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Micro Unknown From Florida


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On this dismal pre-winter day, I slipped downstairs and looked at a few handfuls of micro-matrix from Cookie Cutter Creek. Besides a half dozen tiny shark's teeth, I came across this unknown. I am not sure if it is even a fossil. But it is different than anything else I have seen while investigating this interesting matrix. Opinions are welcomed!!!! @digit 

 

Mike

 

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Hope I am wrong but it looks like modern contamination - a bit of a beetle exoskeleton 

 

Mike

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There is always a bit of modern contamination found in micro-matrix from this site. Beside the usual glass and plastic bits, I often find insect parts. Quite stunningly detailed and it usually takes a second or two to realize that that are not some new and unusual fossil. My initial thought was some fragment of a fish vertebra but the material looks chitinous and not cartilaginous so I'm probably in the bug camp. I often find interesting triangular shaped pieces that initially looked interesting till I found they were flexible with some pressure from the dental pick that I use like a shepherd's crook to move the micro-matrix around on the plate. These items turned out to be some blackened unopened plant flower buds or something similar. Flexible Fossils. :)

 

 

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-Ken

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Are modern insect parts "flexible" to some extent? Even though it is likely not to be a fossil, it has me curious what it belonged to. Any entomologists amongst us that could ID this?

 

 Mike

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3 hours ago, digit said:

I often find interesting triangular shaped pieces that initially looked interesting till I found they were flexible with some pressure from the dental pick that I use like a shepherd's crook to move the micro-matrix around on the plate. These items turned out to be some blackened unopened plant flower buds or something similar.

Wow, I can now totally relate to that experience since I have been searching thru some Peace River gravels.  Thanks so much, BTW.:tiphat:

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