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Hello fossil friends, Once again, I was in western New York for my annual 4th of July family get together. I was able to get out for a short hunt on July 5th, thanks to my wife and my cousin and her kids. I got up at 5:45 am, got on the road by 6:00 am, and traveled the hour to my usual spot of choice. I arrived to the site around 7:00 am. I have been coming here for many years, and I don't think I've ever not found something interesting there. I only hunted from 7:10 am til 11:20 am. I took a break to meet up with my cousin and her kids for a guided fossil hunt. Can't really hunt when being called hither and yon to check out the latest find. All in all, though, I didn't do too bad, for the short time I put in. First, few shots of the creek: I noticed some recent digging in this spot - I knew my friend JeffreyP had been here within the past few days. Unfortunately, I was not able to meet up with him this year at this site. I hoped he had left me some things to find! This is my total haul: Some brachiopods, some partial trilobites, a few gastropods, and some complete/mostly complete trilobites. Close ups to follow ...
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Full account of new fossil species reported last week (June 23 – 30, 2018):
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https://www.paleowire.com/the-moroccan-rhino-like-mammal-new-species-reported-this-week/
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I'm driving through Fairfield Ohio today install a small hill that have been cut open to expand a sidewalk. It looked promising so I stopped. I found a surprisingly large number of brachiopods for how small the road cut was. If I wanted to pick up half brachiopods instead of complete ones I probably could have easily filled a 5 gallon bucket. The biggest brachiopods are about golf ball-sized. If they allow the site to weather out it looks like it could be promising for other fossils although mostly so far it's brachiopods that are exposed. I only had about 30 minutes to lock so I plan to go back in a few weeks to see if the site is still there.
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Hello everyone, If there is one of you a collector of brachiopods. I have some brachiopods to exchange (see photos below). Precise fossil finds are provided with the shipments. I still have some other fossils to exchange. I'll put the pictures later. I am mainly looking for brachiopods from any time and the whole geographical area. Please pay attention to postal charges for international shipments. Although for few parcels it is not too high. We must keep in mind. That I live in Switzerland. If you are interested in letting me know. Best regards. Here is the list: Dictyothyropsis runcinata, Middle Oxfordian, Canton Aargau, Switzerland Argovithyris biremsdorfensis, Middle Oxfordian, Canton Aargau, Switzerland Zittelina orbis, Middle Oxfordian, Canton Aargau, Switzerland Digonella divionensis, Lower Callovian, Department of Côte-d'Or, France ( To finish cleaning) Musculina sanctaecrucis, Hauterivien, Canton Neuchâtel, Switzerland
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Hi, Monday I visited a new site highly recommended by another TFF member. It was a roadcut on an interstate highway near Schoharie, NY. The roadcut exposed what I believe (based on fauna and preservation) the Lower Devonian Kalkberg Formation, part of the Helderberg Group (410 million years old). The day was gorgeous. Temp was in the low 70s. Fossils were plentiful in particular layers and the preservation was often excellent. Many were found loose from the matrix lying in the rubble. As with other exposures of the Kalkberg in Schoharie County, the biodiversity was awesome. I collected for two and a half hours, exploring only about half of the exposure when a state trooper pulled up and informed me that this highway allowed emergency stopping only and recommended I move along. I had time to gather all of my finds and my tools. I am a bit sad knowing I can't return to this very productive site and that there were likely more magnificent specimens still sitting there waiting to be picked up. However, I'm glad that I had the opportunity to collect there once. Here is an overview of my finds and a pair of Diaphorostoma ventricosum gastropods on matrix.
