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Awhile back I found something that I believed could had been a fossil. People on the forum said that it was more than likely a concretion. Today after work I found another one, this time it appears to have a partial outer layer still intact. I will add more photos when I get home with a tape measure for size reference.
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Hopped out for a short time today. Just wasn't feeling it. But I plan on going back out soon. But before I left I did find some flexicalymene partials, a bunch of isotelus fragments, including the mouth plate that I kept in the photo. I also grabbed a few cool hash plates with a good variety on them all.
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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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Ran out after work and found a couple whole trilobites. Could someone help me with the other fossils in the photos? Is the one a type of coral, and the other ... have not seen a shell like that yet. The other fossil have no clue what so ever. Thanks for looking!
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The other day a woman at work told me of a place she takes her boys to play in a creek, and hunt for fossils. She told.me that they found various fossils but wasn't sure what they were, and told me to go check it out, and gave me directions. Today I didn't really feel like hunting, but after awhile I figured at the very least I should go check it out to see if it would be worth hunting later on. So I pull up and see this very small section of exposure. Walk up to it and instantly find an isotelus fragment, then very large brachiopods. Leaves had fallen and covered alot of area. I started checking rocks, and find a couple flexi parts. Then I flip a rock and find what I believe is a whole prone flexi. I pack the rock to the edge of the road and do a quick scan of some more rocks. To my surprise the place is littered with flexi/isotelus parts. I will definitely be back to check the place out thoroughly one day! Here are a few photos.There were so many parts in the one rock that I didn't have enough fingers to point at them all.
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I decided to hit a different section of ground today, just to check things out. It was difficult to do as I am pretty sure there are more trilobites to be collected where I found the others. Anyhow I am glad I did, found 2 more areas that have potential. Believe that I have learned quite a bit since I started, including something that seems to be a pattern so far. I found a good amount of partials, and found 3 fulls. Will post some photos now and add more later. Thanks for looking
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Guys this is crazy! So after I fossil hunt I put stuff on my patio table. Well I started to move some fossils that have been there from some of the past fossil hunts, and a I did I spotted something. At first I thought it may had been a small fragment of a brachiopod. I picked it up and was shocked. It is a tiny trilobite that must have been on a fossil or hash plate that I had collected. So I found a trilobite before I thought I actually found a trilobite! Hahaha
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Hopped out after work today and found a Hotspot. Found 3 fairly good trilobites, another whole, but damaged I believe. Still haven't cleaned it. Will post more photos in a bit. I am super stoked! Thanks again guys!
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So jumped out after work again today. Same deal. Found 3 or 4 frags within minutes of arriving. I was stoked and was feeling that today was going to be the day. But it turned out to not be the day. I did find some super cool stuff and I really need to start taking the time to take more in the field photos to share with you guys. I just feel so rushed since time is limited and I am after what seems to be a unicorn ... hahaha. I found a couple huge sections of bryzoan I believe, and numerous other fossils including lots, and lots of trilo-bits. The past couple of days I have been leaving almost all of them and keeping just a few. Anyhow....here are a few photos from today. First photo, cephalopod, and not sure what the dark string looking thing to the right of my hand is. Any ideas guys? Second photo, a few trilo-bits that I brought back. See if you can see them. Third another section of matrix containing a head and butt. Last photo, the longest run of crinoid stem that I have found to date. Thanks for looking, and if you have any tips that may help me out in my search, please feel free to share. Thanks to you that have given me tips and advice, I appreciate it greatly!
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Found this today, the one on the left. Not sure that I have even seen a fragment like this. Bumpy kind of like a crab leg.
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Hopped out after I got out of work today and did a bit of hunting. Here are some of my finds.
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Went out today and found ALOT of fossils. A great variety, but the trilobite fragments go me the most excited. I found one section that appears to be in some really soft matrix, and wondering how I should go about getting the fossil/fossils prepped. I am super new, never have prepped, and is the 4th day of collecting. So please keep that in mind. I will add some photos now, and some later. Thanks for looking, and for any advice..... I believe there are 2 or 3 fragments in the matrix of the bottom 2 photos.
