Show us your fossils through a macro lens.

[ThePhysicist]

Adult T. rex tooth serrations:

 

 

Partially-rooted Early Permian parareptilian tooth:

 

 

Early Permian non-mammalian synapsid (animals like Dimetrodon and Edaphosaurus) terminal phalanges (claws):

 

 

This one is complete, and about 3 mm long:

 

 

 

 

Edited August 7, 2021 by ThePhysicist

[Bobby Rico]

5 hours ago, ThePhysicist said:

Early Permian

Thanks for adding to my thread much appreciated. I really like the Permian material and your claws are great , I have had a Dimetrodon claw for a long time in the collection very much a treasure . Cheers Bobby 

Edited August 7, 2021 by Bobby Rico

[Tidgy's Dad]

On 10/30/2020 at 6:58 PM, LabRatKing said:

Unknown. Wheeler Shale. Conspecific to Elrathia kingii, trying out a macro mode app on iPhone 11. mM scale

 

That's the brachiopod Acrothele subsidua. 

[MarcoSr]

Per request, a couple of macro fossils with close-up pictures.

 

Here is a fossil slab with both stromatolites and ooids.  Although the slab was sold as being from Peru without any other data, I'm pretty sure it is from Bolivia and from the Cretaceous.

 

Stromatolite, ooids, slab Bolivia - 254g 3.50x3.25x.5 Inches

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here is a piece with algae.

 

Algae Tenuocharta cloudii, Neoproterozoic 780 MYA, Pahrump Group Horsethief Springs Formation, Horsethief Springs, Kingston Range, CA - 254g 3x2.5 x2 inches

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Marco Sr.

[Bobby Rico]

Here a couple of Bobby Dazzlers  from @FranzBernhard 

 

A beautiful Theodoxus pictus  water snail 

Edited August 7, 2021 by Bobby Rico

[Bobby Rico]

And a polished cross section of bivalves and ammonites bits . Beautiful piece.

 

 

Edited August 7, 2021 by Bobby Rico

[Bobby Rico]

38 minutes ago, MarcoSr said:

Stromatolite, ooids, slab Bolivia - 254g 3.50x3.25x.5 Inches

Thanks for adding much appreciated. I also have a slice of Bolivian stromatolites but not sure of the age ( new understanding it maybe Upper Cretaceous Period )

Edited August 7, 2021 by Bobby Rico

[MarcoSr]

22 hours ago, Bobby Rico said:

Thanks for adding much appreciated. I also have a slice of Bolivian stromatolites but not sure of the age ( new understanding it maybe Upper Cretaceous Period )

 

Check out the below link on Mindat.org which "is the world's largest open database of minerals, rocks, meteorites and the localities they come from"  which states "The Miraflores Formation is better known as a source of Cretaceous fossils, including the stromatolite beds much used for lapidary slabs, cubes, eggs and spheres (which often appear at northern hemisphere gem and mineral shows misrepresented as "Precambrian stromatolite")."

 

https://www.mindat.org/loc-131336.html

 

Marco Sr.

 

[randyrn72]

On 8/7/2021 at 8:30 AM, Bobby Rico said:

Here a couple of Bobby Dazzlers  from @FranzBernhard 

 

A beautiful Theodoxus pictus  water snail 

Very nice pics!

[augustus]

I also take some photo by the cell phone with a macro lens.

This is cell phone's 1x camera with macro lens.

 

This is cell phone camera's 1xcamera with 3x zoom in mode with macro lens

 

 

the following is the thread I post earlier.

 

 

Edited November 25, 2021 by augustus

[kgbudge]

I've not had too much luck with the TG-5 macro settings,but that's probably because I lack a proper tripod.

 

Don't know if I've posted this before:

 

Bryozoans and a brachiopod from the Atrisco Formation (Pennsylvanian), Jarosa, New Mexico. Scale? Roughly 1 cm across each image; that's just a ballpark figure.

[cngodles]

CG-0245 Pharkidonotus percarinatus

 

[fossilhunter21]

Very cool thread! Awesome idea!

 

Species: Raja sp.

