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My submission for the world's smallest trilobite contest and more stuff from Arkona 12/4/2017
Greg.Wood posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
It was only 9 days since my previous (and first) trip to HH, but I was itching to go back and decided to take advantage of the mild weather this Monday. I spent most of the day on the north side of the south pit picking tiny fossils out of the mud. There are an astonishing variety of critters to find if you don't mind lying face down in the dirt. 1. Tiny trilobites! I was not expecting to find any trilobites until I spotted the guy on the left. Luckily I had a small ziplock bag or I would have lost these for sure. They are about 2.5 and 3.0 mm across the head. 2. Nautiloids Fragments like these are most common after brachiopod and crinoid bits 3. Ammonites/goniatites Also very common but one of my favorites, I will never find enough of these. 4. Brachiopods and bivalves Fragments everywhere but a bit harder to find complete 5. Another brach Nothing special, just nicely inflated and good detail on both sides 6. Another brach A little more interesting. I only found one like this. 7. Gastropod I found many fragments that suggest this shape but this one is by far the most compete. 8. Crinoid stem fragments Very abundant but these ones caught my eye 9. Part of a crinoid calyx? (opposite sides of the same piece shown) 10. Cystoid plates Could be wrong, I just learned about cystoids so I'm bound to imagine seeing them everywhere
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I found this at Hungry Hollow in Arkona, Ontario. Sadly I can't remember which formation I pulled it from but my understanding is they are all Devonian age. It may just be a coral fragment but I've heard fish bones can be found. Any ideas?
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I decided to mix things up last weekend and made the 2.5 hour drive from Mississauga over to Arkona, Ontario. The Hungry Hollow formation is quite different from what I am used to closer to home so I went a little crazy...Within 10 minutes I had a bucket full of horn corals, bryozoans and brachiopods. After washing most of the mud away here are some of my favorites. Scale is in millimeters Trilobite fragments 1 2 3 4 Was really hoping for a complete specimen but I am pretty happy with this cephalon pair 5 Brachiopods 6 7 8 Gastropods 9 Chrinoids 10 11 Cephalopod - Probably came from the Arkona shale 12 @Kane you were right, I spent about 5 hours in the south pit and had a great time. Also met a really interesting guy while I was there (I'm horrible with names I think he said it was Rick). He knew the area quite well and was nice enough to donate a few pieces to get me started (#4 trilo fragment on the right and a few cool bryozoans).
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Ye-e-essh, I do very much of the findings of Greenops. -
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Ooh, shiny thing! A crinoid bit from the Arkona Fm - OR: sparkly rainbow unicorn horn. -
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Naticonema lineata. -
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A very tiny coral. -
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The placo plate hovers above the full E. rana roller. Both found during a long drizzling soak in the south pit. -
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"Step right up, folks, we got Goniatites in every size." -
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This is a top shelf find by Deb: a big chunk of placoderm armour. We have since located some of its associated parts. -
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Yeah, I know... I always find the best and coolest Platyceras. This one is a P. arkonense. The other one at this site, P. conicum, looks like, well, a wrinkled cone. -
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I had initially posted a pic of this in Fossil ID and claimed that I had lost it in the field. Well, turns out that I didn't lose this neat Hederella after all! I found it at the bottom of one of my trip buckets. -
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A somewhat large coiling nautiloid that doesn't occur all that often here. I am uncertain about the genus and species, sadly. Usually, the nauts here are barely over a few inches. -
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It is about as good as I can do to make the sign of the hammer and sickle. Because you know, comrade, in Soviet Arkona, fossil collect you! -
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Typical spirifer litter from the Arkona Fm. They tend to be very fragile, so it is more common to find them in this state. -
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Ever more Tentaculites. Arkona Fm. -
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Typical Tentaculites. -
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