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Quick hunt after work, and found this. Hoping it is an Isotelus head. Had nothing with me so dropped lighter next to it and my fingertip. Possibly head fragment with spine running under the matrix and broken tip at my fingertip
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I recently acquired this little lot of Ordovician fossils but the info I received was somewhat lacking and mixed up. I hate to ask this because I feel like I should have gotten all the info to begin with, and having not gotten it, I figured I would have no trouble piecing it together. I think I have gotten past the spelling mistakes and such but I am stuck at this point.... Could anyone check to see if the info I have on these is correct, and maybe narrow down the locations, and tell me which subspecies of Vinlandostrophia is which? I wouldn't be surprised if the original collector is a member here and might recognize the fossils and the cat #s... The info as I have it is as follows: 1. Snail: Cyclonema sp. (what species? is it known?) Richmondian, Liberty Fm SW Ohio (what location?) 2. Coral (encrusting a brachiopod): Protaraea sp. (what species? I'll try for closer shots if needed but I am lacking my good camera + macro lens) Richmondian (uppermost), Whitewater Fm. SE Indiana (what location?) 3. Coral, Grewingkia sp. (canadensis?) Richmondian, Whitewater Fm. SE Indiana (same location as 2, I assume) 4. Orthocone, Treptoceras sp. Cincinnatian: Edenian, Kope Fm. SW Ohio (what location?) 5. Brach, Hebertella occidentalis Cincinnatian: Maysvillian Mt. Auburn Fm (member of Grant Lake Fm?) N. Kentucky (what location?) 6 and 7 are Vinlandostrophia ponderosa, one is supposedly subspecies ponderosa and the other auburnensis but not sure which is which. The info I received had Bellevue as the formation for the auburnensis but I gather that subspecies only occurs in the Mt Auburn mbr, no? (Location, N. Kentucky) The V. ponderosa ponderosa is said to be from the Corryville Mbr of Grant Lake Fm, N. Kentucky. Here are the Vinlandostrophias from multiple angles:
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I collected this Strophomena planumbona brachiopod recently in the Liberty Formation (Late Ordovician) near St. Leon, Indiana. What caught my eye are the "bumps" near the muscle scar. I've collected and seen a lot of Strophomena brachiopods, but can't recall having ever seen these before. What exactly are they? @Tidgy's Dad
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A couple months ago I found a new spot in the Liberty Formation (Late Ordovician) in southeast Indiana. The Liberty is most famous for the butter shale layer producing thousands of Flexicalymene minuens trilobites, well exposed at the large roadcut near St. Leon. This new site is in the Lower Liberty (below the trilobite shale), which is exposed at St. Leon but is mostly covered by talus and thus difficult to hunt there. I was able to visit this site again last week, and I think it will become a regular spot for me whenever I can travel to the Cincinnati area. Figured I'd share some of my favorite finds from these two visits. Glyptorthis insculpta Hebertella occidentalis Petrocrania scabiosa inarticulate brachiopods attached to a Strophomena planumbona Leptaena richmondensis Plaesiomys subquadrata Plaesiomys subquadrata with an attached bryozoan The hypostome of a lichiid trilobite Plicodendrocrinus casei - I think this is the most common crinoid in the Liberty Flexicalymene retrorsa If you ever are able to collect in the Liberty, definitely do. It produces a lot of very nice and interesting specimens.
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I collected this specimen a while ago from the Liberty Formation (Upper Ordovician, Cincinnatian) of Indiana. Honestly, I have no idea what the heck it is. I posted this elsewhere and some thought it might be a strange echinoderm fragment, others thought it might not even be a fossil. Anyone seem anything similar before?
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Here is another specimen from the Southgate Hill road cut near St. Leon, Indiana. So it is Richmondian, Cincinnatian, Late Ordovician in age, Upper Arnheim, Waynesville, or Liberty Formations found in a rock with multiple Strophomena planumbona, lots of tiny ramose bryozoan fragments and some crinoid columnals. At first I thought it was an echinoderm of some ilk, but now I'm leaning towards a fragment of the bivalve Caritodens welchi like the one Ralph @Nimravisposted in this thread : The bit I have is about a centimetre long and 1.5 mm wide. Thank you, as always, for any suggestions. N.B. This specimen was also sent to me by Ralph. Thanks again, my friend. @erose @connorp Thanks, everyone.
