Search the Community
Showing results for tags 'belgium'.
-
Fossil hunting trip to Lompret (Devonian of Belgium)
ziggycardon posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
Hi everyone! Around 2 months ago on the 16th of october 2021 I went on a fossil hunting trip with the BVP to the stone quarry of Lompret in Belgium. https://www.paleontica.org/locations/fossil/654 The rocks in this quarry are Devonian in age and date back to the Frasnian (382.7 million years ago to 372.2 million years ago) with the finds mostly being from both the Neuville and Matagne Formations. According to Tom our excursion leader this quarry exists out of what used to be coral reefs and islands that formed around atolls. The fossils that you can find in this quarry are Brachiopods, Bivalves, Gastropods, Corals, Bryozoans, Cephalopods like Goniatites and Othocone Nautiloids and in very rare cases Placoderm and trilobite material (although no one was that lucky during the excursion). The quarry is also very rich in minerals like Baryte, Calcite, Quartz, Galena, Fluorite, etc... I have long looked forward to visiting this quarry, so I was very happy to finally be able to go and it did not dissapoint! It was quite foggy in the morning when we arrived which both looked eerie and cool at the same time, luckily it later cleared up! There where quite a lot of other people in the quarry (mainly people looking for minerals like Byrite and Galena) but our club headed straight to higher plateau of the quarry where some of the black Matagne Shales where with very nice Pyritized fossils and to where the waste heaps were to look for fossils. That's me looking for Brachiopods and pyritized Goniatites and Bactrites. A large Hexagonaria coral which was a little to heavy to bring home We also found some Pyrite cubes which (although very exhausting) we managed to extract
- 11 replies
-
- 14
-
-
-
SPIRIFER AEDUENNENSIS and other brachiopods DEVONIAN EMSIEN BRAS BELGIUM
nala posted a gallery image in Member Collections
From the album: Brachiopodes, Shells, corals, sponges......
SPIRIFER AEDUENNENSIS and other brachiopods DEVONIAN EMSIEN BRAS BELGIUM -
From the album: Borinage coal-mining district (Hainaut, Belgium)
© T.K.T. Wolterbeek
-
- 2
-
-
-
- belgium
- carboniferous
- (and 4 more)
-
From the album: Borinage coal-mining district (Hainaut, Belgium)
© T.K.T. Wolterbeek
-
- 1
-
-
- belgium
- carboniferous
- (and 4 more)
-
From the album: Borinage coal-mining district (Hainaut, Belgium)
© T.K.T. Wolterbeek
-
- 1
-
-
- belgium
- carboniferous
- (and 4 more)
-
From the album: Borinage coal-mining district (Hainaut, Belgium)
© T.K.T. Wolterbeek
-
- 1
-
-
- belgium
- carboniferous
- (and 4 more)
-
From the album: Borinage coal-mining district (Hainaut, Belgium)
© T.K.T. Wolterbeek
-
- 1
-
-
- belgium
- carboniferous
- (and 4 more)
-
From the album: Borinage coal-mining district (Hainaut, Belgium)
© T.K.T. Wolterbeek
-
From the album: Borinage coal-mining district (Hainaut, Belgium)
© T.K.T. Wolterbeek
-
From the album: Borinage coal-mining district (Hainaut, Belgium)
© T.K.T. Wolterbeek
-
From the album: Borinage coal-mining district (Hainaut, Belgium)
© T.K.T. Wolterbeek
-
The seller said all teeth are found in Antwerp area in Belgium and is from middle Miocene Epoch. Most of them have a broken root, but I think the root is not the main characteristics of makos. I guess they are the same species?
