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Post by arghvark on Dec 23, 2018 12:16:19 GMT -5
A couple days ago I was in an area with lots of marine fossils. The host rock is very soft sandstone, so I looked around for some where the surrounding host was eroded away. Was able to pull out this little cutie, without damaging too much detail.
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Post by fernwood on Dec 24, 2018 3:41:15 GMT -5
Nice. By pulling out, did you remove it on location, or bring the hose rock home to remove it?
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Fossilman
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Post by Fossilman on Dec 24, 2018 11:28:16 GMT -5
Cute little guy, isn't it.... Score!
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Post by arghvark on Dec 24, 2018 18:13:08 GMT -5
Nice. By pulling out, did you remove it on location, or bring the hose rock home to remove it? For this one, I was able to just sort of pop it out. But I did bring home a couple chunks to play around with extracting complete casts.
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Post by hummingbirdstones on Dec 24, 2018 21:38:00 GMT -5
Excellent! Looks like a nice little specimen.
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Kai
spending too much on rocks
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Post by Kai on Jan 2, 2019 8:16:13 GMT -5
Beautiful! Is this the whole shell with both sides or just a petrified core?
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Post by arghvark on Jan 3, 2019 9:00:04 GMT -5
Full fossilized shell filled with sandstone. The shell is very thin; I've just noticed that I somehow damaged one corner of the shell itself and can see the sandstone filling.
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