astron Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 (edited) Hello all. High importance and lots of interesting things and fun around fossils!!! One of the funny sides is something that the more of us have faced once or more. The similarity of a fossil with something completely unrelative, that the fossil reminds us of!!! What made me open this topic is the fossil in the attached pic, that brought to mind quite enough analogue cases I have seen here in the Forum. It was a slab bearing a ziziphus sp. leaf and some poaceae sp. (grass) fragments and it was collected up in the favor of the leaf. The prep time came yesterday and I thought it woulad be better to maintain the ... ornametation next to the leaf and to place the part close to the counterpart in a way to achieve the better display, without seeing what exactly was going to come up.. When the work ends, I was surpriced with the result ... ''What a mask!!!'' I whispered...''I am an ''irregular stone'' in drawings but nature not at all...'' Have fun sumbitting your samples here. I am sure there are a lot of nice things to be shown that might build a very interesting and funny collection up... Kind regards Astrinos Edited August 10, 2012 by astron Astrinos P. Damianakis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 I feel like something is watching... "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...
Scylla Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 ... and it is angry! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 ... and it is angry! Just rudely awakened after a many million-year sleep! "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...
Ludwigia Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 Nice idea, Astrinos. Your "mask" reminds me of carnival in Venice. The following isn't quite fossiliferous, it's a concretion from the cretaceous layers in the Provence. This was a lucky cut which brought what looks to be a springbok to the light of day. Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 Don't forget THIS one! "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...
astron Posted July 27, 2012 Author Share Posted July 27, 2012 I feel like something is watching... ... and it is angry! Just rudely awakened after a many million-year sleep! :D Astrinos P. Damianakis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astron Posted July 27, 2012 Author Share Posted July 27, 2012 Nice idea, Astrinos. Your "mask" reminds me of carnival in Venice. The following isn't quite fossiliferous, it's a concretion from the cretaceous layers in the Provence. This was a lucky cut which brought what looks to be a springbok to the light of day. Excellent, though!!! Minerally, I'd add the rooted Africa (sulphur on gpsum) Astrinos P. Damianakis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry Dactyll Posted July 27, 2012 Share Posted July 27, 2012 Astron... Great thread and very nice specimens guys... Here's the one I always bring out... It never ceases to amaze me the position these ammonites landed 180 million years ago... Cheers Steve... And Welcome if your a New Member... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astron Posted July 27, 2012 Author Share Posted July 27, 2012 Don't forget THIS one! Amazing! Roger turns around to be champion and on this thread... His train ''LUDWIGIA EXPRESS'' came to mind, as well (Treptoceras ? trebiseptum, Hall 1847) Astrinos P. Damianakis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astron Posted July 27, 2012 Author Share Posted July 27, 2012 Astron... Great thread and very nice specimens guys... Here's the one I always bring out... It never ceases to amaze me the position these ammonites landed 180 million years ago... Oh, my ... gear!!! It seems like there were great factories in the depth of the time!!! Astrinos P. Damianakis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scylla Posted July 27, 2012 Share Posted July 27, 2012 Oh, my ... gear!!! It seems like there were great factories in the depth of the time!!! Interesting, you saw gears, I saw a face Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astron Posted July 27, 2012 Author Share Posted July 27, 2012 Indeed, Gus!!! We have and change program here!!!. Only Steve can do that!!! Astrinos P. Damianakis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry Dactyll Posted July 27, 2012 Share Posted July 27, 2012 (edited) Face it is.... Edited July 27, 2012 by Terry Dactyll Cheers Steve... And Welcome if your a New Member... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted July 27, 2012 Share Posted July 27, 2012 His train ''LUDWIGIA EXPRESS'' came to mind, as well (Treptoceras ? trebiseptum, Hall 1847) Now that's a novel interpretation, but I like it! Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roz Posted July 27, 2012 Share Posted July 27, 2012 I love this thread! This is a piece of chert but I kept it because of the image I see. Looks to me like the raging ocean with an eyeball above fishing.. Welcome to the forum! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Missourian Posted July 27, 2012 Share Posted July 27, 2012 I love this thread! This is a piece of chert but I kept it because of the image I see. Looks to me like the raging ocean with an eyeball above fishing.. Or the front part of a rhino head. Context is critical. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roz Posted July 27, 2012 Share Posted July 27, 2012 How did I miss that? Now you mention it, I can see just that.. Welcome to the forum! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Missourian Posted July 28, 2012 Share Posted July 28, 2012 Context is critical. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roz Posted July 28, 2012 Share Posted July 28, 2012 Welcome to the forum! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astron Posted July 28, 2012 Author Share Posted July 28, 2012 Face it is.... Perfect, independently on what it reminds everyone of... Now that's a novel interpretation, but I like it! Just to clarify : a train birds eye view... I love this thread! This is a piece of chert but I kept it because of the image I see. Looks to me like the raging ocean with an eyeball above fishing.. Superb double reminder, Roz!!! Wonderful, Missourian! Your trilo-dog is breathtaking ... Astrinos P. Damianakis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astron Posted July 28, 2012 Author Share Posted July 28, 2012 (edited) It's a sunny day today (my scaphopods) Edited July 28, 2012 by astron Astrinos P. Damianakis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Missourian Posted July 28, 2012 Share Posted July 28, 2012 Grass seed: (Fusulinids) Context is critical. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roz Posted July 28, 2012 Share Posted July 28, 2012 The sun and grass seed so I will add my ear of corn. Welcome to the forum! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Missourian Posted July 28, 2012 Share Posted July 28, 2012 Did someone say corn? how about some baby corn? (Aesiocrinus anal sacs) Context is critical. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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