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Tornoceras mosopleuron (goniatite) Middle Devonian Mount Marion Formation Dave Elliot Bed Marcellus Shale Hamilton Group Hannacroix Ravine Clarksville, NY. -
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Tornoceras mosopleuron (goniatite) Middle Devonian Mount Marion Formation Dave Elliot Bed Marcellus Shale Hamilton Group Hannacroix Ravine Clarksville, NY. -
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Hunting Devonian Cephalopods in Hannacroix Ravine, Albany Co., NY.
Jeffrey P posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
Today I returned to Hannacroix Ravine, a site in Southern Albany County, NY. (Helderberg Plateau) I last visited over three years ago. It is a beautiful site along a narrow cliff lined ravine, however it is tough to get to requiring a steep decent from the road and making one's way through thick prickly bushes and downed trees. No wonder why I've avoided this place in favor of road cuts and quarries. The stream itself was barely flowing, more just a series of shallow pools and mud. It was a cool, sunny day (temperatures in the 40s and later low 50s), but perpetually shady in the deep ravine. I was collecting from deep water strata in the Dave Elliot Bed, part of the Mount Marion Formation which is part of the Marcellus Shale which forms the lowest part of the Middle Devonian Hamilton Group. The rock was primarily siltstone, not terribly hard to remove decent sized pieces from the wall which hung precariously overhead. I was forever fearful a bunch of it would collapse and land on me. Some pieces did come down on their own, but none came close to hitting me. Biodiversity is very limited here: some small bivalve shells and goniatites and straight-shelled nautiloids. There appears to be even less diversity than the Dave Elliot deep water site near Kingston. Spent about six hours- the first four were mostly a dud, but in the last two found some nice goniatite and nautiloid specimens. Did even better than I did the last time I was there. The prize was this goniatite, Tornoceras mosopleuron, the best one I've collected from this site and better than any of the ones I've found at the Kingston site.
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Maclurites (gastropods) from the Chazy Limestone,Clinton Co., NY.
Jeffrey P posted a gallery image in Member Collections
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Maclurites (gastropods) Ordovician Chazy Group Chazy, NY. -
Rhynchonellid Brachiopod from Madison Co., NY
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Camarotoechia congregata (Rhynchonellid brachiopod) Middle Devonian Skaneateles Formation Delphi Member Hamilton Group Cole Hill Rd. North Brookfield, NY. -
Bryozoan Encrusted Gastropod from Madison Co., NY.
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Palaeozygopleura hamiltoniae (gastropod encrusted with bryozoan) Middle Devonian Skaneateles Formation Delphi Member Hamilton Group Cole Hill Rd. North Brookfield, NY. -
Bryozoan and Trilobite Pygidium from Madison Co., NY.
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Atactotoechus fruticosus (bryozoan) and Dipleura dekayi (trilobite pygidium) Middle Devonian Skaneateles Formation Delphi Member Hamilton Group Cole Hill Rd. North Brookfield, NY. -
Two Partial Dipleura Trilobite Cephalons From Madison Co., NY.
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Dipleura dekayi (two partial cephalons) Middle Devonian Skaneateles Formation Delphi Member Hamilton Group Cole Hill Rd. North Brookfield, NY. -
Can anyone help identify this specimen? It's all of .5 by .25. It came from the Buffalo River in Elma, by Bullis Road, and it's from the Middle Devonian. I want to think it's a placoderm tooth, I'm looking for more experienced collectors to confirm or reject that. Joel
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Ventured up to Manhattan last weekend to tour the American Museum of Natural History, which is currently one of the largest dinosaur exhibits on the planet. I hope you enjoy the photos as they were take on an iPhone 6 and the lighting might be off in a few spots. For starters here's picture of myself next to a massive Tyrannosaurus Rex cast. I believe the head in the glass box on the left is a real head.
