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Found Equipment someone lost at St Leon, Indiana
minnbuckeye posted a topic in General Fossil Discussion
Found these (but no trilobites) at St Leon. Contact me if they are yours.
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Here is a trilobite I found on my first trip to St. Leon a few weeks back. Taken with an 18-55mm macro on a T6i canon. I need to work on lighting because pictures always seem to come out dull, hence why I haven't posted in awhile. I'm still working on pacifying the flaws. If I remember correctly this species is Flexicalymene meeki
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Does anyone know what this is? I found this rock in the wabash river bottoms in west central indiana two years ago. It’s not quite like anything I’ve seen around here (usually I get a ton of crinoids). The equidistant branches off the central ring remind me of a vertebrae, but that just seems too good to be true.
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Hi, I’m new to the forum. I’m 27 and from western central Indiana. I have been interested in fossils my whole life but only recently within the last few years tried to identify the fossils I’ve found. Yesterday I found this strange design on this rock which is probably sandstone while hiking in a small stream. I’ve never seen anything like it before. Any help identifying this would be much appreciated.
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Hey all, Recently received this pair of crinoids in a trade. I have essentially zero experience with crinoids as my crinoids in my display before this consisted of just a few pieces of stem and a few inch long articulated stem. The information I have is: Crinoids Edwardsville Formation Mississippian Indiana My initial thoughts after searching online are: Macrocrinus mundulus for the tan one, and Lanecrinus depressus for the gray one Apologies for my lack of scientific terms here: I believe this to be Macrocrinus mundulus as there is this extra stalk, the tan coloration, and the thick defined plates. I believe this to be Lanecrinus depressus as it has the more "knotty" appearance, the gray coloration, and the more defined segmented arms. Any crinoid experts able to weigh in here? Does color help in IDing crinoids or is it more shape of plates, arms, and overall body plan that gives us the IDs?
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Hello. I am terribly bad at stratigraphy and was wondering if I could get some assistance demarcating the cut off between the Waynesville and Liberty Formations at South Gate Hill on Indiana 1. In particular, after looking through a decent number of threads online, I have found that the "Butter shale" has been ascribed to both formations, and I'm just wondering which it belongs to. Thank you, and I apologize that I do not currently have an image of the hill to contribute to this question.
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I went to St Leon Indiana, and I had a pretty good haul!!! Spent the day out there I have several fossils that are from the Ordovician time period and they’re in limestone, limestone shale. Does anyone have any good tips on washing them? Do you prefer dry? Just with a brush? What about any rusted stuff, do you use oxalic oxide? What about algae? Do you prefer water? Soap and water? Hydrogen peroxide? I’m afraid and don’t want to ruin any. Thank you! Jessica
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When you took your trip to st. Leon, we’re you nervous? I read that Indiana is lame and doesn’t allow collecting on their road cuts. I plan on making the 3-3.5 hour drive there but I’m so nervous I’m going to get in trouble and I don’t know where to park lol. I’ve read recent posts of people going in the past 6 months, and no complaints or issues. Or are there any sites to find trilobites in that area? It’s not a short drive lol
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I've heard recently that the Glen Dean Formation (Carboniferous) outcrops in Illinois are very fossil rich, especially with Invertebrates. However, I haven't heard much about vertebrate fossils coming from that formation. https://igws.indiana.edu/IGNIS/GeoNamesDetails.cfm?ID=805C6AF7-75E2-40C8-A8D2-C7535D35F7C8 Hoenig MMJ - MS Thesis - Chondrichthyan Diversity (Updated) (1).pdf Does anyone know what kind of vertebrate fauna (mainly fish) fossils are found at the Illinois outcrops of the Glen Dean Formation and if it's connected to the Burlington-Keokuk Fish Beds?
