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Sometimes you get a very pleasant surprise when you get your finds home and start prepping. I was very fortunate to find two relatively complete Amecystis laevis this Saturday October 31, 2015 up at the JD Quarry near Lake Simcoe, Ontario , Canada. They most likely came out of the very top part of the BobCaygeon formation as they were both found in a recently created pile and not in situ. If not it was from the very bottom of the Verulam This picture because of the lighting used came out a bit blue. I am not the best photographer around. The specimen is on an 85mm * 66mm matrix and is 79 mm long from tip of arm to tip of tail (about 3.1 inches) . The theca on the amecystis is 17mm wide by 22 mm long. The Amecystis is a dorsal orientation. The edrio is approximately 6 mm in diameter. I believe this to be a Amecytis laevis (Raymond) by the way Thanks for the correction Kevin (Northern Sharks) there are definitely no pore rhombohedrons on this specimen. It is a shame that the Amecystis and the edrio both have some slight damage to them from the quarry blasting. But they are still very good specimens. The amecystis is fairly well inflated and nicely colored. Here is a better picture showing the true coloring. But to my surprise it has a very nice attached travelling companion in a edrioasteroid which I believe to be an Isorophusella incondita. What makes this super interesting and probably quite rare is the fact that the edrio is attached to the amecystis and may well have been there when the amecystis was alive. I wonder if anyone else has ever come across this particular association. Edrios are often found attached to brachiopods in this locality. This was prepped using 40 micron dolomite under a zoom scope at 22 PSI using a Comco .018 high precision nozzle on a Comco air abrasion unit.
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This week I got my monthly TTC Monthly Metropass for the first time ever and so with this card in my wallet I was excited that I had unlimited freedom to use the transit to go wherever I want in the city of Toronto for the whole September. Yesterday, while travelling with my card in wallet in Scarborough after finishing an assessment, I came across a creek right at Progress Drive and went down to explore it, in hopes of coming across the Whitby formation. I had seen bits of information regarding outcrops of the Whitby in Scarborough on the net, and I took this opportunity to explore as I live far away from Scarborough. I went down on a driveway I found behind a building and descended below to the bottom. From the edge of the creek I saw no exposures of the Whitby formation but instead saw outcrops of sand, a bit similar to what I saw at the Don Valley Brickworks. Some of the outcrops' bottom were ridden with overgrowth, so I chose the one that had the least, which was this one. The highest point of this outcrop would be around three storeys high and streches for several metres. There's also a substantial sediment material that has fallen off at the bottom and the vegetation on the bottom isn't as thick.
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Hello, I am Speo, I am 45, I am located in Ontario, but born and raised in Eastern Europe. As a kid I used to collect some fossil snails from a river nearby my city and I still have few of them today. I was not really into fossil hunting, but they always fascinated me and two days ago, while stepping on a boulder from a wave breaker, something caught my attention. Please tell me that I am not crazy and this is indeed a fossil. Could it be a trilobite?
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Maclurina Manitobensis and Gastropod Hormotoma
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From the album: Fossils from my collection!
These 2 Gastropods are from Miller Mineral Quarry, Temiskaming Shore, Ontario, Canada / Late Ordovician / Found them myself few weeks ago! -
From the album: Fossils from my collection!
A large Maclurina Manitobensis from Miller Minerals Quarry, Temiskaming Shore, Ontario, Canada / Late Ordovician / Found it myself few weeks ago -
Hello everyone, For my parents 36th wedding anniversary I thought I would surprise them with a fossil hunting vacation as they are both avid fossil enthusiast. I would really like to plan a trip for them somewhere in Alberta or in Ontario but I’m not sure where to send them or how they should go about finding cool fossils. They are not the most competent outdoorsmen so day trips would probably be ideal. Any advice would be greatly appreciated
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Hello fellow fossil hounds! Just picked these up in a truly wonderful shop in Lacombe, Alberta, Canada. I think they're from the Ordovician of Craigleith, Ontario, Canada. Pseudogygites latimarginatus? Same Id for both? The labelling was a bit unclear... 1. 2. Have a great day, and thanks in advance for any and all responses!
