andreas Posted April 7, 2016 Share Posted April 7, 2016 Today I finished prepwork done during wintertime. Three bigger multiplates with Ladinian ammonoids and some smaller ones of Ladinian, Carnian and Norian age. Now the field season 2016 can start. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
belemniten Posted April 7, 2016 Share Posted April 7, 2016 Awesome fossils ! Great prep ! Good luck and many finds for 2016 Many greetings from Germany ! Have a great time with many fossils Regards Sebastian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raggedy Man Posted April 7, 2016 Share Posted April 7, 2016 Wow! ...I'm back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted April 7, 2016 Share Posted April 7, 2016 Wonderful finds and prep work, Andreas! Thanks for showing them to us. Regards, Tim - VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER VFOTM --- APRIL - 2015 IPFOTM -- MAY - 2024 _________________________________________________________________________________ "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir ~ ~ ~ ~ ><))))( *> About Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DE&i Posted April 7, 2016 Share Posted April 7, 2016 Very nice Andreas good work. Regards.....D&E&i The only certainty with fossil hunting is the uncertainty. https://lnk.bio/outfossiling Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PFOOLEY Posted April 7, 2016 Share Posted April 7, 2016 Quite remarkable specimens and prep. Before you run off to start that new field season, how about some close up photos of your wonderful finds? "I am glad I shall never be young without wild country to be young in. Of what avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?" ~Aldo Leopold (1887-1948) New Mexico Museum of Natural History Bulletins Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted April 7, 2016 Share Posted April 7, 2016 Wow, those are real doozies, Andreas!!! Please show us some more close-ups, particularly of the other 2 multiblocks. I wish you Good Hunting!! Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andreas Posted April 8, 2016 Author Share Posted April 8, 2016 (edited) Thank you for your comments! Thank you for your comments! Both multiblocks are from the same location but maybe there is a slight difference in age. Both are Ladinian in age and occur together with the index ammonoids Protrachyceras archelaus and Prot. longobardicum. Last descendents of Ptychites(at least one or two Species, that is hard to tell because they change their shape in different growth stadiums) are also common. The big ammonoid on my first post closeup and the big Ptychites on this pic are the same species. The smaller the more roundish in shape this Ptychites are. The second block comes probably from the edge of this fossil lense where current accumulation was stronger. Mostly flat forms were resedimented. The enriched brownisch oxidic crust(hardground) below the ammonoids points to that idea too. Edited April 8, 2016 by andreas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJB Posted April 8, 2016 Share Posted April 8, 2016 Very cool lookin ammo multi specimens! RB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ptychodus04 Posted April 8, 2016 Share Posted April 8, 2016 Very nice. Regards, Kris Global Paleo Services, LLC https://globalpaleoservices.com http://instagram.com/globalpaleoservices http://instagram.com/kris.howe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpc Posted April 8, 2016 Share Posted April 8, 2016 Beautiful... now it is time to go find more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted April 8, 2016 Share Posted April 8, 2016 Thanks, Andreas. Very nice and a lot of work, I'm sure! Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnBrewer Posted April 8, 2016 Share Posted April 8, 2016 Amazing ammos and amazing prep! John Map of UK fossil sites Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xiphactinus Posted April 8, 2016 Share Posted April 8, 2016 I love the colors!!! Works of art. Nicely done Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrangellian Posted April 14, 2016 Share Posted April 14, 2016 Works of art for sure - they are not only remarkable clusters, remarkably prepped, but aesthetically pleasing too, as if Nature herself did it. (Can't say that about all prep jobs) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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