quicksilver123 In reply to ForgottenDemigod [2012-11-29 00:31:02 +0000 UTC]

Thanks!

Mesozoic material can be very interesting as well! I kinda wish my current region had any fossils at all. It's one of the granite states..

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ForgottenDemigod In reply to quicksilver123 [2012-12-04 04:43:48 +0000 UTC]

Oh.

What can be interesting about Mesozoic sea material?

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quicksilver123 In reply to ForgottenDemigod [2012-12-04 13:42:48 +0000 UTC]

Pliosaurs, plesiosaurs, ichthyosaurs, crocodiles, sharks, rays, urchins etc, there's a big variety in the oceans of the Mesozoic. The baddest ocean of all time is in fact in the Cretaceous, with some nasty looking predators, like Xiphactinus!

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Mimose91 In reply to quicksilver123 [2013-05-13 18:04:28 +0000 UTC]

Hi, I live in Poland near to the coastline of the Baltic Sea. Near to the cliffs it is possible to find most of the common marine fossils, from the Precambrian, through the Ordovician, Cretaceous and Kenozoic as well. That's because of the icebergs from the last Ice Age, which brought there a lot of sediment rocks from the coastal shelf area, as a drop-stones. I've found Tabulata and Rugosae corals, sponges, Brachiopods, nautilids, gastropods, belemnites ond trilobites. Unfortunately the iceberg not only brought them to the land, but it squashed them a bit as well... I know that Crinoids, sea urchins and fish including sharks skeletons can be found there as well, but I was never that lucky ^^
Your collection is really nice, I hope I would have enough time to prepare all of my fossils.

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quicksilver123 In reply to Mimose91 [2013-06-09 14:25:09 +0000 UTC]

Apologies for getting back so late, I was on an excavation. Thank you for the compliments. That is very nice, Poland is a good place for nice fossils. Seems like you have a big variety of marine life forms there!

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Mimose91 In reply to quicksilver123 [2013-06-17 18:48:49 +0000 UTC]

No prob, thanks for the reply Yes, I have mainly fossils of marine animals. But I'm not the best in preparing them I wonder if there is any safe way to do that at home? What tools would be best for preparing small shells etc? I usually use only hammer to break parts I don't need, but I'm allways afraid that it can destroy the fossil(and break my fingers ^^) Since I'm oceanographer I know only basic stuff about paleontology
I hope my english is not very bad

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ForgottenDemigod In reply to quicksilver123 [2012-12-04 18:01:55 +0000 UTC]

Here it's almost exclusively ammonites, belemnites, crinoids and stuff like that. Nothing cool.

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quicksilver123 In reply to ForgottenDemigod [2012-12-04 20:52:09 +0000 UTC]

I'd hunt ammonites haha back home it's forbidden to hunt without permission so I consider freehunters very lucky

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ForgottenDemigod In reply to quicksilver123 [2012-12-06 06:48:57 +0000 UTC]

Oh. Is it difficult to get such a permission?

Ammonites get boring after a few years. Personally, I find stuff like Trilobites, armoured fishes, graptholites, etc. more exciting. Sadly, they were never near enough to allow hunting for them during a one day trip.

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quicksilver123 In reply to ForgottenDemigod [2012-12-06 14:43:59 +0000 UTC]

It is illegal to hunt without permission so yeah and yes it is hard

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ForgottenDemigod In reply to quicksilver123 [2012-12-07 03:37:24 +0000 UTC]

Weird. Though I guess in places with more interesting stuff than ammonites, it serves to protect the interesting stuff from disappearing.

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quicksilver123 In reply to GateFan [2012-06-05 01:15:06 +0000 UTC]

you're welcome

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quicksilver123 In reply to 520romeo [2012-05-20 13:46:37 +0000 UTC]

hi kim

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quicksilver123 In reply to cryptidsaurian [2012-05-18 00:24:42 +0000 UTC]

i am not sure; they could be communal.

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quicksilver123 In reply to Size-And-Stupidity [2012-04-27 01:08:55 +0000 UTC]

thank you for the great artwork!! i found your artwork very funny and entertaining!

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quicksilver123 In reply to cryptidsaurian [2012-03-27 08:06:21 +0000 UTC]

sometimes the trilobites in there are preserved like that it could be because lots of them were dead or scattered by the time they were buried, causing you to find all those loose parts, or it could be because the shale is so loose it rips them into pieces when found, which i don't think is your case... can you prep them out, or is there only single parts, with nothing attached most of the time? as for times when you find a pleural lobe, chances are the trilobite is still intact, but you need to prep it out.

do you find your trilobites in shale? if yes, then i suggest you to hit it in a straight line to split the shale perfectly, without crossing into other microlayers. and also, don't hit too hard. just hit it with enough power to split the shale, but not enough to rip it open. and also watch what you do with your hammer. if you have a chisel hammer (preferred for shale), do as i said above, it should help. if you use the hammer side of the hammer, or the side you use to completely desolate rock (for more power), it will rip the shale into multiple microlayers and pieces, and it will also leave an ugly dent in the side of the pieces, so that is not considered helpful for your case (unless you are looking for nodule or concretion fossils).

what kind of tools do you use for digging?

