Hash Plates- A Snapshot In Time

[Nimravis]

I just recently started collecting Ordovician fossils; I always intended to stay with Mazon Creek and Oligocene Mammals, but after seeing Indiana Ordovician hash plates on a couple trips to St. Leon and Lawrenceburg, I have fallen in love with these snapshots in time. When I am out collecting, it gets really hard for me to determine which ones I want to bring home, since they all have a different story.

 

Below are a few of my favorites:

 

[Heteromorph]

Beautiful! Thanks for sharing these snapshots of time!

[JohnBrewer]

They’re exceptional hash plates. I’m a fan of them too. Mine are Silurian.  

[Tidgy's Dad]

Those are smashing! 

I think I've still got some Lower Carboniferous ones, somewhere, just love these faunal assemblages. 

[Ludwigia]

Nice ones! I'd have kept them too.

[Nimravis]

@Heteromorph , @JohnBrewer , @Tidgy's Dad and @Ludwigia thanks for the comments. 

[Bobby Rico]

Lovely hash plates, I find the so interesting visually. Nice and poetic tltle to this post

[hauyn888]

... Hello Ralph ....

very very nice finds

I'm now also a proud owner of an Ordovician hash-plate ... Thanks again ..

and I understand the enthusiasm for it-because of the diversity of the individual - partly fragmentary, partly complete and still I am the opinion that they do not have a different story - on the contrary, they have the same story, only the individuals are different .... when I showed a stranger the variety of pebbles on the banks of the Rhine, with the hint that every stone tells his own story  - the man replied: but a  lot of the history is the same for all - he is right - it is the question of the point of view of consideration

[Miocene_Mason]

Nice! I see some kind of like that over here in the devonian, it does give a tantalizing glimpse into the times. 

[caldigger]

I love the trick with the magnified segments in your pictures. Please don't try to explain it to me,  It's difficult enough for me to turn my phone on, let alone figure out things like that.

I'll just say, nice Show 'n Tell and wish you good holidays.

[Sagebrush Steve]

3 hours ago, Nimravis said:

When I am out collecting, it gets really hard for me to determine which ones I want to bring home, since they all have a different story.

Bring home all of them, then share them with your TFF friends!    (Although I imagine the postage on a hash plate can be prohibitive.)

[Nimravis]

1 hour ago, caldigger said:

I love the trick with the magnified segments in your pictures. Please don't try to explain it to me,  It's difficult enough for me to turn my phone on, let alone figure out things like that.

I'll just say, nice Show 'n Tell and wish you good holidays.

Doren, I like that also and I am also technically challenged, but I was playing with my I-Phone 7 and was able to do it, and it is simple.

#1- I take a picture of the fossil.

 

 

#2- I then open the picture and make a screen shot of the picture and before it saves it, I click on the picture that appears on the lower left of the screen. Once I click on it, a dialog box opens, I then click on the Magnifier.

 

 

A circle then appears on the screen. The Green dot, when moved will zoom in or out, depending on the way that you move it. The Blue dot makes the circle larger or smaller and the Black circle outline, when dragged, moves the circle around. You can also resize the picture by adjusting the Blue bars that are on the border of the picture.

 

 

Once I am satisfied with the pic, I just touch outside of the circle so the dots disappear. I then touch "Done" in the upper Right hand corner and then touch the "Save to Photos" dialog box that will open on the bottom of the screen.

 

 

 

And then you end up with the magnified pic.

 

[Nimravis]

@Bobby Rico thanks- I always try to think of a catchy title.

 

@hauyn888 Christian, glad that you like the hash plate and you are correct, just different individuals.

 

@WhodamanHD / @caldigger thanks for the comments.

 

@Sagebrush Steve you are correct, and when I do send them out, I try to limit the size.

[Tidgy's Dad]

8 minutes ago, Nimravis said:

Doren, I like that also and I am also technically challenged, but I was playing with my I-Phone 7 and was able to do it, and it is simple.

#1- I take a picture of the fossil.

 

 

#2- I then open the picture and make a screen shot of the picture and before it saves it, I click on the picture that appears on the lower left of the screen. Once I click on it, a dialog box opens, I then click on the Magnifier.

 

 

A circle then appears on the screen. The Green dot, when moved will zoom in or out, depending on the way that you move it. The Blue dot makes the circle larger or smaller and the Black circle outline, when dragged, moves the circle around. You can also resize the picture by adjusting the Blue bars that are on the border of the picture.

