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I found this last week Pretty cool kinda looks like a squished dinosaur haha what is it
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I recently found this trilobite tail with a piece missing out of it on both positive and negative sides. Could it be a bite mark?
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From the album: Ordovician
Parvolhallopora sp. (branching bryozoans) Upper Ordovician Verulam Formation James Dick Quarry Brechin, Ontario -
I was able to fit in some prospecting for new sites while the missus had a week off from work. Obviously I couldn’t monopolize all the vacation as the main purpose was to visit a relative and lounge on a beach. Regularly accessible and productive Ordovician sites in Ontario are few and far between, mostly relegated these days to the biannual trip to the quarry in Bowmanville, or to the creeks around the greater Toronto area (GTA). Trilobite collecting in Ontario is massively curtailed by a confluence of factors sadly common in so many other areas: development, quarries that no longer permit access (even to clubs), laws governing protected areas, and over-collecting. We have a rich abundance of trilobites in Ontario, just as in New York, but accessible sites remain a problem. This means defaulting to the traditional method of prospecting new potential areas, and even putting a hard shoulder into shovelling a lot of soil to expose bedrock. This means smaller areas that are more easily exhausted. A pic of our haul from the two spots:
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Another trip to Etobicoke Creek, this time near Sherway Drive. There were lots of nice things, but quite the same as usual, so I concentrated on looking through the gravel for smaller pieces and ended up with a box of knick-knacks to explore. As usual, my wife found all the interesting items. At one point I picked up a rock and got surprised by a little snake. He was really steamed. We had a delightfully relaxing outing.
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From the album: Finds From the Ordovician -488 to 443 MYA-
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From the album: Finds From the Ordovician -488 to 443 MYA-
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From the album: Finds From the Ordovician -488 to 443 MYA-
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From the album: Finds From the Ordovician -488 to 443 MYA-
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From the album: Finds From the Ordovician -488 to 443 MYA-
Partial trilobite from the Collingwood member of the Lindsay (Cobourg) Fm. -
This was found in Cayuga Ontario (Devonian) in 1988 and is still marked in my collection as an unknown. I have had a number of suggestions over the years as to what it is but nothing that screams that's it for sure. I always thought that it was echinoderm of some type but others have suggested eurypterid. Any thoughts. It was found at surface level of an abandoned water filled quarry so there is no assurance that it actually originated at that quarry but it probably did as it looked like the same matrix as the surrounding rock. Please jump in with your thoughts... I would really like to figure out what it is as I have nothing else that remotely looks like this
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I found this concretion in what I believe to be Lockport dolostone, which is silurian in age. At first I didn't think much of it but then I noticed the surface has a faint texture of cracked shell. I was wondering if this could be a silurian ostracoderm like Tremataspis?
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I was determined to trace a shale layer into a hillside, and managed it: what a joy to discover more shell imprints. The genus I'm looking for is Rafinesquina, or something similar. Also got some colonies of things and trace fossils out of the muddy creek area. This place is the tip of the Georgian Bay formation that pokes into Oakville. It yields its treasures sparingly and you really have to work for it! The rocks were so heavy...I had a bag of goodies plus 3 heavy slabs...barely made it back to the car. I left 4 spectacular slabs that were too heavy to manage...might go back for them when I feel ambitious.
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Hello there! I was inspired by @markjw to check out the Credit River here in Mississauga, Ontario (Georgian Bay Formation, Upper Ordovician) because where I normally hunt there are typically no corals and I'd love to add a couple to my collection. Consequently, I went out for about an hour this morning before the family got up in order to try my luck, and I'm happy to say that I was successful!!! Based on information provided by @FossilDAWG in other threads here on TFF, I think all of my colonial rugose corals are Favistina calcina - here are photos of three of my specimens: Specimen #1 - side view: Specimen #2 - top and bottom views: Specimen #3 - top and bottom views: more to come...
