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A Marine Fossil Project
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post Nov 13 2014, 10:10 AM
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I collected this in northern Colorado earlier this year from a layer that has always been productive for me.
It is a fairly good sized Ammonite and I believe more than 50% of it is there but still encased in layers. I haven't cleaned any of this piece yet nor tried to extract anything, this is how it came out of the earth.
I have a conundrum because.... the closer I look, the more little treasures I see protruding from the layers that are protecting the Ammonite. For example, if you zoom the first image and look at the upper right area... there's part of a small black tooth with it's jawbone/gumline exposed. There are also tubeworm or nymph fossils partially exposed. I want to see more of the Ammonite but it'll be a tricky extraction as these other tidbits are equally interesting.
I may start with just warm soapy water and a toothbrush.
20141113_085426 by ghostcreekmine, on Flickr

20141113_085449 by ghostcreekmine, on Flickr


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- swizz   A Marine Fossil Project   Nov 13 2014, 10:10 AM
- - swizz   Here are some closer looks at what I mean. Tooth 2...   Nov 13 2014, 10:20 AM
- - Crusty   Definitely makes it tougher to get to the good stu...   Nov 13 2014, 10:36 AM
- - swizz   I'm not sure how good that Ammonite is gonna b...   Nov 13 2014, 10:45 AM
- - Mrs.CP   Very cool fossil find Chris! It's kind of ...   Nov 13 2014, 02:59 PM
- - swizz   I'll know better what it looks like after I gi...   Nov 13 2014, 03:44 PM
- - Crusty   wish you were closer, I'd gladly loan you my t...   Nov 13 2014, 05:42 PM
- - ColoradoProspector   Cool fossil finds Swizz , wonder if some small pi...   Nov 14 2014, 12:02 PM
- - swizz   That's great advice on the picks Dan.... like ...   Nov 14 2014, 04:53 PM
|- - Mrs.CP   QUOTE (swizz @ Nov 14 2014, 03:53 PM) Tha...   Nov 15 2014, 07:04 AM
|- - ASTROBLEME   QUOTE (swizz @ Nov 14 2014, 05:53 PM) Tha...   Aug 24 2015, 10:24 PM
- - MikeS   Nice fossils swizz! I think that a gentle scru...   Nov 14 2014, 09:13 PM
- - swizz   I can't help it..... curious!   Nov 15 2014, 07:25 AM
- - swizz   A little bit of progress, mostly on the right hand...   Nov 22 2014, 11:17 AM
- - Mrs.CP   It's coming along nicely Chris!   Nov 23 2014, 07:30 AM
- - swizz   Thanks! Here's the flipside. I think that ...   Nov 23 2014, 02:46 PM
- - swizz   Here are some lil Clam fossils from the same forma...   Mar 29 2015, 05:20 PM
- - Mrs.CP   Very sweet find Chris!! Keep those fossil...   Mar 30 2015, 07:29 AM
- - swizz   Here is an unknown marine fossil I found the other...   Aug 20 2015, 12:18 PM
- - swizz   Thanks Johnny! I like the engraving tool idea ...   Aug 27 2015, 09:27 AM
- - swizz   I picked up another cluster yesterday. This is rou...   Sep 13 2016, 05:40 PM
- - Denise   Wow, that's a sweet find Chris! I am going...   Sep 13 2016, 05:58 PM
- - fenixsmom   Great find!   Sep 13 2016, 09:26 PM
- - EMac   That's really cool!   Sep 14 2016, 09:33 AM


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