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Found this the other day in what I think is brush creek limestone. The area is Glenshaw Formation, Carboniferous (Pennsylvanian). All help is appreciated.
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Howdy! Chiseled this out of a rock today. I thought it was a coral at first, but not quite sure now. The final picture is a cross section of the inside. Thanks in advance.
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From the album: Misha's Late Devonian Fossils
This is a large scale from maybe a Tristichopterid fish? Found at a roadcut in the Catskill Fm. Rte 15, Late Devonian, Catskill Fm., PA- 3 comments
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From the album: Misha's Late Devonian Fossils
Another unidentified fish tooth from the same Rte 15 roadcut. Late Devonian, Catskill Fm., PA.-
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From the album: Misha's Late Devonian Fossils
Small (~1cm long) fish tooth from a Catskill formation Road Cut. Late Devonian, Catskill Fm., PA.-
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I found this a few yrs ago and still can't figure out what kind of fossil this is. I'm trying to figure out if this is plant or a different type. It's 2inches wide. Any ideas? Thanks.
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From the album: A.C.'s Silurian
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From the album: A.C.'s Silurian
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From the album: A.C.'s Silurian
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From the album: A.C.'s Silurian
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Hi everyone, I am pretty new to fossil hunting, and have just started going for plants. Recently, I visited a site in Ambrige, PA, and found abundant plates containing neuropteris and calamites. I split some leftover shale when I got home and found what looked like dried leaf veins tightly sandwiched between the shale. There are several of these structures that consist of a central vein with smaller veins that branch off. These are not fossilized, and are not a part of the rock, as they can be easily brushed off. I just find it hard to believe that an entire modern leaf could get wedged in there. Are these fossils in the making? Has anyone else encountered this? Thanks in advance!
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My family and I are on short end of season camping trip in Southeastern Pennsylvania and decided to head over to Gettysburg. These have probably been covered here before but I got some pictures of the famous Dinosaur Footprints on the Bridge! My son loved it (I’m gonna pretend more than me ). Anyone know of anywhere I can go searching for some fossils while I’m in the area that’s around the Gettysburg area??
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Took my first Cambrian hunt. While I did not find much I did get a positive and a negative of two different trilobite cephalons. I am away for the weekend so unfortunately do not have measurements on these.
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I've been collecting fossils since 2011 and have since acquired a substantial number of specimens. The focus of my collection is mostly on fossils from the United States, including from my home state of Pennsylvania. To start things off, I'll show the highlights of my collection of fossils from the Kinzers formation, which runs through Lancaster and York counties in Pennsylvania, not far from where I live. It's known for trilobite and echinoderm fossils and dates back to 512ma, older than the Burgess Shale. I remember seeing trilobites from the Kinzers at a local museum when I was younger, which inspired my interest. Olenellus thompsoni is the most common trilobite of the Kinzers. These are from York (top three) and the Fruitville quarry in Lancaster (bottom). Wanneria walcottana is the other common trilobite of the Kinzer's formation. Both pictured were found in Lancaster. From near Millersville (top) and Brubaker's quarry (bottom). Mesonacis is a very rare trilobite in the Kinzers Formation, found only at Brubaker's quarry. Camptostroma roddyi is the echinoderm that the Kinzers is most known for. The lower one is a mortality plate of ten of them, and some have feeding appendages preserved. Both are from York. This is a very rare species from York. I believe it's some sort of Helicoplacoid. Salterella was an enigmatic animal of an extinct phylum that appears in the Kinzers as well. A plant, also from York: Finally, some sponges from the Donnerville quarry in Lancaster. Both sponges are on opposite sides of the same plate.
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I pulled this out of the Mahantango Formation of Pennsylvania a couple weeks ago. It's middle Devonain. TI though as I pulled it out of the scree that it was more of the myriad corals, but looking at it more closely it is most certainly not (although there are a couple Rugosa tucked in there), the structure is all wrong. I was told by one sponge enthusiast that it is definitely sponge. some kind of sponge. I'm a taxonomist at heart, and it drives me nuts if I can't at least narrow something down to a family. The literature on porifera is woefully scant, especially on this coast. Looking at the steinkerns in the holes, it looks like a network of narrow tubes rather than the pores of one big sponge wall. Could this be Amphiporidae? Anyone have any good references?
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Hello to everyone, I have a few fossils that I am trying to identify, when I came upon this forum. I signed up specifically because of this thread lol. Only the old head locals know the name Vanport! I still fish there regularly, usually find a shell fossil or crionid laying around.
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From the album: A.C.'s Silurian
Kindly traded to me. Found in Pennsylvania.-
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From the album: A.C.'s Silurian
Possibly undescribed. Self-collected in Pennsylvania.-
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I was given this fossil from a friend who said it was located from Pennsylvania
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Found this along a long abandoned RR outside Altoona PA (USA). A rather plain side was showing and I whacked it with my hammer expecting to shatter a large piece of glass slag. I was rewarded with a metallic ring and tingling hand. Its very dense, magnetic, and has three obvious planes (cleavage? Crystal growth?) Some of the flat surfaces shine black-iridescent, others gold-iridescent. It's too hard to scratch with my finger nail (I haven't done further Mohs testing yet). Its not hematite because the streak is dark grey to black. I'm pretty sure the rock fell off a rail car, but this track hasn't been used since probably 1900. The USGS Atlas 86 (1989) lists iron lead and zinc as historically worked ores in the area; but the descriptions don't sound like this. But then its along the RR so could be from far away. Is there a site like this but for minerals?
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Fun weathering forms at a stromatoporoid reef; Silurian, Keyser Formation
SteveE posted a topic in General Fossil Discussion
I visited a well-studied outcrop of the Silurian Keyser Formation in Altoona PA (USA). This is the historic quarry of the Altoona Furnace, right in the town of Altoona PA. Its a big reach for me (a relative noobie) to go through the tech reports and guides and understand it all. But its fun to try. Anyway, on a recent picture only trip, I stopped by one part of the wall with loads of stromatoporoids. I ran into another forum member and her husband a few days earlier up there. And they pointed out some structures on the top of this wall. I may ask a photographer friend to get better pics, but this was the best I could do with my phone from a safe spot. Besides some bioherm or stromatoporoid, what else might these be? The reef write up includes crinoids, bryazoa, various brachiopods etc
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Hello all, I have some excess ferns from St. Clair that I am looking to trade for other fossils. I am happy to do individual trades or group trades (will update this to reflect what is and is not available) I am interested in anything and everything fossil related. Some things that interest me (but not limited to): Dinosaur material (Moroccan specimens are welcome) Reptile material Trilobites Display cases / stands Other offers are welcome PACollection.pdf See attached PDF for ferns currently available I am happy to coat the ferns in a clear coat or leave in the raw state at traders request. Below picture is an example of raw state (top) and clear coated (bottom)
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From the album: Llewellyn Formation
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My family and I found this along with a few other fragments in Cambria county Pennsylvania. It was on a gravel bar in the river. Paleozoic I believe. Any ideas?
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Took another trip to the Mahantango (Devonian) over the weekend. Went with @Dean Ruocco While my haul was not too terrific, I did manage to grab some stuff to use as trade pieces / donor pieces. Dean did manage to get some nice trilobites but I will let him post those Brachiopod plate: Normally I would leave this as they are a dime a dozen at my locality but figured I would grab this to give to a friend who is trying to get some material to use in a display cabinet at the college he teaches at. Trilobites: Again not the best stuff but always fun to get more bugs. All these I believe to be Eldregeops rana
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