OOPS!!! Not Fish. Just Dinosaur Eggs.

[davo]

Would anyone care to see some polished dino bone specimens? I have about 3 tons of bones I've collected over the years. I don't keep the brown or black bones normally encountered in museums. I keep gem grade bones.

Here's a sample. I cut this red jasper replaced bone into a stylized raptor claw.

Could you explain to me the difference between gem grade bones and the brown/black bones? And is the red jasper replaced bone that you stylized into a raptor claw basically mean that the rock you used replaced the actual bone of the rapter claw and you then cut it to make it look nice and shiney or...? Wish i knew a bit more about this area.

 

[Oddball]

Could you explain to me the difference between gem grade bones and the brown/black bones? And is the red jasper replaced bone that you stylized into a raptor claw basically mean that the rock you used replaced the actual bone of the rapter claw and you then cut it to make it look nice and shiney or...? Wish i knew a bit more about this area.

There is very little actual dinosaur 'bone' known worldwide. Fossilized bone is a mineral replacement of bone through the precipitation (water-borne) of mineral salts and sediments. The makeup of the surrounding geology determines the type of mineral replacement occurring in the fossilization process.

Here's a fragment of non-gem grade bone. Or, as we field-collectors call it; Leaverite bone -- when you find something like this, just leave 'er right where you found it.

 

[davo]

so why do you need to cut it? So basically the minerals replacing the bone are better at gem quality then.

 

[Oddball]

As with anything, it's all about aesthetics. A jewelry maker (and buyer) would prefer a bold color stone in a jewelry piece than a drab dark stone.

 

[sandtiger]

I agree. Dinosaurs are neither reptile, nor bird nor mammal; they're dinosaurs. Their anatomy and physiology are fundamentally different than all of the above.

I love dinos, too and could talk about them all day.

Dinosaurs were reptiles, so are birds in fact even if our current classification does not consider them to be.

 

[Tylervsmith]

nice fossils

 

[Aquaman_95]

Very cool fossils

 

[synapse989]

so when are you going to extract the DNA and build your own dinosaur?

really nice fossils.. congrats

 

[vicedretard]

oddball those must have cost you a fortune to get...nice fossils

 

[Onion01]

i am starting to think oddball is either bill gates or lives in the smithsonian stockroom