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  1. Darktooth

    Herkimer Diamonds 10/28/2023

    I meant to post this shortly after the trip, but I was busy at the time and forgot. So last October I went on a fieldtrip with my local club, to one of the newer Herkimer Diamond mines. I hadn't been to one in many years and we got a chance to go for free. For those who may not know. Herkimer Diamonds are in fact, double terminated quartz crystals. They are found in only a few places in the world. The ones from New York are regarded as being of the best quality. A few mines have opened up in recent years. The one we went to, is in the middle of the woods. While I did not find any really big ones I found many small ones on great quality that I wanted to share as they are quite beautiful.
  2. A couple weeks ago I was on a fossilunt with my friend Stephen to a Devonian locale near Canandaigua Lake. This was a new spot to me, but is a known spot located on private property. This area is known for crinoids and large Eldredgeops, some up to 3 inches. I went with Stephen and his friend Gary. We arrived shortly after 9am. We parked in the owner's drive way and had a fairly long walk across to cow pastures to get to a creek located in the treeline at the back of the 2nd pasture. This is a Hamilton Group Moscow Formation Middle Devonian site. Crinoid pieces were very abundant in certain layers as well as trilobites in other layers. I found a fewtrilos mostly complete but covered in matrix. Gary found a decent roller. Some rather large corals were found by Stephen. I enjoyed collecting some Naticocema lineata gastrops as these were new to me. I didn't bring a ton of finds home but I was happy with my haul. I am posting pics of my finds, but will post more when I have a chance to take other pics. Some of my finds do not photo well.
  3. Hello! I'm from Austria and my girlfriend is from the US (NY) and we both share a love for fossils. We have some passed from the family or bought (ammonites, shark teeth, a sliced fish) but we'd really like to start hunting for them, in or around NY for now, and in Europe in the future. We look forward to learn a lot about the hobby, and would love to hear from New Yorkers! Very excited to discuss with y'all
  4. ClearLake

    Penn Dixie Ostracod Aechmina??

    I have another very small fossil from the Moscow Group at the Penn Dixie Park in Erie County New York. I believe this is the long-spined ostracod Aechmina, but I am open to other suggestions (trilobite piece, brachiopod spine, etc???). This is very small as you can see in the measurements below (less than 1 mm) and is in the matrix, I have scraped away as much matrix as I dare at the moment and to me the lower edge in the pictures looks like it is a natural (unbroken) edge and is the end of the fossil. I would like to expose a bit more at the top, where the hinge line should be if it is an ostracod, but have not dared to do that yet due to small size and potential fragility. @Acryzona has shown a specimen of this genus from the Devonian at Paulding (https://www.thefossilforum.com/gallery/image/57600-aechminajpg/) and Hall in a very old publication reported the genus from the Devonian of New York (the old drawing did not look much like this specimen), but I have not found any specific mention of it from Penn Dixie. Any Penn Dixie or ostracod experts, or anyone else care to voice an opinion? I appreciate all suggestions.
  5. Okay so I found this specimen at the Taughannock Falls in Ithaca New York. I found it at the edge of the gorge which consists of shale, composed of slit and clay that fell onto lime mud and hardened into rock. I've done some research and it appears to be a Brittle star trace fossil formed by their arm grazing the sand floor. Although, these Brittle Star fish traces are known as "Pteridichnites biseriatus" and they have only been discovered so far in upper Devonian shales out in western and eastern Virginia. I'm not an expert but to my knowledge the Ithaca geological formation is Devonian and was slowly covered by sand. Is it possible that the Brittle Star fish once roamed in the ancient sea now known as "Taughannock falls" today? Because a research team is trying to find this specimen and they are wondering if anyone has discovered it. Edit: Im referring to the dotted trackway. check this link out for more information. http://www.wvgs.wvnet.edu/www/news/Pteridichnites.htm
  6. ClearLake

