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Long overdue to post about some of my NC finds from earlier this year! First up was a very exciting trip to the NC Triassic to look for a variety of plant fossils, which were my first Mesozoic plants. Beautiful white coloring on some of them as well, the matrix is extremely soft (you can easily scrape it with your finger nails) so I've done some experimenting with how to best consolidate them without damaging the visual effect. Not a ton of variety at the site, but they are abundant and sometimes surprisingly well preserved. I have found Otozamites hespera and Otozamites powelli, as well as a few other kinds of plants. I also disturbed a "hibernating" lizard, initially I was concerned that my digging had injured him, but after a some time in the sun he scampered off seemingly no worse for the experience.

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

Hi all, Last weekend I took a trip, again, to the Florissant Fossil Quarry. The quarry doesn’t normally open until Memorial Day, but I went with the Colorado State University entomology club. I successfully lobbied for the club to take a field trip there, and the club got the trip funded by the student’s association so we got to go in as a by-appointment special group for “free” (at least for us). Perhaps this whole process is a story I’ll tell another time. Anyway, for those not familiar in the upper Eocene Florissant Formation fossils of insects and plants are highly abundant, but fossils of vertebrates are exceptionally rare. This is despite being a superficially similar depositional environment to the Green River Formation, where fish fossils are abundant. Well, after countless total hours of splitting in the quarry over the years I’ve finally come across a vertebrate fossil - the head of a teleost fish! This is exciting simply because fish fossils are very rare in this rock unit. The shale breaking split the fossil, so presumably the body is still out in the quarry somewhere. There are of course fish described from Florissant, but I’m not familiar with them. The only identification I can readily make is teleost. Thought I’d share a rare find! My “white whale” for the Florissant Formation is still a spider fossil. There were three spiders found by entomology club participants, but of course I was not one of them. Of course I’d find the way more rare thing, but not the thing I wanted 😀

Hi!! I'm Kimi, just a girl who loves ALL things Nature. I'm especially drawn to rocks/ fossils, plants, and insects. Sometimes I think the rocks and fossils are even drawn to me! With gratitude and reverence, I can also say that most plants are dear Allies to me, and always show me great patience as I continue to learn and grow.🌱✨️ That being said, Nature continuously offers us new opportunities to learn and grow, no matter where we are on our journey. Although my son will tell you this about me, "she always THINKS she found a fossil", he is never convinced. Me, being a novice to fossils, would love to better my understanding of these ancient treasures. So, without further ado, here are the first four finds that I am curious about......🥁 I know the one is definitely an ocean type fossil, just not sure what, but are the other three just cool rocks? Idk.... I reside in Arizona now (Michigan native), which is where these were found, AZ. I find rocks all over the state, but the main places would be locally (around the valley), Superstition area, Tucson area, Stafford, Christopher Creek, Sedona, and Flagstaff. There are so many more that I have questions about too, but maybe by posting a few at a time, I can begin to discern for myself which ones have potential. At least that is my aspiration. Thanks friends! I appreciate you♡ #1 #2 #3 # 4

A snapshot of zoophycos out of a layer here known as the Andrecito Formation (lower Mississippian) and finally a solitary imprint of a shell in shale. This is unusual for the area as the shale tends to be non-fossiliferous except for land plants. Given the geology it had to have been Mississippian but it's possible to have washed in from higher ground over time and be Pennsylvanian. Also, a solitary plant fossil of what might have been sigillaria but its too badly preserved to be certain. 100% sure this was washed in from higher ground over a mile away over time as that's the closest formations of Pennsylvanian which is the first documented time plants were found in our area.

