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  1. My annual excursion to visit my family which migrated to Kentucky years ago took place at the end of October into November, lasting two weeks. Of course, the planned trip took me in the vicinity of some excellent fossil bearing sediments and though quality time with family was the primary purpose, I did hope to add to my collection. All of the spots I visited were ones I've been to before; however, the first stop was a new one for me- Paulding, well known and documented on the Forum for its Middle Devonian marine fauna. I drove from the suburbs of New York City for almost eleven hours, raining most of the way, arriving at and spending the night at a hotel in Defiance, Ohio. Paulding was about fifteen minutes away. Drove there the following morning, It was a brisk forty degrees, mostly cloudy, but sunny at times. A TFF member I was supposed to hook up with there unfortunately had to bail last minute. A nearby quarry which exposes the famed Devonian Silica Shale had, years ago, stopped allowing collectors to hunt there. There was a big outcry and the quarry set up a fossil park dumping fossiliferous rock onto a property they owned which the public were free to collect from. Much of it is now overgrown and much of the rock has been reduced to gravel. However, there are still many fossiliferous chunks out there if one is willing to look.
  2. I have a nice little slab of Platteville Formation (Mifflin Member) from the Ordovician of SW Wisconsin that I received from @connorp late last year. I am working on a post that describes all of the great things in it, but want to get a couple of ID's cleared up so I can be more concise in that post. Here are three trilobite pieces found on the slab that I have taken a stab at an ID, but would love confirmation/correction. Hopefully there is enough there for some of our trilobite experts such as @piranha , @Kane or any others to offer some advice. Thanks for any insights anyone can offer. Each picture is numbered in the upper left. Mike Here is a picture of the small slab with the location of the trilobites in question numbered. The sharp eyed will see another trilobite cephalon in the lower portion of the slab. I am fairly certain that one is Gabriceraurus mifflinensis. Here is the first question. This looks like the best match I can find for species listed from that formation, but I'm not certain. I wish I could get this one a bit cleaner, but the matrix left is pretty hard and stuck to the pygidium. This one may be a stretch as there is not much there, but maybe enough to be recognizable (or maybe not). Thanks for any help.
  3. Kane

    A So-So Trip

    Over a week ago I took advantage of our university's Reading Week break to hop a train east to do some late season digging. Apart from a few surprise finds, it did not quite live up to my expectations. I had to hastily organize it as I had got the dates wrong, assuming Reading Week was the following week (one of my students corrected me). It meant getting the trains and motel all lined up with barely a day to spare. Upon my arrival in Toronto for a layover, someone not all together upstairs thought it would be a wise idea to pick a fight with me. I defused the situation, but it certainly help set the tone for this week-long adventure. On the first day of the dig, I ended up walking about 25km for nothing. On the next day I went back to the spot that had been so productive weeks before, but this time it turned out to be the opposite with two exceptions. Unlike last time when cheirurids were popping out like they were going out of style, not even more than a pygidial spine of one this time. Instead, a pair of crappy Flexis:
  4. Isotelus2883

    Colpocoryphe Eye Lenses

    I was storing more of my collection away the other day, when I saw the eye of my Colpocoryphe specimen. Eye lenses! My other specimen has them too, but the eyes are a bit crushed. I thought it would be nice to share. I never saw these, and the second one was the first ever trilobite I got. I can’t believe I never noticed them.
  5. Kane

    Hibbertia ottawaensis

    From the album: Trilobites

    The rarest harpetid in Ontario. Although fragmentary and in ventral position, still a worthy field find.
  6. SilurianSalamander

    Trilobite pygidium or brachiopod?

    Each square is one centimeter. What is this mould of? Thank you!
  7. Hi all! I am back again (this time in Montréal and found a peculiar looking fossil. It is very circular, almost has a subtle stippling on the top surface (which leads to think maybe a sort of precursor coral/bryozoan). It popped out very cleanly from the rocks we were excavating. The other fossil for ID is the brachiopod in the 4th and 5th pictures: Topside Underside Side Profile (its rather thin, but thickest in the middle - somewhat dish-like) Measurements Brachiopod for ID Thanks in advance! -Em
  8. slayer0666

    Fossil arthropod???

    Found in a creek in Alton by the Piasa Cave. Looks like the exoskeleton of some arthropod. Any idea on what it is exactly?
  9. From the album: Gunningbland Trilobites

    Parkesolithus gradyi (Campbell & Durham, 1970) Late Ordovician Gunningbland Formation Gunningbland, NSW, Australia A latex cast photographed with ammonium chloride coating.
  10. From the album: Gunningbland Trilobites

    Parkesolithus dictyotos (Webby, 1974) Late Ordovician Gunningbland Formation Gunningbland, NSW, Australia A latex cast photographed with ammonium chloride coating.
  11. Fullux

    What is this?

