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Collecting Dinosaur bones and dinosaur fossils

Started by amargasaurus cazaui, June 01, 2012, 07:16:11 AM

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October 29, 2017, 06:08:47 PM
My  friend at the quarry contacted me with a specimen to sell....Apatosaurine, cervical vert section. It is missing quite a bit and broken and damaged but weighs in around 17 pounds.......I have made arrangements to have the remaining matrix blown out of it and anything fractured, cracked or broken to be consolidated. It is quite ....enlightening to examine these large sauropod verts, with the various openings and channels for air openings. In some of the pictures you can see the lighter matrix around the darker bone. The guy I have doing prep for me will use an air scribe and using air abrasion will blow away what matrix he can get to , which will help to define and show the piece better. If I had my way my entire home would be filled with these massive pieces...but the costs are ......a deterrent even for something as fragmentary as this piece.....














Authors with varying competence have suggested dinosaurs disappeared because of meteorites...God's will, raids by little green hunters in flying saucers, lack of standing room in Noah's Ark, and palaeoweltschmerz—Glenn Jepsen

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#41
October 29, 2017, 08:27:37 PM
That's pretty impressive even if it's "missing quite a bit and broken and damaged." The only fossil in my collection is a fake Allosaurus claw.

"3,000 km to the south, the massive comet crashes into Earth. The light from the impact fades in silence. Then the shock waves arrive. Next comes the blast front. Finally a rain of molten rock starts to fall out of the darkening sky - this is the end of the age of the dinosaurs. The Comet struck the Gulf of Mexico with the force of 10 billion Hiroshima bombs. And with the catastrophic climate changes that followed 65% of all life died out. It took millions of years for the earth to recover but when it did the giant dinosaurs were gone - never to return." - WWD

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#42
October 29, 2017, 08:35:17 PM
Like most people I have to collect with an eye to the budget, and two cervicals like this undamaged, and fairly complete would easily cost a few thousand dollars depending on appeal, completeness, and distortion. These things are a mess to clean up with hollows and air pockets everywhere , and the matrix on this piece is some solid material . Even once prepped it is fragmentary enough you cannot really justify restoring the missing areas, so the market value drops fast making it more workable moneywise. The only good cards I am holding is a good relationship with the quarry owners, and a prep guy that works fairly fast, and reasonably as well. 
Authors with varying competence have suggested dinosaurs disappeared because of meteorites...God's will, raids by little green hunters in flying saucers, lack of standing room in Noah's Ark, and palaeoweltschmerz—Glenn Jepsen

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#43
September 21, 2018, 08:55:21 PM
Some previews in from the prep guy....its finished. These are shots of the cervical vert seen above in the thread, once it was cleaned and stabilized.The flat area at the bottom is the disk centrum and the processes fall forward of the centrum prior to the next disc in the neck.All those little hollows and features had to be airblasted empty and clean so this one took awhile.









Authors with varying competence have suggested dinosaurs disappeared because of meteorites...God's will, raids by little green hunters in flying saucers, lack of standing room in Noah's Ark, and palaeoweltschmerz—Glenn Jepsen

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