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From the album: Late Jurassic bivalves of European Russia
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From the album: Late Jurassic plesiosaurs from the Volga
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From the album: Late Jurassic plesiosaurs from the Volga
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From the album: Late Jurassic plesiosaurs from the Volga
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From the album: Late Jurassic plesiosaurs from the Volga
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From the album: Late Jurassic plesiosaurs from the Volga
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From the album: Late Jurassic plesiosaurs from the Volga
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From the album: Late Jurassic ichthyosaurs from the Volga
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From the album: Late Jurassic ichthyosaurs from the Volga
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Hi all! You know I visit my favorite Volga river site (Ulyanovsk Oblast) more or less often, but this time I decided to give a try to another well-known Jurassic-Cretaceous site on the Volga river, located in the nearby Samara Oblast (city of Syzran). It's famous for its iridescent ammonites as well as marine reptile finds. I hoped to discover a real alternative to the Ulyanovsk site particularly as the conditions are very similar: surface collecting on river bank. Here the Ulyanovsk site is to the north, Syzran to the south. The latter is home to two distinct locations: in the city itself (Oxfordian-Volgian, 2km) and by the Kashpir village (to the south): Volgian to Barremian, 4 km.
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Hi all! Those who follow my reports know I was planning another trip to Ulyanovsk in spring. Well, here is the report, in continuation of 1, 2 and 3. This time I was on the shore for 3 days. In short, the weather was fine, the ice abundant, the competition high and the finds scarce. The trip felt more like an extravagant outing than a productive fossil hunt
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From the album: Late Jurassic Ammonites from Southern Germany
ø 9cm. acanthicum zone, Kimmeridgian, Sponge facies. Found in the Upper Danube Valley. -
Ataxioceras (Parataxioceras) effrenatum (Fontannes 1876)
Ludwigia posted a gallery image in Member Collections
From the album: Late Jurassic Ammonites from Southern Germany
ø 9.5cm. hypselocylum zone, Early Kimmeridgian, Lacunosamergel Formation, Lochen Subformation, Sponge facies. From the Upper Danube Valley -
The temps are hovering just above 0°C. right now and there were snow showers predicted yesterday. Nevertheles, my wife noticed that I was beginning to show symptoms of cabin fever, so she just mentioned casually that I could take off if I felt like it. So I did. The Wutach is no place to hang out if snow is on the way, so I thought I'd take a chance with the Danube Valley again. There was a bit of snow in between, but just light sleet showers which were really no bother and none of it stayed on the ground, so digging was no problem. I didn't fancy the idea of bailing out the hole in the divisum zone again, so I walked down the ditch to my excavation in the hypselocylum zone and spent about 6 hours breaking rock. At the end of the day I was quite pleased with the spoils. I'm pretty sure that there should be some nice ones this time. I spent most of the day today cleaning up most of them with the stylus and tomorrow I'll be getting down to abrading them. Here's a photo of the ones I've done so far, which is already the majority of them. Still just a few smaller ones to remove from the matrix.
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Orthosphinctes (Lithacosphinctes) pseudoachilles (Wegele 1929)
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From the album: Late Jurassic Ammonites from Southern Germany
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Orthosphinctes (Ardescia) proinconditus (Wegele)
Ludwigia posted a gallery image in Member Collections
From the album: Late Jurassic Ammonites from Southern Germany
8cm. Limestone mold from the upper Danube valley near Beuron. Kimmeridgian (Malm gamma) platynota zone.-
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Orthosphinctes (Ardescia) desmoides (Wegele 1929)
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From the album: Late Jurassic Ammonites from Southern Germany
7cm. Calcite mold. Kimmeridgium (Malm gamma 1) platynota zone. Found near Beuron in the upper Danube vallay.-
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Orthosphinctes (Ardescia) proinconditus (Wegele 1929)
Ludwigia posted a gallery image in Member Collections
From the album: Late Jurassic Ammonites from Southern Germany
This assemblage shows 2 Ammonites of the same species. It measures 12x12x10cm. Found in the Kimmeridgian platynota zone in the upper Danube valley near Beuron.- 3 comments
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Orthosphinctes (Ardescia) desmoides (Wegele 1929)
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From the album: Late Jurassic Ammonites from Southern Germany
8cm. Steinkern from the Kimmeridgian platynota zone in the upper Danube valley.-
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Orthosphinctes (Orthosphinctes) polygratus (Reinecke 1818) with Glochiceras (Lingulaticeras) lingulatum (Quenstedt 1858)
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From the album: Late Jurassic Ammonites from Southern Germany
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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. -
From the album: Late Jurassic Ammonites from Southern Germany
19x9x8cm. On the right Ataxioceras cf. striatellum & Metahaploceras sp. On the left 2x Ataxioceras sp. From the platynota zone, Early Kimmeridgian in the Danube Valley. -
From the album: Late Jurassic Ammonites from Southern Germany
ø 9cm. divisum zone, Early Kimmeridgian. From the Danube Valley. -
From the album: Late Jurassic Ammonites from Southern Germany
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Hi all! I was finally able to visit the Volga site thanks to a water level/ good weather window. The journey was mostly a success, I got a better understanding of the site, used new means of transportation and examined more of the shoreline. Among the finds were two dozens of marine reptile verts and bone fragments and LOTS of ammonites and other mollusks. Unfortunately the river level was not low enough, 1m higher than during my 1st trip, 0,5m lower than in the 2nd. But it was at least possible to walk the shore. There's still a lot more to do, but now I have a pretty clear idea how to maximize the hunt results for the next trip. The report will be picture-heavy and divided into several blocks I'll be adding in the next few days. Let's start with the scenery.
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