RuMert Posted October 6, 2020 Share Posted October 6, 2020 gar tooth, 7mm bony fish and shark verts, 3-4mm Craspedites sp. ammonite, 15 mm belemnite protoconch, 0,25mm echinoid test, 8 mm All of these come from Tithonian, -150ma, Moscow 5 My sites & reports Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thecosmilia Trichitoma Posted October 10, 2020 Share Posted October 10, 2020 The colors on that ammonite are jaw dropping. Beautiful! 1 It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt -Mark Twain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Rico Posted October 28, 2020 Author Share Posted October 28, 2020 Beautiful horn coral from @Monica With a cool flower shaped Bryozoan. Please look at label for details. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Rico Posted October 28, 2020 Author Share Posted October 28, 2020 On 06/10/2020 at 8:36 PM, RuMert said: Craspedites sp. ammonite, 15 mm Wow love the colour on this ammonites . Nice photos thanks for keeping my thread going 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam86cucv Posted October 30, 2020 Share Posted October 30, 2020 I decided to do a little Permian fossil hunt during my lunch break. I only did a quick unaided eye search of a tablespoon or so of matrix and here is the results. First is the entire find. Followed by the largest tooth using my clip on lens. I know the lighting could have been better but I felt it was going to turn into a journey down the rabbit hole if I didn't keep myself to a set time limit. Scale in the one picture is inches. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Top Trilo Posted October 30, 2020 Share Posted October 30, 2020 Awesome hunt, really cool teeth “If fossils are not "boggling" your mind then you are simply not doing it right” -Ken (digit) "No fossil is garbage, it´s just not completely preserved” -Franz (FranzBernhard) "With hammer in hand, the open horizon of time, and dear friends by my side, what can we not accomplish together?" -Kane (Kane) "We are in a way conquering time, reuniting members of a long lost family" -Quincy (Opabinia Blues) "I loved reading the trip reports, I loved the sharing, I loved the educational aspect, I loved the humor. It felt like home. It still does" -Mike (Pagurus) “The best deal I ever got was getting accepted as a member on The Fossil Forum. Not only got an invaluable pool of knowledge, but gained a loving family as well.” -Doren (caldigger) "it really is nice, to visit the oasis that is TFF" -Tim (fossildude19) "Life's Good! -Adam (Tidgy's Dad) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Top Trilo Posted October 30, 2020 Share Posted October 30, 2020 these were the best picture I could get of this 2 mm pseudo scorpion in amber from Burma or Myanmar. I bought it a while ago and looking at it through a magnifying glass is incredible. 1 “If fossils are not "boggling" your mind then you are simply not doing it right” -Ken (digit) "No fossil is garbage, it´s just not completely preserved” -Franz (FranzBernhard) "With hammer in hand, the open horizon of time, and dear friends by my side, what can we not accomplish together?" -Kane (Kane) "We are in a way conquering time, reuniting members of a long lost family" -Quincy (Opabinia Blues) "I loved reading the trip reports, I loved the sharing, I loved the educational aspect, I loved the humor. It felt like home. It still does" -Mike (Pagurus) “The best deal I ever got was getting accepted as a member on The Fossil Forum. Not only got an invaluable pool of knowledge, but gained a loving family as well.” -Doren (caldigger) "it really is nice, to visit the oasis that is TFF" -Tim (fossildude19) "Life's Good! -Adam (Tidgy's Dad) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digit Posted October 30, 2020 Share Posted October 30, 2020 Exposure adjusted a bit to bring down the black levels. Cheers. -Ken 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LabRatKing Posted October 30, 2020 Share Posted October 30, 2020 Unknown. Wheeler Shale. Conspecific to Elrathia kingii, trying out a macro mode app on iPhone 11. mM scale 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThePhysicist Posted October 30, 2020 Share Posted October 30, 2020 Thought I would contribute to this topic... Tyrannosaurus rex serrations: Tylosaurus proriger (large mosasaur) tooth feeding wear: Ptychodus whipplei ("crusher" shark) tooth feeding wear: Galeocerdo cuvier (tiger shark) tooth: Edmontosaurus annectens (hadrosaur) feeding wear: Astraspis desiderata (Ordovician ostracoderm) odontode: Mosasaur bone: Cretodus crassidens (Cretaceous shark) enamel folds: Small Cretaceous shark teeth: Ptychotrygon sp. (sawfish) oral teeth: 7 "Argumentation cannot suffice for the discovery of new work, since the subtlety of Nature is greater many times than the subtlety of argument." - Carl Sagan "I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there." - Richard Feynman Collections: Hell Creek Microsite | Hell Creek/Lance | Dinosaurs | Sharks | Squamates | Post Oak Creek | North Sulphur River | Lee Creek | Aguja | Permian | Devonian | Triassic | Harding Sandstone Instagram: @thephysicist_tff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fossilsonwheels Posted October 30, 2020 Share Posted October 30, 2020 On 7/1/2020 at 1:51 AM, Bobby Rico said: Some very nice Shark Tooth Hill matrix of Bakersfield. Very nice teeth and excellent photography 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fossilsonwheels Posted October 30, 2020 Share Posted October 30, 2020 Here are some microfossils as photographed from the microeye at the Gateway Science Museum. These are from the Mesaverde Formation. I can’t recall the exact member of the formation but they are from Colorado. Scapanorhynchus symphseal tooth. The only Goblin symphseal in our collection. 4mm Scyliorhinus tooth. This was the smallest tooth we had found until we started poking around Devonian matrix. Just 1mm 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fossilsonwheels Posted November 14, 2020 Share Posted November 14, 2020 I haven’t posted any Dino stuff in a long time so I played with the micro eye at work today while doing a Dino video. Pic 1 Pachycephalosaurus “fang” Hell Creek Formation Pic 2 Pectinodon Lance Creek Formation Pic 3 the serrations on a small Allosaurid tooth from Portugal 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fossilsonwheels Posted November 14, 2020 Share Posted November 14, 2020 Here are some cool micro shark teeth from Ringstead Bay, Weymouth United Kingdom. We have been able to find a fair number of teeth from this well studied Jurassic chondrichthyes assemblage. We have roughly 3/4 of the fauna in our collection. This one site has given us our oldest fossils from 4 extant orders of sharks and our oldest Batoid tooth as well. Tiny teeth and fun to try photographing lol Here they are under the microeye Pseudorhina alifera- an early Angelshark. These used to be called Squatina but I believe Pseudorhina is correct based on current literature. Still a Squatinaformes either way. Heterodontus semirugosus Paracestracion falcifer- both are Heterodontiformes. Palaeoscyllium formosum- our oldest Carcharhiniformes. While teeth from this site are not at all rare I think this one might be on the rare side. The smallest, under 2mm, from this location. Pseudospinax- our oldest Orectolobiformes tooth. I believe all three of our teeth would be Pseudospinax but there are two other Carpet Sharks described here. 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RuMert Posted February 23, 2021 Share Posted February 23, 2021 Kimmeridgian echinoid spine, 20 mm Oxfordian gastropod Tornatellaea frearsiana, 7 mm Oxfordian gastropod Clathrobaculus inconstantiplicatus, 12 mm Oxfordian shark tooth, probably Synechodus (Palaeospinax), 4 mm 2 3 My sites & reports Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Notidanodon Posted February 23, 2021 Share Posted February 23, 2021 On 11/14/2020 at 8:37 AM, fossilsonwheels said: Here are some cool micro shark teeth from Ringstead Bay, Weymouth United Kingdom. We have been able to find a fair number of teeth from this well studied Jurassic chondrichthyes assemblage. We have roughly 3/4 of the fauna in our collection. This one site has given us our oldest fossils from 4 extant orders of sharks and our oldest Batoid tooth as well. Great finds, what did you use to identify them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fossilsonwheels Posted February 23, 2021 Share Posted February 23, 2021 29 minutes ago, will stevenson said: Great finds, what did you use to identify them? Publications. There is a publication on the fauna on Fossilworks that helped provide the species list and I searched for examples of each species to confirm the ID. I think I ended up using 3 or 4 different publications. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TOM BUCKLEY Posted February 23, 2021 Share Posted February 23, 2021 (edited) World's smallest rugose coral? 2mm. Cornulites hamiltonlae Wanakah Shale Penn-Dixie Quarry Hamburg, NY Middle-Devonian Edited February 23, 2021 by TOM BUCKLEY Wrong ID. 1 AVOCATIONAL PALEONTOLOGIST STROKE SURVIVOR CANCER SURVIVOR CURMUDGEON "THERE IS A VERY FINE LINE BETWEEN AVOCATIONAL PALEONTOLOGY AND MENTAL ILLNESS" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TOM BUCKLEY Posted February 23, 2021 Share Posted February 23, 2021 Better picture? 2 2 AVOCATIONAL PALEONTOLOGIST STROKE SURVIVOR CANCER SURVIVOR CURMUDGEON "THERE IS A VERY FINE LINE BETWEEN AVOCATIONAL PALEONTOLOGY AND MENTAL ILLNESS" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bonehunter Posted February 24, 2021 Share Posted February 24, 2021 Just assembled a Leica M420 scope, phototubes, Sony A660 camera with HDMI cable to my tabletop TV screeen and BOOYAH!