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From the album: Hippurites colliciatus Woodward, 1855 from St. Bartholomä, Styria, Austria
East of Kalchberg, point 25, collected 08/12/2018. Incomplete specimen, shell heavily bored by clionid sponges. -
Hello, I have a specimen of a mandible with teeth for your scrutinization. It was found some years ago in the Campanian St. Bartholomä-Formation of the Gosau-Group of Kainach, Eastern Alps, in Styria, Austria. I am little bit concerned about the bone texture and also the arrangement of the teeth. It seems it could be in urgent need for visiting a really skilled orthodondist. What do you think, does it really need some medical treatment? Many thanks for all your comments! Franz Bernhard
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Saturday, 02/06/2021 St. Bartholomä-Formation (Campanian), Styria, Austria - mainly rudists of the hippuritid and radiolitid family. This was my first fossil trip since more then 3 months due to too much Covid first and too much snow lately. But now snow has melted, at least in St. Bartholomä. Note: Austria is still in so-called "hard lockdown", but you can drive around like crazy in our country, as long as you stay in your car overnight . I did not, I am doing only day trips, and St. Bartholomä is only a 30 km drive. - First I visited two low-productive sites, checked out small creeks again and a quarry, that is only barely accessible also in winter because of too much prickly blackberrys. At least I saw some good outcrops there, but not the right layer ("Knödelbrekzie") nor any rudists. - Switched over to the quarry at Point 25, my most productive site in this formation. Something has been coming down to the quarry floor during the winter, but no rudist etc. Examined my dig site higher up at the northern end of the quarry ("Point 25-North"), also some loose fresh material, but nothing. Started picking rocks from the undisturbed debris below the "Knödelbrekzie" outcrop and found indeed some ok rudists and a small coral colony. Still some potential here. I already know that there are fossils coming down also at the southern end of the fossiliferous "Knödelbrezie" in this quarry, but it is hard to reach from the quarry floor. However, it looked possible to reach it from above. And that was really the case. Some kind of bench has naturally formed at the edge of the quarry, exactly at the level of the fossiliferous "Knödelbrekzie". It had already disintegrated somewhat (which is good, even necessary!), forming a debris of cobbles intermixed with soil and earth. During unsystematic scuffing in the debris, I found indeed two quite good radiolitid rudists and a large limestone piece with two enclosed rudists, which I left behind. This is the site, called "Point 25-South", after scuffing, looking from the south end towards north. Funny thing, it came already with a handrail for safety . Its going down for about 5 meters to the right, steep, but not vertically. The fossiliferous layer ("Knödelbrekzie") and the debris is accessible for about 3-4 m horizontally at the moment. Maybe I will exploit this site systematically during this year, forming a horizontal, about 0.5 m wide and safe bench along the way to the north. Maybe not. I don´t know yet. I have quite a lot of rudists from St. Bartholomä and would like to do also other things . - Already quite late, I took a quick look at the overgrown heap of fieldstones at point 32. The electric fence running along the heap was turned off so I took the chance to remove some rocks under a root ball at the other side of the fence. From my perspective removing the rocks, I did not see "it", only as I moved a little bit, I saw it there, sitting deep under the root ball like an egg in its nest: Lower left is my first sighting, to the right after removing some earth and more rocks, just before picking. Its a good sized radiolitid rudist, about 7x7x7 cm, with coarse ribs. It was a very nice day out, good exercise (mainly stretching ), found a few fossils at a known spot, found a new, possibly productive spot and also a nice "Easter Egg". Links to some former trips to this formation: St. Bartholomä - 1 St Bartholomä - 2 (Point 32) Franz Bernhard
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Fossil hunting in St. Bartholomä, Styria, Austria, July-September 2019. A Summary
FranzBernhard posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
Hello, I have summarized my hunting trips to St. Bartholomä from July 2019 to September 2019. Its in German and located at an external site: Rudists St. Bartholomä - July-Sept 2019 (external site) (pdf, ca. 4.2 MB) Fell free to delete this post if you find it inappropriate. Thanks! Franz Bernhard -
Rudist hunting (6) in St. Bartholomä, Styria, Austria
FranzBernhard posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
