Ok , the rain has been pretty heavy ,on and off ,over the passed week. Yesterday turned on a beautiful day ,so i figured i would go back to the quarie to see what the rain had exposed.
As it turnes out , for me anyway, bright sunlight is not the ideal conditions.
Light cloud cover ,producing filtered light ,would be much better for this activity.
The 2 large pieces at the top of the picture were obviously the muddy bottom of whatever body of water it was, as both pieces are covered in little clams.
You can see that the fossils themselves have come out of their resting place as i cleaned the rocks
This next picture you can see a small clam imprint but above is possibly the imprint of a razorfish (ironicaly razorfish have been mentioned recently on another unrelated post)
I think the pic below is an imprint of a piece of wood (at first i thought it was petrified wood)but being so flat,and only a fragment of its original form , it too could have been a larger variety of razorfish
Finally the one below , is the hole from a pointy cone shell.i couldnt get a good photo ,but i can see the ridge lines inside
I know these are not perfect or ideal specimens but it is still quite a feeling to expose and find something that is as old as a dinosaur .
Not something we all do everyday.
