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  1. TyrannosaurusRex

    Permian Outcrop in Callahan County

    Howdy folks! I haven’t posted a hunt in a long time, and I got a chance today to go to a very productive location I’ve discovered. This was the first time I’ve had any amount of time to look, so I ended up pleasantly surprised by what I found. Unfortunately, I don’t know the species of brachiopod, but I suspect they might be Pulchratia, though you’re welcome to correct me, I don’t know invertebrates very well yet. The site was created from being a man made pond, where the removed soil was then dumped a ways from the pond and after many years it has eroded down to expose some really nice stuff. While I’ve had a few occasions to look for things for only a couple minutes, this was the first time I found any complete brachiopods. I’m the first to have searched the site due to it being private land of a friends, and there’s a lovely variety of stuff on the site. It was about 35 degrees Fahrenheit with 45 mph wind gusts, so it was pretty bitterly cold, but a rewarding experience. My favorite discovery of the site was the inside of some of the brachiopods. Many of the inner section have become entirely quartz, and are quite striking. I apologize for the dimness of the specimen photos, my camera isn’t focusing so I had to resort to my phone. View of the embankment, where most of the fossils were found Edge of the man made pond Brachiopod on the ground Very old shell, still with the bullet, I left it well enough alone just in case. (While I know it would need the hammer of the gun to go off, I preferred to be safe since it had been in the elements a long time ) Though I will add, at this site, one needs to have some sort of personal protection due to the over abundance of feral hogs. There are hundreds on the property and they react aggressively to people. Complete Brachiopods Cross section of a broken Brachiopod with a quartz crystal Bryozoa Hash Crinoids and Bryozoa Loose Crinoids, Brachiopod pieces and Bryozoa Other/Unsure My favorite find of the day was this brachiopod in matrix, which had a lovely surprise when I looked at the broken end.
  2. On my way home from Georgia today I decided to make a short stop at the Vienna, Illinois roadcut that is right off of I-24. The weather was nice, a balmy 52 degrees and I was out collecting without a jacket. I decided to stop for 20 minutes and see how many blastoids that I could find, but alas, I only found a small one. I did find the usual pieces that are found at the Mississippian roadcut- blastoid, brachiopods, horn coral, a crinoid basal plates, bryozoan, including Archimedes screw and a number of hash plates. I really do like to collect Mississippian hash plates, I think that they are really pretty. Here are a few of the finds-
  3. Hello Everyone, I found this fabulous rock which is chock full of brachiopods on the bank of the Tennessee River today. When I first broke it open, the brachiopods were all relatively intact. Unfortunately, several split and/or started crumbling off while I was trying to gently clean off some of the river grime. I’m hoping someone can tell me the simplest way to go about cleaning/preserving these brachiopods with the least damage? Thanks!
  4. Hi everyone! Around 2 months ago on the 16th of october 2021 I went on a fossil hunting trip with the BVP to the stone quarry of Lompret in Belgium. https://www.paleontica.org/locations/fossil/654 The rocks in this quarry are Devonian in age and date back to the Frasnian (382.7 million years ago to 372.2 million years ago) with the finds mostly being from both the Neuville and Matagne Formations. According to Tom our excursion leader this quarry exists out of what used to be coral reefs and islands that formed around atolls. The fossils that you can find in this quarry are Brachiopods, Bivalves, Gastropods, Corals, Bryozoans, Cephalopods like Goniatites and Othocone Nautiloids and in very rare cases Placoderm and trilobite material (although no one was that lucky during the excursion). The quarry is also very rich in minerals like Baryte, Calcite, Quartz, Galena, Fluorite, etc... I have long looked forward to visiting this quarry, so I was very happy to finally be able to go and it did not dissapoint! It was quite foggy in the morning when we arrived which both looked eerie and cool at the same time, luckily it later cleared up! There where quite a lot of other people in the quarry (mainly people looking for minerals like Byrite and Galena) but our club headed straight to higher plateau of the quarry where some of the black Matagne Shales where with very nice Pyritized fossils and to where the waste heaps were to look for fossils. That's me looking for Brachiopods and pyritized Goniatites and Bactrites. A large Hexagonaria coral which was a little to heavy to bring home We also found some Pyrite cubes which (although very exhausting) we managed to extract
  5. historianmichael

