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From the album: Lee Creek
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From the album: Lee Creek
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Hi y'all, I found this strange micro Permian tooth. I haven't seen anything like it. It's from Waurika, OK (Wellington Fm.?, Early Permian), has textured enamel, has a broad crown but is VERY thin/compressed, and shows slight crenelations/serrations? on the edges. It's about 2 mm in height. It's not a fish tooth or scale (otherwise there'd be enameloid on only one side were it a scale), not Orthacanthid "shark" (textured enamel, broad, compressed crown), not amphibian (not conical or labyrinthodont), which leaves reptile or synapsid. Any help to narrow it down further would be very much appreciated. @jdp@dinodigger Side profile: Basal view:
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From the album: Permian
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What Is The Smallest Arcticulated Fossil Ever Found?
Mioplosus_Lover24 posted a topic in Micro-paleontology
I was wondering if anyone ever made the claim to have the smallest articulated fossil, because I think I've got a decent shot! These are the smallest fish I've found so far. There are two Mioplosus labracoides and one Priscacara sp.
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I recently got started sculpting digitally, and with this new hammer I am now excitedly looking for nails! My thoughts turned to some of my microfossils, specifically some of my really old shark teeth. Microfossils in general are difficult to appreciate without a microscope, so I figured it would be fun to sculpt a few. My first subject is a Devonian Phoebodont shark tooth that I thought looked neat enough. Besides being some of the oldest teeth I know of (380-390 Ma), they look very different from the teeth of modern sharks (except for those of the frilled shark). Most of the teeth are broken, but I luckily had enough fragments to get a good picture of what a complete tooth looked like. With these fossils as my reference I quickly squashed and shaped a chunk of virtual clay into a passable shark tooth: And thanks to the wonders of today's technology, I can actually share that model directly in an interactive manner: I didn't do so much work on the bottom since I intended to 3D print it. And after warming up the printer and waiting for 3 hours... I was able to do all this in an evening. I'm hoping to do more possibly throughout the Summer as my time and inspiration allow. There are a couple of other sharks I had in mind, but I'm open to crowd-sourcing suggestions/requests.
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From the album: Aguja Formation
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From the album: Aguja Formation
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From the album: Aguja Formation
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Made a trip to the upper Pennsylvanian Bond formation today. I hadn't been to this locality in probably three years or so. I don't recommend hunting in 90+ degrees Fahrenheit. Ameura I made some slices from the top of the cut which is filled with microfossils, foraminifera. These aren't the best pics ,however, just using my cellphone so clarity isn't that great; there are some interesting little organisms hiding in there.. 40x magnification 100x Thanks for reading.
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From the album: Post Oak Creek
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From the album: Post Oak Creek
To find denticles, you need to go to the finest grain size. This beautiful one could be shark, but I'm not certain.-
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From the album: Post Oak Creek
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From the album: Post Oak Creek
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From the album: Post Oak Creek
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From the album: Post Oak Creek
Rhinobatos teeth are probably the smallest teeth you can hope to find here - they are about as small as grains of sand.-
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What hand tools are used to separate Sub MM (even UM) fossils....
OregonFossil posted a topic in Micro-paleontology
So how do you "capture the UM size fossils and place them on another slide"? I am thinking of micro fossils less than 1mm. I would like isolate and move to another slide specific specimens. Dental tools are way too big. Do you make your own out of extremly fine wire or what? Sources? -
Took a little trip to Lake Jacksboro spillway and concentrated on the microzone hoping to find some of the little goniatites and nautiloids. Only found a couple that were "big enough" to see , but once I went through my bag of matrix, I was happy to have found quite a few of the microfauna! A few I am not sure of the ID so any help is appreciated! All of these are 1/8 to 1/16 inch Goniatite Peritrochia sp. Nautiloid Gastrioceras listeri same as above, I think Goniatite Prouddenites bosei Goniatite Cardiella ganti Goniatite Pronorites sp. Not sure what this one is: Nor this one. A few other nice little finds I think this is a shark spine: A scaphopod Plagioglypta sp. a tiny whole Rostroconch (had only found half ones prior) and a Trilobite spine!
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From the album: Lee Creek
Rhincodon cf. typus Pungo River Fm., Aurora, NC, USA a minute tooth from the biggest fish in the sea - the whale shark. Being filter-feeders, their teeth serve no known function and are considered vestigial. -
From the album: Permian
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From the album: Permian
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From the album: Permian
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From the album: Permian
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From the album: Permian
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From the album: Permian
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