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<p>[QUOTE="Sallent, post: 2622049, member: 76194"]Thanks to a tip from one of you guys about a dealer, I got back into the fossil game with a modest trilobite fossil. Now all I need to get next are a horn coral fossil, a brachiopod, and a carboniferous crinoid fossil, and maybe a Blastoid fossil, and I'll be well on my way to creating my own pre-triasic seabed fauna collection. I don't know why, but I've always been drawn to seabed fossils pre-250 million years ago, rather than dinosaur fossils, which is what most people like.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, only 1.2 inches long, but original media and no restoration (which is what matters to me). I hate fossils with restoration. I prefer the original imperfections in the freshly dug up fossils over stuff that has been "touched up" by a "restorer" to make it "look better."</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]575474[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]575476[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]575477[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]575478[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Sallent, post: 2622049, member: 76194"]Thanks to a tip from one of you guys about a dealer, I got back into the fossil game with a modest trilobite fossil. Now all I need to get next are a horn coral fossil, a brachiopod, and a carboniferous crinoid fossil, and maybe a Blastoid fossil, and I'll be well on my way to creating my own pre-triasic seabed fauna collection. I don't know why, but I've always been drawn to seabed fossils pre-250 million years ago, rather than dinosaur fossils, which is what most people like. Anyway, only 1.2 inches long, but original media and no restoration (which is what matters to me). I hate fossils with restoration. I prefer the original imperfections in the freshly dug up fossils over stuff that has been "touched up" by a "restorer" to make it "look better." [ATTACH=full]575474[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]575476[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]575477[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]575478[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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