The Growing Collection of Ziggycardon

[Masp]

What an awesome collection and great stories! Good stuff my friend, really enjoying looking through this thread 

[ziggycardon]

19 hours ago, Masp said:

What an awesome collection and great stories! Good stuff my friend, really enjoying looking through this thread 

Thank you very much

[ziggycardon]

Collection highlight of today are my fossils from the Kemkem beds in Morocco (95 million years old), my personal favorite fossil location. 
It just fascinates for so many reasons,

First of all it is home to my favorite dinosaur species: the Spinosaurus
Second: the fact that we know that there are living so many predatory species (and quite a lot of them large species) and yet have found very little herbivorous species.

And third: the environment, I love coastal/river delta's, I've always found the life that occurs there very fascinating.

So these are currently all my genuine Kemkem fossils (Do have a replica spinosaurus skull and claw), from left to right and top to buttom:

A Deltadromeus agilis tail vertebrae 

A Spinosaurid (possible Spinosaurus aegyptiacus) tail vertebrae

2 Abelisauridae indet. teeth

A Rebbachisaurus tooth 

A Carcharodontosaurus saharicus tooth

A Spinosaurid (possible Spinosaurus aegyptiacus) tooth

A Onchopristis numidus (Giant sawfish) tooth

A Dentilepisosteus kemkemensis (Kemkem Gar) scute

A Ceratodus (Lungfish) tooth

 

When I finish my fossil room I am planning on making a Kemkem display with these fossils, my replica claw and juvenile skull from the spinosaurus and I hope to add some more spinosaurus teeth and bone material. I am going to add a 1,80 meter long life size skull replica of an adult spinosaurus and I want to add a replica of one of it's sail vertebrae.
And I will enhance the display with some paleoart and a panorama landscape with my spinosaurus model from collecta. 

[ynot]

You have a nice collection(s).

[ziggycardon]

14 hours ago, ynot said:

You have a nice collection(s).

Thank you!

Here is another collection highlight for today: my ammonites, nautiloids and other cephalopod fossils.
Unfortunatly I have quite some nice iridescent ammonites, but unfortunatly I don't have the photo skills or equipment to capture them properly on camera, so they don't really show on the pictures.

 

The four upper specimens:

A large Erymnoceras sp. found in St. Laon in France (165 million years old)

A half and nicely cristalized Cleoniceras sp. found in Tulear in Madagascar (110 million years old)

A Cymatoceras sp. nautilus found in the Maintirano district in Madagacar (110 million years old)

A partial half ammonite, sp. and location are unknown, But it was the first ever fossil I bought!

 

On the left side:

A Cleoniceras sp. that shows it suture lines, found in Tulear in Madagascar (110 million years old)

A iridescent Cleoniceras sp. found in Tulear in Madagascar (110 million years old)

A Dactylioceras sp. found in Whitby, The Jurassic Coast in the UK (175 million years old)

A calcite Douvilleiceras sp. found in Tulear in Madagascar (110 million years old)

A white Pleuroceras sp. found in Unterstürmig in Germany (190 million years old)

 

Center:

A iridescent Caloceras johnstoni found in Watchet, Somerset in the UK (200 million years old)

A pyritised Pleuroceras spinatum found in Buttenheim, Bamberg in Germany (190 - 183 millions years old)

2 iridescent Cleoniceras sp. found in Tulear in Madagascar (110 million years old)

 

On the right side:

A Goniatites sp. found in the Anti-Atlas Mountains in Morocco (400 million years old)

A Perisphinctes sp. found in Tulear in Madagascar (150 million years old)

A half Cleoniceras sp. found in Tulear in Madagascar (110 million years old)

 

Buttom row:

A belemnite found in Maastricht, the Netherlands (70 million years old)

A Orthoceras sp. found in the Anti-Atlas Mountains in Morocco (400 million years old)

Edited September 14, 2018 by ziggycardon
spelling error

[ziggycardon]

Another collection highlight, my ichnofossils and coprolites. 

