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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.
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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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Finally getting around to posting some of my New York Devonian Penn Dixie matrix finds! So much neat crinoid stuff, the occasional trilo bit and some other goodies! Someday, I hope to visit and maybe find some "Big" stuff! The CRINOIDS.....so many amazing shapes. I love Crinoid Geometry: (all are around 2-5 mm) The Trilo Bits: (2-5mm) probably Eldredgeops A friend was trying to type in Pygidium and it auto corrected to Pudgy Idiom.....so yeah. That's what they are now. Plus this nice sized one (5mm) in situ with a crinoid! Gastropods Naticonema lineata Size 5 mm Platyceras size 3 mm also maybe Platyceras? 2mm And some other neat things: Tentaculites Size 7mm Coral Amplexiphylum hamiltoniae Size 2 cm and Bryozoan Reptaria Size 3mm which I think this is also? 5 mm
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Hiya! I got some New York Devonian matrix (Penn Dixie) and would appreciate some help (or confirmation!) with the ID's of a few thingies. Thanks!! 1. Is this a fish tooth perhaps? Size 1/8 inch 2.Is this a Trilobite cephalon? Size 1/8 inch 3. I thought this was a coral, but saw on the Penn Dixie site something that looked like it but it said it was a Fish Plate? Size 1/4 inch 4. Not sure what this is....probably part of a crinoid? Size 1/8 inch 5. Not sure at all. Flat plate Size 1/8 inch 6. Coral Trachypora perhaps? or is it Bryozoan? Size 1/8 inch Thanks for any info!!
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Digging up fun and fossils at Penn Dixie Fossil Park by Toni Ruberto, Buffalo News, August 24, 2020. Digging up fun and fossils at Penn Dixie Fossil Park News Break, Buffalo News, August 24, 2020. Yours, Paul H.
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Just got back from New York with some trilobite specimens we found at Penn Dixie. I especially love the two faces (with those compound eyes) staring out of the matrix. Kind of cute, I think. These are my first trilobites, so I know nothing about species.
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I will be hunting at penn Dixie from the 21st to the 24th. If anyone is willing to take the necessary precautions ie masks and social distancing as much as possible, then I would love company. I’m ready to split a lot of rock!!
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Hi guys! Haven't made any posts in a while but as I was going through some finds from Penn Dixie recently I have come across a few more fossils I would like to ID. The first few are what I believe to be Pelycopods but I have no further info on them. 1. Part and Counterpart 2. Part and Counterpart, found in the same piece of shale very close to number 1 3. Smaller one among some horn corals 4. A larger one, this one is thicker than the rest and is very different in texture. I have a few more pictures but I don't have space so I will include them below, Thank you guys for any help, Misha.
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Hello all! We are planning a trip (with a stop in Pennsylvania) to New York this May to hunt for Trilobites and could use lots of advice. We live in North Carolina, so it is a bit of a haul and we are new to trilobite hunting and to rock splitting fossil hunting generally. I'll lay out the tentative itinerary first and then ask a few specific questions. Any recommendations on the itinerary (additions or places to skip on a limited trip) are, of course, more than welcome! Tuesday Day 0: Drive to Danville, PA and check into a hotel Wednesday Day 1: Visit the Montour Preserve fossil pit ; drive to Buffalo, NY Thursday Day 2: Visit 18 Mile Creek Friday. Day 3: Visit Penn Dixie Quarry (1) Saturday Day 4: Visit Penn Dixie Quarry (2) Sunday Day 5: Drive back to NC The big questions we have (apart from whether this itinerary seems like a good first trip for ambitious new trilobite hunters) are: What tools should we bring? I know safety glasses, chisel and geologic hammer, but what about larger picks, prybars, hammers, shovels, gloves, etc? I've read about people "digging out" an area at Penn Dixie; what is required for that? And what is involved? Is there any rhyme or reason to the pieces you choose to split? What do you look for in a spot? Is there anywhere else "nearby" (within a few hours of anywhere on the route) that we should check out? What am I forgetting to ask? Thank you so much in advance for your help! This forum has been a great planning resource for me and I find more great threads to lurk on every day! Philip
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I found this specimen at Penn Dixie last spring and I thought it would be good practice for prepping since I'm new to it. I at first assumed it was a piece of broken shell, but as I chipped away at it with a pin vice, I found that it was much bigger in size than I thought. I am having trouble figuring out what it actually is even though I've removed a substantial amount of material at this point. There are striations that are similar to a lot of bivalves in the area but the general shape appears more coral-like in my opinion. What does everyone else think?
