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Matthew Gramling posted a new activity comment 3 years, 6 months ago
3 years, 6 months ago3 years, 6 months ago@delwin-glasner Here is the make and model as you requested: LCD Digital microscope ONETEKS 4.3 inch. It runs for about $60 on Amazon.
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Mackenzie Ross posted a new activity comment 3 years, 6 months ago
3 years, 6 months ago3 years, 6 months agoHi there @delwin-glasner this is a super cool find! I’m curious about the texture on the outside of this specimen?
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Matthew Gramling posted a new activity comment 3 years, 6 months ago
3 years, 6 months ago3 years, 6 months agoGreetings @delwin-glasner ! I have experimented with a friend’s digital microscope with impressive results. We put a trilobite that was just a few millimeters long and the microscope brought into full relief with impressive detail.
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Mackenzie Ross posted a new activity comment 3 years, 7 months ago
3 years, 7 months ago3 years, 7 months agoHi there @delwin-glasner, @samantha-ocon might be able to help narrow down your ID!
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Mackenzie Ross posted a new activity comment 3 years, 7 months ago
3 years, 7 months ago3 years, 7 months agoHi there @delwin-glasner this is a cool find, but I’m afraid these pictures are too grainy to be used! Could you update this post with clearer photos?
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Sean Moran posted a new activity comment 3 years, 10 months ago
3 years, 10 months ago3 years, 10 months agoHi @delwin-glasner, I’m obviously very delayed in getting to this, but this is a horse. It’s likely Mesohippus sp. but there is still a lot of confusion surrounding Oligocene horses so I would just say it’s in the subfamily Mesohippinae (Family Equidae). It’s actually a subadult, because the tooth with the shortest crown is a deciduous 4th…[Read more]
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Jennifer Bauer posted a new activity comment 3 years, 11 months ago
3 years, 11 months ago3 years, 11 months agoHi @delwin-glasner – through photogrammetry! https://www.digitalatlasofancientlife.org/methods-techniques/photogrammetry/
Essentially you put the fossil on a turn table & take pictures from multiple angles while rotating the table. There are programs that will then take all the images you take and compile them into 3D fossils! There’s some…[Read more] -
Jennifer Bauer posted a new activity comment 3 years, 11 months ago
3 years, 11 months ago3 years, 11 months agoAnother awesome specimen, @delwin-glasner! Check out this 3D version that has mosasaur bite marks in it: https://umorf.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/wp/specimen-data/?Model_ID=1349
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Jennifer Bauer posted a new activity comment 3 years, 11 months ago
3 years, 11 months ago3 years, 11 months agoAwesome specimen, @delwin-glasner!
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Sam Ocon posted a new activity comment 4 years ago
4 years ago4 years agoHi, @Delwin-Glasner, to make this more easily searchable for the eMuseum, can you enter “Ichnofossil” into the phylum?
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Sam Ocon posted a new activity comment 4 years ago
4 years ago4 years agoHi @delwin-glasner, can you upload a picture of the ends if there is any detail? Are you seeing any sort of suture pattern?
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Sam Ocon posted a new activity comment 4 years ago
4 years ago4 years agoHi, @Delwin-Glasner! We can narrow down the order to Ammonitida to begin with. For further ID, @i-edwards and https://www.cretaceousatlas.org/species/ might be able to help.
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Ian Forsythe posted a new activity comment 4 years, 1 month ago
4 years, 1 month ago4 years, 1 month agoHey @Delwin-Glasner Looks like the Midway Group is Paleogene. Do you think this could be reworked?
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Hunter Thurmond posted a new activity comment 4 years, 1 month ago
4 years, 1 month ago4 years, 1 month ago@delwin-glasner it looks like the Willis Point formation is Paleogene, could the tooth possibly be reworked?
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Sam Ocon posted a new activity comment 4 years, 1 month ago
4 years, 1 month ago4 years, 1 month agoThank you, @Bill-Heim and @Delwin-Glasner! I moved around the epoch and formation info to the field notes.
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The Epoch is definitely Upper Cretaceous, this species is limited to that. Unknown whether it reworked from the Campanian or Maastrictian, so no age. What is interesting about this is that from the size, it is a juvenile which are seldom seen from this species (most are in the 3 cm range).
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Yes it sure is small. I see now the serrated edge that you said was is missing from my larger tooth # 61268
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Good idea. Thanks
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Sam Ocon posted a new activity comment 4 years, 1 month ago
4 years, 1 month ago4 years, 1 month ago@Bill-Heim, @Nathan-Newell, and @Delwin-Glasner would probably be able to give you some advice. They’re photo pros.
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Did you retake the pictures because the lighting looks ok to me?
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I didn’t retake them, but I think Nathan’s advice will improve my future pictures.
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@hunter-thurmond Hi, Hunter! Flash can wash out some of the details of fossils, so I use directional lighting. I don’t do anything too fancy, though; I just don’t have the time or money to create an elaborate studio. Here’s my set-up:
https://www.myfossil.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/1564364302809.jpgI use a desk lamp with a movable neck and a…[Read more]
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Nathan thank you! I have done them kind of like that before, I think using a card to reflect light into the shadows and a black velvet background will greatly improve my pictures.
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@hunter-thurmond No problem! Glad I could help!
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Sam Ocon posted a new activity comment 4 years, 3 months ago
4 years, 3 months ago4 years, 3 months ago@katie-collins-2 might be able to help us further ID this specimen, @Delwin-Glasner!
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Sam Ocon posted a new activity comment 4 years, 3 months ago
4 years, 3 months ago4 years, 3 months agoDo you know what formation this is from, @Delwin-Glasner?
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Katie Collins posted a new activity comment 4 years, 3 months ago
4 years, 3 months ago4 years, 3 months agoHi @delwin-glasner, I think your specimen is a Cubitostrea, probably C. lisbonensis. It looks like it’s either very worn or it’s been coated in glue or varnish, which is obscuring some of the nature of the sculpture, but comparing the literature I can find on the fauna of the Cane River formation to your specimen, that would be my best suggestion.
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Sam Ocon posted a new activity comment 4 years, 3 months ago
4 years, 3 months ago4 years, 3 months agoHi, @Delwin-Glasner – Sorry about that! I would go to the messages tab (one of the options that drops down when you click on your profile picture in the upper right hand corner), then click “compose” and enter their name without the “@” symbol.
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Wow! Now thats the way to show fossils. How do they do that?
Hi @delwin-glasner – through photogrammetry! https://www.digitalatlasofancientlife.org/methods-techniques/photogrammetry/
Essentially you put the fossil on a turn table & take pictures from multiple angles while rotating the table. There are programs that will then take all the images you take and compile them into 3D fossils! There’s some…[Read more]