Tidgy's Dad Posted February 10, 2020 Share Posted February 10, 2020 Great photos, Bobby. Very pretty. 1 Life's Good! Tortoise Friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Rico Posted February 10, 2020 Author Share Posted February 10, 2020 2 hours ago, Tidgy's Dad said: Great photos, Bobby. Very pretty. Thanks Adam . I was quite astonished by them I did not realise or this colour was fossilised with in the petrified wood. They remind me of arial landscape photos too. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tidgy's Dad Posted February 10, 2020 Share Posted February 10, 2020 Cornulites minor, Cincinnatian, Upper Ordovician, Lawrenceburg, Indiana. 3 Life's Good! Tortoise Friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Rico Posted February 10, 2020 Author Share Posted February 10, 2020 4 minutes ago, Tidgy's Dad said: Cornulites minor, Cincinnatian Wow again amazing colours . These images are exactly why I started this thread, beautiful. Great photos 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Rico Posted February 11, 2020 Author Share Posted February 11, 2020 PEA CRAB FOSSIL PINNIXA - CALIFORNIA 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huntonia Posted February 11, 2020 Share Posted February 11, 2020 Very cool Bobby! A really nice crab too! I've been wanting to get a pea crab or two for a while but I can never find any that crisp and defined. Really a beautiful little crustacean 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Misha Posted February 11, 2020 Share Posted February 11, 2020 @Kasia recently sent me some fossil ostracods from the silurian of Poland. I have been working the limestone they are in to see what is inside. Here's what I have found so far: 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Rico Posted February 11, 2020 Author Share Posted February 11, 2020 6 hours ago, Huntonia said: Very cool Bobby! A really nice crab too! I've been wanting to get a pea crab or two for a while but I can never find any that crisp and defined. Really a beautiful little crustacean Thanks this one is particularly nice I think. Thank you. Bobby Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tidgy's Dad Posted February 11, 2020 Share Posted February 11, 2020 1 hour ago, Norki said: Not all macro shots, but I thought you might all appreciate these low-light, relatively long exposure photos of some nacreous ammonites. These are sort of cheating - they don't look quite like this all the time, but I think that low light shots are the best way to capture the play of colour that can't normally be captured in ordinary photographs. All examples are placenticeras meeki, Bearpaw formation, SK, Canada. Same genus/formation that most ammolite comes from. Beautiful. Life's Good! Tortoise Friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Rico Posted February 11, 2020 Author Share Posted February 11, 2020 20 hours ago, Misha said: ostracods from the silurian of Poland Very nice and from this month’s monarchy. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Rico Posted February 11, 2020 Author Share Posted February 11, 2020 29 minutes ago, Norki said: Not all macro shots, but I thought you might all appreciate these low-light, Not at all in fact you’re most welcome. I want to quote Ken @digit “Wonderful new worlds can open up when you change the scale of observation” that is exactly what have done but with light. Beautiful fossil and images . Cheers Bobby Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FossilNerd Posted February 12, 2020 Share Posted February 12, 2020 27 minutes ago, Norki said: Not all macro shots, but I thought you might all appreciate these low-light, relatively long exposure photos of some nacreous ammonites. Ridiculously good! Thanks for sharing. The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it. -Neil deGrasse Tyson Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't. -Bill Nye (The Science Guy) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Rico Posted February 12, 2020 Author Share Posted February 12, 2020 Today I was looking at an old box of ammonites I have had stored for years. This one was too good not to keep . It has a very fine centre and is a rare example of an uncrushed Pavlovia pallasoides from the famous chapmans pool. I kind of like the damaged to the shell, it is for me beautiful in form, like old flaked plaster in a once beautiful room but now abandoned. Second is for the mineral lovers and from Morocco some Wolframite . 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huntonia Posted February 14, 2020 Share Posted February 14, 2020 Today I got some pictures of a meg through my microscope. Not the best but not too bad. Some serrations: Up close of part of the root: 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Rico Posted February 14, 2020 Author Share Posted February 14, 2020 This wonderful coral plate was a gift. It is beautiful and somewhat otherworldly. Including Aulopora, Dibunophyllum, Koninckophyllum. Diphyphyllumis Diphyphyllum in top, one single corallite of Actinocyathus, That makes 6 species. Words of advice for dyslexia's don’t study corals it is a slippery slope. I polished this slice and it was worth the hard work indeed. Thank you Tarquin a wonderful piece added to my collection. @TqB @TqB what’s this one called? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Rico Posted February 14, 2020 Author Share Posted February 14, 2020 9 hours ago, Huntonia said: meg through my microscope. Not the best but not too bad. Some serrations: Nice thank you 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mioplosus_Lover24 Posted February 14, 2020 Share Posted February 14, 2020 On 1/14/2020 at 8:18 PM, Bobby Rico said: Lycoptera davidi Wow! I never knew Lycoptera had teeth! I'll have to check my specimens when I get home! 1 "Life is too complex for me to wrap my mind around, that's why I have fossils and not pets!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Rico Posted February 14, 2020 Author Share Posted February 14, 2020 1 minute ago, Mioplosus_Lover24 said: Wow! I never knew Lycoptera had teeth! I'll have to check my specimens when I get home! Please do and let us know.? If you have a macro lens please post a picture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobWill Posted February 15, 2020 Share Posted February 15, 2020 This goniatite fell off a hash plate from Jacksboro Texas, Graham Formation, Pennsylvanian Subperiod. Those are mm marks on the scale. Taken with a cheap plugable scope so I had to chose which part of the goniatite to focus on. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Rico Posted February 15, 2020 Author Share Posted February 15, 2020 9 hours ago, BobWill said: goniatite fell off Good job it did not fall on the carpet, you would have definitely lost it. Very tiny and nice specimen. cheers Bobby Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monica Posted February 16, 2020 Share Posted February 16, 2020 We have some sunshine today, so how about a sweet little bryozoan to add to this thread? This is Stigmatella personata lobata from Mimico Creek in Toronto, Ontario (Georgian Bay Formation, Upper Ordovician). The entire specimen is about 3cm by 2cm, and the close-up shows the pores where the little zooecia would have been found when alive. There are about 5 pores per millimetre - so tiny! 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Rico Posted February 16, 2020 Author Share Posted February 16, 2020 2 hours ago, Monica said: sweet little bryozoan to add to this thread Very beautiful Monica. Quality photo too. Thanks for adding here. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Rico Posted February 17, 2020 Author Share Posted February 17, 2020 Today we will be looking closely at some mammal material . Mammoth Bark/Ivory pieces from Siberia and the North Sea.. Mammoth hair Siberia Cave Hyena Crocuta crocuta teeth and claw Tore Newton Cave Devon U.K Beautiful, Allodesmus sp. Cheek Tooth Mid. Miocene, Round Mountain Silt Formation. Bakersfeild, California. USA. Odocoileus Virginanus White Tailed Dear bone, with rodent bite marks. Pleistocene Gilchrist County Florida. USA . third premolar (p3) from the Early Miocene horse, Parahippus sp. Thomas Farm museum site in North Florida 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kato Posted February 17, 2020 Share Posted February 17, 2020 Found a split shale pair of a lower Pennsylvanian plant root system. Possibly Pinnularia? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Rico Posted February 17, 2020 Author Share Posted February 17, 2020 2 hours ago, Kato said: Found a split shale pair of a lower Pennsylvanian plant root system. Nice find Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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