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From the album: La Noe Blanche - feb 2016
Colpocoryphe rouaulti : a trilobite from the ordovician of the south of Rennes (Brittany - France) -
From the album: La Noe Blanche - nov 2015
Another rolled up Neseuretus tristani : a trilobite found at La Noe Blanche on nov 2015 Ordovician, Landeilian (-460 MA) -
From the album: La Noe Blanche - nov 2015
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From the album: La Noe Blanche - nov 2015
Rolled up Neseuretus tristani : a trilobite found at La Noe Blanche on nov 2015 Ordovician, Landeilian (-460 MA) -
From the album: La Noe Blanche - nov 2015
Rolled up Neseuretus tristani : a trilobite found at La Noe Blanche on nov 2015 Ordovician, Landeilian (-460 MA) -
From the album: La Noe Blanche - nov 2015
Colpocoryphe rouaulti : a trilobite found at La Noe Blanche on nov 2015 Ordovician, Landeilian (-460 MA) -
From the album: La Noe Blanche - nov 2015
Neseuretus tristani : a trilobite found at La Noe Blanche on nov 2015 Ordovician, Landeilian (-460 MA) -
From the album: La dominelais - feb 2016
Colpocoryphe Rouaulti - an ordovician trilobite from La Dominelais - Bretagne - France -
From the album: La dominelais - feb 2016
Colpocoryphe Rouaulti - an ordovician trilobite from La Dominelais - Bretagne - France -
From the album: La dominelais - feb 2016
Colpocoryphe Rouaulti - an ordovician trilobite from La Dominelais - Bretagne - France -
From the album: Anomalocaris and friends.
Grasper from an Anomalocaris sp. (not yet classified) from the Middle Cambrian Wheeler Shale of Utah. The biggest predator of its day! -
Found this guy last night splitting some shale I had laying around. Found on a piece about the size of a quarter!
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Here's a piece of shale I found near Pueblo, CO. The formation comes from the Western Interior Seaway of the Upper Cretaceous. The raised striations lead be to believe this could be an impression of a marine organism, or just a psuedofossil. Any help with the ID would be amazing. Thank you! - Geoff P.S. the measurement units are inches
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I found this today at the rock quarry located in Crescent, Iowa. I was busting shale when I noticed something shiny amidst the rubble, and found this. The professor on the trip (I went with my college) said she had never seen anything like it before. The shiny part reminds me of mother of pearl. The professor guessed that it may be a wasp, but she suggests that I get it identified by someone with more knowledge/experience than her. Any ideas??
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Hi everyone! I'm new to this site (signed-up-5-mins-ago new, lol), and I have a question. Unfortunately, I don't have a picture, because I wasn't thinking and sent it to school with my daughter, who is studying fossils in class. Anyway, my husband and I took our daughter fossil-hunting on a trail in Frostburg, MD (Allegany Co.). As a kid, I used to go through shale piles at my grandpa's farm and occasionally run across a fern fossil, and since this particular trail (down from the train depot, Allegany Highland trail, perhaps?) has lots of shale on the sides, I thought it would be a good place to look. Without much luck, we dug through fallen piles of the black shale. I finally stumbled across a piece of shale (right as I was ready to give up, lol!) that had an imprint that I'd never found before. The only way I can describe it is that it looked like a bunch of vertical lines, very even, and the prints (two side by side) were about 2-3 inches wide. I looked it up online, and the pictures of calamite fossils looked identical as far as I could tell. The question posed to you all, after all the long-winded explanations, is: Is it possible to find calamite fossils in Western MD? None of the websites I visited specifically stated what I would be able to find in Western MD, and I'd like to have a name to put to the fossil. After she's done showing it to her class, I will try to take a photo. For now, if anyone can confirm/deny/offer any other suggestion as to what I have found, I'd be so darn grateful! Thanks!, MissusTodd
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End of february, we had the opportunity, to go back for a trilo hunt south of Rennes (France). We had rain and rain and more rain all the way to the spot, but then it stopped once we hit our destination. Here come a view of the place with a fair sample of the club's members. The pit is very small and half under water, but still room for the whole gang. The day been exhausting but productive. Despite the huge majority are partial, we managed a fair amount of decent finds. The Age is middle Llandeilian (- 460 MA) Here 's some of my most noticeable finds of the day: The most common beast from this area : a few Neseuretus tristani A pair of the second most common fellow : Colpocoryphe rouaulti A rolled up one : And a Asaphidae body (Rare to be found complete i was told) When the evening came, we ended up kinda tired after splitting shale "fries" all day long. Last minute :After splitting a bit of shale i brought home today, i managed to find another rolled up little guy.