Good question. It is statewide, all public lands including waterways owned by the state. Keep in mind, the permit is only required for collecting vertebrate fossils, not invertebrates (shells, etc). This quote is from the Florid Permit website: "Fossil sharks teeth are specifically excluded from these regulations, as are the fossils of plants, invertebrate animals (e.g., mollusks, sea urchins, crabs, etc.), and other organisms, so no permit is required to collect such specimens." https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/vertpaleo/amateur-collector/fossil-permit/

The previous thread posted was filling up and I needed a short break. The Castle Dale Museum was a nice treat as this was my first visit any of the towns along highway 10 which runs north and south on the west side of a huge Morrison Formation where the Cleveland-Lloyd dino quarry is located and endless locations of Cretaceous, Triassic and Jurassic fossils are found. These fossil locations are mostly treeless as you see in my photos so that surface finds are only a matter of walking through the formations. People think there are "secret spots" to find the best hunting grounds for big and small game, rocks, minerals, rare plants, fossils, etc. Nope...nearly if not all land has been walked on by humans. Those who hunt fossils in Utah talk of such places and In my opinion these "secret spots" or " honey holes" are only such in their own minds. Today's tech just using Google Earth mapping will find anything you look for. Crashed airplanes- simple. Morrison formations in Utah deserts...way too easy. Fossil concretions are quite visible from satellites looking down into Utah deserts. Not to poo-poo on the idea myself, people ask me all the time where I caught such a huge fish. I say I caught it in the mouth. They persist and I say in the water. They get the point and we have a laugh. Then I will share a location with them. They ask what bait. I say 'bread', they say, 'Bread?', I say bread, they repeat, 'bread?', I say yes, like a sandwich. Again the light bulb comes on, we laugh and I tell them that every source of Utah waters has big fish like this in it and most people feed ducks at those water sources. Fish are under the ducks eating bread, too. This applies to fossil hunting in Utah...where did you find that? In the desert. Between Green River and Salina or Moab and Price or even in Salt Lake City. Then I say fossils are under your feet. However, giving away your favorite spot isn't smart collecting because someone has already been there. But at the moment it can be your "secret spot" and productive site. Utah certainly has been fossil hunted for over a century continuously. Off the soap box, back to the trip which thus far has allotted me 4 hours of sleep in two days. Lets go, Steve! Here's my "secret spot". Thanks to Landsat/Copernicus imagery. The banded Morrison Formation is easily seen from space and the Cretaceous formation is like the pie crust around it. The Jurassic National Monument is also known as the Cleveland-Llyod Quarry. You can google it for more. Keeping the honest folks honest. Once I parked among the other visitors, I checked it and the gal asked if I had a park pass. I showed her mine. She sees the "Senior" diamond shaped emblem on it and says, no, that's not your card, Yes it is, here's my license to go with it. She smiling, no way you're that old. Yepperdo! I get in free and we had a nice, fun , chat about retirement, thinking good thoughts, loving life and making the most of it. The daylight caused many reflections on the glass cases. A bone in a jacket. The most touted Dino next to the Utahraptor, the Allosaurus. Say Cheese! Outdoors is mile and a half trail and the other building covering the 'big pile of dino bones'. This model seemed quite well constructed. Upon exiting, I noticed we were also leaving the Morrison formation. See any concretions? See any now? When I was close to entering the Park site, I noticed a couple getting out of the van with buckets and a pic. Well, methinks there's a blatant clue. Be sure to dial 811 before you dig! Upon driving back out of Morrison formation back onto BLM land and Cretaceous sites, I noticed the same vehicle still there over an hour later. But the couple weren't visible. I turned down the side road, stopped , put on my hat and greeted them. All went well and they welcomed me to join them. I offered to move to another site and they still welcomed the company. I showed them what I had found the day before in another town outskirts and they had not seen trace fossils here before but the guy knew that meant tunnels, burrows, footprints. They actually had bird tracks from that place in the beginning of the other thread with the snow on the summit pass. I found a nice trace fossil right away and gave it to them to get their bearing on what to look for. They were excited and the gal found 4-5 quickly and was very pleased with them. They had been at this location several times and were about to leave but suggested I search the hills and into the washes and ditches. I helped lift a huge concretion into their vehicle and they did the same for me as they left. Bending down to lift their concretion I saw this piece under his foot. I did take a few pics but enthusiasm won out as it always does and the picture taking falls to the wayside. A pic of his find. A pic of mine. ...and more... The Heavy. I'll get the bucket contents sorted ASAP and add those. Gotta apply some generous amounts of CA to some pieces. Steve PS - Oh, I early forgot! While I was at the Nat. Park I was traipsing along with a family, mom, dad and twin boys. The boys talked fossils the whole trip according to the mom. They were from Georgia and were going to the Natural History Museum in Salt Lake the next day before flying out. I said your boys will love it. It's like a 100 of this collection. One boy asked was this a fossil - holding a polished rock. His mom said it's a rock, I said , yes it is, but it could be a fossil gastrolith. A what? the boys exclaimed. Gastro= stomach, lith = rock. A stomach rock. Dinosaurs swallowed rocks to help grind and digest their food, just like birds do. But if you stop by my car on the way out, I'll give you a for real fossil each. I gave them my Birgella sp. gastropod fossils collected the day before. They were happy.