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From the album: Trilobites
Pygidium 15mm. A gift from Secret Santas Monica and Viola. Moscow Formation Windom Shale Member Smoke Creek Trilobite Bed Givetian Middle Devon Penn Dixie, Hamburg, NY, USA -
Here are a few finds from my first trip to Penn Dixie not sure exactly what these are. The first is a spiriferid brachiopod but I would like to confirm that what is on it is a crinoid holdfast or is it something else?
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Penn Dixie never disappoints Hubby and I went last Saturday and I got loads of goodies. I find it rather interesting how all of these trilobites came from the same small area but the way they sit is so different. I would be curious to find out About the conditions that cause the "hugging" trilobites. It's hard to see because I need to be cleaned but each little group has a couple of them , mostly belly to belly. I'm trying to clean them useing an etching pen and a soft brush but pieces keep breaking off and I'm not sure how to do it without them crumbling.
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So I went and had a great day out at Penn Dixie ( Devonian) this weekend. I brought home a lot of fossils I'll be happy to clean up and put on the shelf. Thankfully, My level of incompetence is quite apparent to anyone that sees me struggle, young man took pity on me and helped me ( I don't know if I'm allowed to tag him in the post). After a long day of fossil collecting, Walking back carrying back a bag that was far too heavy for me, Sweaty ,tired and dehydrated. I wander from the path to look at something that has caught my eye. It shines, it calls to me. What is it?! I pick it up and put it in my pocket. In my car it goes and to a safe little spot where all my top fossil of the day go. And there it sits in its place of honor for the 3 hour drive home. When I get home the nice little Box comes inside where open it to find all my beautiful little trilobites sitting and this, this fossil, rock , poo? Do I pick up and drive home 151 miles with a bit of sun dried poo?
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I've been tardy on making a report on a three-day dig at Penn Dixie with @Malcolmt. We had a real hoot. It all began when Malcolm picked me up from the train station and we sailed through the border as we were lucky to have a Homeland Sec official who recognized Malcolm from the May Dig with the Experts. A border guard who collects fossils? Awesome! We definitely put in our efforts. We joined up with @JamesAndTheFossilPeach and @DevonianDigger to start slabbing out rocks. I can say that our area was not the best as the matrix was brutally hard and not yet subjected to any weathering, which meant slabs would shatter more than split. That aside, it is amazing they still let us crazy canucks in as we carted out about two buckets each of trilobites. Malcolm found a lovely Bellacartwrightia, and I found a double Greenops. We loaded up on the usual complete Eldredgeops rana, prone, enrolled, and semi-prone.
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Decided to tackle prepping this greenops today that I found at Penn Dixie a few weeks back. Part of the cephalon broke off in the negative, but the glue job worked OK. There is still some digging needed to expose the right cheek and pleural tips but they should (hopefully) be there. A fold along that side buried them deep in the matrix. Not a perfect bug but my best greenops found so far
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Not exactly an ID but I can't think of a better place to post this. Here is an E. rana I found this week at Penn Dixie. Prep started on the right lobe which was exposed on the side of a block (fourth pleura is damaged due to being exposed). It was looking like a near perfect bug, nicely inflated and complete aside from the small chip. When I made my way around to the other side I found more damaged pleura. This was a surprise as the entire middle and left lobes were buried under significant matrix. Could this be an injury that killed/happened during the trilobite's lifetime?
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This weekend we're taking a long weekend up to the Niagara Falls NY area. We're going to be doing the typical tourist stops plus a visit to Penn Dixie. . Based on the weather forecast I would assume to be there at opening time to avoid the afternoon heat and possibility of thunderstorms. I don't know yet if we're going to be there on Saturday or Sunday. Is there any tips or suggestions for first timers to Penn Dixie? We have a rock hammer, mason's hammer, an engineer hammer and several cold chisels. Also on a totally unrelated note any restaurants in the Buffalo/Niagara Falls area that anyone would recommend for the family. Thanks for any information and I will post a field report early next week.
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From the album: Western NY Fossil Hunts
Eldredgeops rana Devonian Hamburg, NY Found 2019 -
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Michelenoceras ssp. and portion of Tornoceras uniangulare Devonian Hamburg, NY Found 2019 -
Assorted Brachiopods, Horn Corals and Crinoid Stem
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From the album: Western NY Fossil Hunts
Assorted Brachiopods, Horn Corals and Crinoid Stem Devonian Hamburg, NY Found 2019 -
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Eldredgeops rana Devonian Hamburg, NY Found 2019 -
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Various Eldredgeops rana Molts Devonian Hamburg, NY Found 2019 -
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Eldredgeops rana Roller (After Prep). Credit @Malcolmt for the prep work. Devonian Hamburg, NY Found 2019
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