aurora Posted May 23, 2013 Share Posted May 23, 2013 Basic question. So who is gonna take bunches of photos of the festival for me since I will not be able to make it? Hope you guys have a great time and it does not rain, its supposed to be mostly sunny through out the weekend. I bet there will be a really nice meg tooth for auction as always too. KCCO! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mako-mama Posted May 24, 2013 Share Posted May 24, 2013 (edited) Yep-awesome meg is being auctioned. It's not too late-call them tomorrow and get a ticket-or some. $1 each or 6 for $5, I believe. 252-322-4238. Edited May 24, 2013 by mako-mama Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeR Posted May 24, 2013 Share Posted May 24, 2013 I will be there on Saturday. I plan to take a bunch of pictures. "A problem solved is a problem caused"--Karl Pilkington "I was dead for millions of years before I was born and it never inconvenienced me a bit." -- Mark Twain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeR Posted June 1, 2013 Share Posted June 1, 2013 (edited) I finally had some time this afternoon to post pics of last weekend's Aurora Fossil Fest. Some of the many displays: The largest whale vert I have ever seen. One in the auction was almost as large. Cool Cretaceous sawfish rostral from Morocco. Ray mouth plate from the Middle Eocene Castle Hayne Fomration. Mine overburden. Scenes from the parade Confederates Confederate high school band Confederate women-folk. Old time hearse. Edited June 1, 2013 by MikeR "A problem solved is a problem caused"--Karl Pilkington "I was dead for millions of years before I was born and it never inconvenienced me a bit." -- Mark Twain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted June 1, 2013 Share Posted June 1, 2013 Yay, pictures! Thanks especially for the one of the Sawfish mouth plate; I've never seen one. "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! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DE&i Posted June 1, 2013 Share Posted June 1, 2013 This second is the second year I've heard about this festival on the TFF since I've been a member , seems very popular with you guys , has it been running a long time. Darren Regards.....D&E&i The only certainty with fossil hunting is the uncertainty. https://lnk.bio/Darren.Withers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FossilDAWG Posted June 1, 2013 Share Posted June 1, 2013 Anyone care to report if the piles were productive this year? I was there a week before the festival, and though the material had just recently been delivered it had not been rained on or washed at all, and it was hard to work with or to find much. The piles in front of the museum seemed to be different from the piles in the parking lot. The museum piles were sandier, but I found only small teeth and some vertebrae that had rolled to the base of the piles. The parking lot piles had lots of coral and pieces of vertebrae and other bones, but I couldn't sift due to the hard dry mud that made it like sifting concrete chunks. I did find a big tiger shark and a rootless great white as well as smaller teeth by inspecting the surface. I had better luck going over the leftovers from previous years. Don Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siteseer Posted June 1, 2013 Share Posted June 1, 2013 Sawfishes do not have mouth plates. They have tiny teeth around 1mm. That looks like a weathered myliobatid ray plate. I finally had some time this afternoon to post pics of last weekend's Aurora Fossil Fest. IMG_2095a.jpg Sawfish mouth plate from the Middle Eocene Castle Hayne Fomration. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeR Posted June 1, 2013 Share Posted June 1, 2013 Sawfishes do not have mouth plates. They have tiny teeth around 1mm. That looks like a weathered myliobatid ray plate. I know that it is a ray plate. I was in a rush to post and didn't proof read. Now corrected. "A problem solved is a problem caused"--Karl Pilkington "I was dead for millions of years before I was born and it never inconvenienced me a bit." -- Mark Twain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickNC Posted June 1, 2013 Share Posted June 1, 2013 Anyone care to report if the piles were productive this year? I was there a week before the festival, and though the material had just recently been delivered it had not been rained on or washed at all, and it was hard to work with or to find much. The piles in front of the museum seemed to be different from the piles in the parking lot. The museum piles were sandier, but I found only small teeth and some vertebrae that had rolled to the base of the piles. The parking lot piles had lots of coral and pieces of vertebrae and other bones, but I couldn't sift due to the hard dry mud that made it like sifting concrete chunks. I did find a big tiger shark and a rootless great white as well as smaller teeth by inspecting the surface. I had better luck going over the leftovers from previous years. Don It doesn't appear to be. I was told it was old reject that had been sitting around for many years. Any great white found from that location is quite rare. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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