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Hello, my friends, tis I once more with queries regarding odds and ends found in matrix from Southgate Hill road cutting, St. Leon, Indiana. Late Ordovician from the Upper Arnheim, Waynesville, Liberty and Lower Whitewater formations. Is this first one a bit of free cheek with a spine base? The piece is 1.5 mm wide and the big brachiopod bottom left is the edge of a Strophomena planumbona. I am pretty certain that this next one is a hypostome. It looks like some of the Isotelus ones I have seen but is very small. 2.5 mm. A small Isotelus? Another trilo? Or the Millennium Falcon? I think this is another hypostome. But of what? It's actually in the same rock as the one above but is a little bigger at 3 mm from tip to tip. Closer look : This one's enormous by comparison, 1.9 cm from curve to tip. But I'm not sure it is a hypostome. It sort of looks like part of the internal structure of a brachiopod or bivalve but I can't for the life of me think what. Especially at this size. Close up : Are these ostracods? Quite a lot of them in this rock, 0.5 to about 1 mm wide : @connorp @erose @Kane @piranha @ClearLake And all comments welcome from anyone else. Thank you all very much for any assistance.
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Hello, once again, my friends. Another puzzle from the Southgate Hill road cutting near St. Leon, Indiana. It will be Cincinnatian, Late Ordovician in age from the Waynesville or Liberty or Formations. The rock it is in also contains Strophomena planumbona, Eochonetes clarksvillensis, Zygospira modesta and Bythopora deliculata. The shape and growth lines seem to me like the inarticulate brachiopod Pseudolingula, but the 'ribs' and 'tubercles' wouldn't fir this. Looking more closely it seems to have a bryozoan structure, so is it a brachiopod covered in an encrusting bryozoan? Or just a weird bryozoan? My other thought is some sort of trilobit, a hypostome, maybe? Also bryozoan covered? Any of your opinions will be gratefully received. Thank you It is 4 mm wide. Here it is with a tiny Zygospira modesta : And as close as I can get : Each 'level' gets progressively higher but the total height of the specimen can't be much more than a mm.
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Hello, friends! This bryozoan is tiny, about a mm wide. It seems to be made up of overlapping tubes arranges diagonally across the zooarium. It come from the Southgate Hill road cutting, St. Leon, Indiana and I think is from the Liberty Formation, Cincinnatian, Late Ordovician due to other species found in the same piece of rock. The other species include Xenocrinus baeri, Hebertella occidentalis, Zygospira modesta, Graptodictya perelegans, Bythopora deliculata, Batostoma sp. and Stictopora emacerata. I think. Thank you for looking.
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One lives in hope. From one of my favourite hash plates, sent to me by my wonderful friend Ralph @Nimravis Southgate Hill road cut, St. Leon, Indiana, USA. Cincinnatian (Late Ordovician) Waynesville or Liberty Formation. Is this part of an Isotelus thoracic segment? Thank you so much for looking and any help is very gratefully appreciated. 11 mm across. And is this a bit of Isotelus? 2.2 cm long.
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Hello, my friends. This specimen comes from a wonderful hash plate, maybe my favourite hash, that was kindly sent to me by Ralph, @Nimravis It's from the Southgate Hill Road Cut, St.Leon, Indiana, USA and is Cincinnatian (Late Ordovician) in age, probably the Waynesville Formation, judging by the brachiopod assemblage. But could be Liberty. Is this a trilobite hypostome? And if so, is it likely to be Flexicalymene? The piece has several Flexi bits on it; a couple of pygidia and some free cheeks, the reverse has three cranidia. But I think there are Isotelus fragments present, too. The specimen is 5 mm wide. Thank you very much as always for any opinions and help.
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Hello all, I found this nautiloid fragment in the Kope Formation out of the Cincinnatian series in Northern Kentucky. Suspecting this to either be an Endocerid due to the size or perhaps even a coiled nauitoid due to the curvature in the camerae towards the end with the siphuncle sticking out and the general shape of the specimen, unfortunately not preserving detail towards the other end. I was thinking it could be Characteroceras due to them being found in the Kope, but it seems to be too big. Seems like this guy died, sank to the bottom and preserved the side that planted in the Ordovician mud, interesting that you can still see the outline of the siphuncle on that end. Curious as to what you all think, I just don't know what to put it in as for my database. Thanks you all!
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I found this conglomerate, or hashplate of Brachiopods on the Whitewater River, Southeast Indiana and wonder what they are. It seems like a cross cut of the ancient Ordovician sea bed because all the fossils are on top of rock that seems layered. I've been slowly working on my first prep, from left to right using sewing machine needles, I don't want to mess it up!
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