Hello, today I had another opportunity to fossil hunt in St. Bartholomä. I tidied mostly up my main dig and collecting site in the quarry at Point 25 east of Kalchberg. As expected, I did not find much, only some small so-so specimens (19 specimens in 3 hours, but the majority would be rejects). However, in the same small quarry, a few meters to the north of the main dig site, "Knödelbrekzie" is also exposed (upper part of lower right pic), with some steep scree below. I have found two good rudists in this scree two years ago. Today, I dug again with bare hands in the scree. First without any success. Sure, every piece was fossiliferous limestone, but even not a rudist fragment among them. But then, only a few minutes before I had to leave, it was there! Just pulled out of the dark hole to the left of the specimen: A slender, slightly bend Vaccinites vesiculosus. The apex is broken off (pillars are visible there) and it is also broken at the top end, but it is quite aesthetic and elegant, that´s at least my thinking . I like it very much! Ok, back to work : This is the main dig site at point 25 as of today, 09/24/2019. There are no longer many clasts of fossiliferous limestone in the scree, mostly sandstone and marl. The orange bucket in the upper left pic contains clasts of fossiliferous limestone, the black bucket waste material (marl and sandstone). Today I have removed 23 buckets (10 Liter) of waste and 3 buckets of fossiliferous limestone from the dig site. Scale bar is 1 m. In the lower left pic, piles of fossiliferous limestone are visible, the waste material is dumped to the left (not visible). In the lower left corner, cutting rejects are deposited. At the right edge of the lower right pic, fragments and partials of rudist are deposited. This was probably my last hunting trip to St. Bartholomä for some time. I would like to do more prospecting and light surface collecting during my next trips. I am not really the born digger, I like prospecting more, but sometimes, I just have to dig . Thanks for looking! Franz Bernhard
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From the album: Hippurites colliciatus Woodward, 1855 from St. Bartholomä, Styria, Austria
West of Kalchberg, point 36, collected 03/17/2019. -
From the album: Hippurites colliciatus Woodward, 1855 (Pseudocolonies) from St. Bartholomä, Styria, Austria
West of Kalchberg, point 36, collected 03/17/2019. -
From the album: Hippurites nabresinensis Futterer, 1893 from St. Bartholomä, Styria, Austria
East of Kalchberg, point 25, collected 02/27/2019. Crushed specimen with various sediment infill and quite nice contrast. -
From the album: Vaccinites vesiculosus (Woodward, 1855) from St. Bartholomä, Styria, Austria
East of Kalchberg, point 30, collected 08/23/2017. Long, but incomplete specimen with various sediment infill. L-pillar is broken off and displaced in most sections. -
From the album: Vaccinites vesiculosus (Woodward, 1855) from St. Bartholomä, Styria, Austria
East of Kalchberg, point 25, collected 01/20/2018. -
From the album: Hippurites colliciatus Woodward, 1855 (with radiolitid rudists) from St. Bartholomä, Styria, Austria
East of Kalchberg, point 25, collected 08/04/2018. -
From the album: Hippurites colliciatus Woodward, 1855 (with radiolitid rudists) from St. Bartholomä, Styria, Austria
East of Kalchberg, point 25, collected 06/03/2018. -
From the album: Hippurites colliciatus Woodward, 1855 (with radiolitid rudists) from St. Bartholomä, Styria, Austria
East of Kalchberg, point 25, collected 02/18/2018. -
From the album: Hippurites colliciatus Woodward, 1855 (with radiolitid rudists) from St. Bartholomä, Styria, Austria
East of Kalchberg, point 25, collected 10/26/2017. -
From the album: Hippurites colliciatus Woodward, 1855 (with radiolitid rudists) from St. Bartholomä, Styria, Austria
Northeast of Kreuzegg, point 9, 10/08/2017. -
From the album: Hippurites colliciatus Woodward, 1855 (Pseudocolonies) from St. Bartholomä, Styria, Austria
East of Kalchberg, point 38, collected 06/15/2018. -
From the album: Hippurites colliciatus Woodward, 1855 (Pseudocolonies) from St. Bartholomä, Styria, Austria
West of Kalchberg, point 36, collected 01/01/2019. -
From the album: Hippurites colliciatus Woodward, 1855 (Pseudocolonies) from St. Bartholomä, Styria, Austria
East of Kalchberg, point 25, collected 08/12/2018. -
From the album: Hippurites colliciatus Woodward, 1855 (Pseudocolonies) from St. Bartholomä, Styria, Austria
East of Kalchberg, point 38, collected 05/30/2018. Small, cylindrical individuals, not sure of species. -
From the album: Hippurites colliciatus Woodward, 1855 (Pseudocolonies) from St. Bartholomä, Styria, Austria
East of Kalchberg, point 25, 01/20/2018. Not totally sure of the species. -
From the album: Hippurites colliciatus Woodward, 1855 (Pseudocolonies) from St. Bartholomä, Styria, Austria
West of Kalchberg, point 32, collected 10/25/2017. -
From the album: Hippurites colliciatus Woodward, 1855 (Pseudocolonies) from St. Bartholomä, Styria, Austria
East of Kalchberg, point 25, collected 08/13/2017. AN3861 is no longer in my collection. -
From the album: Hippurites colliciatus Woodward, 1855 from St. Bartholomä, Styria, Austria
West of Kalchberg, point 36, collected 02/10/2019. -
From the album: Hippurites colliciatus Woodward, 1855 from St. Bartholomä, Styria, Austria
East of Kalchberg, point 25, collected 12/27/2018. -
From the album: Hippurites colliciatus Woodward, 1855 from St. Bartholomä, Styria, Austria
West of Kalchberg, point 36, collected 11/05/2018.