    Howdy all, Found these in my usual spot in the Drakes formation. The first two look like some sort of bivalve, not a brachiopod. The second looks like some sort of coral.
  12. Howdy all, This is something I've wondered for a while. What is the relationship between the Drakes and Kope formation and what are the differences?
  13. Fullux

    Strange concretion.

    Howdy all, Found this in my usual spot in the Drakes formation. Looks like some sort of concretion, what do y'all think? Louisville, Kentucky.
  14. It's been a long time since posting a trip report, but it has been a fairly active year despite the monkish silence as I try to be fairly circumspect about locations and where I am going. Last weekend was Thanksgiving up here, but I passed on turkey to spend some time solo far from home. Some very nice finds for two days from the Bobcaygeon Fm of Ontario. Time to share. First up, some field shots from the phone. First blood was a doozy. Within half an hour after sunrise, a cluster of Ceraurus globulabatis and Gabricerarurus dentatus. Not the nicest material, but I kept all the bits. There may in fact be more buried in this plate. It got a bit rainy, but I was undeterred. The rains eventually stopped and I kept at it for another 9 hours. Here we have a scrappy Calyptaulax callicephalus. Seriously exfoliated, and a bit too delicate on a flake to extract complete. It would not be the worst heartbreaker of this trip. Getting warmer to maybe finding a Ceraurinus marginatus. This is a wide pygidial array of spines of roughly 2 inches wide. The three individuals on the left are Raymondites, with a scrappy Flexicalymene senaria on top, and that same Calyptaulax photo-bombing this image. (continued)
  15. Six new species of Western Australian trilobites discovered by Patrick Smith, Heidi J. Allen, Australian Museum PhysOrg Article the open access paper is: Smith, P.M. and Allen, H.J., 2023. Early Ordovician trilobites from Barnicarndy 1 stratigraphic well of the southern Canning Basin, Western Australia. Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology, pp.1-58. Yours, Paul H.
  16. Newbie_1971

    any idea on this one?

    Found this today, the one on the left. Not sure that I have even seen a fragment like this. Bumpy kind of like a crab leg.
  17. Newbie_1971

    possible BIG fossil, help please

    Found two parts of this the other day in Indiana, and after more inspection I found the other part down the slope. It appeared to have washed out of the bank and tumbled down breaking it into pieces.Any Help with this would be appreciated. Thank you.
  18. Ok guys. I am new to this and really enjoying it. Figured I would share a few photos and hope that someone would possibly help me out here. The 3 fossils I have no clue about were found within 30 yards or so of one another. I appreciate any help, and thanks for looking! Ordovician
  19. Newbie_1971

    Indiana fossil trip

    so I am new to fossil hunting but have went out the past couple days and have had a blast. But I can not figure out how to attach photos! I select add photos, and nothing happens. What gives?
  20. New to hunting, and need help with ID, thanks
  21. It has been a while since I have made a trip to a new spot, I had some free time last weekend and decided to head out towards some promising localities in Central NY for Ordovician fossils. Found a great place to go through some research and digging. I hit a couple different sections of the same area and found different specimens. I am guessing at some point I wandered out of the Utica fm. and into the Trenton fm. Pictures below, thanks for reading! I got to this one too late, but this could have been an A+ trilobite before it got weathered out. This find was pretty important for telling me which area to work in. 1. Partial trilobite that didn't necessarily break the right way with a cephalopod 2. Pyritized disarticulated trilobite partials. 3. Nice triarthrus head. Haven't done enough research to tell the difference between T. beckii and T. eatoni 4. Could be my favorite of the trip. Big cephalopod 5. Closest I got to a complete triarthrus 6. Good size but disarticulated. Found this one early. 7. This is where I believe I moved on to the Trenton. Looks like a flexicalymene cephalon. 8. Found this near the suspected flexi
  22. JUAN EMMANUEL

