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Orthid Brachiopods from the Kalkberg Formation
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From the album: Lower Devonian
Leptaena rhomboidalis (orthid brachiopods) Lower Devonian Kalkberg Formation Helderberg Group Route 20 road cut Leesville, N.Y. -
Small Spirifer Brachiopod from the Kalkberg Formation
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From the album: Lower Devonian
Megakozlowskiella perlamellosa (spirifer brachiopod) Lower Devonian Kalkberg Formation Helderberg Group Route 20 road cut Leesville, N.Y.-
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Small Tabulate Coral from the Kalkberg Formation
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From the album: Lower Devonian
Favosites helderbergiae (tabulate coral) Lower Devonian Kalkberg Formation Helderberg Group Route 20 road cut Leesville, N.Y. -
Saturday 09/06/2018 the BVP ( read: local paleontology club ) organised a fieldtrip to the quarry of " La Couvinoise" next to the town of Couvin. Here we find Eifelian deposits (former Couvinian ) We had a very nice day with various finds and the whole day we had the background noise of a chorus of green frogs who had made their home in the large pound in the old part af the quarry. The site delivered a multitude of fossil corals and brachiopods and sometimes a gastropod or even a trilobite fragment. the start of the excurtion: Lumachelle of Stringocephalus burtuni: the frog pond in the quarry: the bottom of the quarry: some of the finds: large Atrypas: Sieberella: Calceola sandalina: A nice large favosites: And my girlfriend made the find of the day: the cephalon of a phacopid trilobite:
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This past weekend I stopped by Glenerie, NY to look for some Devonian braciopods and gastropods. This was a very cool location as many of the shells, preserved in silica, weather out of the rock complete and ripe for the taking. Thanks @Jeffrey P for suggesting the location! I plan to spend much of this summer exploring the fossil localities of NY and this spot was certainly a great introduction. Here are some of my finds. Brachiopods
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I found the fossil below along the banks of the Muskegon River in Big Rapids, Michigan. All the pictures are different angles of the same fossil. I am hoping someone can identify it. The rock is about 2 inches in length (50 mm). I mostly find things from the Paleozoic era. Thanks in advance.
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From the album: Trilobites
Odontocephalus sp. (possibly O. selenurus) Field Collection Devonian Imported fill (Dundee, Bois Blanc, Amherstberg Fms), London, Canada. Cephalic fringe fragment. Very rare in Ontario with only a small number of fragments reported in the last 130 years. -
From the album: Invertebrates
Hapalocrinus innoxius Schmidt, 1934 Early Devonian Early Emsian Hunsrueck Shale Bundenbach Grube Eschenbach Rhineland-Palatinate Germany-
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From the album: Invertebrates
Hapalocrinus sp. Early Devonian Early Emsian Hunsrueck Shale Bundenbach Grube Eschenbach Rhineland-Palatinate Germany -
From my new favorite spot I found this weathered out. I think its part of a Crinoid though I'm not sure. Any help would be appreciated.
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Hi again ! This broke out in a difficult way. Maybe the next one will split in a more desirable fashion. Both of these pieces are from the same chunk of matrix, but are 2 different animals. Almost certain of this because they will not "plug" into one another. Could be the same one tho I guess. Anyway, is there enough of it there to ID it ? (them ? ) Thanks for looking,
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Hi folks. I cleaned up the horn coral that I posted a pic of earlier. (was wondering if I could find it easily, then realized all I had to do was look for my watch. The missing Timex was much easier to spot. ) Here is pics of it. It is the largest of the many I have found here. Regards,
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Last weekend, I spent a day at one of my favorite hunting grounds in Alpena, Michigan, on Lake Huron: Partridge Point. (Thunder Bay Formation, Devonian.) There's a lot of fossiliferous matrices in limestone. You also find lots of crinoid columnals. Last year, at this location, I found my first -- and only -- blastoid (Placoblastus obovatus). This time, I walked away with two calyces: I believe the first one pictured here (two images) is Megistrocrinus depressus; the second looks like Dolatocrinus asterias. Have I identified these correctly?
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Spent a solid six hours in full sun and heat, with biting deer flies, moving rock at my secluded spot. Temps were about 30 C, but closer to 40 with humidity and heat off the rocks. Mostly splitting mid Devonian rock from the Widder Fm. Mostly looking for trilobites, which can be a game of inches... too far up or down in the strata, you get blanks or brachs. First up, a few brachs. These can cluster up in massive beds. The first one was fairly large but I left it there. I did keep the second one as the long tips are fragile and rarely come out whole.
