Snow-free until January 10, and then it clobbered us. More time spent indoors and thinking that it will take a while for this snow accumulation to melt and get the collecting season back into gear. So that leaves prep and postal formation. This is a return engagement with a bug I started a few months ago. It is a giant for the location (Penn Dixie) that measures over 45 mm from genal to folded over genal. What is not shown in this image is the folded over/under side that took a ridiculous number of hours. I also took the time to level and smooth the matrix -- something I am learning to get better at, and which also takes a lot of time and patience. A very lovely full prone Scabriscutellum furciferum from Morocco. The seller was also kind to add an unexpected brachiopod surprise to perk the package. My 100th trilobite species! Asaphellus fezouataensis from a really nice seller who also threw in a little enrolled phacopid. Still trying to relearn my old drawing skills that have been neglected for nearly 20 years, a pencil rendering of an Isotelus. A Greenops widderensis... And an Eldredgeops rana with all the crush/distortion flaws.
So, for now, that's about it. I'm somewhat running out of trilobites to prep, and only expecting one or two bugs in the mail. I really hope winter won't be too long! Comments are closed.
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