Plesiosaur fossil find and prep: looking for some dinosaur age fossils [prep included!]
I headed out to two areas, one Oligocene and one Cretaceous, to look for some new fossils. I had a great couple of days and found some good fossils including a large suspected Cretaceous fossil fish.
One of the fossils I found looked like a rib so I decided to do a quick prep on it using a few air scribes and vinegar.
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Thanks so much for joining me for this video! If you're looking for more fossil content, I have 93 videos over on patreon which you can watch for $4 - I won't mind if you watch them all in one month and then bail 😂 www.patreon.com/mamlambo
Fun and exciting to find something tens of millions of years old 😃
It's a KZread tradition to see you lug massive boulders for miles across various beaches! Hope it has good stuff in it!
@MamlamboFossils
10 ай бұрын
😂 I have to keep the tradition going!
Awesome
This is gonna be awesome
Exciting find! That new beach looks like a goldmine for gargantuan concretions
I recognize that golden glow. Spring is coming!
@MamlamboFossils
10 ай бұрын
It is!!
Thank you for showing us your beach hunt.
@MamlamboFossils
10 ай бұрын
My pleasure!
Awesome find with that plesiosaur fossil! You seem to have a really good eye for spotting promising fossils!
That was fun!! Thanks for taking us along on your adventure and the fossil prep! It is cooling off here from 108 yesterday to 95 today. We usually have mid 70's this time of year.
@MamlamboFossils
10 ай бұрын
That is quite hot!! Hope it gets cooler soon!
The view on the drive back is stunning!
@MamlamboFossils
10 ай бұрын
The mountains always look so nice with snow on them
right on !
I could watch this all day, thank you 😊
What a great find.
@MamlamboFossils
10 ай бұрын
Thanks!
You need a large pull behind wagon to pull one of the large concreations out. Would be an amazing prep
@MamlamboFossils
10 ай бұрын
Access is the problem, big cliffs you have to clamber down!
Nicely done as always my friend.👏👏
@MamlamboFossils
9 ай бұрын
Thank you! Cheers!
Hello from Oregon!
@MamlamboFossils
10 ай бұрын
Hi from New Zealand!
I really enjoy your videos. Thank You!
@MamlamboFossils
10 ай бұрын
Thanks for watching!
awwwee seal pup!!! fluffy!!!
@MamlamboFossils
10 ай бұрын
It looks so huggable!
@RapiersSting
10 ай бұрын
omg yes!! with the little tiny ears and big doe eyes!!!@@MamlamboFossils
Holy cow that had to have been a serious effort to get off the beach! Very cool (and exciting!) find in that first rock
@MamlamboFossils
10 ай бұрын
Thanks!! Worth it though!!
@13Odrade
10 ай бұрын
I was expecting to see him carrying the first heavy one on his little chariot. Crazy enough he is ! ;o) Nice ribs !
that huge concretion with all the bones in there looks like a plesiosaur flipper to me. Worth a trip to get that definitely.
@MamlamboFossils
10 ай бұрын
I thought the same thing! If it wasn't so big I would totally try and get it out! It's not going anywhere luckily!
@vandelftcrafts2958
10 ай бұрын
@@MamlamboFossils you could try to break it in two pieces and get those out separately. Or get your rugby team and do a team building event carrying that thing out 🤣
@MamlamboFossils
10 ай бұрын
@@vandelftcrafts2958 I always aim to get it out in one piece,I'll have to talk to my local rugby club!
* Hope you can do more videos about your finds.. Wish there were a way to transport your huge finds..
ohhhh very cool reminds me of the days so long ago when I was doing geology at Otago University around the time they found the plesiosaur skeleton at Shag Point. It's extraction from the rock was a mammoth task
@MamlamboFossils
10 ай бұрын
I've seen that one! I think Ewan Fordyce wrote the paper on it - it must have been a huge task!
