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  1. 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!
  2. Tidgy's Dad

    ADAM'S SILURIAN

    Hoooooooooooorrrrrrrrrrrraaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Here we are at last, into Adam's Silurian. Thanks for looking. First up is the Lower Silurian or Llandovery and I begin with a problem. I posted this one incorrectly in Adam's Ordovician as it had got it's label muddled up with an Ordovician Favosites I had that has vanished in the move here, but is being replaced by kind forum member @Herb Anyway, this, I remember now I've found the correct label, is from the greenish Browgill Formation, part of the Stockdale Group from a cutting near Skelgill (Skelghyll) in Cumbria, Northern England. It seems to be a tabulate coral, but I can't find any listed for this location, only mentions of small, rare, rugose corals. It has the star shaped corallites of a Heliolitidid, but seems to be tightly packed together like a Favositidid. A couple of species of Palaeofavosites seem to be close and are a bit star-shaped,, but anyone know any better? @TqB@piranha hmm who else? The coral bit, an external mold, is a maximum of 3.5 cm across and each corallite up to 2 mm.
  3. Hi, please could someone identify this fossil I found in st bees, lake district? thank you!
  4. Hello 👋 I am so happy to have found this forum! I have already gleaned some excellent I formation and look forward to more. I am an avid researcher. If my interest in something, in ANYTHING is piqued, I have to KNOW all there is to know about that particular subject. A blessing and a curse. My curiosity is rarely, if ever, fully satisfied. I have been told by many, many experts that several of the things I have been finding recently are absolutely NOT in Southeast Kentucky amd I MUST be mistaken. Ummm... I live in Southeast Kentucky and most (99%) of what I have found in the past several months has been from an area within 10 miles of my home. So, what am I missing? Only so much can be explained through the occasional drop or glacial deposits. Just in the past 24 hours I have found over 30 small geodes! All between 1 inch and 4 inches in diameter. All within 30 yards of each other. NOT in or near water. Also found were bits of agate, small agate nodules, crinoids, crinoid crusted geodes, loads of Rugose (horn) coral, etc...
  5. Tidgy's Dad

    Coral ID, please.

    I purchased this little rugose horn coral from a fossil, crystal and mineral dealer in Spain a few years back. The label is definitely wrong i at least that it should be Tryplasma loveni. I have T, loveni from the British Much Wenklock Limestome Formation and it looks rather different to this and I don't know of the species nbeing found in Morocco, The specimen doesn't look anything like any Ordovician coral I know, so may be Silurian. Most horn corals in Morocco are Devonian. But this does sort of look Silurian in the colour of its preservation, but that's not a great way to tell. It may not even be from Morocco, maybe Spanish, they sometimes say it's from Morocco as you are not supposed to collect, sell or export fossils in Spain, I think, so they sometimes change the country of origin. I have looked about a bit on the net but cannot find anything that matches, though I think I have seen the species before somewhere. Here are some better photos: Very pointed base: The top: Any guesses most welcome. Tarquin @TqB? Any ideas? Thank for looking everyone.
  6. bockryan

    Rugosa

    From the album: Fossil Collection: DC Area and Beyond

    Rugosa Unknown Unknown Unknown
  7. A recent fossil exploration trip in North MIssissippi resulted in a new Mississippi Fossils YouTube "How to" playlist. I believe I found a horn coral (top) and a crinoid stalk piece (bottom). A small quartz rock is also pictured in the middle. I also think I spotted an embedded oyster shell. darrell barnes
  8. bockryan

    Rugosa

    From the album: Fossil Collection: DC Area and Beyond

    Rugosa Penn Dixie Fossil Park & Nature Preserve, NY Moscow Formation Middle Devonian
  9. Wny_Native

    Horned Coral Example

    From the album: Wny_Native's finds

  10. Wny_Native

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    From the album: Wny_Native's finds

  11. Wny_Native

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    From the album: Wny_Native's finds