-
Last Saturday our geology club “Lithos” planned a trip to the “Musée de l’iguanodon” in Bernissart. https://bernissart.be/index.php/tourisme/musees/musee-de-l-iguanodon Apart from the usual exposition there was also a temporary display of the geology of the “Hainaut” that was made by the local geology club of Bernissart ( C.G.H. ) As a bonus we also had the opportunity to visit the club rooms and collections of the C.G.H. in the buildings next to the museum. Their collections included lots of regional fossils, minerals from all over the world an minerals from Belgium. The expo from CGH: Fossils from the former coal mines: Some of the museum displays: The real deal a genuine specimen from the famous site of Bernissart: some of the display cases in the club rooms from the CGH:
- 6 replies
-
- 13
-
-
-
- belgium
- bernissart
- (and 3 more)
-
Fossil hunting trip to Tontelange (Jurassic of Belgium)
ziggycardon posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
On saturday I went on my first fossil hunting trip of 2021 with the BVP. Normally we would visit my favorite quarry "the Romontbos quarry" in Eben-Emael which is Maastrichtian in age, but due some complications that trip has been posponed till the end of September. Instead we went to the SETIM quarry in Tontelange in Belgian Luxembourg which was quite cool as it supposedly only the 2nd that this quarry allowed fossil hunting so everyone was quite excited. The rocks we hunted in this quarry are Jurassic in age, mainly Hettangian & Sinemurian. The lower levels of the quarry also had deposits of the Triassic (Rheatian) but those were not exposed at the moment unfortunately. But I had a great time at the quarry and I was very pleased with my finds. In a few of the quarry walls were used as nesting for sand martins (Riparia riparia) A piece of rock with the imprint left by a coral in it. A rock with some beautifull Crinoïd stems..jpg.206a4ed24511045cdbefbcd8739cdfb7.jpg)
.jpg.77088959c55757a6145c563b5a87be38.jpg)
.jpg.2dcde2e36d3c25e4a656e5c74c0ffdba.jpg)
.jpg.9353ef1ed73a7b7f5cc588c1327b2a0e.jpg)
.thumb.jpg.04f6cece8ff5322483318e2f252a3698.jpg)
.thumb.jpg.22e2c06ae14a33e5578a396ed06f9540.jpg)
.jpg.a0ca46b58e5eca1fe3320cb127b8d704.jpg)
.jpg.ed48cdf1c2394f2f3e27f4976b2f7b45.jpg)
- 13 replies
-
- 11
-
-
-
This is a little prospaction day that we have done a month ago. The original thought was to go to Barveaux in the Ardennes, a site renowned for its spirifers and prospect other locations. The first stop was the area of Barveaux itself, but everything was overgrown and hard to access, so we didn't find anything here. We then hit the road to the south and prospected a few outcrops without a lot of success. After a while we passed Marche en Famenne,. Nearby was a industrial area where in the past I've found lots of spiriferids on construction sites, so we decided to give it a go. When we got there no new construction projects were going on, but a large area was leveled for future building projects. Although a little overgrown, the whole area was accessible and slate was all over the area. It didn't take long before we found the first spirifers. Apparently this site hasn't been prospected in a while, the whole area proved to be littered with spiriferids, although most of the time weathered. After an hour or two we had filled a bucket with them. After this we were heading home, meanwhile keeping an eye out to outcrops or building sites. We did find another small piece of land ready for construction and full of slate. Not a lot was to be found here except an odd round shaped nodule that got my attention. I got it out of the ground and after cleaning it up there were septa visible at the back. The nodule turned out to be a fragment of a large cephalopod, a great way to end the day of prospection. the Cephalopod fragment:
-
ID requested: Eocene shark teeth from Tielt Formation, Egem (Belgium)
ziggycardon posted a topic in Fossil ID
Hi everyone, today I arrived a small batch of shark teeth which came from the Egem Clay, Tielt Formation, Egem, Belgium that date back to the Ypresian, Eocene (53 mya). I attempted to ID them but as usual I would like to see what your imput is on my ID's. Tooth 1: Striatolamia macrota or maybe even Cretalamna sp. Tooth 2: Brachycarcharias lerichei? Tooth 3: Striatolamia macrota Tooth 4: Striatolamia macrota Tooth 5: Hypotodus verticalis or Striatolamia macrota Tooth 6: Odontaspis winkleri.jpg.f1c0e1a5b89d0291cd6ee26c6360533e.jpg)
.jpg.f9b9a28da2764f12765284f54db5b50e.jpg)
.jpg.0115fef0219ac8a746027b2f75125dbd.jpg)
.jpg.6546c0ef0ca2dfdad0171288beed41c9.jpg)
.jpg.e26837a9ae83f23e1785ada32974e70c.jpg)
.jpg.2154ceed805a6ced7ad18072904b4652.jpg)
.jpg.bf639b143a7ad216abdb09c86aef58a4.jpg)
.jpg.76d7b5c630926bd46dcc9ddec3da3685.jpg)
.jpg.26485c25aec79ee9221e49f831a41106.jpg)
.jpg.c9ffad431ed8a0fb312b2de9da9c0344.jpg)
.jpg.510ae669da47654c43012731aac81133.jpg)
.jpg.efe0eaedf558bb1c24480407dc9898e7.jpg)
.jpg.bb34bd48b10447b8da3310469b5b88ed.jpg)
.jpg.0bb020ee269d9c1da5d7e99bdc2bfd05.jpg)
.jpg.e5f88569dadf709ca33ce24bc2be8194.jpg)
.jpg.512bc5d91e79231e4da0b445ac693f80.jpg)
.jpg.19f49affc4a50ddb71959ecb45e82970.jpg)
.jpg.c4b83cf13df12039033ebdd328e0173c.jpg)
.jpg.207e784986cf0532c3217639369bc6e0.jpg)
.jpg.e2819f203dc2f05ed84d9b4ec79a6874.jpg)
-
I found them in a gravel in Belgium
-
Lately Natalie is surpassing me on finding cephalopods. It is not every day that we find a Crickites sp. In the field, let alone a well preserved specimen with the living chamber. So I went to work to prep her precious find: It was a very promising looking specimen and it lived up to the expectations. Crickites sp. Late Devonian ( Frasnian ) Matagne formation Chimay area ( Belgium )
-
I found it in Belgium
-
I found them in a gravel in Kortenberg, Belgium.