 

 

Once I am satisfied with the pic, I just touch outside of the circle so the dots disappear. I then touch "Done" in the upper Right hand corner and then touch the "Save to Photos" dialog box that will open on the bottom of the screen.

 

 

 

And then you end up with the magnified pic.

 

I'll have a go at this. 

But simple though it seems, i think it's beyond my technical ability.

[Nimravis]

@Tidgy's Dad Adam, give it a shot- not to difficult.

[Fossildude19]

Great specimens, Ralph.   

I enjoy poking through these afterwards, with a loupe or my USB Microscope. 

Thanks for posting them.

[caldigger]

4 minutes ago, Tidgy's Dad said:

I'll have a go at this. 

But simple though it seems, i think it's beyond my technical ability.

Screenshot?, click on this?, circles and dots?...you lost me at hello!

I just got my first "smart phone" a couple of days ago. Now I know why they call them that. Because next to me, I look stupid.  I have no clue what I'm doing yet.

The term "Old School" was coined after me you know!

I'll have to go consult a guru ( little kid) to show me how to use this thing.

I am sure this is just the most basic phone you can get, so not sure if it has the capabilities as your "Fancy Pants" i-phone 7.

[Nimravis]

2 minutes ago, caldigger said:

Screenshot?, click on this?, circles and dots?...you lost me at hello!

I just got my first "smart phone" a couple of days ago. Now I know why they call them that. Because next to me, I look stupid.  I have no clue what I'm doing yet.

The term "Old School" was coined after me you know!

I'll have to go consult a guru ( little kid) to show me how to use this thing.

I am sure this is just the most basic phone you can get, so not sure if it has the capabilities as your "Fancy Pants" i-phone 7.

LOL at least the Guru knows how to do more than the both of us combined.

7 minutes ago, Fossildude19 said:

Great specimens, Ralph.   

I enjoy poking through these afterwards, with a loupe or my USB Microscope. 

Thanks for posting them.

I'm glad that you like them- I will have to continue this thread when I come across other nice hash plates.

[Tidgy's Dad]

All three of us. 

I'm using a PC, don't have a Smartphone and I don't think the method works on this. 

I don't even know how to do a screenshot. 

[caldigger]

It's enough of a chore for me to not keep hitting three keys at a time on this confounded tiny keyboard.

I suppose I could try to use the speak-to -text thing people talk about. However, with my strong California accent, who knows what might get typed.

[Wrangellian]

Well, you already collect Oligocene mammals and Mazon, quite divergent things - why not add Ordovician?

Nice specimens. I too like a decent hash plate as long as you can tell what some of it is.  There must be a 'show us your hash plates' thread on there somewhere....

 

 

10 minutes ago, Tidgy's Dad said:

All three of us. 

I'm using a PC, don't have a Smartphone and I don't think the method works on this. 

I don't even know how to do a screenshot. 

Does your keyboard have a 'PrtScn' button? Hit that when you've got what you want to show on the monitor. Then open up an image editor like Paint, and then Paste the image, crop it, etc, then Bob's your uncle.

[Bobby Rico]

6 hours ago, Tidgy's Dad said:

I'll have a go at this. 

But simple though it seems, i think it's beyond my technical ability.

Hi thank you I have just tried it and it is great. You don’t have to take a screenshot it works on any photo in your photos. 

 

Ralph your a Digital Jedi 

 

sorry Adam this is for @Nimravis I quoted the wrong post 

 

[Nimravis]

1 hour ago, Bobby Rico said:

Hi thank you I have just tried it and it is great. You don’t have to take a screenshot it works on any photo in your photos. 

 

Ralph your a Digital Jedi 

 

sorry Adam this is for @Nimravis I quoted the wrong post 

 

Thanks Bobby, I just tried it and you are correct, I did not know that you could do it that way ( hitting Edit). 

[Shamalama]

Lovely hash plates. The Ordovician is replete with good examples like what you found. Such diversity!

[digit]

I've got a few hash plates from St. Leon in Indiana and I too love the assemblage of species that can be seen while searching the plate. When I dive, I spend a lot of time methodically searching sections of the reef for interesting critters (usually to photograph). For me, hash plates allow me a time-traveling "dive" into the past. Love the tutorial on how to include zoomed-in sections with your smart phone--maybe others will use that to good effect in some future posts. For me, I'm pretty certain I'd have to be a genius to be able to pull that off with my "dumb" phone--an old Samsung flip phone from the Silurian.

 

Cheers.

 

-Ken