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Trilobite authenticity
pugrockprincess posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
Hey everyone! New here. I have a lovely collection of trilobites and have recently purchased a large Devonian Phacops (according to description). He's over 14cm long as you can see by the photo on my hand so I wanted to check its authenticity. I've noted the nice eye detail which I know can be hard to fake. It's a VERY smelly fossil though (actually making me sneeze). Almost a cross between plaster and laundry detergent. Is there anything that could cause this if it's genuine? I will assume it's had small cosmetic enhancements but I cannot find any cracks on the matrix etc. Not even sure what the matrix is made of but it's a glittery beige. Also, would this be a phacops or would it be classed as a drotops? Thanks in advance!
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After stopping at the Aurora Fossil Festival Saturday morning and attending a friends retirement festivities in Winston-Salem NC that evening, on Sunday I was up and on the road by 7 in an attempt to make it to Penn-Dixie near Buffalo NY before they closed at 5 so I could meet up with Devoniandigger (Jay). The GPS said it would be a 9 1/2 hr drive so it would be close, and as it happens construction on I-77 and elsewhere extended the drive so I arrived at 7 PM, too late to meet anybody. Fortunately Jay had helped me get a membership, so I felt comfortable walking around and getting the lay of the land before heading to a nearby motel. I was back at the gate by 6:30, and by the time I left around 11 (as I had to get to my parents place in Ontario that day) I was pretty worn out by digging up and splitting blocks of shale. Actually, I pulled the plug on that by 10 so I could wander around and score some nice brachiopods from the piles. The find of the day was a nice "piggy pile" (Kane's term, thanks!) of Eldredgeops, at least 5 and maybe more. I also grabbed a potential pair of nice side-by-side rollers, a couple of flattened rollers, what is possibly a piece of wood with lycopodish leaf scars, a smorgasboard of brachiopods, a nice Platyceras, and a small pile of solitary rugose corals. I will definitely be a return customer! Don
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Just a post to show what this garden patch is made of. This is a typical bucket full of chunks turned up by the plow last year. This patch will be finally tilled this year and seeded over. (might come back later, tho) I guess this is called mudstone as it is just a solid glob of fossils. Here are some pics of one of the chunks before, and after splitting. Very busy in there and quite difficult to get it to split where you want, partly due to being exposed (partially) for a year. Working on the new plow, hope to bust up a new patch in the coming week. Regards.
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Goniatite, Cephalopods, Bryozoans after rain
Rocky Stoner posted a topic in General Fossil Discussion
Hi Folks. Anxious for the rain to quit so I can start digging again. Took a walk through the garden patches and picked these up today after several nice "rinsing" rains". I hope to find more of the bryozoan plates, maybe more larger ones. Maybe you can see more than one variety in the attached pics. More to come .... I'm hoping. Kind regards,
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Hello all, I'm once again asking for help in identifying an object I found. I have no idea what this is, it was found in Buchanan county Iowa, in an old quarry exposing Devonian aged material. It seems to have quartz on the bottom side (as far as I'm able to tell but I still have a lot to learn about rocks). It almost resembles shell material to me but maybe it's some kind of concretion or something. Hopefully someone has seen something like this, thanks for your help and time!
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Hello folks ! Tis the season to go digging. fa la la la ................. I haven't posted for a spell, but have checked in on occasion. There is a small area of my yard where grass won't grow, just weeds with bare ground in between. This item was lying on the surface. I've ridden the mower over it for 26 years now and finally looked down at the right moment. Looks like it might be the thorax of a trilobite, but am not sure. Is it recognizable to any of you ? Thanks.
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Recommendations for NY Devonian Limestone and Shale Splitting Gear
The Jersey Devil posted a topic in General Fossil Discussion
Hello everyone, I will be going out for the first time to collect the lower Devonian Helderberg Group. I am wondering about which chisel and geology hammer are most appropriate for splitting the rock. Any help is appreciated. Joseph -
Tiny Tabulate Coral from Deep Springs Road Quarry
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From the album: Middle Devonian
Aulocystis dichotoma (branching tabulate coral) Middle Devonian Moscow Formation Windom Shale Hamilton Group Deep Springs Road Quarry Lebanon, N.Y. This tiny tabulate coral- approx. 2 inches wide, was on a large slab which Shamalama Dave carried for me to my parked car. Unfortunately split when I was trying to cut down the size of the slab, but should be mostly repairable. -
Very Tiny Lower Devonian Terebratulid Brachiopod
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From the album: Lower Devonian
Cryptonella exima (Terebratulid brachiopod preserved in silica) Lower Devonian Glenerie Limestone Tristates Group Route 9W Glenerie, N,Y.- 3 comments
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Past weekend we had a "sunny" field trip to my usual hunting spot with the "LITHOS" geology club. We spent the whole day searching the late Devonian shales and nodules for al kind of fossils, brachiopods, crinoids, cephalopods, corals,... We did find the usual pyritised cephalopods ( manticoceras sp, tornoceras sp. and bactrites sp. ) but to me my biggest prize was when I hit a layer with a lot of goniatite anaptichy enjoy the pictures :
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