-
Is this a fossil? It’s very small
-
Can someone please help me identify these? I found them in a gravel in Belgium.
-
Can someone help me identify this?
-
It’s a little bit hard to see but my guess is coral. It has flowery designs with stripes on it
-
Last Saturday we went on a new fieldtrip on one of our favorite hunting spots for Devonian fossils. Not a lot of fossils were found and the only large goniatite, although pretty at first sight turned out to be a nightmare to prep with little to no preservation further down in the nodule. On the other hand we had verry sunny day with nice views over the area and the first flowers taking advantage of the sunlight on the older scree piles. We also brought home a few small nodules with tornoceras fossils , they will take a while to prepp before we will see if they were worthwhile.
- 9 replies
-
- 9
-
-
- belgium
- cephalopods
- (and 3 more)
.jpg.206a4ed24511045cdbefbcd8739cdfb7.jpg)
.jpg.77088959c55757a6145c563b5a87be38.jpg)
.jpg.2dcde2e36d3c25e4a656e5c74c0ffdba.jpg)
.jpg.9353ef1ed73a7b7f5cc588c1327b2a0e.jpg)
.jpg.b36d060810dc1832a32855bb6e011d2b.jpg)
.jpg.9c20333447023d73e6103a0b3dac01e5.jpg)
.jpg.a0ca46b58e5eca1fe3320cb127b8d704.jpg)
.jpg.ed48cdf1c2394f2f3e27f4976b2f7b45.jpg)
.jpg.f1c0e1a5b89d0291cd6ee26c6360533e.jpg)
.jpg.f9b9a28da2764f12765284f54db5b50e.jpg)
.jpg.0115fef0219ac8a746027b2f75125dbd.jpg)
.jpg.6546c0ef0ca2dfdad0171288beed41c9.jpg)
.jpg.e26837a9ae83f23e1785ada32974e70c.jpg)
.jpg.2154ceed805a6ced7ad18072904b4652.jpg)
.jpg.bf639b143a7ad216abdb09c86aef58a4.jpg)
.jpg.76d7b5c630926bd46dcc9ddec3da3685.jpg)
.jpg.26485c25aec79ee9221e49f831a41106.jpg)
.jpg.c9ffad431ed8a0fb312b2de9da9c0344.jpg)
.jpg.510ae669da47654c43012731aac81133.jpg)
.jpg.efe0eaedf558bb1c24480407dc9898e7.jpg)
.jpg.bb34bd48b10447b8da3310469b5b88ed.jpg)
.jpg.0bb020ee269d9c1da5d7e99bdc2bfd05.jpg)
.jpg.e5f88569dadf709ca33ce24bc2be8194.jpg)
.jpg.512bc5d91e79231e4da0b445ac693f80.jpg)
.jpg.19f49affc4a50ddb71959ecb45e82970.jpg)
.jpg.c4b83cf13df12039033ebdd328e0173c.jpg)
.jpg.207e784986cf0532c3217639369bc6e0.jpg)
.jpg.e2819f203dc2f05ed84d9b4ec79a6874.jpg)
