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  1. My first fossil hunt post. Yesterday (May 29 2022), I went down to the Florissant Fossil Quarry in Florissant Colorado. Its about a 45 minute drive west of Colorado Springs. Its a very well know site partly because of the very well preserved fossils and relative abundance but also because of how easy it is. You pay a small fee and they give you the tools and you pick up shale and start splitting, that simple. You're guaranteed to find something if you try. If you are in the area I would definitely recommend stopping by, its just not really on the way to any popular stops. There is also the Florissant national monument, separate from the quarry, where you can see the massive petrified tree stumps and learn about the fossils in the formation. Attached is an image to show you, I did not take this picture since I didn't go to the monument this time. I had gone prior and really liked seeing this giant fossils. It appears as if it is frowning. The "eyes" are sawblades that got stuck when people tried chopping it down over 100 years ago. You can't use a saw to cut a petrified tree this large though. There used to be many more but they were sold to people all over the world many years ago. Walt Disney even bought one for Disneyland. It was a very nice day at 65 F (18 C). This is what the exposure looks like. You are not allowed to collect from the exposure itself, hence the rope blocking it off. You have to settle for the piles of shale shown in front, which still contain many fossils inside the paper thin shale. The most common fossil besides unidentifiable plant material are leaves. Here are the ones I kept. I believe the next three are of the genus Fagopsis, one of the more common ones. They are 5.7, 3, and 3 centimeters respectively. I measured down the stem, I'm not sure how to properly measure a leaf fossil. Do you measure the stem, the slant height, the circumference? No idea. The next one is the largest one I found, a 7.7cm Willow leaf, family Salicaceae. I am terrible at leaf identification, and all the fossils I found this trip really. I looked through The Fossils Of Florissant book by Herbert Meyer, but still am not certain on many of my finds, so if anyone can identify them I'd appreciate it. From the largest leaf to the smallest, this one is only 7mm long, it split cleanly so I have both sides of it. However some material stuck to both sides. Here's some more leaves for you. 2.3cm Koelreuteria allenii, also 2.3cm 3.7cm for the longer one. 5cm Two and a half centimeters. Three centimeters. The next two seem like they would be easy to identify but I couldn't find a similar picture in Meyer's book. The first one is 2.4cm long and the second, 1.5. The detail that is persevered is incredible. It looks just as detailed as a leaf I could find in my front yard. Here's a close up of the leaf above. The "circle" has a 10mm diameter. This one is a winged maple seed, likely Acer macginitiei and is 11mm long. A knot on some wood, only 5 mm long. Here are the insects. Only 1.5mm long. The wings are barely visible. This one looks like a fly, order Diptera. I have both sides, unfortunately the other one isn't very good. Its half a centimeter long. This one is also a fly I'm guessing. Its 4mm long. An odd one, 5mm long. An unknown larva. Its 0.4mm long. Florissant is one of the rare places where eyes can be preserved. And last but not least are the four gastropods I found. They are very tiny but very interesting. The first one is only 3mm wide. It was split open so I have the positive and negative. This one is only 2.5mm wide, possibly the best preserved out of the four though. The "large" one, 4mm long. This one is also about 4mm long. The first and fourth gastropods are a yellow color whereas the other two are a pearly white. That's everything, I hope you enjoyed it. Again, thanks if anyone could ID anything, and thanks for reading this far and looking at the photos. I truly appreciate it.
  2. gutenfrog

    An Odd Florissant Find

    Hi, I last visited this site a while back, after I received some fossil shale from the Florissant Quarry a couple years back. You all were wonderfully kind in responding. Well, I've upgraded my home lab (I've been hunting tardigrades for the last year or so), and I have a solid stereoscope, and I decided to revisit my shale to look for microfossils or things that I'd missed. I came across this section (perhaps half an inch in total); the view is a shot through my stereoscope. To my eye, it's plant material, and it looks like wood cells. From what I understand from Herb Meyer's The Fossils of Florissant (SO GREAT), wood fossils (aside from the huge stumps, of course) are relatively rare. If so, and it might be of interest to folks, I'd be happy to send it along to the Florissant folks. Anyway, thanks for reading, and take care. Brett
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