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I was inspired by @Mark Kmiecik and his quality photographs to finally learn some basic image editing. I had this beautiful Crenulopteris acadica fern open yesterday and figured it would be a good specimen to make a first attempt. Let me know your thoughts.
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This weekend I was able to spend a couple hours breaking rock at one of my favorite Pennsylvanian sites. This site exposes the lowest units of the Carbondale Formation, from the top down: Mecca Quarry Shale (MQS), Francis Creek Shale, Colchester No. 2 Coal, paleosol. At various times both the St. Peter Sandstone and Platteville Group (both Ordovician) have been exposed at the bottom of the pits (they were not visible this trip), representing a major unconformity in the area. The concretions from the Francis Creek Shale (i.e. Mazon Creek fossils) are not productive here - my area of focus was instead the MQS. As far as I can tell, the MQS is no longer exposed here. But at the base of the MQS in some locations are large limestone concretions which is what we find here. The limestone is very hard and when freshly exposed does not split easily, so collecting is best limited to limestone which has been weathering for some time. The most abundant fossils in the MQS here are bivalves, but occasionally brachiopods, cephalopods, gastropods, plant material, and fish bits show up. Here are some of my favorite finds. A partial Listracanthus hystrix shark denticle Dunbarella sp. Fish regurgitant (mainly palaeoniscoid bits) Desmoinesia muricatina with an attached spine Pyritized Dunbarella sp. Pseudorthoceras knoxense with several encrusting serpulid worm tubes Just one of many tiny isolated fish bones found Palaeoniscoid scale The base of a Petrodus shark denticle Possibly a bit of cartilage? This is perhaps my most interesting find, although I am not positive on the ID. I believe the spine is a fin spine from an acanthodian, and thus would assume the scales are acanthodian scales? Any thoughts are appreciated. @jdp
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I found this fossil last year in the Mecca Quarry Shale (Pennsylvanian) of Illinois. I posted it previously but no definitive answer. I got a new digital microscope recently and decided to snap a few photos of this specimen up close. Hopefully they might help, though I still have no idea what it is. Thoughts?
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Reconstruction: References: Bardack, D. & Richardson, E. S.(1977) New agnathous fishes from the Pennsylvanian of Illinois. Fieldiana, Vol. 33, No. 26, publication 1261, pp. 489-510
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From the album: Sharks and fish
The shark relative is genus of eugenodontia holocephalid from the Carboniferous-Pennsylvanian age Anna shale formation, Carbondale group, found in different Illinois coal mines. I dont know(yet)which mine these were found in. This unidentified species is of the "vorax-serratus- crenulatus-heinrichi" or "E. heinrichi group", with the teeth being more of a standard triangular shape, as opposed to being thinner and pointed at a forward angle as in the "E. minor" group http://www.thefossilforum.com/applications/core/interface/file/attachment.php?id=501751 -
I took to trip to the Poconos this weekend and stopped by Carbondale for a hunt (thanks Jeffrey P for the info on it)! I think I did well and had a really fun trip. It was a little tricky to get there but definitely worth it! I found several fossils ferns and other plants as well as fossil bark - I'm not 100% done going though them yet, but these are my favorites of the trip. On the last two, I would appreciate any info. on what they may be. Thanks! ..
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First of all, thanks to @GordonC for alerting me of the Carbondale sites existence, and secondly Jeff at this site for giving me directions, as well as further information. Okay, so being in the area, about 45 minutes away in lake Wallenpaupack, I decided to take a trip to Carbondale. This trip turned out fantastic, at least I think it did (I've never hunted in Carboniferous stuff, so I may be over excited over what I've found). The information online is sparing, so I'm gonna give a rundown on it here so others can hunt. First you drive to this location . Go between the third and fourth apartment buildings on the right. You will see gravel. Walk behind the dumpster to the brush, about here. Then turn left and walk on the cleared path there. All websites say it's a road, but it's a little to think of driving on. Walk to the end on the path to a clearing, and you will see piles of sediment from the mine. This is what I searched in, it's very fossiliferous. It seems there is a larger hill a little further that's completely made of trainings, but I couldn't find a way to get to it. The actual site I hunted at is here. Go at your own risk, as the place is sketchy, I had one encounter with the local law enforcement. He had no idea of the fossils. The site is Llewellyn formation, late middle to late Pennsylvanian ( which is late Carboniferous). I found lots of logs and calamites and branches and things I have never seen before. Some I'm particularly proud of, and they have put everything else I have collected to shame. I may try for FOTM, but I doubt I'll win, competition just keeps getting tougher and tougher! Y'all will be seeing lots of Carboniferous ID requests from me soon. Here's some pictures of how to get to the site. I didn't take as many as I would have liked because I was excited to find things, to my despair I forgot my bucket, so I was stuck carrying heavy things back to the car. Well, hope this helps people! Happy hunting! Here's one of the piles A smaller one of course
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Here's another fossil from Carbondale, shaped like a check, or an L or a 7. Two in fact, I split the rock and it's inside it as well, so its thick. Any ideas?
