JimB88 Posted February 18, 2011 Share Posted February 18, 2011 (edited) I have a job where I'm pretty much by myself for long periods of time (12hr shifts) this affords me the ability, and necessity, to bring something to do. I began bringing in softer/crumbly matrix to look at. Its s reddish highly crinoidal limestone that crumbles do to the crinoid stem sections and other fossils. One of the other fossils that are plentiful are tiny immature brachs and blastoids. So I figure I'd keep em' (I bought a crafters bead "bin" with compartments and a lid for my tiny fossils.) I thought it would be neat to see others "baby" fossils (and please, no dunking your kid in cement ) I'll start with some brach varieties: Cleiothyridina Composista Its really difficult to distinguish between these and the previous ones. for a comparison the big one is the biggest Ive found at that locale. Beecheria Eumetria and some blastoids Pentremites the smaller one is P.pyrifomis and the other isP. tulipformis (and has three stem sections still attached, My camera has trouble with objects this small.) Edited February 18, 2011 by JimB88 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 That's just too cool! And you're fossil hunting on company time! "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry Dactyll Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 Jim.... Heres one Ive often thought about... I'm not 100% convinced but it looks very much like a juvenile horshoe crab headshield... Its 4 mm across in a siderite nodule and Westphalian in age... I suppose it could also be a seed... its a strange one.... Cheers Steve... And Welcome if your a New Member... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northern Sharks Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 Nice timing. I just got this piece in the mail this past week There's no limit to what you can accomplish when you're supposed to be doing something else Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 My smallest bird tooth: The pin is a large one from a Riker case, the tooth is 1.786mm. 1 "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Menser Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 My smallest bird tooth: The pin is a large one from a Riker case, the tooth is 1.786mm. What ever you do ...DON"T SNEEZE!!! 1 Be true to the reality you create. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eaglephot Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 My little baby Keichousaur. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steelhead9 Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 Fetal oreodon. 1 Still Life Fossils Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paleoflor Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 (edited) This is a juvenile Pecopteris polymorpha frond, still coiled up, which shows this is a true fern. Edited February 19, 2011 by paleoflor Searching for green in the dark grey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry Dactyll Posted February 20, 2011 Share Posted February 20, 2011 (edited) Great fossils everyone.... Just to let you know I had my thoughts confirmed with a couple of opinions whilst I photographed the tiny crab... it is definately a 4mm euproops crab... Tim... Love the 'Spiropteris'?....I have a couple of possibilities I could share... You should add that to the plant thread and i'll put mine up... Edited February 20, 2011 by Terry Dactyll Cheers Steve... And Welcome if your a New Member... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
docdutronc Posted February 20, 2011 Share Posted February 20, 2011 My Linopteris babies Bruno Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimB88 Posted February 21, 2011 Author Share Posted February 21, 2011 My smallest bird tooth: The pin is a large one from a Riker case, the tooth is 1.786mm. Gads is that tiny! Steelhead: theres one of the burrow shaped concretions ( I saw that on an old episode of Paleoworld..you look for concretions shaped like an animals burrow..crack it open with a hammer an bingo! An Oreodont (sometimes a family of them) Doc: would that be a seedling? Not sure on the methods early ferns use to reproduce. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimB88 Posted February 21, 2011 Author Share Posted February 21, 2011 Jim.... Heres one Ive often thought about... I'm not 100% convinced but it looks very much like a juvenile horshoe crab headshield... Its 4 mm across in a siderite nodule and Westphalian in age... I suppose it could also be a seed... its a strange one.... cool! Ive only seen those in ironstone concretions from Mazon creek. That one seems to have a lot of a copper-based mineral associated with it. paleoflor: Neat! its curled like it just came out of the ground. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
docdutronc Posted February 21, 2011 Share Posted February 21, 2011 (edited) Gads is that tiny! Steelhead: theres one of the burrow shaped concretions ( I saw that on an old episode of Paleoworld..you look for concretions shaped like an animals burrow..crack it open with a hammer an bingo! An Oreodont (sometimes a family of them) Doc: would that be a seedling? Not sure on the methods early ferns use to reproduce. No a seedling,just juvenil cross (spiropteris ) ,like this ...... Edited March 4, 2011 by docdutronc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimB88 Posted March 22, 2011 Author Share Posted March 22, 2011 (edited) Im not sure if this is a baby or just a small member of the Genus Cladodus.. this is the first tooth Ive found from the Pennington Formation (I found it while re-labeling my specimen drawers and going through them weeding out the lower quality fossils as I was less picky when I first got back into fossils. This was partially exposed on the back of a brachiopod.) Sorry for the shininess, I had an accident with the superglue. Edited March 22, 2011 by JimB88 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Menser Posted March 22, 2011 Share Posted March 22, 2011 Paleospondylus gunni. Possibly a larval form of a Lungfish. Devonian, Scotland. Be true to the reality you create. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RCFossils Posted March 22, 2011 Share Posted March 22, 2011 Embryonic Hyphalosaurus lingyuanensis. The dark staining above the leg is the yolk sac. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RCFossils Posted March 22, 2011 Share Posted March 22, 2011 One more picture showing the teeth preserved in the lower jaws. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RCFossils Posted March 22, 2011 Share Posted March 22, 2011 Here is a coelacanth Rhapdoderma exiguum with preserved yolk sac. Pit eleven Mazon Creek deposit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimB88 Posted March 22, 2011 Author Share Posted March 22, 2011 Frank: those are neat! RC: is the dinosaur from China? Love the detail on both. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeR Posted March 22, 2011 Share Posted March 22, 2011 (edited) Growth series from baby to adult Volutifusus typus Conrad, 1866; Lower Pleistocene James City Formation, Lee Creek Mine, Beaufort County, North Carolina Edited March 22, 2011 by MikeR 2 "A problem solved is a problem caused"--Karl Pilkington "I was dead for millions of years before I was born and it never inconvenienced me a bit." -- Mark Twain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimB88 Posted March 22, 2011 Author Share Posted March 22, 2011 Growth series from baby to adult Volutifusus typus Conrad, 1866; Lower Pleistocene James City Formation, Lee Creek Mine, Beaufort County, North Carolina Thats cool! When you were finding them did you know that the smaller ones were juveniles of the bigger ones? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old dead things Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 I meant to add this juvenile priscacara from the Green River Formation when the thread first started, but then I couldn't find the plate. After days of searching I finally found it right where I left it..... I hate getting old . I do remember collecting it last summer. Jim Old Dead Things 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Menser Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 Here is a coelacanth Rhapdoderma exiguum with preserved yolk sac. Pit eleven Mazon Creek deposit Love them Coelacanths Be true to the reality you create. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astron Posted March 26, 2011 Share Posted March 26, 2011 Really museum quality specimens displayed :wub: My poor one is a microfossils hash plate. Does it fit? Astrinos P. Damianakis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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