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A few more of my recent photos of odds and ends, bits and bobs. Microscope Celestron photos of minis! All Cretaceous of Texas (except the trilos which are Pennsylvanian) Two trilo bits from Mineral Wells TX 1/4 inch Crab Claw Pagurus banderiensis 1 inch Ammonite unknown 1 inch Balanocidarid Spinie 1 Inch Three gastropods in cross section. I like how all three are slightly different: Phymosoma echionid with pyrite and small spine. 1 1/4 inch Coral Parasimilia: I inch Gastropod Cerithium bosquensis 3/4 Inch Oyster Illymatogyra with Pyrite 3/4 inch Ptychodus Shark tooth 1/2 inch Heteraster texana echinoid 1 inch: Bivalve Arca texana 1/2 inch Echinoid Spine 1/2 inch

Still having fun with my Microscope camera.....giving me something to do to keep my mind off the "future". . I am finally getting around to photographing my finds from England. So many tiny ammonites from the Jurassic Coast! And crinoids and belemnites and a tiny gastropod! Plus a few little worm tubes from inland. I can't believe it took me this long to get around to taking photos of the littles! All the ammonites are around 1/2 inch. Tiny Pyraatized gastropod 1/4 Inch Isocrinus Crinoid segments : 1/4 Inch Belemnites: One Inch Worm Tubes :

I am just having too much fun with my Celestron Microscope camera. While "sequestered" it's been a great thing to keep my mind off the uncertain future. At least fossils are certain! While i am finding some drawbacks to the machine (depth of field, it's a bit difficult to really do fine adjustments without overshooting and really it's only a 5 megapixel)...it's still allowing me to get better photos than I could otherwise I found a decent downloadable free program to overlay images to get better depth of field (Picolay...it's German but most of the command prompts are in English). It has worked nicely, but the images have to be SPOT ON in the same place in the pic for it to work. But it has worked well on the round echinoids. So here are my favorites of late. Cidarid Plate 1 inch: Hyposalenia phillipsae 1/4 inch (just realized I did this one before the photo stacking program...will have to reshoot it!) Loriolia (I love the color striping on this one) 1/2 Inch Echinoderm Madreporite 1/2 Inch Heteraster texana 3/4 Inch: Pygopyrian hancockensis 1 Inch Leptosalenia texana 1 inch Loriolia 3/4 inch Crab Claws Pagurus banderiensis all 1 Inch Ammonite Submatelliceras 1/2 inch Unknown Ammonite;1/4 inch Ammonite Mariella; I Inch Crinoid Isocrinus fragments 1/8 inch Gastropod Nerita 1/2 inch Gastropod Gyrodes 1 Inch Bivalve Ostrea carinata 1 Inch Coral Parasimilia 1/2 inch