Fossil finds from 9-4-10
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What will you do with tooth that is in the rock,Will you leave it as is or will you remove it from the rock?
This^^^^^ and, sometimes you find something say like a tooth, that the root is most likely to crumble up on you, but you can keep it in tact better by leaving it in place in the matrix, which is the chunk of formation its found in. You usually try to clean as much away from the focal point as you can with out loosening it from the matrix. If I already have some of the tooth loose, and if its a good one and in a good looking position I will leave it as well. When I look or shop for other fossil teeth or certain fossils, I like to see them in a bit of matrix so you can get a little part of the land they inhabited as well. Now, like I have seen in a few museums and even one of the seal skulls the museum here just lost, a nice tooth embedded into the skull, awesome find.Oddball;4445043; said:
Eventually I will try to get some Dinosaur stuff like Oddball, I can buy small pieces, but he is a long time vet, and Im sure by now has things that would make me cry myself to sleep. Im very interested in Ice Age stuff as well and have been pricing some mammoth teeth and woolly rhino femur. However when you see raptor eggs, I cry.
Dang, my crested gecko just jumped into its plant and it was so loud it made me jump lol. Sheeesh.