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cryptidsaurian In reply to quicksilver123 [2012-03-27 20:46:18 +0000 UTC]

"can you prep them out, or is there only single parts, with nothing attached most of the time?"
Usually single pieces, maybe several, but rarely attached to eachother.

"do you find your trilobites in shale?"
Yes; also, what exactly are micro layers, merely very small weak spots where splitting occurs?

"what kind of tools do you use for digging"
I usually use a hammer and chisel, but can often pull plates out of the walls of where I hunt.

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quicksilver123 In reply to cryptidsaurian [2012-03-28 00:47:27 +0000 UTC]

"Usually single pieces, maybe several, but rarely attached to eachother."

hmm. that means those trilobites were already dead when preserved, like the drepanura (now redescribed as neodrepanura) trilobites of shandong, china.

"Yes; also, what exactly are micro layers, merely very small weak spots where splitting occurs?"

it's when there is a small change in layers on the surface of the split shale.

"I usually use a hammer and chisel, but can often pull plates out of the walls of where I hunt. "

that's good for taking plates out of the ground... but it's not the best for splitting them. if you have pinpoint accuracy then maybe but most of the time they cause microlayers to appear if hit with multiple hits with tiny angle changes.

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cryptidsaurian In reply to quicksilver123 [2012-03-28 22:51:48 +0000 UTC]

I usually don't split plates, so naturally I have to ask, why do you split plates? (usually mine are only about an inch thick, sometimes two but never over.)

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quicksilver123 In reply to cryptidsaurian [2012-03-29 01:26:09 +0000 UTC]

splitting=finding stuff

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cryptidsaurian In reply to quicksilver123 [2012-03-29 01:33:58 +0000 UTC]

Well, what I find is mostly isolated parts and pygidiums, do have any reason as to what I should be doing: take stuff in excess perhaps? Would it be any help if I sent you some photos of what I do find over e-mail?

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quicksilver123 In reply to cryptidsaurian [2012-03-29 13:23:31 +0000 UTC]

send me a PM on the fossil forum you still remember right? send some to the other kids as well, they'll be sure to help

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cryptidsaurian In reply to quicksilver123 [2012-03-29 20:27:30 +0000 UTC]

Alright, I'll be sure to whenever I get back, thanks Henry!

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quicksilver123 In reply to ReaperJivid [2012-02-08 00:36:24 +0000 UTC]

reaper,

most of your finds are gastropods, shelled organisms like snails and slugs. they are not ammonites, but they are related. for ones with shells on it, please submit it in either the association folder (if lots in one block), or the gastropod gallery (if there is a highlight of one or two in a block).

as for the "eggs", I will check them out, but it is highly probable that they are just concretion nodules.

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quicksilver123 In reply to ReaperJivid [2012-01-30 03:47:08 +0000 UTC]

good finds there reaper some lovely hash there

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ReaperJivid In reply to quicksilver123 [2012-01-30 03:58:18 +0000 UTC]

Thank you I once found a really large hash containing at least 50 of the basic swirl fossils imprinted on it. This too was found at my grandparents place. Unfortunantly over the years it was lost (I was very young when I first found it ) and I havent been able to find it since.

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quicksilver123 In reply to ReaperJivid [2012-01-30 13:51:48 +0000 UTC]

i see... maybe in the future a future humanoid would pick it up and wonder what it was

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ReaperJivid In reply to quicksilver123 [2012-02-07 22:17:25 +0000 UTC]

I hope I will be that humanoid lol. I found a nice hash (Which I just uploaded last night) at the same place I we found that one years ago, but sadly it just doesn't compare. Hopefully we will find it again. My step Dad thought it was just a rock and chucked it into the woods (Freakin moron lol), I know its still around there somewhere.

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quicksilver123 In reply to hypnogoddess [2011-11-19 22:48:39 +0000 UTC]

thanks hypo

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quicksilver123 In reply to quicksilver123 [2011-11-19 22:55:20 +0000 UTC]

hypno*

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quicksilver123 In reply to v-vv [2011-11-06 15:48:28 +0000 UTC]

what are you guys learning right now? ecology, anatomy, evolution or ...?

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v-vv In reply to quicksilver123 [2011-11-07 14:25:50 +0000 UTC]

freaking fossils and crap.

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quicksilver123 In reply to v-vv [2011-11-07 17:42:11 +0000 UTC]

hey. fossils aren't crap.

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v-vv In reply to quicksilver123 [2011-11-20 05:35:22 +0000 UTC]

they aren't just annoying to learn about and their names are way too long

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quicksilver123 In reply to v-vv [2011-11-20 20:08:52 +0000 UTC]

welll if you want to get good grades for that section you might as well just suck it up like the rest of us... :\

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quicksilver123 In reply to icewing96 [2011-10-15 02:33:06 +0000 UTC]

welcome julie

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quicksilver123 In reply to BmorePrincess [2011-09-10 00:49:23 +0000 UTC]

lol im sorry! it's just that your username is so alike so yeah

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