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Teeth etc.

All from Cretaceous Blue-hill Shale of Kansas- Fish tooth, fish vert, rhinobatos teeth, and unknown bone in middle of first photo.

Unknown "thing" in second photo.

Let me know if anyone knows what these unknowns are.

Ramo

Scale is the same in both photos, and fish vert is about 1mm X 2mm

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Upper Pennsylvanian-Lansing Group

Eudora shale(?)

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Spring Hill limestone(?)

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I got excited about trying to extract some of these after reading this,http://www.thefossil...ting-conodonts/, but after realizing how tiny these things are, I'm just not equipped yet.

Kansas City group

Stark shale

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Thanks for looking!

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Upper Pennsylvanian - Lansing group

Stanton fm - Eudora sh

Hibbardella(?) positive and negative

I know...poor cropping job!

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Nice finds everyone.

Here is a Nereidavus invisibilis scoleconodont jaw element that i collected last year in the Silurian aged Waldron Shale of Southern Indiana.

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Upper Pennsylvanian - Lansing group

Stanton fm - Eudora sh

Hibbardella(?) positive and negative

I know...poor cropping job!

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Nice close-ups. I need to get back to that shale pile. :)

Context is critical.

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Nice close-ups. I need to get back to that shale pile. :)

I don't think you've been there, unless you went back after we were in that area. It's actually on the opposite side of the hill from the first stop we made, last time we went. Very first side road going west, on the NE corner.

I thought I had pictures, but I can't find them. You might be able see it on Google Earth.

There is a nice little exposure of slabs! :)

Steve

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I don't think you've been there, unless you went back after we were in that area. It's actually on the opposite side of the hill from the first stop we made, last time we went. Very first side road going west, on the NE corner.

I thought I had pictures, but I can't find them. You might be able see it on Google Earth.

Whichever one. It's all good. :)

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heres one I found in an Ordovician nodule recently

This is a conodont jaw element

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In the first image, is that a second element above the obvious one?

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Well, they aren't teeth but here are some micro fossils from the Centerfield Limestone:

Bunches of stuff that I picked out of my sample:

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Octonaria sp? Ostracod

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Bumpy Ostracod

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Cornulites worm tube

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Micro Bryozoan and Brachiopod

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Possible micro blastoid?

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The first two are from the Ordovician Whitewater formation. Recovered by acetic acid treatment of limestone

Conodont

Conodont

Scolecodont

Lobogenys (~60x)

Another view (that is the scolecodont inside the zero of a US penny!)

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These are Middle Devonian:

conodont (Icriodus)

Conodont

Scolecodont in matrix

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Collecting Microfossils - a hobby concerning much about many of the little

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Dave,

That blastoid is a great find. The Octonaria look like it may be crescentiformis species but I'm not sure. Here is a link I found...

Quasillitid and Alanellid Ostracods from the Centerfield Limestone of ...

deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/48330/2/ID171.pdf

Collecting Microfossils - a hobby concerning much about many of the little

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Cool, I've downloaded that for future use. Thanks Matthew!

And that is one tiny jaw to fit within the zero of a penny. :o

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-Dave

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If I'm going to drive safely, I can't do geology. - John McPhee

Check out my Blog for more fossils I've found: http://viewsofthemahantango.blogspot.com/

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The first two are from the Ordovician Whitewater formation. Recovered by acetic acid treatment of limestone

Conodont

Scolecodont

Another view (that is the scolecodont inside the zero of a US penny!)

penny_jaw.jpg

These are Middle Devonian:

conodont (Icriodus)

Scolecodont in matrix

Nice specimens!!!!!!

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