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JamieLynn

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I finally finished going through my Oklahoma Permian Matrix from PaleoTex LLC!  SO MUCH STUFF! I went through it the first time just with eyeballs (with the help of reading glasses). Then I realized I should use my microscope camera (which runs through my computer which is AWESOME) and see if I missed anything. OH MY GREAT GOOGLY MOOGLY I missed a lot! So here are some of the really "minis" from the matrix! Most are so small that it just couldn't even get a pic with my scale, some are less than 1 mm - a speck of dust! . I need to get a millimeter scale, though, for sure. So here are some more finds from the Oklahoma Permian:

 

Mycterosaurus tooth : 4 mm

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Chevron Bone (part of the tail of an amphibian, I believe? 4 mm

 

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A Doleserpeton toe bone!  So very tiny.  You can see how small it is compared to the 4 mm chevron! 

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I think this is an intervertebral thing? 2 mm

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Unknown tiny tiny.  Can't seem to find out what this is, but I thought it was really really cool looking . It was literally the size o a speck of dust....

which sadly meant I lost it after I photographed it....it just disappeared.

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a lovely bone. 3 mm

 

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Jaw plate...i loved the blueish enamel: 3 mm

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Same with this "blue tooth" - probably Cacops, I think? 3 mm

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Another Cacops tooth: 4 mm


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An unknown jaw fragment: 3mm

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Captorhinus tooth? 2 mm

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 Doleserpeton jaw plates biggest 2 mm

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and lastly a Diadectid tooth


 

 

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There are so many more little bones and teeth and jaw plates and vertebras and skull fragments!! Needless to say, it's been great fun looking through all this tiny matrix. i am totally hooked on it! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Fantastic stuff I have too have a look at your other thread. This is my favourite time period.  Incredible climate change from the beginning the Earth was still in the grip of an ice age. However, the period ended in quite the opposite manner. It is considered a period of transition wherein the Carboniferous biomes , mighty swamp forests and  biggest desert the world has ever known and I think two mass extinctions. Thank you for sharing. Bobby 

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With stuff that small, I can imagine one errant breath aimed in the wrong direction would blow your fossil right off the table! Congrats on the finds. Your threads are making me want to start digging through micros. :) 

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10 minutes ago, FossilNerd said:

digging through micros

You should have a look very enjoyable pass time. Some of my favourite fossils are micros.  :D

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Hey Jamie,

 

Any idea what various critters the bones in the final picture might be from?  :headscratch:That's some really neat micros you've found.  :look:

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@grandpa - as far as I know,  all the bones are from various amphibians. According to my friend Matthew of PaleoTex  the amphib captorhinus "are like roaches out there"....not the most lovely of images (as we in Texas unfortunately know all about those horrid big roaches) but an apt description nonetheless....

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20 hours ago, JamieLynn said:

I finally finished going through my Oklahoma Permian Matrix from PaleoTex LLC!  SO MUCH STUFF! I went through it the first time just with eyeballs (with the help of reading glasses). Then I realized I should use my microscope camera (which runs through my computer which is AWESOME) and see if I missed anything. OH MY GREAT GOOGLY MOOGLY I missed a lot! So here are some of the really "minis" from the matrix! Most are so small that it just couldn't even get a pic with my scale, some are less than 1 mm - a speck of dust! . I need to get a millimeter scale, though, for sure. So here are some more finds from the Oklahoma Permian:

 

Mycterosaurus tooth : 4 mm

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This form is now assigned to Mesenosaurus: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.191297

 

20 hours ago, JamieLynn said:

 

Chevron Bone (part of the tail of an amphibian, I believe? 4 mm

 

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Yes, this is a haemal arch. My guess is Doleserpeton.

 

20 hours ago, JamieLynn said:

I think this is an intervertebral thing? 2 mm

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Yes, this is an intercentrum. Probably Captorhinus.

 

20 hours ago, JamieLynn said:

 

Unknown tiny tiny.  Can't seem to find out what this is, but I thought it was really really cool looking . It was literally the size o a speck of dust....

which sadly meant I lost it after I photographed it....it just disappeared.

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Looks like a palatal denticle plate from an amphibamid.

 

20 hours ago, JamieLynn said:

An unknown jaw fragment: 3mm

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Captorhinus tooth? 2 mm

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These are both Opisthodontosaurus.

 

20 hours ago, JamieLynn said:

 

 Doleserpeton jaw plates biggest 2 mm

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The one on the left is likely Tersomius dolesensis. The other two are Doleserpeton annectens.

 

20 hours ago, JamieLynn said:

 

and lastly a Diadectid tooth


 

 

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I'm not convinced by this ID. I'd need to see more photos of it from other angles, though.

 

 

Nice material. Glad you're having fun with it!

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I just went through my first pass from the same matrix and seller, and found lots of cool little bones! I’ll have to remember to look back through this thread for identifications when I get the time. I’m wanting to get a nice microscope for Christmas so my second pass may take a while.

 

Great finds, and thank you for sharing!! 

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yes, having the microscope makes ALL the difference! 

@jdp - thank you thank you!!  I was doing my best to ID but I am a complete novice at the Permian stuff. 

Here are a few other views of that "possible"  Diadectid tooth, which it of course, may not even be...perhaps it is a claw? 

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Definitely a tooth but definitely not diadectid. My guess is the acleistorhinid "parareptile" Delorhynchus.

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