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As much as I've looked through books and the internet, I haven't run across any possible places to find ammonites in the midwest. Any suggestions of locations? I'm in Illinois. My wife's keen to hunt one of these down.
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Last Sunday I had the opportunity to travel to East Central Iowa to collect Devonian fossils. It was a nice foggy morning drive to the quarry. Upon approaching the quarry, there was a house burning down- a odd, surreal scene. At the bottom of the quarry could smell the smoke from the house. No pics of the quarry were permitted which is too bad as it is a geologically fascinating place. Devonian Cedar Valley formation, lower Solon exposed as well as Pennsylvanian karsts. Here are a few of my finds. Hexagonaria Trilobites. Eldredgeops peeking out from the rocks Acleistoceras sp And last, but not least, this nice crystal. Thanks for looking. Cheers
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Found this fossil at Rockford, Iowa, last week with a student group, and it didn't show up on our identification sheets. It's about the size of a quarter. Can anyone tell us what it is? Thank you.
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Again, this was a surprise found in the Burlington Limestone while looking for the ever present crinoid. It is hollow and of a color that I had never seen. Any thoughts are welcomed. Mike
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This was discovered while hunting in the Burlington Limestone in no other than Burlington, Ia. If anyone has hunted this formation, they would know 90% of the rock is made up of light colored crinoidal debris. Occasionally a brachiopod s encountered and they may be darker than the crinoids, but pale against this. I know there is a fish layer in the Burlington and am hoping that this may be the ID.
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I apologize that I didn't take a better picture. I realize that you don't have much to work with but I'm wondering if anyone can help me ID the largest fossil that's visible in this rock. I didn't put anything in for scale. The rock is sitting on a paper towel (not the best reference for size). I believe it is surrounded by straight cephalopods. I was with my cousin when she found this fossil on her private property in Epworth, Iowa. I'd like to know more about this fossil. I am a science teacher and I'd like to share this picture with my class and I'd like to know more about it to answer any questions that may arise. The actual fossil is still in Iowa at my cousin's house. I may be able to have her take additional pics.
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Cephalopods and a few Questions for thee experts.
fossilized6s posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
I drove about 4hrs west to find trilobites, came home with cephs. I did happen to find some pretty neat trilobites, but they need prepping, so i won't post them. Hunting more for trilobites this year i come across a lot of other fossils and i find it exceedingly hard to leave a neat looking cephalopod behind, so i grab em. Most of these will be left outside, but some are nice enough for display. Here are some nice ones. I love the contrast and size on this piece. The isotelus cephalon and worm burrows don't hurt either. Continued....
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Hello all, I am looking for good reference material to identify fossils I picked up at Rockford, IA. I haven't been able to find a really good publication that covers the majority of what is find-able in Iowa's Devonian deposits and I'm hoping you can point me in the right direction. Thanks!
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Hello, I am new to fossil hunting and was wondering if I could get any pointers on localities in my area. NW Iowa, NE Nebraska, SE South Dakota, SW Minnesota. I know sometimes people like to keep these things secret but if you could point me in any direction it would be much appreciated, thanks and happy to be on the forum.
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Found this piece in Iowa yesterday while hunting trilobites. I've never seen anything like it. The six point symmetry with it's bulbous tips are very strange. And the fact that it is very water-worn doesn't help with an ID. I'm thinking holdfast or possibe starfish. What do you guys see? Scale in mm/cm
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A recent trip to Coralville, Iowa provided me with these coral specimens, each unique in their own way: 1. I posted this a few weeks ago prior to removing most of the matrix from it This rugosa coral was huge!! Check out the scale. 2. The next coral might be mistaken for a mushroom: Oops, I meant this one:
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My daughter found this in a dry creek bed in NE Iowa. Does anyone have an idea of what it could be? It's about 2.5 inches wide. Any input would be greatly appreciated! Another picture...
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Not sure where to post this, but here goes: I will be travelling west on I-80 through Iowa and Nebraska and wondered if anyone could recommend any easy-access fossil hunting sites within a half-hour / 45 min, or so, off of I-80 in Iowa or Nebraska. Preferably roadcuts or other relatively easy-access sites that are public and known not to draw problems from law enforcement or locals. I'm not interested in collecting vertebrates - just invertebrates. I've never hunted either state. Also, if anyone knows whether there are any regulations against fossil hunting along roadcuts, etc., in either state. Thanks for any help / suggestions!
