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Hello everybody ! I bought these two pieces of amber on the internet. Is it real amber ?
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Symbiosis between Cretaceous dinosaurs and feather-feeding beetles
lormouth posted a topic in Fossil News
Here the link of an interesting article about interaction between dinosaurs and insects found inside amber from spain, enjoy : https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2217872120
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Burmite Inclusion: Very Unusual Fibers within Insect Head
Biotalker posted a topic in General Fossil Discussion
There are a lot of unusual and unidentifiable objects in burmite that I have seen over the years. This is clearly an insect head, with eyes and jaws clearly visible, but through the transparent exoskeleton is this wild brown fibrous design. Is it due to some head structures like muscles or some weird random occurrence. Without considerable research, I don't know. Do you have any ideas?
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Sorry for the bad pictures, I’m not sure what this amber would be called but it’s 100 million years old so what could these be? Snails? Seeds?
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This amber was advertised as “Hymenoptera wasp bee Burmite Myanmar Burmese Amber insect fossil dinosaur age “. I took the image, using a microscope. I have two question please. IMO the skin looks kind of strange. Why? Something appears to be growing from this wasp back. Could it be a parasitic fungus? Thanks!
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This is my fossil collection. the first image Please understand that the number is small. 2nd image theropod claw morocco 3rd image spinosaurus claw! morocco （The top is fake. The bottom is real.） 4th image the bones of an animal's finger 5th image raptor bone 6th image mammoth body hair 7th image mantis amber! 8th image Scarabaeoidea amber
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Hi! I found this a few years ago and due to the texture snd shapes, I believe it is a fossil but not certain. I asked an archeologist but he thought just a rock that formed in cracks of other rocks. That did not ring true to me with all the shapes plus he was not a paleontologist. However, I’ve looked at many images of fossils and cannot find anything similar. Anyone else? Atttached photos from every angle. Any information would be greatly appreciated!
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Hey all, here's the latest 99-myo addition to my amber collection. Not sure I've seen too many other scorpions as large or well-posed as this beefy fellow; he's a little over an inch long not including the pincers/arms. It's a thin piece so the often foggy clarity of Burmese amber is luckily avoided here with little oxidation.
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I was working on sorting through large group of amber I recently acquired, and this one struck me as interesting. I think I have seen this insect before, but having a hard time placing it. Raptorial legs, and an interesting snout/mouth piece. Any ideas?
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Is this stag beetle amber? barmite Myanmar product If anyone knows, please let me know. Thank you so much to everyone on the forums. Thank you.
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Carboniferous Arthropleura, plants, insect wing...!
oscarinelpiedras posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
That day was so exciting, because I found a really nice specimen of Mixoneura wagneri fern, a specie that isn't very commoon in the area. And the color is... I had the luck of found some Arthropleura armored pieces too (I have to clean and glue them) and a small part of a cockroach wing. Terrestrial fauna are very rare in Spain... I found It on a restored coal mine from upper Carboniferous, Stephanien B of NW Spain.
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Mischoptera bergidensis https://aragonitoazul.blogspot.com/p/fosiles-de-la-provincia-de-leon.html
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I spotted this on the outside of a concretion this week while sorting some buckets. It looks to me like it is possibly a wing, but it's pretty water worn so it could also just be a suggestively worn fern pinnule. I was hoping for a second opinion. @Nimravis @stats @deutscheben @RCFossils @Mark Kmiecik @flipper559 Thanks. A couple shots under a microscope.
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What insect is trapped in this amber? Please let the opinion of everyone. Cretaceous strata from Myanmar (about 99 million years ago) Size: 10x15mm I appreciate everyone's comments! thank you very much!
