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Much of this past week has felt less like a winter break and more like a switch from school work to government work. It seemed like many a day this week slowly chugged along, clogged by bureaucratic paperwork, followed by some bureaucratic paperwork, topped off with...more bureaucratic paperwork. As I'm sure many of you can understand, this left me a little restless. Having only the internet to provide you much of any entertainment will only last you so long. Thus, I decided today would need some much-needed paleo zest. A couple of days back I was scanning through Fossil hunting videos on YouTube, looking for new things to do (or watching the Ditch Weasel's Megalodon tooth hunting videos for the billionth time). Then I came across a video I hadn't watched in a long time, about a mysterious GA site I had never been to before. With a quick look in the description and comment section, I learned that it was near Dalton. With this in mind, I Googled "Dalton Fossils". To my surprise, the first result was a trip report @Nimravis wrote a little more than a year ago: With GPS coordinates now saved to Google Maps, My step grandpa and I headed out, partly guided by my phone's robotic voice. We arrived at the site, greeted by a thick fog: I put on waterproof boots, grabbed my hammer and chisel, and crossed the street to begin my search for Silurian treasures from the Red Mountain Formation. When we crossed the street, going around the leftmost portion of the wall (parking lot perspective), We heard a rustling off to the right. A decent sized Boulder slid down from the top of the hill, taking a decent chunk of dirt with it. In the end, it was a relatively small event, but we kept an eye out in case of other potential instabilities in the rock face. At entrance, facing the direction the mine lankslide occured Full attention on finding fossils, it didn't take very long at all to find some brachiopod plates.
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Hey, I posted my trip to California from Washington yesterday. I have now looked through my rocks and noticed that one of these rocks are different from the rest. I took a picture of the Buchia Bivalve in the first image, to show that it has a different shape and markings than the bivalves I found there. If anyone can give me a genus that would be great. Is this another shell or something more? Thanks guys
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Unknown brachiopod, looking for an ID. Any & all help is appreciated!
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This weather has got me a bad case of cabin fever, my normal fossil hunting ground along the Whitewater River in Southeast Indiana is flooded. Went out in my back yard today to look thru the two truck loads of leach line gravel I bought for landscaping, the quarry is only about a 1/4 mile away. Found this odd ball, thin layers of crystal like formations on both sides, has hollow cavities and some brachiopod fossils that are a red color. Just curious as to how it formed, wish I could get closer photos of the brachiopods, will try again tomorrow with some daylight....if the sun ever shines again LOL.
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Found these in Emmitsburg, but the lake was supposed to be fresh water?
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I've been preparing some things from the Late Jurassic Kimmeridgian for a friend, including a number of Colosia zietini brachiopods. Particularly after they were abraded, I noticed a lot of tiny circular forms on all of them and now I'm wondering what their origin might be, whether mineral or organic dissolution phenomena or whatever? I'm thinking maybe some little things had been attached? Or are they mineralogical? Any ideas?
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I found this brachiopod as float on the side of the road. It was very near the transition of Devonian to Mississippian Lodgepole Formation in Little Belt Mountains, in Montana. The fossils is large. I'm thinking it might be a spiriferida.
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Greetings. I chanced upon this in the way out yonder in a Pennsylvanian formation while out on a hike...and wondered to myself 'Self, is this a brachiopod with a quartz crystal lophophore or a brachiopod with some quartz crystals in it'. Time to ask the pros or those in the know...
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I collected this Leptaena brachiopod from the red brown mudstone resting three feet above the top of the first out crop of breccia limestone. The location is above the rest-stop on highway 89 S before Riceville Rd. The formation is the lower part of the Kibbey. Leptaena Brachiopods dominate along with three types of bryozoa and crinoids. Also found clams and a part of a plant fossil. The setting was once a lagoon.
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I was traipsing around in a wild geologic zone 'red ellipse'. Lots of faulting, etc. I was in the orange area when I found a block of what could pass for recently dried mud having quite a few tiny brachiopods about 5mm in width. Maybe the brachiopod lovers could help put a generic name to this one so I can do more research? There are some larger brachiopods of a similar appearance (yet different) on the specimen but the largest barely gets to 10mm. I will post additional pics tomorrow when I get better lighting.
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I have a strophomenata brachiopod with small circles and what look like puncture holes in center of circles. What may have caused these?
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I've found a blob me thinks. Came across this on the Whitewater River, Southeast Indiana. What the heck do you think is in this? I see a Leptaena.
