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I have heard about placoderms being uncovered from the Devonian of Ohio, but am unable to find any references to specific placoderm fossil specimens and where they are in Ohio. Can someone please shed some light for me on the subject? (I'm looking for ones just from the Ohio area ) I consider placoderms awesome! Thanks a ton!
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Hi there! First time poster, so I apologize if I'm lacking information. Also, my phone died on my way to the location, so I couldn't take pictures of the area I found them in. I tried to doodle a picture, but I'm no artist. Today I decided to check out a beach I had heard about near Port Angeles on the Olympic Peninsula of Washington State. . On this beach, there is a section of mudstone/sandstone about 60 feet tall and 100 feet long. At the base of the slope was a boulder(also sanstone/mudstone) about 6 feet tall and 4-5 feet around. It must've recently fallen because it was crumbling more and more just from looking at it. Right in the middle of the clump there was some sort of long, lumpy fossil(thought it was, sounds like it's not ;)). I have no idea what it could be. I've googled "lumpy dinosaurs", "lumpy whale vertebrae", and a few more embarrassing amature terms, all to no avail. If anyone could help me identify these, I would be EXTREMELY grateful! I've definitely caught the fossil/rock hunting bug and am really excited about finding these. If any other pictures/measurements would be helpful, just let me know. The largest piece is about the size of a volleyball. Edit** forgot to add, it was found in either lower tertiary sediment, or quaternary sediments. Sort of on the border of the two according to my map Edit #2** Just did a little more researching on the area, and it is part of the Twin River Formation. "Upper member, massive to thin-bedded mudstone and siltstone. Olive gray to greenish gray mudstone, claystone, and siltstone are poorly indurated and contain thin beds of calcareous claystone and a few thin to very thick beds of massive calcareous sandstone. Spherical, cylindrical, or irregular shaped calcareous concretions common"
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Well I have saved up some spending money and have about $450 I can spend on preparation tools. I have so many trilobites in Shale from Penn Dixie and U-Dig that could be prepared and look really good. Found a compressor with scribe kit that deals PSI at 15-45. I found a cheaper combo that provides 0-35 PSI. So that could cost around $150 including the media. Then a blast cabinet will cost around $150. I'll need to filter that air out and I could probably use a shop vac and rig it up to the blast cabinet. A new shop vac will cost about $40. That's about $350. The extra $100 could be used on some lights or an 8820 dremel for matrix extraction. This should be a fun winter time hobby as Utah is known for bad winters. I'll start selling my surplus prepared fossils to purchase better preparation tools. We all have to start somewhere. I know @DevonianDigger has his own custom setup but I'm not brave .enough to use a tattoo machine. @Ptychodus04 mentioned that a micro hammer is useful but those are expensive and @Malcolmt mentioned some very nice tools that I can't afford yet. @Fossildude19 if you have any suggestions let me know as you do your own preparation. Same goes for you @FossilSloth although your setup is over a thousand and beyond my current price range. Eventually I'll work my way up the ladder.
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I recently got this plate off of you know which auction site. I thought it looked interesting, but the seller claims ignorance of any information about it other than it is from Canada. Any help on I'D for this piece? It looks like two different ammonite spieces in here.
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Hello, Finally signed up. I'm afraid this is the least interesting new member on record. We just hunt our local shale for ferns and grass without knowing a lot. Your forum is amazing to lurk, intimidating to join. Found one thing which has bugged us so thought it would be good to hand it to professionals. Not a ' find ', something under a large rock ( very large, as in boulder-sized, no treasure hunters here- just baffled ) not far from here. Anyway, hate to join without a lot to say except it's a terrific forum for we closet geeks out here. Will post a few photos in your ID forum. At least we know what a fern in shale looks like! Schuylkill County 101.
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So I was picking at the back of my new diplomystus and I found a partial skeleton! It's majorly cut-off, I know, and it's nothing special. I just figured you guys might have fun figuring out what it is!
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Hey Everyone! Happy new year! A nodule from South Pit 11 Mazonia area split and can't figure out what it is? Millipede? Shrimp tale? I have the Wittrey book I've been looking through and I see similar features on multiple animals from his pictures. Thanks for your help!
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From the album: Best of 2017 finds - a year in review
Block of 2 Neseuretus tristani La Dominelais - Brittany - France - Ordovician - Landeilien (-460 MA) - found on february 2017 -
From the album: Best of 2017 finds - a year in review
Block of 2 Neseuretus tristani - close up of the better preserved one. La Dominelais - Brittany - France - Ordovician - Landeilien (-460 MA) - found on february 2017 -
From the album: Best of 2017 finds - a year in review
Neseuretus Tristani and Colpocoryphe Rouaulti , 2 trilobites from the ordovician shales - La Noe Blanche - South of Rennes - Brittany - France - collected in november 2017 -
From the album: Best of 2017 finds - a year in review
Set of 2 Branchiosaurus Petrolei, a permian amphibian (size 2 cm) from Autun oil shale. - Autunian - collected in autumn 2017 -
From the album: Best of 2017 finds - a year in review
Ectillaneus giganteus from the ordovician shales South of Rennes - la Dominelais - Brittany - France - collected in december 2017 -
Found on a coal shale dump near Jolliette, PA. Fresh water bivalves ? Marine bivalves washed in during a transgression ? Or could they be Branchiopods ? Other ?