 

From left to right and from buttom to top we have:

A footprint from a Rhynchosauroides peabodyi, found in Winterswijk, The Netherlands (235 million years old)
A Grallator sp. footprint replica, the original was found in the south of France (the original is 200 million years old)

A dinosaur gastrolith found in Paluksy Sandstone, Oklahoma, USA (125 million years old)

Worm burrows from the carboniferous, location unknown and exact age unknown

A coprolite, possible from a croc or tortoise/turtle, found in Madagascar (Eocene)

A coprolite from a small dinosaur found in Washington in the USA (Jurassic) 

 

 

I also forgot to add my Siroccopteryx moroccensis tooth in the photo of my Kemkem highlight, so here it is!

[ziggycardon]

Another collection highlight, my plant fossils.

 

From left to right and top to buttom are:

A Sigillaria rugosa bark print found in Ibbenburen in Germany (Carboniferous)

A fossil walnut (Juglans bergomensis), found in Tienray, The Netherlands (4 million years old)

A fossil Lycopod cone, found in the western sahara, Morocco (40 million years old)

A Coal fossil with leaf prints, found in Heerlen, The Netherlands (320 million years old)

Petrified wood (possibly Araucarioxylon arizonicum), found in Arizona, USA (Triassic)

Petrified wood (Glyptostroboxylon sp.), found in Hoegaarden in Belgium (55 million years old)

Petrified wood with an extreme crystalization, both species, location and age unknown

2 fossil leaves (possibly Asterotheca sp. and/or Alethopteris sp. as was ID' here in this topic), found in Bruchsal in Germany (Triassic)

Dutch Amber, found in Markelo, the Netherlands (45 million years old)

3 pieces of Dominican amber, found in the Dominican Replublic (21 million years old)
5 pieces of Baltic Amber, found in Kaliningrad in Russia (40 million years old)

 

[ziggycardon]

Another collection highlight for today: my fish fossils 

 

A Paramblypterus sp. found in Pfalz in Germany (260 million years old)

 

A Dipterus valenciennesi (Devonial lungfish), found in Achanarras Quarry, Caithness, Scotland in the UK (385 million years old)

 

A Jianghanichthys hubeiensis found in the Hubei formation in the Juanghan Province in China (55 million years old)

 

An Enchodus sp. tooth found in Oued Zem in Morocco (60 million years old)

A Chilomycterus sp. (Porcupinefish) mouthplate found in Peace River, Florida, USA (10 million years old)

 

[ziggycardon]

Another collection highlight for today, my reptile fossils. 

 

My marine reptile fossils, from left to right & top to buttom are:

A Plesiosaurus skull model of 1/2 scale

A Plesiosaurus mauritanicus (as said by the listing, but could also be Zarafasaura) vertebrae found in Oued Zem in Morocco (70 million years old)

An Ichthyosaurus vertebrae found in Weymouth, The Jurassic Coast, in the UK (Jurassic)

A Zarafasaura oceanis tooth found in Oued Zem in Morocco (70 million years old)

A Mosasaurus sp. tooth found in Oued Zem in Morocco (70 million years old)

A Mosasaurus sp. tooth found in Oued Zem in Morocco (70 million years old)

A Platecarpus ptychodon tooth found in Oued Zem in Morocco (70 million years old)

A Igdamanosaurus aegyptiacus tooth found in Oued Zem in Morocco (70 million years old)

 

My other reptile fossils:

A Crocodile scute (no specific ID yet) found in Oued Zem in Morocco (70 - 67 million years old)

A snake (Palaeophis maghrebianus) vertebrae found in Oued Zem in Morocco (60 million years old)

[gigantoraptor]

7 minutes ago, ziggycardon said:

A Globidens sp. tooth found in Oued Zem in Morocco (70 million years old)

Nice collection. I like the skull. 

Just one thing, the official name of Globidens is Igdamanosaurus aegyptiacus.

[ziggycardon]

5 minutes ago, gigantoraptor said:

Nice collection. I like the skull. 

Just one thing, the official name of Globidens is Igdamanosaurus aegyptiacus.

Thank you for the correction! I picked up that it was indeed an outdated name but now thanks to you I finally know the latest scientifically correct name!
Many thanks!