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Etobicoke Creek delivers a home run in the bottom of the 9th
markjw posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
I visited Etobicoke Creek again. This time it was near Evans Avenue at a recreational park. There was a softball game going on...the waif thought it might be something called 'rounders' and was intrigued to see how it progressed...I had to drag her the extra 30 meters to the creekbed. Orthocone nautiloids were scattered all over the place, embedded in rocks. The 'she' wanted to find a portion of several segments she could carry home...I get those, but she's never found one. (She eventually brought me a small trilobite, the first I've ever seen). The shell imprints were wonderful, but sometimes worn, and the same species as usual (Bysonnychia and generic bivalves). There were a couple of petrified sponge-like segments, but no good bryozoan colonies. It is fun to find nautiloids because you can sometimes find more than one in a rock (today we tied the record: 4!). Other times they are damaged so you can examine the interior structure. We filled my canvas bag quickly, serenaded by the sound of the softballs being hit off the bat. Finally, near the end of our expedition, the waif saw a segmented rock and tugged it out of the gravel...a portion of a monster cephalapod! Biggest of this genus I've ever seen...and two smaller ones had sheltered in the shell and perished there. What a great time we had.
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Hey guys, new collector looking for some wisdom. Over the past year, I've collected over 150 Fossil specimens from the Chatham-Kent Area. The Majority of my collection is Middle-Devonian Corals and Brachiopods, but I've also found some Petrified Wood and Fossilized Bone. I'm at the point where I can't keep track of my collection and want to start labeling and identifying my fossils for documentation and display purposes. What resources do you guys use to identify fossils you've collected in the field? How accurate can I realistically date things?
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Is this little ~1.5 cm /half inch disk a trilobite? I've never found one before, and my wife found this today. No detail on bottom...it's all in the image. My attempts to brush off the sand have caused pieces to break off and crumble, so I'm not going to try to expose more. It was in an area full of orthocone nautiloids and byssonichia shell imprints.
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Hello there! Well, I tried to take Viola out for a little fossil hunt by Mimico Creek in Etobicoke, Ontario (Georgian Bay Formation, Upper Ordovician) this afternoon because when I checked the forecast this morning it looked like it was going to be ideal fossil-hunting weather - a mix of sun and cloud with temperatures in the mid-20s Celsius. When we arrived, however, it began to rain - we toughed it out and came away with one piece before it began to pour and we called it a day. I was disappointed since I was hoping to spend a few hours there, but the one piece we took home looks like it might have a graptolite on it, which is quite exciting since I have yet to find one in my local haunts. Please check out the photo below and let me know what you think: Thanks in advance for your help! Monica
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Found an object among rocks which resembles eroded teeth enamel Location: Tobermory, Ontario Dimensions: Length: 4 cm Width: 2 cm Height: ~ 1 cm Any ideas?
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I found this when on a fossil hunt this week. Anyone know what it might be? Thanks.
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Treptoceras crebiseptum (Hall, 1847). A nautiloid found in the shale of the Georgian Bay Formation, lower informal member, at a shale wall. Locality is Mimico Creek, Etobicoke, Ontario, Canada. I have included in situ pics to show the process of collecting the specimen. The length of the orthocone is approximately 40 cm which is the size of an adult Treptoceras crebiseptum.
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Hi. I have heard of Precambrian stromatolites found in the Precambrian rocks of Ontario but I am curious, has there been any reports of Ediacaran or Mistaken Point- like fossils being found in the Canadian Shield of Ontario?
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From the album: Hamilton, Ontario Fossils
Paleofavosites asper (d’Orbigny, 1850). Coral squashed on grey shale. Found in the Manitoulin Formation of the Cataract Group on the Niagara Escarpment. Locality is the Devil’s Punchbowl, Stoney Creek, Hamilton, Ontario. Early Silurian.-
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Hello everyone! On Monday, I found a beautiful Treptoceras crebriseptum orthoconic nautiloid in a huge rock at Mimico Creek in the Etobicoke/Toronto area (Georgian Bay Formation, Upper Ordovician). It has been suggested that I might have a complete specimen, so I was hoping that someone out there might be able to let me know if this is the case or not. Here are some pictures... Whole specimen: Close-up of the base of the specimen (specimen has been turned over) - note that it is smoothly rounded and shows no septa - is this the fossilized living chamber of the animal? Close up of the tip of the specimen - note that it seems to end before the rock edge - is this the very tip of the animal? Close up of the piece that shattered off the tip of the specimen - note that it also seems to end before the rock edge: Thanks for your help!!! Monica
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Hi there! I'm currently writing labels for my Devonian fossils, and I was wondering if someone out there can identify the following Favosites coral down to species? It's from the South Pit of Hungry Hollow near Arkona, Ontario, Canada, and it's mid-Devonian in age. Thanks so much! Monica Top: Bottom:
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