    More Texas Pennsylvanian Brachiopods

    I could use some help confirming the identities of these brachiopods from the Harpersville Formation (Upper Pennsylvanian). Using the slide deck for brachiopods on the DPS website I made a best guess. I would love to know if someone has different thoughts. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you! #1- Marginifera fragilis #2- Desmoinesia muricatina #3- Hystriculina wabashensis
  6. JFollowing the advice of some of the people on the forum here I spent part of yesterday afternoon collecting fossils near Kingston NY on the road cutouts on route 9W I was able to get quite a few decent hash plates consisting of Devonian Brachiopods. Unfortunately, I am not yet familiar enough with the area to identify these to the genus or species level (the only brachiopods I know how to ID are Laptaena because they are my favorites and sadly none of these are them). I also found what I think might be a trilobite tale but I think it could also just as easily be more brachiopods, and one fossil, the second to last one pictured here I think might be a broken platyceras or similar Gastropod but I am just not sure. Any help with ID’s would be much appreciated. I also have no way to get images with a reference for scale until later today as I am at my grandparents summer house which is basically a cabin in the woods lol with very little in the way of rulers or even coins.
  7. Jeffrey P

    Macropleura (Spiriferid) Brachiopod

    From the album: Lower Devonian

    Macropleura macropleura Spiriferid Brachiopod (3 inches wide) Lower Devonian Kalkberg Formation Helderberg Group Schoharie, N.Y.
  8. From the album: Lower Devonian

    Eatonia medialis Rhynchonellid Brachiopods (matrix 5 inches across) Lower Devonian Kalkberg Formation Helderberg Group Schoharie, N.Y.
  9. Jeffrey P

    Cryptonella (Terebratulid) Brachiopod

    From the album: Lower Devonian

    Cryptonella exima Terebratulid Brachiopod (less then 3/4 inch tall) Lower Devonian Kalkberg Formation Helderberg Group Schoharie, N.Y.
  10. From the album: Lower Devonian

    Megakozlowskiella perlamellosa Spiriferid Brachiopod (1 1/2 inches wide) Lower Devonian Kalkberg Formation Helderberg Group Schoharie, N.Y.
  11. Brachiopods (+ one gastropod) replaced with flint. A find from the water of a stream. Quaternary moraine deposits containing carboniferous rocks. August 2021
  12. Hi there... Elliot here. Could someone name some species of brachiopods please that became extinct during mass extinction event's. As I'm struggling to find any references. Thank you very much. Elliot.
  13. From the album: Lower Devonian

    Cyrtina varia Spiriferid Brachiopod- both valves Lower Devonian Glenerie Limestone Tristates Group Route 9W Glenerie, N.Y. A gift from Fossildude19 - Thanks Tim
  14. From the album: Brachiopodes, Shells, corals, sponges......

    SPIRIFER AEDUENNENSIS and other brachiopods DEVONIAN EMSIEN BRAS BELGIUM
  15. historianmichael

    Texas Pennsylvanian Brachiopods ID Help

    Over a couple of trips to several exposures of the Late Pennsylvanian Colony Creek Shale, I have collected a few larger brachiopods that I am not completely sure of an identification for. I was hoping that someone might know what these are. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you so much! #1- ??? #2- ??? #3- Antiquatonia portlockiana? #4- Kutorginella lasallensis?
  16. Hi Everyone, In the latter half of last month I took a two week trip to Kentucky and Tennessee. My sister, her husband, two of her adult children, and my parents all live in the Elizabethtown/Louisville area and I was able to spend some quality time with them. Fossil collecting was also part of my agenda. Herb, my primary fossil collecting partner in Kentucky and I had a three day trip down to Tennessee planned. Before I went on that expedition, I was out with my brother-in-law driving around central Kentucky. He dropped me off for 20 minutes at the Upper Mississippian site at Wax where the Glen Dean Formation is exposed in a roadcut. I picked these up:
  17. IsaacTheFossilMan

