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From the album: Lower Carboniferous fossils of Ireland
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From the album: Lower Carboniferous fossils of Ireland
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A couple weeks ago I was on a fossilunt with my friend Stephen to a Devonian locale near Canandaigua Lake. This was a new spot to me, but is a known spot located on private property. This area is known for crinoids and large Eldredgeops, some up to 3 inches. I went with Stephen and his friend Gary. We arrived shortly after 9am. We parked in the owner's drive way and had a fairly long walk across to cow pastures to get to a creek located in the treeline at the back of the 2nd pasture. This is a Hamilton Group Moscow Formation Middle Devonian site. Crinoid pieces were very abundant in certain layers as well as trilobites in other layers. I found a fewtrilos mostly complete but covered in matrix. Gary found a decent roller. Some rather large corals were found by Stephen. I enjoyed collecting some Naticocema lineata gastrops as these were new to me. I didn't bring a ton of finds home but I was happy with my haul. I am posting pics of my finds, but will post more when I have a chance to take other pics. Some of my finds do not photo well.
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I'm off today not feeling well and was walking my dog. I happened to look down at the rocks in my yard and found this nice thorax and pygidium of a trilobite. I only know the rocks exposed are in the Mahantango. This is the first recognizable fossil I've found aside from small brachs.
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Having just returned from a trip to Oklahoma, I tried identifying my finds from the Lower Devonian's Haragan Formation. Success was had except these five fossils. Any help is graciously accepted! 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
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From the album: Lower Carboniferous fossils of Ireland
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These fossils are from old coast defences. They are probably from the region around Tournais, the type locality of the Tournaisian. Can someone help me to ID these? I cant find any good literature to ID these. thanks. Jasper
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In order to update my spreadsheet I need the following ided
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Some of these fossils are so tiny it's really hard to get clear pictures, like #12, these are scattered in several places not much bigger than fishing line, guessing echinoid spines? #7 undecided if these are brachiopods or maybe lungfish teeth? #8 looks like a battle ground, deconstructed echinoid and parts of crinoids? Not sure what to make of all that
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Pennsylvanian fossils in Cretateous creek need a little help!
Lone Hunter posted a topic in Fossil ID
This is my last post for the foreseeable future and want to get an ID on all of these. Found this last summer after big flood churned up creek in Eagle Ford formation, it's not unusual to find imported erosion control rocks with crinoid stems but they're usually big and heavy and harder than concrete so when i saw this small one I grabbed it. I plopped it down on dog bed and took one practice pic (about 10" long #1) then when I picked it up it started to fall apart and I realized it was still wet, never completely cured, still had soft clay. I'm not familiar with rocks out west is this normally how fossils are found there? How did this rock manage to get dug up, loaded, travel at least 50 miles then get dumped and never dry out or get smashed to peices? Pic #2 is what remained after removing all soft parts and drying. Anyway it was a mini fossil hunting trip all in one rock and just wish everything wasn't so tiny! #3 was the prettiest but can't tell if it's a brachiopod or not. #4 Marginfera? #5 brachiopod? #6 columnal I thought would be easy to ID but no. #9 Composita sp? #10 unknown gastropod and crinoid stems. #11 another Composita? I'll do a second post with the rest it's too many pictures.- 3 replies
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Hello Everyone! I managed to get out to hunt for fossils twice this week with today being absolutely awesome. Tuesday I went out with my friend Mike, in hopes of finding Trilobites. Had a great time even though I didn't find any whole Trilos. Mostly Cephalons and Pygidiums. I found a few decent brachiopods. Even though I didn't have much luck it was nice to get out with a friend and enjoy the day. And I was happy for Mike as he found 2 Greenops that I believe are both whole. He has only found 1 complete Eldredgeops in the past so this will be a nice edition to his collection. But today was a whole different story. I invited a few people to come with me today, but they all backed out. So I ended up going by myself. I left the house about 5:30 am. I was not happy when it started raining especially because the forecast didn't call for it. Thankfully when I got there it was just sprinkling and it stayed that way for the 5 and a half hours that I was there. I started my hunt finding alot of decent bivalves, which are not my favorite but were decent enough that I kept them.every once and awhile I would find a trilo head or tail but nothing special. Then eventually I found what appears to be a disarticulated Dipluera, though it might be whole and is mostly under the surface of the matrix. A little while later I find a roller which I believe is complete. Then I lift up a slab and find Dipluera cephalon and part of the thorax stuck to the bottom upside down. I looked down and saw the negative which was complete but the rest of the trilo had fallen off disintegrated. Oh what a Heartbreaker! But I kept going and then I found another roller that is whole except for a portion of the tail came off. Then I found a thorax and pygidium and I am not sure if the cephalon it buried in the matrix or not. Shortly after that I found a negative of a different Dipluera thorax and pygidium, but no matter how much I searched I couldn't find the positive. Also in the mix is a complete Greenops and a partial. I found a huge bivalve, probably the biggest that I have ever seen. I will have to post it in the id section when I get a chance. I should mention that all of the Dipluera's are small and they all need to be prepped, including the Greenops. But what a day! I definitely left there satisfied. Without further adoo here are pics for your viewing pleasure!
