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From the album: A.C.'s Devonian Pennsylvania
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From the album: A.C.'s Devonian Pennsylvania
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From the album: A.C.'s Devonian Pennsylvania
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From the album: A.C.'s Devonian Pennsylvania
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From the album: A.C.'s Devonian Pennsylvania
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Temporary exhibition about the geology of the Lompret Quarry "Marble Museum" Rance - Belgium
Manticocerasman posted a topic in A Trip to the Museum
I am sharing this poster on the temporary free acces exhibition about the fossils and minerals found in the Lompret quarry in Belgium. A large variety of Frasnian fossils are displayed ( Placoderms, Cephalopods, Trilobites, crinoids, brachiopods,…) most of them from private collections. https://www.museedumarbre.com/en/magma-3/
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Hi. This is the first fossil I have found that is straight, which is pretty exciting. It seems like a cephlapod, but unsure specific classification/species. Any info is greatly appreciated. I found this in shale near Lebanon, NY. Devonian. July 2022
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I am new at this. I found possibly both halves of a phyllocarid(?) But not sure. It was found by me. Devonian. Found in shale outcrop Near Lebannon, NY. July 2022 Thanks for any info on this.
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I collected this piece of placoderm bone a while ago from the Cedar Valley Formation (Middle Devonian) in Iowa. Most bits I've found are just "indeterminate bone bits", but this piece has enough structure that I am hopeful it can be identified to a specific part of the anatomy. It superficially reminds me of a cranial element posted by @Peat Burns a while ago from the Silica Shale in Ohio. However I am too unfamiliar with placoderms to say exactly where this piece of bone might have come from, and I was hoping a forum member might have some input. Thanks for any thoughts. @jdp
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After dinner I went back to the fossil site in Tully New York. I found one specimen that I am kind of excited about but need your opinion. The specimen definitely contains some pyritized cringed branches. But I think it may contain 2 calyxes as well. I will show you some pics. Pic #1 shows the whole specimen. Pic#2 shows a stem which appears to be connected to the light colored ball in the center of the light colored section of the rock. Pic #3 shows what I think may be a small damaged calyx with atleast one branch coming off. Pic #4 shows another branch and next to it, a small grouping of tiny branches or maybe pinnules. Pic #5 shows a cross- section of pyritized crinoid stem. My question is do you guys think this would be a good candidate for a professional prep? There seems to be a fair amount of stuff showing and there may be more that isn't. Plus everything appears to be pyritized. If there is a calyx there could be more branches attached. This would be a very sweet find for me. I appreciate any feedback. I will post pics of the other stuff later.
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I was at Penn Dixie a few weeks ago and had trouble figuring out what a couple of my finds could be. My first thought for this one was a piece of a trilobite, but I’m not 100% sure on that. I don’t know where to start with this one. Any help is greatly appreciated!
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Decided to take a trip to Deep Springs Road in hopes of finding a complete Dipleura dekayi fossil. I have only ever explored the Devonian shales of Erie county, so the differences in the fossils was really refreshing. I have put some of my interesting specimens below. Also I did find a few pieces of trash that I picked up. Please help keep the site clean if you visit! Thank you for the help identifying these fossils that are new to me. 1. Found within my first 20 minutes at DSR, I never sniffed Dipleura again the rest of the day! 2. A type of gonatite maybe? 3. Not sure about this one. 4. Another one that is new to me 5. What I think to be great preservation on this bivalve 6. Saw a lot of gastropods, none of this size. I am guessing this is another bivalve.
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Yesterday, my family and I were driving past the Tully exit on Rt 81. I looked over just in time to see an excavator parked on a big pile of debris from the hill behind the Motel, gas station and Kinney's Pharmacy. I thought to myself, that I needed to come check it out. For those who don't know this is a known fossil site that gets moderate to low use. It is a Devonian local and is a hard area to dig. That was until now. This morning I got up early and drove to the site. I was surprised to find that a good portion of the hill has been dug up. There was lots of debris to look through. That being said there was not the amount of fossils laying about as I thought there would be. I had to look hard but I found some keepers. My best find was a pyritized nautiliod specimen there are actually 2 with some other fossils mixed in.