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From the album: Urban Fossils of Toronto (Georgian Bay Formation, Lower Member)
Little ripple marks caused by the gentle currents on the shallow late Ordovician sea floor of Toronto. Georgian Bay formation, Humber member(?), Humber River area, Toronto, Ontario. Limestone slab, the coin is a quarter at the bottom for scale. Hmm, I'm beginning to decide if I should have taken this home with me today. Also at the bottom are two clam negative casts: a Whiteavesia and a Modiolopsis.© (©)
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Ever since summer vacation started I have been free to explore the Humber River area and made frequent hunts there in the late Ordovician rocks of the Georgian Bay formation of the city of Toronto. I realized that I did not have a substantial amount of material from this location that I discovered by accident, and so I decided and started to invest some time in exploring this particular location. Last year I only made seven visits, but I did not hunt productively, as I was in my first year of fossil collecting and as a result I had very little material from this location. I knew this location that I accidentally stumbled on had a lot of potential, considering that a great deal of the original exposures are still intact and there were few disturbances done by tractors, whereas compared to Mimico Creek a great deal of the original and actual exposures have been buried. I made three different visits, the first trip I believe was last week and the third today. On the first trip I only took home three specimens, but gradually as I hit the third visit the amount of my finds increased. On the first trip I only found at least three materials. The first thing that I discovered was a Treptoceras crebiseptum specimen. What made me surprised with this specimen was that this specimen actually had Cornulites sp. attached to it. I've never seen something like this in Mimico Creek. There were tubes of the worm attached on the orthocone and also the orthocone was not squashed flat because of the nature of the shale it is in. Actually, I noticed that certain shales in this location did not squash completely flat the orthocones that get preserved in them, which is very different from Mimico because most of the orthocones I find in Mimico shale are compressed. Sorry if I didn't carry any macro lenses and a good camera to capture the Cornulites, the location's flood from a recent rainfall made the place really mucky and wet and the flood waters were just starting to recede. Out of all the Treptocerases that I discovered on that trip, this was the only one that I decided to take home.
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From the album: Arkona material
I was at a rock shop the other day and I saw these brachiopods from Arkona that were up for sale. I bought them since they were cheap and I never get the chance to travel to far-away places, especially Arkona, to get materials like these just to give my collection some diversity. Arkona, Ontario, Devonian.© (©)
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From the album: Urban Fossils of Toronto (Georgian Bay Formation, Lower Member)
Caritodens demissa, a late Ordovician bivalve from Mimico Creek, Toronto, Ontario and belongs to the Georgian Bay Formation. A dolostone specimen.© (©)
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From the album: Arkona material
Middle Devonian, Arkona, Ontario. From that famous Arkona dig site place. Traded from a fellow member.© (©)
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From the album: Arkona material
Fenestrate bryozoan on a piece of Favosites coral. Does anyone know what's the actual name of this bryozoan? Arkona, Ontario, Middle Devonain. A big thank you to TMNH for doing a trade with me for these Arkona fossils© (©)
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I actually had an amazing day hunting in the Verulam formation near Lake Simcoe, Ontario, Canada on Sunday April 12th with my friend J. Even with his rock saw it took me three trips from the bottom of the pit to lug the rocks out. I figure about 200 pounds of rocks came home with me.The weather was perfect (18 degrees celcius but there is still ice and snow in areas ) I got to the site about 8:00AM and stayed till 5 PM. Two hour drive each way so I was beat by the time I got home. Also was a little worse for wear as I got a finger trapped between two heavy slabs. Throbbed for the whole day. Currently at this location the only way to find anything decent is to split rock. Not a lot of new material has been uncovered since last season. But if you spend the time splitting you will find some pretty decent material. By splitting I literally mean splitting several hundred pound boulders (a shaley limestone). I found 3 ceraurus, 2 syringocrinus and about 20 (yes I said 20) homocystites. Here is one that I prepped this morning using Low PSI with dolomite and a .010 nozzle. Prep time about 2 hours. I also found about 5 crinoids that appear to be complete but it will be hard to tell what they are until they are prepped. I though this was a pretty spectacular association (4 trilo species and a well centered cystite) Considering that all I saw was the homocystites tail outline in the matrix, I think I got very lucky and the prep came out decent. Based on the 20 homocystites found the preservation on this one is typical. I will try to take a group picture once they are all prepped. 1 Homocystites (about 75 mm in length if was not curled) 1 almost complete ceraurus (about 15 mm long) (missing one of pygidium spines) overlapping the homocystites 2 inverted calyptaulax cephaplons 1 achetella cephalon 1 isotelus inverted partial
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From the album: Pictures for sharing
Museum Quality eurypterus lacustris found May 24, 2013. This is the positive and negative that came out in single unbroken plates. Williamsville A formation ; Stevensville, Ontario -
Got tired of prepping cystoids this morning so took a quick diversion to prep this little guy found on Sunday April 12, 2015 in the verulam formation near Lake Simcoe. Total length about 75 mm with a 10 mm calyx. Prepped under a scope with low PSI dolomite .010 nozzle, prep time about 20 minutes. Matrix was a crumbly shale which was field stabilized with cyanoacrylate. I believe it to be a praecupulocrinus but then again I am not the crinoid expert by any means so please jump in.....
