Cheers buddy 😀 The T-Rex certainly chomps through matrix a lot better than the Dremel, but so far I think my best preps have still been with the Dremel 🦖💪🌀
The T-Rex makes a right proper growl like a T-Rex might, eh? 😂 Does the wax protect the fossil somewhat like a paraloid coating would? It definitely brings out the color. So this was a berrosiceras ammonite? I’m still terrible at identifying the different types. There are so many genera in the subclass Ammonoidea, with an estimated 10,000-20,000 species discovered. Ammonites evolved and changed so fast throughout their history. It’s like they couldn’t decide what worked best. Haha. Kind of strange that Nautiloids are still around today, yet there seems to be far less fossil specimens of them found. I suppose perhaps it’s because they pretty much stuck to their satisfactory biological design and moved ahead, rather than branch out extensively looking for a better design. Anyway…don’t mind me. I can ramble for hours about silly things. Thanks for the video, good sir. And a very happy New Year to you and your family.
Thank you 🙏 I am absolutely terrible with remembering fossil names 🙄 The wax just gives a coating where paranoid soaks in and stabilises fossils. I have wondered if we have it wrong with ammonites. Have you seen the ram horn squid? It’s internal bone is the shape of a heteromorph ammonite 🧐 So I’m wondering if we have it all wrong about ammonites and they are not shells but internal bones like the rams horn squid and they we’re really gigantic squid 🤔
That is very interesting, sir. I never knew the ram’s horn squid existed. 🤔 I’ve been researching it, and the shell they have inside is definitely VERY similar in structure to ammonite and nautilus shells. Right down to the septum chambers and the siphuncle. It even uses it the same way living nautilus species do and ammonites were believed to do-for buoyancy. I only found two well-documented cases of actual body parts of ammonites being preserved in fossil evidence. One is a 3D scan of an ammonite fossil, showing some of the organs and tissues deep inside the living chamber. The other is a strange fossil of what is believed to be an ammonite entirely without its shell. Neither case, in my opinion, rules out your theory of them being more like the ram’s horn squid. The latter case has the bottom jaw and an eye, but neither cases have the full head or tentacles. Since it seems most of the organs of the squid are actually inside their shell in the same way. The outer body surrounding it seems mainly intended give it more control for swimming and perhaps protect the shell and organs more. I suppose the one doubt I would have is that if ammonites were like the ram’s horn squid, the beak should be more likely to be fossilized and found on occasion with ammonite fossils. Unless they hadn’t developed a beak. 🤷🏻♂️ It’s definitely interesting to consider. I’m a bit surprised there isn’t already scientific theories floating around theorizing the connection. Thanks for the thought provoking info! (And sorry again for how much I ramble.)
@@valiantwarrior4517 no worries at all about the ramble you have given me food for thought too 😜 Maybe there are no new theories because old theories don’t like to be questioned🤔 Maybe some ammonite were more like the rams horn and maybe some were more like the nautilus as I have heard that sometimes the flap coving the body chamber opening sometimes gets preserved and fossilised 🤔 Ammonites must have had a beak, but if you think it would have been attached to the soft part of the ammonite and probably fell out from the shell with the soft parts of the ammonite after death 🤔
love the suspense on this one , the T REX looks a beast compared to a Dremel nice work on your first go it looks great ⛏💪
Cheers buddy 😀
The T-Rex certainly chomps through matrix a lot better than the Dremel, but so far I think my best preps have still been with the Dremel 🦖💪🌀
The old tooth brush bringing it up well
Thank you 🙏
Amazing what a bit of beeswax does 💪🐝
Nanny would be proud of you my boy. Happy New Year 😚
Thank you mumma 🥰
Happy new year 🥳🌀🦖⚒️🦞🍾
nice job.. happy new years day x
Thank you 🙏
Happy new year 🥳
Awsome mate
Cheers buddy 😀
You have missed one of my videos, there is a surprise waiting for you 💪😜
Nice job on that Hildi mate .👍👍
Cheers mate 💪😀 need to find a good one now 😜
Happy new year 🎊🎉
Thank you 🙏
Happy new year 🥳
The T-Rex makes a right proper growl like a T-Rex might, eh? 😂 Does the wax protect the fossil somewhat like a paraloid coating would? It definitely brings out the color.
So this was a berrosiceras ammonite? I’m still terrible at identifying the different types. There are so many genera in the subclass Ammonoidea, with an estimated 10,000-20,000 species discovered. Ammonites evolved and changed so fast throughout their history. It’s like they couldn’t decide what worked best. Haha.
Kind of strange that Nautiloids are still around today, yet there seems to be far less fossil specimens of them found. I suppose perhaps it’s because they pretty much stuck to their satisfactory biological design and moved ahead, rather than branch out extensively looking for a better design.
Anyway…don’t mind me. I can ramble for hours about silly things. Thanks for the video, good sir. And a very happy New Year to you and your family.
Thank you 🙏 I am absolutely terrible with remembering fossil names 🙄
The wax just gives a coating where paranoid soaks in and stabilises fossils.
I have wondered if we have it wrong with ammonites.
Have you seen the ram horn squid?
It’s internal bone is the shape of a heteromorph ammonite 🧐
So I’m wondering if we have it all wrong about ammonites and they are not shells but internal bones like the rams horn squid and they we’re really gigantic squid 🤔
In Germany the trex is called the black pig 🤣🤣🤣
That is very interesting, sir. I never knew the ram’s horn squid existed. 🤔
I’ve been researching it, and the shell they have inside is definitely VERY similar in structure to ammonite and nautilus shells. Right down to the septum chambers and the siphuncle. It even uses it the same way living nautilus species do and ammonites were believed to do-for buoyancy.
I only found two well-documented cases of actual body parts of ammonites being preserved in fossil evidence. One is a 3D scan of an ammonite fossil, showing some of the organs and tissues deep inside the living chamber. The other is a strange fossil of what is believed to be an ammonite entirely without its shell. Neither case, in my opinion, rules out your theory of them being more like the ram’s horn squid. The latter case has the bottom jaw and an eye, but neither cases have the full head or tentacles. Since it seems most of the organs of the squid are actually inside their shell in the same way. The outer body surrounding it seems mainly intended give it more control for swimming and perhaps protect the shell and organs more.
I suppose the one doubt I would have is that if ammonites were like the ram’s horn squid, the beak should be more likely to be fossilized and found on occasion with ammonite fossils. Unless they hadn’t developed a beak. 🤷🏻♂️
It’s definitely interesting to consider. I’m a bit surprised there isn’t already scientific theories floating around theorizing the connection.
Thanks for the thought provoking info! (And sorry again for how much I ramble.)
@@valiantwarrior4517 no worries at all about the ramble you have given me food for thought too 😜
Maybe there are no new theories because old theories don’t like to be questioned🤔
Maybe some ammonite were more like the rams horn and maybe some were more like the nautilus as I have heard that sometimes the flap coving the body chamber opening sometimes gets preserved and fossilised 🤔
Ammonites must have had a beak, but if you think it would have been attached to the soft part of the ammonite and probably fell out from the shell with the soft parts of the ammonite after death 🤔