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Orthid Brachiopods from the Kalkberg Formation
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Discomyorthis oblata (orthid brachiopod) Lower Devonian Kalkberg Formation Helderberg Group Route 20 road cut Leesville, N.Y.- 2 comments
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Orthid Brachiopods from the Kalkberg Formation
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Small Spirifer Brachiopod from the Kalkberg Formation
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Megakozlowskiella perlamellosa (spirifer brachiopod) Lower Devonian Kalkberg Formation Helderberg Group Route 20 road cut Leesville, N.Y.-
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My wife and I took a trip to the Trammel Fossil Park just outside of Cincinnati, Ohio, a couple of years ago. Prior to this visit, I had no fossils. Now, I have these few. Hope you enjoy. Up first, what I am assuming is a brachiopod, but I could be wrong. Next, another brachiopod.
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Saturday, May 12 featured TWO Fossil Hunting expeditions! The FIRST one was PHOTO ONLY - We hiked the Staple Bend Tunnel trail - The Staple Bend Tunnel, about 4 miles (6.4 km) east of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, in a town called Mineral Point, was constructed between 1831 and 1834 for the Allegheny Portage Railroad. Construction began on April 12, 1831.[4] This tunnel, at 901 feet (275 m) in length, was the first railway tunnel constructed in the United States. It is rock bored and stone lined. Finished in June 1833, the Staple Bend tunnel was advertised as the first railroad tunnel in the United States. It was the third tunnel of any kind built in the U.S.; the first two tunnels were for other canals in Pennsylvania. You may NOT collect along here...as it is maintained by the National Park Service... but PHOTOS are welcome! We di dnot see any fossil material here - except for one stone that looked like itmight have shown "fossil raindrops in mud" (pictured) THEN we went for Chinese buffet... and BEHIND that building is one of my old fossil haunts.... Sadly, a MAJOR thunderstorm broke out, but Francis Joseph Serenko III, who was with me, found the brachiopods before the storm hit. THIS deposit has crinoids, bivalves, brachiopods and beautiful Worthenia gastropods. One of the photos shows some of the rock formations - This stone was cut to make the old railway bed.... and drainage culverts - some of which STILL exist. You can see 2 of the drainage culverts, made in the early 1830s. The last 2 photos show the brachiopods Francis found!
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Good Bye to my Crinoid Avatar
crinus posted a topic in Partners in Paleontology - Member Contributions to Science
Yesterday I signed over my prized crinoid (my avatar) along with 20 other specimens to the University of Michigan, Museum of Paleontology. With this crinoid I donated 7 other prized crinoids, 2 blastoids, 4 Tully Monsters, 2 brachiopods, 1 Mazon insect wing, 2 corals and a Cooksonia. These will then be loaned to the Museum of Natural History to go on permanent display in the new museum to open in 2019. Hardest part was parting with my avatar crinoid. It is what I consider the finest example of an Arthroacantha from the Arkona Formation at Arkona, Ontario. Not that parting with 4 exquisite Tullys wasn't hard. Hey, I offered and they came and took. I just wanted the museum to open with very nice examples of fossils.
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I'm new to this forum from Jasper in Southern Indiana. I have been finding geodized fossils by the bucket fulls in the creek by my house for a few years. I was told it would be strange to find them this far south without a nearby rock formation. From all the rain a bank washed out and I m finding things I am not sure of original. Hopefully this forum can help. Here are a few I found a couple days ago. My name is Jackie. Thanks ahead of time for any help and glad to be a part of this forum
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Upper Ordovician, Corryville member. Dry Dredgers field trip 4/28/18. Rt. 11, near Flemingsburg, KY. Vinlandostrophia ponderosa and "Solenopora" My shark teeth I won in the annual auction at the Dry Dredgers meeting the night before.