    Penn Dixie Lunulicardium? Bivalve

    Here is a quick and (hopefully) easy question for all you Penn Dixie (New York, Erie County) or bivalve experts out there. In going through some of the material I collected last summer, I came across this very nice, but small (1.1 X 1.0 CM) bivalve. It looks most like Lunulicardium eriensis figured on page 160/161 of Wilsons Field Guide to the Fossil of New York. But the book lists it as from the Upper Devonian Canadaway Group and I can't seem to find any reference to it (after a quick search) from the Middle Devonian Moscow Group present at Penn Dixie. My question is: is my ID incorrect or did I just not dig deep enough to find reference to it from Penn Dixie or the Middle Devonian? Thanks for any help. @Fossildude19 @Kane, @Jeffrey P and any others.
  7. Hello everyone, I'm quite new here but it was recommended I come to this site from another site. I've never fossil hunted before, but I know a fair amount about paleontology due to a personal interest in the topic. I would like to learn fossil hunting, but with a group of people who are knowledgeable about the matter. I'm wondering if anyone knows of groups that do fossil hunting in the New York or Philadelphia area?
  8. I found this in orange county, Hudson valley NY. The specimen is approximately 6 inches in diameter. It has little tunnel like holes in it and this ridged fossil. Could this be a coprolite? Is the fossil a wing, or could it be plant material? Thank you for your help!
  9. Today, I went on a quick early morning fossilhunt. I have been anxious to get out hunting, any chance I can considering how mild winter has been so far. I decided it would be best to start today with little, to no expectations and just see what the day would bring. At about 3:30am I woke up to use the bathroom and when I played back down all I could do was toss and turn. So I did that until about 5:15 and I finally got up. Got to the hunting grounds about 7am, just as the sun was making it's presence known. Unfortunately it was only 20° at the site. There was some snow covering the site as well as ice. Obviously this made digging and splitting slabs a real chore. So much so the there wasn't a whole lot I could do. I was hoping that with the sun out maybe it would eventually warm things up enough to make digging a little easier. So for the first 2 hours i kinda putzed around surface scanning and flipping slabs over, looking for something worthwhile. Eventually I started trying to remove slabs. I was actually starting to make a bit of progress, but then the ground got hard again. While trying to remove the slabs, I picked up a small chunk of matrix that fell off. As I inspected the piece carefully I noticed a small Dipluera pygidium and partial thorax exposed on the very edge of the break. I could tell that the rest of it was underneath some matrix. I would of normally been static but the area where the Dipleura was sitting was pretty fractured and I didn't really think I was going to be able to extract it without the whole thing crumbling apart. But I put it in the truck and decided to give it a shot when I got back home. Other then that I only brought home a bivalve and a brachiopod. There really wasn't anything else worth keeping. When I got home I inspected the trilo very carefully and looked at every fracture going around it, I started breaking off small bits of matrix till it got to the point where all that was left was the portion covering the front half of the trilo. I took my angle grinder and made a notch. Then I took a screwdriver, twisted and popped off the top! That is when I got very excited! Now I have found Dipleuras smaller then this one, but this is the smallest one the I have found in this good of condition. It measures at 1 7/16 of an inch. Totally made the trip worth it! Here is before and after pics.
  10. I am getting ready to leave for a fossilhunt this morning. I am heading to the Rochester Shale, to dig up some Silurian treasures. Currently waiting on a friend to get here and then we will make our journey. I am very excited to get out today. I will post a report when I get back!
  11. trilobites_are_awesome

    Dalmanites limulurus

    From the album: My trilobites

    This is a Dalmanites limulurus From the Rochester shale Middleport NY. I bought this one from a friend it is probably my best trilobite.
  12. Tidgy's Dad

    Adam's Early / Lower Devonian

    The Devonian period is known as "The Age of Fish", but could also be known as "The Age of Brachiopods." In the Early / Lower Devonian, brachiopods reached the height of their diversity towards its end in the Emsian. We see the ancestral groups occurring, lingulids, craniids, orthids, protorthids, pentamerids, rhynchonellids and strophomenids, as well as the later successful groups we have seen before such as atrypids, athyrids and orthotetids, plus the rise of spiriferids, spiriferinids and productids and the beginning of the terebratulids. By the end of the Devonian , several of these groups are extinct or severely reduced in importance and brachiopods never quite recover. Also, the Devonian is the last time we see trilobites with such variation, large sizes and numbers and orthocerids too are much more uncommon after the rise of the goniatites. The massive tabulate coral reefs also disappear after the Devonian. Fascinating period and I hope to share some of its wonders with you. Equally, a lot of this is rather new to me, so I would be very grateful for any assistance, corrections or further information on my specimens. Thank you. The Early Devonian epoch is split into three stages, so let's start with the first of those, the Lochkovian, that began about 419 mya and finished roughly 411 mya. I have been sent a nice selection of brachiopods from the Kalkberg Formation, Helderberg Group by the Mighty @Misha, mostly. But the kind gentleperson also sent me this fascinating little bryozoan hash : It is dominated by fenestellids, which is usually the case in the Devonian, but other orders sill occur. These ones, I think, are Fenestella, but there are so many species in the formation that I wont take a guess as to species : Not sure what this one is ;
  13. svcgoat

