Show us your fossils through a macro lens.

[RuMert]

Thanks! Tiny fossils (not necessarily foraminifera as people usually think) can contain a whole new world, I advise everybody to look for them (examine concretions with magnifying glass, etc)

[Bobby Rico]

5 hours ago, RuMert said:

Thanks! Tiny fossils (not necesserily foraminifera as people usually think) can contain a whole new world, I advise everybody to look for them (examine concretions with magnifying glass, etc)

Well said that is the essence of this thread,  experiencing what maybe a new world in closeup .  

[Bobby Rico]

@RuMert tiny Permian reptile teeth form Oklahoma . Definitely other worldly .

 

[Bobby Rico]

When I was a little lad, one birthday my sister gave me this book. I loved the art work as a kid even today I think it is beautiful.   I have seen quite a bit of Zdenek Burian fantastic art work in the Czech Republic’s  Prague. Here is a few of the pages showIng some  Permian creatures . 

 

now some more of my micro matrix of the Permian.

now can you see clear mineralised  bone .

 

 

 

clear bone

 

 

[Bob Saunders]

Tiny piece of Brachiopod pieces. 2 cm x 1.5 cm or 5/8th x 3/4 inch. impressed with the condition  of I  believe a piece of mucrosprifer. which I see usually dark gray. Wednesday evening and too many Mosquitoes. S. W. Michigan dig. 

[Bob Saunders]

I wrote, I  believe a piece of mucrosprifer at the bottom of the first image. I looked at it with the microscope and it is  Fenestella 

[Bobby Rico]

Some micro matrix form White River Formation , Oligocene Scenic , South Dakota. mammal teeth, bone and huckleberry seeds.
 

The label says “Ant Hill Finds“  if I remember rightly it is a good place to look for small fossil like mammal or dinosaur teeth . You may get a couple of painful hits off the resident but no pain no gain.
 

How cool are the huckleberry seeds I can’t imagine a more American  Wild West sounding fossil than his. 

 

 

 

 

[TOM BUCKLEY]

47 minutes ago, Bobby Rico said:

Some micro matrix form White River Formation , Oligocene Scenic , South Dakota. mammal teeth, bone and huckleberry seeds.
 

The label says “Ant Hill Finds“  if I remember rightly it is a good place to look for small fossil like mammal or dinosaur teeth . You may get a couple of painful hits off the resident .  
 

How cool are the huckleberry seeds I can’t imagine a more American Wild West sounding fossil than his.

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I have to admit, these outstanding photos and all the others are really intriguing me. A collection of micro fossils will certainly take up less room than Hadrosaur bones. I live on the East Coast of Florida and are thus surrounded by beaches. Are micro fossils found in beach sand or are they beat to nothing by wave action?

Tom

 

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[Bobby Rico]

13 minutes ago, TOM BUCKLEY said:

have to admit, these outstanding photos and all the others are really intriguing me. A collection of micro fossils will certainly take up less room than Hadrosaur bones. I live on the East Coast of Florida and are thus surrounded by beaches. Are micro fossils found in beach sand or are they beat to nothing by wave action?

Tom

Thank you .I think Micro  fossil can found at lots of formations like Shark Tooth Hill, Peace River, Hell Creek, Rattlesnake Creek and many more.  You could go to the members sales part of the forum and ask if anyone has some micro matrix for sale.

 

cheers Bobby 

[Bobby Rico]

As with yesterday posts these are all from @Nimravis .first up is 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My favourite just look at this little Bobby Dazzler

 

 

It is not everyday you get to photograph some prehistoric.....

 

Cheers Ralph

 

[RuMert]

Impressive fotos with nice resolution/definition

[Bobby Rico]

22 minutes ago, RuMert said:

Impressive fotos with nice resolution/definition

Thanks just a camera phone and very cheep clip on macro lens. The trick is good light. 

