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I'm pretty good with the ones with an octet of legs as well. Tammy and I made a roadtrip to the panhandle (Pensacola area) to try to see some of the White-topped Pitcher Plants (Sarracenia leucophylla) in bloom. Sadly, most of the parks that were supposed to be packed with thousands of them were overrun with vegetation. The Splinter Hill Bog Preserve just over the border into Alabama is taking steps to clear the underbrush using prescribed burns. Unfortunately for us, they seemed to have done this just a few days before our arrival. Nothing was left of the largest single population of S. leucophylla but a few charred pitchers and flowers. We shall have to return at a later date to be able to see for ourselves the wondrous profusion that I've seen in online images. We fared a little better the next morning at the Yellow River Marsh Preserve State Park. The loop around the lake at this park and the trail through the nearby Garcon Point Water Management Area were sadly choked with undergrowth and the population of pitchers was missing. These locations seem like they could use a good prescribed burn to restore the bog habitat for the pitchers. Ironically, the best population of pitchers (and upright sundews, Drosera filiformis f. tracyi ) were to be found in a swale area alongside the road leading into the park. Tiny yellow (3 mm) long flowers of the carnivorous Zigzag Bladderwort, Utricularia subulata, could be seen if you looked closely and had the right search image. A sign in the park mentioned that Yellow Crab Spiders, Misumena vatia, might be found hiding camouflaged among yellow blooms. We searched a couple hundred yellow flowers only to spot its kin--what seems to be the Green Crab Spider, Misumessus oblongus. At just a few millimeters long and with the flowers blowing in the breeze I fired off around 20 attempted images only to find that the first one was the only one in focus. Cheers. -Ken
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Greetings from the mountans of Virginia
FossilDAWG replied to wkcarty's topic in Member Introductions
Welcome to the Fossil Forum. Virginia in general is good for fossils, but the mountains have a wide variety of Paleozoic (Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Mississippian, and Pennsylvanian) fossils. The book by Jasper Burns (Fossil collecting in the mid-Atlantic States) is a good place to start with suggestions for collecting sites, although some of the sites are defunct due to road changes (eliminating road cuts) or access issues such as private property closures, so some exploring is necessary. Roughly where are you located? Don- 8 replies
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Is it heavy? Have you attempted the burn test? If not, hold a flame to part of the bone, in an unobtrusive area. If the bone burns, or chars, or gives off a burnt hair smell, it is modern. If it doesn't burn at all, it could be mineralized=fossil.
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Better pictures of the skull, preferably with some sort of measuring instrument would be needed. Also, what county in Nebraska? That might help with an age range. Burn test would let you know if it is modern cow. Hold a bit of bone to a flame, and see if it burns or gives off any kind of burnt hair smell. That would indicate the presence of collagen, therefor not being mineralized/fossilized.
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@hemipristisThank you for sharing! Some of the pieces I find do have a brittle texture but are often intermixed with crystals. Is this characteristic of ironwood? (Examples below of the brittle specimens) If we assume ironwood, would that make sense for Montgomery county? I’m very knew to this as rockhounding is a hobby of mine but I’m extremely eager to learn. Whenever I post to forums with my questionable pieces, I often get dismissed because the location doesn’t match the expected geology for that area. I feel it’s necessary to mention this specific creekbed in Montgomery county is unlike any I’ve explored in PA or anywhere else for that matter. The bed is made of clay and I found (assuming) smoky quartz, agates, Jasper, and petrified wood layering the entire bed. Does this sound consistent for the age of the Pleistocene sediments you mentioned? brittle wood wrapped around stone (quartz?): more brittle texture mixed with hard sediment: this specimen is rock hard like the previous images I posted in this thread and includes small crystals along with some irregular markings and banding:
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Indeed it is poppy jasper thank you! Found an image that shows exactly what I couldn't quite get with my camera.
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If it is hard and does not scratch with a metal knife then it might be orbicular or poppy jasper. The orbs which sometimes have a radial pattern may be harder than the surrounding rock and thus stick up. See picture of Kinradite with protruding orbs from near San Francisco, California. https://www.flickr.com/photos/36618387@N06/4284363384
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More like spotted chert I haven't seen chert with these colors which is why I mentioned jasper, but haven't seen anything like this. Would love to know what the minerals are and why only the white spots rise above the surface.
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Vertebrae ID, reptile or dinosaur?
rifleman1961 replied to rifleman1961's topic in General Fossil Discussion
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I found this strange cubed rock or maybe bone in a creek bed right along the Platte River in eastern Nebraska. The Pawnee tribes used to have a village only about 3 miles down the river from where I found it. I also found a piece of smoky hills jasper along with it. It’s almost a perfect cube with one side having a tiny ledge. It’s smooth on 4 sides and has sort of a sanded down feel on the other two which would make your top and bottom. I do not believe it is sandstone by location and other examples I’ve seen . Very hard, and somewhat heavy for its size. The lick test tells me it’s bone but I am totally unsure here. I tried to get close up pictures of texture.
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There is a slight chance your first rock is actually fossil in nature. It mimics Mary Ellen Jasper, which is a 1.88 billion year old stromatolite. But unfortunately, as others have said, Minnesota is a large state and location means so much for proper identification of any fossil or rock.
