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Hello, I have found these trilobites online and would like to know if they are real. 1.- Paralejurus rehammanus, Emsian Devonian, from Khebchia fm. 2.- Cheirurus (Crotalocephalina) gibbus, Middle Devonian, El Atchana, Alnif. I had to cover the name of the seller from one of the images. Thanks!

Beltzville State Park is one of those rare parks where collecting is allowed. The adjacent federal land, owned and operated by the Corps of Engineers to operate the dam there, is accessible ONLY WITH A PERMIT. It is a functioning spillway and there is a gun range for the local police, so you and USACE need to make sure you are safe. With that important disclaimer out of the way, here's the good stuff! Beltzville is a very productive Middle Devonian site which includes the PA State Fossil, the trilobite Eldredgeops rana. Although no one in the group found any definite complete buggies, a lot of froglike trilo faces went home in our buckets! It wasn't all trilos, though. We found bryozoa, corals, pteria oysters, gastropods, crinoids and probably a dozen kinds of brachiopods. I led this trip for the Natural History Society of Maryland. The trip director made this lovely video of our day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdB5atWQmeQ Yes, I realized about 20 minutes after she took that video of me showing off the pop-outs that I was holding the fronts of the cephalons of one species, not the eyeballs of the other. This is what I get for not looking with my reading glasses first! Most of my finds I gave to whoever was sitting closest to me, but here are a few I kept.

Hello all, My daughter and I were cracking open some Mahantango Formation rocks left over from our fossiling trips last summer, and found this... ? Any ideas what it might be? Found Schuylkill County, Central Pennsylvania Thanks! Tom

Bought this trilobite a while ago. Looks legit to me but I´m a beginner. There is a crack running through both matrix and specimen from when it was found. Prep job maybee could be better. Is there any restoration on this one? Supposed to be an Adrisiops weugi Grateful for any help.

Hi all, I collected this fossil a while back, I’m wondering, is it an example of a large ostracod? The fossil is from the Devonian Chemung/Foreknobs formation near New Castle, VA. I have no idea what it is, but ostracods are known from the area, and I could see them as a possibility. Any ideas? *fossil is 3cm in length

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I found this curious bivalve at Portland Point (Middle Devonian, Moscow formation) last week. The two-layer effect gives the appearance of a wider shell being swallowed by a narrower one. But bivalves didn't prey on each other, right? I've adjusted the lighting and color of the following two edge shots, which gave the shell a false metallic look. Could this be a single specimen that was crushed along the margin, while the center was left intact?