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Mucrospirifer thedfordensis Spiriferid Brachiopod (open shell) Middle Devonian Widder Shale Hungry Hollow Arkona, Ontario A gift from Kane-
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It's 8:30am, below freezing, and cloudy - the perfect time to hike up a mountain to collect fossils! A rock-hounding buddy of mine recently stumbled upon a hash layer on one of the hikes we've done in Montana, and kindly offered to show me. Unfortunately the layer wasn't at the beginning of the trail, rather the end, so we had to climb 1,900 ft (6 statue of liberty's) and millions of years in geology to get to it - nature is rarely conducive to human ambition. After the short (2.5 mile) but steep hike, we made it to rock slides where the layer was being eroded and immediately began spotting plates of brachiopod hash - I can't believe I missed them before! Based on the geologic map of the area, I suspect these are Late Devonian-Early Mississippian in age. Wacking my geologic pick into the hill to carefully climb the steep slopes of the rockfalls, I began spotting some nice specimens. They were preserved in a pretty powder blue, and easy to spot against the dark matrix of the ancient sea floor. Unfortunately a lot of them appeared smashed in their tumbling down the hill. I loaded up my backpack with probably 40-50 lbs of rock, which in hindsight was not the best decision I've ever made. Here are some of the more interesting pieces (I don't know them any more precisely than "brachiopod", feel free to chime in brach fans): I was especially hoping to find a winged brach - I didn't find a nice one - but my friend generously gifted me one he found minutes after I mentioned hoping to find one. Hope you enjoyed! I'll be headed back to Texas where I have more trips in mind...
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Today I was fortunate enough to get back out on another fossilhunt. Even though I went to bed later then I wanted about 3:50 am I woke up and tossed and turned for the next hour. I was very excited to get back to the site after last week's fun. So I ended up leaving a bit earlier than originally planned. I stopped to get myself a breakfast sandwich and when I got back in my car, a feeling washed over me that today I was going to be lucky. Of course I feel that way everytime I go hunting, but it doesn't always happen. The ride was dark and foggy. This time of year you really have to pay attention to the deer population. We have many in New York and it is now hunting season. So they are very active between sunset till sunrise. Surprisingly I didn't see many on the way there, but just missed a small one that ran in front of my car on the way home. I arrived at 7 am as it was just starting to get light. But between the fog and clouds it was rather gloomy. It started sprinkling but I read the weather report so I was prepared. I was glad to find the area just the way I left it last week. I wanted to work the same spot, but just go deeper. Things started off kind of slow. With the exception of a decent Dipluera cephalon all I was finding was many of the common smaller Brachiopods and Bivalves. But then it happened! I was lifting up a rather big slab, when I flipped over had half of the negative from a Dipluera. The positive was under a bunch of muddy water due to the rain, so I couldn't even see it. It took me awhile to get the water to drain so I could see what I was working with. Once the water was gone I see the back end of the trilo. I could tell that the front half was still attached to the piece I pulled of the top. Even though it was broke I was excited. I figured if I could get both halves, the trilo could be glued back and prepped. Unfortunately when I tried to remove the bottom portion the trilo broke into a bunch of pieces. I tried to not let this ruin my day. I have done this long enough to know that when you find a decent Dipluera there are usually others close by. So I continued working on removing slabs. I don't think more the 10 -15 minutes went by maybe 3 or 4 pieces of rock, when it happened again! I lifted up a slab, flipped it over and there was a complete negative of a Dipluera! I looked down and in the back corner of where I was digging was the positive! My heart was pounding! Now if I could just remove it without it falling apart like the first one. And I needed to move quick before the rainwater started to accumulate to much around the trilo. After a few minutes of careful extraction: success! I came out unbroken! This really meant alot to me today. Most of those who know me know that I have found alot of these over the years. I have either sold, traded, or given away as gifts all that I found. So it is nice to be able to have one in my collection again. After I pulled out this Dipluera there was also a Greenops laying in the same general area. After removing that I was pretty satisfied and only stayed a little while longer. I was tired and the rain was starting to really soak through my clothes. So all in all I had a pretty good day. Here are some pics. 1st- what it looked like when I arrived. 2nd- my truck "The Fossil Mobile" 3rd- Dipluera in-situ
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My annual excursion to visit my family which migrated to Kentucky years ago took place at the end of October into November, lasting two weeks. Of course, the planned trip took me in the vicinity of some excellent fossil bearing sediments and though quality time with family was the primary purpose, I did hope to add to my collection. All of the spots I visited were ones I've been to before; however, the first stop was a new one for me- Paulding, well known and documented on the Forum for its Middle Devonian marine fauna. I drove from the suburbs of New York City for almost eleven hours, raining most of the way, arriving at and spending the night at a hotel in Defiance, Ohio. Paulding was about fifteen minutes away. Drove there the following morning, It was a brisk forty degrees, mostly cloudy, but sunny at times. A TFF member I was supposed to hook up with there unfortunately had to bail last minute. A nearby quarry which exposes the famed Devonian Silica Shale had, years ago, stopped allowing collectors to hunt there. There was a big outcry and the quarry set up a fossil park dumping fossiliferous rock onto a property they owned which the public were free to collect from. Much of it is now overgrown and much of the rock has been reduced to gravel. However, there are still many fossiliferous chunks out there if one is willing to look.
