale" crinoid wall was too big for normal lens... so I did all the way from Italy bringing my fisheye with me :P Edited November 8, 2010 by Nandomas Erosion... will be my epitaph! http://www.paleonature.org/ https://fossilnews.org/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest N.AL.hunter Posted November 8, 2010 Share Posted November 8, 2010 That is absolutely the most amazing fossil I have ever seen. To me that blows away full dinosaur mounts. I would buy a panoramic poster of that "slab". I wonder if there is one available? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nandomas Posted November 8, 2010 Share Posted November 8, 2010 That is absolutely the most amazing fossil I have ever seen. To me that blows away full dinosaur mounts. I would buy a panoramic poster of that "slab". I wonder if there is one available? 1:1 scale? Erosion... will be my epitaph! http://www.paleonature.org/ https://fossilnews.org/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crinoid Queen Posted November 8, 2010 Share Posted November 8, 2010 That is absolutely the most amazing fossil I have ever seen. To me that blows away full dinosaur mounts. I would buy a panoramic poster of that "slab". I wonder if there is one available? I agree. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frozen_turkey Posted November 8, 2010 Share Posted November 8, 2010 i will not lie, i just about feel out of my chair when i saw that thing. And is that 18 years with just one person or 18 years with a team? and i realy dont know if i realy would want to be a part of the prep and dedicate 18 years of my life for that slab when i could be find others........but kudos to them for being persistant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oilshale Posted November 8, 2010 Share Posted November 8, 2010 (edited) Here are some impressions from the holzmaden quarries and the museum: http://www.urweltmus...pressionen.html Sorry, the text is in German but the pictures .... This part is in English. There is a museum shop where they offer Ammonites, several Ichthyosaurs, Crinoids (several small Seirocrinus on driftwood), a salt water crocodile (Steneosaurus) and even a Pterosaur (all originals - not molds!). No prices given. But be prepared to pay a lot! http://www.urweltmuseum.de/website/index_eng.htm http://www.urweltmuseum.de/website/shop/fossilien-eng.htm Thomas Edited November 8, 2010 by oilshale Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes (Confucius, 551 BC - 479 BC). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scylla Posted November 9, 2010 Share Posted November 9, 2010 hey everyone, i was just looking up pictures of complete crinoids and found this thing! http://www.gamineral.org/_pictures/t06-mf_co-op_big-c-plate.jpg theres gotta be atleast 20 complete crinoids on it! biggect plate of crinoids i have ever seen! but the question is, could a plate like this actually excist!? -shamus I saw a plate like this for sale at a rock shop in the basement of Bally's in Las Vegas. It looked real enough and was from Morrocco, only a few K$. They told me it was a volcanic flow that covered the shallow sea floor that caused such clear preservation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kabuki Posted November 13, 2010 Share Posted November 13, 2010 No respiratory safety gear! Yikes! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicholas Posted November 13, 2010 Share Posted November 13, 2010 18 years well spent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhk Posted November 13, 2010 Share Posted November 13, 2010 How about this slab? It is a Seirocrinus from Holzmaden / Germany. The slab ( a humble 100m², more than 1000 square feet) is on display in the "Urweltmuseum Holzmaden". Prep work lasted 18 years. Unfortunately not in my collection OK, who's that girl in my livingroom? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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