I collected this many years ago in the Quimper Sandstone in WA and have not been able to identify it. It appears to be a plant structure where the top splays out into a few "branches" with some lobed structure on the top. Reminds me somewhat of a lotus top where the flower would develop. Ok, all you plant guys and others, let me know if you know what it is or if you have some ideas. The specimen is about 7 CM including the top piece. Thanks

Hello, here's the Geologic timeline for my location. The lighter specimens with coloration are from the Chesterian-Morrowan boundary. Where the first land formations happen locally. Lowest of the Morrowan most likely. If these are the first plants in this location I probably shouldn't expect much biodiversity. To my untrained eye I've only seen neuropteris, cordaite and very rare pieces of calamite. The darker gray specimens are Morrowan-Atokan and from a different location. They are definitely below what is designated as the Bug Scuffle formation. This sphenopteris is not well preserved and getting good relief shots with it being the same color as the matrix is difficult. This time I noticed a lone apparent neuropteris fragment as well

I think the order might be alethopteris, neuropteris and then two potential calamites with internode branching with some trace leaves...but the folks who really know their plants will fill us in.

late carboniferous/early permian, north china, plants for ID.

Vertebrate fossils are extremely uncommon, but I think I managed to find a Ctenodus lungfish scale in Mazonia. Plants are also present in the Essex biota, albeit less common and well preserved as in Braidwood. Here is one of my favorites - a Calamites horsetail shoot from the eastern area of Mazonia. Here is a hash plate of what I think are horsetail fragments from Braceville. So far I’ve been quite unlucky when it comes to finding nice Annularia, horsetail leaf whorls. Here is my best one from Mazonia - halves of two whorls. Most of my lycophytes come from Braceville, which is counterintuitive as that place is mostly known for aquatic fauna. Here are two pieces of bark from Lepidodendron cf. aculeatus. And two lycophyte cone bracts - first one I think is Lepidostrobophyllum majus, and I am unsure on the second one beyond Lepidostrobophyllum sp.

A good chunk of it is was naturally outside of the rock, and it is at a angle of somewhere around 45-70 degrees. The rock that it is on has from 1 to 3 dozen other fossils, but a majority of them are, from what I can tell, more common ones. The most notable ones is this one, and one other one, and the rock which I picked up and kept looks like a part of a tusk or bone, which it is not. It looks more convincing in person then via a photo and all the other rocks around it looked nothing like this rock. It was in a desert- ish area - there were a lot of short trees and plants, but the ground was mostly sand, and the rocks around it were not smooth: this one was. One looks to be 1 of two things, 1- a geode that was broken in half at one point a long time ago and filled with rock, or 2. - an egg that is missing the bones inside, because it may have been a hatched egg, which is around 2-2.5cm circle like shape. Also the outside and inside rock looks to be the same. I am going to add one of the photos I have of the rock. It is a photo before I cleaned it, but the blue area is where the egg/geode one is. The yellow area is the one with the vertebra and the wihite is one that I am pretty sure it is a carbon bleach of a lizard, but it looks very weird and there are multiple ones of it of its tail and only the tail 3 in total .