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Hi Everyone, Last month I took a trip from New York to Elizabethtown, Kentucky to attend my parents' 70th anniversary. My sister and her husband, two of her adult children, and my parents, both in their 90s have all resettled there. I try to visit them at least once per year, but my parents' 70th wedding anniversary could not be missed. It is a very long trip from the suburbs of New York City to E-Town and a stop along the way was the sensible thing to do, so I spent the night in Harrison, Ohio near the border with Indiana and only 15 minutes from St. Leon, the well known Ordovician roadcut. I've been there twice before. It is a huge outcrop, fossiliferous from top to bottom, with plenty to explore. With even a full day it is impossible to do justice to the site. As it was, I spent a half day. Most of you I'm guessing have been to or seen pictures of the roadcut. Here's a couple anyway:
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A while back I made a quick stop at a small exposure of the Waldron Shale (Silurian) in southern Indiana. I only picked up a couple of items but since I have not previously collected the Waldron, I wanted to confirm (or get the correct ID) on two small items. I'm hoping one of our Waldron experts such as @Herb, @Ken K, @crinus or @squalicorax or anyone else that has some Waldron knowledge can help me out. The first item is a small, nicely preserved brachiopod. Based on what I could find, I suspect it might be a Stegorhynchus but I wanted to confirm this and if anyone can add a species, that would be awesome. Alternately, if you have a good suggestion for reference material for Waldron brachiopods, I'd love to know it and would be happy to read up some more. The black bar in each picture is 1 cm. This little guy is 1.2cm wide, 1.1 cm long and 0.75 cm high. The second item is a crinoid holdfast with a very obvious pentastellate lumen. Its also hard to see in the picture (due to some matrix and some pyrite growth) but under the microscope, you can see that the articular surface has crenulae that extend from the outer edge all the way to the lumen. I can also see in edge view that the individual columnals are very thin. Again, the scale bar divisions are 1 cm. I know that Eucalyptocrinus is a common genus in the Waldron, but from what I can find, it does not have a pentastellate lumen, but admittedly most of the pictures I see of it do not show the columnal cross sections. I'm hoping one of our members is more familiar with this genus that I am (not too hard to do) and can confirm that for me. In looking through Moore and Jeffords (1968) CLASSIFICATION AND NOMENCLATURE OF FOSSIL CRINOIDS BASED ON STUDIES OF DISSOCIATED PARTS OF THEIR COLUMNS, I see they have a species identified as Cyclochorax fasciatus that fits the description (and age and formation) of my specimen (see #7 and 8 in the snippet below from their Plate 23) but after a quick search, the only reference I see for this genus is Moore and Jeffords. I'm wondering if anyone is familiar with what a calyx of this genus looks like or if anyone has knowledge of some other existing Waldron crinoid that has this columnal pattern. Look forward to any and all responses and any help that can be offered. Thanks Mike
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These were all found in Putnam County, Indiana today. Just wanted some help identifying. Thanks! 1. Very lightweight. Was able to break it in half. Almost felt like wood. I know this probably isn't a fossil, but everyone is very knowledgeable here lol 2. I know there are crinoids and sponge in here, but I'm not sure what the larger white ones are. 3. Again, I know these are crinoids, but is that large piece also a crinoid? 4. Is this just an odd-shaped rock?
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Hello, Some help with another unidentified piece please. The seller's label is "Crinoid (?) - central Indiana, Mississippian ~340 mya", but I don't see any ossicles or radial symmetry. A flattened brachiopod perhaps? Measures ~2cm.
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Not sure what these are. I dredge for gold and pull fossils out all of the time. I kept these because they were interesting but am unsure if they are anything at all. Hopefully I can get some feedback here to get some answers.
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Just checking some IDs on some things I found today. Any help is appreciated! 1. Am I correct in saying this is part of a trilobite? 2. I'm not sure what I'm looking at here. Is that a brachiopod, some crinoids, and coral? Or something else? 3. Is this a crinoid stem? It's more white and not as segmented as the ones I normally find.
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Could anyone tell me if these are Nodosaur fossils? I found them on my property in Muncie Indiana. Google lens binged it as Nodosaur and upon searching, I found a very good picture of a 110 million yr old dinosaur fossil of the nodosaur. The count, shape, and placement of the spikes seem to be exactly the same. Although I am not that knowledgeable and very new to this.
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Hello everyone! Just yesterday by a river in south central Indiana I found this. It did not look like a normal rock so I decided to keep it. I think it is a bone, but I cannot tell what kind of bone it is or how old it is. Is it a bone and if so, what kind?
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Hello! I have found what I believe to be shark tooth (I am unsure if it is) nearby a river in south central Indiana and need help identifying it. This is the first fossil I have ever found so I am pretty new to this. The photos are of the same tooth from different angles.
