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Today I was able to get out to the outcrop along Rickard Hill in Schoharie, New York. I didn’t find a ton of interesting things because I was looking in a more crystalline layer of the Kalkberg formation that had less abundant fossils. I found a handful of nice orthid, spiriferid, and atrypid brachiopods and one fenestellid bryozoan. Next time I go I’m going to try and get into a different, more fossiliferous layer because the crystalline rock is hard to break and when it does it breaks randomly, often damaging the fossils.
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Hello, everyone! I found this forum while researching for fossil hunting places in my area. I am a newbie, so I will spend a lot of time reading here at first. And, as a newbie, will be posting for help at the ID section of the forum Fossil hunting is exciting!
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Today on a hunt in the lower devonian of new york, I found on of the most unusual piece and I can't decide if its bryzoan or possible placoderm.
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A few weeks ago I went on a fossil hunting trip to Albany County. I was hunting in the New Scotland formation which is lower Devonian in age. It was very quick and easy to collect in and the dry dredging technique was quite useful. The rock was a very thin shaly limestone which could break easily but many of the fossils had been silicified, making it easy to pop them out of the rock. I found many different species of brachiopods, some gastropods, lots of corals and large bryozoa and a few trilobites
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Unknown Rare New York Trilobite Pygidium Undescribed??? Lichid?
Kurufossils posted a topic in Fossil ID
Today on a hunt I found on of the most unusual trilobite pygidiums I've ever seen from new york and cannot find anything out there to compare it to. Unfortunately the site is imported material from an unknown quarry upstate so all I do know is that its from the Devonian of New York based on other material found there, unfortunately I cannot attach a formation to this one. Also its also fragile and a very partial piece thats unpreped, I think its a ventral display. This maybe a head scratcher so maybe the trilobite experts here can help weigh in on what this can possibly be.
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Found this last summer in the yard and thought it was some kind of fossilized shell. Realized later that it looks like wood? Any suggestions?
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Hi all, after seeing all these nice collections from other members I also want to share the collection of my father and I with you. The collections is of various time periods and sites. We started collecting in 2009 close to home in a quarry nearby Maastricht called 't Rooth (sadly this quarry is close for visitors since 2016). From there on we started visiting other quarries and the collection started too grew massively. We frequently visited the ENCI, Winterswijk and Solnhofen. I will start off with some of the display cabinets
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Sunday was the warmest and most pleasant day so far this spring. I decided on a solo venture up north to Schoharie County, N.Y. My destination was two road cut sites which expose the Lower Devonian Kalkberg Formation, part of the Helderberg group. The primary attractions here are the abundance and diversity of fossils, and very good preservation. The first road cut site is immense and I spent about three hours surface collecting. Most of my finds were brachiopods, some very nice specimens of Leptanena rhomboidalis, Discomyorthis oblata, Meristella, sp., Costistroponella sp., and a variety of Rhynchonellids. Also found a gastropods internal mold, an Enterolasma strictum, a rogose coral, and a 8 by 7 inch Favosites helderbergiae, a tabulate coral colony.
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From the album: Cnidarians
Conularia africana (Sharpe, 1856). 4.4 cm long, 2.8 cm wide. Patacamaya, La Paz, Bolivian Altiplano, Bolivia. Belen Formation, Early Devonian, Emsian stage. Bought as an online purchase.- 1 comment
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Any thoughts as to what this could be? Could it be a crinoid?
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Upper Devonian Skull? Cashaqua Shale Member, Sonyea Group Western New York size - matrix block is 8" x 8" I found this fossil around 12 years ago. The locality it was found at is a nodule layer with well preserved coiled/straight shelled nautiloids, petrified wood (some very large), small gastropods, small pelecypods and that's about it. I have found one other weathered piece of bone before at this locality but this nodule, I knew when found it, that it was special. It needs to be prepared and would love to get it done. That is the reason I took it out of the mothballs. First, I would like to know exactly what it is. I'm thinking very early fish skull. My question to you is - what species is it and is it fish or something else like an amphibian? I know we are dealing with bone and not wood or something else from the Upper Devonian. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Happy Collecting from Mikeymig
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In 2013 I was visiting around Buffalo and went to a creek that had been recommended. I didn't come across any trilobites but did find other exciting things. Among them were quite a few pyrite nodules I dug out of the creek bank. Must have found 30 of them. All rounded but varied shapes. About the size of a quarter or a little bigger. I have learned that many people have found them. Some close-ups. Many have a hole in them (shown above) and you can just barely see something inside the hole. Early on I broke some of these open and found... ...pyrite fossils. Gastropod, brachiopod, clam, ammonite. I quit there, I didn't want to smash them all. Over the years, as many who have found these know, some of the nodules began to decompose. What some refer to as "pyrite disease" or "pyrite rot". I have had a number that have broken apart and then turned to dust within a few years. I quarantine those that show signs but haven't had to in the last year or so. I have stored most of my nodules by simply putting them in a sealed container with a desiccant packet, with only a few problems after 7 years. But some ...the first 4 pictures of the post... I keep in a Pyrite display case and they have never shown any signs of problems. And the mini fossils have also never shown signs of decomposition, either. And they are on display as well, not packed away with a desiccant. So...some from the same "batch" decompose while others don't. Why??
