fossilus Posted August 27 Share Posted August 27 I just wanted to post some further photos and measurements of the Latifrons horn and skull I found last week. From what I've seen new measurements are significant for this rare animal. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fossilus Posted August 27 Author Share Posted August 27 The skull is still drying and so putting it back together right now is impossible, but the backside of the skull mostly in one piece. The preservation is in sandy/conglomerate cemented by ironstone, so any advice would be appreciated. measurements total width is 290mm width across condyles is 140mm foramen magnum is 38mm There are all 3 molars which I didn't realize until I went through all the sediment I brought back. measurements are M1 (leftmost tooth) lingual to labial 29mm, length 28mm M2 (center) 30mm, 35mm M3 (right) 25mm, 36mm Any ideas on restoration would be helpful, although my inclination is treat with B72 and try to build a display that bears the weight of the separate pieces. @Uncle Siphuncle? 3 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darktooth Posted August 27 Share Posted August 27 Nice find! I am looking forward to seeing it restored. 1 1 I like Trilo-butts and I cannot lie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnJ Posted August 28 Share Posted August 28 That is such a a cool find. Congratulations! 1 1 The human mind has the ability to believe anything is true. - JJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jared C Posted August 28 Share Posted August 28 I’m invested, this is cool 1 “Not only is the universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think” -Werner Heisenberg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaybot Posted August 28 Share Posted August 28 What a dream find! One of the coolest megafauna species if you ask me. 1 1 -Jay “The earth doesn't need new continents, but new men.” ― Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Siphuncle Posted August 31 Share Posted August 31 Cool find. Mine was luckily infilled and stabilized by sandstone, which helped me heave it out in one, hundred pound piece. I rinsed it at home, dried it, and stabilized cracks with PaleoBond....lots of it. I then saturated the surface with thin Butvar. I got a lot of the skull but not all of it, and one side of the mandible. I CAD designed and built a custom stand from high grade 3/4" ply where it still sits, suspending isolated pieces in living position. I made no attempt to reconstruct anything missing. Horn core tips are worn down to 5 feet, would have been est 6 ft unworn. 3 Grüße, Daniel A. Wöhr aus Südtexas "To the motivated go the spoils." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fossilus Posted August 31 Author Share Posted August 31 1 hour ago, Uncle Siphuncle said: Cool find. Mine was luckily infilled and stabilized by sandstone, which helped me heave it out in one, hundred pound piece. I rinsed it at home, dried it, and stabilized cracks with PaleoBond....lots of it. I then saturated the surface with thin Butvar. I got a lot of the skull but not all of it, and one side of the mandible. I CAD designed and built a custom stand from high grade 3/4" ply where it still sits, suspending isolated pieces in living position. I made no attempt to reconstruct anything missing. Horn core tips are worn down to 5 feet, would have been est 6 ft unworn. Thanks! I wouldn't have been able to handle 100 lb piece. Mine was probably less than 40 lbs. I probably won't be even doing a "deep clean" as mine is in a hard, cemented gravel, that is much harder than the bone. I've already gone through quite a bit of b72 and acetone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaybot Posted August 31 Share Posted August 31 (edited) 2 hours ago, Uncle Siphuncle said: Cool find. Mine was luckily infilled and stabilized by sandstone, which helped me heave it out in one, hundred pound piece. I rinsed it at home, dried it, and stabilized cracks with PaleoBond....lots of it. I then saturated the surface with thin Butvar. I got a lot of the skull but not all of it, and one side of the mandible. I CAD designed and built a custom stand from high grade 3/4" ply where it still sits, suspending isolated pieces in living position. I made no attempt to reconstruct anything missing. Horn core tips are worn down to 5 feet, would have been est 6 ft unworn. I've seen the pic of yours... beyond incredible find. Cool to see you Texans finding latifrons stuff. I've seen at a museum one found in Kansas, so not impossible I guess- hopefully I'll join the latifrons club one of these days Edited August 31 by Jaybot 1 1 1 -Jay “The earth doesn't need new continents, but new men.” ― Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Siphuncle Posted August 31 Share Posted August 31 5 hours ago, fossilus said: Thanks! I wouldn't have been able to handle 100 lb piece. Mine was probably less than 40 lbs. I probably won't be even doing a "deep clean" as mine is in a hard, cemented gravel, that is much harder than the bone. I've already gone through quite a bit of b72 and acetone. I've scribed a lot of soft bones in hard sandstone. The trick is to go slowly, stopping to wick CA into the bone, even if that only means 1/8" of progress at a time. You can work on other areas of the same piece while the CA cures. 1 Grüße, Daniel A. Wöhr aus Südtexas "To the motivated go the spoils." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mighty micraster Posted September 1 Share Posted September 1 Can I just say how happy I am to see its not just me who uses a chainsaw tool for fossils! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C2fossils Posted September 6 Share Posted September 6 Awesome find! In my mind it is the T-Rex of Bison. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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