  12. Newbie_1971

    met another member today

    I had arrived to do some looking around and a truck pulls up and a guy hops out. He starts getting his gear together and I start up a conversation. While talking he tells me that he had yet to find his first full trilobite. So I tell him that they are there to be found, and start telling him what to look for, and we both start searching. I ended up finding the first one. I left it and called him over for him to see it in situ. After inspecting it we were back to looking some more. We find various other fossils, I believe he even found a crinoid calyx, and a small isotelus pygidium. Anyhow a bit later Ihear him say, look at that, and look over and ask if he found one. He had indeed! He had found his first roller! I was so stoked for him! After congratulating him we hunted a bit longer then took off for a spot that he wanted to show me. Not long after arriving at the new location I found a dandy flexi roller, and a bit later an isotelus in matrix, not sure exactly how much is in there but plan on working on it a bit with the dremel at some point to find out. I am hoping that he will add his finds to this thread once he gets home and gets them cleaned up. I had fun, and it was nice to hunt with someone that has the interest that he does, and we plan on doing more hunting together in the future. The highlight of the day was seeing him find his first trilobite! A few photos from today ... I kept a cool hashplate with multiple types of brachiopods, a horn coral, and a bryozoan colony or coral?? I also found two rusophycus together but forgot it in the vehicle....may take photos of them later.
  13. C2fossils

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    From the album: My best finds (so far)

    Large horn coral
  14. C2fossils

    IMG_2609

    From the album: My best finds (so far)

    Horn coral
  15. Roperbarbie

    Horn Coral?

