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From the album: Pupiao Formation Collection
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Hi fellow fossil collector, can you identify this brachiopod for me? I recently found a very different brachiopod, where I usually collect my fossils in an Upper Ordovician formation (Click here to see the site). I can easily find hundreds of swerbyella, but this fossil is very different from what I usually find, its huge size, 3 times larger than any fossil i usually find, and its different shape puzzles me. It measures approximately 3cm x 2.5cm. It also has intriguing concentric protuberances composed of a primary and secondary shell on external shell surface. As you can see it is very fragile, there is a crack going through it which is about to break it in half. Is there a way to consolidate the crack without damaging it further? Thank you!
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2022 Fossil Collecting Season Our season started out great with a warm 63 degree day here in New York State. We often don't dig on our first collecting trip of the season Its more of a surface collecting trip just to scout out the area and see what winter has exposed for us. I had my geology hammer of course but no mini sledge, chisels, or pry bars. One of my favorite things to find in early spring are colonies of Bryozoa (Atactotoechus frutiosus). You have to collect every little piece of the colony and reassemble them back it home. This will take anywhere from an hour to many hours over days and in this case over a week so far. You never know how they will look until you start matching up the pieces and hope that you got them all. I picked up around 255 pieces from a colony that I found on this day and thought I got most if not all of the colony. It was a slow start reassembling it then I found my rhythm. It started to become clear after a week of working on it that I was missing a bunch of pieces. Yesterday 4/24/2022 we went back to the site, dug in the shale were we found the colony, and found a bunch of the missing pieces. This time I did have the proper tools to complete the job We also found a large and well preserved Orthospirifer marcyi with attached Pleurodictyum coral and other Devonian brachs, trilobites, corals, a graptolite (modern Sea Fan for comparison in the pic), and of course Bryozoa colonies. The pics of the Bryozoa colony are - pieces from the first day, after a week of puzzling them back together, and yesterdays recovery of the rest of the colony (white tray). Happy Collecting
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Any ideas identifying this brachiopod? Lower wenlock, Illinois.
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I collected these two very small brachiopods in the LaSalle Limestone (Pennsylvanian) of Illinois. I have collected in this formation dozens of times and have not come across either before, and was hoping for some help with the IDs. @Tidgy's Dad @deutscheben @cngodles Any thoughts? Thanks in advance.
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Went on a little "Easter Egg Hunt" with my folks, found some excellent fossils. day was hot but I enjoyed it. I have provided my best ID, but please feel free to correct if you can identify it further! it helps with my labeling system for sure. this lizard was good luck right next to where my mom was standing i noticed this beauty sticking out of the rock further excavation revealed this possible horn coral? eldredgeops rana heads trilobite glabellar fold ( possibly Odontocephalus?) Dipleura rib impression (Very exciting to have found 3 species in one trip!) amonoid Cephalopod Agoniatites vaxunemi (note the preservation of the sutre lines). and here is a conularid i found as well Possible pelecypod? brachiopods and lastly a couple of crinoid buttons dug out of the rock
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So I took my folks out to West VA to see the Lost river site, had a splendid time of it just picking through the shale, but I found some absolutely mysterious specimens that I could use some help in identifying. This one I had thought was a colonial organism, but it doesnt match the bryzoan or corals ive seen in the area This one I believe is a brachiopod of some sort, any idea the Genus? I picked up this rock and noticed that there was a glabella furrow of a trilobite species in it. I dont know what species it is, all I know is that its Not an Eldredgeops. lastly a gentleman said that this looked like a sand dollar, however I am not certain its not just a formation. oh and theres this thing, I think its the tippy tip of a cephalopod. but a crinoid stem is just as likely. let me know if theres anything to look out for.
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Hi There, Another fossil find needing some help with its ID please. This was found at Llanymynech Quarry in Shropshire/Wales which the cliffs are Carboniferous limestone. I think it could be a coral of some type or at a push a section of a Crinoidea. Many thanks in advance. N
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Upper Ordovician brachiopiod - Strophomena sp. (?)
Rogue Embryo posted a gallery image in Member Collections
From the album: Camille's fossils - Georgian Bay Formation
Field collection by Camille Martin, September 25, 2021© Camille Martin
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From the album: Delaware Fossils
A few of the hundreds of microfossils I found in one day of lying on the sandy spoils with a pair of reading glasses Coin is about 2 cm.-
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I found these around the Kentucky lake area by Camden Tn.
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Plications on fold: 4 Plications on sulcus: 3 Plications on flanks: 8 Hinge line = 30 mm Width = 33 mm
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Arizona Tooth or Brachiopod Indian Gardens Paleo Site
theadventurecloset posted a topic in Fossil ID
Wow you guys were quick with the response to my last post, Thank you Seems as if there were only Brachiopods at this site but we found something that resembles a tooth, I have my doubts as it may just be a piece of an Antrhocospirifer ociduus just wanted to confirm. on the right of final photo is how we found it on the ground.
