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Hello! Thank you all for taking the time to read this and (hopefully!) help me identify a very interesting find from Saskatoon! I was on a fossil hunting trip to a local exposure of Pleistocene glacial lake sediments in Saskatoon, and I took home a few samples of it to review later. While looking through one piece (the material is silt but breaks like a rock and is somewhat laminated), I saw this very strange shape. Attached are a few images, some simply in situ, others through a microscope. My apologies if the image quality is not ideal, I do not currently have any better equipment. There are a few images with my fingernail in frame to give you a sense of scale; this thing is very small. It is a kind of dome shape adorned with concentric rings of linked “nodes.” When looking at it, I knew it couldn’t be a pebble or partially buried rock. The thing it reminded me the most of was a Ptychodus tooth or other fish tooth plate, but the “dome” the nodes sit upon is penetrated open in one spot and is hollow. While I suppose this doesn’t rule tooth out, it does make me doubt that possibility. In addition, the nodes appear to resemble fish scales, especially ganoid scales, as some are rhomboidal in shape and all have the glassy coating those scales tend to have. There is also what appears to be a bone fragment near the dome. This is where my own suggestions end, I have no other ideas as to what this weird thing might be! Simple confirmation of the nodes as fish scales would probably satisfy me, but identification of them as ganoid would be even better. Please let me know if I can provide any extra clarification! Thank you!
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Wondering if this is identifiable. Dinosaur park fm.
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Rare dinosaur skin fossil discovered in Alberta | Watch (msn.com)
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I found this yesterday, it was very fragile and broken in many pieces when I handled it.
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Location shows huge die-off of Sowerbyella sericea and other brachiopods in smaller numbers. The specific layer could not be determined as it was discovered at ground level on the beach. Loose as float,. The following reference has been used to aid in identification Geologie des Region de Saint-Jean (parti nord) et de Beloeil (1985) Gouvernement du Quebec - Ministere de l'energie et des Ressources Direction General de l'Exploration geologique et minerale Geologie des Region de Saint-Jean (parti nord) et de Beloeil
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its my first time back in a while .. just noticing the new format anyhow i found this within 10 mins of arriving to the beach
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Ordovician, Nicolet River Formation, Sowerbyella & Crinoid sterms
Denis Arcand posted a gallery image in Member Collections
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There are so many brachiopods that look alike, it's hard to identify them. Is this Dalmanella sp ? I found it in the Nicolet River formation (Late Ordovician) each one is 1/2 inch
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I have had this hunk of rock from Manitoulin Island for quite some time now, but I have never attempted to really clean it before. Does anyone have any tips for cleaning the fossils, but leaving them in the rock? I would just like to be able to analyze them more closely. Any advice would be greatly appreciated! Thank you!
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Like the title says, I collected this when I was a kid in Woodstock Ontario. Not sure what I'm looking at exactly. I'm thinking the bigger thing is horn coral of some kind?
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Rochester formation rock with knobby form, could it be anything?
JUAN EMMANUEL posted a topic in General Fossil Discussion
Hello guys, I was out fossil hunting at the Niagara Escarpment of Hamilton, Ontario today and I came across this odd piece of Rochester formation shale (Clinton Group) with a knobby object on it. Could it be anything underneath all that shale or is it just my wishful thinking?? It also got some calcitic bits on the side too.
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Potential Egg? Origin unknown, for sale in Ontario, Canada
QueenCoeurl posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
Spotted this today at an antique market. Wondering if there is any chance it is real.
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From the album: Nautiloid’s Trilobite Collection
This bug comes from the Upper Ordovician McKay Group of British Columbia, Canada. The abundant and well preserved trilobite fauna of the McKay group represents a deep water biofacies known as the Wujiajiania biofacies. Most McKay group trilobites are collected from a narrow interval of richly fossiliferous strata.© Owen Yonkin 2022
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From the album: Mark Bourrie trilobites
Isotelus cf iowensis, Ordovician (Kirkfieldian), Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Donated to the Royal Ontario Museum and displayed in its Dawn of Life Gallery.- 1 comment
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From the album: Mark Bourrie trilobites
Flexicalymene cf cronesi, upper Ordovician, Northumberland County, Ontario, Canada- 1 comment
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From the album: Mark Bourrie trilobites
Pesudogygites latimarginatus, Ordovician (Utican), Grey County, Ontario, Canada- 1 comment
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From the album: Mark Bourrie trilobites
Ceraurus trilobite with healed injury, Notice the less-than-than perfect genal spine repair. Ordovician (Kirkfieldian), Hastings County, Ontario -
From the album: Mark Bourrie trilobites
Ordovician (Kirkfieldian), Victoria County, Ontario, Canada-
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From the album: Mark Bourrie trilobites
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My eagle-eyed mother found this in Saskatchewan Canada over 40 years ago...No idea if it was a shell, plant or a cocoon...if something new or very ancient, but all searches thus far have not helped me identify it.
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Any ideas on my finds during my rockhouding experience last week in Canada?
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Hello! New user here... My boyfriend and I have been doing some exploring around the badlands here in Alberta, and lately we've been mostly wandering around north of Tolman. We've found a few cool fossils, but we're both having a hard time putting all our research into practice. Trying to learn the different formations and identifying the coal seams, but not having much luck. I've read some of the documents that describe the scollard formation, but when I'm climbing the hills I honestly have no idea what I'm looking at. Is there anyone in Alberta that frequents these areas that can offer some insight or tips? If you're looking to pass on some knowledge, or even have us tag along on a hike or two, that would be amazing. The picture is some of my best surface finds so far.
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I found these Ordovician fossils in the Nicolet River formation, could it be cephalopod related?
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Rocks are handy for a campfire. A common use for stones in a campfire is to create a protective ring around the flame. This ring serves two purposes: Creates a barrier between the fire and the rest of the forest, keeping the rest of the woods safe. Creates a wind barrier that can help light the fire, especially in wet and windy conditions Whatever the reason, someone made a campfire at my fossil dig site, it's a small secluded beach along a river. A nice place to make a campfire. By the way, I noticed that a rock they used to make the protective ring around the flame, had very distinct and visible small white fossils on it. A small chuck of rock found in the ash contained even whiter fossils. I deduced that the bleaching of fossils is created by the heat of the fire. I started experimenting, I put a rock containing fossils in the oven and set the heat to maximum (don't laugh, this is a very serious experiment) after heating the fossil for a solid hour, nothing happened. For my second try, I used my barbecue (don't laugh), I think I can have a higher temperature with it, I cook the same fossil for an hour and I get the same result: nothing. I needed more heat, so for my third try I put the fossil not on the grill but directly on the burners, and hooray I got white crinoids and Sowerbyella that really stand out from the matrix. Does anyone know what is the chemical process that creates this amazing effect? I wonder if this is a good method to give a second life to dull, unappealing and scientifically unworthy fossils. The heating process helps to bring the fossils out of the matrix, making it visibly more interesting. What do you think? A dull and unattractive fossil I used for my test After high temperature heating
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From the album: Mark Bourrie trilobites
Isotelus ottawaensis, upper Ordovician (Cobourg Fm), Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada
