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Well, after a year of searching, I finally found my first trilobite! They are relatively rare in my area (KC), so I’m pretty ecstatic. Decided to take this prep nice and slow, here’s the bug how I found it: Rock is thankfully not really sticky, was able to spend 40 min on this yesterday: As you can see in the last photo, I used my chisel tip to scribe excess material from above where the head might be. I took it down as far as I was brave enough to do so, because I’m worried that the head might be curved upward. I’m no trilobite expert, so any premature guesses on the species? Update possibly coming tonight. Have a great weekend everyone! -Jay
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Recently acquired this amazing piece, a true female mosquito in Mexican Chiapas amber, very interesting to look at, especially the long needle-like proboscis which is used for biting and drawing blood. I’ve attached some high quality pictures below on the specimen Order: Diptera Family: Culicidae Common Name: Female Mosquito
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Hello, Just wanted to ask for opinions on whether this is a female mosquito in Burmese Amber? I’ve attached some pictures below and closeup (best quality I can get) From what I’ve been told, this particular mosquito is a female using the branched antennae to identify it as a female. Males have a much more plumose (feather-like) antennae. Female mosquitoes are known for drawing blood to produce their eggs, hence this mosquito would have been capable of drawing blood. Please note its long proboscis it would have used to draw blood. It also has fine hairs on its wings characteristic of true mosquitoes (aids in producing the buzzing sound). And also that novices may sometimes mistake some gnats and midges for mosquitoes. A closer examination will reveal the differences. Male mosquitoes have very plumose (feather-like) antennae and do not bite; they feed on nectar and other plant juices. Females have only a few short hairs on the antennae and with their long proboscis are blood-sucking. Appreciate any opinions, thanks in advance!
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Hi, I found this the other day and thought possible it was a crinoid but the bottom was very round and not disc like. Any help would be greatly appreciated. It was found in the Canehill, Arkansas area Northwest Arkansas, thanks.
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Sorry about the double post on here, i’m sorting out my display at the moment. I’ve got this fossil here that I found in North Attleboro, it’s pennsylvanian in age and at first I had thought it may have been an insect, probably just wishful thinking. It’s about a half inch long
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Hey! I blindly bought a bunch of rough Dominican amber and found this thing dead center in a large piece. The main blob has bubbles in it so I thought it might just be a pocket full of air, but after looking at the microscope and seeing appendages I'm not so sure. Is this just a fluke or actually something? These are the best photos I could take – any ideas?
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I was able to purchase a large bug collection from the 70's and I am looking to trade two of the doubles. Open to any interesting trades that are not anything very common/commercial. They are both from the McKittrick asphalt deposit Pleistocene McKittrick, Kern County, California 1. Partial dragonfly(pretty sure it is a dragonfly) 2. Partial grasshopper, dilophus(fly), and darkling sp. beetle These are very hard to photograph with my old phone, but here they are.
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Brazil has some of the most incredible fossils in the world, and I feel not enough appreciation is given, especially to the fish of the Crato Formation! I have briefly been obsessed with the fossils from Brazil as I purchased my first and only fish from there, a small Dastilbe! With the import ban these fish are becoming rarer and rarer I would love to see what some of the older people got while the market was still open! I would also be interested in seeing the isolated teeth from the Spinosaurid from Crato!
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I was encouraged to share this in the forum so here it goes. I was given a pile of "amber" and two pieces that may or may not (most likely not) have something inside. After the "amber" failed the saltwater float test it was proposed that I may have copal, NOT amber. I tried my best to take as clear of pictures as my camera phone would allow. The first piece supposedly it has a "bug or stick or something" inside. The copal, if it really is copal, does not appear very clear, even with a light source behind it. The second piece is a little more transparent when the light shines through with the exception of the mysterious dark object lurking on the middle. (queue the spooky music!) Personally I think that both of these may just be dirt that accumulated in a crack when the copal was forming a long ago but this has apparently been a topic of hot debate. So if ya'll got any opinions on the matter, I'd love to hear them...or if you don't want to share your opinions, just tell me that I've discovered some weird new sub-species of dinosaur and I'll be happy with that. lol
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Another little burmite bug. This one is in a bead just shy of 2 cm across. This bug is one of a few in it, and of course, the tail is angled down a bit. The bug itself is about 2 mm long & looks like it just sat there patiently to be covered with the resin. Seriously, it looks almost posed. 2nd pic shows the tail end a bit clearer.
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I bought this bit of Madagascar copal a year ago, then finally got a decent microscope to see the bugs this week. They are less than a mm each. Now I'm stumped. I am a certified *modern* naturalist. I know something about insects. This one fits all the defining characteristics of an adult insect - probably Coleoptera - except that I only see four legs and may or may not have had antennae at some point. The heads are not very clear at any angle. On the bottom view, there are nubs at the end of the abdomen that *could* be legs, but that is the wrong place for insect legs. On the side views, it looks like there might be legs folded backward, as is common with some beetles, but the underside view also does not show any attachment points where there might have been legs that broke off. Any paleo-entomologists out there to point out what I am clearly missing in these pictures?
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Greetings, everyone. I spent the other day on the east side of Ventura County breaking open sedimentary rocks. I'm not experienced enough with that sort of material to positively ID it but I think it was siltstone. There was a leaf and something else on both sides of one of the rocks. I've been having a hard time figuring out what the "something else" is. It measures about 35 by 14 millimeters. I took a few pictures of both sides under different lighting conditions to help bring out some of the finer details. It comes from the Modelo Formation (Miocene). Thanks ahead of time for any help in figuring out what it is. Here are pictures of the first side: Some pictures of the second side:
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I do not have a lot of experience buying insect fossils and was wondering if this ancestor to the modern dragonfly fossil is real?
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Some help please to finding a tar pit beetle
Bobby Rico posted a topic in Member-to-Member Fossil Trades
Hi TFF I have never done a wanted post before and I don’t know if this is the right category. I have wanted for years a Tar pit beetle not bothered about what type of beetle . I can find something nice to trade or I can purchase one if you know of a good website deliver to the UK if you do please pm me. Thank you for your time Bobby -
Hi al hope your having a good day I am new here and in the field of fossiles but i am enjoying finding this stuff can u helpme with identifying this thing thank u all
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Hand sanded this small piece of Sumatran cloudy amber after work this morning. Once I was done, I was checking it out with my loupe & found a small inclusion. Not exactly sure if the amber is called cloudy or not, but it LOOKS cloudy & those clouds are kinda beautiful. As for the inclusion, not sure what type of bug it is, but I came awful close to destroying it without realizing it. Just plain dumb luck I stopped when I did. Indonesian black (Sumatran) amber, 28mm long with the bug being just barely 1mm in length. The amber itself is a dark cognac hue.
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plant material?..or rolled up bug...clump of something or another weird rock?
hndmarshall posted a topic in Fossil ID
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My family visit Stonerose and dig for a day. We have a great time. Here is what we found. The bug is given to us by a guy there. A partial pine cone A partial flower Swing seed leaves redwood leaf and a fly
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[ Inclusion Inside Baltic Amber ] Nymph Of Lygaeoidea Rhyparochromidae
vermiculosis posted a topic in Micro-paleontology
Hello Friends, This time i'd like to show something that is very rare for me. Never before i didnt saw that bug in baltic amber. I didnt found yet any material about inclusions of Lygaeoidea. Body 3mm. Enjoy -
Can anyone identify this? Found at Filey beach, Uk. Along the base of the coastal wall. I'm guessing some small fish bones or a partial bug fossil, if even that it could be just nothing, thanks. The rock is the size of my palm so this comes out at about a 10p coin here in uk
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