vellis Posted May 18, 2019 Share Posted May 18, 2019 Rainy day today, so here are a few of my micro finds. Mostly they are from Post Oak Creek, a few from the North Sulphur River, and a few from a location somewhere between the bottom of the Eagle Ford and top of the Woodbine. All are late Cretaceous and all are microscope pics, either 10x or 60x. Sorry some do not have any objects for scale. A piece of coprolite from the North Sulphur River with some fish verts, possible Ptychodus tooth, and mystery shiny stuff: 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vellis Posted May 18, 2019 Author Share Posted May 18, 2019 Coral from Post Oak Creek 10X and 60X magnified. Guessing maybe 5mm length on this one, it has been a while. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vellis Posted May 18, 2019 Author Share Posted May 18, 2019 Small fish vert at 10X and 60X, with a penny for scale 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vellis Posted May 18, 2019 Author Share Posted May 18, 2019 Interesting fish vert that is not attached to a larger piece of matrix and not deformed too badly, I don't see many of these. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vellis Posted May 18, 2019 Author Share Posted May 18, 2019 I think I remember that this one was an internal mold of a crab claw or other crustacean. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vellis Posted May 18, 2019 Author Share Posted May 18, 2019 How many verts can you find in this pic? Lol! Bottom of Eagle Ford or top of Woodbine formation small 1" think plates of fish parts galore: 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vellis Posted May 18, 2019 Author Share Posted May 18, 2019 Relatively small shark teeth 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vellis Posted May 18, 2019 Author Share Posted May 18, 2019 Ray teeth, I think, and some unknown teeth 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vellis Posted May 18, 2019 Author Share Posted May 18, 2019 No idea on these. The last to are in the ID forum. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vellis Posted May 18, 2019 Author Share Posted May 18, 2019 I think ray teeth on these last two: 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vellis Posted May 18, 2019 Author Share Posted May 18, 2019 Last one. 10x magnification of one of the sharks teeth from above with a penny for scale: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Dente Posted May 18, 2019 Share Posted May 18, 2019 58 minutes ago, vellis said: I think ray teeth on these last two: Ptychotrygon. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Dente Posted May 18, 2019 Share Posted May 18, 2019 1 hour ago, vellis said: Coral from Post Oak Creek 10X and 60X magnified. Guessing maybe 5mm length on this one, it has been a while. This is a bryozoan. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Dente Posted May 18, 2019 Share Posted May 18, 2019 1 hour ago, vellis said: Ray teeth, I think, and some unknown teeth The serrated piece is from Squalicorax. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heteromorph Posted May 18, 2019 Share Posted May 18, 2019 Nice micros, and great pictures! You have probably said elsewhere on the forum, but what microscope/magnifiers did you take these pictures with? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vellis Posted May 18, 2019 Author Share Posted May 18, 2019 Just a Celestron Amoeba USB microscope that I bought years ago. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vellis Posted May 19, 2019 Author Share Posted May 19, 2019 Thanks all for the IDs too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vellis Posted May 22, 2019 Author Share Posted May 22, 2019 @ynot After looking at your awesome micro post, I am going to have to do some more sorting and take some more pics. I saw a few things in your post that I recognize from my gravel, but did not recognize as fossils. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vellis Posted May 24, 2019 Author Share Posted May 24, 2019 Ok, I’ve been going through my micro gravel again and after seeing ynot’s awesome micro pics I am finding a lot more stuff. I have a lot of pics to take, go through and organize, but here are two preview pics, one magnified and one not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vellis Posted May 24, 2019 Author Share Posted May 24, 2019 One interesting looking tooth: mm scale Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vellis Posted May 24, 2019 Author Share Posted May 24, 2019 Nice little fish vert. Again, I don’t see a lot of these that are not attached to matrix and/or that are not badly smashed up. Mm scale 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted May 25, 2019 Share Posted May 25, 2019 Nice finds and pictures. 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...
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