Ray completion

The ray project has finally reached completion!
It is so exciting to find such a specimen as a 50 to 55 million year old fossil even if it is broken and torn into pieces. With a little glue, paint and patience one can make a broken piece look fairly good. What was once broken is now one piece with two fracture lines restored, the torn away parts have been filled and painted. I will have to put the final seal on the entire piece.

It is hard to even imagine this ray swam around in a lake only forty miles from where I live. Fossil Lake provided a home for the world's best preserved fossil fish.