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The fossilized tooth of an ancient giant shark (Carcharodon or Otodus species) from my collection, still retaining some of the darker grey limestone matrix it was found in. It's likely early Cenozoic Era in age, around 50 million years old, from either the Eocene or Oligocene period. It was most likely collected in Morocco. This creature was up to 50 feet long, and is a relative of today's Great White Shark. Carcharodon carcharius (a "tiny" 20 feet long!).
Die Armfüßer (Brachiopoda) oder Armfüßler, seltener auch Armkiemer genannt, sind die Angehörigen eines Tierstamms ausschließlich aus meereslebenden bilateral-symmetrischen Tieren mit zweiklappigem Gehäuse. Sie ernähren sich von Kleinstlebewesen und ähneln äußerlich den Muscheln(Bivalvia), haben aber anstatt einer linken und rechten Schale (Klappe) eine obere und eine untere, wobei die bauchseitige Schale meist größer als die Rückenschale ist. Brachiopoden besitzen ferner einen Stiel zum Festklammern und an beiden Seiten des Mundes armförmige Tentakel. Die größten heute lebenden Arten erreichen Schalenbreiten bis sieben Zentimeter, die größten fossilen Schalen sind etwa 30 Zentimeter breit. /
The brachiopods, also known as arm gills, are members of an animal phylum consisting exclusively of bilaterally symmetrical marine animals with a two-lobed shell. They feed on microorganisms and are externally similar to mussels (Bivalvia), but instead of a left and right shell (valve) they have an upper and a lower shell, whereby the ventral shell is usually larger than the dorsal shell. Brachiopods also have a stalk for clinging and arm-shaped tentacles on both sides of the mouth. The largest species living today reach shell widths of up to seven centimetres, the largest fossil shells are around 30 centimetres wide.
Quelle: / Source: „https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armfüßer“
I am lucky as I found a bit of Icthyour vertebrae at Whitby. Not as good as this fossil though. No idea of type or age of this specimen, or where it came from. It is a UK specimen. Icthyosaurs were marine reptiles which gave birth to live young. They had a good innings from the Early Triassic to the mid Cretaceous.
6th September 2012 Heights of Abraham Matlock Derbyshire UK
Just love watches with skeleton dial design :) Ooh and them car lights from the background make nice bokeh .. pretty lucky haha :)
I never knew how easy it was to find fossils at the local beach - ok, they don’t look spectacular, no dinosaurs or sharks teeth, but they’re much older (Carboniferous) and it’s fascinating to learn about them.
This is how fossils are born. Add organic matter cover it in mud and wait for a few million years and viola you have a fossil. The patterns in the dried mud are caused by freezing temperatures while the mud was still wet then when the sun comes up the ice melts leaving these patterns.
After months of stay-at-home, we planned the safest outing we could think of, a self-guided tour of Fossil Rim Wildlife center. This audad posing for my camera was a highlight of the trip!
Found in West Virginia!!! Proof that this place was covered by the ocean. My husband found this while working out in the field sampling water at a coal mine. He was in the area of Dorothy WV.
On yesterday's post flic.kr/p/2mW85s8 Michael mirrored my difficulty in comprehending vast eons of time and asked the question what does 66 million years actually mean?
The geology of the Jurassic Coast is extremely complicated and I don't begin to really understand it. However, the shortest version can be seen in this photo. All land here is the remains of an ancient Jurassic sea. It is made up of layers of sediment laid down in an ocean up to around 195 million years ago. However, unlike many places along the coast, here in this photo the layers are more or less horizontal. That means the oldest at the bottom and the most recent at the top.
How does that relate to yesterday's post. Basically as a relatively 'young' fossil, it will have come down from the higher layers of the cliff. This whole coast is constantly eroded, as can be clearly be seen above. High tides cut from below whilst rain run-off erodes from above. Small cliff falls happen daily. Large falls happen every few months and massive slumps every few years. Each time fossils deposited millions and millions of years ago are washed out of the cliffs. They are then either lost to the sea or found by collectors.
Cretaceous echinoid fossil, island of Rügen, Germany. Stack of five images, shot with a Nikon Z fc with a Nikkor Z MC 50 mm 1:2.8, auto focus, aperture 29, exposure time 1.3 s, and ISO 400. Size of the fossil is about 3 cm.
