rip18
Senior Member
After a day of dove hunting last weekend, we spent a few hours the next day looking for fossils in the Black Prairie of Mississippi (on an old Cretaceous reef site).
We found lots and lots of prehistoric oysters (and some modern mussels), a few worm castings, a couple of shark teeth, and few other things that I haven't identified.
Straining for fossils
Nikon D3, Nikkor 28-85 @ 78 mm, f/4.2, 1/80th second, ISO 200, fill flash, handheld, slight crop.
Fossil Oyster - this is the left valve, and it would lay down in the sediment on the bottom. This particular oyster is about 9" long!
Nikon D3, Lester A. Dine 105 mm, f/22, 1/50th second, ISO 200, ringflash, tripod, on black velvet, slight crop.
Fossil Oyster - this is the right valve, and it would be up towards the water and would be the one that would "open". This one is only about 2 1/2" long.
Nikon D3, Lester A. Dine 105 mm, f/32, 1/320th second, ISO 200, ringflash, tripod, on black velvet, slight crop.
Hamulus worm castings - these are the protective "burrows" that the worms would make in the sediment, they would have stayed in the round center portion.
Nikon D3, Lester A. Dine 105 mm, f/32, 1/320th second, ISO 200, ringflash, tripod, on black velvet, slight crop.
Goblin shark tooth - this one was about 3/4" long
Nikon D3, Lester A. Dine 105 mm, f/32, 1/400th second, ISO 200, ringflash, tripod, on black velvet, slight crop.
We found lots and lots of prehistoric oysters (and some modern mussels), a few worm castings, a couple of shark teeth, and few other things that I haven't identified.
Straining for fossils
Nikon D3, Nikkor 28-85 @ 78 mm, f/4.2, 1/80th second, ISO 200, fill flash, handheld, slight crop.
Fossil Oyster - this is the left valve, and it would lay down in the sediment on the bottom. This particular oyster is about 9" long!
Nikon D3, Lester A. Dine 105 mm, f/22, 1/50th second, ISO 200, ringflash, tripod, on black velvet, slight crop.
Fossil Oyster - this is the right valve, and it would be up towards the water and would be the one that would "open". This one is only about 2 1/2" long.
Nikon D3, Lester A. Dine 105 mm, f/32, 1/320th second, ISO 200, ringflash, tripod, on black velvet, slight crop.
Hamulus worm castings - these are the protective "burrows" that the worms would make in the sediment, they would have stayed in the round center portion.
Nikon D3, Lester A. Dine 105 mm, f/32, 1/320th second, ISO 200, ringflash, tripod, on black velvet, slight crop.
Goblin shark tooth - this one was about 3/4" long
Nikon D3, Lester A. Dine 105 mm, f/32, 1/400th second, ISO 200, ringflash, tripod, on black velvet, slight crop.
