n8hounder
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Post by n8hounder on Feb 13, 2013 0:42:13 GMT -5
I can't remember the name of this. Can someone remind me? I do remember my teacher had little interest. He didn't know or care why it has a shell inside of it. Attachments:
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Post by jakesrocks on Feb 13, 2013 0:52:01 GMT -5
Baculite.
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n8hounder
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Post by n8hounder on Feb 13, 2013 1:00:40 GMT -5
Thanks man ,thought it was a something with a "B"
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Post by Fossilman on Feb 13, 2013 12:31:05 GMT -5
Baculites are pretty cool,I have hundreds of them from the Montana area....Some are mud(better for just display),but alot of them are so cool,when cut length wise to show the inner cores!
They are about 175,000,000 years old,give or take a few 100,000 years........ ;D ;D
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Post by Deleted on Feb 13, 2013 16:24:05 GMT -5
man, all I see is some seeds being started in little deli cups...  An extinct genus of shelled cephalopod. That is some cool sh|t! |
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Post by Pat on Feb 13, 2013 16:33:42 GMT -5
I have a section of that. It's been polished. Beautiful gold sutures between brown sections.
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Post by Fossilman on Feb 14, 2013 12:25:45 GMT -5
Should cut it open lengthwise....I can't stress that enough-LOL........
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Post by n8hounder on Feb 14, 2013 22:49:39 GMT -5
Okay very cool info all and Fossilman always a wealth of information and helpful much thanks! The date helps me identify approximate age of other mother of peril clad fossils found in the same layer of shale. It was when I was a kid the river/chem. waste dump. Behind my "hood" reviled this wonderful trove of fossils. Something I had never seen all the years I had walked the area. I had piles of stuff and still have a good amount.. I'll post more pics when my computer is fixed. The outside of it has a thin but nice shell still. Oh and the spot where I see a fossil shell under its shell, was that a meal it consumed? I need to get me a saw now! Very cool to know....
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Post by Fossilman on Feb 15, 2013 12:46:22 GMT -5
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Post by n8hounder on Feb 16, 2013 7:34:54 GMT -5
Woh! You weren't kidding those are cool , damn now I want to go find more I only got the one good one and the front bit of another that is pretty rough... I think fossils were what got me started hounding when I was a little boy I have always loved them. I've even tried to think of how to ensure that I become a fossil someday ..
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Post by gingerkid on Feb 17, 2013 7:02:33 GMT -5
Your baculites are pretty cool sliced and polished, fossilman! Do you display them for folks to drool over??  |
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Post by jamesp on Feb 17, 2013 10:27:27 GMT -5
Maybe he will answer to Droolmen gingerBRAT.What is a baculite?I will look it up.Those are wild.
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Post by Fossilman on Feb 17, 2013 10:36:00 GMT -5
Your baculites are pretty cool sliced and polished, fossilman! Do you display them for folks to drool over?? I sure do............All found in the Bearpaw Formation in Montana.... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baculites |
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Post by gingerkid on Feb 17, 2013 10:47:18 GMT -5
They are beautiful specimens, Fossildroolman. Thank you for sharing the link for more info on baculites. Maybe he will answer to Droolmen gingerBRAT.What is a baculite?I will look it up.Those are wild. Droolmen? ROFL, James!! ;D |
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Post by Fossilman on Feb 18, 2013 12:03:27 GMT -5
If you also notice on the slices,not one of them are the same inside and I have seen 1000's of baculites cut and all have a different surprise inside!
My Uncle had one that was yellow on the outside,with white sutures and hollowed inside with small crystals on the interior walls!
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Post by n8hounder on Mar 4, 2013 13:02:52 GMT -5
haha I'm a droolmen most times .. I wonder fossilman?If I got a side view of mine could you give a probability of braking if sawed.. The material seems pretty solid ,more so than the shale I found the shells and a few poorly fossilized wood chunks mixed in with the mother o peril right by it. It had came lose from somewhere close but I never figured where. |
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Post by Fossilman on Mar 4, 2013 14:15:27 GMT -5
If it looks like it would fracture,just add rock glue to the break on the baculite than slice it...I have a few I've done that to.....A few baculites are just mud with the outer formation of the fossil,you will tell when its cut,it will be just a dull muddy color!
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