astron Posted June 17, 2011 Author Share Posted June 17, 2011 (edited) Here is a 9 cm calcite limb cast associated with a little flower. On the next post is shown the inner structure of the log and a close up of the flower. Edited December 12, 2012 by astron Astrinos P. Damianakis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astron Posted June 17, 2011 Author Share Posted June 17, 2011 (edited) The inner structure of the above log and a close up of the flower. Edited December 12, 2012 by astron Astrinos P. Damianakis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astron Posted June 17, 2011 Author Share Posted June 17, 2011 (edited) Another 6 cm calcite limb cast. It's broken with the one part having come vertically to the other. Edited December 12, 2012 by astron Astrinos P. Damianakis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Snyder Posted June 19, 2011 Share Posted June 19, 2011 WOW!! You seriously need your own museum, if you don't already have one! Great collection!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nandomas Posted June 19, 2011 Share Posted June 19, 2011 your finds are surprising me day after day :) thanks for sharing Nando Erosion... will be my epitaph! http://www.paleonature.org/ https://fossilnews.org/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astron Posted June 20, 2011 Author Share Posted June 20, 2011 WOW!! You seriously need your own museum, if you don't already have one! Great collection!!! Thanks, Paul, for your comment No, I don't, but I dream one in my birth village where all of my finds come from... Astrinos P. Damianakis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astron Posted June 20, 2011 Author Share Posted June 20, 2011 your finds are surprising me day after day :) thanks for sharing Nando Many thanks, Nando, for your comment Astrinos P. Damianakis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astron Posted June 25, 2011 Author Share Posted June 25, 2011 Hello all. Came back after a while with a special post! As known, all of the fossils of my collection are found by myself in my birth place in middle Crete island, Greece. So this post is an exception to this rule. I am joyful to present here 3 flora slabs: 31 mya- oligocene Little Butte Volcanic Series Lane County, West- Central Oregon, USA Pics 1 and 2 are both sides of the same slab. The seed on the last slab is an infructescence ( fruit ) of exbuclandia oregonensis. I admire on this stuff the beautiful colors and the very nice preservation. A hearty thanks to Scott (Piranha) for this important offer.:bow: . Astrinos P. Damianakis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranha Posted June 25, 2011 Share Posted June 25, 2011 I imagine there are not too many Oregon fossil plants in Crete. Enjoy the gifts Astrinos! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted June 25, 2011 Share Posted June 25, 2011 Now that's what I call a really nice gesture! Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astron Posted June 26, 2011 Author Share Posted June 26, 2011 I imagine there are not too many Oregon fossil plants in Crete. Enjoy the gifts Astrinos! For sure, Scott. This is maybe the only but good representative Astrinos P. Damianakis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astron Posted June 26, 2011 Author Share Posted June 26, 2011 Now that's what I call a really nice gesture! Actually, Roger. Scott's contribution to all directions is endless... Astrinos P. Damianakis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astron Posted June 27, 2011 Author Share Posted June 27, 2011 (edited) After the Oregon's pleasant parenthesis and before coming back into the plant material, I'll present some recent finds of my first loved marine fossils... First are 3 scleractinian corals heads with 2 pics each. I post them individually in high sized pics for better structure appearance.. Here is the first one. Edited June 27, 2011 by astron Astrinos P. Damianakis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astron Posted June 27, 2011 Author Share Posted June 27, 2011 Here is the second scleractinian coral head. Astrinos P. Damianakis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astron Posted June 27, 2011 Author Share Posted June 27, 2011 (edited) And here is the the third and last coral head. Forgot the scale: 21x12x12 cm. Edited June 27, 2011 by astron Astrinos P. Damianakis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astron Posted June 27, 2011 Author Share Posted June 27, 2011 Two murex sp conchs 5 and 7 cm long. Astrinos P. Damianakis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astron Posted June 27, 2011 Author Share Posted June 27, 2011 (edited) And the last at the moment marine fossils are a bunch of gastropods shells (probably furazus angulatus). Edited June 28, 2011 by astron Astrinos P. Damianakis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astron Posted June 28, 2011 Author Share Posted June 28, 2011 (edited) Came back to the plant material with a big plantation plate 40 x 30 cm on largest dimensions. Only about the half of the counterpart is saved. Among the plantation fragments there are several tiny seeds sized up to 2 cm. Attached is a high sized pic of the plate and some close ups are following on the next post. Edited June 28, 2011 by astron Astrinos P. Damianakis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astron Posted June 28, 2011 Author Share Posted June 28, 2011 Some close ups of the previous plate. Astrinos P. Damianakis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astron Posted June 28, 2011 Author Share Posted June 28, 2011 (edited) One more 4 cm calcite limb cast. Edited December 12, 2012 by astron Astrinos P. Damianakis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astron Posted June 28, 2011 Author Share Posted June 28, 2011 (edited) A 3 cm unidentified seed or fruit. Edited December 12, 2012 by astron Astrinos P. Damianakis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astron Posted June 28, 2011 Author Share Posted June 28, 2011 (edited) Here are two seeds on the same slab. Unfortunately the one on the right was powdered and as a result only the imprint of it is left. The other one is very well preserved. Alike items will appear in several size and in some of my next posts, as well. Edited December 12, 2012 by astron Astrinos P. Damianakis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted June 28, 2011 Share Posted June 28, 2011 Here are two seeds on the same slab. Unfortunately the one on the right was powdered and as a result only the imprint of it is left. The other one and very well preserved seed (on the left) is alike with the ones on the posts 165 and 166. It will be apeared in several size and in some of my next posts as well. These larger ones that are irregular and bumpy; I wonder whether thay might be fruit, with the individual bumps being the seeds? This might explain some of the variation in size, too. "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nala Posted June 28, 2011 Share Posted June 28, 2011 Two murex sp conchs 5 and 7 cm long. Hello Astrinos your beautifull shell have a very close aspect with my Melongena cornuta from the Burdigalian (lower Miocene) of Aquitaine,i your new coral too!very nice details on it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astron Posted June 28, 2011 Author Share Posted June 28, 2011 (edited) These larger ones that are irregular and bumpy; I wonder whether thay might be fruit, with the individual bumps being the seeds? This might explain some of the variation in size, too. Thanks. Chas, for this good observation. I think you are correct... Edited December 12, 2012 by astron Astrinos P. Damianakis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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