[ziggycardon]

Final collection highlight of today, my echinoderms, Bryozoa's & a single Graptolite. 
From left to right and from top to buttom are:

A big Blastoide sp. replica

A small Pentremites sp. found in the Bangor Limestone Formatie, Alabama in the USA (325 million years old)

A Phanocrinus sp. found in North Alabama in the USA (325 million years old)

A bunch of Socrinus basaltiformis fragments found in Boussaugues in France (190 million years old)

A unprepped Bryozoa sp. found in Peru, age and exact location unknown. Got this as a gift from an aunt who found it in the Andes and for years (before I got into fossils) I just thought it to be some kind of shell, only to discover later it was actually a Bryozoa.
A Bryozoa archimedes, found in Crawford County, Indiana, in the USA (330 million years old)

A Didymograptus sp. found in Abereiddy Bay, Wales, in the UK (450 million years old)

An Echinolampas ovalis found in Civrac-en-Médoc in France (40 million years old)

2 Acrosaleinia hemicidaroides found in Landaville in France (167 million years old)

A Collyrites elliptica found in Mamers in France (165 million years old)

A Sismondia occitania found in Blaignan in France (35 million years old)

A Coelopleurus coronalis found in Gurb, Vic in Spain (40 million years old)

A Heteraster oblongus found in Morella in Spain (120 million years old)

A Mepygurus depressus found in Sakaraha in Madagascar (170 million years old)

A Sea Urchin (exact species unknown) from Rügen in Germany (70 million years old)

5 Procassidulus lapiscanri found in the Viséweg in Sluizen, Tongeren in Belgium (70 million years old), found in the limestone deposits near me, probably where my first hunt will take me!

5 Sea urchin spines, exact species, location and age unknown.

[ziggycardon]

My collection highlight for today is my dinosaur material. 
From left to right and top to buttom:

A Titanosauria egg shell found in the Rio Colorado formation in Argentina (75 million years old).
An dinosaur egg shell (could be Cairanoolithus, Stuthiosaurus or Hypselosaurus) found in Rousset in France (70 million years old)

An Oviraptor egg shell found in Mongolia (80 million years old)

A Triceratops horridus tooth fragment found in Montana, USA (65 million years old)

A hadrosaurid tooth fragment found in Hell Creek, Montana, USA (68 million years old)
A sauropod bone fragment found in Utah, USA (180 million years old)

[ziggycardon]

My last fossil highlight for today, my corals, stromatolites & Radiozoa (only 5 more to go, so I think we might be up-to-date by tomorrow on my current collection) 
From left to right and top to buttom: 

A Hexagonaria found in Erfoud in Morocco (400 million years old)
A Thamnasteria arachnoides found in the ENCI quarry in Maastricht, The Netherland (70 million years old)

A Mookaite (fossilized skeletal remains of radiozoa, foraminifera & plankton) found in West Australia (125 - 113 million years old)
A piece agatised of Tampa bay coral found in Hillsborough, Florida, USA (20 million years old)
A stromatolite found in Ait Saoun, Ouarzazate in Morocco (600 million years old)
A stromatolite found in Uyuni, Oruro in Bolivia (2,7 - 2,4 billion years old)

[ziggycardon]

First collection highlight for today, my anthropod collection.
A Trigonotarbida replica (Eophrynus prestvicii), the original specimen lies in the Museo di Paleontologia in Rome and was found in the West Midlands in the UK (318 - 299 million years old)
A cricket fossil (Gryllidae sp.) found in the Crato formation, Ceara, Brazil (110 million years old)

A march fly fossil (Plecia pealei) found in the Green River formation in Wyoming in the USA (50 million years old) 
A piece of Dominican Amber with an insect inclusion found in Palo Quemado, Santiago province in the Dominican republic (21 million years old)

A piece of Baltic Amber with a spider inclusion found in Kaliningrad in Russia (40 million years old)

Multiple pieces of copal with insect inclusions found in Madagascar (1 million years old)

[ziggycardon]

Microscopic enlargement of the Baltic amber with an insect inclusion

Microscopic enlargement of baltic amber with a spider inclusion

Microscopic enlargement of the dominican amber with insect inclusion

[ziggycardon]

The 2nd collection highlight for today, my bivalves, gastropods & brachiopods

From left to right and top to buttom are:

Unknown shells in a concretion, found in Ukkel, Belgium (45 million years old)
2 Rastellum gregareum oysters, found in Normany in France (160 million years old)
An Ostrea bellovacina found in Ukkel, Belgium (45 million years old)

An Ostrea flabellula found in Ukkel, Belgium (45 million years old)

A agatised gastropod found in Dakhla in Morocco (45 million years old)

5 branchiopods found in Luc-Sur-Mer in France (165 million years old)

A Reticularina sp. found in Bangor Limestone Formation, Alabama in the USA (325 million years old)

2 Natica sp. gastropods found in Rethel in France (48 - 41 million years old)

2 Potamides vagus found in Montataire in France (48 - 41 million years old)

[Anomotodon]

You have a very diverse collection, great specimens! Just a few notes - Plesiosaurus mauritanicus is invalid and currently recognized as Zarafasaura oceanis; Weymouth ichthyosaur vertebra is cf. Brachypterygius, Ichthyosaurus is exclusively Late Triassic-Early Jurassic; your small vertebra from Kem Kem might be crocodilian, not sure about the bigger one, but it might be restored/composited, more pictures will definitely help.

 

You might find these threads useful

 

[ziggycardon]

2 hours ago, Anomotodon said:

You have a very diverse collection, great specimens! Just a few notes - Plesiosaurus mauritanicus is invalid and currently recognized as Zarafasaura oceanis; Weymouth ichthyosaur vertebra is cf. Brachypterygius, Ichthyosaurus is exclusively Late Triassic-Early Jurassic; your small vertebra from Kem Kem might be crocodilian, not sure about the bigger one, but it might be restored/composited, more pictures will definitely help.

 

You might find these threads useful

 

Thanks for the reply!
regarding the "Plesiosaurus mauritanicus", I suspected it to be Zarafasaura as I never could find anything about the excistence of P. mauritanicus, that's why I put it in in parentheses. But thanks for the confirmation.

Here are some more pictures of the kemkem vertebrae, although if the large one is a composite, then I must say they did one hell of a job.

The small vertebrae could indeed be croc instead of therapod as both are extremely similiar.
 

 

 

[ziggycardon]

Third collection highlight for today, my Paleogene fossils: 
An Anomotherium langewieschei rib bone found in Mainz basin, Doberg near Bunde in Germany (35 million years old) I got this one from an old collection
A Basilosaurus sp. tooth found in El Argoub in Morocco (40 million years old)
A Basilosaurus sp. vertebrae found in Egypt (40 - 38 million years old) I got this one from an old collection
A Gastornis giganteum eggshell fragment found in St. Antonin sur Bayon in France (55 - 35 million years old)

[ziggycardon]

My 2 final fossil highlights, we are all up-to-date on my current collection right now! 
From now on every new purchase & find will be posted here as well as any progess made and updates on the fossil room in progress!

 

The first one is my branchiosaurus sp. fround in Pfalz in Germany (260 million years old)

 

Pterodactylus spectabilis replica, the original lies in the Teylers Museum in the Netherlands and was found in Solnhofen in Germany (150 million years old)

[Tidgy's Dad]

22 hours ago, ziggycardon said:

A stromatolite found in Ait Saoun, Ouarzazate in Morocco (600 million years old)
 

Lovely collection so far! 

I'm sure it will grow very quickly. 

Not sure about that Moroccan stromatolite, unfortunately.

And

 

[ynot]

Very impressive collection young man!

Thanks for sharing.

Look forward to seeing what the future brings to You.

[ziggycardon]

38 minutes ago, Tidgy's Dad said:

Lovely collection so far! 

I'm sure it will grow very quickly. 

Not sure about that Moroccan stromatolite, unfortunately.

And

 

Well thank you for sharing! I always thought the Moroccan stromatolites to have a weird shape for being stromatolites, thank you for educating me on them, guess they can have an honorary place at my mineral display case from now on!   

Ooh I really love this forum! You guys are all so helpfull, learned a lot this past week and got som proper ID's and updates on some outdated one! 
Really appreciate the help of you all! A great community here and I am glad to have joined! 

 

39 minutes ago, ynot said:

Very impressive collection young man!

Thanks for sharing.

Look forward to seeing what the future brings to You.