I managed to actually take a vacation last weekend and meet up with our very own Tim and Paul to collect Late Devonian verts from PA. I first met up with Paul at Red Hill. When I first arrived at the site I didnt know the person there was him. So I parked and walked into the ditch at the base of the road-cut and immediately spotted a strange form in a piece fallen from above. As it turned out it was a Gyracanthus spine! Gyracanthus sp. Turns out the mystery collector was Paul, who was kind enough to give me a rundown on the site, its geology, and show me the awesome finds he had been collecting. After being there for twenty minutes I was impressed by Paul's fortitude - it was hot, very hot! Red Hill is a difficult place to collect, with the best stuff coming from only one small band of sediments. One must spend hours removing overburden and working the layers back to find the sparse good finds. Paul is exceptionally well versed in the Upper Devonian Catskill material and is a great guy to collect with, even inspiring me to climb up and join him on the side of the cut. Unfortunately the heat was too much for me and I came down after only a short time. A friend of his stopped by, who had several decades of collecting there. His name was Doug and he took me to the small museum in the nearby town to see the Red Hill material that he had collected there. As soon as I figure out how to upload the photos from my phone I'll share pics of the place..it was neat; there has been some incredible things from that site. Afterwards I returned and met up with Tim there (who is also knowledgeable and fun to collect and hang out with. ) My overall impression of Red Hill: Very interesting site, best visited in the fall or early spring, requires dedication, perseverance and patience though to find the good stuff. The next day I rode with Paul to meet up with Tim, Dave Broussard a Professor at Lycoming College, and another teacher named Chris (I didnt get a chance to speak to Chris much unfortunately.) We met at a quarry near Canton which exposed more of the Catskill. Unlike Red Hill, there were fossils every where! And they were all vertebrate fossils too! My first good find is this plate with numerous juvenile (fingerling) Bothriolepis median dorsal plates and head plates. Bothriolepis sp. I learned later when working on this plate that a partial pectoral is also present (but I havent taken a pic yet.) I also found this tooth (impression) of an unknown lobe fin fish I also found a large section of skull plate most likely from Hyneria Scales are the most common fossil at this site. This is a large example (though I cant remember the genus.) By far my best find is a section of jaw from a ischnacanthid acanthodian. When I found this there was only one other from this site, so I donated it to Dave for his research into these fish. Shortly afterwards one was also found by Paul. The teeth were not separate from the jaw bone in the ischnacanthids, though, they were made of dentin. It is doubtful if they could replace a broken tooth. I'll be adding more finds from the quarry as I finish photographing them and cleaning them. We stayed at the quarry til noon, after which Paul had to leave. Dave was kind enough to show Tim, Chris and myself the location of a productive road cut where many scales and placoderm plates could be found. Though he and Chris left after showing us the site, Tim and I collected for a bit. I did pretty good there (as did Tim.) Pieces of the placoderm Turrisaspis were very common. This is the dorsal median plate of one (the dorsal fin if you will) and close-up part of another one This one has the spiny "leading edge" of the pectoral "fins" as well as a partial plate of the rarer placaderm Phyllolepis With the exception of the Phyllolepis bit, all are Turrisaspis sp. Heres an awesome model of Turrisaspis by C. Fredrick Mullison As I work on trimming the blocks I keep making accidental finds, Like these partial Hyneria teeth The top tooth is 1.5cm and the bottom is 13mm. Hyneria sp. And these unidentified fish teeth are fairly common as well . They are considerably smaller and more round for piercing unlike the hyneria teeth which have a sharp edge on the blade. Its not uncommon for the tips to break Thats it for now, Ill keep posting pics as I clean them.

Hi all, me again. Went on an expedition with my dad to show him what I do on my free time . Did some research into nearby formations and saw a promising one was in Gore VA. After casing the place in google maps dad and I arrived there at highway 50 we started on the road cut across from the meeting place. The formation seemed promising from the road, but after finding only the same old brachiopod molds and crinoid stems I saw it as a bust. Not deterred, I set on doing a little more follow up research and found that the Legendary store was nearby. After relocating we started to look and our luck turned around for the better. I bagged two of the biggest and best preserved Trilobites so far. And Dad found some weird things splitting shale that I had no idea what they could be.. Pictures below, any comments, corrections or ID's would be appreciated. This trilobite has a funny story attached to it. I spotted it laying fossil side up in the scree a foot away from my bag after slipping. After laughing at the sheer coincidence of it all I said that this is a lesson to check every rock you can when fossil hunting. on the cliff itself I found this one after splitting open the rock a bit revealing the tail of a trilobite. after careful Extraction, I wrapped the piece in tinfoil and cleaned it up at home. after some light prep work I was giddy to find out that this was a mostly intact enrolled trilobite. while the Cephalon was missing, the thorax and tail were present and folded onto each other. this is easily one of the better pieces I have found. next come the mysteries I have no solid idea if these are anything good or not but I figured I would ask you folks.

The site I work most often (needmore formation in WV) produces a fair amount of what this forum has in the past generously identified for me as goniatites. I’ve noticed some with vaguely star shaped holes seemingly punched in them, although I’ve yet to have the chance to photograph one. Yesterday I came across this partial goniatite impression in situ with a really good example of what I’m talking about. Any ideas of what I’m looking at? It looks (to my amateur eyes) like something that occurred pre fossilization, and they always present just this way (overall star shaped with a penetrating circular hole in the middle, only on goniatite shells). As always thank you for your time.

