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6th Trip To Chatsworth: Fun With Friends
Nimravis replied to MeargleSchmeargl's topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
I am glad that you were able to collect. I stopped there Friday afternoon around noon and the Conasauga was running high and fast. The collecting area was totally inaccessible to me and I turned around and left. -
Hello, all. After my last wonderfully successful Id effort on here, i thought I'd try again. This specimen was boshed free of some matrix that was sent to me by the unrivalled Ralph @Nimravisin a batch of matrix from the Conasauga Formation, Upper Cambrian, Georgia, USA and home to a multitude of the trilobite Aphelaspis brachyphasis as well as rarer agnostids and other even rarer trilos. I was looking at this paper https://www.researchgate.net/publication/250083071_Exceptional_fossil_preservation_in_the_Conasauga_Formation_Cambrian_Northwestern_Georgia_USA and thought my specimen below looks rather like the example D in Figure 3 (sorry, I don't know how to just post that image. It's a chlorophyte, so is mine ? They appear to be sort of tiny strings of sausages, the longest string being about 2 mm long, so each individual 'cell' is very tiny indeed. Thank you for any comments, ideas or suggestions. Adam.
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The only thing that I know about the piece in the document that you are referring to is that it is from a different location than where I collected the pieces that you have. The piece in the article is found farther South and in another County. I am not saying that that type of fossil cannot be found in the Conasauga - Murray County matrix, I just don't know.
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Then my Barrandagnostus inexpectans, Conasauga Formation, Georgia. USA thanks to lots of rock bashing at matrix sent by Ralph @Nimravis
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Yeah, that was a difficulty when I was posting the Conasauga bugs from my adventures years back. Now I've learned that turning on a desk lamp and holding the bugs at a certain angle casts a shadow over all the details, showing them in their full glory. Used this photo method when photographing specimens from my last 2 trips to the place.
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5th trip to Chatsworth: My personal best (so far)!
MeargleSchmeargl replied to MeargleSchmeargl's topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
Maybe you could come visit the Conasauga one day! Got plenty of bugs to go around east of you! Wanna show your own newly acquired Agnostid? -
Let's see your latest mailbox score - 2018!
Tidgy's Dad replied to Haravex's topic in Member Collections
Here are some of the results I achieved from bashing open the big pile of rocks Ralph sent me from the Conasauga Formation, Upper Cambrian. Complete and partial Aphelaspis brachyphasis, plus a lot of librigenae. A possible algae sort of thing and an agnostid or two! Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm so happy! Thanks @Nimravis Lot's of close-ups to follow on the Adam's Cambrian thread under Member's Collections.
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A trip down memory lane in Fernbank Museum of Natural History
MeargleSchmeargl replied to MeargleSchmeargl's topic in A Trip to the Museum
I don't know why, but the other images I took from the trip are all acting up, so I can't really put anything else beyond what I already have. Curse you technology! Long story short, Seeing that their Paleozoic department seemed kinda empty, I was thinking of making a few donations to them. Maybe some of my Conasauga bugs and Tennessee Brachiopods for display! -
Wowie! That's a LOT of Cretaceous material! Any Cambrian stuff in the mix? Have a soft spot for that. Hello from Atl GA! @goatinformationist You're from Atl, too? Cool! Maybe we could take a little trip to the Conasauga one day.
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The Upper Ordovician Nautiloid Beds of Graf, Iowa
Nimravis replied to Nimravis's topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
No, to the amount of trilobites that are found at the Conasauga site. -
The Upper Ordovician Nautiloid Beds of Graf, Iowa
MeargleSchmeargl replied to Nimravis's topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
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The Upper Ordovician Nautiloid Beds of Graf, Iowa
Nimravis replied to Nimravis's topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
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First Trip Desires Accomplished In One Rock
MeargleSchmeargl replied to minnbuckeye's topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
Reminds me of my recent 5th trip for Conasauga bugs. Made it my mission to find an Agnostid. Low and behold, first piece of shale that had something in it produced this killer Barrandagnostus inexpectans :
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Check the entries below carefully and cast your vote! PM me if you notice any errors with the entries. The poll ends April 7th. Be sure to vote in our other FOTM poll, HERE. 1. Fisherites Green Algae - Middle Ordovician, Lasnamagi formation - Juodikiai quarry, Northeastern Lithuania 2. Echinocorys Sea Urchin - Late Cretaceous - Varena town, South Lithuania 3. Oxytropidoceras elaboratum Ammonite - Early Cretaceous, Kiamichi formation - Grayson County, Texas, USA 4. Asaphiscus wheeleri Trilobite - Middle Cambrian, Wheeler Shale - House Range, Utah, USA 5. Aphelaspis brachyphasis Trilobite - Middle Cambrian, Conasauga formation - Murray County, Georgia, USA 6. Platyceras sp. Sea Snail - Devonian - Arkona, Ontario, Canada 7. Acanthoceras amphibolum Ammonite - Upper Cretaceous, Dakota formation - Sandoval County, New Mexico, USA 8. Angulithes sp. Nautilus - Upper Cretaceous, Dakota formation - Sandoval County, New Mexico, USA 9. Gennaeocrinus Crinoid w/ Platyceras Gastropod - Middle Devonian, Moscow formation - Livingston County, New York, USA
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5th trip to Chatsworth: My personal best (so far)!