    Found on the bank of Lake Michigan, Racine, WI - March 2023. Was told possibly a horn coral? I know absolutely nothing about this fossil and was hoping someone could help me out with an exact ID and info. Ever since I was 4yrs old and found several pieces of petrified wood on my great grandpa's land, I've loved collecting rocks! I'm now 60yrs old and still collecting rocks, fossils and indian artifacts . (arrowheads, tools, etc)
  16. Went out today and found ALOT of fossils. A great variety, but the trilobite fragments go me the most excited. I found one section that appears to be in some really soft matrix, and wondering how I should go about getting the fossil/fossils prepped. I am super new, never have prepped, and is the 4th day of collecting. So please keep that in mind. I will add some photos now, and some later. Thanks for looking, and for any advice..... I believe there are 2 or 3 fragments in the matrix of the bottom 2 photos.
  17. When I first found out what Horn Coral is, I thought - "hokey"...who wants a rock Bugles corn chip fossil? Bad call on my part. I looked up Rugose Corals. Britannica says - Horn corals, which are named for the hornlike shape of the individual structures built by the coral animal, were either solitary or colonial forms. Of the many forms known, some are important as index, or guide, fossils for specific spans of geologic time and serve to correlate sometimes widely separated rock units. Now who wants a rock Bugles corn chip fossil? I do! I do! Especially after going to the Red Horn Coral site and finding a few surface pieces. And though Trip One on Saturday was a fossil bust. Trip Three on Sunday had plenty of success potential. Only 44 miles to the southwest and I'm there. Most all of Utah's BLM land road are well groomed gravel. 25-40 mph is doable on smooth straight sections. Anything over 40 is asking for some off road sagebrush bashing. The sketchy part is satellite mapping is fairly 2D and 3D mode is more like a guideline of what the road actually is. This trip involved some research and scoring on a family visiting the west desert looking for these exact fossils. No reinventing the wheel this trip. I basically drove straight to the site..in my Chevy Impala which again would have high centered the important stuff underneath the chassis if I had not driven off center to avoid some sketchy spots. Found a place to park, got my bearings, put on the backpack, grabbed a hammer and went up hill. Horned Toad Lizards and Cacti- that's what our desert is about. And I love 'em both! First ridges of limestone = blank, nothing. hmmmm...have faith brother , have faith. I knew I was in the right spot; within 100 a yard diameter area from where the video I watched was filmed. Just keep looking. Next exposed limestone ridge - BAM! homerun! The rest of the adventure was meat, potatoes, gravy, ice cream and cake! WooHooo! I think there were 4 corals in this pic. Pretty soon I realized I was spotting corals every 5 yards or less and just taking pictures That was good enough for me in that moment. But the best was yet to come. Here is one of my fav small barrel cactus Escobaria vivipara - The Beehive or hedgehog cactus. I have several in my front yard cactus garden. This is large one. Open range cattle grazing keeps about any cactus or plant from lasting very long, Unless it's next to a boulder or on a steep slope. Cows will squish all else. Moving on to Horn Coral. One observation emerged during the search and finding. There were no weathered out specimens that I could find. Maybe a few hidden in the gravel or dirt. My thoughts boiled down to my visual evidence and lack thereof. Theory - As the corals weather out of the matrix they are at the same time weathered to bits. Nothing whole was escaping time and erosion in this desert. The photos I took seemed to support it. Here we go...pics! No gang sign or arthritic pose. I'm trying to point at 3 coral at once. A broken off specimen. A honker! Covered in lichen. Weathering out of the matrix. Severe weathering. A favorite specimen in situ. Note the broken one bottom right. I think the rock fractured and the seam was filled with calcite over time leaving the two pieces offset a bit. Correct me if I'm wrong. I licked it to give it a shine. Another Horned Toad Lizard. Wonder where the dinos went? Right here in my hand - I see an Ankylosaurus in miniature. lol! Okay...Horned Toad, move along nothing to see here, these aren't the Horn Corals you're looking for. Move on. Now to the best of the best, IMHO. I found what I think is an immature or other species of Horn Coral colony. And to top it all off...right before I collected my little treasure trove of specimens, I looked down and saw a mature colony of Horn Corals all buddied up next to each other. AMAZING! to me anyway. And right next to it ANOTHER colony or probably part of the other and ANOTHER just in front of it. All were in bedrock and not collectable, IMO within BLM collecting rules of NO mechanical equipment can be used. Like backhoes or power saws. Just manually powered tools or hands to collect. So the beds/colonies stayed in situ and came home as photographs. This one looks like a smaller loose rock...but no...it's attached to the ridge solidly. When I looked at the images zoomed in the larger colony showed corals on both the left and right side disappearing into the matrix. So more of the colony is unexposed if I'm right. It was the thrill of day and I was reluctant to leave. My keepers are in a milk crate waiting for the prepping to happen. Plus the sledge hammer head. I did a test on one small coral sample with the Dremel 290 - it works! There on the far left. The one on the right broke into 3 pieces and it's getting CA'ed back together. GRF fish in the back under a layer of matrix and some stuff from a quarry in North Carolina collected years ago. A vertebrae - shark or fish?, A bryozoan - I think? and a small Echinoid with the same Bryozoan on it. That's all folks! Til next adventure. Tomorrow is looking like a rain day for Utah...unless I go way west.
