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I was at Penn Dixie a few weeks ago and had trouble figuring out what a couple of my finds could be. My first thought for this one was a piece of a trilobite, but I’m not 100% sure on that. I don’t know where to start with this one. Any help is greatly appreciated!
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I was finally able to get back to Penn Dixie for the first time in a couple years. Between the pandemic and life just getting busy, it had been difficult to find time to do a little fossil hunting. But this past weekend I was able to make a few decent finds. I have a lot of the common fossils found at Penn Dixie so I was trying to limit myself to things I haven’t found before and/or better quality specimens. Here are a few of my finds, some of which I’m not quite sure what they are. A sizable hash plate with a nice bryozoan (my first at this site!) An unknown specimen, I don’t even know where to start with this one. Three E. rana: two rollers (one hidden), and a partial at the top of the photo. A few brachiopods, three of them had both sides.
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Hi everyone! I just got back from a trip to Penn Dixie Fossil Park near Buffalo, New York, and found some pyritized cephalopod fossils. Penn Dixie has rocks form the Givetian of the Devonian from the Hamilton Group. A young ammonoid is easily identified as Tornoceras uniangulare, but the other orthoconic fossils are harder to ID. I am pretty sure the small but more complete one is a Bactrites, because the siphuncle appears to be almost ventral, the distance between the septa, and the slightly slanted suture (after looking at Ludwigia's). The preserved shell is very smooth and couldn't be from a Spyroceras that are also found at Penn Dixie. Similar fossils to mine are pictured on their website, unidentified. If any more pictures are needed, I will try to take them. I wanted some expert advice before concluding it is a Bactrites. Can anyone help?
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Unusual find of putative Placoderm Fossil at Penn Dixie
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At the “Dig with the Experts” earlier this month at Penn Dixie, I found this interesting surface fossil on a block that the on location experts seemed to agree was a placoderm fossil. Approximately 5 inches (12.5cm), it is thin, pigmented and has intermittent perforations or pustules. In an adjacent pile, another more extensive and remarkable set of fossil strips like this presumptive placoderm were found by another rock buster. Anecdotally, it was remarked by staff that these two putative placoderm blocks were excavated from the “same region” of the pit as the apparent Dunkleosteus jaw discovery. Perhaps just a coincidence, but nonetheless an interesting mystery.
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My wife and I traveled up to western upstate NY this past weekend for Penn Dixie's annual dig with the experts event. This was our first visit to the park and we were happy to finally use up the tickets we had originally purchased for the 2020 dig. The event was sold out both days and the staff seemed happy to be back in normal operations. The weather was perfect, with bright sunny skies and temps in the 50s to 60s day 1 and 60s to low 70s day 2. Lots of folks digging: We didn't find anything crazy good, but didn't get blanked with a mix of brachiopods, cephalopods, clams, crinoid stem pieces, corals, trilobites and a partial phyllocarid. Mostly brachiopods with some horn corals: and mostly horn corals with a couple brachiopods: Hash plate of mostly brachiopods, needs cleanup so was hard to photograph: Another clump with multiple brachiopods: I was told clams didn't preserve as well at this location and I certainly didn't find many samples worth collecting: Nice 3d partial cephalopod, not sure how much is in the matrix, but both sides have similar levels of detail and this was by far the largest one we found: Good sampling of crinoid stem pieces plus a few others. My wife really liked the ones with a star shape in the middle. This is probably half of what we collected, though my wife did get some longer segments: Trilobite hash, not sure if any are complete: Double rollers: Not sure how much of this one is here and it does have a fine crack throughit, but should be easy to glue: Not sure if there is more on this one: Guillotine plate, nothing but heads... This one hurt, disarticulated but likely complete up top, then what would have been a perfect prone below if the excavator hadn't decapitated it as they created the dig piles: Full but squished and a little ragged on left, looks like complete roller on right: Closer shot of the one from above, he makes a 90 degree turn but looks to be complete: Another roller: Possibly mostly complete: Roller on upper piece, small horn coral on lower: Nice roller: Disarticulated molt: Could be complete: This last split is a little tough to see, I bumped the contrast a bit. Multiple dig experts identified it as a phyllocarid (and none dissented) which made me happy as that was the only thing I could come up with and staff said are a rare find there. Its my 1st, the only one I had seen before was one of @Al Tahan finds from central NY.
