|
|
Post by Los Andreses on Jun 21, 2011 13:42:41 GMT -5
Hi Joe, Lucy, Tess and Steve ... A small souvenir ... a stitched image courtesy of Microsoft ICE ... happy days!  |
|
|
|
Camnant
Jun 21, 2011 17:10:35 GMT -5
Post by pleecan (Peter Lee) on Jun 21, 2011 17:10:35 GMT -5
What a wonderful site to hunt for fossils!
PL
|
|
|
|
Camnant
Jun 22, 2011 4:14:49 GMT -5
Post by Los Andreses on Jun 22, 2011 4:14:49 GMT -5
Sure is, central Wales is a beautiful spot  On the other hand it was intermittently hammering down with rain so it wasn't all beer and skittles! Microsoft ICE is a great tool for generating panoramic images - well worth the download. This one was 9 separate medium-sized images spanning around 200 degrees. |
|
|
|
Camnant
Jun 22, 2011 9:11:46 GMT -5
Post by pleecan (Peter Lee) on Jun 22, 2011 9:11:46 GMT -5
Microsoft ice does a fine job with stitching nice panoramic images !
PL
|
|
|
|
Camnant
Jun 30, 2011 14:36:32 GMT -5
Post by ammocarbsteve on Jun 30, 2011 14:36:32 GMT -5
Los Andreses... Another great photo... and it looks like the 'productive bit' is 3/4s the way across the photo from right to left lol... It sounds like something I might try sometime... I have took panoramic overlapping photos in the past when in quarries but wasnt aware of this free package so thanks...I wish Ider kept some photos now lol...
|
|
|
|
Camnant
Jul 2, 2011 16:38:03 GMT -5
Post by Joe Botting on Jul 2, 2011 16:38:03 GMT -5
Happy days indeed! Thanks for posting these, and for joining in the fun of finding tiny little things that we could barely see! We've been out of internet range in wildest Lleyn for the past couple of weeks, but have now returned to civilisation in Bala. The Hell's Mouth stint was absolutely stunning scenery (will sort the photos at some point) but very hard rock and exceptionally hard to find the fossils (except isolated sponge spicules, which were everywhere). Not a single brachiopod or hyolith all week, and very few trilobites (half a dozen fragments, almost entirely in one bed). An interesting story to come from the sponges, though... once I work out what it is. |
|
|
|
Camnant
Jul 2, 2011 16:50:00 GMT -5
Post by Joe Botting on Jul 2, 2011 16:50:00 GMT -5
A couple of the results for yuo as well... A nice little trilobite, Bettonia chamberlaini. Normally the trilos from here come in small but nicely preserved bits, so this is a bit of a novelty.  Bettonia chamberlaini by joe with a camera, on Flickr And what we were really after - a crinoid ( Iocrinus pauli). It's not the best one ever, and is starting to disarticulate, but it's certainly not bad. Andy had a slightly better one, with the anal column preserved, but it didn't photograph well with the conditions I could cobble together. Perhaps you can get a picture, Andy..?  Iocrinus pauli by joe with a camera, on Flickr |
|
|
|
Post by Los Andreses on Jul 3, 2011 4:44:23 GMT -5
Happy to oblige, Joe The specimen itself is in T's care for the moment so for the time being here are a couple of BlackBerry efforts at the site itself. Roughly 5-6 cms across, both halves ...   |
|
|
|
Post by Los Andreses on Jul 3, 2011 6:44:35 GMT -5
|
|
|
|
Camnant
Jul 3, 2011 15:51:33 GMT -5
Post by Joe Botting on Jul 3, 2011 15:51:33 GMT -5
Nice things. I notice you've got some extra crinoid arms hiding beside the Ogyginus corndensis pygidium... By the way, the graptolite is a broken stipe of Didymograptus cf. artus (this group is seriously messed up in the taxonomy), and the round thing is a tergomyan/monoplacophoran. There's something interesting about these in the inlier... they're common below the Llandrindod Tuff (a huge, 20 m-thick ash flow deposit over the whole area), but we've only ever found one specimen above it. Guess they didn't like the volcano much, but why didn't they recolonise? |
|
On the other hand it was intermittently hammering down with rain so it wasn't all beer and skittles!