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Hi again everyone! I have a small fossil from a unit of lacustrine laminated silt from here in Saskatoon from the very late Pleistocene or early Holocene. The unit directly overlays a unit of till from the Wisconsinan glaciation. The unit contains carbonized plants stems, some of which are filled with wood boring beetle larva frass, diatoms, and burrows similar to Cruziana. In one of these hollowed-out burrows, I found this fossil, which is approximately 0.5 mm in length. It is composed of many extremely small carbonized plant fragments, all arranged horizontally from longest to shortest. I have no suggestions to explain how such an arrangement could occur through abiotic means, and the fossil bears a striking resemblance to caddisfly larva cases, many of which are composed of plant fragment arranged horizontally. I have attached some photos taken through a microscope lens on an iPhone. In hopes of accounting for the rough image quality, I have included numerous angles and degrees of brightness to help illuminate the arrangement of plant fragments. Any help confirming the caddisfly diagnosis or directing me from my incorrect guess to a correct one would be greatly appreciated!
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I recently aquired some amber inclusion specimens from Chiapas, Mexico. Im interested if there is any good litterature or website that is recommended for identifying the different species? All help is welcomed!
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Before I post a trip report, I was hoping to get a few IDs that are giving me some trouble. First up are possible insects. 1. Crane Fly?? 2. positive and negative. Bee?? 3. Has the termite feel!! 4. Another Crane Fly Now what appear to me to be plant oriented material. 5. I am torn between three leaf clover (but how would that end up in a lake), or a flower, or a seed pod cluster. 6. Total unknown 7. Finally this confusing specimen. Great symmetry so must be something!
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RED FLAG: fake insects and amphibians
glu posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
On our famous auction site just popped out some incredibly detailed fossil insects and amphibians. Although there are no info from the seller (who probably got them without being aware of what they are), those are unfortunately not real. The matrix is clearly a limestone from Solnhofen, easily recognisable by the floating crinods (Saccocoma) and by manganese dendrites. There are highly detailed insect on them that have never been found in Solnhofen (including a giant spider). Also the amphibian column is probably a fish spine. There are already some bids on them, but please be aware. Also let me know what do you think
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The last (for now) addition to my fossil collection consists of three amber pieces from Baltic and East Europe. They're dated to Eocene.
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Hi everyone! I've been trying to id the insect in this amber, but I'm having some trouble. The insect is 4 mm from the Cretaceous of Myanmar (Burmite, about 99 million years old). Any insight is greatly appreciated as always!
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From the album: Fossils from the Plattenkalke of the Altmühl Valley
Some dragonflies of the solnhofen limestone are fossilized in the shown way, the wings are near the body. This one is around 6 cm and seems to be Isophlebia. Bit colored, old collection -
I found this today while going through my collection of fossils from Kemmerer, WY. I don’t remember finding it, so it must have broken off another rock revealing this. It looks like an insect wing. Then, I looked at it under my microscope, and took these pictures. I need a second opinion. Is this an insect wing of some kind or just a piece of a fish scale? Its about 3mm long, by the way.
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We have a nice fliy in our collection, coming from lower cretaceous of Liaoning-Region / CN. Really from an old collection..., got it from a dealer who importet it around 1980. I am a bit unsure what it is..., think it might be a plecoptera, but.. Does someone has a name for it? thanks
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Dragonfly, purportedly originally from Jurassic Daohugou Biota, China. Preservation looks rough enough to maybe be real, but I don't know much about insects that aren't encased in amber.
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Hi everyone, I haven’t been on in a while, how is everyone? I am posting today in hopes of getting an ID. Backstory, a while ago, I was able to purchase a piece of “polished amber with insect,” on online. When it got here, I was skeptical about whether it was real amber or not. I did a LOT of testing. It passed the float test, the UV test, and I was able to calculate its specific gravity successfully. I am pretty sure it’s real amber. Today, I took the amber out and looked at the insect under my microscope. At 40x magnification I saw so much TINY detail, I now believe it is not fake at all. I doubt anyone can make details this tiny. Now the question, is it possible to ID this insect? I am currently looking for an old email that has the details on where it was found and what type of amber it is. Any help will be appreciated, Jared
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