    Jurassic Cotswold brachiopods

    Hey! I'd like some help with some recurring Cotswold brachiopods. Great Oolite group; Middle Jurassic (Bajocian - Callovian). I've grouped them into 4 or 5 species / clades, based on their morphology. Species A - strongly ribbed, crystalline calcite. The specimen in my profile picture! (obviously not a good picture, included to show the great size range) A huge one! Predated upon: Species B: calcite, very spherical, non-ribbed but prominent growth lines Species C: almost completely spherical, unknown mineral, no ribs Species D: small, typically crushed, very flat, no ribs Species E: only a single valve found, very prominent growth lines. is either a bivalve, but it could be part of species B (more prep needed); the shape holds the exact same shape as the upper valve of the other species B items. That's all! @Tidgy's Dad, wanna have a crack? I know you've hunted here before!
  18. Notidanodon

    Carboniferous brachiopods

    Hi guys (specifically @Tidgy's Dad ) I was wondering what your thoughts on these brachiopods were 1. 2.
  19. While doing security rounds at work, I stumbled across a nice slab chocked full of brachiopods, tucked in dock-side rip-rap from Northern Michigan. It's pretty dark outside, so the pictures aren't the best, but I do see several types in it. Better pictures will follow once I get it home.
  20. Hey guys! I'm new to the forum and have something neat to share that came from Hockley Valley Ontario. I found a descent sized piece of what I believe is fossiliferous limestone. This was in a clearing on my property near Hockley Village! I had posted it on mindat.org which some kind people had directed me here to help further identify the fossils in it and maybe learn more about this specimen. We deduced that it was likely limestone but with some hard silica in it as it was able to mark glass. The rocks dimensions are 17 × 12.5 × 4.3cm and it weighs roughly a pound (I don't have a precise scale). That last picture shows translucency within some of the fossils when lit. Pretty incredible could there perhaps be mineralization happening here? I can disclose any specific fossils' dimensions if required but the largest is 3.5cm long and also my favorite on the piece. It is the one with a one inch nail in its picture. I'm looking forward to learning more about this beauty!
  21. Hi everyone this is Matt again. Today in the creek I found this rock I broke apart and it was loaded with all kinds of brachiopods. Photos:
  22. Spent a few hours earlier today fossil hunting Ordovician strata in the Jefferson National Forest near New Castle, Virginia in Craig County for the first time. Was well rewarded with several plates covered in brachiopod compression fossils. Also found what I think is some sort of burrow. Also found an odd fossil that I can’t identify, I will post it in the ID forum later with a higher resolution microscope pic and a scale, but for now I will post what I have..
  23. The weather was promising, the husband wanted a good place to hike, and the dog had cabin fever. So I loaded them, along with my gear, into the truck and drove down to Crystal Lake to hunt around in the Madison limestone while the husband and the dog went for a romp in the Big Snowy Mountains. On the dirt road to the area, we drove past a mama black bear and her cub, hanging out only about 30 feet from the road. To avoid aggravating either, we didn't slow down to take pictures, but my husband was pretty "bear"-anoid about running into them again Well, the mountains weren't snowy and the lake wasn't much of a lake, but the weather was great and the shoreline looked promising, so I set off to start combing through the countless dead snail shells to find myself some brachiopods. Most of the shoreline was water-worn limestone chunks, but the outcrops of layered stone jutting from the shore harbored some wonderful fossils. My first find of the day! Can you spot it? After my first little brach, I started seeing a lot of crinoid and coral hash plates. This plate was several feet across and still half-buried. I had been finding some nice little brachiopods that I suspected were some sort of spirifer, and decided to start splitting some limestone to see what else I might be able to find. After a few hours, the husband and dog came back and started smothering me with their boredom. So, in an attempt to appease them, and perhaps scout out another good spot or two, we started off on the trail that circled the lake. There wasn't much in the way of good exposures, but the dog ran most of her energy out on the little trail. We picked along the opposite shore on the way back to the truck, finding a few more small brachs and crinoid bits, but I didn't want to go home yet. I talked my husband into letting me stop at a few roadcuts on the way back to the highway, and he agreed as long as he could nap in the truck while I hunted. Perfect: now I don't have to entertain him. The dog was pretty pooped out too, so it was a nice stress-free hunt-and-peck down Crystal Lake Road. Until my angry bowels could not hold out any longer. We swung over to Cascade Falls Trailhead to use the outhouse, and there was a tiny little exposure near the parking area of the trailhead. I couldn't help it. I had to check it out. A whitetail doe hanging out on the right side of the hill played peek-a-boo with me as I scoured the well-split limestone. My last find of the day is probably my most favorite. After researching these a bit more, I believe these are a type of Cyrtospirifer, lower Mississippian and common in this area. I believe that there are at least two different species present in this plate and need to do some more research to find the species of each. I believe I found the impression of a Schizophoria on this piece. Bryozoa? I have a fair bit of homework to do, and as always, I am extremely happy with my finds. Thanks for stopping by; have a great day!
  24. Skellyborden

    Crinoid? Cephalopod? Other marine life?