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Found in landscaping rocks around my home. my son (10 years old) is very interested in it, so I'm trying to help him identify what it is.
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Last fall I was out near Keokuk Iowa collecting geodes during Geodefest 2016. On a day hunt I was collecting really close to Keokuk, Iowa and Hamilton, IL and we were at a site in the Fox River. While collecting geodes I usually will find pieces of fossil corals and throw them in the bucket. I recently had a geode cracking party with a buddy last weekend finally cracking the geodes I collected and found this in a bucket from the trip. I know it was collected in the Fox River and I think the river is actually right over the Missouri border. Looks like a coral to me but wanted to see if I can get a confirmation on that or any more info. Thanks!
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Found in my rock bed by our porch. Caught my eye as a finger. Any ideas?
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Last fall a buddy and I attended the annual Geodefest in Hamilton Illinois. Its a 3 day festival to collect and crack open the famous Keokuk geodes. The organizers hold half day hunts at various private and public locations to collect geodes. I have gone for 3 years now and its always a great time. And I always come home with buckets of geodes, big and small. My buddy and I had been talking about setting up a time to go through and crack our geodes but never found the time. Well last weekend I pulled out my soil pipe cutter and rigged it for a night of cracking! I loaded my truck with my buckets of rocks and my cutter and met over at my buddy's house. We spent 5 hours cracking over 4 five gallon buckets of geodes. His daughter also joined in the fun of the cracking! You never know what you are going to find in these rocks which is the fun. Here's highlights of the night. Enjoy!
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I joined my fossil club on a spring hunt in a quarry in central Iowa. The vast majority of the exposed bedrock is Devonian, and the goal for most is finding the elusive trilobites. Success was limited on this visit. I had only a dozen partials in my bucket. So after 5 hours of splitting rock, I asked the knowledgeable members about the Pennsylvanian strata that I had read about. They pointed me in the general direction ...up, up, up. they also informed me the exposures were limited to small areas deposited in a valley situation. The glaciers otherwise had removed this strata over most of the area. Sounds like I was going on a wild goose chase! To be honest, finding fossil plants was quite easy. Because of the location, I was very limited to what I could drag down. I am finding it difficult to find proper literature on this group of plant fossils, so I am hoping some help can be had!! Here are a few typical examples. They are about an inch wide: This seems to be something leaf like:
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While I was looking at a recent post here on the forum trying to help someone identify a Lepidodendron tree root I realized I had found something similar to Lepidodendron bark that I had just assumed was a piece of coral since I found it near other aquatic fossils. I found is somewhere near Decorah, Iowa (I don't remember exactly where). It's a bit worn, but does anyone know what it is?
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A friend found this interesting rock in Johnson County, Iowa. Does anybody have an opinion on how it came to be?
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Hello Everyone, My Name is Matt, I just found out about this site and thought I should join to learn more on Paleontology and geology, I am Not an expert in any sense of the word but I'm just a fan, You could call it my hobby, I Sketch extinct animals, I own my very own Fossils, the lower left side of a jaw from a prehistoric Bison found right here in Iowa and I have fist sized coral samples from the same place from the dinosaur. I also Have some real hair samples from a Siberian Woolly Mammoth. I also have a collection of 300 items of Prehistoric life Merchandise such as fossils, figures, models, posters and other things that I keep on a big Table in my Bedroom. I have a website where I post my sketchs of animals, either real, Fiction, Some Cryptozoology or Just random things, For example a Sky scraper with the Carboniferous inside. Here is the link to my Art profile http://www.deviantart.com/trendorman . I have a lot of questions to ask you all!
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From the album: Fayette County Iowa
This is a find from earlier this summer that I just got out tonight to start work on. I assumed when I collected it that it was an Isotelus Gigas and didn't give it much of an inspection. I did tonight though. Appears to actually be an Ectenaspis Sp. A Good surprise.
