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« Reply #30 on: August 23, 2012, 10:49:54 am » |
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Great specimens Don.
It is a good thing that the guy collecting that fish did not get caught. Jail or prison time for that. They are found not too far from where I live and I have been there but I do not have the nads to carry anything out of there. lol I ain't doin no time for nuttin.
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« Reply #31 on: August 23, 2012, 11:04:58 am » |
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Ah Jim, where's your adventuresome spirit ? I checked, but the eBay add had been taken down. I believe the seller said that the fish plates he had were collected on private land.
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« Reply #32 on: August 23, 2012, 05:46:48 pm » |
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hahahaha Don, that is what I would and do say about all of it. I do not know of a place where they find the fish on private land but then again I do not know everything. I do know where there are some turtles sticking out of a sandstone face that is on private property but that is in Montana.
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« Reply #33 on: August 23, 2012, 09:51:39 pm » |
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How about a negative limb or root cast ? Collected in the 1950's, South East of the Salton Sea in So. Cal.  |
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« Reply #34 on: August 23, 2012, 09:56:11 pm » |
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Or maybe a Cycad, also collected in the 1950's, in the high desert of So. Cal. This one is a common opal replacement, instead of agate.    I've been offered $400.00 for this piece, and turned the offer down. |
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« Reply #35 on: August 23, 2012, 10:05:53 pm » |
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That last is gorgeous! You need to quit turning offers down if you want to make room for all those fairburns:P!
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« Reply #36 on: August 23, 2012, 10:13:13 pm » |
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LOL. Helen, the guy that made the offer is a buddy of mine, and a Fairburn collector. He knows the true value of a Cycad like that, and so do I. If he comes up with a good enough Fairburn trade, I might consider it.
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« Reply #37 on: August 23, 2012, 11:15:37 pm » |
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That is not fair. I have only been hounding for two years. lol One beautiful fossil. Would you like me to cab it for you? I hear that opal makes great cabs. Modern fossils. I found these probably 400 or more feet above the existing bed rock of Shell Creek in the Big Horn Mountains. They were living in the creek, not uplifted when the mountains were pushed up. Somebody around here probably knows all about how they got there and how long they have been there but I do not know that person. They can be found at creek level also. I would name them "survivors".  This coral came from the same mountains but it had to be a fossil before the uplift.    Not nearly as impressive as yours Don but I have had a lot of fun finding them. Jim |
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« Reply #38 on: August 24, 2012, 12:55:07 am » |
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Jim, you live in the land of fossils! You should have TONS!!!
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« Reply #39 on: August 24, 2012, 09:27:13 am » |
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Woolly Mammoth vertebra from a gravel pit north of Aberdeen, S.D. Found summer of 2007. Not quite old enough for mineralization. This was left over from the last ice age.   |
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« Reply #40 on: August 24, 2012, 10:27:26 am » |
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 ......museum qualities you have... 
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« Reply #41 on: August 24, 2012, 11:10:30 am » |
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Another not quite a fossil. Calcareous Tufa. Plant life growing near a hot spring, which has been encased in minerals. This piece was collected while on a Boy Scout camping trip in the early 50's. Collected at Punta Banda, S.W. of Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico.  |
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« Reply #42 on: August 24, 2012, 11:22:39 am » |
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Part of a fossil fern. Self collected 8/28/1982 at Passo dello Stelvio, Eastern Italian Alps, Lombardia Provence, Italy, at the 9,000 ft. level. I only had a short time to explore. Wish I could have spent a few days there.  |
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« Reply #43 on: August 24, 2012, 03:05:02 pm » |
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Geez Don... that's a tad too many fossils:P.
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« Reply #44 on: August 24, 2012, 03:08:21 pm » |
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Geez Don... that's a tad too many fossils:P.
Hah, never. Just too small of a house to display them in. |
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