Absolute Echinoid Overload! Hunting a Private Quarry for Fantastic Fossils, Agatized Shells, & More!
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- Опубликовано: 31 май 2024
- In this one, we go on one amazing adventure with the Tampa Bay Fossil Club into an active quarry! The club is allowed into this quarry for three hours to dig in a normally inaccessible layer for a myriad of fantastic fossils! Echinoids everywhere you look, phenomenal dogtooth calcite, silicified dewgong bone, agatized shells, and so so much more are waiting to be found in this amazing Oligocene exposure! We found SO much amazing specimens! After our day at the quarry, Derek and I head over to another site for even more Miocene echinoids! Echinoids are among my favorite fossils to find, period. They are amazingly well preserved, and absolutely transform after some prepping time! Once we get back to the shop, we go through our finds and pick a large handful to prep! I hope you all enjoy this one, and I will have another one out soon!
I'd like to give a HUGE thank you to the Tampa Bay Fossil Club for allowing me to take part in this adventure! It was such a unique experience filled with so many great finds! This is a trip that the TBFC does regularly, so if you'd like to experience this dig for yourself, join the club and you too can join in on future excursions!
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This is an amazing spot for fossils! Thank you Tampa Bay Fossil Club for inviting Theo!
Seriously huge thank you to the Tampa Bay fossil club! That was such a unique experience getting into the quarry like that!
I truly appreciate you lovers of fossils. Thanks for bringing the Echinoids back to life. Thanks for sharing.
The polished echinode was absolutely beautiful. I think that agatized bone ends would be so amazing polished.
I look forward to every time you hook up with Derek TRM or any of the Florida Crew. It's a whole vibe for sure. And I've never seen an echinoid polished before!!!!
That was an amazing adventure with all the shells and Echinoids. Who would have thought polishing one would reveal so much detail! Great job Theo and as usual I always enjoy your adventures!
I enjoyed this episode a lot and am so very very grateful that you uploaded it.
I'm glad you are having fun and finding lots of goodies. The polished pieces are amazing. Good hunting! See you next time.
They are so much fun to work with! Definitely will be polishing some more! Thanks so much for watching!😄
Oh my😍 must have been so great to get to that place with Derek. Amazing finds😍❤️❤️👋🇫🇮
It was so much fun! Definitely a unique experience! Thanks so much for watching!😄
Oh wow! The echinoids are so cool! The whole haul is so awesome! Oh so pretty on the polish.
Love the matrix finds!
That was just the coolest! OMG! Echinoids are some of my all time favorite fossils! Those ones that you found are so amazingly beautiful! The details is so well preserved! And once you prepped them...they were just pristine! You have got to find a shizaster's one! They are so cool! The body shape and the markings and it's little butt are just way different than the rounded ones! But I guess they are much rarer than the other species. But how cool are they! And your matrix pieces were just awesome! The sea urchin spines in that one are just so cool! The fossil sea urchin meets more modern urchin! Totally cool! And that big dogtooth calcite display boulder is just phenomenal! The calcite just changes sizes around the rock but it never stops! Amazing❣️ The whole trip was amazing! And my favorite part was getting to see Derrick! What a great man and friend! And my favorite find is that matrix piece with the urchin spines! Too awesome! But every find was phenomenal❣️ Thanks Theo, Alexis, and Derrick❣️
What an amazing day! So many incredible finds! The prepping is so interesting - to see what is revealed and how you do it. I love the matrix pieces especially the one with the different shells in it.
They are such a joy to work with! That matrix is like chalk so they prep so willingly and quick, it's a very nice change from the fossils I'm used to😂 thanks so much for watching!
You two had quite the trip! Great finds!!!
Such cool stuff.
The polished echinoid is my favorite.
Old Disabled House Bound Dusty Rusty Rockhound here: Yo! Theo, Alexis, et. al... what a great trip! So many specimen quality rocks, crystals, and fossils... my head would be spining!
It was seriously so much fun! Absolutely could not believe how much amazing stuff was hiding around every corner! Thanks so much for watching!😄
Love all your finds! And the skill it takes to prep all of it! Love the echinoid on matrix....really stands out, the polished one, the shells...everything! So different than what is in Minnesota that's for sure 😊
Wow, Theo you found some beautiful echo noise incredible. I would love to find stuff like that. I’d like to take a vacation but I need somebody to housesit while I am gone two cats, two dogs, chickens and ducks that have to be watched while I’m away.😂😂 just go to find the right person to babysit the house then maybe I can take a vacation❤❤❤
Love it. Thank you.
Thank you for watching!😄
The bigger echinoids are Eupatagus and the smaller ones from the quarry I believe are Rhyncolampas. Amazing video Theo. Probably ones of favorites.
Those echinoids are fantastic! I have to ask though, how may cool calcite crystals do you have Theo?? lol!
Awesome spines don't see those very often. Enjoying your trip
This is a great video. cool stuff
Thanks for watching!😄
Fantastic! Thank you
Bardzo piękne! 👏👏👏👏Serdeczne pozdrowienia👍😘
Very interesting and cool to see new stuff. Will be interesting to see inside of them too. Not the same things as in your usual place.
Definitely not! We don't have echinoids like that back home for sure!😂 I love the echinoids so much, they are so much fun to prep! Thanks so much for watching!
The white echinoids you found on the spoil pile are Eocene in age.
That is correct! I totally meant to make a note about that in the edit and completely forgot🤦 not sure why I thought miocene
What amazing finds! Makes me want to go to Florida. Really enjoyed watching the prepping process, will you clean up the big specimen to see if there are more crystals underneath? Good to see Alexis and Derek the Rockmaster! Thanks Theo very cool adventure!
Most excellent
Cool 😊
Ech yeah! 😆
You have a great touch. I am amazed they can be polished. Have you ever cut one open to look for Chrystal’s? I hope Derrick is coming to Montana. Thanks.
Fyi, that was not a mantis, it was a walking stick.
Nope, definitely a mantis, likely thesprotia graminis, American grass mantis. I thought it was a walking stick when I saw it which is why I got my camera out but it was definitely a mantis. It had the typical mantid forelimbs and huge compound eyes. Very cool though! Definitely different from the mantis I'm used to seeing!
Walking stick. Not mantis.
Nope, definitely mantis, thought it was a walking stick until I got up close on it, it was a mantis pretending to be a walking stick😂 likely thesprotia graminis(grass-like mantis), they are waaaaay longer and skinnier than the mantis I'm used to seeing, which is why I initially thought stick insect, they have a tiny little head on an extremely long body
@TheoKellison I'll have to watch video again. Used to see those thick in ark and okla. We thought part of walk stick family. Also have the ones that literally look like twig in Pennsylvania. They get big, up to 5 in. long.
@@user-hz2xl4co9uoh I totally thought it was a walking stick when I first saw it! I've only ever seen one before in the wild so I was excited!😂 but on closer inspection it had the typical mantid forelimbs and huge compound eyes. Still very cool, but I was hoping for a walking stick to be honest 🤣
I just picked up some Keokuk Iowa geodes. PM me if you would like a couple