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Found this at Corys Ln in Portsmouth RI today, it looks like bark from a tree and is curved like a section of trunk its slate but curved trying to determine if or what type of fossil it might be?? Thanks in advance
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Hi Everyone, I'm very new to fossil hunting and was considering going down to Cory's Lane in RI as it's only about 40 minutes from me. I scoped the place out on Google Maps and have some questions for anyone that's hunted there. Do you need a permit to fossil collect in RI? It looks like you can't collect in state parks, but I don't think this area is a state park. I'm actually not even sure if it's town property or private? Google wasn't much help and I'm not really sure which department it would fall under to go through state websites. Are people actually allowed to go along the water edge to collect, or is it all private property and we hope no one notices? It looks like there is a residential area and then a school further up the shore line. I don't want my first experience doing this (out of state, no less) to put me on the wrong end of the law. How's the parking situation there, the lot looks very small, like maybe 4 cars max. Are you allowed to park on the street if there's room? I didn't notice any signs when I street viewed the area. I was considering having a family member come with me and they drive an SUV compared to relatively small hatchback. Is anyone here a member of RIMH? Is the club active, is it worth joining if I can, I live in MA? Thanks for any info!
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Need some help with identifying these specimens. Are they a fossil or not? Carboniferous fossils from RI
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Hey there!! I’m back with a few more pictures of my finds from Corys Lane in Rhode Island. Being a beginner I’m slowly getting a hang of fossil hunting but sometimes you always find some cool looking rocks that convince you otherwise and you hope they’re a fossil. So help me out to determine if these ones are maybe a fossil or just a cool find. Also this trip was very fun and the most productive so far. The weather was cloudy accompanied by a cool breeze, not too many people on the beach during low tide. Only a few fishing hobbyists very curious about what we had caught in our buckets. They were a bit confused when they saw that we caught rocks. We had a laugh about it and spent some time walking along the train tracks before calling it a day which is something I would highly recommend. TIA- 9 replies
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I gathered these fern fossils from Cory’s lane in Rhode Island recently. Need some help with their identification. My guess is they look like Pecopteris but any more specific identification would definitely help.
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I’m new to fossil hunting and just spent Saturday searching for fossils in Rhode Island. I spent about two hours at Cory’s Lane and found two possible fossils. I’m wondering if anyone can help identify these? I had a lot of fun searching there and plan on going back. Thanks so much for any help.
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First Post! I looked up online where I could possibly find fossils in Rhode Island, and I think I found one of the more popular sites. Unfortunately I visited the site during high tide, but I was able to discover a fossil fern. I ended up leaving the fossil at the site since I don't think I could have kept it. Attached below is an image of the fossil fern I discovered. From my experience at this location, you do not need tools to break apart the shale because the shale at this locality is extremely fragile. A small hammer and chisel could be handy to pry apart more stubborn rocks.
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(First post so sorry if there are formatting errors) Yesterday I took my first fossil hunting trip ever and had some beginners luck! I went to Cory’s Lane in RI and stayed for about an hour and a half. I found a few pieces (pics below) that I’m really proud of. I’m not sure if the large one with big lines in it is a fossil so if anyone knows that would be great. All that said, I still have no idea what I did right (or what I was doing wrong). Some members told me that I should go for the dark grey shale and not the graphite-black stuff, which I tried to do. I was also told gentle digging would produce shale that may hold better prints but didn’t have a shovel with me. I definitely intend to go again so any tips on improving my technique for that site would be appreciated. I was also wondering if there is a way to tidy these up/make the imprints stand out at all? I looked at some posts about PVA etc. but those seem to be techniques for museum-grade pieces (which I know these aren’t). Also the first picture has lots of what I assume are rust stains and I was wondering if it’s possible to remove those without destroying the prints?
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While visiting in Rhode Island recently, my wife and I spent a few hours on the beach at the end of Corys Lane in Portsmouth. While it isn't one of the most productive sites I've had the pleasure of mucking around in, I always feel at home at the edge of the sea. It's a bit of a challenge to find any reasonably well-preserved fossils here, but the challenge just makes it all the more enjoyable. While my wife wandered away, deserting me once again for the lure of an ocean beach, I spread out a square of 4-mil plastic in the always futile attempt to keep the graphite-infused beach gravel off yet another pair of too-good-to-throw-away jeans. The overburden of beach-tumbled shaly gravel and slipper shells (Crepidula) was only 6-inches (15cm) deep here, blanketing a promising layer of Pennsylvanian age shale. Thankfully the tide was low and I could dig without the need to drain water out of the excavation. Regretably, I left my phone/camera in the car and have no current photos to share today, but here's one I took a few years ago: I've had mixed results here at this site, with nothing worth keeping on occasion. This day's finds were slightly above average, by my reckoning. Most of the shale I was uncovering was much too fragile to recover any recognizable plants, but after prying out and splitting a few solid slabs I did come home with some rather nice pieces, even if the preservation wasn't quite as good as I would prefer. I haven't been able to identify these seed ferns. Maybe a species of Pecopteris? The details just aren't preserved very well. The preservation is better in this harder rock. I think these are Cordaites principalis leaves. And a couple additional unknowns: The best find of the day, a modern skull, was found, of course, by my wandering wife. I believe it was formerly put to use by a sea robin (Prionotus carolinus). It was a good day.