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Looks like a recent, partial scapula bone. Deer, cow, or horse seems likely. If you hold it to a flame, and it burns/gives off a burning hair smell, it is likely recent. Give or take 100 years. If it burns, but doesn't smell, could be a few hundred years old. If it doesn't burn at all, it is likely a fossil.
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New from DC area. Any vegans or punk rockers?
bockryan replied to ieatplants's topic in Member Introductions
Welcome! Also DC-based, check out Fossil Collecting in the Mid-Atlantic States by Jasper Burns as well as the Rockhounding and Roadside Geology series for books, also enjoy Paleocast from time to time and then there are quite a few paleo Youtubers that make good content, Eons is a good place to start. And not totally punk but my profile pic is a Tigers Jaw t-shirt so it's close -
Wow super awesome mineral. It looks to me like chert, jasper and quartz almost see agate inclusions. Great find. I’d cut it in half and polish it.😊
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These fossils are from old coast defences. They are probably from the region around Tournais, the type locality of the Tournaisian. Can someone help me to ID these? I cant find any good literature to ID these. thanks. Jasper
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I was gifted a rock specimen from the estate of a professional geologist. I was immediately attracted to it as a tall, columnar structure very coral like. It has been cleanly sawn at the base and it layered, laminae structure immediately indicated stromatolite. It is about 15 inches tall and 5.5 inches at the base; it weighs about 7 pounds. At first I thought it was a fossil but these three things stand out contrary to that. First, it has air voids in it; it is not completely mineralized through. Second, the external layer is cleanly exposed. If it was a fossil, the surrounding matrix must have been highly erodible as the fine detail of the outside layer (visible exterior) is remarkable. Third, consistent with #1 and #2 the "rock" has not been metamorphosed. We have fossil stromatolites here in Minnesota and they are embedded structure in Mary Ellen Jasper, which is a beautiful rock. Unfortunately, I have no idea where this came from. The dad of my friend who gave it to me lived in South Dakota and was in the Pacific Theatre in WWII, but was not known to be much of a traveler otherwise. Based on my 3 reasons above, I think this may be a specimen of a modern, extant stromatolite that somehow ended up with the geologist. I know there are living modern stromatolites with columnar structure at Pavilion Lake BC, and at Lago los Centas in Porvenir, Tierra del Fuego, Chile. Certainly there are fossil examples of columns too in the record. Really just looking to see if anyone on this forum has seen anything like this before? It is beautiful in its own way. Thanks in advance. Bill J.
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Most likely old bone. You could perform a burn test to determine if it is fossilized. Hold the bone to a flame. If it burns at all, or gives off a burnt hair type of odor, it is modern. If not, it is a fossil.
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@jdp @Peat Burns Any thoughts? Thanks.
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I agree that there are some beautiful pieces of red jasper in your box, but I don't see any fossil material. Your first piece lacks any of the grain features I would expect to see in petrified wood. It looks like a weathered rock with mineral infill to me.
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Welcome from the Valley of the Sun. Not seeing any fossils either. They all look like cobbles rounded by a river, probably the Colorado. I see some red jasper in the box. Be on the lookout for brachiopods, sponges and other fossils from the Permian Kaibab Formation. Silicified Kaibab Formations could have come from the Grand Canyon area several million years ago. https://www.thefossilforum.com/topic/105672-kaibab-sponges-other-fossils/#comment-1173955
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I'm OK with that since WVU's spam filter is pretty ridiculously burly against such threats. I am surprised though that it did turn it into a CLICKABLE email and I'll edit that if possible. That said though, "What a bad idea to give his coordinates on a forum seen by thousands of people"... Elaborate. I didn't see anyone post exact locality information (other than Ambridge, which is an exceptionally well known site - and in the Jasper Burns book, the Hoskins book, etc.).
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Advice for preparing workshop materials for fossil hunters
NickG posted a topic in Questions & Answers
This is an unusual question but I am putting together a little workshop on regional fossils, such as showing examples of common fossils and how to identify them. I would like to prepare some handouts to help my attendees in their fossil hunting. Some things I thought about- 1. Handout with the state geologic map and timescales. 2. A list of fossil hunting spots in the area which are still viable from Jasper Burns' "Fossil Hunting in the Mid Atlantic" along with some good fossil hunting sites that I am open to sharing. 3. Some public domain or CC licensed images of common fossils to the area to aid identification (including partially preserved examples where possible). 4. A list of tools and ethics in field collecting/fossil hunting. 5. A short bibliography of fossil hunting related resources in print and on the web related to the area. I then planned to make a library guide online with all of these resources also available as a PDF. Is there anything else that would be very useful? Has anyone attended similar workshops and there were things that especially stood out for them as good or bad? -
Oyster flesh does not fossilize and what appear to be shell fragments to you are mineral deposits and veins, probably quartz. No fossils for my eyes here. I agree with Franz on jasper/chalcedony breccia.
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Hello thanks for letting me participate. I an Ken in Austin any thoughts on my latest find
Mark Kmiecik replied to Ken Carroll's topic in Fossil ID
Yup, a very nice piece of jasper.