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Hi, I collected these yesterday near Kingston NY (rte. 209) If any one could help with ID I would be most grateful! Thx- Dave
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Fall is here! For me it is time to get out my fly rod and head up to Pulaski New York. Right now the annual salmon run is taking place. The past couple years have not been the greatest for catching fish during the run. With this years dry weather I was expecting more of the same. The water levels are running very low compared to what is normal for this time of year. Despite this fact last weekend I have 3 salmon and 1 steelhead on my line, which unfortunetly got away. Yesterday I had an epic battle with a very large king salmon who after a few minutes of dragging me all over the river broke off. When I got my line in the end was all chewed up from the rocks. I thought my hopes were dashed of catching my first salmon on a fly rod. You see while I have landed many different types of fish with a fly rod I had yet to land a salmon with one. So this was a personal goal for me. One which has eluded me for the past couple seasons. Until yesterday when I hooked up with a nice healthy Coho salmon. Not as big as a King and not an epic battle, but I accomplished my goal none the less. Here are some pics.
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I have had this specimen for 30 or more years in a disorganized collection of rocks, shells and fossils. I am not sure if I found this in 1983 on the coast of Oregon, near Newport (where I also found some Pelecypods), or if it was in 1988 in a dry creek bed in DeRuyter, NY (south of Cazenovia, which is South and East of Syracuse). I thoroughly bummed that in my last and I hope final move this piece cracked and when I went to photograph it last night, it broke! Oh, and yeah, that is a golf ball I am using to show size, I couldn't find a single coin around! Photo #1 oblique angle, #2 birds eye view. Any ID help welcomed. Susan B.
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Hello! I just moved to Florida and finally settled in, and as I was unpacking, I realized that I had several fossils in my rock collection that begged for their own separate display. Which made me study them up close again. And wonder what they were! So, googling around, I found out that my "mud clams" are pelecypods, and a "wavy" piece of rock is a fossilized turtle shell. And so I am here on the Forum to learn even more!
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Photographed by Jay A. Wollin © 2016
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Prepared and photographed by Jay A. Wollin. © 2016 Green, J.M. (1832) Monograph of the trilobites of North America: with coloured models of the species. J. Brano Publishing, Philadelphia, 93 pp. Emmrich, H.F. (1839) De Trilobitis: Dissertatio petrefactologica quam concensu et auctoritate amplissimi philosophorum ordinis. Berolini: Berlin, 56 pp. Struve, W. (1990) Paläozoologie III (1986-1990). Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg, 127:251-279
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From the album: Middle Devonian
Pseudoaviculopecten princeps (bivalve shell) Middle Devonian Mount Marion Formation Marcellus Shale Hamilton Group Route 209 Wurtsboro, NY. Though tiny, this is the largest, most detailed specimen I've found so far. -
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Sulcoretiporina incisurata (bryozoan) Middle Devonian Moscow Formation Windom Shale Hamilton Group Deep Springs Road quarry Lebanon, NY. Though tiny, this is the largest, most detailed specimen I've found so far. -
Pleurotomarioidea Gastropod from Madison Co., NY
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Glyptotomaria capillaria (gastropod) Middle Devonian Moscow Formation Windom Shale Hamilton Group Deep Springs Road quarry Lebanon, NY. Though tiny, this is the largest, most detailed specimen I've found so far. -
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Grammysioidea arcuata {bivalve shell- both valves) Middle Devonian Moscow Formation Windom Shale Hamilton Group Deep Springs Road quarry Lebanon, NY. -
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Pholadella radiata {bivalve shell) Middle Devonian Moscow Formation Windom Shale Hamilton Group Deep Springs Road quarry Lebanon, NY. -
Strophomenid Brachiopod from the Marcellus Shale, Madison Co., NY.
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From the album: Middle Devonian
Protoleptostrophia perplana (brachiopod shell) Middle Devonian Oatkacreek Formation Mottville Member Marcellus Shale Hamilton Group Morrisville, NY. -
Heterodonta Bivalve from the Marcellus Shale, Madison Co., NY.
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Paracyclas rugosa (bivalve shell) Middle Devonian Oatkacreek Formation Mottville Member Marcellus Shale Hamilton Group Morrisville, NY. -
Palaeoheterodonta Bivalve from the Marcellus Shale, Madison Co,, NY.
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From the album: Middle Devonian
Modiomorpha concentrica (bivalve shell) Middle Devonian Oatkacreek Formation Mottville Member Marcellus Shale Hamilton Group Morrisville, NY. -
Middle Devonian Nautiloid Pieces from Marcellus Shale, Madison Co., NY.
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From the album: Middle Devonian
Michelinoceras sp. (nautiloid pieces) Middle Devonian Oatkacreek Formation Mottville Member Marcellus Shale Hamilton Group Morrisville, NY.
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