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I have added some pictures of some Speeton bits and pieces.

Particularly interesting are the pyritic inclusions in the fossil
wood. I am no Botanist but I think they must be axillary buds -
although they do look rather like beetle cases!

Also there is a 2cm piece of crinoid stem and a pyritic phragmocone.

I find looking at Speeton "in the small" very productive. Taking away
consolidated blocks of clay and then examining it microscopically at
home has yielded some interesting stuff. I will post further pictures.

BTW - the link in my last post needed the trailing bracket removing -
it should have been:

http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/%7Epalaeont/palbio3/17.pdf






Fri Jul 9, 2004 10:03 am

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I have added some pictures of some Speeton bits and pieces. Particularly interesting are the pyritic inclusions in the fossil wood. I am no Botanist but I...
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Nice pictures. I know it is hard to tell from photographs - but - are you sure that it is a crinoid and not an uncoiling ammonite; could the things in the wood...
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