Hi! I recently collected my first fossils and I'm very excited, but I would really appreciated some advice as to how best to care for them. Here in BC anyone who collects fossils from Crown Land is considered a steward of the fossil, as it is legal to collect them however they still belong to the land. This, and the fact that I genuinely care about these fossils, is why I would love some help with learning how best to preserve/stabilize the fossils. I think they're carbon fossils, and are all plants from the Eocene Era. The shale that they're set in is brittle and likes to chip, so one or two specimens have small chips that came off when I opened them and I'd like to re-attatch these (should I just glue them on? What kind of glue is best?). Lastly, I was hoping someone might have advice for making the darker fossils a bit more visible. I heard that dipping the rocks in resin can help the contrast a bit, but that seems blunt and expensive to me. Thanks for the advice and your time!

I agree with coal. And I feel pretty sure that the marks that resemble plants have a merely accidental resemblance to plants. Many phenomena in Nature mimic plant growth.

Sorry for no scale I am in the bush currently, these are in Mississippian strata In one area, Indiana are these worth taking? They look like plants

Hello everyone and hope you're all having a wonderful day. Recently, I had the brilliant opportunity to volunteer at the Australian Museum in Sydney. It has definitely been a highlight of this year for me, and I thoroughly enjoyed it! While I was there, I spent a lot of time exploring the museum, and eventually saw and took photographs of every palaeontological item on display I am aware of, and would like to show them all to you now as an early Christmas present. I do know @Notidanodon did get to share some photographs of the museum a while ago. If you're wondering why the opalised shells Notidanodon shared are not in this topic, they are no longer on display as far as I know. I did also get to see some fossil specimens behind-the-scenes, but I did not get to take pictures of them, so these are only the fossils and replicas on public display I do have a lot of photos of other things as well, particularly the Rameses travelling exhibition, as well as labels of the palaeontology items, so if you want anything in particular, please PM me. I also have a lot of similar photographs of the Australian Fossil and Mineral Museum in Bathurst, and will probably post those next year. This will be a long topic, and I doubt I'll finish it all today, but here goes: Dinosaur Gallery Entrance Replica skeleton of Jobaria tiguidensis and Afrovenator abakensis, originally discovered by Paul Sereno. You'll see that a lot of Sereno's skeletons are on display in this gallery, as he was involved with its creation. The Jobaria mount from behind; note the upper floor of displays no longer accesible which the sauropod's head reaches up into. From talking with the other volunteers I'm pretty sure this upper floor used to be part of the 'More than Dinosaurs' gallery which the current Dinosaurs gallery replaced, but I cannot find any images of the older gallery to confirm this besides a close-up of a Stegosaurus (which is still in the museum). Mesozoic Plants Pretty nicely, there is a decent amount of space in the gallery dedicated to non-dinosaurs. While I would have preferred a simple 'Fossil Gallery' with a variety of extinct organisms on display, this is still a good compromise. Photograph showing how the plants section, labelled 'A Changing World', is presented. Each of the large windows is into a cabinet displaying the real fossil plants, and are accompanied by a reconstruction of terrestrial life at the time at a child's eyeline, so they can get a better idea of how life on land looked in each period. You can look into them through the small rectangles below the large windows. They all appear in '3D'. The orange circles cover up areas where children can smell what certain plants would have been like (the Triassic one is of a conifer, and the Cretaceous one is of a flowering plant). Australian Triassic plants. Top left is Rissikia media, bottom left is Dicroidium zuberi and right is Cladophelbis australis. Here is the reconstruction of the Triassic. Australian Jurassic Plants. Left is Agathis jurassica, right is Osmundacaulis sp. Here is the accompanying Jurassic reconstruction. Early Cretaceous Australian plants. Ginkgoites australis at left and Phullopteroides dentata at right. Fun fact; this is where I first learned that seed ferns survived into the Cretaceous, as most dinosaur books simply seem to forget about them after the Triassic period. I guess you can also see my hand here. That's one of the annoying things about all of these items being behind glass; it's difficult to take nice photos of them without getting yourself into them. Still, it's better than the alternative, as you'll see later... Here is the Early Cretaceous reconstruction. Weird how there is a stegosaur, when stegosaurs easily reached their peak diversity and abundance in the Jurassic. Only one plant is in the Late Cretaceous cabinet, and ironically it is unidentified. The final reconstruction, which is of the Late Cretaceous. Interesting how this is the only one to not have a Theropod or Sauropodomorph. Non-Dinosaur Mesozoic Animals Opposite to the plant display, there is a section dedicated to the animals the dinosaurs shared their world with. Interestingly, this section starts out with an Eoraptor lunensis cast, to highlight certain features unique to dinosaurs, such as their hollow hip sockets. You can see parts of the herbivores and carnivores sections in the background. Over my many trips, I often seem to gravitate to this specimen, as besides the Jobaria, Giganotosaurus and Archaeopteryx it is easily the one I have the most photos of on my phone (obviously more than two, don't want to clutter the page). Properly starting off our journey on non-dinosaurs is a display of terrestrial animals. All fossils are real except stated otherwise: Skull of an unidentified Dicynodont found in Zambia. Cast of Rhamphorynchus muensteri from Solnhofen in Bavaria, Germany. Parotosaurus wadei skull from Brookvale, NSW, Australia. Clarotitan andersoni from Brookvale, NSW, Australia. There is another specimen in a different gallery which I took a better picture of. Cleitholepis granulata from Somersby, NSW, Australia. Cavernericthys talbragerensis from Tralbragar, NSW, Australia. It is overlaid on a leaf. You'll notice some other fossils from Tralbragar in the Jurassic plants cabinet, as well as in another gallery. Left is a nymph of Promimara cephalota, found in Koonwarra, Victoria, Australia, and right is an unidentified cockroach from Brookvale, NSW, Australia. Aeschnogomphus sp. from Solnhofen in Bavaria, Germany. This specimen was special, but very annoying to get a photograph of. Cast of lower jaw of Teinolophis trusleri, a monotreme mammal found in Inverloch, Victoria, Australia. According to the label it is the oldest known mammal in Australia, even older than Steropodon. I'm going to start a new post now so that I don't run out of space.

