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So hot its burning blue!

"Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe" - Saint Augustine

"Those who can not see past their own nose deserve our pity more than anything else."

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Very nice blue fossils! I am a big fan of blue also. So here are some of my blue fossils:

Iguanodon Bone Slice from Wealden Clay, Isle of Wight - UK

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Ammolite Fragment with predominantly blue/green color and a bit of purple

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This one is Ammolite Ammonite Placenticeras Meeki from Alberta - Canada

with pretty much full rainbow spectrum so it contains some blue iridescent in it:

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Blue sandalodus tooth! post-7046-0-91676200-1361455879_thumb.jpg Pennsylvanian, Johnson co. Kansas post-7046-0-25691500-1361497005_thumb.jpg

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Tim's articulated fish are better, but the fish scales out here tend to be blue too - these are in a coprolite:

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(Sorry the color is a little off, I need to take the pics in sunlight..)

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Blue-banded agatized coral 'chopper' from the Peace River, Desoto County, Florida. Technically, this may be better described as a pseudomorph after coral from the Early Miocene Tampa Formation.

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What seest thou else

In the dark backward and abysm of time?

---Shakespeare, The Tempest

 

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Blue/grey geodized coral, Chalcedony. Found at Wrightsville Beach, NC.

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Process of identification "mistakes create wisdom".

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A nice baby blue Bone Valley meg.

Golden beach meg's one has a very nice bite mark on it.

A blue hemi from Bone Valley.

And a hastalis tooth from the Netherlands.

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Humble but blue...well...maybe more of a grey

GWS Enamel

Santa Barbara County, CA

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Lots of shark teeth in this category... What is it about fish material that so often preserves blue? like my fish scales..

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Just noticed this thread today. Nice stuff here. I've had a quick look through my collection and see that the overwhelming majority is made up of hues ranging from black over grey and on to brown beige and red or greenish, but real pure blue is pretty rare by me other than a bit of shimmer on a pyritized ammo or the following pieces.

Bivalve shells Macoma baltica, Cerastoderma edule & Spisula sp. found under the tideline at De Kaloot beach in Zeeland, Holland. Holocene:

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A sliced Graphoceras concavum from the upper Aalenian at Geisingen, southwest Germany.

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This is probably the most exciting fossil I have found this year. I posted it a while back, so you guys have seen these pix if you've been paying attention. These are blue-green Eocene crocodilian bones from the Wasatch Fm of southwest Wyoming. I have been slowly doing some prep work on them and there is more out there to be collected (over Labor Day, I hope). I posted on this that someone told me these were actually turquoise, but I have also heard form other mineral folks that they are likely some other blue-green mineral.

The first photo here is of a small plate of rock with a vertebra in it:

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The second photo is the bottom side of that same plate.

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And this is the group of plates all put together more or less. The piece in the abopve pix is at the top right. The color is ba don this, but you can still see the bluish color, especially of the triangle shaped bone at center right... a cervical rib.

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I am pretty excited about this and would be thrilled if it has a skull. Oh, and you guys will hear about it if it does.

That is amazing! I have not seen a piece colored like this. Great find.

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  • 11 months later...

Is that an STH Bonebed planus? At most sites, it's tough to find a tooth with a lot of blue in it. I have only a few. You get more blue teeth (some with orange roots) at Ant Hill according to what I have been told.

I'm blue da ba dee da ba die...

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This is the Hope Diamond of Teeth ...

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Wow, can't believe it's been so long already since this thread was updated! 

 

Here's a kangaroo femur.

 

 

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"Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe" - Saint Augustine

"Those who can not see past their own nose deserve our pity more than anything else."

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Oh come on Troy, I know you smeared some food coloring on an old bone just so you could have something to post. :rofl:

 

This tooth was as blue as the sky when it first came out of the ground and quickly (within a half an hour) turned this dull grey. Oh that oxygen is an evil sort!

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On 2/13/2018 at 9:21 AM, caldigger said:

Oh come on Troy, I know you smeared some food coloring on an old bone just so you could have something to post. :rofl:

 

This tooth was as blue as the sky when it first came out of the ground and quickly (within a half an hour) turned this dull grey. Oh that oxygen is an evil sort!

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You're onto us! :ninja:

"Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another."
-Romans 14:19

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