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These photos are from my Instagram feed and get updated every week.
A nice shark vertebrae concretion, so many verts in there... hopefully a tooth or two as well 😁
I'm absolutely blown away by this piece of art Bill M from the UK sent me 🤩 it's a scene from one of my videos where I fetch a large fossil with my little red wagon, how amazing is that??? And the bottom half have some actual fossils covered in a clear resin. I see some shark teeth, a belemnite, a shark vert and a few ammonites!! Thanks so much Bill!
My New Zealand fossil books arrived! Hoping to use the forams to date the layer the shark teeth was found in, thanks @paleo_craig for your help with this. These books are available from the @gnsscience website as. Shipping was really quick, one business day after ordering!
This is the result of sifting through 9kg of siltstone from a lag layer... 60+ micro fossil shark teeth! I think I see some dalatias and some squalid in there. Some of them are less than 1mm in length! So many other cool things in there as well including some forams in there as well 🤩 There's even a tiny fish / shark vertebrae in there. I'm finishing off the editing of the video where I break down the siltstone using sodium hexametaphosphate, it should be out this week still. Head over to my website for my YouTube link and some of my other finds.
A big crab and a little crab I carried home this morning. The big crab weighs about 30kg and the tiny crab about 100 grams 😁 the big crab looks to be 99% complete, maybe even some leg tips in there!
Found a collection of bones in a clay layer today. Not sure if they are modern and just got mixed in with the clay during heavy rains. 🤔 anyone recognize the animal it could be from? The scapula looks like it could be recognizable to someone. Maybe I just found the remains of some fossil hunter's lunch 😁
A rather worn Metacarcinus novaezelandiae I came across today. Might be worth removing some of the rock to have a peek at it. A shame the claws are so worn away. 🦀🦀
I'll be showing some of my fossils and giving a short talk on some of the fossils I have found over the last while at the Christchurch Mineral and Lapidary Club at 110 Waltham Road, Christchurch. Entrance is $5 I think as a club guest. All welcome 😁 I have a sneak preview of something pretty cool I've found 🤐 Thursday 10 Sept 2020 at 7 30pm Pictured are some of my crabs 🦀
Time to play my favourite Sunday night game, fish-or-not-fish, with my latest fossil find 😁 found this little bone cluster yesterday and the there appears to be a very definite joint in the one section. So vertebrate fossil experts, please let me know what you think 😀 Found in a Miocene coastal deposit
Didnt find much today other than this.large nautiloid, but it made the big hike worthwhile 😁 it looks to be in pretty good shape as well.
I think I found my third ever cetacean ear bone! This looks to be the worn bulla of what I am guessing is a whale based on the size. Swipe for the back view of the rock which looks to have some other bones in it.
Looks like I found a bunch of shark verts in a concretion, not as fortunate as @nz_paleo to have teeth in it though 😁 maybe there is one hiding in there somewhere 🤔
So satisfying when a large chunk of rock flakes away! Busy prepping that large shark vertebrae I found recently.
A very small suspected sawshark rostral spine I found on the weekend. There are more bits in the concretion so its having a soak in some acid to see if anything emerges 🤞Miocene era coastal deposit.
Time to start prepping some mega shark verts! Keep an eye out for the video, hoping to finish it this week still 😁
Early morning session produced this mystery piece. Looks fishy 🤔 leave a comment if you have any idea please 🤞 found in a Miocene coastal deposit here in New Zealand
Found a cool whale vert down on the beach today, Miocene era. Had to get a 😁
I managed to clean up the fossil shells and ID the species, turns out that the age is Eocene. Much older than I thought it would be! I used a great book by Beu and Maxwell which is available as a free 502 page PDF. Link is on my website mamlambofossils.com
Removed some of the matrix to show more of this cool shell. Age is around 25myo, not sure of the species. Swipe to see a before photo.
One of my best fossil finds, cetacean ear bones, is on it's way to Te Papa Tongarewa - Museum of New Zealand, for further study. It's quite rare to find the bulla and periotic together like this and it was my first ever ear bones that I found so will always be special to me. Hopefully I will be able to give an update on it in the future 😁