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I've just come back from a trip to Yorkshire where I managed to do a little fossil hunting and was lucky enough to find this ammonite. The problem is though is that generally the preservation in the area wasn't great and this one is clearly covered in a mudstone/ shale type of rock. However I think it might be worth trying to remove the surrounding rock because the small bit which I can see seems to have preserved fairly well. However I don't know the best way to remove it, see i'm not very comfortable with chiseling it away because I'm fairly new to this so would probably end up ruining it! I've been told that it may work if I was to put it into the oven to warm it up and then put it into cold water which could 'shock' the fossil to break along lines of weakness but I'm not sure if it would work or not. I've tried to post a picture of the fossil here but I'm not sure if its worked so if not here's a link: http://s1069.photobucket.com/user/zozzy-zebra/media/IMG_0003_zps69eb4cbf.jpg.html Any suggestions of how I can remove my ammonite would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
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From the album: Pittsburgh Fossils in Handmade Museum Boxes
This fossil, not sure if it is pecopteris or linopteris. It's about 4 inches across. It is housed in "museum" box I made with two modern fern fronds which were preserved with a special oxidization-inhibiting sealant. -
From the album: Pittsburgh Fossils in Handmade Museum Boxes
This is what I believe to be an alethopteris in shale collected in Rennerdale, PA. About 3 inches across. It is housed in "museum" box I made with two modern fern fronds which were preserved with a special oxidization-inhibiting sealant. -
From the album: Pittsburgh Fossils in Handmade Museum Boxes
I found this fossil which I believe is neuropteris in Rennerdale, PA. It is about 4 inches across. It is housed in "museum"-style box I made with an iron oxide paint used as the stain to make it look "rustic". -
From the album: Pittsburgh Fossils in Handmade Museum Boxes
I believe this one is linopteris. Collected in Rennerdale, PA. About 1.5 inches acorss. It is housed in "museum" box I made with two modern fern fronds which were preserved with a special oxidization-inhibiting sealant. -
From the album: Pittsburgh Fossils in Handmade Museum Boxes
I believe this specimen would be pecopteris? approximately 300 mya. Collected in Rennerdale, PA. Approximately 3 inches in length. It is housed in "museum" box I made with two modern fern fronds which were preserved with a special oxidization-inhibiting sealant. -
At one of my favorite Scarborough spots there is alot of shale is this a good sign that fossils will be in it.
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Fossils of the Gull River Formation, Black River Group This past weekend I came across a newly excavated site here in Kingston, Ontario. After spending a few hours over a few days here is what I collected. Cephelopod - Gull River Formation of the Black River Group, Kingston, Ontario 4.75" x (0.5" to 0.3") Conulariid - 0.75" x 0.5" - Gull River Formation of the Black River Group, Kingston, Ontario Thank you to Peter Lee and Nathan Thomas for identifying this for me. (Daimanella) - Brachiopod - Gull River Formation of the Black River Group, Kingston, Ontario 1.2" x 0.75" (Ceraurus Cephalon) Trilobite - Gull River Formation of the Black River Group, Kingston, Ontario 1" x 0.75" (Species Unidentifed Yet) Trilobite - Gull River Formation of the Black River Group, Kingston, Ontario 0.25" x 0.125" Collected several other specimens that I have not photographed. One in particular, an isotelus pygidium, that I still need to photograph. I'm always wanting to make sure I have the right species names. If you know of an error please let me know. I have been learning a lot from everyone on this forum. THANK YOU
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Goniatite Ammonoid, Graham Fm.(Finis Shale), Pennsylvanian, Jack Co., Texas
gwestbrook posted a gallery image in Member Collections
From the album: Jack County, Texas Fossils