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Hi everyone, I just want to start off the post by thanking @Bguild, @Fossildude19, and @Pagurus for their Cory's Lane post a while back, it really helped me with my trip there. Corys Lane is on a beach in Rhode Island, the view is absolutely incredible towards the end of the day. I visited towards the end of the day because of the tides. The area I was having the most luck at would be completely underwater by the time high tide came around. Speaking of which, I sampled different heights and areas of the locality, and I found that breaking the shale closest to the beach floor (and on the beach floor) was the most rewarding. Here are some photos of the locality and of my finds. I'm gonna need some help ID'ing the smaller ferns, as I'm not too well versed with plant fossils. The View The Finds Small fern(s?) Calamites? First find of the day, some sort of fern Large piece of wood? The B side of the fern showed earlier The area I was having the most luck at, it was sort of dug into the beach I'll have some more photos of the finds at a later date, I still have to sort through and clean them. Thanks for looking
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I’m planning to head down to Cory’s Lane sometime soon when the weather clears up more, is it worth making the trip down there? If so, tips would be appreciated to find the better fossils! Thanks everyone
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Hello, usually I do all of my fossil hunting around Cory’s lane and other parts of that Formation, but I was wondering if there are any fossil sites near or around North Western Rhode Island.
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Hello everyone, this is Jonathan (Shin Alpha), I’m currently in college as a paleontology major and I’ve been busy with life as always, my apologies for my inactivity but due to my busy schedule, I’ve been largely inactive. I was able to find some plant fossils at a nearby outcrop in the Middletown/Cromwell area in CT. And I’ve since donated my finds to Central Connecticut state university geology department. that being said I’ve heard of a Paleozoic site in Newport, Rhode Island called “Cory’s lane“. I’d love to go there one of these days when I have the opportunity, but I don’t know too much about it. Or where the site is at specifically. Feel free to comment down below
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Hi Everyone, My 6yr old and I went down to Cory's Lane yesterday afternoon to do some fossil hunting. It was our first trip and I was less sure of what I was doing than I thought I would be, given how much reading I've been doing on here. We spent about an hour and a half there with some chisels and rock hammer, but honestly the shale was so loose and brittle that we could separate layers by hand in many places. We started by going through large chunks that had fallen/broken off the hill outcroppings, and then I dug down about 6" and found nearly black shale. We found a few pieces that we think may have fossil impressions on them, but I simply can't get a good picture of them, the discolorations are kind of faint and I'm having trouble getting good pictures of them. The attached pictures are of the most clear piece we found (and a bonus kiddo doing his best Steve (Minecraft), this was found in shale under the beach about 6" this particular sample was found about 2.5" deep into the shale. I've manipulated the coloring a little in Gimp on the one image to try to bring out the contrast and outlines. Does this look like anything to anyone? I thought it looked similar to some of the cordaites that other users have posted, but not as well preserved as theirs and certainly not confident on my guesswork. Regardless, it was a fun trip and I'm going to head back (solo) very soon.
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My current personal best from the Carboniferous aged shale of Rhode Island. A large, Pecoptertis sp. section.- 7 comments
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I was able to stop at the beach on Corys Lane in Portsmouth Rhode Island for about an hour yesterday. The tide was too high to reach the area I prefer, but there was enough beach to expose a bit of gravel and beach-tumbled shale I could dig in. It was far from ideal and I didn't have much success but it was enjoyable nonetheless. My wife and I were staying only a half hour away but tide and time weren't on our side. Weather made for an interesting day or two as well, contributing to the spectacle along the coast on the way up to the site. In the past I've found some rather nice ferns at this pleasant site, after locating the productive layers of hard, dark gray shale. Those layers weren't available to me yesterday, though I did make an attempt to uncover a new one in the limited space I had. I settled for some soft shale with a few very poorly preserved ferns, and a chunk of shale that may or may not be showing distorted Cordaites stems or leaves. While I tend to burrow underground or smash things with a hammer in search of my fossil finds, my wife tends to sit, and wander and scan the surface intently wherever we may be. She is usually the more successful member of our duo. She came across this find on a short hike along the narrow beach. It looks like distorted Lepidodendron bark to me, but I'm not certain. I would be glad to hear your opinions. My back is aching, my hip is stuck and I'm still removing graphite from my fingernails, but I'm grateful for the short time we spent together, yesterday, at the edge of the sea.
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Positive and negative imprint of an indeterminate Tree Fern.. Found in 2017 at the Cory's Lane fossil locality, Rhode Island.s lane-
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Pecopteris sp. Found in 2019 at Cory's Lane fossil locality, Rhode Island.-
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Lepidodendron bark - Found in 2019 at Cory's Lane fossil locality, Rhode Island.-
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Large imprint of Pecopteris sp. Found in 2017 at the Cory's Lane fossil locality, Rhode Island.-
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Large Negative imprint of Pecopteris arborescens. Found in 2017 at Cory's Lane fossil locality, Rhode Island.-
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Imprint of a Lepidodendron branch and Odontopteris reichiana pinnules. Found in 2016 at the Cory's Lane fossil locality, Rhode Island.-
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Imprint of two calamites stems. Found in 2017 at the Cory's Lane fossil locality, Rhode Island.-
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Another small plate of Alethopteris. Found in 2017 at the Cory's Lane fossil locality, Rhode Island.-
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