That Needle fish you posted is pretty awesome Oddball, i collect australian megafauna from the pleistocene, i go fossicking myself for it
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I collected some fossil fish vertebrae replaced by precious opal around the HE Holt USNavCommSta about 25 years ago. Never found any complete articulated fish down under. Perhaps we can make trades of US species for Aussie species? If you're not too much into fish fossils, I have approx. 3.5 tons of gem-grade dinosaur bones (polished specimens, slabs, and rough). I also have thick cabbable dinosaur eggshell fragments large enough for up to 30mm X 40mm calibrated cabs.
Could you post up some pics of the Opalized fish verterbrae?
BTW: Have you seen the opalized neoceratodus teeth, they are really something quite special. Also, have you seen the couple of jaws that came from australia that are completely opalized, amazing stuff!
BTW: Have you seen the opalized neoceratodus teeth, they are really something quite special. Also, have you seen the couple of jaws that came from australia that are completely opalized, amazing stuff!
Here's some of the opal replaced material. Included are fish bones/vertabrae, belemnite (squid), and a mussel. I have clams, snails, and wood with opal replacements somewhere. I just can't locate them at the moment.
Here's a rough (as collected) piece of Saltosaur dinosaur eggshell and a piece I polished to enhance the pores the embryo used to absord oxygen and release CO2 through. I collected a pail full from the Cretaceous ash fields in Venezuela.
thats really cool oddball , my Son is big in to dino's..i hope he grow to have a mind like yours my mother is a anthropologist and teaches it at the university of Anchorage
i should rephrase that i mean my step mother
i should rephrase that i mean my step mother
Here's a few of the dinosaur bone cabochons I've cut. All of the colors are natural. I never dye the stones I cut. I cut calibrated sizes for pre-made jewelry settings and also cut free-form shapes for wire-wrappers and specimen collectors.