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Here is one for you knowledgeable folks. The fossil does not actually belong to me .The individual who found this specimen is a very experienced collector and has never seen this one before in either the verulam or the BobCaygeon. It was found last season in either the bottom of the verulam formation or the top of the BobCaygeon Ordovician formation near Brechin, Ontario Canada. We are generally calling this a cystoid or a crinoid. Some thoughts so far are (in order of our thinking) Balacrinus sp archeocrinus lacunosus Neoarcheocrinus Rare cystite Jump in with your thoughts
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From the album: Urban Fossils of Toronto (Georgian Bay Formation, Lower Member)
Isotelus maximus (Locke, 1838). Big trilobite pygidium molt and the only partial big molt I have ever found at Mimico creek. Approximately 15 centimetres across. Found in Mimico creek, Toronto, Ontario. Georgian Bay formation, late Ordovician. I found this by accident when I first started fossil hunting at Mimico creek back in October 2013. Shale specimen.© (©)
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So basically I'm planning on starting my journey of fossil hunting, but I have no idea what to look for. I live beside an inactive Quarry that I don't believe has ever been picked through for fossils before so it is an ideal place to start. I was just wondering if maybe you guys could post photos of things that I should keep an eye out for? So i can familiarize myself with different types of fossils. I will obviously know a fish when I see one but I also don't want to miss our on the small stuff due to my ignorance. I live outside of Ottawa in a rural area, so anyone who is familiar with this location would be a great help! I posted these in another topic but for anyone who hasn't seen them this is the quarry I will be going to. I want you to treat me as if i'm your child going hunting for the first time!
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From the album: Urban Fossils of Toronto (Georgian Bay Formation, Lower Member)
The unprepared and complete Flexicalymene granulosa trilobites all together from Mimico creek, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Late Ordovician, Georgian Bay formation. All three were found in shale but I also found a complete one once on a limestone.© (©)
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From the album: Urban Fossils of Toronto (Georgian Bay Formation, Lower Member)
Cyrtolites ornatus (Conrad, 1838). Late Ordovician monoplacophoran from Mimico creek, Toronto, Ontario. Georgian Bay formation. This one is set on limestone.© (©)
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From the album: Urban Fossils of Toronto (Georgian Bay Formation, Lower Member)
A second and more detailed photo of the modiolopsis slab. This one shows a little bit more detail, hopefully. Also, it appears that this thing is not full of modiolopsis as I first concluded, but rather it is full of Whiteavesia pholadiformis. There is also a Cymatonota lenoir, and it appears to me that there is only one specimen of modiolopsis, which would be M. concentrica. Dime shown for scale, and Georgian Bay formation, Mimico creek.© (©)
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From the album: Arkona material
The other mucrospirifer I bought along with the previous specimen I mentioned. Devonian stuff doesn't really interest me but with these I can feel a different surge of interest surfacing in me...I mean these Devonian fossils ARE kinda beautiful so why wouldn't anyone want them? Arkona, Ontario, Devonian.© (©)
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From the album: Urban Fossils of Toronto (Georgian Bay Formation, Lower Member)
Zygospira erratica. These two are set on a limestone hash plate with an orthocone to the left. Both are the same species and have an obvious sulcus. Mimico creek, Toronto, late Ordovician, Georgian Bay formation. Edit: I also have found a massive slab of limestone that had a death assemblage of these brachiopods . I forgot to take photos though , and I'm not sure if the slab is still there.© (©)
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Is this trace fossil a rusophycus or something else? I also wonder what animal could've made it because I doubt it that any trilobite could have made it. Late Ordovician, Georgian Bay formation, Mimico creek, Toronto, Ontario.