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I found these brachiopods on the Whitewater River, Southeast Indiana within the Cincinnati Arch. Was trying to identify them with my book wondered if they are what I think they are. The one on the left, the shell with the groove in the middle, could it be Platystrophia? The small shell bottom right, Hiscobeccus? The cluster of shells on the top, I have no idea. I appreciate how help you all are!
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Just beforehand my exit on the highway, I really needed to use the restroom, and pulled off at a rest area. This was quite lucky, since there was a very large piece of shale sitting in front. The whole thing was a giant hash plate. It was heavily weathered though and there were a bunch of fragments strewn around. I ended up finding quite a few nice pieces in the debris on the ground. Here's the rock and a closeup.
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Hello to everyone, I was trying to put together a plan for a spring or summer trip hunting fossils. I am particularly interested in the animals of mahantango formation and would like to know if anyone is familiar with some public locations that allow people to hunt for the fossils from that formation, or at least do not prohibit this. If anyone can point me in the right direction that would be greatly appreciated, Thank you.
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Very productive brachiopod hunt on Kentucky 17 and Northern Kentucky
Fossil Claw posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
and a productive trip off on Kentucky 17 in Northern Kentucky any location that exposes the McMillan formation. Fossils fossils in this ordovician exposure are about 445 million years old
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Does anyone know if there is anywhere to collect brachipods and other inverts in the Silica Hills of West Texas? I am a geologist who used to live In Austin, TX (20 years ago). I recently asked some colleagues who did hydrogeologic and geologic fieldwork in west TX, but have not gotten any leads. They say all(?) on private property. This is a bucket list trip for a buddy of mine!!!
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This particular species had spines attached to the shell which is not all that common. There are four spines attached on the thumbnail brachiopod. The holes in the shells were where spines used to be attached. Found during this trip here:
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Found associated with Elrathia kingii and Itagnostus interstricta trilobites. See field trip report here:
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Hey all! First time poster. Found a few fossils along the Milwaukee River in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Looking online, it appears this area was a Devonian Reef. I don't have a lot of experience in fossils besides plants, so any ID or commentary is helpful. A few of these I just found as pieces in big piles along a rock formation, I tried to put up a ruler for scale. For the one piece in situ, I didn't have anything handy, but it wasn't more than a few cm across. Thanks!
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New genus and new species first described by Dr. Sebastian Calzada Badia in: C a l z a d a , S., 1974. Almerarhynchia n. gen. virgiliana n. sp. del Maastrichtiense de Figols, Prepireneo catalan. Acta Geológica Hispanica, 9 (3): 92-97. http://digital.csic.es/handle/10261/7365. ID of the specimen confirmed by Dr. Calzada.
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I found all 3 of these in the Grayson Formation in Tarrant county. I know the smaller ones are Waconella wacoensis brachiopods. I assume the larger one is the same, but I wanted confirmation that it is also a Waconella wacoensis. I may have found one other almost the same size, but this one is more that twice the size of the other two. The brachial valve view. The pedicle valve view. I The sizes of each one in the last 2 pics left to right. 25 mm long x 20 mm wide x 16 mm thick 16.5 mm long x 16 mm wide x 10 mm thick looks like it may have been crushed in on one side so that increased the width and length some. 16 mm long x 14 mm wide x 10 mm thick Can anyone confirm or rule out that they are the same?
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I found several pieces of the obviously the same brachiopod species in one site (so they are from the same colony, maybe even the same family) in Yuangquan of Shanxi province, China( known for CP fossils) the ventral shells seem to be double layered, with clay in bewteen now . This is true for all three piences, but more discernable in the last two ( as shown with circles). In the first piece the outer layer remains are stripped to reveal a complete outlook. I knew nothing about brachiopodes. But from the literatures I could get hold of, there is no description of double shell.
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Although probably to water worn for a positive i.d., I think this brachiopod may be Obovothryris magnobovata which I found in some Bathonian Cornbrash Formation exposures. What id like to know if possible is the age and specie’s this Serpulid tube would be in relation to the brachiopod.
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Hey everyone, Nearly forgot to post this little beautiful dude in the Fossil ID section. I got this as a gift from the Geo-Oss fair some time ago. The only info I have on this little spiriferid brachiopod is that it’s from Canada. Now, this is probably a long shot, but I was wondering if anyone maybe recognized which location, formation and age correspond to this little dude? If the species is also recognizable that’s awesome. There were a LOT of the spiriferids in that box, all seemingly of the same species, so it’s a location at which these brachiopods are common. Anyone have a clue? Maybe one of you guys @Tidgy's Dad @Wrangellian @Peat Burns? Thanks in advance! Max
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