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How to remove ammonites stuck in rock and make them look nice
Ammonight posted a topic in Fossil Preparation
Hello all, I've seen many ammonite fossils and nautilus fossils, and I'm always wondering, how are they so smooth to touch? Is it because they have been polished after removing from rocks? Or is it depending on the species and minerals that make up the fossil? Besides, how do I remove ammonites/nautilus from rocks without damaging them? Thanks for all replies! -
Hello all! I'm planning to go to UK next year someday and find some fossils at the yorkshire coast areas. Any suggestions on what time to go next year for the best 'loot'? And, what tools should I prepare and bring there? Besides, what can I find besides ammonites?
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I am again going through thing that I have in my collection and came across this little thing and I am thinking that it may be a Pennsylvanian cephalopod, maybe Pseudorthoceras. I do not know the location that it came from and I am guessing that it is Pennsylvanian. Any help would be appreciated.
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I've just visited this hill directly north of the Trump National Golf Course (yes, the president owned a golf course in my city ) which I was told by a museum docent had fossil fish scales. Here's what I found which could possibly be fish scale fossils, but I need a full confirmation on this. Some notes -All three rocks are associated- they were all part of a giant piece of shale rock which was broken into pieces when I found it. -The "fish scales" are a more darker or orange brown. -I think I was unable to capture the best possible detail due to the absence of natural lighting which made details more camouflaged. -Each "fish scale" lie on only one layer, throwing off the possibility of it being a crystal. -The black stuff are dendrites or a similar type. -Found in the Palos Verdes Hills, directly north of the Trump National Golf Course. Rock 1 Rock 2 Rock 3 Is this my first ever fossil find or another bust?
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Hello all. New to this forum. I recently found these rocks in the side of a hill that appears to have many layers of shale. About half way up I began to remove pieces of rock and when I flipped on over I noticed the patterns you see in the images I attached. They look like plants but I have zero experience in paleontology. Thank you for checking these out and I apologize for the lack of additional info. If there is any further info that would help determine what these may be, let me know and I will try to add it. Thanks in advance and have a great day!
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Hi all, I'm new to the forum. I was wondering if I could get some help identifying the material in the picture. It was found on a shale / glacial till beach in southern Ontario. The material is very light in weight and looks to have shell fragment inbeded. Thanks for looking.
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Can somebody help identify this and give me an idea how old it is? I found it on a dirt road about a mile from the Potomac River in Western Maryland, and about 1000 feet up on a ridge. I can see 8 arms (one is hard to see, along the edge), so I am thinking this is the arms of an octopus, or something related to it. But the arms are rather short, and they seem to radiate out like a sea anenome, so maybe not. This is my first ever fossil find.
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Hello all! It's been a while since I've been on the forum but I'm back with a question that has been nagging at me. Where does one search for Pleistocene fossils in Nova Scotia? Most of the fossils in my collection are composed of shale and depict leaves and sticks. Not that there's anything wrong with them, it's just that my the Pleistocene epoch has really caught my interest these last few weeks. My internet research hasn't provided any fruit so I thought I would bring my question to this wonderful community of fossil experts and hunters. I know that mastodon and other Pleistocene fossils have been found in Nova Scotia before, one mastodon was found only a few km from where I live. Are Pleistocene fossils not as common as ones with older age? I am hoping that you can give me some suggestions on what to look for and where to look. And possibly some information on how common these fossils are. Thanks Boris
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Hoping someone can identify what I found. Found in Smyrna Tennessee July 31 2017. Size is 2" x 2" x 3/8" thick Thanks
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I'd like to put this up for opinions... A thin limy layer interrupting the usual black shales from my usual Upper Cretaceous site (there are bits of the shale still stuck on top here and there). To me it screams of something like a bacterial mat, but I don't know. I can't imagine any non-biological process of formation, but maybe there is one that I haven't considered? The last pic shows an edge to give an idea of the thin lighter-colored layer. These pieces were all from one contiguous surface a couple feet square or so on a chunk of shale - the only one I have found up there so far with this particular pattern, but in other spots at this site and other sites, I have found similar calcareous(?) 'blobs' of all sizes that seem to have something to do with life, sometimes associated with obvious fossils such as Ino- and Sphenoceramus shells (no fossils were evident on this surface, though).
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I've been collecting for a few years, and other than the ubiquitous Metasequoia Occidentalis, don't know a lot about what I've been picking up. Apologies for off-center photos. Top right is a nicely detailed, strangely pale leaf fragment. The bottom left comptonia-like specimen is relatively common at this site. The one on the bottom right I am very curious about. I assume the bottom left is some kind of conifer seed pod. I've not found any cones here.
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