I decided to take a trip out to the Mississippi River. With the weather warming in Missouri, the trees and plants are starting to grow and bloom once more. It is quite beautiful seeing some of the flowers and trees flourish, which I wish I had snapped some photos of. The downside to that, is some of my fossil hunting spots get quickly overgrown, or sometimes get submerged underwater. This trip was to check out an exposure of Silurian aged Bainbridge Formation rock. I had not been to this site before, so I was excited to get out and explore once more. After a nice walk to my destination, I found the exposed red rocks along the river I was looking for. Almost immediately, I found what I was searching for, trilobites! Calymenids are common in the right exposures of the Bainbridge Formation, but I didn't expect to see so many. 95% of the specimens found were weathered, damaged, and missing a lot of shell. Here's a few photos I took before I got overwhelmed by the sheer amount of trilobites exposed on the rock. See how many you can find in the first picture. You may need to enlarged the photo. I counted over 10. And the search was on! The goal was to find a nice, complete specimen or two to take home, clean, and then compare to other Calymenid trilobites I've found in different exposures of Bainbridge Formation rock. I spent the warm and windy afternoon hunched over, scouring over all the exposed bedrock. After hours and counting over 100 poorly preserved specimens, I finally found a nice looking one worth taking home. It had a little bit of weathering, but looked to be all there. Many of them were exposed in this sort of flexed position. A bit of noise, and I extracted the specimen. This is a nice one I'll hopefully get a professional to clean, so I carefully packed it up and continued my search. A nice cephalopod, and a few crinoid holdfasts were also exposed atop the bedrock. They were both pretty cool to see, especially that cephalopod fossil. Like trilobites, they aren't things I get to see everyday. I didn't find anymore good trilobites exposed and I didn't want to split rock, so I shifted to flipping over and looking through the river tumbled rocks for a while. The 9th rock I had fllipped over, looks to have a ventral trilobite on it. The luckiest, and cutest find was this little .3 inch Calymenid trilobite that was washed along the riverbank. I have no clue how it hadn't been destroyed from the river, but I was quite happy to find it. Note how it's exposed in the similar flexed orientation as the last one I found. One other interesting rock on the riverbank that probably has a complete specimen within was found. It had a few pleura segments and part of the pygidium exposed, but I forgot to photograph it. I'll upload a photo of it when I get home and unpack it if I don't forget. It was great to get back out to the Mississippi River. I always enjoy nature, solitude, and fossil hunting. I avoided ticks this trip, but not the mosquitos! A good afternoon spent, I decided to pack up my belongings and head back to St. Louis for the night.

