JamieLynn Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 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 10 www.fossil-quest.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Amateur Paleontologist Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 Wow! These are amazing! Opalised fossils are the best: a wonderful mix between paleontology and mineralogy! Q. Where do dinosaurs study? A. At Khaan Academy!... My ResearchGate profile Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fossilnut Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 What age is the matrix/es? Wow super pictures. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tidgy's Dad Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 Super photos. really lovely specimens too. 1 Life's Good! Tortoise Friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FossilsAnonymous Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 1 hour ago, JamieLynn said: Pagurus banderiensis all 1 Inch @Pagurus I didn’t know you had claws On The Hunt For The Trophy Otodus! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamieLynn Posted March 28, 2020 Author Share Posted March 28, 2020 1 hour ago, fossilnut said: What age is the matrix/es? Wow super pictures. Thanks Thanks!! These are all Cretaceous, so 65 - 150 Million 1 www.fossil-quest.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pagurus Posted March 29, 2020 Share Posted March 29, 2020 3 hours ago, FossilsAnonymous said: @Pagurus I didn’t know you had claws 2 Start the day with a smile and get it over with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamieLynn Posted March 29, 2020 Author Share Posted March 29, 2020 hahahhhh!! That's awesome!! www.fossil-quest.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caterpillar Posted March 29, 2020 Share Posted March 29, 2020 This is not Hyposalenia texana but Leptosalenia texana. Leptosalenia has the periproct in front of an ambulacrum zone (like here) Hyposalenia has the periproct between two ambulacrum zones 2 http://www.paleotheque.fr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamieLynn Posted March 29, 2020 Author Share Posted March 29, 2020 6 hours ago, caterpillar said: This is not Hyposalenia texana but Leptosalenia texana. Leptosalenia has the periproct in front of an ambulacrum zone (like here) Hyposalenia has the periproct between two ambulacrum zones Duh....of course. I do know that. Just messed it up. Thanks for catching! 1 www.fossil-quest.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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