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The Devonian period is known as "The Age of Fish", but could also be known as "The Age of Brachiopods." In the Early / Lower Devonian, brachiopods reached the height of their diversity towards its end in the Emsian. We see the ancestral groups occurring, lingulids, craniids, orthids, protorthids, pentamerids, rhynchonellids and strophomenids, as well as the later successful groups we have seen before such as atrypids, athyrids and orthotetids, plus the rise of spiriferids, spiriferinids and productids and the beginning of the terebratulids. By the end of the Devonian , several of these g
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I have posted examples of this fossil before in ID, but this is a newly found specimen that is more complete, but still missing the same area that all my specimens are missing. Photos of the other examples and the resulting conversations can be found in the previous post in October. This example shows what appears to be hinge teeth, a muscle scar and the general form. The shell in all examples thins dramatically towards the muscle scar and the origin of the growth lines, and the missing features are always just past this point away from the margin side.
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Hey guys I have some fossils I collected from the Coon Creek of Tennessee. The resident paleontologist, and other trip goers told me to use floor wax to seal these delicate fossils. They aren't permineralized and therefore crumble and crack very easily. Is there a better alternative to floorwax? I read both yes and nos on its usage. I don't like modifying fossils if I don't have to, but I've had multiple fall apart already.
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Hi Everyone, Last month I took a trip from New York to Elizabethtown, Kentucky to attend my parents' 70th anniversary. My sister and her husband, two of her adult children, and my parents, both in their 90s have all resettled there. I try to visit them at least once per year, but my parents' 70th wedding anniversary could not be missed. It is a very long trip from the suburbs of New York City to E-Town and a stop along the way was the sensible thing to do, so I spent the night in Harrison, Ohio near the border with Indiana and only 15 minutes from St. Leon, the well known Ordovician roadc
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I apologize in advance for the photo quality, and the fact that I did not have a ruler with me when I took the pics. I see these things EVERYWHERE. The ones pictured here are large (6-8”, 15-20cm), in limestone slabs. But I see them in smaller sizes, in rocks that I pick up. The rocks often have recognizable fossils in them, too: cephalopods, brachiopods, crinoids, bryozoans. I am thinking maybe these are internal structures, perhaps of brachiopods? I’m starting to think I am crazy…
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I have 11 specimens of this, and all of them are incomplete. I am posting an example that shows the salient features that apply to all. This is from the lower Devonian Birdsong Shale member of the Ross formation in Parsons, Tennessee. All specimens are 30~50 mm ovals consisting of growth rings only, and any hinge area is missing from all. The rings have no radial features or ornamentation. They are very shallowly concave and seemingly have no prominent apex The growth rings center from what appears to be a muscle scar, and the outer ring is always slightly thicker and wider. The shell is quite
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My husband and I went hiking today, and I started looking at rocks, and I think every single one had fossils in it! Many of them had a similar shape, which I see quite a bit around here. I have no idea what it is, though, maybe the inside of a brachiopod? Maybe a cross-section of coral? Thanks for any answers.
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Hello, I'm a novice hunter and need help identifying two specimens.
Robert Mahorney posted a topic in Fossil ID
Hello, I'm a novice hunter and need help identifying two specimens. Thanks for any info u can give found 40 miles north of cookville tn. Thanks -
The thread http://www.thefossilforum.com/index.php?/topic/84678-adams-silurian/ was getting rather enormous, so I have decided to leave that one to deal with the Llandovery and Wenlock and put my specimens from the Late / Upper Silurian here, though I don't have a great deal of material from the Ludlow and Pridoli yet. However, I do still have some jolly nice specimens to show off here. Here are my other collection threads for the Cambrian and Ordovician ; http://www.thefossilforum.com/index.php?/topic/78887-adams-cambrian/&tab=comments#comment-832018 and : http://www.
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My grandson found this walking the shore line at Pickwick Lake. Hoping for help identifying it to spur more interest in him to start a new hobby.
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I found this on a river bank in rogersville TN. A place where I usually find a lot of Native American artifacts this particular object has me baffled. I don’t even know where to begin on how to identify it through a quick simple google search. How would one describe this odd-ness? Anyways, im not at all knowledgeable in the fossil department so here I am hoping someone else can help me identify this thing. thank you in advance!! I must add that it feels hard, not rock hard, but more plastic hard but feels like a bone material or shell like material.
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I purchased this from a man who said it was found on a mountaintop in Tennessee. I have no other information about it at all. Does anyone have any idea what it might be?
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Paleozoic Adventures in Kentucky and Tennessee October 2021
Jeffrey P posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
Hi Everyone, In the latter half of last month I took a two week trip to Kentucky and Tennessee. My sister, her husband, two of her adult children, and my parents all live in the Elizabethtown/Louisville area and I was able to spend some quality time with them. Fossil collecting was also part of my agenda. Herb, my primary fossil collecting partner in Kentucky and I had a three day trip down to Tennessee planned. Before I went on that expedition, I was out with my brother-in-law driving around central Kentucky. He dropped me off for 20 minutes at the Upper Mississippian site at Wax where- 76 replies
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I found this bone in a creek bed in middle Tennessee very shortly after a large flood exposed new sediment. I know that that are of Tennessee was once a seafloor so it is likely marine. Any help is appreciated.
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I had the opportunity to visit another Silurian site in the northern Georgia/southern Tennessee area. This is now the third such site I've visited, but the first in the Rockwood Formation as opposed to the Red Mountain Formation. As far as I can tell there's very little different between the two lithologically and paleontologically, with the Rockwood and Red Mountain occupying pretty much the same stratigraphic position. The difference seems to be that the TGS prefers to use the term "Rockwood" to describe it's Niagaran Silurian system and the GGS and AGS prefer the term "Red Mountain", mostly
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I have these few pieces of coral I need help identifying. They were all found in middle Tennessee. They were all found in the same place and their formation is part of the stones river group. I also have this weird little guy from Tennessee that my dad found on a roof.
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I found this in a creek in middle Tennessee. I’m wondering if it is just a rock or if it could be petrified wood? Thanks!
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Hello. This is my first post. I have little experience in fossils except perhaps an eye to notice they're not quite a rock. I "think" this is a fossil tooth. Found in Tennessee, USA, Mid-Ordovician area in general; at approx 1,100 altitude in the dry portion of a chronically drought stricken river. Partially mineralized and lying where 100-200+ old trees are. Their roots are exposed; fossil wood can't be ruled out. I appreciate your thoughts. I'm a professional rock hound of 10 years with 60 years of accumulated knowledge. Science has sheets fascinated me; geology is i
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Looking to see if anyone can tell me what I found. Big 1 looks to be solid quartz. The 2 small ones are as big as a finger.
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I believe might be a coral or sponge of some sort any ideas?
Robert Mahorney posted a topic in Fossil ID
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What kind of gastropod is this? Found in east Tennessee?
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Cephalopod fossils in matrix found in Sumner county Tennessee.
Robert Mahorney posted a topic in Fossil ID
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I really almost dismissed it as a rock but second guessing. Could this be a shark tooth possibly? It was found along with crinoids and horn corals in a creek in Nashville area Tennessee
