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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[@MamlamboFossils]

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

[@jakemoeller7850]

Fun and exciting to find something tens of millions of years old 😃

[@Thorstein31]

It's a KZbin tradition to see you lug massive boulders for miles across various beaches! Hope it has good stuff in it!

[@MamlamboFossils]

😂 I have to keep the tradition going!

[@Fossil08]

Exciting find! That new beach looks like a goldmine for gargantuan concretions

[@patifagan6774]

Awesome

[@BabyBoomersDoomer]

I recognize that golden glow. Spring is coming!

[@MamlamboFossils]

It is!!

[@janerichman3100]

I could watch this all day, thank you 😊

[@BRODIEGILLETT]

This is gonna be awesome

[@microstorm]

The view on the drive back is stunning!

[@MamlamboFossils]

The mountains always look so nice with snow on them

[@gaius_enceladus]

Awesome find with that plesiosaur fossil! You seem to have a really good eye for spotting promising fossils!

[@allegg8804]

Thank you for showing us your beach hunt.

[@MamlamboFossils]

My pleasure!

[@garnettoll9317]

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]

That is quite hot!! Hope it gets cooler soon!

[@micktepolt6276]

right on !

[@alwoodsmodellingmayhem]

Nicely done as always my friend.👏👏

[@MamlamboFossils]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@nathanielrittenhouse9965]

You need a large pull behind wagon to pull one of the large concreations out. Would be an amazing prep

[@MamlamboFossils]

Access is the problem, big cliffs you have to clamber down!

[@TheOldladyB]

What a great find.

[@MamlamboFossils]

Thanks!

[@lyarnes]

Hello from Oregon!

[@MamlamboFossils]

Hi from New Zealand!

[@2flight]

I really enjoy your videos. Thank You!

[@MamlamboFossils]

Thanks for watching!

[@alignwithsarah]

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]

Thanks!! Worth it though!!

[@13Odrade]

I was expecting to see him carrying the first heavy one on his little chariot. Crazy enough he is ! ;o) Nice ribs !

[@davenelson413]

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]

I've seen that one! I think Ewan Fordyce wrote the paper on it - it must have been a huge task!

[@davenelson413]

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

[@vandelftcrafts2958]

that huge concretion with all the bones in there looks like a plesiosaur flipper to me. Worth a trip to get that definitely.

[@MamlamboFossils]

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]

@@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]

@@vandelftcrafts2958 I always aim to get it out in one piece,I'll have to talk to my local rugby club!

[@leslyeschoenhuth1107]

* Hope you can do more videos about your finds.. Wish there were a way to transport your huge finds..

[@RapiersSting]

awwwee seal pup!!! fluffy!!!

[@MamlamboFossils]

It looks so huggable!

[@RapiersSting]

omg yes!! with the little tiny ears and big doe eyes!!!@@MamlamboFossils

[@ssrattus]

Thanks for the video!

[@MamlamboFossils]

You're welcome!

[@a3skywarrior929]

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]

I'll go get then one day 😀

[@aserta]

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!

[@tonycole9620]

I love seeing the scenery in your b-roll. What a gorgeous country!

[@MamlamboFossils]

I always remind myself to look up now and again, it really is beautiful!

[@KrisPSouls9258]

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]

Thanks so much Kris! I hope I find a true dinosaur one day!

[@user-xv9bi3ne9m]

Thanks for another great fossil hunting adventure with a prep thrown in. Be blessed. My friend.

[@MamlamboFossils]

Thanks so much!!

[@josephcormier5974]

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]

Thanks for watching Joseph! I really appreciate your kind comments!

[@mariemoss2475]

I think if you were able to you would have come back with a lot more... another great video 👍😊

[@MamlamboFossils]

Thanks Marie!

[@minacadalso]

Awesome find! And thanks for showing those vertebrae at the end, super cool to see

[@MamlamboFossils]

My pleasure!!

[@ianstewartbrown5308]

Love anything from the age of the dinosaurs, may not be your most exciting find but I found it really cool, great video

[@MamlamboFossils]

Glad you enjoyed it!!

[@sueparras6028]

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]

I'm glad you're enjoying it!

[@gojirazillasaurus6341]

Great Find! I just came back to your channel. Awesome vids.

