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HI! My name is Dawn. I am brand new to fossils hunting. Well truth be told I have always had my eyes open for rocks and minerals and fossils. But this week I have begun actively seeking them. This week I have gone hunting twice. Both are here in northern Ohio. Both are from rock quarries that .. I have been told.. bring up fossils from the Devonian period. NOW. I have not been very successful so far. Well I have found many many fossils. IN these quarry trash piles you'd have to be totally unaware to not find fossils. They are just..... not whole... not pretty... just kinda blah fossils.......(if you could actually feel blah about anything as old as these fossils). I did find a trilobite thorax a couple days ago but its not whole. And today I have found several shells not fully whole but some nice looking stuff. However the shells want to ...fall apart. The "legs" are falling off my trilobite. I DO NOT KNOW WHAT I AM DOING!!! HELP!!! (feel better now.) Could someone please direct me as to the tools I need for collecting. The proper technique I need for hunting and gathering fossils. The tools I need for gathing fossils. What a freshly found fossil looks like and what ti looks like when it has been ....properly prepared? How do I clean them. What do they look like laying on the ground. Could you just come do it for me. NO not really. I am so into gathering fossils but I am sooo clueless. Could someone give me a clue or tell me where to get one. I have been waiting my whole life to do this. These Devonian sites are just the start (I hope). I would be so grateful for any assistance.
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Hey everyone, I'm touring colleges in Ohio from tomorrow to Tuesday and I wanted to know if there would be any opportunities to go fossil hunting in areas nearby the colleges I'm looking at. I'll be touring them in this order- -Wittenburg University in Springfield, OH -Denison University in Granville, OH -Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, OH -The College of Wooster in Wooster, OH Let me know if there are any good sites that would be accessible in these areas. Thanks, PN
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I was working out a trade with a fellow member and they very graciously pointed out that this is not an Eldredgeops pygidium as I thought, but instead a proetid pygidium. From the Silica Shale in Paulding, OH. The only proetid from Paulding my searches turned up is Pseudodechenella. Any thoughts?
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Hello, my name is Michael. Been a long time lurker on the site and finally decided to join. I have been fascinated with fossils for about as long as I can remember. Lately, I have been trying to grow my trilobite collection. I am very interested in trilobite vision and look for specimens that have quality eyes. I recently acquired a Scabriscutellum and Hallardrops with excellent eyes. Soon I would love to add a spiny trilobite to the collection.
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To celebrate the end of the semester, I decided to finally take the 2 hour trip down to the Paulding Fossil Gardens. The weather sucked as most of you in the Midwest probably noticed, but I managed to get a few hours in between storms. This made everything a bit flooded, but I wasn't too concerned.
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I found this thing when I was sorting through the haul from a recent trip to Paulding (Silica Shale, Devonian). I have no idea what it is. Only thing I thought of is some kind of fish bit, really just because it doesn't look like anything else from Paulding that I'm familiar with. Any ideas?
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Hey everyone! I was digging through a hash plate today and came across this figure within. I have yet to see anything with this shape yet. It may be nothing, and by all means call me a noob and idiot but I thought I would ask the experts On your thoughts. Plus I haven’t posted in awhile and I miss all of you! Hahaha
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Please help I’d this tooth I found while arrowhead hunting
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Nice example of Scalarituba found yesterday as float in NE Ohio. I would like others to confirm my identification. Thank you!
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My phyllocarid collection to date. Includes Echinocaris sp. and Rhinocaris sp.
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Hey all! I'm new to the forums and this is my first post so I figured I'd show off my recent finds. I'm just an 18 year old from Michigan and this was my very first time fossil hunting. Seeing as how there isn't good fossil sites in Michigan, the next best place to look would be Ohio, and luckily I live near the border. I had read different opinions of Caesar Creek and was skeptical of whether or not I would find some good fossils out there, but I decided to go since I had to start somewhere. My family of 5 went down there for the weekend and went to the spillway on Friday. Luckily, the freeze-thaw cycle had just ended and it rained over night. We figured this would be the best chance of the year to find some good fossils. We were the only people there all day and hunted for about 4 hours. With 5 people hunting we were able to find a good amount of fossils. We found a lot of brachiopods and bryozoans of course, and then towards the end we started finding more gastropods and horn corals. We were bummed that we hadn't found any trilobites all day when we finally found the sweet spot. About 10 different pieces of Flexicalymene and 3 of those being whole and enrolled. We were pretty stoked to be able to find those and some of them looked really nice. I realize they're just some basic Ordovician marine fossils but everyone has got to start somewhere and I'm happy with the collection I was able to start. Already planning a trip to Fossil Park in Sylvania for early May since it's just an hour from my house. And then looking to possibly go to Calvert Cliffs/Brownies Beach in Maryland during the summer to look for Miocene shark teeth and others in the Chesapeake. Let me know if you see anything wrong with any ID's, that'd be great but other than that enjoy these mediocre pictures I took.