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Inspired by my friend, Darktooth, Dave and his recent exploits at Deep Springs Road quarry I decided due to a favorable weather report on Monday to visit my favorite site for the for first time in 2018. I woke up Monday morning to an inch of snow in the Hudson Valley. Headed north on the Thruway to Albany through more snow, then west, finally on Route 20. About hallway there, the sky cleared and the snow covering reduced to patches. After a three and a half hour trip I arrived at Deep Springs Road. True to Dave's word, the site was completely snow free. The temp was in the mid 40s, sunny and warm enough that later in the day I was removing my outerwear. Deep Springs Road quarry is the eastern most exposure of the Windom Shale, the Moscow Formation which lies at the top of the Hamilton Group- which is also the top of the Middle Devonian. It is the same formation exposed at Penn Dixie. What is notable about this site is the biodiversity- at least 20 species of brachiopods, more than 20 species of bivalves, at least 5 species of gastropods, plus cephalopods, trilobites, phyllocarids, plants, etc. Dave's recent excavation left me a lot of rock to split which took up most of my day. I did my own excavation as well. Here are some of my finds: My favorite find of the day- the largest Spyroceras nautiloid I've found at the site so far. A Cimitaria recurva, a bivalve in 3D. Pholadella radiate, another bivalve.
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Hello everyone, For this first report I take you to visit a small site in the Hauterivien. A few kilometers from the village of Hauterive which gave it its name. (Sorry for the quality of the photos I was with my nephew aged 14. And the rain made us go home prematurely) In this region the Hauterivien is composed in its upper part of a yellow limestone called "Pierre jaune de Neuchâtel". (It has served a lot in the construction.) Below is layers of marl called "Marnes d'Hauterive". These are the layers we are going to explore. Some views of the career: In this photo, we can see the succession of layers: Snow and water did their job of clearing during the winter: Much of the site is still subject to winter landslides. We will avoid setting foot there. The wall is still unstable. A sample of the finds of the day: Lamellaerynchia, Musclina and Plicarostrum make up most of the brachiopod fauna of the quarry. I still managed to get my hands on a much less common Belothyris. And on this copy that I have not yet identified. I have not found anything comparable on this site yet. Some sea urchins that can be found on the site: The inevitable and very common Toxaster retusus: Holaster Intermedius: Pseudodiadema rotulare: That's all for this ride.
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I found this a couple of years ago and have periodically taken it out to examine it as I've found the accumulation of fauna adhering to it's surface as very interesting. For awhile I affectionately referred to it as an accretion (as opposed to a concretion), envisioning a clump of mud rolling around in the wave action of a shoreline picking up bits of dead fauna. But now, with the fairly recent posts that have come up about crustacean burrows, I'm second guessing. On the exterior of this piece are brachiopod shell bits and molds, possible pectinid shell molds, crinoid columnals, and tiny gastropod steinkerns and exterior molds with decoration. The dark clumps appear to be pyrite. There are two depression areas, one on the large end, and a smaller one that is offset of the smaller end. These I speculate to be the exposed chamber, should this be a burrow. Notably within these depressions are oval shaped pellets and an interesting fibrous texture. So, I now defer to your opinions! Thank you for looking!
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As with my other posts so far, I should preface this post by saying that the Paleozoic, marine ecosystems, and invertebrates are not generally my primary expertise, so I apologize if I am wildly off base or asking stupid questions. Sadly, I did not find these specimens myself, and so I do not have any particularly useful information on age or location. They were left in a desk drawer along with a collection of other invertebrate fossils, most (if not all) of which are Paleozoic in age. They look to my untrained eye to be the same species of brachiopod, although I have no idea what species that is. Any taxonomic information beyond just "brachiopod" would be awesome. Here are the pictures. While photographing, I kept the specimens in the same order, so the one on the left/right is the same specimen in each picture. Thank you in advance for your time and input.
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Hello everyone, Firstly excuse my very low level in English. I hope it's readable. My name is Pascal. I am 33 years old. I am from Switzerland I mainly collect sea urchins, brachiopods and fish teeth. My main research areas are Switzerland and France. I hope to have a good time with you on this forum
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Paleocene Brachiopods from Crosswicks Creek, N.J.