    Hello all, and thanks for being here! I am looking for an ID on these fossils for my own gratification! My focus is in archaeology, so I come across fossils often during surface collection adventures! A little about the location: These were found in Nancy, Kentucky, USA on a partially man made flood-control lake called Lake Cumberland (Cumberland river basin/Cumberland plateau). The banks are rich with small to medium chert concretions, fossiliferous sedimentary stones, and small to medium iron inclusions. Preservation of these specimens are, generally, fair to good. I found this piece along with horn corals, only a couple of brachiopods, and a wealth of crinoid stem pieces in less than 20 minutes! I thank you all in advance for any information you can give me! -Skelly B. Specimen 1- Specimen 2 - Specimen 3 -
  25. Today I took a trip to a new outcrop of the Leighton Formation! My main interest in this new outcrop is to find the source of my original material. The first outcrop I visited actually turned out to be an erratic. When I first visited there in February the ground was completely frozen. I found a large piece of shale sticking out of the ground, which I proceeded to split, but the rock itself did not come out. This rock yielded about 50 pounds of material on the first trip. When I returned in June I excavated around the supposed outcrop, and found that it was in a fact an erratic rock. I also found three other large pieces that were also from the Leighton Formation. Since my first site turned out to be a dud, I am now trying to find new sites. This is the first of three possibly accessible sites to visit. I am mainly looking for the presence of thelodont scales - specifically, those that belong to the species Phlebolepis elegans. I am also looking for a few species that I don't have in my collection yet or I require for research: the tentaculite species T. elongatus, the trilobite species Acastae zerinae, two species in the genus Actinopteria, the undescribed Calymene species that has been mentioned in earlier posts, and eurypterid fragments. Today was an absolutely beautiful day to do it. It was cool and overcast in the morning, but then cleared up towards the end of the trip - perfect collecting conditions. Here are some pictures of the walk (in chronological order). Once at the outcrop, the Leighton shale member was quite obvious. It was one excellent outcrop, although I didn't find all the species I was looking for. I might have found thelodont scales, but I will not know for certain until I examine the material closely. The fauna of this formation was similar to that in the erratics I found, with a few marked differences. One is the abundance of the brachiopod species Chonetes bastini, it was the by far most common brachiopod. Also, the characteristic Salopina brachiopod fauna was barely represented in this outcrop - I might have got two specimens of them. Camarotoeichia leightoni was more common, but still relatively scarce compared to the C. bastini. Only the tentaculite species T. elongatus was in the outcrop, the other species of Tentaculite (which I have not identified), was completely absent. The bivalve species Modiolopsis leightoni was amazingly prolific. On to the geology of the site. Almost the entire outcrop was of made of a highly fractured gray shale that split extremely easily. In this slate, there were occasional pockets of a type of siltstone. The siltstone pockets usually contained a large amount of gastropods of the genus Australonema, with possible fish fragments. There were extremely fossiliferous layers every 5 - 10 centimeters. In between these layers there were still some fossils, but generally there were less molluscs or ostracods. Most of the C. bastini brachiopods were in between the fossiliferous layers. I only collected from one of the outcrops that was there, two others were situated to the left and right of this one. They had the same general geology and fauna - at least, according to my rather quick check. Below are a few pictures of the outcrop I collected at: the first is from the front of it, and the second is from behind it. Here are a few insitu photos of some of the fossils. The first is of what I guess is an A. zerinae trilobite cephalon, prep will reveal if it actually is. The second is of one of the highly fossiliferous layers I was talking about - notice the enormous profusion of ostracods, with a few brachiopods and mollusks. On the way back there were a few red shale pieces I took a look at. I think they are from the Hersey Formation, probably brought in by the tidal current. The first picture shows one of the rocks, and the second is of a brachiopod external mold peeking out. I hope to update this thread with further pictures of the fossils collected. To be continued.... Thanks for reading!
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