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Whew! We made it. Now, for 2022...anticipating the Tucson Fossil Show, we're starting off with some 'found' fossils from around the world (from the back of shelves in the warehouse):
From the Nimravids, around 40 million years ago, to today's kitty cats, (see pic below), cats exert a particular fascination. We found some lurking in the depths of the warehouse, and we're pulling them out to offer to you.
These opalized seashells from Australia have undergone the peculiar mineralization process that makes them glow with mysterious colors in changing light.
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People forget that the giraffe is an antelope...and that antelopes are not all that related to deer. Here are a couple of fossils, from Europe and the U.S., from the Miocene and Pleistocene. So they have nothing whatever to do with each other.
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This is a particularly large Alaskan oosik, but well-priced due to the fact that there is some lumpy repair that went on at one end. Still, an impressive piece.
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Big beautiful black bear skulls and claws. Because of California's laws The Bone Room has never been able to off any type of bear material. Bone Room Texas on the other hand can!
Ron Cauble, founder of The Bone Room, was obsessed with inclusions in amber. At Fossil and Mineral Shows he would typically be found seated at an amber dealer's booth, a great pile of amber pieces before him, peering through a loupe at the world inside each piece.
Over the years, some of the pieces were sold to collectors and scientists (most notably, to George Poinar, recognized amber expert and author) - but Ron was always a better collector than salesman, and his collection grew to museum backroom proportions.
Finally we are getting a good start on cataloging and photographing his enormous collection of amber and copal, and offering this work of love and obsession to the public. We think Ron would approve.
Over the years, some of the pieces were sold to collectors and scientists (most notably, to George Poinar, recognized amber expert and author) - but Ron was always a better collector than salesman, and his collection grew to museum backroom proportions.
Finally we are getting a good start on cataloging and photographing his enormous collection of amber and copal, and offering this work of love and obsession to the public. We think Ron would approve.
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