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Oleneothyris harlani (brachiopods) Paleocene Hornerstown Formation Crosswicks Creek New Egypt, N.J. collected 3/19/18-
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Acrospirifer arrectus (pedicle valve) Lower Devonian Glenerie Limestone Tristates Group Glenerie, NY. collected 3/18/18 -
As it is a sunny day, this morning I decided to take a walk out back beyond my house to my little reliable spot of imported lower to mid Devonian fill. I wanted to see how much had weathered out since last season, and to try out a few more rocks that span from Bois Blanc Formation up through the Dundee Formation. As always, I was on the look-out for trilobites. The scene from near the base of the hills: The pit still has a bit too much snow to bother with, so I stuck with probing the hills and its gullies. A lot of the rocks were still frozen into the ground, so hammering a few out was necessary. A sure sign that spring is imminent. Here in southwestern Ontario, usually the first plants to come out (even before crocuses) is this dandelion mimic, Colt's Foot (Tussilago farfara). Only a few isolated clusters were appearing today, but by a week these hills and many other locations with scrabble will be full of these. (continued)
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Hello, all! So I am cleaning out my workshop to make room for a lot of new material coming in and to prepare for the upcoming season. I have wayyyyyy too much Penn Dixie material. I have, at this point, committed all of my complete bugs away. But I still have quite literally, TONS, of other material. What I am offering is Edlredgeops rana partials, this includes entire prepped bugs that are missing cephalons, stand alone cephalons, pygidiums, large but broken cephalons, half bugs, etc. (Please note, I am not offering any of these as complete. There is the real chance that some of the unprepped material COULD be complete, but I am not offering them as such. I also have Greenops pygidiums and partials, beat up examples with broken cephalons, etc. I also have a few Bellacartwrightia pygidiums laying around, and perhaps a few broken and partials of them as well. I also have massive quantities of hash plates from the Bay View coral layer, brachipods (Mucrospirifer, Pseudoatrypa, Rhipidomella, Spinatrypa), Spyroceras cephalopod partials, rugose and tablulate corals, clams, and other random bits. I am interested in trading for similar material from other locales. I am not expecting anyone to offer up prime specimens for any of this material, but I would love anyone else's throw-aways that include vertebrate material, plants, small fish, and the like. I am also considering minerals and gems. (Again, throw-aways are all I'm looking for, quantity beats quality on this one.) I will cover shipping domestically in the US, but can't really afford to ship out a ton of international packages this month. (I will still do international, we just might have to work something out.) If anyone is interested, please message me! I want this stuff gone as quickly as possible, it's getting to the point where I can't walk in my workshop anymore! If you let me know what you're interested in I will take photos of some examples, but it would take me a full weekend at least to photograph everything that I have available. This is perfect for anyone wanting to practice prepping as the Windom shale that most of these bits are in is relatively easy to work and there are lots of attractive pieces that will look very nice prepped, just aren't worth the time and effort for me at this point. Cheers!
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I was quite excited last week when I decided to take a day trip to Paulding, Ohio, where the La Farge Quarry mining company has dumped loads of rocks on a parcel of county land. This is a Devonian silica shale site. It was a very disappointing trip. I was out there for three hours with a 35 degree wind chill, and found nothing more than a few brachiopods, some horn coral and lots of rocks with fossiliferous matrices. The only trilobite I found crumbled in my palm as I poured some water on it to wash away some dirt. There were some rocks with trilobite parts, but no complete specimens. It's a huge site -- five or six parallel piles 100 yards or more long -- but I had very little luck. I've seen photos of other diggers who walked away with nice hauls, but I struck out. Though it was in late February, it looked as though the site was pretty well picked over. I'm planning a trip to southern Indiana later this spring. I'm hoping it will be more fruitful.
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I have two brachiopods that need IDs. The lighter one was found in the Galena/ Ordovician rock outcrop of NE Iowa. The darker one from Decorah Shale/ Ordovician. I am sure @Herb will have an answer!! Can anyone else beat him to the solution? Thanks, Mike
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Can anybody identify the first two? My father always wanted to keep them outside told him not to.........maybe I'll finally change his mind.
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