|
Post by roy on May 13, 2012 10:12:46 GMT -5
|
|
|
Post by Donnie's Rocky Treasures on May 13, 2012 11:29:07 GMT -5
Bet you thought it was mud or something! Pretty cool!
|
|
|
Post by jakesrocks on May 13, 2012 11:42:17 GMT -5
You might want to polish a small window before you part with it. Looks like possible primo material.
|
|
|
Post by catmandewe on May 13, 2012 12:25:04 GMT -5
Nice find Roy!
Tony
|
|
|
Post by drocknut on May 13, 2012 12:55:56 GMT -5
Looks like more of a keeper to me.
|
|
Fossilman
Cave Dweller
Member since January 2009
Posts: 20,688
|
Post by Fossilman on May 13, 2012 14:43:28 GMT -5
Dino bone-awesome!!!!
|
|
|
Post by talkingstones on May 13, 2012 20:33:08 GMT -5
That would make a dent in the cost of a wheel or two! Great find, Roy! Put it to good use, I miss your cabs! :-)
Cathy
|
|
|
Post by helens on May 13, 2012 21:34:32 GMT -5
WOWOWOW!!! That is wild Roy!
I have a dumb question about dino bone... um... they are REAL dinosaur bones, not just rocks called that? It just occurred to me to wonder that if everyone who finds them takes them and cuts them into slabs and cabs, wouldn't that mean that archeologists aren't going to be able to reassemble a rare dinosaur skeleton? How do you know that you are only digging up and cutting up 'ordinary' dinosaurs and not ones science hasn't seen yet??
|
|
|
Post by roy on May 13, 2012 23:56:48 GMT -5
helen first of all i bought this from a estate and as i'am sorting threw the large pile i found it at the bottom it is now illegal to dig dino bone !! so this is old stock that this old timer had in his pile ! do you own any dino bone helen? if not i have a relly nice one you need! lol
|
|
|
Post by helens on May 14, 2012 1:24:19 GMT -5
Hi Roy:). I am not buying any rocks til I figure out how to organize my space for rocks better:). I do have some small pieces of dino bone... for some reason, it didn't click in my head that that's EXACTLY what it actually is... pieces of T-rexes, Brotosaurus, stegosaurus, etc. I read that you didn't dig it, and it's no big deal if you did. I was just wondering how archeologists find any bones to study if rockhounds worldwide are making jewelry out of the bones. I guess there's tons and tons of bones tho. I did look it up, and these guys are trying to find entire skeletons and whole parts to sell: www.twoguysfossils.com/dino_jurassicbones.htmIt's only illegal in federal lands, apparently people on private property are digging away and selling/keeping the bones, I just found several dinosaur digs where you keep what you find. I read on one site that someone found almost an entire Tricerotops shield and took it home. I'm wondering if you can get more $$ from selling it to a dinosaur collector than for cabbing? They want $300 for a Toebone that's less than 2" around. That toebone would make all of 2 cabs... . Your piece actually looks like a really important joint end... look at the toebone pix in the above link... your piece looks almost exactly like the base of that bone, except MUCH bigger... what if you have a T-Rex toebone! O.o
|
|
grayfingers
Cave Dweller
Member since November 2007
Posts: 4,575
|
Post by grayfingers on May 14, 2012 7:04:02 GMT -5
Wow, that has some nice color!
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Member since January 1970
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on May 14, 2012 7:18:11 GMT -5
I say "to hell with the federal lands, to me it is public land and I will pick up everything that belongs to me". If I make a big discovery I might tell the arch ologists and rock ologists. The strange thing is that all around me there are dig sites but I have not found one little piece of bone that I am aware of. And I have covered a very large percent of this area, maybe as high as 0.001 percent. There is a hell of a lot of land to cover here. I can not remember for sure but something like 60 or 65 percent of Wyoming is public land. Guess I had better quit babbling and get to hiking. Jim
|
|
Fossilman
Cave Dweller
Member since January 2009
Posts: 20,688
|
Post by Fossilman on May 14, 2012 12:46:14 GMT -5
Most of my dino bone is frags from bigger pieces...........It polished up great,but no color... I do have one dino bone that I'll never cut,its the knee or elbow joint of a larger dino..... Found it in a guys rock garden during his garage sale(Montana),got it for $5.00.......Solid and heavy..Looks like it has some opal in it too..... To my opinion,if its just pieces of dino,I'll pick it up-if its a partial or whole being,I'll turn it in....
|
|
|
Post by helens on May 14, 2012 20:27:08 GMT -5
Fossilman... if you found it in someone's estate sale or stash... there's no way for them to find the REST of the dinosaur anyway... all you're doing is giving it to someone who might just sell it, it's got no paleontological value anymore.
I don't see why you'd turn it in unless you found a WHOLE bone, or even a whole animal skeleton... and unless it's a new species, what good is that without the 'where it was found' so we can see if that's an important dig to learn more about dinos info?
I think the only time the 'turn it in' might be important is in that above situation (you find IN THE GROUND whole pieces or multiple pieces that might turn out to be an intact animal with more digging).
I was just suggesting that Roy may consider that his piece may be more valuable to a collector because of it's intactness as a joint, but I don't think he should 'turn it in' to anyone, he bought it, they can buy it from him:). It's not like no one knows what giant dino joints look like, almost every museum in the world has whole skeletons, and others are selling parts, so he can sell parts too. Keep in mind that most museums even buy their skeletal displays!!
|
|
rockingthenorth
fully equipped rock polisher
Member since January 2012
Posts: 1,637
|
Post by rockingthenorth on May 14, 2012 20:47:48 GMT -5
That's a very cool find thank goodness you didn't toss it.
|
|
|
Post by Bluesky78987 on May 15, 2012 2:14:05 GMT -5
Cool, and good save! When we run out of rockhounding sites we can go hounding at the dump and find all the treasures that other rock hounds unwittingly threw out!
|
|