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Imaging and Digitization for Avocational Paleontologists Workshop

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Imaging and Digitization for Avocational Paleontologists Workshop

The Imaging and Digitization for Avocational Paleontologists Workshop will expose participants to the proper techniques of imaging and digitizing their private collection to create research-grade photos with simple tools and cameras (like an iphone!). Our aim is for our participants to leave the workshop with the tools and techniques that are of professional grade, but are open-source.

link to google folder with workshop talks and resources: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1KsNx03RIFVn8k74IJ0dt223BET-_5lxu?usp=sharing 

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  • Profile picture of Nicole Butterfield

    Nicole Butterfield posted an image in the group Group logo of Imaging and Digitization for Avocational Paleontologists WorkshopImaging and Digitization for Avocational Paleontologists Workshop from the myFOSSIL app 6 months, 3 weeks ago

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    6 months, 3 weeks ago

    What’s this #event #collection_site

    • Profile picture of Fred Soroka
      Fred Soroka replied 6 months, 3 weeks ago

      Looks like Chert

    • Profile picture of Bill Heim
      Bill Heim replied 6 months ago

      maybe fragments of knapped flint. However, man made objects are not fossils

  • Profile picture of Misty Roth

    Misty Roth posted an image in the group Group logo of Imaging and Digitization for Avocational Paleontologists WorkshopImaging and Digitization for Avocational Paleontologists Workshop from the myFOSSIL app 10 months ago

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    10 months ago

    Not sure I thought cause the three horns it was a triceratops but I am not dure

    • Profile picture of Mason Hintermeister
      Mason Hintermeister replied 10 months ago

      Unfortunately this does not appear to be a fossil!

  • Profile picture of Paul Edwards

    Paul Edwards posted an image in the group Group logo of Imaging and Digitization for Avocational Paleontologists WorkshopImaging and Digitization for Avocational Paleontologists Workshop from the myFOSSIL app 10 months, 2 weeks ago

    10 months, 2 weeks ago
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    Haven’t figured out what it is #fossil

    • Profile picture of Mason Hintermeister
      Mason Hintermeister replied 10 months, 2 weeks ago

      This is unfortunately not a fossil

    • Profile picture of Paul Edwards
      Paul Edwards replied 10 months, 2 weeks ago

      what is it

    • Profile picture of Paul Edwards
      Paul Edwards replied 10 months, 2 weeks ago

      it has scale’s I thought shark but I’m not sure you see I’m new to fossils and such

    • Profile picture of Paul Edwards
      Paul Edwards replied 10 months, 2 weeks ago

      and I’m trying to figure out how to navigate this sight

  • Profile picture of Kimberly M Steele

    Kimberly M Steele posted an image in the group Group logo of Imaging and Digitization for Avocational Paleontologists WorkshopImaging and Digitization for Avocational Paleontologists Workshop from the myFOSSIL app 1 year, 3 months ago

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    I think I have found a dinasour bone and fossils can anyone help me identify them or see who I should talk to?? #fossil

  • Profile picture of Delwin Glasner

    Delwin Glasner posted an update in the group Group logo of Imaging and Digitization for Avocational Paleontologists WorkshopImaging and Digitization for Avocational Paleontologists Workshop 1 year, 4 months ago

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    Welcome to the group. Are you taking photos of fossils?

  • Profile picture of Brady Diercks

    Brady Diercks posted a new specimen in the group Group logo of Imaging and Digitization for Avocational Paleontologists WorkshopImaging and Digitization for Avocational Paleontologists Workshop from the myFOSSIL app 1 year, 10 months ago

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    Brady Diercks has contributed specimen mFeM 111715 to myFOSSIL!

  • Profile picture of Robbie Curry

    Robbie Curry posted an image in the group Group logo of Imaging and Digitization for Avocational Paleontologists WorkshopImaging and Digitization for Avocational Paleontologists Workshop from the myFOSSIL app 1 year, 11 months ago

    1 year, 11 months ago
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    i dont know someone tell me please #fossil

    • Profile picture of MacKenzie Smith
      MacKenzie Smith replied 1 year, 11 months ago

      Sorry @robbie-curry this is a rock.

  • Profile picture of Mel Addison

    Mel Addison posted a new specimen in the group Group logo of Imaging and Digitization for Avocational Paleontologists WorkshopImaging and Digitization for Avocational Paleontologists Workshop from the myFOSSIL app 1 year, 11 months ago

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    Mel Addison has contributed specimen mFeM 110091 to myFOSSIL!

    • Profile picture of Matthew Gramling
      Matthew Gramling replied 1 year, 11 months ago

      Greetings @mel-addison ! Your specimen could be a fossil fish, perhaps from the Green River Formation. But, I can’t be sure.

    • Profile picture of Mel Addison
      Mel Addison replied 1 year, 11 months ago

      thank you.

    • Profile picture of Mel Addison
      Mel Addison replied 1 year, 11 months ago

      @matthew-gramling vinctifer Compton. ha ha I beat you auto correct!

