sixgill pete Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 Any of you collect microfossils? I know it can be time consuming and nerve wracking, not to mention what it does to yours eyes, but the results can be spectacular!!!!!!! I bring home a 5 gallon bucket of material, let it dry thoroughly, sift it through 1/2 inch mesh, then through 1/4 inch mesh. Then I use a fine wire colander, fill it with the sifted material and wash all of the dirt out. Then I let dry, pour it out on something WHITE and search away. Here are some of my favorites. this pic is (l to r) Galeocerdo aduncus (extinct tiger shark) Alopis latidens (fossil common thresher) and Hemipristis curvatus (little snaggletooth shark) in this picture top left is a tiny, and i mean tiny pufferfish mouth plate, it is absolutely gorgeous then an unidentified tooth, it is round and resembles aligator, but who knows and bottom right is 3 teeth (left basking shark and other 2 whale shark) and finally this pic is top left some very small shark teeth including a piece of a very small cow shark, top right is a mushroom shaped tooth, some type of ray maybe? and bottom left are all Scyliorhinus sp. Cat sharks Bulldozers and dirt Bulldozers and dirt behind the trailer, my desert Them red clay piles are heaven on earth I get my rocks off, bulldozers and dirt Patterson Hood; Drive-By Truckers May 2016 May 2012 Aug 2013, May 2016, Apr 2020 Oct 2022 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Dente Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 Are these teeth from the mine at Lee Creek? If so, that is the smallest aduncas I've ever seen from there. Its hard to tell from the photo but it might be Galeorhinus. If it is Galeorhinus, it is the nicest one I've seen from there. Usually they look like they have been reworked quite a bit. Either way, nice tooth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 I love collections in gem jars! Itty bitty teeth in particular "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixgill pete Posted February 25, 2011 Author Share Posted February 25, 2011 Are these teeth from the mine at Lee Creek? If so, that is the smallest aduncas I've ever seen from there. Its hard to tell from the photo but it might be Galeorhinus. If it is Galeorhinus, it is the nicest one I've seen from there. Usually they look like they have been reworked quite a bit. Either way, nice tooth. Yes Al Dente, all of these teeth are from Lee Creek. I initially thought the tooth in question to be Galeorhinus but after looking closely at it, I believe the root is more U shaped and there is more curve to the cutting edge. But yet you could be correct. I like to think it is aduncus, because it is so small. Unfortunately I do not have a camera that I can take good close up pics of these teeth, and other microfossils and they do look so much better in person. Bulldozers and dirt Bulldozers and dirt behind the trailer, my desert Them red clay piles are heaven on earth I get my rocks off, bulldozers and dirt Patterson Hood; Drive-By Truckers May 2016 May 2012 Aug 2013, May 2016, Apr 2020 Oct 2022 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darwin Ahoy Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 I love the micros. I work mostly the Cretaceous here in NJ, and with the larger stuff, it pretty much limits you to 5 or 6 species (speaking solely of sharks), which gets old after a while. Turning to the micros opens up a whole other world of fossils. Here's a few from my last trip out. Forgive the fuzzy pictures, as my camera isn't great with these micros, either. Ischyrhiza mira, sawfish oral tooth, 5mm Lonchidion babulskii, Hybodont shark tooth, 5mm (thanks to toothpuller for the ID) unknown reptile tooth, possibly Mosasaur, but it seems to have quite a curve to it, 5mm There were some other nice micro finds, but I didn't have pictures handy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pleecan Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 (edited) Very nice micro fossiils guys.... thanks for showing us.... There is no real need to apologizes about fuzzy images as we all try our best to photograph these hard to photograph tiny bits... PL Edited February 25, 2011 by pleecan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixgill pete Posted February 25, 2011 Author Share Posted February 25, 2011 That Hybodont tooth is awesome Darwin. Maybe we could send each other a large baggie of sifted material from our areas so we each could find something new? Bulldozers and dirt Bulldozers and dirt behind the trailer, my desert Them red clay piles are heaven on earth I get my rocks off, bulldozers and dirt Patterson Hood; Drive-By Truckers May 2016 May 2012 Aug 2013, May 2016, Apr 2020 Oct 2022 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Eaton Posted February 26, 2011 Share Posted February 26, 2011 Nice stuff! I collect small shark teeth too, at least small as in down to 1mm. Too much work to go smaller than that for me ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickNC Posted February 26, 2011 Share Posted February 26, 2011 Thanks for sharing. I've tried to do this but found I have little patience for the tiny ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tarheel59 Posted February 26, 2011 Share Posted February 26, 2011 sixgill pete the wife and I do that on beach hunts its funny that you can spot them on the gravel beds not sure if I have anything as small as some of yours but close as the eye can get maybe considering the conditions haha. Great presentation maybe Aupex could create smallest fossil contest for TFF You my friend probally could win it :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpc Posted February 26, 2011 Share Posted February 26, 2011 I am also a big fan of microfossils. Mostly I coolect late Cretaceous Lance and Hell Creek Fm's, so lots of gar scales, croc teeth, hadrosaur teeth, ceratopsian teeth, fish parts, and lesser qtys of lizard parts, small verts of all kinds, ray teeth, and my favorites the mamal teeth. I posted some pix of these a while ago, but I can't find that post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alopias Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 this is my participation , mee also , I collect the small teeth into the Middle Miocene of France . here , Chaenogaleus affinis scale line : 4mm and Carcharias acutissima posteriors teeth scale line : 3 mm , 4mm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wally Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 Nice smale teeth Alopias. Is this material from the Loupian/south of france?. walter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alopias Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 yes Walter this teeth come from Loupian site Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