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Had a great fossil expedition the other day. Found 3 rolled Isotelus trilobites.
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Back in May 2017, I brought back some nice fossil plates from Ohio, I believe Ordovician in age. First photo is plate 1. Next photo (of plate 1) shows a close-up of parts of the trilobite Isotelus, next photo - a nautiloid (unknown species), next photo shows valves of the brachiopod Strophomera, along with many bryozoan fossils. Next photo is a close-up of crinoids on plate 3. (Not much on plate 2). And last photo is of quite a few crinoids on plate 4.
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Hi all, I found this beauty not too long ago in Pauling Ohio. I am pretty sure it is some type of Eldridge trilobite. Any tips on how to prep it?
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I recently was in Ohio for a short trip for business. Along the way I stopped at the Paulding fossil site. This had been on my fossil bucket list for a while. I was only there for about two hours. I was finding nice big brachs and horn corals, as well as some nice pieces of trilobites when I was getting ready to leave and I found a large, perfect complete enrolled Phacops. I might post some before and after pictures when I finish cleaning it up. Anyway my reason for this post is that I'm asking if anyone has a link to a website or knows of some other resource that shows the different taxa that can be found in this formation so that I don't have to take a bunch of pictures, post them, wait for people to respond... Funny thing is I think I left a small container of fossils I found behind at the site. But I still have about 5lbs of fossils that made it home, so I'm just writing it off as an offering to the fossil gods.
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Found in Cincinnati, Ohio during a parking lot excavation. I know very little about fossils. This is some sort of organic material. Porous, agatized with a bone fragment that looks like a tooth (last photo) in one of the holes. Please advise, Thank you.
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Thanks to @Fossil-Hound, who recently submitted a trip report to Paulding, Ohio, I was reminded that I had not been there yet and decided to head down there today. As mentioned by Fossil-Hound, this is "spoil" from the LaFarge Quarry which operates just down the road from the site. The quarry has generously set aside some land where they have placed numerous long piles of fossil-rich shale from the Silica Formation (middle Devonian: Givetian). The fossil park is fenced-in, and there is a nice, spatious, gravel parking lot as well as a porta-pot. There is a liability waiver form, but when I was there, there were no more blank ones -- just a whole bunch that had already been filled out and stuffed in the receptacle on the sign. I read everything and looked everywhere regarding rules for using "tools". I saw no rules against using a rock hammer or other tools. Here are a few pictures of the site and parking area (the "smoke" in the background is from the quarry. THey actually blasted once when I was there!):
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Orphaned paleontology collection transferred to the Cincinnati Museum Center
Oxytropidoceras posted a topic in Fossil News
Museum Center Fossil Unboxing Excites UC Professors By Ann Thompson, Cincinnati Public Radio, January 14, 2019 http://www.wvxu.org/post/museum-center-fossil-unboxing-excites-uc-professors#stream/ Transfer of the orphaned University of Minnesota Paleontology Collection to the Cincinnati Museum Center https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1756169&HistoricalAwards=false Invertebrate Paleontology collection, Cincinnati Museum Center https://www.cincymuseum.org/invertebrate-paleontology/ Orphaned Fossil collections: its a hard rock life for them. By Jeff Person, State Historical Society of North Dakota http://blog.statemuseum.nd.gov/blog/orphaned-fossil-collections Yours, Paul H.-
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Date: Jan. 5, 2019 Location: Paulding, OH Formation: Silica Shale Time Period: Middle Devonian (Givetian) Species collected: *Bethanyphyllum or Heliophyllum *Cystiphylloides americanum *Aulopora microbuccinata *Stropheodonta demissa *Stropheodonta sp. *Megastrophia concava *Pseudoatrypa devoniana *Athyris sp. *Orthospirifer cooper *Mucrospirifer sp. *Limoptera macroptera *Eldredgeops rana @Nimravis
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Hello everyone! Thanks for letting me join. Once a year I get to spend a couple of weeks at Myrtle Beach, and I spend half my time looking for fossils in the sand. There is something just so wonderful about holding evidence of our planet's prehistoric past. I've gotten pretty good at identifying various shark's teeth, sting ray barbs, bone fragments, coral types and such. But lately I've been trying to branch out and investigate other shiny black pieces that I've spent years passing up because I had no idea what they were. I'm hoping the expertise on this site will help me put a name to some of the new things I'm finding. Have a wonderful new year! Paula
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Hello! I just came across almost a complete hypostome and a larger wing of the mouth line on a smaller hash plate. Didn't know it until I broke down the matrix. The more I chip away at the plate the more minor trilobite pieces I am finding...which is not unusual. Is there any suggestions on how to categorize and store these??? Sorry for the snarge picture.... Still need lighting in my new manpad.
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I was given these two trilobites from my uncle in Michigan, and he found them locally in Ohio about 11 years ago. I was thinking they are flexicalymene but I am not certain since I am new to identification. Thanks in advance! The smaller one is almost exactly 0.5" long (back of matrix shown), the wider one almost 1.5".
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