This remarkable sandstone promontory lay beneath the sea during the Oligocene geological period (about 38 million years ago) and contains millions of fossils. One of Australia's oldest fossil marsupials (the possum-like Wynyardia bassiana) was discovered here in the mid 19th Century and is estimated to be approximately 25 million years old.
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Many thanks to Skeletal Mess and Brenda Starr for the great textures.
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This is dedicated to my friend Marja, cre8ive-M whose superb macros inspired me to track down a Panasonic FZ8 on e-Bay. I'm having a lot of fun with it - and it's wonderfully light to carry.
Thanks, Marja~! :-)
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Fossil Stingray (Asterotrygon maloneyi). This creature lived during Eocene time, about 50 million years ago. This fossil is preserved in the Green River Formation, a laminated limestone precipitated from calcium-rich waters. The limestone is interbedded with many thin layers of volcanic ash and mudstone. Fossil Butte National Monument. Lincoln Co., Wyo.
The Fossil Falls is a unique geological feature, located in the Coso Range of California in the United States. Volcanic activity in the mountain range, along with meltwater from glaciers in the nearby Sierra Nevada, played a role in the creation of the falls. They are located near Little Lake, Inyo County, California, 1.0 mi (1.6 km) off US 395 (at a red cinder cone called "Red Hill") on Cinder Road
Fossil of an ammonite (a group of extinct marine molluscs) from the Sierra Norte de Puebla, Mexico. According to some papers I read, the deposit dates from the lower Jurassic period. Back then, the region was under the sea. Processed in Darktable.
Brittle Sea Star (Geocoma carinata). Dorsal surface. This specimen, preserved in limestone, is from the upper Jurassic Solnhofen Formation. It is about 146 million years old. Intact fossils of ophiuroids are quite rare because the fragile body parts disarticulate quickly after death. This brittle star is remarkably similar to its modern counterparts. The specimen shown here is about 4 cm wide. Zandt Quarry. Zandt, Solnhofen, Bavaria, Germany.
Can't decide if I like smooth or rough...this all started with trying out ideas for an ammonite cane, then ran across a button I used for a mold a LONG time ago; thought, hmmm....how a bout a fossil slice embedded in a rock....
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I bought a Fossil from Rubifalls, Chattanooga, Tennessee. The astonishing part of the Fossil for me is that it's witnessed thousands of years in this world and still same....wow.
Ravenscar is a fantastic place to look for fossils. The rocks are full of the impressions of ammonites and molluscs from millions of years ago.
Fossil Dance Fly (Empiidae fam.) preserved in the Upper Eocene Florissant Formation about 34 million years ago. Specimens of these dance flies are occasionally mistaken for mosquitos, probably because of the prominent proboscis. There are no documented occurances of mosquitos in the Florissant Formation. Specimen measures 9 mm. Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument. Teller Co., Colo.
Fossil Footprint Nebula aka NGC 1491 is a bright nebula in the constellation of Perseus. The bright star on the right is λ Persei.
Telescope: William Optics ZenithStar 81 Refractor
Mount: Fornax Lightrack II
Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI 2600MC Pro
Filter: Optolong L-eXtreme Dual-band Filter
Site: Elk Grove, California, USA Bortle 6
Processing: DeepSkyStacker, Photoshop 2020, DXO PhotoLab 4
Calibration Files: None
Guiding: None
Fossil Crane Fly. Unknown species in the family Tipulidae. Found in the Parachute Creek member of the Green River Formation. This insect lived during the Eocene period, about 45-50 million years ago. Specimen is 13 mm long. Douglas Pass, Garfield Co., Colo.
Our Coral Weding Anniversary was 26th March 2012 My gift was a visit to a fossil Coral Reef.Carboniferous Limestone circa 390 Million Years Ago.
National Stone Museum Wirksworth Derbyshire UK 26th March 2012
The end of the Carboniferous saw a catastrophe in the sea. The climate cooled and then heated rapidly. This caused huge algal blooms and mass die offs. This short video tells it well
www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_ATQsL3NMU
New evidence has downsized the armoured fish.
- www.kevin-palmer.com - It was a beautiful spring afternoon at Agate Fossil Beds National Monument. This is the Fossil Hills Trail which winds up and around University and Carnegie Hills.
