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From the album: Sponges
6x6cm. divisum zone Kimmeridgian Late Jurassic Lochen Formation From the Upper Danube Valley near Beuron -
I've just added two sponges to my collection which I found recently in the Kimmeridgian Lochen Formation in the upper Danube Valley near Beuron. The first is the appropriately named Melonella radiata and the second is a Trochobolus texatus.
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From the album: Best of 2018 finds - a year in review
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From the album: Brachiopoda
6cm. long. With small Beekite rings. Early Kimmeridgian Late Jurassic Found at Geisingen quarry in Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany -
A nice block of ammonites from the Gräfenberg quarry. Although not very visible on the pictures, the ammonites are actually of a nice dark green, thanks to the glauconite present.
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On my last fieldtrip in France at the pointe aux oies, I found this specimen in the late jurrasic layers on the beach ( Kimmeridgian ). I am not at home with vertebrate fossils, but could this be a fish scale? any extra info is welcome. the specimen is 1.5cm long
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From the album: Marine reptiles and mammals
Unidentified plesiosaur vertebrea Jurassic period kimmeridge clay weymouth, Dorset U.K. -
I had some time to kill again yesterday in the middle of my split shift, so I headed off as usual to the upper Danube valley. Problem was, as I was already halfway there, I noticed that I'd forgotten to throw my tools into the car. What a bummer! Oh well, I thought, might as well just check out the ditches in the area on the chance that something might have fallen down. I can always bang rocks together if need be, and at least I can enjoy the good weather for a couple of hours. As luck would have it, there actually was a small rock fall in one of the ditches, so I managed to retrieve a couple of things. One was an Orthoceras proincondita ammonite and the other a nice multiblock with a couple of ammonites plus a colony of Liostrea roemeri oysters with 7 complete valves and lots of bits and pieces.
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From the album: Sponges
17x16x13cm. Branching sponge. From the Kimmeridgian in the upper Danube valley. -
I took a short trip to the ditch in the Kimmeridgian the other day between shifts and spent a couple of hours digging away, this time to practically no avail. On the way up the ditch back to the car, however, I noticed something which had slipped down from above recently. A good portion of the branching sponge, Cylindrophyma milleporata. It's now residing on the floor in my display room.
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I posted a little report a few days ago about my latest outing to the Danube Valley and now I'm adding this as a sort of after-thought. I had already deposited this sponge in its unprepared condition in the dregs crate since I just didn't have the inclination to clean the matrix out of the interior. Sponges are anyway just a byproduct of my search for ammonites and I always keep telling myself you've already got enough of the things. Well, my grandson was over for a visit the day before yesterday and he spotted it. Now he just loves to putter around in the workshop when he's here, and since we had some time on our hands I figured I could let him have a go at it. He did a pretty good job at hollowing it out before his mother came to pick him up, so I thought I might just as well finish it off. Today I sat down to scrape off the last bits with the stylus and it suddenly broke up into a few pieces. No problem. Just glued them back together and finished it off with the air abrader. I believe it was worth it in the end, since I believe I have a genus which I don't have in the collection yet. I'm not really sure, but at least it looks that way. Sphenaulax sp. ? from the late Jurassic Kimmeridgian. Length: 10cm. Diameter: 12cm.
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From the album: Sponges
Diameter 9cm. Length 8cm. From the Kimmeridgian divisum zone in the Danube Valley, southern Germany. -
The snow had melted back enough in the lowlands that I could venture out to the Danube Valley yesterday in order to try my luck again in the infamous ditch at the side of the road. There was an awful lot of slipped-down overburden to clear out of the way and it also took a while chipping away at the exposure, so my battery was on the wane before I finally found a little pocket with a few retrievable fossils just before darkness set in. Most of what I found wandered into the trade or sell box, but this one here is reserved for my collection. Discosphinctoides sp. 10cm.
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Shell preservation. Attached to an echinoid.
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Hi, Yesterday, I just find with the high tides this vertebrae. It's come from the upper kimmeridge clay of Normandy in France. I know very well the marines reptiles of this age (sauropterygia, ichtyosaurs,etc...) but this vert look very different. Especially with the big furrow at his bottom. I think it's look like a Dino vert but i'm really not sure and I don't know bones of dinos. Could you give me your opinion about it? Many Thanks Carbon.
