Day In The Maastrichtian Type Area

[ahuijsmans]

Hi Y'all,

Found some photos on my computer of a very old hunt. Must have been a year or two ago.... one of the nicest concentrated layers I ever came across...

Enjoy!

The surrounding, beautifull as always.

A nice find in-situ.. easy to prep, just have to watch the root, they're extremely fragile. This one is an Pseudocorax affinis, really common..

One of the most common teeth in the area, Palaeohypotodus Bronni, this was a nice big one

A clean working area is a happy working area

Well hope you enjoy!

[jcbshark]

Very nice pics.What age is the material you are hunting? Thanks for sharing.

[sixgill pete]

Very nice pics.What age is the material you are hunting? Thanks for sharing.

Maastrichian is late Cretaceous

[Ridgehiker]

Thanks. Always great to see latest Cretaceous material from elsewhere. Easy to forget that the world was as varied back then as it is today. Lots of ecosystems and thus lots of different fossil deposits.

Are there other types of fossils in your deposit?

Edited November 14, 2013 by Ridgehiker

[ahuijsmans]

Absolutely... first of, thanks for all the replies

Second, We find a lot of diffent echies, reptile remains, fish and of course a lot of oysters/shells/cephalopods and such.. even seaweed tends to get fossilised in one layer..

Will post more pics soon

Edited November 14, 2013 by ahuijsmans

[ahuijsmans]

Several Archeolamna Kopingensis teeth... not rare but uncommon, especially this large..

[Fossildude19]

NIce finds!

Those Archeolamna kopingensis teeth are in nice shape!

Thanks for posting pics of the site.

Is it soft matrix? Is it easy to remove teeth from it?

Good report - thank you for sharing it.

Regards,

Edited November 14, 2013 by Fossildude19

[jcbshark]

Very nice teeth,and thanks Sixgill Pete.

[ahuijsmans]

@Tim, the matrix is really soft. There are certain hardgrounds but I tend to stay away from them. Fossils are the same in all the layers so... better to acces the easy ones..

The matrix itself often just crumbles in your hands, really easy to work with... but some of the fossiltypes tend to be very fragile, fish for example, or the roots of the teeth..handling such a slab often leads to the teeth just falling out of the matrix.. I have quite a teeth which were just picked of the floor...

[cowsharks]

Nice teeth! Do you take matrix home to search for micro's?

Daryl.

[ahuijsmans]

Haven't done that so far... good idea If there's a good layer....

Will take a few buckets next time and let you know

As far as I know all species are 2mm or larger, there aren't real micro teeth... Rhinobatos Marianne is the smallest but still apporx. 2mm.

[Wrangellian]

Interesting... Why is that 1st pic so fuzzy - dust in the air?

I guess if you find a fish or some such fragile thing, you need to stabilize it with something (CA glue?) before extraction?

I'd like to see the inverts from that site, and the seaweed!

[crinoid1]

I'd like to see the inverts from that site, and the seaweed!

I'll second that: Those are some fantastic teeth, but I'd love to see some inverts as well!

[Hieronymus]

Haven't done that so far... good idea If there's a good layer....

Will take a few buckets next time and let you know

As far as I know all species are 2mm or larger, there aren't real micro teeth... Rhinobatos Marianne is the smallest but still apporx. 2mm.

There are a lot of microteeth actually... But they're so small they often even pass through a 1mm mesh. Most of these have been found by dissolving matrix with acid. They remain unpublished though, apart from some exceptions such as Scyliorhinus biddlei.

Here's the latter. I found it a couple of years ago.