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Nando.... Nice eye... One day I hope to find one (on the same shale as ammonites of course) ... But theres no rush it has to be the right one ;)... I read in a lovely old fossil book written in 1855 that the...

'' Largest portion of the eye was protected by bony plates which encompassed it all round, leaving an opening, or pupil, in the centre for the admission of light, which could be expanded or contracted at the pleasure of the animal.Also, by means of these sclerotic plates, the eye could be made more or less convex, so as to become either telescopic or microscopic, and this enabled the animal to see at great distance or near at hand;a structure of the eye, and power of vision possessed by the Golden Eagle and some other birds of prey.''

Martin Simpson 1800 - 1892

quite thought provoking observations at such an early time in the process of understanding these fossils...

Round... How about this, the biggest upper carboniferous tree stump I ever come across... I left it of course... I carry a rucksack not a forklift truck :D

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Cheers Steve... And Welcome if your a New Member... :)

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Naticarius Tigrinus with original preserved colour. Middle Pliocene. South Spain.

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Stephanophillia sp. solitary coral.Early Pliocene.South Spain

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Nummulites Perforatus giant foramminifer coquina.Early Eocene. Northern Spain

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Undescribed dwarf limonitized (Iron-hidroxide)ammonite. Early cretaceous. Balearic Islands.Spain

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Periarchus Echinoid from the Eocene of Alabama

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Grow Old Kicking And Screaming !!
"Don't Tread On Me"

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Close up of Devonian crinoid stem imprint:

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Hi!

A round solitary coral from Eocene (Bartonian) north-east Spain.

Funginellastrea barcelonensis (Cycloseris) (Oppenheim 1911)

Scleractinia

Family: Fungiidae

Note: Funginellastrea is a junior subjective synonim of Cycloseris according to R. Baron-Szabo (2002).

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How about this one? I see your Ichthiosaur eye and Raise you a sauradon eye.

This was prepped as it was in-situ. If you can believe it, it was a blind fossil. It was 2" deeper and 6" over from a protosphyrena skull I was digging out. I only knew it was there when chunks of jaw started falling at my feet.

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Round-ish:

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This is about the roundest fossil I have. It is just a little smaller than a golf ball and is sitting on matrix. It is a Tabulate coral that is Silurian in age.

JKFoam

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The Eocene is my favorite

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How about this one? I see your Ichthiosaur eye and Raise you a sauradon eye.

This was prepped as it was in-situ. If you can believe it, it was a blind fossil. It was 2" deeper and 6" over from a protosphyrina skull I was digging out. I only knew it was there when chunks of jaw started falling at my feet.

Saurodon....neato!!!! :wub:

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there are my Orbitolina from the Barremian of Var (southern France) or my Nemiana simplex plate precambrian (nearly 600 millions years ago)from Mogilov-Podolskiy, Vinnitsa region, Ukraine

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Nadomas, I think the eyes really have it here! Anyways, here are my round stuff "sort of" specimens--

Dactylioceras sp. Jurassic, Whitby, England

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Central disk of an Ophiuroid starfish Sinosura sp. Jurassic (Tithonian), Hienheim b. Kelheim, Germany

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Nice rounds everyone!

Regards, Chris

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Nando.... Nice eye... One day I hope to find one (on the same shale as ammonites of course) ... But theres no rush it has to be the right one ;)... I read in a lovely old fossil book written in 1855 that the...

'' Largest portion of the eye was protected by bony plates which encompassed it all round, leaving an opening, or pupil, in the centre for the admission of light, which could be expanded or contracted at the pleasure of the animal.Also, by means of these sclerotic plates, the eye could be made more or less convex, so as to become either telescopic or microscopic, and this enabled the animal to see at great distance or near at hand;a structure of the eye, and power of vision possessed by the Golden Eagle and some other birds of prey.''

Martin Simpson 1800 - 1892

quite thought provoking observations at such an early time in the process of understanding these fossils...

Round... How about this, the biggest upper carboniferous tree stump I ever come across... I left it of course... I carry a rucksack not a forklift truck :D

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Terry, really nice trunk :D :D So sorry you left it in place... if you need some help, let me know ;)

Here one of the best echinoid I have ever seen

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Nandomas.... What about the location? (just kidding) :wub: .... Great find... Theres a guy in the UK who preps dino eggs revealing formed embryo's... I havent seen any of his work, but I'd like to....

Cheers Steve... And Welcome if your a New Member... :)

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