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In contrast to the present below freezing temps in my homeland, things over here in southern Germany are comparatively balmy at the moment. At least it's well above freezing, there's no more snow below 3000 feet and it only rains sometimes. So I took another trip out to my favorite ditch in the Danube Valley and did a bit of digging to see if I could uncover some more of the not-so-easy-to-reach early Kimmeridgian hypselocelum zone at the site. After an hour or so of scratching away at the overburden, I managed to expose some of it and came away with a few finds. The finds are not quite as spectacular as the divisum zone where I usually do my digs, since the preservation is often not good at all due to the mostly relatively soft clay in the fossiliferous layers, but every once in a while it gets concretionary and the occasional nice thing can then pop out. I found a few small ammonites and as usual in this reef, the sponges were abundant, so I couldn't resist taking along a couple of those as well. Ataxioceras perayense. 4.5cm. Streblites tenuilobatus. 5.5cm. Cnemidriastrum stellatum. 6x7cm. Unidentified sponge. 3x5cm. I had to piece this one back together.
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From the album: Late Jurassic Ammonites from Southern Germany
2 Garnierisphinctes sp. ammonites along with a number of small sponges and some shell bits. 12x8x4cm. From the divisum zone, Kimmeridgian, Lacunosamergel Formation in the upper Danube valley. -
Taramelliceras (Taramelliceras) compsum (Oppel 1863)
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From the album: Late Jurassic Ammonites from Southern Germany
8cm. Steinkern revealing the siphuncle. Divisum zone, Kimmeridgian. Found in the upper Danube Valley. -
At the moment I have the pleasure of accompanying TFF member Jeffrey P and 2 friends on their fossil hunting forage over here in Germany. I've given them a few tips and also managed to free myself up for the day yesterday and took them to the Kimmeridgian site in the upper Danube valley for a bit of digging and delving. I think they were quite content with the experience since they treated me to a nice meal at their hotel afterwards Also Jeff's friend Ralph was nice enough to pass on a well-preserved Taramelliceras sp. ammonite to me as a token of thanks which he had found. He noticed how enthused I was by it, so he graciously offered it to me. At first I thought it was a particular species which I've never found in the divisum zone before, but I realized after closer scrutiny at home that it's rather a Taramelliceras compsum, which occurs there occasionally. Nevertheless, I'm happy to be in posession of it, since it's the largest and best preserved one I have to date and it also distinctly shows the well preserves calcified siphuncle.
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From the album: Late Jurassic Ammonites from Southern Germany
The large one is an Ataxioceras sp., the smaller ones Glochiceras sp., some of which belong to the subgenus Lingulaticeras sp. and the one at the bottom is a Taramelliceras sp. The block measures 14x13x8cm. Divisum zone, Kimmeridgian, late Jurassic. Found in the upper Danube valley. -
From the album: Late Jurassic Ammonites from Southern Germany
The large ammonite is Orthosphinctes polygratus and the smaller ones mostly Glochiceras sp., the one on the left being Lingulaticeras lingulatum and the one on the right Rasenia sp. 12x9x5cm. Platynota zone, Kimmeridgian, late Jurassic. Found in the upper Danube valley. -
Since the new collecting season is opening now that most of the snow has left the more populated areas in the northern hemisphere, I figured I could turn over a new leaf instead of posting in the old thread. For those of you who might not be familiar with it, it's a site in the upper Danube Valley that I've been excavating on and off for a good 2 years now and there's still no sign that it'll be drying up soon. It's in the Late Jurassic Kimmeridgian and most of the finds are out of what we call here the divisum zone, named after the ammonite Crussoliceras divisum, which occurs in it. As the title infers, the site is in a ditch at the side of a road cut. I manage to get out there at least once a month, when not more often and I was just there again this week. Here are some old photos of the site and some of the recent finds. Here is a Garnierisphinctes sp., which, although it has a diameter of 13cm., is still just the phragmocone. And here is a Discosphinctoides sp., also a phragmocone measuring 9cm. Here are 2 smaller ones which I have yet to identify. The second one has an Atreta sp. bivalve attached to it.
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Hello, in the Kimmeridgian of la Pointe du Chay i also found this item. I thought it could be a kind of spondylus withut any clue for the species. It is 2 cm long, 1 cm wide and the "back" of the valve is 0,5 cm high.
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I found that coral in the Kimmeridgian of la pointe du Chay, Charentes-Maritime. I have a documentation that shows some corals of that area and the one that looks like more is the Pseudocoenia hexaphyllia, what do you think it is ? The hole in which it is is about 4 cm on 3 cm.
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