    Summer Hunts of 2023

    I have had multiple trips this summer to my favourite localities in Hamilton, Ontario and Toronto. I dont think the winter of this season was severe to render a great deal of erosion since I couldnt pick out a lot of material surface wise. My first trip is at the Niagara Escarpment of Hamilton in which I visit many formations of the Cataract and Clinton Groups. Always keep an eye out on your overhead! These rocks of the Whirlpool sandstone (Cataract Group) on top of the Queenston formation can drop on any unsuspecting person! Below are some partial pentamerid brachiopods Pentameroides subrectus of the Reynales formation at Hamilton, Ontario. They look like pecans. My next summer trips were at the Humber River area in Toronto. I visited my favourite spots to check out what I can surface collect, since I was carrying light materials with me on those days without a hammer and chisel. Both the formations exposed at the Humber River and Mimico Creek belong to the late Ordovician Georgian Bay formation. And recently this Saturday I was at Mimico Creek in Toronto revisiting my old hunting grounds. I came across a nice Treptoceras crebiseptum slab, which I chiseled out of the shale with my hammer- before it fractured into many pieces. I also found a nice trace fossil which had a Cruziana sp. on it, but it had some oil grease on it for some reason. Usually, if the winter was severely cold, a portion of an exposure like this would be falling down to the bottom, revealing surface-collecting fossils. An interesting trace fossil i found but chose not to keep. In situ of the Treptoceras plate I chose to extract. Below is the nice trace fossil i decided to keep. Im a very picky person when collecting and I only the best specimens I can find. Another entirely separate exposure at Mimico Creek that I visited on the same day.
  23. A couple of Fridays ago I took the day off of work to hunt in the Upper Ordovician. Shhh.... Don't tell my Boss! I started my day by digging around in a favorite site of mine. It is the first fossil bearing exposure that I managed to find via my own hard work and research. I'm rather fond of the place. The site is an exposure of the Drakes Formation. More specifically, in the basal unit of the Preachersville Member of the Drakes Formation. This specific layer is colloquially known as the "Otter Creek Coral Bed" or the "Bardstown Reef" (depending on the location of the exposure). Well known for it's abundance of large coral heads. Sorry for the lack of scale here. This one is the size of a bowling ball. About 1 foot (about 30.5cm) across Today I wasn't on the hunt for large coral. I have already brought home my fair share in the past. However, I did pick up a small specimen. It is an example of Foerstephyllum vacuum. The species name is derived from it's very small to complete lack of septa. Usually I find them here without any septa preserved, but I was please to find evidence of the septa in this small specimen. Here is another nice find. I believe this is the sponge Aulacera sp. (A. cylindrica?) It was broken into pieces and made for a real puzzle. I have found many fragments, but never anything I could piece together like this. I also found another one before the day ended. Not as long, but a nice example still. A few more pics from the field... Vinlandostrophia sp. Hebertella sp. Horn coral Grewingkia rustica After spending a few hours in the Drakes Formation, I decided to drive another 10 minutes down the road to an exposure of the Grant Lake Limestone. Another Upper Ordovician formation. You don't have to climb that high up in this exposure to find fossils, but the slope is steep and you need to go up 2 meters or so to get to the really good stuff. I channeled my inner goat and scrambled up. Here is a sampling of what can be found here. Bryozoan, brachiopod, gastropod, orthocone, and a bivalve steinkern. Vinlandostrophia are by far the most common fossil here. The place is lousy with them. Well, next to bryozoans anyway. It seems like nothing out numbers bryozoans in the Ordovician. Ha! Rafinesquina are found here, but are usually broken. Unless they are held together by a bryozoan colony like the top one in my hand. Pictures from the field: What follows are pictures of some of the finds I took home. This orthoconic nautiloid isn't very well preserved, but it's one of the longest specimens I have found in the Grant Lake Limestone. Various other orthocone bits. I usually only find steinkerns of Ordovician gastropods, so to find a few with visible shell fragments is a treat. Found in the Drakes Formation. These last two finds are exciting (for me at least). These are trilobite pygidia that I found in the Grant Lake Limestone. This is a very small example of what I believe to be a Flexicalymene pygidium. I've never found one in the Grant Lake Limestone and I have spent many hours here. An exciting first! Another exciting first is what looks to be a complete Isotelus pygidium from the Grant Lake Limestone. Isotelus fragments can be found all over the Upper Ordivician, including the Grant Lake Limestone, but finding any sort of recognizable part is rare here. It's covered in epibionts so it’s a bit hard to see. I'm still pleased with it. Some of the hitchhikers are interesting as well. All in all it was a great day. Much better than being behind my desk at work.
  24. This past weekend I spent the parts of 3 days collecting in Lawrenceburg and St. Leon, Indiana and well as up and down the AA Highway in Kentucky. Here are some random pictures of the sites I collected. Here are some miscellaneous finds- burrows, Trilo-bits, Bryozoan, horn coral, brachiopods, trace fossils, etc. My favorite finds are always hash plates. I love how they show a snap shot in time. Although I mainly collect Mazon Creek fossils, I still like nice hash plates from the Ordovician more, some of them have so much stuff going on. Zoom in on the pictures, they are really cool. Continued on next post-
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