I'm currently working on a simulation of extinct biomes, i'm slowly learning how to make everything as realistic as possible for realtime 3d simulation. I would like to start with plants recreated from some Silurian, lower devonian and upper devonian, and slowly working to recreating the biomes in the areas where they lived and later i'l like to add animals aswell. All my research is made with google i'm not a professional in archeology or 3d art, some of the models are very simple and unpolished for now and will be updated. The project is in the early stages for now but it runs very well on most pc's Here are ome of the plants that lived in the late devonian Tetraxylopteris and leaf detail Archeopteris and branch detail Calamophyton Protolepidodendropsis Uang (China) Weylandia rhenana Aneurophyton Wattieza Leclercqia

So my son and I have been looking almost exclusively for signs of vertebrate life in Pennsylvania and almost exclusively and obviously in road cuts. My goal this year is to expand a little. I would like to visit Gilboa, site of the earliest known forest! That part of eastern NY state was the shoreline of an inland sea in the Appalachian basin during the middle Devonian. Many field trips are described here of fossils from that inland sea but almost exclusively invertebrate. I know in the past fossils have been found but I'm wondering if anything recent? I would assume if someone has a site they probably don't want to share specifics but just looking for what if anything people have found?

Over the last month I've been staying with my partner in Queensland who lives close to some amazing fossil sites, namely the Redbank Plains Formation. This formation is well known for its Paleocene/Eocene plants, insects, fishes and turtles. It was extensively collected from during the 1900s when the area was mostly comprised of pastures and bushland. Most of the fossils were found in iron-rich mudstone nodules which weathered out of the soil and gullies, although many plants and insects were collected from a clay pit and found directly in white mudstone. Nowadays, much of the formation has been covered by housing development, making it difficult to collect from. One exposure was protected within a council reserve, but fossils in there were difficult to find as they had to naturally weather out of the formation. I didn't have high hopes for finding anything in the area but after scouring geology maps I noticed one exposure which looked promising. It was mapped as Redbank Plains Formation but easily could've just been part of the surrounding Triassic/Jurassic sandstones. After finally being able to visit, we found it to be a new exposure of the Redbank Plains Formation! It didn't yield many fossils but the geology was terrific. At the top, a sandstone horizon which I think still belongs to the Redbank Plains Formation overlies the fossil bearing black carbonaceous shale, with a white clay type horizon below. Some more interesting geology just to the right of where the previous photo was taken. Just above the white clay horizon is a thin layer of tuff, overlain by more carbonaceous shale, then overlain by a thin layer of basalt, with more carbonaceous shale above. A different part of the exposure which was very rich in nodules. Fossils in these nodules were very rare in comparison to other Redbank Plains Formation sites, with just occasional plant material or fish bits. After suffering in the 34˚ summer heat for a few hours, we left in search of a different site a few hours away which yielded nothing. But then, on our way home, we noticed another potential Redbank Plains Formation exposure. This one was much more successful in terms of fossils, and also previously unknown! A partial fish as found in situ. Note the characteristic black shale it has weathered out of. The cross section of fish bones can be seen in this weathered nodule. A leaf, perhaps a Banksia sp.? A mash of fish bone in a nodule we split. Our best find of the day, a beautiful articulated fish! In situ: After some preparation (will post photos of it finished when I complete it). Unfortunately the nodule this was in fractured in many places, a result of the drying mudstone matrix. A tiny fish before and after preparation (also not finished, waiting on a replacement tip for my airscribe). This species is Notogoneus parvus. That is all for now, will update with more photos as I prepare everything! The Queensland Museum has been made aware of this new and potentially significant site, so hopefully it can be protected.

