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Bob - are these in your collection!?!

well yeah, i'd be in the wrong thread otherwise, wouldnt i? ;)

i do have plenty of pics of 'the one that got away' though....

heres one that sadly didnt make the collection... dont know where the pic of the lowers went... :no:

(there are casts of this guy floating acount out there. this one isnt a cast ;) )

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well yeah, i'd be in the wrong thread otherwise, wouldnt i? ;)

i do have plenty of pics of 'the one that got away' though....

heres one that sadly didnt make the collection... dont know where the pic of the lowers went... :no:

(there are casts of this guy floating acount out there. this one isnt a cast ;) )

Holy snarge Bob....Chinese ankylosaur skulls....never seen anything like those!!!!

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thats not just a mammoth tooth that looks like a partial jaw to me, pretty nice! :o

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2 more of my favorites. These are the only specimens Ive actually found myself. but from what I understand - you have to be amazingly lucky to NOT find eurypterids at Al Lang's quarry...

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2 more of my favorites. These are the only specimens Ive actually found myself. but from what I understand - you have to be amazingly lucky to NOT find eurypterids at Al Lang's quarry...

wow those are amazing! :faint:

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Here is a couple of my favorite fossils.

First is rare Sphaerocoryphe thompsoni from Ashgill Series, Girvan, Ayrshire, Scotland, UK.

Second is Cyphaspis carrolli from Haragan Fm., Coal County, Oklahoma, USA.

Third is Walliserops trifurcates from Foum Ziguid, Zagora , Morocco.

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"It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of

intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living."

-Sir David Attenborough

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Here is a couple my favorite fossils more.

Asaphus kowalewski, cephalon of Illaenus fallax (size of tennisball) and Plecia pealei.

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"It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of

intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living."

-Sir David Attenborough

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thats the first Sphaerocoryphe thompsoni i have ever seen, very nice

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thats the first Sphaerocoryphe thompsoni i have ever seen, very nice

Thank you very much.

"It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of

intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living."

-Sir David Attenborough

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If I had to take a photo of all my fav. fossils

This forum would crash :D

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If I had to take a photo of all my fav. fossils

This forum would crash :D

:faint::P

btw here are some my fav fossils...

Giant Clam, Petrified Wood ^_^

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My favourite fossil ,lepidodendron branches ,60 cm x 50 cm ,I found this sample in August 2008 ,actually exposed in Lille Museum ....

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My favourite fossil ,lepidodendron branches ,60 cm x 50 cm ,I found this sample in August 2008 ,actually exposed in Lille Museum ....

I never get tired of looking at that one :wub:

"There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant

“Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley

>Paleontology is an evolving science.

>May your wonders never cease!

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seeing if this works. the forum doesn't seem to be letting me upload it. anyway my best find so far!

WOW tj! Looks like you walked across broken glass to get that one...(but so would I). I always wondered how it looked when you found it.

The human mind has the ability to believe anything is true.  -  JJ

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wow thats great, now how much of it do you have?

80 to 90%

all of the big stuff like the long bones, verts and whatnot are there. its missing a few bits and pieces of digits here and there.

another fav...

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80 to 90%

all of the big stuff like the long bones, verts and whatnot are there. its missing a few bits and pieces of digits here and there.

another fav...

wow! thats awesome! is it a replica or real? Thanks for sharing

Jake.

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wow! thats awesome! is it a replica or real? Thanks for sharing

it's real.

t came from the natural history museum in stuttgart (and from the holzmaden formation before that ;) )

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80 to 90%

all of the big stuff like the long bones, verts and whatnot are there. its missing a few bits and pieces of digits here and there.

another fav...

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i know thats obviously a photochop, but i feel like an inferior man for it. no way in heck i could lift that specimen like she is! :(

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