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I found this fossil at the Penn Dixie site in Western NY (near the creek running through the center) . I've been all over their website, but I can't find anything that looks like this. Sorry the photo isn't larger, my microscope camera isn't set up yet. I think it has 5 part radial symmetry. The lines on the stumpy 'arms' are raised ridges that are small at the tips and get longer as they go towards the center of the beastie. The fossil is .35 Inches from the tip of one stubby leg to the approximate center. I have seen others at this site, but not often. I would rate this type of fossil in the "uncommon" category. I was looking for scoledont jaws when I saw it. Still looking for a scoledont jaw, sadly. If anyone knows what this critter is, I would appreciate the info. I think it is some kind of echinoderm, but that's just because of the symmetry. Thanks for the help!
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I don't really believe it's a tooth...but what is it? Found at Penn Dixie, NYS...Middle Devonian. Photos for size, back and front. Thanks Greg
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Eldredgeops rana Middle Devonian Hamilton Group Moscow Formation Penn Dixie Quarry Blasdell, NY© Owen Yonkin 2021
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I have this Greenops that I found at Penn Dixie and I was wondering if it would be worth it to prep it more or leave it as it is. It looks like it’s possible the cephalon is still encased in rock since it looks like the genal spines may be barely present (see red circles). I only have small hand tools (dental picks, pin vise) to do the prep work.
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Hello everybody, I recently took a trip out to DSR and Penn Dixie a week ago. The drive was pretty grueling, with 4 hours to DSR then another 2 hours after that to Penn Dixie. I think it was worth it though. Here are some of my finds from DSR. While surface collecting I came across a Greenops pygidium. I didn't think much of it until I looked a bit closer and saw a thorax! At this point I was praying for there to be an intact head, and there it was! Although it's missing a genal spine, it's by far my best personal trilobite find. Possibly my first in situ complete trilobite as well! My dad found this awesome Dipleura cephalon, unfortunately we were only able to find a part of the negative :(. Still a great find nonetheless!! This is one of my favorite finds from last week, a nearly complete Greenops with a cool brachiopod behind it. A really detailed partial Greenops my dad found sitting on the surface, this is one of the best Greenops we found Possible Dipleura pygidium? Split this massive cephalopod I found in some shale I brought home, I'm not sure on the ID of this one but my best guess is Michelinoceras. A really nice Grammysioidea arcuata (huge thanks to @Misha for helping me ID this one) My best Eldredgeops find from DSR yet, a bronze colored pygidium. I could've sworn I found a head of an Eldredgeops there, but I have yet to come across it in my buckets I'll be posting the Penn Dixie finds soon, so stay tuned!
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I have no idea. Suggestions have been: Crinoid Caylx or ‘gumdrop’ bryozoan starting to grow a branch. Probably growing on a brachiopod or something. Sorry forgot....found at Devonian, Penn Dixie, Hamburg, NY.
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Here is a E. rana fossil I found at Penn Dixie the year after I started collected fossils in 2015. It shows clear evidence of having been partly crushed by a horn coral on pleurites 5 through 10 only on the right side. The curvature of the thorax elements support this interpretation as well as demonstrate remarkable flexibility. This is a specific event that must have taken place shortly before, during or after the demise of the trilobite, while it was still malleable to be so contorted. Pardon the poor prep, I used a sewing pin in a pin-vise to clear away matrix. All images are the same specimen. Some suggest (not only conspiracy theorists) that this may depict - dare I say- a Devonian murder scene caught in the act! (this is where you chuckle). Pretty cool. What do you think?
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Two Inch or 5 cm Phacops Eldredgeops rana from Penn Dixie! Great! Hey, wait a minute.
Biotalker posted a topic in General Fossil Discussion
Penn Dixie Fossil Park in Hamburg, NY is known for small but plentiful Eldredgeops rana and aside from a rare mortality plate, finding a complete 2 inch specimen is a big deal! So imagine my excitement when I uncovered this. OK, not entirely complete because I messed up the extraction a bit. But this unfortunate character managed to lie down on one pleural lobe, and get squished literally laterally. All three pics are the same trilobite, with the third picture being the classic dorsal view. Hath this nonconforming fellow no sense of the future? How common is this in your experiences?
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Penn Dixie officially holds Guinness World Record for “World’s Largest Fossil Dig” By Patrick Ryan, WIVB, Channel 4, New York, July 17, 2021 Penn Dixie Claims World Record Penn Dixie Fossil Park, July 17, 2021 Trilobites declared “official fossil” of Town of Hamburg By Kaley Lynch, WIVB, Channel 4, New York, July 17, 2018 Yours, Paul H.
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