Prepped Aust teeth & more! Pictures now up!

Well, it's been a while since anyone posted much here, including myself, so hopefully get around to posting some of the Aust microfossils soon, I've been dissolving loads of it over the last 2 weeks or so, and have around 100 teeth so far (picking them out 1 by 1 from a huge pot of dissolved rubble), a few scales and even a vert, which I found today! I'll try to book the camera-microscope for later this week, and then get the stuff up Asap after that!

Oooo! Aust micro fossils!

Can't wait for those, might have to dig me book out to help you with id's.

There's not too many I haven't I.D.'ed already, I've got the Pallas (Palaeontological association) guide to the Fossils of the Rheatian Penarth Group (my tutor wrote half of the chapters in the book), and a friend did his dissertation on Aust fossils, but I'll label any that I'm not sure on..

I'm looking forward to it

Here are three preview shots (taken with a camera through a hand-lens), you can't really see the striations on the last tooth too well, and the textures don't come out too well, but when I get on the microscopes later in the week they'll look amazing!

https://imgur.com/a/acZuB#1HZzl <- (Link to the album if the images don't work)

so so tiny!

I managed to get a minute on a binocular microscope earlier, here's another quick preview: https://i.imgur.com/z1tzB.jpg
(For reference, the tiny vert in the middle is 1.5mm in diameter!)

nice if you look around you can pic up some cheap comp microscopes. but then again if you don't have to spend money its better

I'll probably get my own stuff sorted once I finish uni, until then I have thousands of pounds of equipment at my disposal

The pics are in! Complete album here: https://imgur.com/a/8SFX2

Overviews of some of the teeth that I've dissolved out, and then some detail shots. The scale is 1mm on all pictures.









'Hybodus' minor shark teeth





















Pseudodalatias barnstonensis shark tooth





Lissodus minimus shark tooth







Severnichthys acuminatus fish teeth










Vertebra from (probably) a fish..




This is a small selection from the first load of rocks I've dissolved, I've got 100+ teeth already, and that's from about a third of the days' finds, so there's more to come!

Lovely pictures - use that scope as much as possible while you can!