Just not meant to be!

[TJE]

This Sea scorpion fossil...at over 2 feet long, shattered and flaked to pieces on extraction...
That's the way it goes sometimes. :/

 

[vpnavy]

Interesting photographs TJE. Thanks for sharing...

 

[piegrande]

I moderate several low traffic boards, and I suggest to posters that as a general rule, it's a bad idea to write about things you know nothing about.

Yet, here I am with a really dumb question because I know nothing about this topic.


Is it possible they sell some sort of a gell that one could gently touch to such delicate things, a dot at a time, sets up fast, and then holds its shape?

Or, maybe some sort of spray lacquer or something similar?

The reason I must admit this is probably a dumb question is because I have no real idea if anything like that exists. Maybe archeologists have something like that?

Of course, you may never find another one for all I know.

 

[RGINN]

Cool TJE. I see what you're suggestin big foot but sometimes in fossil hunting you have to split the shale holdin the fossil and a bad split ruins it. I don't know if that's the case here. If it was openly exposed it was already so degraded that some sort of fixative wouldn't have done much good. And if it was exposed pretty slick he spotted it.

 

[TJE]

Hi Piegrande, yes there is likely something could be used (akin to plaster that paleo's use)....but..no time...this is stone quarry work. So if I split the fossil out or cut and lift the stone layer....works 90% of the time.

 

[TJE]

Hi RGiNN, Yeah, that's exactly it. spotted this guy after using the loader forks to remove an upper layer...didn't see it till the stone moister dried abit.