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Last weekend I finally made my way up to the famous St. Leon road cut. Also known as South Gate Hill in some literature. I made the 2.5 hour drive to Lawrenceburg Indiana after work last Friday and stayed overnight so that I could be up with the sun and on my way Saturday morning. The site itself is another 20-30 minutes from the hotel. By 6am I was out the door and on the road. After a quick gas station stop I found myself at the mile long road cut. Most people come here to hunt in the butter shale of the exposed Liberty Formation for Flexicalymene rollers. I was no exception. Trilobites are not common in my immediate area so they were top on my list of things to find here. The butter shale is easy to spot. A creamy light gray layer exposed at the top of the second tier. I made my way there and following the advice of @Nimravis (Who sadly couldn’t make the trip to hunt with me. Missed you Ralph!) I got down on my hands and knees and put my nose to the ground. Most of the trilobites found here are quite small. The ones that I found were maybe a centimeter. I was lucky enough to come away with 2 complete rollers and 1 that was complete minus a bit of damage to the cephalon. Plus other trilo-bits. Including the usual Isotelus chunks found throughout the Ordovician of the area. A pile of Isotelus fragments. After I adjusted my focus away from trilobites I was able to see that the site had plenty more on offer. Brachiopods are everywhere here. I’ll let the pictures speak for themselves. Sorry for the lack of scale. The plastic ruler in the below picture fell out of my pocket very early in the day. I never found it. I can provide estimated sizes if requested, and will certainly have scale in the photos of the specimens I took home. This block was about a meter long. I found some nice examples of horn coral here too. Orthoconic nautiloids can be found here as well. Those were all the pictures I took from the field. All the ones worth sharing anyway. I stayed till after lunch, but all the climbing around and lack of food (forgot my packed lunch at the hotel )forced me away. After a bite to eat I also hit up a road cut in Lawrenceburg that I had read about. It was only 5 minutes from the hotel so I decided to check it out. The exposure was impressive in size, but not nearly as fossiliferous as St. Leon. Mainly consisting of Strophomenid brachiopods and some chunky bryozoans. Still I came away with a few finds and was glad that I took the time to look it over. The St. Leon road cut lived up to the hype and was well worth the visit. I definitely will be back. I’ve been short on time this week and haven’t gotten my finds that I brought home cleaned up enough for their photo shoot, but I plan on adding pictures of them as soon as I can as there was much more to see than pictured here. I also had plans to drive over to the AA highway, but I ended up having to head home earlier than expected. Oh well… Maybe that will be my next trip worthy of a report.
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I've had these fossils for years now, but I never could figure out what they exactly were. The first image is of what looks like a fern and the second I'm not sure of (both found on the Lake Michigan shoreline in Illinois). The 4 following pictures are of 2 fossils found on the Ohio River near Louisville, Kentucky on the Indiana side of the river. One looks very clam like, while the other looks more like what I am assuming is a crinoid? I can make out a small stem and small circular patterns on the opposing end. The last 2 pictures I am the most unsure of. It looks similar to the jellyfish nodule fossils of Mazon creek. I found it in Northern Illinois in Cook County.
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I recently acquired this little lot of Ordovician fossils but the info I received was somewhat lacking and mixed up. I hate to ask this because I feel like I should have gotten all the info to begin with, and having not gotten it, I figured I would have no trouble piecing it together. I think I have gotten past the spelling mistakes and such but I am stuck at this point.... Could anyone check to see if the info I have on these is correct, and maybe narrow down the locations, and tell me which subspecies of Vinlandostrophia is which? I wouldn't be surprised if the original collector is a member here and might recognize the fossils and the cat #s... The info as I have it is as follows: 1. Snail: Cyclonema sp. (what species? is it known?) Richmondian, Liberty Fm SW Ohio (what location?) 2. Coral (encrusting a brachiopod): Protaraea sp. (what species? I'll try for closer shots if needed but I am lacking my good camera + macro lens) Richmondian (uppermost), Whitewater Fm. SE Indiana (what location?) 3. Coral, Grewingkia sp. (canadensis?) Richmondian, Whitewater Fm. SE Indiana (same location as 2, I assume) 4. Orthocone, Treptoceras sp. Cincinnatian: Edenian, Kope Fm. SW Ohio (what location?) 5. Brach, Hebertella occidentalis Cincinnatian: Maysvillian Mt. Auburn Fm (member of Grant Lake Fm?) N. Kentucky (what location?) 6 and 7 are Vinlandostrophia ponderosa, one is supposedly subspecies ponderosa and the other auburnensis but not sure which is which. The info I received had Bellevue as the formation for the auburnensis but I gather that subspecies only occurs in the Mt Auburn mbr, no? (Location, N. Kentucky) The V. ponderosa ponderosa is said to be from the Corryville Mbr of Grant Lake Fm, N. Kentucky. Here are the Vinlandostrophias from multiple angles:
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This was found on one of my recent hikes in a creek bed in south-central Indiana (Monroe County). Geodes are very common finds as well as crinoid columnals and horn coral but this is the first find of this type. So I would think it is some type of geodized fossil but would like the experts' opinions. The first 3 photos (taken in natural sunlight) are "side" views and the 4th shows the "bottom". What do you guys think? Thanks in advance for your feedback.
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Ordovician fossil (southern indiana), never found one like this before
Harrison Smith posted a topic in Fossil ID
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I recently found a fossil in my backyard and I’m not sure what it could be. I live in a place where the bedrock dates back to the Devonian. Hopefully this will be the only fossil id that I’ll ever do. Front Back Left Right Top Bottom If you notice in the front, top, and right images, there is a brachiopod mold, which means the fossil was either from the shoreline or from underwater. I also think that, at this point, the fossil comes from the lower Devonian.
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