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From the album: Mahantango Formation
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Hi This is my first post, but I have been collecting fossils for probably 10yrs mostly on the Jurassic coast Dorset UK. I have quite a collection now especially because of the abundance of fossil opportunities in Dorset. Could I ask for help in identifying a few I found last week. These are from the Kimmeridge clay which is marine clay from the late Jurassic to lower Cretaceous in Weymouth Dorset. The easiest is the fossil oyster which can be quite large. But the others I'm unsure of, possible sponge ,coral piece's and a brachiopod? Many thanks Rob
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Hello! I have a brachiopod that they seller said was a Rhynchonella. And from the Ziz Valley, Morocco Jurassic (Oxfordian). But I can't find any info about it. I have seen similar Brachiopods for sale from Morocco with different age and locations. Does anyone know if these really are Jurassic in age? Sadly many of Moroccan fossils have bad location info . Here are the Brachiopods
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West Virginia Mississippian subperiod: marine to mudflats
LoneRanger posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
Took a day trip to Mississippian subperiod sites in West Virginia, with exposures that represent environments ranging from shallow marine to mudflats (reflecting periods of ocean transgression and regression). Of course there were brachiopods; the one photo of a brach below shows pink/light red coloration, and I've also posted this in the General Discussion section under "Fossil Shells with Color Patterns." I've never before found a brachiopod with shell coloration. There's also a photo of a sea pen (Pennatulacea, only right side is well exposed). And there is another photo of 2 matrix pieces with what may be tusk shells (scaphopods). The bottom scaphopod (?) is 4.5 inches, while the top one is more fragmentary and is 1.75 inches. If anyone has a different idea of what these are, please post your identification. Finally, as the ocean receded, mud flats appeared, and the final 2 photos show tracks of what are likely small crustaceans making their way across a long lost world.
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Hello Everyone In June last year I went on a trip with my parents to the Late Ordovician / Early Silurian-aged Cotton Formation at the Cotton Hill quarry in Forbes. All relevant permission was obtained from the local council prior to attending. I have heard that the Fossil Club of Australia (formerly NSW) do trips here as a group as well, that's probably the easiest way to attend. I planned to post this in August, however due to Covid I didn’t have access to the fossils to take pictures. Also, I only just recently bought some macro equipment to take photos of the fossils which is why my post took so long. Be sure to zoom in on each photo as they are all highly detailed. (open in a new tab) For useful previous expeditions and information by others see: For those unaware, the fauna is dominated by Sinespinaspis markhami, a small odontopleurid trilobite. Unfortunately, I found no specimens with their free cheeks attached, nor did I find any specimens of the rarer Aulacopleura pogsoni or the even rarer Raphiophorus sandfordi. We had two days of digging, and the temperature was a cool 14-15C on both days, but once the sun came out and with long-sleeve shirt and pants on, we definitely started sweating. As soon as we got out of the car, I found a partial trilobite negative lying on the ground. It was 8mm long and looked like it was left behind by another fossicker. Once we realised where the designated fossicking area was (back near the road entrance, and not in front of the parking area) we could start properly searching for fossils. The first ones we found were on the surface on the westernmost boundary. It’s amazing how big the actual site is. Considering how deep the hole in the ground is, there probably would’ve been thousands or millions of fossils unearthed and used in road material over the years. Both the plates seem to be death assemblages, with hundreds of “trilo-bits” on them along with what looks like tiny shells. When I got home, I wanted to split the L-shaped to expose more of the second layer (you can see one set of cold chisel marks) but the matrix must have been unstable as it cracked into five pieces and exploded. It did set free a new trilobite though, which is cool.
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Over the winter holidays I visited a couple of exposures of the Mississippian (Chesterian) Bangor Limestone in Alabama. I found a ton of really cool fossils, including a number of brachiopods. I was able to identify the vast majority of the brachiopods I found, but I struggled to identify the following. Does anyone recognize them? #3 and #4 look to me to be Composita sp. but the only species of Composita from the Bangor Limestone that I saw is Composita subquadrata and these did not seem to match. Any help would be greatly appreciated! #1 #2 #3 #4 #5
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So I went to Lost River, WV (Needmore formation) during the fall. I just recently found time to go through the material some more, set up photos, edit, etc. Brachiopod impression? As with the other brachiopods, I’m hoping for genus-level identification. Brachiopod. Any ID’s on its genus? This… Thing. I’m guessing its a brachiopod. But I could also see it being the eye of a trilobite. This brachiopod flaked right off the matrix! Any ideas as to what genus it belongs to? Hmmmm this was clearer before I uploaded it. Any idea how to fix it? Not like its too important because it looks like its just some brachiopod hash. I’m guessing this is the glabella of a Phacops rana. Trilobite pygidium. Hoping for a species-level identification, but genus is probably the best I’m going to get.
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Upper ordovician, Italy. Scale bar is 5mm. Pictures of external and internal moulds. Any ideas?
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Lingula mazopherusa association
TheRocksWillShoutHisGlory posted a gallery image in Member Collections
From the album: Mazon creek assortment
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I wonder what the line in this rock could be, to the right of the brachiopod. The line is less than 1 mm in diameter. Also if it is possible ID the genus or family of the braciopod? The age is Mid or Late Ordovician.
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From the album: Misha's Carboniferous
A pair of Punctospirifer spiriferid brachiopods from Mineral Wells Fossil Park. Pennsylvanian Mineral Wells Fm.? Mineral Wells, TX. Thank you @Captcrunch227 for sending me these brachiopods-
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From the album: Delaware Fossils
© c. 2022 Heather JM Siple
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