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Today I spent a wonderful day fossilhunting with my 3 boys. The weather was really nice until about 2:30 when the clouds started to roll in and along with it, the rain. That's ok though as we spent about 3 1/2 hours fossilhunting the Devonian of New York. We started off at Cole Hill around 11 am. When we arrived I saw that they had bulldozed an area around one side of the roadcut and played down a drainage pipe. This bulldozing removed some of the talus pile while exposing large slabs that had been buried for years. I spent some time looking through the slabs. While there were some interesting pieces I only grabbed a few Dipleura pygidiums because they were in nice condition. I definately over dressed for the day as it was windy when we left the house so I wore extra layers that I didnt need. I started getting warm fast. We spent about an hour and a half there and I decided to drive over to DSR and see how things were over there. It takes about a half hour to get there from Cole Hill. When we arrived we saw a vehicle and 2 people. As I gathered my tools I yelled over " Hello" and asked how they were doing. As I approached I realized that the young lady was @rachelgardner01 and she was with her husband. So we chatted for awhile. Those 2 had opened up a pretty good area but she said that she wasnt finding much. I started looking around after awhile and picked up some brachiopods and bivalves. I was surprised that my boys were all looking together for a while and they seemed to actually be enjoying themselves. After about an hour Rachel and her husband left and then we left a half hour later. While there were no spectacular finds an had a great time with my kids and found enough goodies to keep me satisfied. Heck, I was happy just being able to get outside 2 days in a row. I will post pics shortly, I have to resize some of them first.
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Hello everyone, This will be my final ID topic for a while as I am trying to get some labels for a few fossils in my collection. Here are two fossils of marine animals, the first I believe is a bryozoan, I have no idea of the location or age of either but this piece has a strong resemblance to the devonian Fistuliramus and Eridotrypella from Morocco. The second is a very white and chalky horn coral, I am guessing that it is from somewhere in the US as the person I got it from mostly has US fossils. Does anyone recognize the fossilization on this piece? I am trying to identify where it is from.
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Need help identifying this brachiopod and the encrusted bryozoan from the Devonian period
mhansen3 posted a topic in Fossil ID
I know these are from the Devonian period, just having a hard time figuring out the names of both of them
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Any ideas? Found in an Eastern Kansas Limestone creek bed.
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Thank you for providing this forum. I live in Eastern Kansas where all we got is 300 million y.o. invertebrates! Cheers!
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Hi guys, I acquired this coral from a trade, It is from the Devonian of Morocco and I have not been successful in finding a proper ID for it. Any help is appreciated, Thank you. Misha
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Aulacella prisca (Schnur, 1851) Eifelian, Skaly, Poland
nala posted a gallery image in Member Collections
From the album: Brachiopodes, Shells, corals, sponges......
Aulacella prisca (Schnur, 1851) Eifelian, Skaly, Poland -
Primipilaria primipilaris. (von Buch, 1834) Devonien - eifel Grzegorzowice - Skały Poland
nala posted a gallery image in Member Collections
From the album: Brachiopodes, Shells, corals, sponges......
Primipilaria primipilaris. (von Buch, 1834) Devonien - eifel Grzegorzowice - Skały Poland -
My husband found this fossil in a stream in Westfield, NY and I would love if someone could identify it for me. Any help would be great. Hope the pics are ok.
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I found either a rock or a fossilized bone in NW Arkansas along the War Eagle River earlier this year. The War Eagle Quadrangle https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/72842749.pdf has sections that are Ordovician, Devonian, and Mississippian. That being said...is this just a rock? I don't want to state why I think it might be one thing or another....needing a fresh perspective.
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I found this fossil in Devonian rock in Johnson County, Iowa. I think it is a fossil of a placoderm fish, and I think it has a "fin" next to the quarter in the photo. The fin would be coming out of the placoderm plate at a perpendicular angle, which would make sense, but I have never found a fin before. I will attach a close-up photo of the "fin" below. Am I on the right track or is this something else? Thank you! Ben
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An Open Grammysia Bivalve from Deep Springs Road Quarry
Jeffrey P posted a gallery image in Member Collections
From the album: Middle Devonian
Grammysia bisulcata Anomalodesmata bivalve (open shell) Middle Devonian Moscow Formation Windom Shale Hamilton Group Deep Springs Road Quarry Earlville, N.Y. First open specimen I've found of this common species. -
ID help please! I recently found these strange features in a Devonian rock in Johnson County, Iowa. They are unusual looking enough that I suspect an animal may have been involved in their formation. My first guess was that they were burrows that had filled in with dense crinoid and shell debris, but I'm not sure how that would happen. My second guess was that it could be poop/coprolite from a fish or some other Devonian creature. I didn't have a scale with me, but these would be very large for fish poop. I will post another photo in a separate post below (files are too big). I would be very grateful for any assistance, thank you! Here is a link to a video that may also be helpful:
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