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Hello everyone, this is another Carbondale find. Tell me what you think, more pictures from different angles can be taken.
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Here's some Carbondale (llewellyn formation) finds, any ideas? note: sorry about the oblique angles on some, it's hard to see striations on some without it. Obverse of last one
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Here's the first of my finds from Carbondale. It's a plant of some sort, Pennsylvanian. I have a few, these have positive and negatives, some seem to have a few sprouting from one center. I'm new to this time period, so I'm letting you guys ID this for me. Ones a little broke after the ride back, I guess I'll use some super glue.
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From the album: Carbondale, PA
Carbondale, PA Lewellyn Formation Pennsylvanian period 299-323 myo -
This week we found ourselves headed for Carbon County, PA and looked up some places to go hunting. St. Clair was out, but there were some references to Carbondale here and there. As the name suggests, Carbondale was a coal mining town. There are active and inactive areas all over town, much of it fossiliferous. The most popular spot seems to be the one we went to, a tailings pile next to an apartment complex off of Westside Rd. The land status is unknown, but there were was nothing posted, so we ventured in as many have done before us. Our directions said to follow the gravel path between the third and fourth buildings on the right, then bear left and continue to the en of the ravel road, where you'd see a "mountain of tailings." When we parked, I looked from side to side for a pile I expected to be maybe the size of a van. From behind me, I hear my husband say, "Oh, that mountain of tailings." I looked from side to side. No, her told me, look straight ahead and up. Oh! It was indeed a mountain! The pile loomed above the rich grove. How did I miss that? (On a return trip a couple days later, I noticed it also loomed over the apartments!) A narrow trail leads through the woods to a meadow and a bare section of wall just asking to be explored. April was the perfect time to go as all the weeds were down from the winter snows and not yet regrowing much. The trees growing from the wall itself provided just enough footing for me to climb without sliding back down - until I wanted to. Whee! Once I reached the wall, it took me only seconds to spot my first bit of Calamities bark, and then another, and then a complete, 3D stalk section! After about an hour of searching I spotted a limb sticking put of the fine slate crumbs and pulled it out. It was a chunk of Calamites stalk as big as my outstretched hand. I spent a total of about 5 hours over two days scrabbling across a sheer wall of loose shale. Ferns! Leaves! Roots! Seeds! Bark of all different textures! Some of the ferns were incredibly detailed. One had all the miniscule veins outlined in red (pyrite?), while others were just extremely fine impressions in the grey rock. As it turns out, the gravel road itself runs across an overgrown tailings pile. Here and there you can find exposed rock, including bark plates bigger than dinner dishes! After spending what felt like an hour on day 2 (It turned out to be three hours!!!) I decided it was time for lunch and slid down the hill like a little kid. There at the base of the hill, was mu find for the week: a whole section of tree(?) trunk with bark all the way around the specimen. It was lying alone in the woods on some leaves, just waiting for someone to wander off the beaten path. I debated about bringing it home. It was so big! Hubby was snoozing on a nearby rock. Rocks are not his thing and bringing home piles of them doubly so, but he is so sweet that he picked that heavy thing up before I could blink and carried it to the car himself. He's a keeper! It will take quite some time to photograph all my treasures, but I will post in the comments here when I have an album together.
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From the album: Carbondale, PA
Carbondale, PA Lewellyn Formation Pennsylvanian period 299-323 myo -
From the album: Carbondale, PA
Carbondale, PA Lewellyn Formation Pennsylvanian period 299-323 myo -
From the album: Carbondale, PA
Carbondale, PA Lewellyn Formation Pennsylvanian period 299-323 myo -
From the album: Carbondale, PA
Carbondale, PA Lewellyn Formation Pennsylvanian period 299-323 myo -
From the album: Carbondale, PA
Carbondale, PA Lewellyn Formation Pennsylvanian period 299-323 myo -
From the album: Carbondale, PA
Calamities sp., a bamboo-like plant closely related to modern horsetails with hollow, woody stem that grew more than 100 ft high (30m). Carbondale, PA Lewellyn Formation Pennsylvanian period 299-323 myo -
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Detail from previous image Carbondale, PA Lewellyn Formation Pennsylvanian period 299-323 myo -
From the album: Carbondale, PA
Carbondale, PA Lewellyn Formation Pennsylvanian period 299-323 myo -
From the album: Carbondale, PA
Carbondale, PA Lewellyn Formation Pennsylvanian period 299-323 myo -
From the album: Carbondale, PA
Carbondale, PA Lewellyn Formation Pennsylvanian period 299-323 myo -
From the album: Carbondale, PA
Unidentified species of petrified wood Carbondale, PA Lewellyn Formation Pennsylvanian period 299-323 myo -
From the album: Carbondale, PA
Pyrite (?) layer over shale Carbondale, PA Lewellyn Formation Pennsylvanian 299-323 myo
