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Hello new member here. Houston area. So much Old fun if finding cool fossils in the mountains of New Mexico. I have many specimens that were packed up and moved along with me for years. I thought I lost them during recent move but I still have them. Not much around my area, at least that I know of. I have this little one that has bugged me for years. I will continue on fossil ID. Cant get past keywords so here is my little guy. Total size Jefferson nickel. What do I have? More pictures to come tomorrow? thanks , Philip
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Wanted to share an usual fossil I self collected a long time ago from the Triassic of New Jersey that I can't really find images of elsewhere on here. This a fossilized large Gall wasp nest, took me awhile to figure this one out initially. I've seen fossils insects but its a pleasant suprise to see a fossilized insect nest.
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Found another interesting specimen on this Nodule from Smokejacks quarry, measuring under a 1.0mm approximately 0.3mm in length, was quite difficult to photograph. First impression due to it’s almost wing like features I would suggest possible insect. As the concretions of sideritic ironstone and fine grained calcareous sandstone have also yielded numerous insect remains including non-angiospermous plants (ferns and cycads, and a Sequoia-type cone). The quarry cuts through a section of the Wealden group, specifically the Weald Clay. The clay was deposited in a lake and floodplain environment during the Barremian stage of the Cretaceous period about 129-128 million years ago.
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Amazing fossil discovery shows how insects got their wings Tim Barribeau, io9 News, August 2, 2012 http://io9.com/59310...got-their-wings Humble bug plugs gap in fossil record, PhysOrg, August 1, 2012, http://phys.org/news/2012-08-humble-bug-gap-fossil.html Palaeontology: An insect to fill the gap, Nature.com August 1, 2012 http://www.nature.co...ll/488034a.html The paper is; Garrouste, R. G. Clément, P. Nel, M. S. Engel, P. Grandcolas, C. D’Haese, L. Lagebro, J. Denayer, P. Gueriau, P. Lafaite, S. Olive, C. Prestianni, and A. Nel, 2012, A complete insect from the Late Devonian period. Nature. vol. 488, no. 7409, pp. 82-85. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal Yours, Paul H.