@davenelson413
10 ай бұрын
ohh yes, Gosh, Ewan Fordyce is a name I havent heard for many years. I came across a YT video a month or so ago from the OU starring Dr Daphnee Lee (maybe professor now) who was doing a video on a field trip for fossils. Daphnee was one of my many lecturers at OU and I really enjoyed her teaching style. .... I look forward to watching through many more of your videos as time goes by. All my fossil collection ended up at the university geology dept. only my rocks and mineral collection came to Australia with me 23 years ago. I could waffle on for ages about my activities, but I will spare you hahaha take care, keep up the good work, cheers, Dave
I love seeing the scenery in your b-roll. What a gorgeous country!
@MamlamboFossils
10 ай бұрын
I always remind myself to look up now and again, it really is beautiful!
Thanks for the video!
@MamlamboFossils
10 ай бұрын
You're welcome!
Big thanks for taking us along! Very special bone...I would have been dragging the other two rocks 🪨 back ...definitely using a litter system. 🤙🍻🐝
@MamlamboFossils
10 ай бұрын
I'll go get then one day 😀
Nice
@MamlamboFossils
10 ай бұрын
Thanks!
Thanks for another great fossil hunting adventure with a prep thrown in. Be blessed. My friend.
@MamlamboFossils
10 ай бұрын
Thanks so much!!
That's a very nice rib bone cluster excellent find love to see the new places that you are able to hunt. Thank you for sharing this with us six stars brother
@MamlamboFossils
10 ай бұрын
Thanks for watching Joseph! I really appreciate your kind comments!
Awesome find! And thanks for showing those vertebrae at the end, super cool to see
@MamlamboFossils
10 ай бұрын
My pleasure!!
Great Find! I just came back to your channel. Awesome vids.
You could pick up those boulders using a yoke lever. Essentially a long piece of pipe with a bend in it, a wheel on the shorter part of the bend (something off a go-kart will do) and on the other (longer) end a Y shaped yoke with long handle bars that reach past your shoulders down in the position where you have the greatest control over the verticality of this contraption. Near the crook of this bend, a piece of metal would be welded perpendicularly to give tie points for a strap weaved basket in which the rock can sit. Safety belts in cars, even junk ones from a pull-apart are very stout, and all you'd need to make a basket of sufficient size is a 10 belts. Not my idea, saw a similar thing made out of wood some years ago. Instead of a wheel the wood would bend again and be joined to a sled with a metal pin. I think this is 1600's tech, but i might be wrong on the date. People were ingenious back then, even without a horse, this would allow the farmer to pull anything but the biggest boulders out of their field. That said, amazing find and super pre work!
Always fascinating to watch the prep! Thank you for sharing!
@MamlamboFossils
10 ай бұрын
Glad you enjoy it!
Everything you find is exciting! Love the prepping videos! Thanks for sharing!
@MamlamboFossils
10 ай бұрын
Thanks for watching!! Glad you enjoyed it Sandra!
Love anything from the age of the dinosaurs, may not be your most exciting find but I found it really cool, great video
@MamlamboFossils
10 ай бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it!!
That would be so exciting going through all those rocks looking for fossils. Im from Indiana in the Us and the museum here has had some new un named dinosaurs. I always thought it was crazyl being one of the first people in the world to see the new Dinosaurs and watch as they prep the bones. Anyways awesome finds as always bud. You have a good one im always looking forward to your next videos.
@MamlamboFossils
10 ай бұрын
Thanks so much Kris! I hope I find a true dinosaur one day!
I think if you were able to you would have come back with a lot more... another great video 👍😊
@MamlamboFossils
10 ай бұрын
Thanks Marie!
just randomly stumbled upon this video - first of yours I've seen! Really nice and relaxing to watch. I'd recommend putting in a bit of footage showing the scenery around where you are as you go through the video, to give the audience a bit of context. Could also add to the chill vibe. Peace x
@MamlamboFossils
10 ай бұрын
Thanks, I'll do as much as I can without giving away the location 😀
I really enjoy your videos, and to me all your finds are exciting. Thanks for sharing!