    • Profile picture of Matthew Gramling
      Matthew Gramling replied 1 year, 11 months ago

      😁

    • Profile picture of D D
      D D replied 1 year, 5 months ago

      Looks like wooly mammoth ivory tusks . Not the long curly ones but I’m their mounts they have molars that look like that . Look it up

  • Profile picture of Sam Jar

    Sam Jar posted an image in the group Group logo of Imaging and Digitization for Avocational Paleontologists WorkshopImaging and Digitization for Avocational Paleontologists Workshop from the myFOSSIL app 1 year, 11 months ago

    1 year, 11 months ago
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    Is this a lava rock

  • Profile picture of Sam Jar

    Sam Jar posted an image in the group Group logo of Imaging and Digitization for Avocational Paleontologists WorkshopImaging and Digitization for Avocational Paleontologists Workshop from the myFOSSIL app 1 year, 11 months ago

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    Does any one know what kind of rocks are these cuz I never seen a green rock by a river will like a small river

    • Profile picture of A Trilobite
      A Trilobite replied 1 year, 11 months ago

      Do they write on paper? If so then it’s graphite, which is used in pencils

    • Profile picture of Sam Jar
      Sam Jar replied 1 year, 11 months ago

      No they dont

    • Profile picture of Sam Jar
      Sam Jar replied 1 year, 11 months ago

      I had found them at a construction sight but is was a abandoned one so me and my friends went there and we found a lot and we also found a lot by like a river

    • Profile picture of Sam Jar
      Sam Jar replied 1 year, 11 months ago

      I had a fossil but then my dog had ate it so I had got mad and now I don’t have one any more

    • Profile picture of Sam Jar
      Sam Jar replied 1 year, 11 months ago

      So I have to go back and dig

    • Profile picture of A Trilobite
      A Trilobite replied 1 year, 11 months ago

      1:your dog ate a rock 2:you’ll get the fossil back in a few days . 3:I’m not sure what these are, they’re like a mineral of some kind. You can research and compare the properties of your minerals to others and find a match

    • Profile picture of Sam Jar
      Sam Jar replied 1 year, 11 months ago

      Ok

    • Profile picture of Sam Jar
      Sam Jar replied 1 year, 11 months ago

      I found it it does not say the name but it say I can sell it up from $80-280

    • Profile picture of Holly-Rom
      Holly-Rom replied 1 year, 11 months ago

      Is it light? It looked like fossilized coal

    • Profile picture of Alex Hill
      Alex Hill replied 1 year, 11 months ago

      Could it be rough green jasper?

    • Profile picture of Sam Jar
      Sam Jar replied 1 year, 11 months ago

      Yea it is light

    • Profile picture of Holly-Rom
      Holly-Rom replied 1 year, 11 months ago

      My guess would be coal

    • Profile picture of Holly-Rom
      Holly-Rom replied 1 year, 11 months ago

      I have plenty of it from the beach, a mine, near river beds sometimes too

    • Profile picture of Sam Jar
      Sam Jar replied 1 year, 11 months ago

      Yea

    • Profile picture of Elise W
      Elise W replied 1 year, 11 months ago

      This looks a lot like slag—a by-product of smelting. Perhaps it’s a waste material from the construction site.

    • Profile picture of Sam Jar
      Sam Jar replied 1 year, 11 months ago

      Ok but there is a river by the constant site so it was a realy small one and the river was green

    • Profile picture of Elise W
      Elise W replied 1 year, 11 months ago

      Industrial slag is often dumped into nearby rivers and lakes. In some cases it can alter the chemistry of (or even contaminate) the water and sediments with various microscopic metals

    • Profile picture of Sam Jar
      Sam Jar replied 1 year, 11 months ago

      Ok

    • Profile picture of Donald Bechtel
      Donald Bechtel replied 1 year, 8 months ago

      Its mineral, maybe malachite you can Google raw green minerals and come up with quite a few results that would probably help you out I would have to have more pictures larger images my eyes are horrible

    • Profile picture of Sam Jar
      Sam Jar replied 1 year, 8 months ago

      Ok

    • Profile picture of Donald Bechtel
      Donald Bechtel replied 1 year, 8 months ago

      Elise is correct it could be slag

    • Profile picture of Sam Jar
      Sam Jar replied 1 year, 8 months ago

      Ok

  • Profile picture of Robbie Curry

    Robbie Curry posted an image in the group Group logo of Imaging and Digitization for Avocational Paleontologists WorkshopImaging and Digitization for Avocational Paleontologists Workshop from the myFOSSIL app 1 year, 11 months ago

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    unknown #fossil

  • Profile picture of Robbie Curry

    Robbie Curry posted an image in the group Group logo of Imaging and Digitization for Avocational Paleontologists WorkshopImaging and Digitization for Avocational Paleontologists Workshop from the myFOSSIL app 1 year, 11 months ago

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    i dont know #fossil

    • Profile picture of MacKenzie Smith
      MacKenzie Smith replied 1 year, 11 months ago

      @robbie-curry Sorry, this is a rock.

