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Yesterday me and my good buddy @Thomas1982, we dug hard for a few hours but came away with some good finds! Several specimens of "Dechnella" Trilobites were collected.
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A lot going on here. Found an oddity yesterday trying to figure out if petrified wood or bone. The outside of it shows evidence it rolled in sand a while. Plus confusion is outside layer looks like an old bone look. My past petrified wood finds in comparison. Next my petrified wood is being studied to figure out tree and timeline. It's very rare even though up to 26 pieces found in one location. Next a paleontologist did confirm the one find was a tooth. Less than a mile from petrified wood location. Im making big discoveries but learning even more. A geoscientist is talking to me on almost a daily basis. He is a Dr at a university. I am very grateful with his help and patience. If anyone can figure out if petrified wood or bone thanks.
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Since we both had the day off, my daughter and I spent a couple of hours at the Deer Lake site (Schuylkill County PA). It was a beautiful sunny day in the mid 50s! A good start to this years fossiling adventures...
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A new lower Devonian Eurypterid fauna in Pennsyvania
Dean Ruocco posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
Hello All! For awhile I've known the Keyser Formation hosted eurypterids, and today was the day I encountered it! Me and 2 geologist gained access to an exposure on private property and were surveying it when I found a waterlime bed with overlying mudcracks, I would start my typical survey of the bed when I encountered a segment, and it just got better from there. Unlike other horizons I've collected all over this layer is not very dense, but consistently the bed was producing. After about 4 hours of intense digging I decided to call it quits for the day. 2 different and distinct eurypterid Species have been collected, one is some sort of Pterygotid likely the genus Acutiramus, and the other is the genus Erieopterus. The Erieopterus differs from the only other Devonian Eriopterus, Erieopterus microphthalmus in its head shape, with it being wider and the eyes being spread further. The best specimens collected were a plate with 2 heads on it and a Tergite from a pterygotid. Ill attach some pictures below. Top to Bottom: Erieopterus sp. Double head Erieopterus sp. (Note the legs on the left specimen) Pterygotid undet. close up of the scales, Pterygotid undet. Layer specimens were collected from.
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I cleaned a few Eurypterids from the hunt last weekend and photographed, go look at my previous post if you wanna read more but here’s the Eurypterids.
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From the album: Pennsylvania trilobites
Wanneria walcotana from the Kinzers shale in Lancaster co.-
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From the album: Pennsylvania trilobites
Trimerus stelmophorus from the Old port formation -
From the album: Pennsylvania trilobites
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From the album: Pennsylvania trilobites
Synphoria stemmetia pygidum from the old Port formation -
From the album: Pennsylvania trilobites
Olenllous getzi Kinzers formation Pa -
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Dean Ruocco posted a gallery image in Member Collections
From the album: Pennsylvania trilobites
Monodechnella sp. Mahatango Limestone, lebanon county Pa-
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From the album: Pennsylvania trilobites
Dipleura dekayii Mahatango shale, Danville Pa -
From the album: Pennsylvania trilobites
A very good example of Olenllous getzi collected from the Getz quarry in the 80s -
From the album: My Kinzers Formation Fossil Collection
Here’s a perfectly articulated example of a once plentiful, now elusive Cambrian species. This is a puny bug, yet it is almost fully matured. The specimen measures less than just below one centimeter from cephalon to axial spine. Every delicate spine is in place, even the fragile axial spine! I was able to remove a thin layer of rock from atop the fragile cephalon without damaging the trilobite, making it one of my nicer finds this year. The bug is in the anti-Goldilocks zone of being just too big to focus under my hand magnifier to get the axial spine in focus along with the body, but you can still make it out in the photo. -
Paedumias yorkensis (?) juvenile
cameronsfossilcollection posted a gallery image in Member Collections
From the album: My Kinzers Formation Fossil Collection
Though I’m fairly sure P. yorkensis is currently invalid, this definitely isn’t Olenellus. About 4 mm, I believe the rest of this immature trilobite may be buried underneath the rock. I will prep it once I have the proper tools! -
From the album: My Kinzers Formation Fossil Collection
A nice, small Olenellus getzi waiting to be prepared. It’ll be around 2 cm when fully revealed! I’m This one should turn out beautiful, it’s certainly under there! -
Larval olenellid cephalon molt
cameronsfossilcollection posted a gallery image in Member Collections
From the album: My Kinzers Formation Fossil Collection
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From the album: Mahantango Formation
Greenops boothi (enrolled) Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania-
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From the album: Kinzers Formation
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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 all, I noticed something unusual when cleaning this rather large brachiopod steinkern. Frankly I am stumped: what do you guys think? Found in Perry County, Pennsylvania. Mahantango formation. Middle Devonian.
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From the album: Kinzers Formation
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From the album: Mahantango Formation
Eldredgeops rana Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania-
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From the album: Llewellyn Formation
ALethopteris and Neuropteris pinnules Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania-
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From the album: Kinzers Formation
echinoderm? Possibly Camptostroma roddyi Lancaster County, Pennsylvania-
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