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I am fortunate enough to have such a huge amount of Middle Devonian Givetian material that I thought it best to put the older Middle Devonian stage, the Eifelian, in its own thread. There are some spectacular fossils here as well though! I thought a good place to start would be in the Formosa Reef, which I believe is quite early Eifelian. This tabulate coral and stromatoporoid reef continues similar complexes found from the Middle Silurian, see my: https://www.thefossilforum.com/topic/84678-adams-silurian/page/3/ thread from page three onwards for details. All these Formosa Reef specimens come from a delightful gift from my good friend @Monica who is a tad busy with life at the moment but is fine and still thinking of the forum. This outcrop can be found on Route 12 near Formosa/Amherstburg, Bruce County, Ontario, Canada. This beautiful-looking specimen came to me with only a third of it revealed but I managed to get it this far after nine days of painful pin prepping. Monica found another one and posted it for ID here: https://www.thefossilforum.com/topic/105528-weird-circular-imprints-formosa-reef-lower-devonian/#comment-1172285 The specimen was identified by another Canny Canadian @Kane to be the little stromatoporoid sponge Syringostroma cylindricum. Hardly a reef-builder, but gorgeous nonetheless. It does have a little thickness to it, but not much. Beautiful! Pretty thin, actually. I love this Monica, thank you!
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As most of you are probably aware by now, I've spent some time recently in Ontario due to family matters. Things have taken care of themselves and I'm back home in Germany again. After the family activities had settled down, I was able to visit a couple of sites and also my good friend Kane. I would have liked to have spent time with Monica and Viola and Malcolm, but unfortunately that didn't work out this time around. Anyway, with the help of Kane's directions, I was able to visit the roadcut in the Amherstburg Formation's Formosa Reef just north of the town of that name and also managed to dig up some of the more typical fauna. The site as seen from across the road. Typical breakage. Although the stone is relatively hard, it splits quite well. Emmonsia emmonsi Spiniplatyceras sp. Dawsonoceras cf. americanum Acleistoceras cf. hyatti Proetus (Crassiproetus) crassimarginatus. Pygidium and Cranidium. The next day I went to visit Kane and Deb. Deb really cooked up a storm and Kane took me off to show me his "backyard" site in the "relocated" Dundee Formation and also gifted me a few nice things. Maclurites sp. Hippocardium cuneus Ecterocrinus simplex He also gifted me a Conularia but it unfortunately wouldn't allow me to prep it. On the next day I followed Monica's directions to a spot on the Etobicoke creek in the Ordovician Georgian Bay Formation. There were lots of bivalves, nautiloids and gastropods to be seen, but I settled for the lil' ol' trilobite pygidium and spent a lot of time observing birdies bathing. Ambonychia radiata and Flexicalymene granulosa Oh yes! I almost forgot to mention that I found an egg, albeit a recent one, but nevertheless, it was well-preserved. So that was that for my fossilized adventures this time. 2 days later I was on my way back home.
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From the album: Corals
8x7cm. Formosa Reef, Amherstburg Formation, Middle Devon. Found at a roadcut on Rd.12 north of the town of Formosa, On., Canada. -
Proetus (Crassiproetus) crassimarginatus (Hall 1843)
Ludwigia posted a gallery image in Member Collections
From the album: Trilobites
Cranidium 2cm. Formosa Reef, Amherstburg Formation, Middle Devon. Found at a roadcut on Rd.12 north of the town of Formosa, On., Canada. -
Proetus (Crassiproetus) crassimarginatus (Hall 1843)
Ludwigia posted a gallery image in Member Collections
From the album: Trilobites
Pygidium 2cm. Formosa Reef, Amherstburg Formation, Middle Devon. Found at a roadcut on Rd.12 north of the town of Formosa, On., Canada. -
From the album: Nautiloidea
2cm. long. Partial. Formosa Reef, Amherstburg Formation, Middle Devon. Found at a roadcut on Rd.12 north of the town of Formosa, On., Canada. -
From the album: Nautiloidea
6x3cm. Formosa Reef, Amherstburg Formation, Middle Devon. Found at a roadcut on Rd.12 north of the town of Formosa, On., Canada.