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This specimen was the find of the day today and came from Randolph Co. WV in what I believe to be the Brallier Formation. Any help with ID would be much appreciated.
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Found on lake Erie shore . Not sure what I have here. Did chemical preparation.
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As I traveled from Minnesota to Morrison Iowa for a mineral/fossil presentation that our rock club was involved in, I had a few hours to venture off course and visit Bird Hill in Floyd County. The exposure provides fossils from the Cerro Gordo, Lime Creek, Devonian Period. If anyone has visited the Rockford Tile and Brick Quarry, the same strata is exposed at both sites. The Cerro Gordo is brachiopod rich with 40 known species. In my short visit, 15 species of brachiopods were found and HOPEFULLY identified correctly! I do have a bag of brachiopods that I am still trying to work through. So hopefully my count will increase with time. Here are a sampling of the variety the Cerro Gordo provides.
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From the album: Devonian
From the Genundewa Limestone. These conodont elements seem to compare well with Polygnathus linguiformis. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12542-018-0408-6-
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A Phoebodont shark tooth dwarfed by the head of a pin - they are very tiny and difficult to manipulate. From the Genundewa Limestone.-
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Day One ; Locality Five Sahara Desert 19th February 2019 An advert for Erfoud, the fossil capital of Morocco. But no time today, the sun is setting. "Tomorrow", Anouar promises me. And then suddenly we are out of the mountains and on the fringes of the mighty Sahara Desert, the largest hot desert in the world. (Antarctica and the Arctic are bigger, but cold deserts) Many think of the Sahara as being sand, but actually, only a fraction of it is composed of the ergs (sand and sand dunes), most of the desert is hamada - rock desert. It is often fossiliferous. In the west, around Agadir, it is often yellow and contains Cretaceous fossils such as ammonites, south of there, the whitish yellow rocks of the Palaeogene where whale fossils can be found in the desert, but in the east, such as here, the rocks are often grey or black , hence the term, "Black Sahara". They range in age from the Precambrian stromatolite reefs near Ouarzazate through to some Lower Carboniferous patches North of Merzouga near Erfoud. Here in Merzouga they are mostly Devonian in age. Also nodules and geodes containing crystals and desert roses and other strange geological features may be found. And those aren't mountains in the distance, those are sand dunes. The dunes of the mighty Erg Chebbi up to 150 metres high. But no time for collecting today. The sun was setting and it was time for dinner and a sleep. We were going to stay in a Berber desert nomad tent, but they're mostly a bit touristy and some have been forcibly shut down since i was there, but the temperature was going to be only i degree above freezing tonight, so, no thank you very much, a hotel it shall be.
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Hello all, I am a professor of biology and environmental science, and have been collecting fossils as a hobby for about two years now. My collection is mostly Upper Carboniferous plants and Devonian bivalves, but I am always excited for something different when I find it. I am currently planning to make a trip through WV to find trilobites, as my collection has none! I hope as part of the community I can share my finds and learn more about fossils from you all. -biolenvs
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This caught me off guard today. I've been so busy trying to figure out my theory on triassic material that I overlooked other stuff. I think I need it prepped a little because sandstone is covering details. I took a close up of side of shell to see the odd circle patterns. I need to work on this one a little to bring everything out. But in meantime it's a find I cross off my book. I found this in elk county, Pa. Thanks.
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I’m legitimately lost as to what this could be. Devonian, Milwaukee formation. Fish tooth plate?
SilurianSalamander posted a topic in Fossil ID
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I recently found a fossil in my backyard and I’m not sure what it could be. I live in a place where the bedrock dates back to the Devonian. Hopefully this will be the only fossil id that I’ll ever do. Front Back Left Right Top Bottom If you notice in the front, top, and right images, there is a brachiopod mold, which means the fossil was either from the shoreline or from underwater. I also think that, at this point, the fossil comes from the lower Devonian.
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