    Fossils from upstate New York

    Got these for not very much at an online estate sale most money went to charity so thought I'd gamble. Three questions What are these? Can I prep anything out? Should I try and carefully split any of these rocks? Each photo has at least one picture of the whole rock and then zoomed in of interesting looking things
  14. Hello Everyone! I managed to get out to hunt for fossils twice this week with today being absolutely awesome. Tuesday I went out with my friend Mike, in hopes of finding Trilobites. Had a great time even though I didn't find any whole Trilos. Mostly Cephalons and Pygidiums. I found a few decent brachiopods. Even though I didn't have much luck it was nice to get out with a friend and enjoy the day. And I was happy for Mike as he found 2 Greenops that I believe are both whole. He has only found 1 complete Eldredgeops in the past so this will be a nice edition to his collection. But today was a whole different story. I invited a few people to come with me today, but they all backed out. So I ended up going by myself. I left the house about 5:30 am. I was not happy when it started raining especially because the forecast didn't call for it. Thankfully when I got there it was just sprinkling and it stayed that way for the 5 and a half hours that I was there. I started my hunt finding alot of decent bivalves, which are not my favorite but were decent enough that I kept them.every once and awhile I would find a trilo head or tail but nothing special. Then eventually I found what appears to be a disarticulated Dipluera, though it might be whole and is mostly under the surface of the matrix. A little while later I find a roller which I believe is complete. Then I lift up a slab and find Dipluera cephalon and part of the thorax stuck to the bottom upside down. I looked down and saw the negative which was complete but the rest of the trilo had fallen off disintegrated. Oh what a Heartbreaker! But I kept going and then I found another roller that is whole except for a portion of the tail came off. Then I found a thorax and pygidium and I am not sure if the cephalon it buried in the matrix or not. Shortly after that I found a negative of a different Dipluera thorax and pygidium, but no matter how much I searched I couldn't find the positive. Also in the mix is a complete Greenops and a partial. I found a huge bivalve, probably the biggest that I have ever seen. I will have to post it in the id section when I get a chance. I should mention that all of the Dipluera's are small and they all need to be prepped, including the Greenops. But what a day! I definitely left there satisfied. Without further adoo here are pics for your viewing pleasure!
  15. Darktooth

    Devonian Brachiopod ID

    I have a find from my hunt last Tuesday that has me stumped. As I took a break from pounding rock I took a walk around the site to surface scan the surroundings. I saw a slab with a high concentration of spiriferids. I decided ti try to break the grouping off the slab. This resulted in a Mystery (for me) brachiopods coming out with one of the spiriferids attached as well as some imprints. The item does not photograph well but hopefully someone can make out what it is. It measures 3 inches across. Found in Middle Devonian Hamilton Group Moscow Formation. @Fossildude19 @Jeffrey P
  16. Went fossil hunting yesterday at a few spots in New York. I found them mostly via old threads and directions here on the forums, and needless to say, I was not disappointed!! The first site I visited was a quarry off the road in Lebanon. Everywhere you looked, there was something, to the point where if you selected a rock off the ground at random, you were almost guaranteed to have found a fossil embedded within it. Most were old shells and imprints, though I was also lucky enough to find two small trilobites! One was only the head, but seemed well preserved and stood out as it wasn’t embedded in a large rock. I also found a few crinoid stems, as well as a large leaf fossil. The second areas we visited were along the roadsides of Rickard Hill. These had more crinoid stems than the last site, and overall more sturdy fossils. There was another one that looked similar to a trilobite, but this one was halfway in the rock, so I’m not entirely sure (I wrapped this one up already, but I’ll try to send a photo when I get home for clarification). Both places were amazing to visit!! I’ve attached a couple of photos below. If anyone sees anything I missed, that’d be great too!
  17. Nautiloid