Thank you very much! 

And well I can give a little sneak peek on that! 

So the plans for the fossil room is to add some low and open cubic cabinet (the same cabinets as seen in the picture below) that I will use for display on both sides of the room, going along side the entire lenght of both walls. 
In these cabinet is will both place fossils as well as all my books about fossils, prehistory and paleontology and on them I will try and make some themed display. 

 

I will also add a small desk that I hope to use in the future to prepare my own finds, to photograph fossils and to place a professional microscope suitable for studying microfossils, as that's one of the things I hope to start with once the room is ready.
For the rest I will add a small drawer unit on wheel to place smaller fossils that I don't want to display as well as my microfossils and I will place an extra showcase to place fossils. 

I really hope to make a kemkem display with both stunning replica's as real fossils. I am planning to add a life sized wall mount Spinosaurus aegyptiacus skull of 1,80 meters (made by british paleoartist John Mac, photo in link below), a life sized spinosaurus sail spine along side with my current collection of fossils which I also hope to expand! I am also going to enhance the display with some paleoart of the kemkem fauna an I am going to make diorama with my collecta model of a spinosaurus. 

 

Other displays I hope to make is a pleistocene display with the fossils I have from North America & Eurasian, I am planning on making 2 marine reptile displays, one of Oued Zem with as center piece my fossil Prognathon jaw and one Jurassic Coast display where I hope to add some nice replica's (A Ichtyosaurus skeleton replica, Temnodontosaurus jaw replica) as well as some genuine fossils, I will make a display with fossils from my own region (Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany & France) and I hope to make a European dinosaur display with some replica's and hopefully one day some actual bone, teeth or claw material! 

Also some living fossils while get a place as my new fossil room will be where previously one of my reptile rooms was.
So the aquarium with my green bichir (Polypterus retropinnis) will remain while his cabinet will get a new design with will eventually house a 5 compartement terrarium which in time will house: Hissing cockroaches (Princisia vanwearebecki), A giant Vinegaroon (Mastigoproctus giganteus), A whip spider (Daman variegatus), My African Giant Milipede (Archispirostreptus gigas) and my asian forest scorpion (Heterometrus cyaneus)
Next to my desk I will place my aquarium with my "freshwater" moray eel (Gymnothorax tile) and a small tank where I will breed Triops.

Some things that will have a spot reserved in the room are (That hopefully will pop-up in this topic soon):

- A life size Spinosaurus skull replica
- A Spinosaurus sail spine replica
- An Archaeopteryx lithographica replica
- A life size Tyrannosaurus rex skull replica (the centerpiece of the room)

- A replica Megalosaurus jaw piece 
- A replica Therizinosaurus claws & hand
- A replica Baryonyx claw
- A replica Utahraptor claw
- A replica Ichtyosaurus breviceps skeleton
- A replica Temnodontosaurus jaw
- A replica Deinonychus skull
- A mounted replica Velociraptor skeleton (will display next to the T-rex skull in the center of the room)
- A mounted replica Psittacosaurus skeleton

- A replica Smilodon skull

- A genuine Eurypterus sp. fossil
- A genuine dinosaur claw (Struthiomimus, Spinosaurus or Raptor, doesn't really matter just want to have one genuine claw)

- A genuine Tyrannosaurus rex tooth (to display alongside the skull as I always like to have some real fossil material to display along side replica's)

- A genuine Keichousaurus hui (yes I know it will be hard to find a genuine one)

- A genuine Dyrosaurus skull 

- A genuine Messel fossil 

- Some genuine iguanodon fossilized material 
- A genuine Merycoidodontoidea skull

- A genuine jaw (fragment) from a mesohippus of other prehistoric horse from the same era.
- A genuine walrus skull fragment from the North Sea

- A large Cambropallas telesto trilobite

 

And many other things ofcourse, but the above are the bigger pieces with higher display value I want to add to my collection! 

[Walt]

more fossils than some museums.....plenty of time to pursue your hobby....elaborate plans for additions to the collection......

Ok, I'm going to go out on a limb here and wager you are either single or married to the most understanding person on earth!  

VERY impressive, Ziggy!  I, for one, enjoy not only your collection but your enthusiasm as well!