@MamlamboFossils
10 ай бұрын
Glad you like them!!
At 7:30; Almost makes me think of a Daemonelix! It's not the same, obviously, but reminiscent.
Beautiful rib, and I’m super curious to see what’s in that weird concretion
@MamlamboFossils
10 ай бұрын
Thanks!! I need to get into some more prepping, I've been a bit slack in that department!
Love watching your videos! You take so much time and care with your fossils, unlike those channels where the guys just bash them with hammers and hope for the best. LoL. 👍💯✌🇨🇦
@MamlamboFossils
10 ай бұрын
I'm glad you're enjoying it!
Fantastic video as always! So envious your located where you can get such cool Fossils!
@MamlamboFossils
10 ай бұрын
Thanks so much!!
Good stone good Fossils
@MamlamboFossils
10 ай бұрын
Thanks!
7:30 cheese pizza rock LOL
@MamlamboFossils
10 ай бұрын
It does look like some cheese!
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In love with your videos ❤ I'd love to find mosasaur or plesiosaur. The best I get are sharkteeth, which are always great to find, and bits of petrified turtle bone (unidentifiable pieces, but we can't keep them, unfortunately). I'm curious. Is that a moa replica behind you in the last shot?
@MamlamboFossils
10 ай бұрын
Yeah, it's a moa I 3d printed, here's the video: kzread.info/dash/bejne/l6OMj9Osg9y5qZc.html
Man...how did you learn to get so good at the fossil prep. You make it look so easy....
@MamlamboFossils
10 ай бұрын
Just practice!!
@andreb2019
10 ай бұрын
@@MamlamboFossils well good on ya mate. You do a stellar job.
Love watching your fossil finding/prep videos. Wonder when your next give away is or if you sell any fossils ?
Lol, you need a bigger drone, so you can fly out those larger concretions!
@MamlamboFossils
6 ай бұрын
That would be so awesome!
That shoreline is a yardsale of fossils. Those trumpet shaped ones looked like plants (?)
@MamlamboFossils
10 ай бұрын
I don't think they were plants or any other fossils, they looked all rock
Amazing find, what is the purpose of the buffer in the acid?
@MamlamboFossils
10 ай бұрын
It makes the bone less attractive to the acid so it attacks the rock rather
2:15 to the left of the bone rock, I know it's just a rock but I see the face of a turtle skull
@MamlamboFossils
10 ай бұрын
I see the face!!
7:30 I think it is trace of burrows.
@MamlamboFossils
10 ай бұрын
It could be!
So saftisfying💀💀💀
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It would be nice if someone invented an anti gravity device, big fossils no worries 😏
@MamlamboFossils
9 ай бұрын
That would be so handy!
How did you kearn both the hunt and the clean-up?
@MamlamboFossils
10 ай бұрын
Just some trial and error! I brought many rocks home that were just rocks 🤣
So beautiful you are so cool
how many drill bits would you go through during a prep?
@MamlamboFossils
7 ай бұрын
Not even one, they are tungsten carbide
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My mind Is cursed.
Why do they form the same shape despite the fossils being vastly different is shape?
@MamlamboFossils
10 ай бұрын
I think they start off roundish just by the shape of how the concretion forms, from a central point outwards. They then get further rounded by the waves rolling them around on the beach.
Forever amazed how you can see something from nothing.
@MamlamboFossils
9 ай бұрын
You just don't see the rocks I bring home with nothing in them 😂
where is this beach
@MamlamboFossils
10 ай бұрын
South Island!
@HB_cubing
10 ай бұрын
where rufly in the south island@@MamlamboFossils
@MamlamboFossils
10 ай бұрын
@HB_cubing email me and I'll send you some spots mamlambofossils@gmail.com
Get a B-I-I-I-I-I-I-G handcart. :P
@MamlamboFossils
10 ай бұрын
I have a big one but not that big!
@barkingmouse8152
10 ай бұрын
Maybe......A boat...?
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