    Tully Basidechenella

    From the album: Nautiloid’s Trilobite Collection

    Basidechenella sp. from the Middle Devonian Tully Limestone of Central NY. This is one of my favorite trilobites in my collection.
  18. Today I was fortunate enough to get back out on another fossilhunt. Even though I went to bed later then I wanted about 3:50 am I woke up and tossed and turned for the next hour. I was very excited to get back to the site after last week's fun. So I ended up leaving a bit earlier than originally planned. I stopped to get myself a breakfast sandwich and when I got back in my car, a feeling washed over me that today I was going to be lucky. Of course I feel that way everytime I go hunting, but it doesn't always happen. The ride was dark and foggy. This time of year you really have to pay attention to the deer population. We have many in New York and it is now hunting season. So they are very active between sunset till sunrise. Surprisingly I didn't see many on the way there, but just missed a small one that ran in front of my car on the way home. I arrived at 7 am as it was just starting to get light. But between the fog and clouds it was rather gloomy. It started sprinkling but I read the weather report so I was prepared. I was glad to find the area just the way I left it last week. I wanted to work the same spot, but just go deeper. Things started off kind of slow. With the exception of a decent Dipluera cephalon all I was finding was many of the common smaller Brachiopods and Bivalves. But then it happened! I was lifting up a rather big slab, when I flipped over had half of the negative from a Dipluera. The positive was under a bunch of muddy water due to the rain, so I couldn't even see it. It took me awhile to get the water to drain so I could see what I was working with. Once the water was gone I see the back end of the trilo. I could tell that the front half was still attached to the piece I pulled of the top. Even though it was broke I was excited. I figured if I could get both halves, the trilo could be glued back and prepped. Unfortunately when I tried to remove the bottom portion the trilo broke into a bunch of pieces. I tried to not let this ruin my day. I have done this long enough to know that when you find a decent Dipluera there are usually others close by. So I continued working on removing slabs. I don't think more the 10 -15 minutes went by maybe 3 or 4 pieces of rock, when it happened again! I lifted up a slab, flipped it over and there was a complete negative of a Dipluera! I looked down and in the back corner of where I was digging was the positive! My heart was pounding! Now if I could just remove it without it falling apart like the first one. And I needed to move quick before the rainwater started to accumulate to much around the trilo. After a few minutes of careful extraction: success! I came out unbroken! This really meant alot to me today. Most of those who know me know that I have found alot of these over the years. I have either sold, traded, or given away as gifts all that I found. So it is nice to be able to have one in my collection again. After I pulled out this Dipluera there was also a Greenops laying in the same general area. After removing that I was pretty satisfied and only stayed a little while longer. I was tired and the rain was starting to really soak through my clothes. So all in all I had a pretty good day. Here are some pics. 1st- what it looked like when I arrived. 2nd- my truck "The Fossil Mobile" 3rd- Dipluera in-situ
  19. Friday I was able to take advantage of having the day off from work with no Honey-do list to bog me down. What is a Man to do? Go on a fossilhunt of course! It had been awhile since my last hunt in New Jersey so I was due. I almost didn't go as I wasn't feeling the best, but I decided not to let that ruin the day. I spent about 5 hours digging in 30° weather. It did snow for about the last hour or 2, but it didn't bother me. I moved alot of rock and was rewarded with some Goodies. My favorite finds were some Greenops trilobites. Also found some nice brachiopods and bivalves. There is some plant material found at the site. So far I had only found single isolated branches but this time I found a piece with multiple branches. I hope you will enjoy!
  20. So my son and I have been looking almost exclusively for signs of vertebrate life in Pennsylvania and almost exclusively and obviously in road cuts. My goal this year is to expand a little. I would like to visit Gilboa, site of the earliest known forest! That part of eastern NY state was the shoreline of an inland sea in the Appalachian basin during the middle Devonian. Many field trips are described here of fossils from that inland sea but almost exclusively invertebrate. I know in the past fossils have been found but I'm wondering if anything recent? I would assume if someone has a site they probably don't want to share specifics but just looking for what if anything people have found?
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