[@skp8738]

Always fascinating to watch the prep! Thank you for sharing!

[@MamlamboFossils]

Glad you enjoy it!

[@sandraanderson217]

Everything you find is exciting! Love the prepping videos! Thanks for sharing!

[@MamlamboFossils]

Thanks for watching!! Glad you enjoyed it Sandra!

[@lunarmodule7802]

I really enjoy your videos, and to me all your finds are exciting. Thanks for sharing!

[@MamlamboFossils]

Glad you like them!!

[@Casmael01]

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]

Thanks, I'll do as much as I can without giving away the location 😀

[@mysticmike9778]

Nice

[@MamlamboFossils]

Thanks!

[@ephemeraltrash6209]

At 7:30; Almost makes me think of a Daemonelix! It's not the same, obviously, but reminiscent.

[@sunlight3542]

Beautiful rib, and I’m super curious to see what’s in that weird concretion

[@MamlamboFossils]

Thanks!! I need to get into some more prepping, I've been a bit slack in that department!

[@lonl123]

Fantastic video as always! So envious your located where you can get such cool Fossils!

[@MamlamboFossils]

Thanks so much!!

[@fosiljawatimur]

Good stone good Fossils

[@MamlamboFossils]

Thanks!

[@trobinson9342]

7:30 cheese pizza rock LOL

[@MamlamboFossils]

It does look like some cheese!

[@favoriteanony7252]

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]

Yeah, it's a moa I 3d printed, here's the video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/m6C7XqSpiN6Gr5Y

[@andreb2019]

Man...how did you learn to get so good at the fossil prep. You make it look so easy....

[@MamlamboFossils]

Just practice!!

[@andreb2019]

@@MamlamboFossils well good on ya mate. You do a stellar job.

[@taravitti2544]

Lol, you need a bigger drone, so you can fly out those larger concretions!

[@MamlamboFossils]

That would be so awesome!

[@samg6238]

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]

I see the face!!

[@Whateverhasbeenmynameforyears]

7:30 I think it is trace of burrows.

[@MamlamboFossils]

It could be!

[@jordanmactier6317]

Love watching your fossil finding/prep videos. Wonder when your next give away is or if you sell any fossils ?

[@NewZealandRocksDownunder]

Amazing find, what is the purpose of the buffer in the acid?

[@MamlamboFossils]

It makes the bone less attractive to the acid so it attacks the rock rather

[@jamesbarisitz4794]

That shoreline is a yardsale of fossils. Those trumpet shaped ones looked like plants (?)

[@MamlamboFossils]

I don't think they were plants or any other fossils, they looked all rock

[@peterclegg2609]

It would be nice if someone invented an anti gravity device, big fossils no worries 😏

[@MamlamboFossils]

That would be so handy!

[@mariasunbury4788]

✨

[@Doxymeister]

👍

[@urenglishbestie]

So saftisfying💀💀💀

[@emk7132]

How did you kearn both the hunt and the clean-up?

[@MamlamboFossils]

Just some trial and error! I brought many rocks home that were just rocks 🤣

[@rymkervic123456]

Forever amazed how you can see something from nothing.

[@MamlamboFossils]

You just don't see the rocks I bring home with nothing in them 😂

[@apemancommeth8087]

Why do they form the same shape despite the fossils being vastly different is shape?

[@MamlamboFossils]

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.

[@user-ww5rq6lh1u]

So beautiful you are so cool

[@1224bobo]

how many drill bits would you go through during a prep?

[@MamlamboFossils]

Not even one, they are tungsten carbide

[@19popo87]

My mind Is cursed.

[@mattpollis3537]

🤓🪨

[@HB_cubing]

where is this beach

[@MamlamboFossils]

South Island!

[@HB_cubing]

where rufly in the south island@@MamlamboFossils

[@MamlamboFossils]

@HB_cubing email me and I'll send you some spots [e-mail]

[@barkingmouse8152]

Get a B-I-I-I-I-I-I-G handcart. :P

[@MamlamboFossils]

I have a big one but not that big!

[@barkingmouse8152]

Maybe......A boat...?

[@MrDuffy81]

LOCHNESS MUMMY

[@jackienelson5804]

Love your show but never get any answers LEMAY NELSON VANCOUVER WASHINGTON NORTH WEST PACIFIC COAST USA