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I have a nice little slab of Platteville Formation (Mifflin Member) from the Ordovician of SW Wisconsin that I received from @connorp late last year. I am working on a post that describes all of the great things in it, but want to get a couple of ID's cleared up so I can be more concise in that post. Here are 8 brachiopods found on the slab, some of which I feel pretty good about the ID (but always open to corrections) and some I have no clue on. I have been through several posts by @Tidgy's Dad, @minnbuckeye, and others but still need some help. Thanks for any insights anyone can offer. Each picture is numbered in the upper left. Mike Here is a picture of the small slab I'm pretty sure on this one (#2 below) even though much of it is not visible, but I think the shape and coarse ornamentation gives it away for the species found in this formation. I am torn on this one and despite the beautiful preservation on the exterior. It would be really helpful to see the interior or even the hinge line. But I'm hoping this will be distinctive enough for the experts out there. Not really certain here, this was my best guess, but I could be way off. This one is hard as it is only partially exposed and right at the edge of the slab. Ornamentation is very similar to #3 above, but it has more curvature from what I can see. I'll try to put together some better pictures. This ID looks pretty good with the strong ridge down the center even though much of the shell is buried. I just don't know, there are several similar looking forms found in the formation. I wish I could get this cleaner, but that matrix is very hard at this point. But that ornamentation should be very distinctive, even if half of it is only peeking out. It almost looks more like some bivalves I have seen, but nothing like it in the Ordovician that I am aware of. Thanks again for any suggestion anyone can offer.
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I am looking for help on the ids of these brachiopods and coral that I have. These were not self collected and I was told that they are Devonian in age and supposedly came from Sulphur, Indiana. A check of that area shows that it is Mississippian in age. Thanks in advance.
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Large Inarticulate Brachiopod from Deep Springs Road
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Roemerella grandis Acrotretid Brachiopod 1 and 7/8 inches wide Middle Devonian Moscow Formation Windom Shale Hamilton Group Deep Springs Road Quarry Earlville, N.Y.- 1 comment
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So has to go back out, and once again got rained out. But before I did I found some cool stuff. Ran to a place that I wanted to check out, and here is some of what I found in a fairly short period of time. Right off the start I found a trilobutt, then a whole roller. Founds spots that were loaded with crinoids, and matrix free brachiopods as well. Also found multiple trilobite parts.
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How to make sylvania Brachiopods with pyrite shine?
trilobites_are_awesome posted a topic in Fossil Preparation
Hello. I was wondering how to make from sylvania OH Brachiopods with pyrite shine. Because i have some that have pyrite but are covered in matrix and are not sparkling the same way that ones that have been treated with acid. Thanks! Trilobites_are_awesome. -
Spiriferid Brachiopod from the Silurian Rochester Shale, N.Y.
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Boucotinskia sulcata Spiriferid Brachiopod Middle Silurian Rochester Shale Lewiston Member Clinton Group Lockport, N.Y.-
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Rhynchonellid Brachiopods from the Silurian Rochester Shale, N.Y.
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Camarotoechia sp. Rhynchonellid Brachiopods Middle Silurian Rochester Shale Lewiston Member Clinton Group Lockport, N.Y.-
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Atrypid Brachiopods from the Rochester Shale, N.Y.
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Ancillotechia obtuspicata Atrypid Brachiopods Middle Silurian Rochester Shale Lewiston Member Clinton Group Lockport, N.Y.-
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Orthid Brachiopod from the Rochester Shale, N.Y.
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Resserella elegantula Orthid Brachiopod Middle Silurian Rochester Shale Lewiston Member Clinton Group Lockport, N.Y.-
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Rhynchonellid Brachiopod from the Rochester Shale, N.Y.
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Homeospira apriniformi Rhynchonellid Brachiopod Middle Silurian Rochester Shale Lewiston Member Clinton Group Lockport, N.Y.-
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