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59 minutes ago, FossilNerd said:

 

Sure! Here is a close up.

 

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I flipped the zoom upside down, it made it easier for me to visualize the potential for the area in orange to be an inner layer or infill.

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I don't have quite the zoomability as @FossilNerd, but here is some Pennsylvanian Carboniferous material with the appearance of very termite-like bores and some type of infill material that is also permineralized. I have both pieces of this section of material that fit together with possible insect bore holes in each piece. 

 

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I need to try the above shot again. The lighting outside made it difficult to focus for my cellphone + macro lense attachment to stay focused. Ah, well, still better than my aging eyes can see in real life!

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I know some of you have awesome Lycopsid scars you could show and I would love to see them. Here is the best I have been able to find. Pennsylvanian.

 

I can't tell if there is a cordaite leave overlaying the pattern here..am guessing this would be normal texture due to decomposition before permineralization.

 

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@Kato thanks for adding my favourite plant fossils Lycopsid to my thread . You got to love them scale trees. The next specimens are among my favourite Christmas gifts , thanks again @caldigger . First up is for Kato a beautiful Lepidodendron sp. from Kentucky, really cool Dung Beetle Ball from Wyoming and a tooth from a Three Toad Horse peace river Florida. I have from my childhood like these little horse . 

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8 hours ago, Adam86cucv said:

 

A couple of ammonites from Carniol, France I received a while back from a fellow TFF member.

 

Very nice ammonites and photos. Thanks for adding them beauties to my thread.

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1 hour ago, Bobby Rico said:

First up is for Kato a beautiful Lepidodendron sp.

The pic might have been for Kato, but I enjoyed it as well. Very nice Bobby! :wub:

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8 minutes ago, FossilNerd said:

The pic might have been for Kato, but I enjoyed it as well. Very nice Bobby! :wub:

Thanks it is a really nice fossil.

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Here are some Composita brachiopods from Oglesby, Illinois (Pennsylvanian) that have been etched with acid allowing the brachidium (lophophore support structure) in the inside of the shell to be seen.

 

You can see the brachidium spiral down to the lateral margin of the commissure.  Here is a stacked image (Scale in mm):

 

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Here's another one with the brachidium visible on the right:

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6 hours ago, Peat Burns said:

brachiopods from Oglesby,

Memoirs of an invisible Branchiopod. :D very interesting photos thank you.

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Today we are going in close to the Upper and Late Cretaceous of Hell Creek and Two Medicine Formation. First up is this a real cool little bit of Dinosaurs eggshell from TMF this was given to me by a friend. Next is a tiny fragment of Herbivorous Hadrosaur mummified skin from Judas River, Montana . Now a beautiful Ceratopsian indent, Garfield Country.MT and finally Edmontosaurus toe bone from South Dekota.

Hope you all are enjoying my thread.

 

cheers Bobby

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On 23/01/2020 at 3:14 AM, Kato said:

I know some of you have awesome Lycopsid scars you could show and I would love to see them. Here is the best I have been able to find. Pennsylvanian.

Not sure if they are of the magnification you were looking for (your own images capture some beautiful detail), but perhaps you like these made these images a couple years ago.

 

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Sigillaria mamillaris Brongniart 1824

 

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Sigillaria davreuxii Brongniart 1836

 

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Sigillaria tesselata Brongniart 1828

 

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Sigillaria rugosa Brongniart 1836

 

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Sigillaria sp.

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Searching for green in the dark grey.

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24 minutes ago, paleoflor said:

Not sure if they are of the magnification you were looking for (your own images capture some beautiful detail), but perhaps you like these made these images a couple years ago.

Wow spot on what I was looking for. Thank you for your kind comment too. I am loving the plant appreciation society . Plant material does photograph well. I also like your photos format . 
 

thanks again and feel free to add more.

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On 1/24/2020 at 8:14 AM, paleoflor said:

 

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Sigillaria mamillaris Brongniart 1824

 

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Sigillaria davreuxii Brongniart 1836

 

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Sigillaria tesselata Brongniart 1828

 

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Sigillaria rugosa Brongniart 1836

 

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Sigillaria sp.

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On 1/18/2020 at 7:51 AM, Bobby Rico said:

I was wondering have any more of you got crystals growing inside a fossil ? If you have please post here with some nice Marco images. 

 

Here you go, Bobby - a Treptoceras crebriseptum orthoconic nautiloid with some crystals growing inside of it from Etobicoke Creek here in MIssissauga, Ontario, Canada (Georgian Bay Formation, Upper Ordovician) - enjoy!

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I know that Troodon is no longer the name used, but I have had these two teeth since it was and I do not recall the new name.

 

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Here is a partial skull of the Oligocene White River Badlands rabbit Palaeolagus.

 

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Lower jaw teeth-

 

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Upper jaw teeth-

 

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1 hour ago, Nimravis said:

 

Here are some pics of a nice slice of Permian wood from Brazil- Psaronius braziliensis

 

Beautiful! :wub:

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Here is a solitary rugose coral covered in beekite. Sorry for the lack of scale! It is 4cm long and about 2cm wide at the calice.

 

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On 25/01/2020 at 1:52 PM, Monica said:

Treptoceras crebriseptum orthoconic nautiloid

Thanks Monica that an really interesting specimen and nice photo too. Thank so much for adding to my thread. 
 

cheers Bobby 

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