Here is my collection of small/micro fossils from the Arkona formation in Southern Ontario. Everything here was collected by soaking clay from the Arkona fm and sifting out the solid matrix. I'm sure many of my IDs are way off so please correct me and fill in the unknowns if you recognize anything! Tentaculites Bactrites sp. Left: Tornoceras sp. Right: Maclurites? sp. Left: Holopea? sp. Right: Nanticonema lineata Left: Hormotoma? sp. Right: Platyceras sp. Left: Scaphopods Right: Hyoliths Left: Paracyclas lirata Right: Prothyris? sp. Left: Nuculana rostellata Right: unknown Left: Nuculites triqueter Right: Nuculites pacatus Left: unknown Right: unknown Left: Spirifer sp. and Delthyris sp. Right: Chonetes sp. Left: Cyrtina sp. Right: Cyrtina sp. Left: Camarotoechia sp. Right: Camarotoechia sp. Left: Onniella trigona Right: unknown Left: Terebratula sp. Right: Productella spinulicosta Ostracods Left: Eldredgeops sp. Right: Eldredgeops sp. unknown blastoid Devonaster? sp. arm fragment crinoid fragments

I was just labeling and filing some summer finds from the Solon member/ Cedar Valley Formation/ Devonian of central Iowa. These 4 items have me a little confused, so I am reaching out for knowledge! 1. . 2. 3. 4.

Hello friends! I've had some time to sort through, organize and take photos of fossils from my recent trip to DSR. I have also attempted to ID some of my finds using Lindsey's Devonian Paleontology of NY but have found doing so with the bivalves especially difficult, I'm not sure if that is up to me not having experience with then, them being generally harder to differentiate or a bit of both. Starting off with the lophophorates: 1. This brachiopod is a Chonetid, I initially just thought that it was Devonchonetes which is common at the site but looking closer it looked much more like Longispina mucronata to me, would this be accurate? 2. Next, another Strophomenid brachiopod. Protoleptostrophia perplana? 3. Finally, I believed this one was a hyolith based on the shape and size but @Fossildude19 believed this one may be a nautiloid. I'm still inclined to say hyolith but would like to hear other opinions. I forgot to include a scale here but the shell is about 2 cm long and .5 wide . Pteriomorphs: 4. .I don't have much to say about these, they range in sizes but their form looks quite similar, I am not sure if they are the same species or different. Shell 1 Shell 2 Shell 3 Shell 4 Shell 5 6. This one also looks quite similar to the last few but the shell itself seems a bit more elongated. 7. this one although just a partial was the only one of the kind I found and still pretty well preserved which made me decide to keep it, not sure about the ID though. Pseudoaviculopecten? 8. I'm throwing these in here because I also had them photographed although I don't think these are bivalves, the objects have an iridescence to them and lack any shell detail beyond the wrinkly texture you see here, might these be phyllocarids? Will add more photos soon. Any help is really appreciated, Thank you.

I recently visited a few formations around PA, The Montour preserve pit happened to be on the way and I stopped by, The location was quite picked over as @historianmichael told me, but we did manage to get some nice finds. I will post a trip report later but for now, I want to get some IDs for some of my finds from here and another location. First, is what I thought in the field was a brachiopod but upon closer inspection, I realized that this is probably my first pteriomorph mollusk which is very exciting for me, my question is: Which? I looked through Linsley and multiple look similar, I just don't have enough experience with these to really be able to tell.

It was found in a Devonian exposure in western Virginia. There are orthocones, brachiopods and other aquatic life in the exposure (with some being pyritized), along with other plant fragments in the area.

While going through mostly Amherstburg/Lucas Fm material with some Dundee Fm today, I encountered this fairly large cephalon (~5 cm wide). Odontocephalus (n.sp?) pygidia have appeared in this material, along with Pseudodechenella and Crassiproetus (and just one tiny "Mystrocephala" pygidium). Overall, though, it is miserable, chalk-cherty, bituminous, generally low sedimentation material. It seems a match for Trypaulites, but it seems a bit on the large side (and the exaggerated anterior "prow" gives me pause). Apart from age of the material, I can likely rule out Anchiopsis given the absence of the occipital spine. If it is Trypaulites (making my first cephalon find of this genus), I am not entirely satisfied with making that call more certain on the basis of either images in Ludvigsen or Lespérance. I could be overthinking what could simply be an artifact of preservation or a natural in-genus morphological variation, but always best to get a second opinion.