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Hello everyone! This one might be hard to identify with sub-par photos – even in person the microscope photos were unclear but you're all smarter than I am. It's about an inch long for scale. Story: I was looking through a clearly un-sorted bag of hundreds of small pieces of Dominican amber (my favorite SO COOL) and saw this tiny piece with what looked like a tiny lizard hand, even though it had three fingers instead of five (maybe they were separated in fossilization). There was no loupe available to check for skin patterns and bone fragments so I bit the bullet. It was cheap so I bought it so I could sleep soundly tonight. I'm thinking it's probably a botanical inclusion at best but wanted to see what you guys thought! Let's discuss. Thanks in advance everyone!
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How do these pieces of amber look?
Pterygotus posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
How do these pieces of amber look? The sphere is from Russia and the other one is Dominican blue amber. The sphere’s weight is 1817g
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Hi, I am wondering if someone could suggest an immersion fluid that would have similar refractive properties of Amber in order to get photos of inclusions. I am looking for a fluid that will not damage or degrade the amber piece and can be cleaned off when done. Thanks for looking. R~
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Hello together, I have been finding online offers of feathers in Burmite recently, some look rather like recent birds´, other look structurally different at least to the everyday feather you get, the later often called dinosaur feathers. Price range is enormous. Any advice on how to recognice the good ones? I wouldn´t expect to afford a nonavian dinosaur feather, but a cretacious Bird would be nice, if real. Thanks in advance, J
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This is probably a long shot, but can anyone possibly provide any information about this spider? It's in a piece of Baltic amber. The amber has been polished in a domed shape, so it's hard to get a decent photo, this is probably about as good as it gets.
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Need some bug experts here
DeepTimeIsotopes posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
I’ve been looking at some Amber to purchase. What do you guys think of this piece? They are claiming it is a mosquito in Myanmar amber and 100 Ma in age. I’ve never dealt with amber so this could be an interesting addition.
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Mind blown. Recent posts have been about opalised dino bones, and new beetles in amber. This fossil is an insect in opal! https://entomologytoday.org/2019/01/18/fossilized-insect-discovered-amber-opal/
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Burmese amber is around 99.6 mya. There are various other inclusions in this piece. Edit: According to Danilo Harms from the University of Hamburg, this is a juvenile Chernetidae member.
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I treated myself to a binocular microscope just before Christmas. Just showing off some amber inclusions with a little manipulation including stacking.
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Hello, i know it is not possible to melt amber just like that. I know amber is pressed and i think you can melt amber in an autoclave or maybe by mixing it. i Would like to make my own amber by melting little pieces of baltic amber so i can make art from it. Can anyone help me how to do this Andre
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From the album: Fossil Collection
Scorpion caught in amber. Note the hole - it was unfortunately intended to be a pendant. -
From the album: Fossil Collection
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450 fossilized millipedes found in 100-million-year-old amber Pensoft Publishers, December 19, 2018 https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/12/181219115600.htm Thomas Wesener, Leif Moritz. Checklist of the Myriapoda in Cretaceous Burmese amber and a correction of the Myriapoda identified by Zhang (2017). Check List, 2018; 14 (6): 1131 DOI: 10.15560/14.6.1131 https://checklist.pensoft.net/article/30320/ Yours, Paul H.
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https://phys.org/news/2018-12-scientists-fossilized-millipedes-million-year-old-amber.html
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Trilobite, Ammonite and Amber
Vallads posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
Hi, This is my first topic so, if i broke some forum rule or doing something wrong, please tell me, sorry. Also, english is not my native language, im trying to write correctly. Ok, im very very newbie in fossil subject but love science and decided to start my own collection. Well, i found this (pictures bellow). The owner received as a gift and has no extra information, just they came from a north america store's. Well, my main question is: this trilobite is real? What is that in her "head" (cephalon, right?) ? I mean, i know some cracks in fossils are signs of autenthicity but something like that? Maybe the original fossil is missing this part and the preparer tried to fix? Or it's normal? And.. its a phacops? (i know the picture is bad, not focused) How about this ammonite and amber? Are they real ? Thank you very much for any information !
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Here is an interesting article about the only 10 fossilized mushrooms that have been found. We should point this article out the next time (any day now) that someone shows us a picture of their fossilized mushroom. Of the 10 found, one is a compression/impression; the rest are amber inclusions. No 3D petrified mushrooms have ever been found. The hard part: remembering where to find the article when I need it. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/115m-year-old-mushroom-oldest-fossilized-fungus-180963634/ @Auspex @Kane @Fossildude19
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Hi guys, 3mm long in Baltic amber. Was wondering if this was a seed or a leaf? Best images I can do I'm afraid. @Amber Man
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http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201812050047.html
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Scale pattern Id: Cenomanian (cretaceous reptile skin) In Burmese amber.
Amber Fluid Neutral posted a topic in Fossil ID
I need help with this scale pattern. Snake or lizard? Cenomanian cretaceous.jpg.9dae5c8b231a8a9956e41a78f501325d.jpg)
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Hello! I found this a while back around Big Brook Park in Monmouth County, New Jersey (not a place you would expect to find amber) and was wondering if that is what I have here. Also, I don't see any reason amber couldn't be here but have never found any in this location, so IF it is, could we looking at possible contamination or do you think it originated here. As always, all help is greatly appreciated! -Frank
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Lizard tail in Cretaceous Burmese Amber Kachin State mines
Amber Fluid Neutral posted a topic in Fossil ID
Although lizards are prime material for fakers, i think this tail is authentic. It is an unusial cast fossil. Kind of like a ghost form. It seems that the tail became detached. Much like they do today. This is cenomanian age amber. From Myanmar kachin state..thumb.jpg.dd27c83303bd6933dd56b4d6e9614581.jpg)
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A LOVELY Cretaceous Dipluran and two Ticks in amber
Amber Man posted a topic in General Fossil Discussion
Here's a shrimp-like Cretaceous Dipluran with two Ticks. Gorgeous piece!
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I need help in identifying this. Is it a mushroom in Cretaceous burmese amber? Cenomanian burmite from machine state?
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20mm of Cretaceous Reptile skin in amber... Fabulous!
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