In October 1981, flying tiger ancient human remains from Guizhou Provincial Museum trial excavation, the accumulation of complex, broadly divided into early and late phases. Early formation of yellow or grayish yellow, unearthed panda, Stegodon fossils, stone products are made for the late Paleolithic culture era. Advanced formation is black, black, unearthed animal genetic pulp for extant species, and human mandibular and chipped stone, grinding stone, grinding bone, pottery and other large, geological time for the Holocene, culture in the age of the Neolithic age, that about 4000 years ago to 6000 years.
Unearthed stone products made a total of 532 pieces of raw materials, mainly to flint stone, there is, nuclear, stone etc.. The stone to stone, with the forward direction of processing processing, types of hit device, a scraper, tip like device and dolabriform etc.. The scraper accounted for 76%, tip like device is small but fine processing. The axe is a symbol of the transformation of Neolithic culture. 27 pieces of polished stone, delicate process, a stone axe, stone adzes, stone spinning wheels, stone scraper, stone arrow head, small stones (spear) 8. The number of stone adzes, regular shape, with long oblique cutting tool representative. 79 pieces of bone, in addition to the 1 pieces of grinding residual bone scraper, are making bone, bone and bone shovel cone. The three notches in the teeth may be scratching the porcupine symbol. In addition to pottery and ball spinning round round cake 1, the rest are all pieces of artifacts. 1494 tablets. The uneven thickness, thickness of 1.2 cm, thickness of only 0.2 cm, high temperature, hard texture. About 70% of sand pottery, pottery sand shale pottery class accounted for 30%, very little. Sand and sand are mainly sand. Pottery ornamentation is complicated, there are thick rope lines and Fang Gewen cone, tattoo, carved lines and lines and other additional cone. There are 3 pieces of pottery pottery, which has 1 pieces of orange powder is subjected to pottery coating inside and outside the grey clay, on the exterior is painted with two parallel red bands. This is the first time in Guizhou, Guizhou is also the earliest pottery record.
The site has a new and old stone formation, and the cultural connotation is rich. Pottery appear more attractive, but considerable differences in advanced culture. These have great significance to the study of the relationship between the new and the old stone culture in Guizhou and the time continuity of the times.
In February 23, 1982, the Guizhou Provincial People's Government approved the publication of the provincial cultural relics protection units. 1981年10月，飞虎山古人类遗址由贵州省博物馆试掘，洞内堆积复杂，大致分早、晚两期。早期地层呈黄色或灰黄色，出土大熊猫、剑齿象等化石，石制品均为打制，文化时代为旧石器时代晚期。晚期地层呈黑色、灰黑色，出土动物遗髓为现生属种，并出人类下颌件和打制石器、磨制石器、磨制骨器、大量的陶片等，地质时代为全新世，文化时代属新石器时代，推测距今约4000年至6000年。
遗址出土打制的石制品共532件，原料以燧石为主，有是核、石片、石器等。石器以石片为主，加工方向以正向加工为主，类型有砸器、刮削器、尖状器和斧形器等。其中刮削器占76%，尖状器虽少但加工精细。斧形器似为向新石器文化转化的象征。磨制石器27件，加工精致，有石斧、石锛、石纺轮、石刮刀、石箭(矛)头、小石块等8种。石锛数量多，形制规整，以长形斜刃具代表性。骨器79件，除1件残的磨制骨刮刀外，均为打制骨器，有骨锥和骨铲。其中豪猪牙上的三道刻痕可能是刻划符。陶器除圆饼式及圆珠纺轮各1件外，其余全是器物碎片。计1494片。其厚度不匀，厚者达1.2厘米，薄者仅0.2厘米，火候高，质地坚硬。夹砂灰陶约占70%，夹砂黑陶占30%，泥质类陶极少。夹砂陶以夹细砂为主。陶片纹饰复杂多样，有粗细绳纹、方格纹、锥刺纹、刻划纹和附加锥纹等。陶片中有3片彩陶，其中有1片是在泥质灰陶的内外施以粉澄色陶衣，再于外表绘有两条平行的红色条带。这是贵州首次发现，也是贵州迄今最早的彩陶记录。
遗址具有新、旧石器地层叠压，文化内涵丰富。彩陶的出现更引人瞩目，但中、晚期文化差异颇大。这些对研究贵州新、旧石器文化的相互关系和时代延续问题具有重要的意义。
1982年2月23日，经贵州省人民政府批准公布为省级文物保护单位。