azure Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 Oh, such cool microfossils! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixgill pete Posted February 28, 2011 Author Share Posted February 28, 2011 alopias, those are great micro teeth. what do you take your pictures with? Bulldozers and dirt Bulldozers and dirt behind the trailer, my desert Them red clay piles are heaven on earth I get my rocks off, bulldozers and dirt Patterson Hood; Drive-By Truckers May 2016 May 2012 Aug 2013, May 2016, Apr 2020 Oct 2022 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coco Posted February 28, 2011 Share Posted February 28, 2011 Alopias, you tiny teeth are very nice ! I love Chaenogaleus affinis... Coco ---------------------- OUTIL POUR MESURER VOS FOSSILES : ici Ma bibliothèque PDF 1 (Poissons et sélaciens récents & fossiles) : ici Ma bibliothèque PDF 2 (Animaux vivants - sans poissons ni sélaciens) : ici Mâchoires sélaciennes récentes : ici Hétérodontiques et sélaciens : ici Oeufs sélaciens récents : ici Otolithes de poissons récents ! ici Un Greg... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alopias Posted February 28, 2011 Share Posted February 28, 2011 thanks all , Coco , me also I like this teeth , Chaenogalus affinis is no commun and very fragile . sixgil pete , you have my technique on the forum ; the topic is (2 small teeth ) here more teeth Sphyrna arambourgi m Miocene size : 6 mm Alopias exiga m Miocene size :5 mm very rare Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Posted February 28, 2011 Share Posted February 28, 2011 Excellent finds. Here's one of mine, though I may have uploaded it before. A partial fish palate, in a Lower Cretaceous, (Lower Wealden), sandstone, between grains of sand. KOF, Bill. Welcome to the forum, all new members www.ukfossils check it out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alopias Posted February 28, 2011 Share Posted February 28, 2011 very very tiny congrats BILL ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diplotomodon Posted March 2, 2011 Share Posted March 2, 2011 I love the micros. I work mostly the Cretaceous here in NJ, and with the larger stuff, it pretty much limits you to 5 or 6 species (speaking solely of sharks), which gets old after a while. Turning to the micros opens up a whole other world of fossils. Here's a few from my last trip out. Forgive the fuzzy pictures, as my camera isn't great with these micros, either. Ischyrhiza mira, sawfish oral tooth, 5mm Very nice! I've been longing after one of those Ischyrhiza for quite a while now. I don't have many microfossils, but I do have a couple of tiny teeth of sharks and rays I bought many a year ago. What a wonderful menagerie! Who would believe that such as register lay buried in the strata? To open the leaves, to unroll the papyrus, has been an intensely interesting though difficult work, having all the excitement and marvelous development of a romance. And yet the volume is only partly read. Many a new page I fancy will yet be opened. -- Edward Hitchcock, 1858 Formerly known on the forum as Crimsonraptor @Diplotomodon on Twitter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darwin Ahoy Posted March 2, 2011 Share Posted March 2, 2011 (edited) Very nice! I've been longing after one of those Ischyrhiza for quite a while now. I don't have many microfossils, but I do have a couple of tiny teeth of sharks and rays I bought many a year ago. Me too, and it takes some time. This is my first one in probably 20-30 trips looking for micros. Edited March 2, 2011 by Darwin Ahoy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diplotomodon Posted March 2, 2011 Share Posted March 2, 2011 Me too, and it takes some time. This is my first one in probably 20-30 trips looking for micros. Where did you find these? Was it Big Brook, or somewhere else in the Navesink? What a wonderful menagerie! Who would believe that such as register lay buried in the strata? To open the leaves, to unroll the papyrus, has been an intensely interesting though difficult work, having all the excitement and marvelous development of a romance. And yet the volume is only partly read. Many a new page I fancy will yet be opened. -- Edward Hitchcock, 1858 Formerly known on the forum as Crimsonraptor @Diplotomodon on Twitter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bear-dog Posted March 2, 2011 Share Posted March 2, 2011 (edited) quote name='sixgill pete' timestamp='1298855822' post='210965'] alopias, those are great micro teeth. what do you take your pictures with? A camera. Well you asked! Edited March 2, 2011 by bear-dog Bear-dog. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixgill pete Posted March 3, 2011 Author Share Posted March 3, 2011 O.K. bear-dog, you got me with that one. TOUCHE !!!!!!!!!! Bulldozers and dirt Bulldozers and dirt behind the trailer, my desert Them red clay piles are heaven on earth I get my rocks off, bulldozers and dirt Patterson Hood; Drive-By Truckers May 2016 May 2012 Aug 2013, May 2016, Apr 2020 Oct 2022 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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