  18. I picked up this jasper for its banding. Only later, when checking the rock through my hand lense did I discover what I think are a bunch of little rugose colonial corallites at the top and bottom of this rock. If these are indeed corals, all but one lack most detail in the center. If septa are faintly visible, they look differently preserved than on any of my other coral specimens. Mostly it's just circle after circle here, and areas full of "pores". Now that I'm looking at them on my larger screen, the "pores" themselves seem to be corallites - microscopic ones. The black dots are in the center of honeycomb like shapes. I'm confused now, are these the fossilized remains of one or two type of corals, or maybe a colonial coral and a bryozoan? Sorry about the bad quality and distortion of the pictures taken through a microscope lens on my phone. Please help me ID these tiny hurricane look-alikes. As always, thanks in advance. Here a couple of them in various states of preservation. Lots of them have a vug where the center of the corallite would be. Here the circles look like growth rings and in some areas the "pores" are clearly visible. #1: This one is the only one with detail in the center. Septa? #2: a vug at the center seems all that's left here. #3: Just pores in the center, and in between the circles, maybe the faintest lines that could have been septa? #4: Area in between corals, with faintly visible honeycomb shapes: Detail of the above: Another area in between, looking somewhat different again:
  19. As the title says...almost 3 trips...1.5 on Saturday and a Bonus trip Sunday (separate thread ). The first two attempted trips were busts as far as fossil go but good adventures in the west desert of Utah anyway. Trip One: Fossil hunting target - Horn Coral. Location: The Lakeside Mountain range with Black Mountain being the highest peak there. Distance from home 85 miles give or take. After reading up on the location I quickly realized the directions to find said Horn Coral involves a lot of real estate. Here's the through the windshield shot where I pull off the pavement and follow the right in the fork. Directions are vague after that. Says...drive towards the mountains as far as you can, park the car and start walking up the slopes looking for weathered out coral. OooKaaay...let's see how that goes. Not taking any chances I pulled over at the lowest slope on the left middle and parked. I walked up the slope keeping by eyes peeled for gray funnel shaped rocks. Nice hike to the limestone ridges. Nice scenery. No coral here. Next! I continued mountain wards in that little car you see in the pic...a 2008 Chevy Impala Cop Car. I stopped at every road cut, ditch, ditch bank, ravine, debris flow, exposed rocks, etc. Speed Goat says, nothing to see here, keep moving along pardner. I did. Pronghorn Antelope for those who aren't familiar with this critter. Upward and onward. Found some Bee Plant, stopped the car, popped the truck and black bagged to those guys. Bee Plant, besides being pretty was one of the choice sources for the Anasazi tribes to create black on their white clay slipped pottery. The heat fires the boiled down sap and liquid from the entire plant to may a molasses looking paint. The carbon is left on the pot after firing. I make replica Anasazi pottery in my spare time. Keep moving, Steve-o, the Horn Coral is calling! Off I up further up the hill. And at one point not very far up the hill my Cop car, 2WD, spins a little gravel and I found myself in high center terrain and had to drive left or right of the road grooves with less than a foot of error on either side because of the ditches on both side for snow runoff in the spring. So now I have to figure out how to turn around. That was tricky, about a 6 point turn. Then a two seater OHV drove up and we chatted. First thing the guy says...This road is not real easy for a sedan to go on. I replied that I was just going up a little ways and turning around. So back down I went to explore lower terrain I passed coming up. Lots of little stops here and there. No fossils found on the way down so they must be higher up. Next time, I says to myself, Take on of the Subie Outbacks in the garage. We bought two old Subies for our college kids to drive in snow safely. And two are home commuting to school. Oh well. Here was a neat find. Weighs 6 pounds. Needs a handle. Guess I'll craft one for it. Back to the Chevy and on to the next destination. Trip Two: Thumb Ridge. Off of I-80 West just 25 miles from the first stop which was 85 miles from home. So an easy peasey cruise west. This spot is reputed to hold ammonites so I saved it for my last stop on Saturday. Oh, and later I found from another source about the Horn Coral that I didn't find is that it is indeed up higher between 5800 and 6500 feet. I only made it to 5200' when the hill went too steep for 2WD low center vehicles. The next stop was tricky...my GPS was having struggles getting high res images and cutting out...waahh! So I kept driving to where I think the right turn it. The right turn has a new business with a private property sign on it. A gypsum mining outfit of some sort. So I keep going north and am approaching a security gate for another facility and just before I got to the gate...about 500 yards...I U-turned and went to a similar ridge just south of it for Plan B. Had I gone 450 yards I would have seen the detour road to Thumb Ridge...grrrrr. Next time, always a next time. The ammonites aren't going anywhere. The Plan B ridge was volcanic, Utah and much of the West was busy in the past. Basalt boulder were everywhere and I'm thinking not a fossil location, but a neat hiking spot anyway. There were open pit gravel quarries and saw this multi-ton blob of basalt cobbles covered in calcite like old dried glue. And that was that. I was ready to call it good for the day. Once I got to the highway my GPS service connected and I zoomed in on the map. There was the detour road right near the security gate. Tomorrow is another day full of opportunity. And it surely was.
