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From the album: Fossil Finds
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Picture this, it was 378 million years ago, the seafloor was covered with unimaginable creatures ranging from crinoids and brachiopods to the glorious trilobite. These beautiful creatures lived in peace and harmony as they thrived. Then one day, they were buried, quickly, not to see the light of day for hundreds of millions of years later. That was until my friends and I found them and became the first to set eyes on them in a very, very long time. And now I share these images with you, the reader. Now you have joined this elite club of very, very few to see these specific once-living creatures. And that is exactly why I love this field. That said, I took my friends to one of my favorite spots within my favorite Devonian formation, the Mahantango. This site has always yielded beautiful Mucrospirifers with their iconic “wings” still intact. Below are some of the brachiopods that I found, I found a lot more than just these two, but I think these were some of the better ones found that day. This site also yields the opportunity to find the much elusive (to me) trilobite. I never found a trilobite at this site, but I knew there was one here, and unfortunately, I still haven’t found one. However, my friend Allie found a beautiful, fully intact, folded, Dipluera Dekayi. These trilobites are often fragmented, so the fact that she found a fully completed one, is unbelievable! Sadly, a thunderstorm came through and ended our fossil-hunting excursion a little earlier than we would have liked. Maybe I’ll bring my friends back when I go again, maybe they’re the good luck charm! Or maybe I won’t so that any trilobite found will be mine!!! *PS* Not sure why all my photos are on the side, they are right side up any other time...
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I've been sorting through some of my old finds. I just happened to put this small spot on a piece from Swatra St. Park in PA under a lens. It's tiny. The scale seen is in mm. Is this the arm of a brittle star ?
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So my friend found this in some shale in an area with a bunch of shale/slate so much detail so cool! Lol
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Doing some research online I can across the Red Hill fossils site. Is this a place you can still collect ? And are there any protocols on visiting like someone to set up a trip with ?
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Hello everyone! I had a fun a really fun trip last weekend with some friends, including @Jeffrey P. We hit a fern ferns spots I've found over the years, and got access to another spot I never explored.. overall, it was a good trip with good friends. Here are my favorite finds...
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From the album: Catskill Formation PA fossils
Plants from Red Hill, including Archaeopteris, Rhacophyton, and Ozinachsonia-
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From the album: Catskill Formation PA fossils
Hash of Hyneria and Limnomis bones from Red Hill, April 15, 2022 -
The three inch Wanneria walcottana right after I found it, Dean went home with the negative!
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From the album: My Kinzers Formation Fossil Collection
A nice, three inch long Wanneria walcottana that I found surface collecting next to dean. He went home with the negative -
From the album: My Kinzers Formation Fossil Collection
Beautiful red Olenellus thompsoni that I purchased online. -
From the album: My Kinzers Formation Fossil Collection
Purchased this Olenellus getzi online. From the original Getz farm site where thousands of Olenellids and a few Radiodonts were found. Small for the species at an inch and a half long. -
A puny Olenellus (Paedumias) yorkensis
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From the album: My Kinzers Formation Fossil Collection
A puny Olenellus (Paedumias) yorkensis that I split out at home. The rest of the bug lays buried under the rock until I send it to someone who doesn’t destroy fossils when they prep em. -
Larval Olenellus plate. Look close!
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From the album: My Kinzers Formation Fossil Collection
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Heartbreaker Olenellus thompsoni
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From the album: My Kinzers Formation Fossil Collection
Another heartbreaker. I think this is an Olenellus thompsoni. Would’ve been gorgeous with the other half, maybe we’ll find it in the future. -
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A nice Olenellus thompsoni(??) that was partially weathered. Still has its axial spine though! -
Rock covered in larval Olenellid cephalons. Look closely!
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One of my favorite finds. This rock is covered in larval Olenellid molts. I wonder if we hit a nursery of some kind? -
Partial Olenellus thompsoni(?)
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From the album: My Kinzers Formation Fossil Collection
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From the album: My Kinzers Formation Fossil Collection
A cool plate, Olenellus (Paedumias) yorkensis cephalon as well as an O. thompsoni cephalon. I’m convinced that yellow mark may be a sponge. -
My three inch Wanneria walcottana!
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The best Wanneria walcottana we found. Three inches from the tip of the cephalon to the last thoracic spine. -
Hello! Newbie here with a love for fossils. I have a very small collection and only casually hunt for them. Anyways, I was on a trip to Forest County, Pennsylvania this past weekend. I was cruising a creek channel looking for trout in the Allegheny NF when this caught my eye. My gut feeling was this looks like a piece of wood, but it's very dense, it does feel heavy like a piece of stone. There's a lot of sandstone in this creek valley, but this feels much heavier than that. Bark-like striations and some is flaking off like a sedimentary or mica flavor of rock. It's flat on one side with a small ridge down the middle. Both ends are also flat, almost like a cut piece of wood.
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Chambersburg Elbrook Fm. Fossil Hunting Sites?
HynerpetonHunter posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
Hello, I wanted to ask about the old elusive trilobite, Olenellus. I heard on a topic on here about Elbrook Formation Olenellus near Chambersburg. I was wondering if anybody knows where a good roadcut or something would be? I know how difficult it is to find suitable PA Cambrian sites. I have been to Locust Lane and found some worm traces or rust deposits but no Olenellus. I have left Locust Lane in the dust, and so I want another roadcut of some possible worth. If anyone has any pointers whatsoever then help would be appreciated. Even if a site not in Chambersburg is mentioned, such as somewhere else in PA or maybe West Virginia, I will take that advice. Please help if you can! -
Hey guys! PA fossil hunter here from Port Carbon which is right next to the St. Clair PA fern fossil site. I just started actually looking for fossils a few months ago and have been loving every second of it. I have found many fossils (mostly brachiopods, crinoids, and coral) in my area and cant wait to find more and learn more. Jumped on here to give and get locations of fossils, help with identifications (although I'm probably the one that needs help), learn what you are finding, and to see what other fossil hunters are up to. My son and I love fossil hunting and we will be doing way more as soon as the weather jumps above 50 and there's no snow. I'm an entrepreneur, hiker, biker(motorcycle), fire fighter, cigar lover, and weight lifter so I do not have much experience with fossils but I hope to in time. Any advice for a newbie is greatly appreciated. Thanks for the add! -Matthew Huey
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I recently came across a fossiliferous exposure along an old rail trail near Swatara State Park, PA. Most of the fossils there were brachiopods, but I also found several interesting fossils I couldn't identify. Fossils in this area are from the Middle Devonian Period, or so I've read. These two appear to be the same species, perhaps at different stages of development: This last one (cast and mold) looks like a tooth, but I suspect it's really some kind of hyolith:
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