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Hi everyone. Here is a trip report from a recent visit to the Liberty formation in Indiana. I almost exclusively hunted the "butter shale". I made a 3.5 hour drive from Illinois and hunted for approximately five hours. Feel free to drop some IDs if you know them offhand. this is my first time hunting this area so im relatively unfamiliar with the flora. Here is a picture of most of my finds before cleaning: I'll start with the trilobites. I did not do as well as I had hoped in this department, but I did manage to get a few. My best trilobite was about 75% complete and only about half an inch long. I somehow managed to lose that little guy along the way, as he wasnt in my bag when I got home. As for the trilobites that made it home, here are some pieces: Next are some brachiopods. I just want to say how happy I am to have found this first one. It is in such good condition and I love the shape of it: Here are some more images of a few brachiopods I cleaned up. This does not reflect all the brachiopods I found, but shows a good representation of what is present in this formation. Here is one of many horn corals just because: And here is something I do not have an ID on. Anyone have any thoughts on this? Thanks for looking. If I return back the this site, my fingers are still crossed for rolled trilobite!
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I went on a trip with my local geology club yesterday to the Napolean Indiana quarry and it did not disapoint! I found 30+ cystoids as well as a trilobite!
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I live across the street from the Middle fork reservoir here in Richmond, Indiana and earlier today I was looking where the poor off is where the reservoir releases the water and it's a waterfall. I found this. I don't know what it is. Trying to get some help to figure it out
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As I have learned more about fossil collecting I have been limited to surface collecting. But I have wanted to learn how to split shale and what to look for when searching for various cross sections of trilobites, crinoids, etc... in my area. Are there any books or articles I should look through and read, about shale splitting for the Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky area.
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Can someone help me out? Input? It resembles a reptile skull, but not sure it doesn't look like a rock either
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This is an odd one my first thought at first glance was a mammal, but I'm no expert I'm just a curious extremely interested individual who loves the rocks, fossils,gems,stones etc so what u think. I'd love to learn more on how to identify them
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This is a beauty! It's stunning,it has green,pink and sparkles ALOT. Any ideas?
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Beautiful but still a mystery,looked it up CLD be a boundary rock. Any thoughts?
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I have a partial trilobite cephalon that I collected from the Waldron Shale spoils piles at Falls of the Ohio State Park. Since it is not directly from the quarry wall, there is some uncertainty in the stratigraphy, but it is likely Waldron or the overlying Louisville Ls. both of which are right near the border between Lower and Upper Silurian. Hopefully there is enough here to give a shot at an ID. The best I can do is say it could be Metopolichas breviceps but there appear to be some differences. Hopefully someone like @Kane or @piranha or @Ken K can see enough here to have an opinion. If not, "Trilobite Head" it will be called. Thanks for any help. Here it is enhanced a bit hopefully so you can see it better. You can see by the scale that it is under 1 cm wide. My stab at an ID initially came from Halls 1879 publication on the Waldron. Below I have my specimen between the figure out of Hall (on the right) and an example of one from the American Museum of Natural History website (left). The AMNH site says this specimen is the only known complete example which just adds to my doubt on the ID, but I have not found a more common, better match. And lastly, here is a zoom in of the cephalon to hopefully show the small bumps covering it. Thanks again for any help.
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I found multiple pieces of this rock which each vary in size but the shape and structure is the same. There is banding and in the middle of each is a cellular structure looking material. Is this some sort of plant? I am in Mississippian strata Indiana USA
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Cincinnati Museum Center Donations
Sauropod19 posted a topic in Partners in Paleontology - Member Contributions to Science
Hi all! At last Friday’s Dry Dredgers meeting, I handed over the two Ordovician fossils below to Dr. Carl Brett for the Cincinnati Museum Center! Standard business card for scale. This coral, which I have wrongly been identifying as Favosites sp., is from the campus of Hanover College in Indiana, in their Dr. Daryl Karns trail system. This was donated with permission from the Hanover College Geology Faculty. This Treptoceras sp. comes from the US-68 road cut in Maysville, KY, Kope Formation.
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Live in Indiana it has so many pictures of faces and lots of sparkles
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Petrified wood from the creek bed southern indiana
Rothrockbc posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
I have collected so much from this creek over the past 3 years that I want to start documenting and sorting by type. If I could get some help with more specific and correct labeling terms I would be so grateful. I’ll just start with 2 smalls. IMG_2154.MOV IMG_2159.MOV
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Hi everyone! I believe I have found trilobite (or other arthropod) tracks. Photographing was challenging. They are not the best but I believe visible enough to identify…hopefully! I found this in Crawford County, IN. Any help is appreciated!
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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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I’m trying to figure up which direction for this calyx is up. closer view of this side
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Any help here? Looks a lot like some T-Rex teeth I’ve seen. Found in Indiana.
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I found this bone in a field in east central indiana. I did a field test to see if it is a fossil. I am an amateur but I believe it is a fossil. I was told there was a Buffalo lick about 2-3 miles north of where I found this. I am looking for help identifying.
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I found this fossil in southeastern Indiana. Does anyone know what it could be? I figure it's some kind of gastropod but I'm not sure what, I've never seen one like it before.
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Found this the other day and wondering what it is.
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Hello! I’m Ellen B and I’m currently living in far NE Illinois where there is plenty of glacial till and a brevity of outcrops. By day I do computer support now. But I have a MS in geology with a specialty in sedimentary rocks and paleontology. I also am a hobby baker hence my moniker.
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his was found in Spencer Indiana. They are inbedded in slabs of sedimentary rock. It's about the size of a golf ball. When I cut one open, there's a darker color inside. I polished one up and it almost looks like an Agate? They are all at the same sedimentary level in the cliffs so it makes me think it could be a Fossil. Thanks for any help! Jeff
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