  20. Next to my laptop at home is a 3X5 card with a list of 6 fossil hunt destinations in random order. With less than a work shift on Happy Friday, I thought about that list and knew there was 4 hours of daylight available if I left work at 3PM. And a close by destination could leave me up to 2 hours of at least scouting said destination. So that was the plan. Leave at 3 and drive east of Salt Lake City to a certain named canyon famous for its red agatized Horn Coral. I did some research and due diligence on the site and discovered the status of the land - US Forestry Land -Unita - Wasatch- Cache National Forest. And that also there is a current mining claim attached to that site - basically the entire top of two hills. Which gives the mineral rights to the Claim Stakeholder. My excursion then became a no dig scenario. So no pick, shovel or rock hammer went up the hill with me. Speaking of hills, it tops out at 8,000 feet above sea level at the summit. That is exactly the point at which AMS ( acute mountain sickness ) kicks my fanny. I've summited several 11K footers here and like clockwork, I pass that 8K foot line and the nausea starts, but I won't go into the details. AMS is cured by going down the mountain. It took me an hour to summit and arrive at the site and the descent was 30 minutes with some trail running in there. It had just rained and despite nylon gaiters, the trail bushes soaked me from mid thigh down. My La Sportiva full ankle hikers have never been so wet - I hike the desert or clear mountain trails. My Marmot pants were quick dry but not the boots. Oh well. I had know idea what to expect except from what I read and saw on FossilDad's thread about his adventure with his daughter to this site. What they found last year must have been the last handful of pieces to be found. However there was a gift from the Fossil Fairy the moment I summited. There in from of me was a full horn coral just laying there. No mistaking the little curved funnel and pattern on the top. Is it red? I don't know. It's still in the bag yet to be cleaned. The time allotted was just under 2 hours to search the exposed areas. Several opinions formed as I wandered looking for something I was not familiar with. Everything was gray, not much red of anything showing. Very, very few if any cylindrical Horn Coral shapes. Here and there were bits of red agate chunks and coral chunks. I picked up both and kept the latter. I scoured 75% of the summit area including the more recent pits found all over, the debris piles, the larger taling piles from a bulldozer and pretty much flipped a bunch of rocks. I was hoping also to find something in the matrix. I did...all busted up stuff. Opinions were randomly formed. "This place is a mess". Pull tabs were everywhere - " A lotta people have been here for many decades." 1975 was the last year of pull tabs. Yet there they lay. That many years and more and that many people - "This site is picked over". At least as far as surface finds go. Digging violates the Mining Claim rules, I do believe. Another opinion arose -"Check the box, Steve" "This is no longer a viable site without digging". "The only way I would go back is with the owner giving me written permission to dig." That's how I saw it. A great excursion all and all. The cows were friendly, I saw two Elk skeletons on the way up, I found some goodies, no injuries...but my knees are stinging a bit, The very first whole Horn Coral specimen was the cherry on top and I got it right when I summited. No AMS, surprised me. I slipped on a cowpie while trail running down. Glissading a cow pie. Now that's something I can check the box on. Didn't fall either. Here's a pic or three. More tomorrow when I clean the goodies a bit. One piece looked like a chicken bone, not horn coral but some kind of coral, I think. And finally a rock for my mountain climbing summit collection - Location, altitude and date are written on them and in the case they go. Steve Washed out recently from a pile is my guess. Maybe, maybe not coral. Not Red Horn Coral... Two for sure! A bowl of unknowns. The target practice shed on the summit. The aftermath. Probably 25% cow pie coating.
  21. Found at the famous Caesar Creek spillway, which exposes the Liberty and Whitewater formations. Thinking Grewingkia canadensis for the horn coral. The brachiopod is not a spiriferid, and is too round for Vinlandostrophia. Four ridges (pictured) suggest Lepidocyclus perlamellosa/Hiscobeccus capax for the calcified brachiopod. And ideas what the circled encrusting bryozoan may be (circled red)? It is not patterned like Escharopora falsiformis--the zooids cells have no pattern, more like Aspidopora sp. Feel free to contest my identification; I am always looking to improve. What are your thoughts?
  22. Scottnokes2015

    Odd corals

    Hi everyone I have these peculiar what I think are corals. Can anyone give me any advice on them and their period as I know nothing about them. Two of them appear to join up. Thank you
  23. Temu

    Rugose Coral fossil?

    Found this yesterday in a creek bed in middle TN - pretty sure it is a rugose coral fossil but would love to know more about it. I am not even qualified to be listed as amateur:)
  24. artur

    Horn Coral cleaning?

    Title says it all, this is my only rugosa fossil and its half in a martrix, how would I go about removing my peice from it? What tools would I need, and is it possible? Thanks in advance!
  25. Misha

    Silicified horn coral

    From the album: Lower Devonian fossils

    Enterolasma strictum? Solitary rugose coral Lower Devonian Glenerie Limestone Tristates group Eastern NY
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