    • Profile picture of Brady Diercks
      Brady Diercks replied 1 year, 11 months ago

      Y

    • Profile picture of Brady Diercks
      Brady Diercks replied 1 year, 11 months ago

      Yeah

    • Profile picture of Mel Addison
      Mel Addison replied 1 year, 11 months ago

      I call these “psyche tooth fossils”. looks like tooth/fossil, but , PSYCHE, it is a rock.

    • Profile picture of Robbie Curry
      Robbie Curry replied 1 year, 11 months ago

      i thought it was a tooth

  • Profile picture of Brady Diercks

    Brady Diercks posted an image in the group Group logo of Imaging and Digitization for Avocational Paleontologists WorkshopImaging and Digitization for Avocational Paleontologists Workshop from the myFOSSIL app 1 year, 11 months ago

    1 year, 11 months ago
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    Megalodon tooth
    #fossil #collectionsite

    • Profile picture of Sam Jar
      Sam Jar replied 1 year, 11 months ago

      Is that a shark tooth

    • Profile picture of Brady Diercks
      Brady Diercks replied 1 year, 11 months ago

      Yes

    • Profile picture of Brady Diercks
      Brady Diercks replied 1 year, 11 months ago

      A meg tooth

    • Profile picture of Robbie Curry
      Robbie Curry replied 1 year, 7 months ago

      yup thats a meg

  • Profile picture of Brady Diercks

    Brady Diercks posted a new specimen in the group Group logo of Imaging and Digitization for Avocational Paleontologists WorkshopImaging and Digitization for Avocational Paleontologists Workshop from the myFOSSIL app 1 year, 11 months ago

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    Brady Diercks has contributed specimen mFeM 109740 to myFOSSIL!

    • Profile picture of Bill Heim
      Bill Heim replied 1 year, 11 months ago

      Looks like a piece of limestone, I see no indications of coral

    • Profile picture of Brady Diercks
      Brady Diercks replied 1 year, 11 months ago

      Their is a white and orange spot on it

    • Profile picture of Bill Heim
      Bill Heim replied 1 year, 11 months ago

      Upper right hand corner? Barely visible

    • Profile picture of Brady Diercks
      Brady Diercks replied 1 year, 11 months ago

      Yes

  • Profile picture of Brady Diercks

    Brady Diercks posted a new specimen in the group Group logo of Imaging and Digitization for Avocational Paleontologists WorkshopImaging and Digitization for Avocational Paleontologists Workshop from the myFOSSIL app 1 year, 11 months ago

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    Brady Diercks has contributed specimen mFeM 109737 to myFOSSIL!

  • Profile picture of Robbie Curry

    Robbie Curry posted an image in the group Group logo of Imaging and Digitization for Avocational Paleontologists WorkshopImaging and Digitization for Avocational Paleontologists Workshop from the myFOSSIL app 1 year, 11 months ago

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    Fossil?

    • Profile picture of Holly-Rom
      Holly-Rom replied 1 year, 11 months ago

      Very blurry/dark

  • Profile picture of Chase Bryant

    Chase Bryant posted an image in the group Group logo of Imaging and Digitization for Avocational Paleontologists WorkshopImaging and Digitization for Avocational Paleontologists Workshop from the myFOSSIL app 2 years ago

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    Think it is Marshall point found in South Texas

  • Profile picture of Burlin Goodman

    Burlin Goodman posted a new specimen in the group Group logo of Imaging and Digitization for Avocational Paleontologists WorkshopImaging and Digitization for Avocational Paleontologists Workshop from the myFOSSIL app 2 years ago

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    Burlin Goodman has contributed specimen mFeM 107668 to myFOSSIL!

  • Profile picture of Burlin Goodman

    Burlin Goodman posted a new specimen in the group Group logo of Imaging and Digitization for Avocational Paleontologists WorkshopImaging and Digitization for Avocational Paleontologists Workshop from the myFOSSIL app 2 years ago

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    Burlin Goodman has contributed specimen mFeM 107665 to myFOSSIL!

    • Profile picture of Michael Andrews
      Michael Andrews replied 2 years ago

      Its copolite🦎

  • Profile picture of Matin Rafiee

    Matin Rafiee posted an image in the group Group logo of Imaging and Digitization for Avocational Paleontologists WorkshopImaging and Digitization for Avocational Paleontologists Workshop from the myFOSSIL app 2 years ago

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    Fetal teeth hatched from a T-rex, these teeth are for the killer in the next few years that is unparalleled in the world #fossil

    • Profile picture of Spencer Glesic
      Spencer Glesic replied 2 years ago

      it looks like a young tyrannosaur tooth

    • Profile picture of Sam Jar
      Sam Jar replied 1 year, 11 months ago

      Where was this located

    • Profile picture of Matin Rafiee
      Matin Rafiee replied 1 year, 11 months ago

      They were in a city in Iran and in the capital Tehran

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