MeargleSchmeargl replied to MeargleSchmeargl's topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
And the one I found later: What on Earth these are exactly, I haven't a clue. I haven't seen any examples of these in scholarly articles on the Conasauga I've pulled up, either. My first wild stab at it is some form of echinoderm. Anybody familiar correct me if I'm wrong. Next, we have my first ever Agnostid find (Barrandagnostus inexpectens): Now for an Aphelaspis Brachyphasis parade!
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Man I wish I had a productive formation in my back yard... () Well, I still have the Conasauga bugs to brag about!
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MARCH 2018 - Finds of the Month - Entries
Nimravis replied to Fossildude19's topic in Fossil of the Month
I never put up anything for Fossil of the Month, but I really did like this double trilobite that i split last night. FOUND: 3-9-18 SPLIT: 3-16-18 NAME: Aphelaspis brachyphasis AGE: Middle Cambrian FORMATION: Conasauga LOCATION: Murray County, Georgia
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Check the entries below carefully and cast your vote! PM me if you notice any errors with the entries. The poll ends March 6th. Be sure to vote in our other FOTM poll, HERE. 1. Aphelaspis Brachyphasis Trilobite Multi-slab - Cambrian Conasauga Formation - Chatsworth, Georgia, USA 2. Isotelus sp. Trilobite - Middle Ordovician Carters Limestone/Lower Hermitage Formation - Eastern Middle Tennessee, USA 3. Elrathia kingii Trilobites - Middle Cambrian Wheeler Shale - House Range, Utah, USA 4. Hemicidaris intermedia Urchin - Jurassic - Novion Porcien, France 5. Crinoid "Stone Core" - Devonian - Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany 6. Tricoplaterian gregi Crab - Miocene - Motunau Beach, North Cantarbury, New Zealand 7. Hadromeros cheirurid Trilobite - Late Ordovician - Varena town, South Lithuania 8. Platylichas Trilobite - Kukruse stage, Sandbian, Late Ordovician - Varena town, South Lithuania 9. Crinoid - Devonian - Arkona, Ontario, Canada
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All a whole bunch of Aphelaspis. They're everywhere in the Conasauga!
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And to bring my Cambrian up to date for now, another species of Trilobite sent to me by another TFF member. Ralph @Nimraviswas kind enough to send me these three examples of Aphelaspis brachyphasis as a bonus included with some wonderful Mazon Creek fossils he sent me. These are from the lowest part of the Upper Cambrian Paibian series and thus maybe about 496 mya. From the Conasauga Formation by the Conasuaga River in North Georgia, USA. They may be not as well known or commercial as the slightly older Elrathia kingii and perhaps not as pretty but they are much rarer and not generally available on the market at all. I think they're rather lovely and the thought that I maybe the only person in Africa to own this species is rather exciting! Thank you, Ralph!
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Chatsworth GA has some really nice creepy crawlers from the Cambrian! Conasauga Formation. Here is my most recent 4th trip there:
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I was splitting up some Conasauga Formation shale from the Chatsworth area exposure @Nimravis and @MeargleSchmearglhave been posting about recently. This was material I brought back 2 or 3 years ago and have had sitting around. I found numerous specimens of the usual Aphelaspis the site is noted for. Then I split a small piece and here's what popped out: Four complete Agnostus inexpectans agnostid trilobites!! Talk about "inexpected", it's hard to find one of these complete much less four on the same piece of shale. Some other views: Don
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4th expedition for the Conasauga Trilos
MeargleSchmeargl replied to MeargleSchmeargl's topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
Thanks! You should plan on making a visit for the Conasauga creepy critters some time! -
February 2018 - Finds of the Month - Entries
Paciphacops replied to Fossildude19's topic in Fossil of the Month
Last Saturday must have been a good luck day for trilobites. I really need to get down to Georgia sometime and find some Conasauga bugs. I've driven by the river site before, but did not know about it at the time. -
February 2018 - Finds of the Month - Entries
MeargleSchmeargl replied to Fossildude19's topic in Fossil of the Month
I've got a Conasauga Aphelaspis multi-slab (as soon as I can get better images of it).
