...my barbaric YAWP...
                                                                   "Song of Myself" Leaves of Grass
                                                Walt Whitman 
Matrix Miscellaneous 

A selection of various fossil material found in association with a concentration of a hadrosaurian dinosaur Edmontosaurus annectens bonebed 
 
 
Metasequoia
metasequoia frondlet impression 
Metasequoia frondlets - food for a "duck-billed" dinosaur 

carbonised leaflet of metasequoia viewed through microscope Microscopic view of carbonised leaflet 

Metasequoia cone fragment 
Metasequoia cone fragment 
 

 
Fish Scale
lepidostean ganoid scale of a garfish
A shiney black ganoid scale of a lepidostean garfish
Unidentified Seeds

indeterminate Seed E 
Indeterminate Seed E 

 indeterminate Seed A microscopic close-up of carbonised surface of Seed A 
Indeterminate Seed A and microscopic view of carbonised surface 

unidentified Seed F Indeterminate Seed F
Indeterminate Seed F
 
Small Dinosaur Tooth
coelurosaurian tooth in matrix 
Small coelurosaurian tooth in matrix
close-up of coelurosaurian tooth
coelurosaurian tooth coelurosaurian tooth
A few closer images of tooth
 
Small Reptilian Tooth
possible crocodilian tooth and Lincoln cent
Small possible crocodilian tooth
small tooth labial view small reptilian tooth
Closer views of tooth
microscopic view of serrations on small reptilian tooth
Microscopic view of serrations that are present on either edge
 
Trace Fossils:  Worm Castings
worm castings trace fossil and exacto knife
Irregularly shaped castings left behind by worms consuming organic
material, possibly muscle, ligamentum, and/or cartilage remnants
that were still present when the bone was buried
more worm castings trace fossils
A closer view of worm casts
Ossified Tendons
ossified hadrosaur tendon in matrix
Isolated ossified tendon piece in matrix
two ossified tendon pieces and Roosevelt dime
A pair of ossified hadrosaur tendon pieces
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All images ©Michael Patrick Corriss
January 7, 2004
Images photographed with Olympus OM-1 35-mm camera, Olympus KHC microscope,
Ricoh RDC-300Z digital camera, scanned by Nikon LS-2000 and
manipulated with PhotoShopLE.
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