Fossil Fish Scale 05JUL2019 #1 Found at Hill Annex Mine Public Pile on July 05, 2019 by Angel Braaten who was a tourist that day. Thank you for loaning us this fossil for a microscope photo.

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3D surface views

This scale was cracked and folded during burial it seems.
Part of the reason I look at the 3D surface view is to see how level I got the scale under the microscope.
Scale impressions are not completely flat, this one especially, but I try to keep the tilt to a minimum for the photos.