- my first conodont pic!........Many, many more to follow!! Bone 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crusty_Crab Posted February 24, 2021 Share Posted February 24, 2021 Not sure if you ever got an ID for these, but they're too cool to pass up. On 2/23/2020 at 5:25 PM, Bobby Rico said: Now for something different from me, baltic amber with some bugs inclusions. I can’t ID them probably flys/mosquitoes ? I don’t have any stacking software just an iPhone and clip on lens. I think they are not to bad photos. Cheers Bobby I believe this to be a beetle, order Coleoptera. I've circled what I believe to be striations on the elytra. The broad, flattened shape of the head reminds me of the click beetles, family Elateridae, but a better viewing angle is needed. Fly, order Diptera. The circled antennae appear to be aristate. Order Diptera. The halteres are clearly visible (labeled a), which is characteristic of the order. The antennae (labelled b) are featherlike with the narrow abdomen gives it a midge-like appearance, family Chironomidae if I had to hazard a guess. Probably a fly, order Diptera. What look like halteres are in the circled area. Looks like an Orthopteran (crickets, grasshoppers, katydids) to me. Long legs, long slender antennae. 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crusty_Crab Posted February 24, 2021 Share Posted February 24, 2021 While on the subject of insects, these are from the Eocene Green River Formation, taken with a 20x macro lens clipped onto a smartphone. Beetle, order Coleoptera. It looks like it has a snout, making it a weevil, family Curculionidae. Order Diptera, with the halteres and wing venation clearly visible. Another beetle, order Coleoptera, with the elytra spread as in flight. Unfortunately, the hind wings do not appear to have been preserved. 3 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
christieattewell Posted February 24, 2021 Share Posted February 24, 2021 (edited) Opalised fossil from lightning ridge under micro probably small tooth Edited February 24, 2021 by christieattewell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IsaacTheFossilMan Posted February 24, 2021 Share Posted February 24, 2021 On 10/6/2020 at 8:36 PM, RuMert said: Craspedites sp. ammonite, 15 mm That ammonite is stunning! The original mother of pearl! 1 ~ Isaac; www.isaactfm.com "Don't move! He can't see us if we don't move!" - Alan Grant Come to the spring that is The Fossil Forum, where the stream of warmth and knowledge never runs dry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OregonFossil Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 So, yesterday I was doing some work on some talus and near the end I picked up two rocks (one sandstone from the Pittsburg Bluff formation (PBF, Miocene) and the other deep water shale (>1000') from the Keasey Formation (Eocene), each only have a shell piece showing on the outside. The Sandstone (PBF) is consolidated but all it take is a gentle tap from the Gpick while the Shale (KF) is extremely fine grained and very, very hard. I was going to toss both since I have some very good casts and molds of these formations bivalve molluscs. Then I thought why not at least break them in half(both were between 6" and 8" on the longest dimension). The sandstone split and much to my astonishment there was a cast and a mold of a mollusc (wide dimension: 30mm)with lots of details in the mold and cast. Enough that I will take the time and ID it (lots of mollusc species in the PBF). The image I have attached of it shows clearly the none symmetric shape and other ID points. Am going to leave it in the matrix as I like the look. The PDB has significantly more marine fossils than does the KF in my experience. The Keasey shale being deep water is a made of very fine particulate matter that is extremely hard to break, even with my 3 pound hand sledge hammer. When I hit this piece of shale, the first time it broke a small sliver off and the second time a four inch piece flew off. Like the rest of the piece just a bit of shale was in the 4". However in the voild left was a 10mm smooth sided Dentalium. I have found in a different layer of the KF some large ribbed Dentalium. But in the site from where this one came from this is the first one I've found there. All of the other Dentalium have been a ribbed species leaving me very interested to ID this one. Again I will leave it in the matrix as due to its size, the hardness of the shale, and the fact that this might be rare in this specific locality I will wait until I contact a few folks who have studied this formation in case they are interested. Images shot with Panasonic G9, Olympus 60mm macro lens, and an electronic flash. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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