The QCC Posted November 29, 2017 Share Posted November 29, 2017 I knocked a few chunks off of a large block of Landscape Limestone, ground them down to 80 microns on a glass slide. Most of the rocks I have collected locally are rather uninteresting as thin sections. I was very surprised to see what I believe to be a lot of micro fossils on two of the slides. I checked my fossil reference guide and I can identify Crinoid stems, Shells and maybe a leaf. I assume all those rectangular things are Crinoids an their side. The average size of the objects is 200 microns. The larges being what I believe are shells at 1,59 mm. Comments welcome on my identification skills. Photo 1 is the source of the chunks of rock. Photo 2 is slide number 3 taken through a Canon Rebel XS (1000D) camera mounted on a Labomed LB 592 polarizing microscope. Photos 3 and 4 are crops of Photo 2 Photo 5 slide number 4. Part of the same chunk as Slide number 3. Photos 6 and 7 are crops of slide number 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SailingAlongToo Posted November 29, 2017 Share Posted November 29, 2017 @The QCC I have no idea on your identification. But, I will commend you on your photography. Superb!!!! Photos 2 & 5 are my favorite.......... They could easily be used as wall hanging art. Cheers, SA2 Don't know much about history Don't know much biology Don't know much about science books......... Sam Cooke - (What A) Wonderful World Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted November 29, 2017 Share Posted November 29, 2017 That is some buzzy rock there. All sorts of neet fossils in it. I can not help with the id'd either. But thanks for showing this. Darwin said: " Man sprang from monkeys." Will Rogers said: " Some of them didn't spring far enough." My Fossil collection - My Mineral collection My favorite thread on TFF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The QCC Posted November 29, 2017 Author Share Posted November 29, 2017 Thanks. I thought Photo 1 was a real block buster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Rico Posted November 29, 2017 Share Posted November 29, 2017 Amazing photographs, so much is going on in them. Thank you cheers Bobby Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miocene_Mason Posted November 30, 2017 Share Posted November 30, 2017 Crinoids aren’t really identifiable any more than ‘crinoid’ by segments. I doubt there being a leaf, there my be some graptolites though. Very nice job with the photography, the pictures are beautiful! “...whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been and are being evolved.” ~ Charles Darwin Happy hunting, Mason Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The QCC Posted November 30, 2017 Author Share Posted November 30, 2017 I thought this looked like a fern leaf ??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted November 30, 2017 Share Posted November 30, 2017 4 minutes ago, The QCC said: I thought this looked like a fern leaf ??? Cross section of (maybe) a bryozoan. But not a leaf (or fragment of a leaf.). Darwin said: " Man sprang from monkeys." Will Rogers said: " Some of them didn't spring far enough." My Fossil collection - My Mineral collection My favorite thread on TFF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fruitbat Posted November 30, 2017 Share Posted November 30, 2017 You don't mention the magnification you are using, but based on size ("average size is 200μm"), I would wager that most of what you have pictured there are actually diatoms ('microalgae') that are the primary producers in practically every aquatic ecosystem. The bilateral symmetry of most of the organisms in your pictures sort of gives them away. Great pictures, by the way! -Joe Illigitimati non carborundum Fruitbat's PDF Library Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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