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Dominik Niehaus started the topic Foraminifer, maybe? in the forum What Is It? 3 years, 9 months ago
3 years, 9 months ago3 years, 9 months agoI thought I’d try pointing my new USB microscope at some beach sand, and I think I actually discovered a foram. Not entirely sure, though, so I thought I’d ask y’all for input 🙂
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Dominik Niehaus posted a new activity comment 3 years, 10 months ago
3 years, 10 months ago3 years, 10 months ago@samantha-ocon I hate to bother you, but you’re the only “official” person I know on here and that is clearly a spam bot. Does myfossil have a report function for those and I’ve simply missed it, or…?
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Dominik Niehaus posted a new activity comment 3 years, 10 months ago
3 years, 10 months ago3 years, 10 months ago@samantha-ocon Done and done. And thank you for your help, I don’t think there’s a fossil I’ve uploaded that you haven’t at least tried to help identify 🙂
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Dominik Niehaus posted a new activity comment 3 years, 10 months ago
3 years, 10 months ago3 years, 10 months agoThat’s correct, though I think he was in one of the shafts adjacent to it. That whole area is basically hollowed out, I’ve heard somewhere that it’s a real issue because the ground keeps settling as the old mine shafts collapse, damaging buildings and such. Zollverein was the largest, though, and has been turned into a cultural heritage site since.
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Dominik Niehaus posted a new activity comment 3 years, 10 months ago
3 years, 10 months ago3 years, 10 months agoIt does turn out that I was mistaken, however – F. Krantz was the founder of the store, which is now run by his descendants. Guess I better take off that name
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Dominik Niehaus posted a new activity comment 3 years, 10 months ago
3 years, 10 months ago3 years, 10 months ago@samantha-ocon given that it was collected in an active coal mine, I doubt it can be placed any more precisely than that – I can’t even ask my grandfather if he happens to know how deep they were digging at the time, he passed away years ago
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Dominik Niehaus posted a new activity comment 3 years, 10 months ago
3 years, 10 months ago3 years, 10 months ago@samantha-ocon I’m sorry, this is one fossil I know nothing about because I just bought it as a kid – I added a picture of the label just in case I misread it, though
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Dominik Niehaus posted a new activity comment 3 years, 10 months ago
3 years, 10 months ago3 years, 10 months ago@i-edwards I don’t know him personally, I just read his name on the label 😉
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Dominik Niehaus posted a new activity comment 3 years, 10 months ago
3 years, 10 months ago3 years, 10 months agoI already filled in the information from the label. Dr. Krantz runs the local geological supply store, so his ID should be reliable.
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Dominik Niehaus posted a new activity comment 3 years, 10 months ago
3 years, 10 months ago3 years, 10 months agoNone. Usually I can fall back on the field reports I had to write, but that particular trip was structured differently and I had to give a presentation on the Nördlinger Ries instead. Best I can remember, I collected it somewhere in southern Germany.
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Dominik Niehaus posted a new activity comment 3 years, 10 months ago
3 years, 10 months ago3 years, 10 months ago@samantha-ocon I’m not 100% sure I got the same individual, there are several in this piece, but hopefully the lighting helps increase the contrast a bit.
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Dominik Niehaus posted a new activity comment 3 years, 10 months ago
3 years, 10 months ago3 years, 10 months ago@samantha-ocon done, hope it helps
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Dominik Niehaus posted a new activity comment 3 years, 10 months ago
3 years, 10 months ago3 years, 10 months ago@samantha-ocon yup. I’m very annoyed that I can’t place it, it’s probably one of the nicest pieces I’ve ever found
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Dominik Niehaus posted a new activity comment 3 years, 10 months ago
3 years, 10 months ago3 years, 10 months ago@samantha-ocon sorry, no, this is about all of it
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Dominik Niehaus posted a new activity comment 3 years, 10 months ago
3 years, 10 months ago3 years, 10 months ago@samantha-ocon would if I could, but this one’s glued into the case – there really aren’t more angles available
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Dominik Niehaus posted a new activity comment 3 years, 10 months ago
3 years, 10 months ago3 years, 10 months ago@samantha-ocon I’ve done my best, hope it helps
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Dominik Niehaus posted a new activity comment 3 years, 10 months ago
3 years, 10 months ago3 years, 10 months ago@Nathan-Newell Yup, that looks very similar – and according to a quick Google search, Neuropteris has been found in the Ruhr Area.
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Dominik Niehaus posted a new activity comment 3 years, 10 months ago
3 years, 10 months ago3 years, 10 months agoI added some close-ups of the leaves, but as I said, they’re not ferns but seed ferns – plants that look “fern-ish” in the fossil record but differ both in the structure of their leaves and the fact that they have seeds instead of spores.
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Dominik Niehaus posted a new specimen. 3 years, 10 months ago
3 years, 10 months ago3 years, 10 months agoDominik Niehaus has contributed specimen mFeM 68631 to myFOSSIL!
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Hi, @Dominik-Niehaus. This is a very cool specimen! Is there any way you could take a clearer photo? I know it’s hard with this kind of matrix.
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@samantha-ocon I’m not 100% sure I got the same individual, there are several in this piece, but hopefully the lighting helps increase the contrast a bit.
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@Dominik-Niehaus, thank you! I’m tagging in @David-Clark!
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I don’t think this is an Acanthocrinus. That’s a Devonian genus found in the Hunsruck slate and New York exposures. This looks like a free swimming crinoid, Saccocoma, which is often found in the Solnhofen limestone. The pictures look like the positive and negative pieces. Very nice specimen!
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@samantha-ocon I hate to bother you, but you’re the only “official” person I know on here and that is clearly a spam bot. Does myfossil have a report function for those and I’ve simply missed it, or…?
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No problem, @Dominik-Niehaus. We’re aware of the spam problem and currently trying to wrangle it. I don’t believe there is a report function, but thank you for bringing this up to me. I will mention it to our team for future myFOSSIL updates. If you notice any other suspicious behavior, feel free to reach out to me, @Sadie-Mills, @mjones, or @macke…[Read more]
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Dominik Niehaus posted a new specimen. 3 years, 10 months ago
3 years, 10 months ago3 years, 10 months agoDominik Niehaus has contributed specimen mFeM 68628 to myFOSSIL!
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Hi, @Dominik-Niehaus, could you upload a photo from a directly overhead angle? It would make it a little easier to make out this ammonoid.
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@samantha-ocon done, hope it helps
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Excellent! I’ll tag in @I-Edwards!
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