What a fantastic find and PREPARATION. The foot of this specimen seems to be more well preserved and articulated than the NHMUK PV OR 14212. The V finger is still intact important to understand his role in the cruropatagium. You have a little piece of the tail on the top. The scapulocoracoid is also a beautiful spec. This specimen needs to be publish absolutely. Cheers and congrats for your work.
Thank you, It's a stunning piece which has now be returned to it's collector, I believe the hope is that one day it can end up in a museum it can be studied in. We look forward to what ever the next steps in it's journey are and what, if studied and published, it may reveal.
it would depend on how far they had degraded. The laminations in the matrix can separate and often take fossil material with it and there is a point of no return. As it dries it shrinks, so if you dry it too quickly it can all crack and just fall apart. the matrix and mineralisation would dictate whether it would be retrievable. If it were retrievable it'd be a very long and careful process of stabilizing any matrix possible, adding a backing, like the fiberglass in this video and going from there. Using a lot of superglue to stabilize both the specimen and matrix if it's still in tact enough. If not it'd end up being an incredibly fiddly and possibly impossible Jurassic jigsaw puzzle
Awesome! Side note, is that a dinosaur vertebra in the background?
What a fantastic find and PREPARATION. The foot of this specimen seems to be more well preserved and articulated than the NHMUK PV OR 14212. The V finger is still intact important to understand his role in the cruropatagium. You have a little piece of the tail on the top. The scapulocoracoid is also a beautiful spec. This specimen needs to be publish absolutely. Cheers and congrats for your work.
Thank you, It's a stunning piece which has now be returned to it's collector, I believe the hope is that one day it can end up in a museum it can be studied in. We look forward to what ever the next steps in it's journey are and what, if studied and published, it may reveal.
That is really cool, what would happen if the specimens we're falling apart.
it would depend on how far they had degraded. The laminations in the matrix can separate and often take fossil material with it and there is a point of no return. As it dries it shrinks, so if you dry it too quickly it can all crack and just fall apart. the matrix and mineralisation would dictate whether it would be retrievable. If it were retrievable it'd be a very long and careful process of stabilizing any matrix possible, adding a backing, like the fiberglass in this video and going from there. Using a lot of superglue to stabilize both the specimen and matrix if it's still in tact enough. If not it'd end up being an incredibly fiddly and possibly impossible Jurassic jigsaw puzzle