astron Posted June 28, 2011 Author Share Posted June 28, 2011 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! Actually, Gery! They seem to be brothers Many thanks for your comment Astrinos P. Damianakis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrangellian Posted June 29, 2011 Share Posted June 29, 2011 Interesting things as always, Astrinos.. especially your coral and your flower from your June 17 post. Seems like it has enough detail to get it ID'd somehow.... Why don't you provide a few pics of the site where you collect these? I'm sure we'd all like to see the place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astron Posted June 29, 2011 Author Share Posted June 29, 2011 Interesting things as always, Astrinos.. especially your coral and your flower from your June 17 post. Seems like it has enough detail to get it ID'd somehow.... Why don't you provide a few pics of the site where you collect these? I'm sure we'd all like to see the place. Thanks a lot, Eric, for your kind comments Just to say for the corals that I like better the first one from the 3 presented (the rest two are last on the previous page). Fine - as usual - your proposal about the pics from my hunting area. It's truth that I have it in mind, but I always forget to take my camera with me in my trips. I'll take care of not to forget it next time... Astrinos P. Damianakis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astron Posted July 1, 2011 Author Share Posted July 1, 2011 It got me tired so I gave it up (at least at the moment)... I have been lost into this labyrinth... It's about a big plantation plate with a lot of seeds - fruits on it. It measures 34 x 28 cm in the largest dimensions. I found it in my hunting area on Sunday 26 Jun 11 with the prep finished (?) today. My apologies for the ids missing,,, Any aspects on them would be appreciated. Here is a high sized pic of it with 3 pairs of (high sized as well) close ups following on my next 3 posts. Admit too lengthened but I think it worths... I have added it to my favorite finds. Astrinos P. Damianakis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astron Posted July 1, 2011 Author Share Posted July 1, 2011 This is the center of the plate (part and counterpart). Astrinos P. Damianakis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astron Posted July 1, 2011 Author Share Posted July 1, 2011 Here are the next two pics. Among the others, the first pic contains a fruit like to the ones on my previous posts and the second one a seed with a long stem (on the down right of the pic). Astrinos P. Damianakis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astron Posted July 1, 2011 Author Share Posted July 1, 2011 (edited) And finally the last two pics (parts and counterparts). On the first one among the others a partial phoenix sp. leaf and on the second one two seeds with their stems. Edited December 12, 2012 by astron Astrinos P. Damianakis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astron Posted July 3, 2011 Author Share Posted July 3, 2011 Hello all! Came back saying ''What a day...'' I was intend exclusively introdusing my hunting area today, but I found some fossils as well. I am not satisfied with their photos but I'll present them in detail next days. Maybe this thread should be presented in the ''Hunting trips'' forum but since it is connected with my regional collection, I think that it belongs to this place. First of all two birds eye views of my birth village and of my hunting area. Astrinos P. Damianakis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted July 3, 2011 Share Posted July 3, 2011 Looks gorgeous!! Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astron Posted July 3, 2011 Author Share Posted July 3, 2011 (edited) Pic 1. I have found my biggest shell (pecten latissimus) and some clypeasters in this pace. Some coastal lines are seemed on the huge rocks. Pic 2. This is the main scleractinian corals and oysters place. The top of one of my peach trees is shown downwards. Pic 3. Some oysters. Pic 4. An oysters layer. Hard to extract complete ones... Edited July 4, 2011 by astron Astrinos P. Damianakis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astron Posted July 3, 2011 Author Share Posted July 3, 2011 The day's more difficult expedition. Pic 1. To reach this hill. It should be a coral reef. Very hard to reach it. Pics 2 - 6. There are some additional to the tough field impediments. Maybe good to see them, but not to meet them for sure. Pic 7. After serious efforts I have reached at the base of the hill. Trying to see upwards I faced the terrible rocks over my head and I thought: ''Oh my God!!! . It was me who has extracted corals over here??? I would be mad...'' And the next thought was '' It's rather continued''. Pics 8 - 9. Porites corals layers... Astrinos P. Damianakis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astron Posted July 4, 2011 Author Share Posted July 4, 2011 (edited) To come to more normal things. Pics 1 - 3. The first plant fossils area in a new road cut. Pic 3 shows a part of the mess I have made. Pics 4 - 6. I have found the majority of my shells in this place. Edited July 4, 2011 by astron Astrinos P. Damianakis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranha Posted July 4, 2011 Share Posted July 4, 2011 Thanks for the spectacular photos Astrinos. Numbers 14, 15 and 16 are like an eerie alien landscape! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astron Posted July 4, 2011 Author Share Posted July 4, 2011 Pic 1. The second plant fossils area. Pics 2 - 6. Some of todays finds. Astrinos P. Damianakis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astron Posted July 4, 2011 Author Share Posted July 4, 2011 (edited) Pic 1. The third plant fossils area. Interesting things here. Pic 2. A plant branch found today. Pics 3 - 4. A fig tree over my head and uner it (and in front of me) a cool spring. Pic 5. A grasshopper is satisfied with its hiding behind a thin plantation branch. Like an ostrich in the sand... Pic 6. An about 6 cm multi foot-ed reptile. We call it forty foot - ed... Pic 7. A strange insect. I didn't understand how it climbed on my hummer... Edited July 4, 2011 by astron Astrinos P. Damianakis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrangellian Posted July 4, 2011 Share Posted July 4, 2011 Thanks for showing us your fossils' natural habitat, Astrinos. Your in-situ Porites are impressive! Nice warm-looking place, though the prickly things do look like an impediment (not a deterrent, just an impediment, of course!). PS Your 'peach tree' looks more like an apple to me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astron Posted July 4, 2011 Author Share Posted July 4, 2011 And finally, the day's prize. The self growing and without any fertilizers plum tree is into the brambles, but I managed to take its nice presents. Astrinos P. Damianakis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astron Posted July 4, 2011 Author Share Posted July 4, 2011 Looks gorgeous!! Thanks a lot, Roger! I love my birth place Astrinos P. Damianakis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astron Posted July 4, 2011 Author Share Posted July 4, 2011 Thanks for the spectacular photos Astrinos. Numbers 14, 15 and 16 are like an eerie alien landscape! Many thanks, Scott. This place is actually horrifying Astrinos P. Damianakis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astron Posted July 4, 2011 Author Share Posted July 4, 2011 Thanks for showing us your fossils' natural habitat, Astrinos. Your in-situ Porites are impressive! Nice warm-looking place, though the prickly things do look like an impediment (not a deterrent, just an impediment, of course!). PS Your 'peach tree' looks more like an apple to me! Thanks a lot, Eric Your suggestion helped me enough not to forget my camera this time. Astrinos P. Damianakis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nala Posted July 5, 2011 Share Posted July 5, 2011 Wow Astrinos what a wonderfull place! you are very lucky to live here thanks to share! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astron Posted July 5, 2011 Author Share Posted July 5, 2011 (edited) Wow Astrinos what a wonderfull place! you are very lucky to live here thanks to share! Thanks indeed, Gery Everyone likes his- her birth place and every place has its own beauties! I think that in my place is remarkable (among the rest) the perfect combination of the natural prettiness and wildness. That's what we call ''wild beauty'' The 3 pics on the 328 post above is a convincing evidence Edited July 5, 2011 by astron Astrinos P. Damianakis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astron Posted July 10, 2011 Author Share Posted July 10, 2011 Hello all!!! Strengthened by a lot of paleo-power that the MOTM award has brought (as nala correctly said), I came back to continue my recent finds presentation. First is a crab claw section. I know that it isn't something important as fossil itself, it is important as evidence of the crabs existence in this area though. It was at the edge of a soft thin slab and very difficult in its prep, so my first thought was to leave it back, but the fact that it's my first find of this species changed my mind and here it is. Astrinos P. Damianakis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astron Posted July 10, 2011 Author Share Posted July 10, 2011 (edited) A cupressaceae sp cone and a seed (?) at the back side of the same slab. Edited December 13, 2012 by astron Astrinos P. Damianakis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astron Posted July 10, 2011 Author Share Posted July 10, 2011 (edited) And last for today some cupressaceae sp cones and I don't know what else... Edited October 9, 2011 by astron Astrinos P. Damianakis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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