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From the album: Corals (Point 1).
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Hi guys! It's been a while since I've posted here but I wanted to share some of the things we found yesterday out at the beach I know that I have a lot of teeth & stingray parts, but I'm not sure about some of these other bones.. anyone able to make some IDs here? The non-fossil bones were discovered by my husband and he said he thinks they are from a dolphin. I'm interested in finding out info for the photo with 9 items, the brown thing in the center is about one inch for scale. Thanks!
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I have collected lots of coral from southwest South Dakota. I believe the majority is horn coral. Despite having a few publications and checking the web, I have several I'm not sure of. A lot of what I find looks agatized. I have attached a photo of what I am guessing is chaetetes coral? Would ove some input. If if someone can suggest a listing of Fossil coral, sponges and Bryozoans with detailed photos or identification, I'd appreciate it. I feel like I have an idea on most of it, just not 100%. Many Thanks!
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More from the new workshop - Eldredgeops multi w/coral
DevonianDigger posted a topic in Fossil Preparation
So, in my previous post, "Day One In The New Workshop", I had posted a pic of a plate that I had hoped would be an Eldredgeops rana mass mortality plate. I decided to do some work on it to see if there were any more than the two hiding in the matrix. Apparently the rest of the trilobites opted for the blue pill. Turns out there was just the two, one enrolled, one prone, and neither 100% complete. There was also a nice little piece of what would appear to be Streptelasma ungula coral. I have been asked several times to "blog" about my prep work as I go. In an attempt to abide, I am going to try and share as I go with this piece and others! So, after some initial prep, it looked a little better. Once I determined that these little fellas were not with friends, I used my Dremel engraver to rough out and shape the surrounding matrix. I did, at one point, accidentally pop the lentil-sized roller off of the matrix. Thankfully, I had the foresight to hold down the actual fossils with my thumb as I was working around them, thus denying him the opportunity to experience flight. In the above picture you can see that I started to smooth out the rough cuts surrounding them. I did this with my secret weapon, the tattoo machine with a 7RL needle. As you can see in the final picture from the day (above), I started to prep out the coral and continued to contour around the "bases" of the two bugs. You can also see that the roller has a squished head, and that there is a small piece missing from the right eye of the prone. (As I mentioned earlier, neither of the two were in perfect shape to begin with.) In my next post for this one, I will show the surrounding matrix contoured out and hopefully more detail on the buglets. This is proving to be a tricky prep as they are tiny! (See below) Next time, I will try to get more "step-by-step" pictures to walk through the entire process!.thumb.jpg.3a5910d0c47d9cf4dace0d92722833a2.jpg)
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Hello again! Surprsingly, there's a part 2 to our fossil hunting! This is just as much a surprises for us than for you. Yesterday we went to visit some beaches recommended by the reception. The first one we went to was Benagil. This beach is famous for its huge cliffs, and especially for a special cave only accessible by boat. Unfortunately there was no boat to take us, so we just rested on the beach. That's when I noticed that the cliffs were exactly like those that we saw at Oura (see previous post on the Formação dos Olhos de Ãgua), so I started to look for fossils. And of course, there were plenty! Unfortunately I still didn't have a hammer, as I didn't know we would go fossil hunting again, but I found another way to carve out the fossils from the cliffs. I took a piece of a big (modern) Pectens (scallop), which was shaped like a knife, and scratched around the fossils I saw to carve them out. I was surprised by the softness of the matrix around them: it easily went away with the "knife". As you can see in this picture, there were some recent landslides that occurred. No wonder there's a "Warning: Rock Falling!" sign!
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From the album: Delaware Fossils
Micrabacia hilgardi (side view) Late Cretaceous solitary coral Found 2016 Reedy Point (North Side) Spoils Pile MT Laurel Formation Delaware City, Delaware -
From the album: Delaware Fossils
Micrabacia hilgardi (view of attachment point) Late Cretaceous solitary coral Found 2016 Reedy Point (North Side) Spoils Pile MT Laurel Formation Delaware City, Delaware-
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I was going through my childhood collection and noticed some fossil corals and a porous rock got fuzzy. White stuff got on my hands when I handled them. Looking closer, I saw some tiny things reflecting light. They are maybe 0.1mm thick at most. The coral above has the biggest ones. The crystals are too small on the other ones for pictures. Here are the microscope photos: The crystals do not stick to the rocks well. They come off when I touch them or put them down. This is a chunk that fell off when a coral was put down for the photos: I am very curious what is happening. I have had these corals and rock for 10-20 years and never saw crystals on them. I have even used some of them in my fish tank, so if the crystals were formed before then, they should have all fallen off. But, it seems quite implausible that crystals could grow naturally in such a short time. My cupboard certainly doesn't have strange chemicals floating in the air :P, and many other corals and rocks stored in the same box were unaffected. I wonder what could have caused this?
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From the album: Calvert Cliffs Maryland 12/10/2016
I believe this is a form of coral but am not certain. I've recovered a few of these and the color is rust, but that's due to the absorption of the brackish water in the bay.
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