Microfossils

Apr 27, 2025 8:47 PM

kneebitten

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Just got an old microscope and phone mount for studying my local microfossils. Hoping to upgrade equipment/techniques for better shots. US Quarter for scale. All fossils shown here are from the Peace River at Fort Mead, Florida. A permit is needed for collecting vertebrate fossils, but shark tooth collection is unrestricted.

Shark teeth. Toothpick point for scale.

Snails.

A tiny mussel, intact.

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The black knob is a phosphate nodule. The reason for so much heinous corporate damage to West Central Florida nature.

Some botanical fossils, maybe.

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Are those microsaurs?

3 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Never knew sharks had tiny teeth as well. Without zooming in, I would have thought all of these were just eroded pebbles. Thanks, @OP.

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Welcome to the club!

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And now the Slightly Radioactive tailings are going into roadbase.

3 months ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

I know, right? I don’t usually like to see experiments fail, but this one is just creepy.

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