[RuMert]

Pretty much the same: an old phone and a 10x20x lens I hold in hand.  Others do go in depths as below

 

 

[Bobby Rico]

6 minutes ago, RuMert said:

Pretty much the same: an old phone and a 10x20x lens I hold in hand.  Others do go in depths as below

Looks like a good set up.  Mrs R a few years ago got me a macro lens for Easter. Holding the phone still is the tricky bit. Thanks for adding to my thread. 

[cngodles]

Right now, I take mine using an iPhone through the microscope lens. It's difficult to keep it steady, but it seems to outperform the formal Nikon DSLR attachment I have.

 

Speaking of which, I have quite a few recent ones.

 

Late Pennsylvanian Trilobite Pygidium (Pine Creek Limestone, Glenshaw Formation, Conemaugh Group). Could be one of two genus, not sure exact which yet.

 

 

Shansiella carbonaria detail of aperture edge showing layers of fossil shell material.

 

 

And my absolute favorite, the tiny clam. Likely Paleoneilo. 3mm long.

 

 

[Bobby Rico]

1 hour ago, cngodles said:

Right now, I take mine using an iPhone through the microscope lens. It's difficult to keep it steady, but it seems to outperform the formal Nikon DSLR attachment I have.

That works great thank you.   

[Bobby Rico]

I been amazed by this photo . The shark tooth must only 3mm at most. 

[Nimravis]

@Bobby Rico

White River Micros

 

 

 

 

[pierrette]

HI! I've been having so much fun at looking at all your stunning photos!  And I also got plenty of good advice. Thank you. I'd like to make a contribution in return. Here are some pics of Pentacrinus neocomiensis  Desor  (Lower Cretaceous), which are part of the peduncle of sea lilies. We call them "Little stars" They are very small and I've tried  to get a decent pic of a single specimen by using different devices and strategies and the most effective has been using my old OPTIKA binocular at 40X, focus and then take a picture through the ocular directly with my even older Nikon Coolpix 775. Both of them  deserve a good retirement but they have to keep going as I can't find a replacement that works the same with tiny pieces (for a small budget, I mean) 

 

 

 

COOLPIX A900 (blurred)

[TOM BUCKLEY]

1 hour ago, pierrette said:

HI! I've been having so much fun at looking at all your stunning photos!  And I also got plenty of good advice. Thank you. I'd like to make a contribution in return. Here are some pics of Pentacrinus neocomiensis  Desor  (Lower Cretaceous), which are part of the peduncle of sea lilies. We call them "Little stars" They are very small and I've tried  to get a decent pic of a single specimen by using different devices and strategies and the most effective has been using my old OPTIKA binocular at 40X, focus and then take a picture through the ocular directly with my even older Nikon Coolpix 775. Both of them  deserve a good retirement but they have to keep going as I can't find a replacement that works the same with tiny pieces (for a small budget, I mean) 

 

 

 

 

COOLPIX A900 (blurred)

 

Amazing!

Tom

[Bobby Rico]

On 14/06/2020 at 5:10 AM, Nimravis said:

 

 

 

 

 

[Bobby Rico]

@Nimravis thanks Ralph I was wondering do you know peltisaurus looks like? I can’t find online but it is interesting.

[Nimravis]

5 minutes ago, Bobby Rico said:

@Nimravis thanks Ralph I was wondering do you know peltisaurus looks like? I can’t find online but it is interesting.

I just looked at my post and I noticed I did another typo, it should be Peltosaurus. I do not have a pic, but I will check at home, it was a lizard, maybe @jpc has one.

[jpc]

3 hours ago, Bobby Rico said:

On 6/13/2020 at 10:10 PM, Nimravis said:

 

 

 

 

 

These very bumpy scutes are Helodermoides, not Peltosaurus.  I did a google image search on them both, and Peltosaurus is out there if spelled with an O     : )

 

[Bobby Rico]

29 minutes ago, jpc said:

These very bumpy scutes are Helodermoides, not Peltosaurus.  I did a google image search on them both, and Peltosaurus is out there if spelled with an O     : )

 

Thank you very much