JimB88 Posted May 14, 2011 Share Posted May 14, 2011 Wow! The White River Formation is a dream of mine. Way to go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nala Posted May 14, 2011 Share Posted May 14, 2011 Wow,wonderfull finds Nando ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranha Posted May 14, 2011 Share Posted May 14, 2011 Egg-citingly :sword: Egg-cellent Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davehunt Posted May 15, 2011 Share Posted May 15, 2011 (edited) Not questioning the classification - or these amazing finds (bravo!) - but given that the White River formation is full of turtles (that lay lots of eggs) how can one tell that an egg is a bird egg vs a reptile egg? What are the clues? Thanks Dave Edited May 15, 2011 by davehunt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nandomas Posted May 15, 2011 Author Share Posted May 15, 2011 (edited) Thanks everyone for the kind comments :D Turtle eggs have totally another shape (they are round and flat). Also they have not shell and they have the same color of the matrix. Bird eggs have shells very different in color from the matrix and the crystalline structure is very well preserved. Also the shape is very similiar to the modern birds and/or chickens Edited May 15, 2011 by Nandomas Erosion... will be my epitaph! http://www.paleonature.org/ https://fossilnews.org/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davehunt Posted May 15, 2011 Share Posted May 15, 2011 Thanks for clarifying Nandomas. Good luck with the rest of your hunt! D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nandomas Posted May 15, 2011 Author Share Posted May 15, 2011 Thanks for clarifying Nandomas. Good luck with the rest of your hunt! D Dave, you are very welcome. p.s. I never found a turtle egg... not yet ;) Erosion... will be my epitaph! http://www.paleonature.org/ https://fossilnews.org/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nandomas Posted May 15, 2011 Author Share Posted May 15, 2011 (edited) :Drool: :Drool: :Drool: :Drool: an oreodont skull is good enough, but an ENTIRE OREODONT?! meet me by the airport in 10 hours please, and ill need help with the luggage. Yep... Jp told me the Oreodont skeleton will be extract in the next future my favourite shoots of the day: "The One Eye Dodge" and "The sheep with no body" Edited May 15, 2011 by Nandomas Erosion... will be my epitaph! http://www.paleonature.org/ https://fossilnews.org/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tarheel59 Posted May 15, 2011 Share Posted May 15, 2011 Nando with the kind of luck you are having we are liable to find an entireSkeleton of a Mosasaur at GMR so save some of that luck ok. PS if we find entire Mos skeleton I will keep it at my house since it will not fit in your luggage for trip home :) Gratz on eggs and all that luck save some for North Carolina Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coco Posted May 15, 2011 Share Posted May 15, 2011 Hi, Incredible eggs Nando ! You are very lucky ! You play with your short lens (wide angle) ? :laughing on the floor 24: :pic: Nice result ! Coco ---------------------- OUTIL POUR MESURER VOS FOSSILES : ici Pareidolia : here Ma bibliothèque PDF 1 (Poissons et sélaciens récents & fossiles) : ici Ma bibliothèque PDF 2 (Animaux vivants - sans poissons ni sélaciens) : ici Mâchoires sélaciennes récentes : ici Hétérodontiques et sélaciens : ici Oeufs sélaciens récents : ici Otolithes de poissons récents ! ici Un Greg... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eric94 Posted May 15, 2011 Share Posted May 15, 2011 woow! what a amazing trip !! i would like to have the same sensation than you ! Lovely !! Eric Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nandomas Posted May 15, 2011 Author Share Posted May 15, 2011 You play with your short lens (wide angle) ? :laughing on the floor 24: :pic: Nice result ! Coco Hi Coco, I also did a nose-to-the-fisheye JP photo, but I have not his permission to post his photo here :P Do you guys should like to see it? :D :o Erosion... will be my epitaph! http://www.paleonature.org/ https://fossilnews.org/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnJ Posted May 15, 2011 Share Posted May 15, 2011 Hi Coco, I also did a nose-to-the-fisheye JP photo, but I have not his permission to post his photo here :P Do you guys should like to see it? :D :o He's gonna get you.... The human mind has the ability to believe anything is true. - JJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sinopaleus Posted May 15, 2011 Share Posted May 15, 2011 please please, post it!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diplotomodon Posted May 15, 2011 Share Posted May 15, 2011 WARNING: Fossil hunter's dream rant is beginning. Please stand back to avoid any injuries. Paramedics will be forthcoming. Just in case. Ammonites... Turtle... TWO bird eggs... :Drool: Glyptodon... :Drool: :Drool: COMPLETE OREODONT SKELETON???... That is the load of the century. The fossil gods must see you as a saint Congrats!!! End rant. What a wonderful menagerie! Who would believe that such as register lay buried in the strata? To open the leaves, to unroll the papyrus, has been an intensely interesting though difficult work, having all the excitement and marvelous development of a romance. And yet the volume is only partly read. Many a new page I fancy will yet be opened. -- Edward Hitchcock, 1858 Formerly known on the forum as Crimsonraptor @Diplotomodon on Twitter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coco Posted May 15, 2011 Share Posted May 15, 2011 Hi Coco, I also did a nose-to-the-fisheye JP photo, but I have not his permission to post his photo here :P Do you guys should like to see it? :D :o Nando, with my advanced age, I can see everything ! And if JP wants to come at home, I must know and see everything before ! Coco ---------------------- OUTIL POUR MESURER VOS FOSSILES : ici Pareidolia : here Ma bibliothèque PDF 1 (Poissons et sélaciens récents & fossiles) : ici Ma bibliothèque PDF 2 (Animaux vivants - sans poissons ni sélaciens) : ici Mâchoires sélaciennes récentes : ici Hétérodontiques et sélaciens : ici Oeufs sélaciens récents : ici Otolithes de poissons récents ! ici Un Greg... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nandomas Posted May 16, 2011 Author Share Posted May 16, 2011 (edited) COMPLETE OREODONT SKELETON???... Nobody can know how complete the Oreodont will be I thanks God I am not who found the Oreodont... it is too difficult to free from matrix and also it is too heavy to carry in Italy Edited May 18, 2011 by Nandomas Erosion... will be my epitaph! http://www.paleonature.org/ https://fossilnews.org/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nandomas Posted May 16, 2011 Author Share Posted May 16, 2011 (edited) Nando, with my advanced age, I can see everything ! And if JP wants to come at home, I must know and see everything before ! Coco Sorry Coco, I need JP approval BEFORE to post the photo, but that guy is going speleologing around What do you think about a topic pool? Some other photos of the day Edited May 16, 2011 by Nandomas Erosion... will be my epitaph! http://www.paleonature.org/ https://fossilnews.org/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GlennS Posted May 16, 2011 Share Posted May 16, 2011 Nice Finds! In the picture of the second egg just right of the egg is a whitish mound,It looks to me like a piece of shellon the side of it. Did you think of picking the mud up around the egg for screening it for the top half pieces knowing how rare these fossils are ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nandomas Posted May 18, 2011 Author Share Posted May 18, 2011 (edited) Nice Finds! In the picture of the second egg just right of the egg is a whitish mound,It looks to me like a piece of shellon the side of it. Did you think of picking the mud up around the egg for screening it for the top half pieces knowing how rare these fossils are ? Sure I did, finding around 30 /40 little bird shell pieces. Hoping they belong to my egg, fixing the puzzle of the second bird egg, will be my summer project :) Edited May 18, 2011 by Nandomas Erosion... will be my epitaph! http://www.paleonature.org/ https://fossilnews.org/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shamalama Posted May 19, 2011 Share Posted May 19, 2011 Wow, What a trip you are having, Nando! Congrats on the eggs and other finds! -Dave __________________________________________________ Geologists on the whole are inconsistent drivers. When a roadcut presents itself, they tend to lurch and weave. To them, the roadcut is a portal, a fragment of a regional story, a proscenium arch that leads their imaginations into the earth and through the surrounding terrain. - John McPheeIf I'm going to drive safely, I can't do geology. - John McPheeCheck out my Blog for more fossils I've found: http://viewsofthemahantango.blogspot.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpc Posted May 21, 2011 Share Posted May 21, 2011 Our hunt was over a week ago... I have been to New Mexico and back and rapelled down into a cave at Carlsbad Caverns NP, and seen some great southwestern birds... Scott's Oriole, Scaled Quail, Black-throated Sparrow, and these last two within a mile of each other, which I never considered as an option Vermillion and Scissor-tailed Flycatchers. And drove home for 15 hours yesterday. But this is a Fossil Forum. The point of that tale is after a week of doing other exciting things, I am only starting to regain my compusure... TWO BIRD EGGS in ONE DAY!!!! My friend Kent who has been collecting in the White River for thirty YEARS, has found seven bird eggs. THIRTY YEARS. Nando didn't mention that I called them nasty names...in a friendly way overloaded with jealousy. TWO BIRD EGGS in ONE DAY!!!! (I have never found one). As for my oerodont, I found the skull eroding out. It was tough to recognize, but it is a skull. It is likely oreodont, but maybe something else. As I was clearing the matrix around it one chunk of rock had a sereis of toe and leg bones in it. So I stopped. To be continued on Memorial day. The ammonite site proved to be better than I had planned. We got some nice ammonites... the best went to Michigan. Nando... feel free to post the nose shot... but if you want to send me a bird egg as a fee, I would accept it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpc Posted May 22, 2011 Share Posted May 22, 2011 ... and a correction... not Glyptodon, but Glyptosaurus. Glyptodon is a Pleistocene oversized armadillo or sloth or somesuch, Glyptosaurus is an Oligocene lizard of average lizard proportions. Nando made a mistake here on the FF, but when I made Lisa show him the pieces, he thought for just a short spell and said "Glyptosaurus". This nando, he knows his stuff, and he knpows how to find them. Lisa and I went back to look for more, but it wasn't there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nandomas Posted May 22, 2011 Author Share Posted May 22, 2011 ... and a correction... not Glyptodon, but Glyptosaurus. Glyptodon is a Pleistocene oversized armadillo or sloth or somesuch, Glyptosaurus is an Oligocene lizard of average lizard proportions. Nando made a mistake here on the FF, but when I made Lisa show him the pieces, he thought for just a short spell and said "Glyptosaurus". This nando, he knows his stuff, and he knpows how to find them. Lisa and I went back to look for more, but it wasn't there. Yea... sorry for the lapsus and thanks for the correction. Right now I am working out the trilobite name and the formation name for you. let me double check my info Erosion... will be my epitaph! http://www.paleonature.org/ https://fossilnews.org/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nandomas Posted May 24, 2011 Author Share Posted May 24, 2011 (edited) Nando... feel free to post the nose shot... but if you want to send me a bird egg as a fee, I would accept it. here we are... do you remember the exact egg place? ... I am sure you will find your own egg Memorial day weekend. Edited May 24, 2011 by Nandomas Erosion... will be my epitaph! http://www.paleonature.org/ https://fossilnews.org/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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