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Here is one of those fossils that would have been amazing if it had been found sooner. I found it washed up among the pebbles. It's a worn down partial ichthyosaur Sclerotic ring. The thin plates that made up the ichthyosaurs eye. While worn, I have cleaned it up and I am still happy to have such a piece among my fossil collection. Top of the skull The eye plates
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This is a partial skull of an ichthyosaur from Yunnan of China. There is a big circular part below the skull, is it a detached eye socket?
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From the album: Pawpaw Formation
Steorrosia aspera, Tarrant Co. Albian, Cretaceous Dec, 2022 -
Hello- I have no idea about fossils but always pick up things up when out on walks- found this at the weekend on a ploughed field in Cambridge. Picked it up as looked like an eye but no idea if thats likely! Be very grateful if any input and hope the photos are sufficient. Great to find this fascinating forum!
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I spent some time today examining this little Triarthrus specimen when I noticed what may be a preserved eye. This one was found in between pieces of shale, so the first 2 pictures are from one side while the last 2 are the other. I've seen other Triarthrus fossils that have eyes in the same place so I do think it may be one. Are trilobite eyes a common part of fossilization?
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I mentioned this here and have had it a long time. Tube with green target lens no markings. Possibly a surveyors instrument part. Green target that rotates. I coupled it to my phone and then did a grey scale image. Any ideas on maker or use?
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I know it’s probably a dumb thing to think but me and my wife can’t get over how much this looks like a human skull in every way. Been looking online just for some answer on how to identify if it is or isn’t. I found it in a river almost completely submerged in a nasty mud and green water that was in a calm of the river
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I'm curious what may have caused this burrow-like hole in dalmanitid eye? The eye popped off while I was prepping it availing a look inside. Microbes, worms, decay?
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First Trilobite, need help with order or genus.... Alas, it's from the Garbage Formation
SteveE posted a topic in Fossil ID
Not counting lits bits and piece, finally found my first trilobite. It goes to show that you can find fossils in unexpected places, too. I was waiting to meet a friend and was just kicking over rocks in a misc (man made) rubble heap on the edge of town. Then this fragile soft siltstone broke apart badly, right across this beauty. I have no idea what formation it's from, and since its a junk pile along an abandoned RR I can't say for sure that's even from the county (Hollidaysburg, Blair County, PA, USA). About all I can say is it failed the fizz test, and there is a lot of parallel coloration running perpindicular to the bedding plane. For the fossil, there is a mold and cast. and part of me sees parts of more than one animal. I'm all new to trilos though. I think the closeup is a trilo eye, and was struck by the repeating details along the.... eye ridge maybe? What ID features leap out at you? Any advice on removing more material? That flake with the eye in the closeup just looked like waste, and I pried it off with my fingernail only to be surprised! (You might say my eye popped) -
From the album: Marine reptiles and mammals
Sclerotic ring section of large unspecified ichthyosaur species, from a Somerset Jurassic site(aprx 205 mya)- 6 comments
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Hey my grandfather found decades ago,deep in a quarry where he did worked,a big fossil of an eye,i have never seen such thing before.Could somebody explain what i have?