MacKenzie Smith @mackenzie-smith
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2 days, 2 hours agoMacKenzie Smith posted a new activity commentCretaceous! That’s where my favorite dinosaurs are and it’s the evolution of flowering plants!
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2 days, 2 hours agoMacKenzie Smith posted an image in the group Paleo Pics from the myFOSSIL app
Edaphrosaur from Permian Monsters #ThrowbackThursday #event
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2 days, 5 hours agoMacKenzie Smith posted a new activity comment
😂
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2 days, 23 hours agoMacKenzie Smith posted a new activity comment
Looks like it!
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3 days, 5 hours ago
Hello @joey-bekius,
It certainly looks like it could be plant material. Can you give us some more background information on the specimen (how big is it, where was it found) please? There appears to be a node with divots in it which leads me to believe it could be the horsetail Calamites. This genus is limited to the Late Paleozoic though which is why the additional information helps. Fossil stems (which includes wood) are actually best identified from the cross section because the types of cells and their organization are very diagnostic. Granted, we don’t always get preservation at the cellular level but we get it more frequently than one would expect. Thus, if you can get a picture from the cross section angle, that would also help with ID.
Thanks!
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5 days, 17 hours agoMacKenzie Smith posted a new activity comment
That’s really cool!
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Thanks!
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1 week, 3 days agoMacKenzie Smith posted a new activity comment
Platanaceae pollen! Sycamore (Plane Tree family if you’re in the UK). This wind pollinated plant is expected from this site since we have two species of macrofossils but so far they make up less than 2% of identifiable pollen grains.
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1 week, 3 days agoMacKenzie Smith posted an image in the group Paleo Pics from the myFOSSIL app
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Platanaceae pollen! Sycamore (Plane Tree family if you’re in the UK). This wind pollinated plant is expected from this site since we have two species of macrofossils but so far they make up less than 2% of identifiable pollen grains.
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1 week, 3 days agoMacKenzie Smith posted a new activity comment
Order Spiriferida?
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1 week, 3 days agoMacKenzie Smith posted a new activity comment
Yeah, the caption didn’t post. I’m 100 grains in and still finding new stuff. This is probably pollen from Icacinaceae, a family we have from this formation but not in the macrofossil record from this locality.
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1 week, 3 days agoMacKenzie Smith posted an image in the group Education and Outreach from the myFOSSIL app
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Pollen?
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Yeah, the caption didn’t post. I’m 100 grains in and still finding new stuff. This is probably pollen from Icacinaceae, a family we have from this formation but not in the macrofossil record from this locality.
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1 week, 4 days agoMacKenzie Smith posted a new activity comment
Oh yeah, Baltic amber, mid-Eocene.
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1 week, 4 days agoMacKenzie Smith posted a new activity comment
Niphargus groehni. It’s an amphipod, which rarely preserve in the fossil record.
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2 weeks, 1 day agoMacKenzie Smith posted a new activity comment
If it is it has been heavily metamorphosed. I’m seeing some fiberous strands that remind me of zeolite minerals such as actinolite.
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2 weeks, 3 days agoMacKenzie Smith posted a new specimen in the group Vacation Explorers from the myFOSSIL app
MacKenzie Smith has contributed a new specimen to myFOSSIL!
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2 weeks, 3 days agoMacKenzie Smith posted a new specimen.
MacKenzie Smith has contributed specimen mFeM 48863 to myFOSSIL!
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2 weeks, 4 days agoMacKenzie Smith posted an image in the group Vacation Explorers from the myFOSSIL app
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Nice
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2 weeks, 5 days agoMacKenzie Smith posted an image in the group Vacation Explorers from the myFOSSIL app
Protoceras (mammal, even-toed ungulate from 33-20 million years ago) skull at the Mace Brown Museum of Natural History. #fossil
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2 weeks, 6 days agoMacKenzie Smith posted a new activity comment
Hard to tell if this is basalt that has been tumbled in the surf with secondary mineralization or if it’s siltstone with mineralized parts which may or may not be fossils. Considering Iceland is volcanic with a history of basaltic erruptions and the black markings around the mineral (caused by a secondary reaction) make me lean towards this is basalt with some sort of zeolite.
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2 weeks, 6 days agoMacKenzie Smith posted a new activity comment
Good job Cam!
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