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From the album: Beltzville State Park
Crinoid Stem Pieces Devonian Manhatango Formation Beltzville State Park, Beltzville, PA -
From the album: Beltzville State Park
Death Assemblage crinoids, brachiopod Devonian Manhatango Formation Beltzville State Park, Beltzville, PA -
From the album: Beltzville State Park
Brachiopod Devonian Manhatango Formation Beltzville State Park, Beltzville, PA -
From the album: Beltzville State Park
Rugose Coral Devonian Manhatango Formation Beltzville State Park, Beltzville, PA -
There is a small road cut exposure I like to frequent in the Plattsburg fm. where the Hickory Creek shale is excavated at a relatively shallow angle. The whole formation it extremely fossiliferous, but specimens with great preservation require diligent and persistent searching. But, to the subject of this post, an interesting means of finding those great fossils is in timing a good rain with a day or two of drying and wind erosion. The shale is very loose and it seems that what happens is fossils (and of course 'just rocks') of certain weights and sizes hold their ground while the shale erodes away underneath them. I've affectionately, though probably not originally, coined them as being pedestaled. Here are a few recent examples: Orodus(?), Cladodont fragment, and Horn Coral
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From the album: Delaware Fossils
Crinoid Stem Sections Largest is about 2 mm across. Delaware River, New Castle, Delaware -
From the album: Delaware Fossils
Rugose Coral Paleozoic Delaware River, New Castle, Delaware -
From the album: Delaware Fossils
Possibly Syringopora Paleozoic Cape Henlopen, Lewes, Delaware -
From the album: Delaware Fossils
Rugose Coral Paleozoic Bowers Beach, Kent County, Delaware -
From the album: Delaware Fossils
Rugose Coral Paleozoic Lewes, Delaware -
From the album: Delaware Fossils
Found on the beach in New Castle, Delaware. Known Paleozoic fossil area. Identity unknown. -
From the album: Delaware Fossils
Rugose Coral Paleozoic Bowers Beach, Kent County, Delaware -
From the album: Delaware Fossils
Rugose "Horn" Coral Paleozoic Bowers Beach, Kent County, Delaware -
From the album: Delaware Fossils
Tabulate coral Paleozoic Bowers Beach, Kent County, Delaware -
From the album: Carbondale, PA
Carbondale, PA Lewellyn Formation Pennsylvanian period 299-323 myo -
I've recently started having an interest in Paleozoic fossils simply because I've never actually found any. I live in southern California and recently went near the area of Corona to check out some of the paleozoic rocks. Unfortunately all seemed to be highly meta-morphed with hardly any trace of fossils, if any. So my question is, how do I go about finding paleozoic material in southern California? Are the metamorphed rocks hopeless? Thanks in advance
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From the album: Carbondale, PA
I found a whole plate of these, but somehow only the one example made it home. 13mm long Carbondale, PA Lewellyn Formation Pennsylvanian period 299-323 myo -
From the album: Carbondale, PA
Carbondale, PA Lewellyn Formation Pennsylvanian period 299-323 myo -
From the album: Carbondale, PA
Carbondale, PA Lewellyn Formation Pennsylvanian period 299-323 myo -
From the album: Carbondale, PA
Carbondale, PA Lewellyn Formation Pennsylvanian period 299-323 myo -
From the album: Carbondale, PA
Carbondale, PA Lewellyn Formation Pennsylvanian period 299-323 myo -
From the album: Carbondale, PA
Carbondale, PA Lewellyn Formation Pennsylvanian period 299-323 myo -
From the album: Carbondale, PA
Calamities sp., a bamboo-like plant closely related to modern horsetails with hollow, woody stem that grew more than 100 ft high (30m). Carbondale, PA Lewellyn Formation Pennsylvanian period 299-323 myo -
From the album: Carbondale, PA
Detail from previous image Carbondale, PA Lewellyn Formation Pennsylvanian period 299-323 myo -
From the album: Carbondale, PA
Carbondale, PA Lewellyn Formation Pennsylvanian period 299-323 myo