Location: Aurora, North Carolina

 

Edited December 9, 2021 by fossilhunter21

[Pauli W.]

Hi all! Thanks to the author for creating an interesting thread!

I want to share photos of ammonite fragments at a significant magnification. When magnified, even modest fragments of ammonites (Jurassic period, Moscow, Fili) look interesting.

The photos were taken through a stereoscopic microscope MBS-10 using a 3 Mpx camera.

The lobed lines of ammonites look very interesting (it looks like fractals).

And more...

[Denis Arcand]

I know I already posted this image in the fossil Hunting Trip Forum, but it is such a good looking macro photography, I thought I share it also in this post, I reduce  the image size not to take to much space, but you can  see the original post  HERE

This is a 1 mm crinoid columnal fossil, taken with a 28 mm extension tube on a 55 mm lens.

 

Edited December 13, 2021 by Denis Arcand
Fix the missing link

[Denis Arcand]

The following picture is very representative of what crinoid, columnal look like, the hole in the center of the columnal is called the axial canal. It is most commonly round but may also be pentagonal or star-shaped, like these 1 millimeter fossils.  It was interesting to find all three shapes side by side on the  same plate.

 

Multiple 1 mm crinoid columnal fossil, taken with a 28 mm extension tube on a 55 mm lens. (in false color) 

 

 

 

Edited December 21, 2021 by Denis Arcand
To replace picture

[Sjfriend]

9 hours ago, Denis Arcand said:

The following picture is very representative of what crinoid, columnal look like, the hole in the center of the columnal is called the axial canal. It is most commonly round but may also be pentagonal or star-shaped, like these 1 millimeter fossils.  It was interesting to find all three shapes side by side on the  same plate.

 

Multiple 1 mm crinoid columnal fossil, taken with a 28 mm extension tube on a 55 mm lens. (in false color) 

 

 

 

Those are cool! Is the color true? I love the different parts

[Bonehunter]

Can you clarify- these could all be at different points in the axial canal as opposed to three different species?...... Bone

[Denis Arcand]

On 12/21/2021 at 10:39 PM, Sjfriend said:

Those are cool! Is the color true? I love the different parts

 

On 12/22/2021 at 8:53 AM, Bonehunter said:

Can you clarify- these could all be at different points in the axial canal as opposed to three different species?...... Bone

 

I use false colors to bring out the different shapes of the matrix. It is very likely that they belong to the same species and possibly the same creature.

 

[colohank]

Termite in amber.  A friend bought the specimen at a rock shop in Moab, UT and lent it to me to photograph.  Earlier provenance unknown.  A penciled note on a scrap of paper packed with the 1" X 3/8" X 3/8" specimen said "termite," and sure enough, there was a darkish inclusion visible to the naked eye.  Regardless of its origins, it's an old bug, one whose state of preservation puts the efforts of the ancient Egyptians to shame.  Nikon D810and reversed Nikkor 50mm f/1.8D lens on Nikon PB-6 bellows yielded 5X magnification.  Direct illumination from two compact LED lamps.  Focus stacks aligned and merged using Affinity Photo software.

[Biotalker]

Nice termite!

 

Here is a pic of burmite: a leafy branched bryophyte (in the family lejeuneaceae) taken with an Olympus CH30 microscope at 100X. The length of the visible plant is 0.5mm. Near the bottom, within the focal plane, you can see a little dot of something (dried cellular contents?) within each cell.

[cngodles]

Meekospira sp.

Pine Creek Limestone, Conemaugh Group, Glenshaw Formation.

 

These usually appear smashed flat with a crease down the middle of larger portions.

 

 

[Pauli W.]

Microphotography of the microsegment of the stem of the crinoidea.
The Carbon system moscow region.
The dimensions of the segment: diameter 12 mm, height 8 mm.
Weight: 325 mg (0.01 oz).
The preservation of the specimen leaves much to be desired, but it has an interesting color and structure.

[RuMert]

42 minutes ago, Pauli W. said:

safety

preservation

[Pauli W.]

21 minutes ago, RuMert said:

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