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This amber came in a lot from Latvia. I noticed two pieces of something, fairly large in a 1.5cm x 0.5 cm piece of amber. My pics are a bit out of focus but you can see a pigment pattern of something like skin, scale or perhaps it is a leaf with a brown/pink and black pattern on it. I think it is the skin or scale of some type of creature. What do you think? Can anyone help? Jimmy
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I’m absolutely stumped on this one. I can’t tell if it’s just an unfished product or what. Help please.
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Any idea? Few other finds
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Here is a Hoplopteryx lewesiensis fish scale found in the lower chalk at the end of Yaverland Beach Isle of Wight. (1 mile walk from entrance point), I only saw a tiny bit of black on the surface, so that went into my rucksack and after a lot of careful prep this complete scale came out. Well worth the slog to get there.
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I often bulk sample a road cut at Lake Bridgeport, Texas after which I screen and wash the material and check it out at my leisure. This is a Jasper Creek Shale outcrop, which is Pennsylvanian. I have sometimes run across some small, broken pieces that tend to have a characteristic dual-hole pattern, but until now didn't pursue them. After finding a clump of them, pictures attached, it got me to checking them out, I have since found that they also have a characteristic shape, which you will find in a group picture. The dual-hole pattern can often be seen on both the front and the back as seen in the pictures named "scale front" and "scale back." Some still have a little detail showing bumps close to the edge. They look like fish scales to me, so I have named all of the pictures as scales. But, I could certainly be wrong. Any ideas? The scale hash marks are 1mm. Thanks for any help.
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From the album: Carbondale, PA
Detail from previous image Carbondale, PA Lewellyn Formation Pennsylvanian period 299-323 myo -
From the album: Carbondale, PA
Carbondale, PA Lewellyn Formation Pennsylvanian period 299-323 myo -
From the album: Carbondale, PA
Carbondale, PA Lewellyn Formation Pennsylvanian period 299-323 myo -
From the album: Carbondale, PA
Syringodendron sp. (Sigillaria family) Carbondale, PA Lewellyn Formation Pennsylvanian period -
From the album: Carbondale, PA
Finely parallel-veined leaves of a Cordaites plant alongside the branch or root of a giant Lycopod (aka scale tree or club moss). The latter could grow up to 50 m high! found in Carbondale, PA Lewellyn Formation Pennsylvanian (Upper Carboniferous) period 299-323 myo -
Scales of a gar.
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Scale of a fish.
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Scale of a fish.
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Scale of a fish.
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I started sieving, sorting and looking at some of the macro material I collected my last trip and found this little unknown. The specimen is cretaceous albian in age from a marine environment and collected from the toolebuc formation in western Queensland Australia as usual for me. The grid in the background is 1mm so the specimen is 2mm x 2mm and about 1/2 mm thick at the widest. Thanks in advance for any input. Mike D'Arcy
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From the album: Fish Fossils
Obaichthys africanus Scale of a gar. Location: Taouz, Kem Kem beds, Morocco Age: Cenomanian, Late Cretaceous© © Olof Moleman
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Merritt Island Matrix (Pleistocene) - Umm...Scute...Inverted Alien nipple...I have no clue
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I don't even know what to say to describe this one. The only think I could think of is come kind of scute/scale.
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From the album: Merritt Island Microfossil Matrix (Pleistocene)
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From the album: Fish Fossils
Dentilepisosteus kemkemensis Grande, 2010 Scales of a gar. Location: Kem Kem beds, Morocco Age: Cenomanian, Late Cretaceous© © Olof Moleman
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Hi everyone, There are a few times, I found this funny thing on the beach of carnon, mediterranean coast. I do not think it is plastic, it's rather thick pearl effect ... If anyone knows what it could be, it's will be super! Thank you in advance!
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Hi, as a beginner this is a great resource to receive IDs on stuff I would never be able to figure out on my own. The first is a scale of some sort, about an inch long, half inch wide with a notched end, and an enameled middle rising to a slight point near the notched end. The second (have two very similar) is about an inch wide with points on either side, 0.3 inch long with a plate of six long teeth (?) on each side; the opposite side has two big depressions and the leading edge between the points has fine scales (or teeth?) The third (have three, one worn away to a nub) is wedge shaped with a blunt point in front(?), half inch long, less than an inch wide. The top(?) is roughly triangular with a medial crease, the sides flare up in the back. The bottom has a medial ridge, depressions on either side, and thickening to the sides and on either side of the front point. There are four holes/channels visible from the back, and these merge into one opening on the side. There is no enamel, looks like fine bone. The three samples were collected at three different places near the Rappahannock river. The last is the most difficult to describe. From the bottom it looks like a small pecan (an inch long) with one end more pointed than the other; there are hints of black bumps on the sides. The blunt end is flattened on top with small ridges on either side. Two enameled ridges arise together in the middle then join into a single notched ridge which continues to the point. It must be a piece of something else but I don't recognize anything else like it. My cell phone pictures are not great but I appreciate your ideas as to their IDs!
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Looks like a fish scale...is it? My wife Nan found this Devonian fossil among our trilobite finds (Central NY) - and she asked me to post this to see if anyone can confirm if this is a fish scale or fish part? It looks like fish scales we've found in the past but it's indistinct - any opinions?
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I have two more examples from Big Brook. They could be nothing, but I'm not sure. Possible fish scale Croc/turtle scute? Thanks again for looking. Wayne