Congrats on a spectacular Stigmaria from Knob Noster! "Knob Noster (Johnson Country, Missouri) is a relatively new Pennsylvanian site uncovered in 1990 containing a flora and fauna preserved within ironstone concretions (Hannibal et al. 2003). Its fossil assemblage was found to be similar in composition to the Windsor and Braidwood of Mazon Creek sites. The concretions were found to originate from either the delta area or the estuary area while the plants were represented by the foliage of ferns, stems, seeds, cones and the trunks of arborescent plants. Investigations of this site are in progress and could potentially yield new findings." text from: Pacyna, G., Zdebska, D. 2012 Carboniferous Plants Preserved within Sideritic Nodules: A Remarkable State of Preservation Providing a Wealth of Information. Acta Palaeobotanica, 52(2):247-269 PDF LINK Hannibal J.T., Keiper J.B., Lemay S., Mckenzie, S. 2003 Knob Noster: A New Upper Carboniferous (Pennsylvanian) Lagerstätte in Missouri Containing Millipeds (Diplopoda), Insects, Crustaceans, Vertebrates, Plants and other Terrestrial and Brackish Water Organisms. Geological Society of America, North-Central Section: 37th Annual Meeting, Session 22:6, Paper: 50110 LINK from my collection: Hemimylacris clintoniana – Pennsylvanian – Knob Noster Formation, Missouri

Hello everyone, and hope you've all had a good day so far. I am currently having a break after putting most of my bookcase together. Here are some fossil plants found in the Triassic layers of the Sydney Basin I would like identified if possible. As before, I would like the most specific identification possible, but don't mind genus or clade names if they'd be more accurate. I know the general location for these, so don't worry about that. If you need more photographs for a proper identification, I can take more in a couple of hours or tomorrow. Specimen 1: Shale plant fossil This fossil was found by a friend in the shale rock layer in the Northern Beaches region. This makes it Triassic in age. I read this document (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Gregory-Retallack/publication/241677571_Geological_excursion_guide_to_the_sea_cliffs_north_of_Sydney/links/55d2119008ae0b8f3ef776a9/Geological-excursion-guide-to-the-sea-cliffs-north-of-Sydney.pdf) and after comparing the plant to various images on the document, I came to the conclusion that the plant was a specimen of the seed fern Dicroidium. Is this an accurate identification? Specimen 2: Plant Assortment This assortment of various plant fossils was found by another person I used to know in the Sydney Basin. I assume it is Triassic, as the vast majority of exposed sedimentary rocks in Sydney are of that age, although it might be Permian. I do not know the exact region. There seem to be multiple different plants on the slab, and they seem to be more poorly preserved than the shale layer plant. Does anyone know what they are? Also, do any of you have any tips for getting better images? If I take any more, I'll probably use my SLR camera, as my phone's camera is terrible. Thanks for the help! Edit: Changed the title to make it more obvious this is a new thread.

Hey! 😄 went out for another river shore hunt on Saturday 3/16, no huge teeth this time but a nice variety of smaller teeth and other fossils. Here's my favorite finds.. First mammal tooth of the day.. Carcharias taurus in good condition. C. hastalis with cool weathered patterns. Probably from the roots of plants. Isurus oxyrinchus Bovine tooth A tiny Isurus retroflexus, i don't know if it's either juvenile or posterior.. A nice piece of coral, probably Flabellum tuberculatum. At this point i actually met the guy who shared my spot, he told me 'no great finds today, just bits and pieces'. Instead of expressing my anger toward him, i said 'same here, there's defenitely better spots around 😏 good luck anyway'. Felt proud of myself for keeping calm, cause i really don't like what he did.. Anyway i continued my hunt and was pleased to still find some good stuff in the area he already covered. Notorynchus sp. Lower C. hastalis. Another mammal tooth.. The nicer hastalis of the day. And a dolphin earbone, i think Delphinodon sp. (possibly Delphinodon dividum) periotic. @Shellseeker And here's the whole lot cleaned up.. Thx for watching! Dries