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From the album: Fossildude's Middle Devonian Fossils
Tornoceras uniangulare from the Windom Shale Member of the Moscow Formation, Hamilton Group, Middle Devonian (Givetian) Deep Springs Road Quarry, Lebanon, NY.© 2023 Tim Jones
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The last few fieldtrips didn’t deliver a lot of fossils, so now I got time to get started at my backlog of fossil preps from the Lompret quarry. I still have well over 100kg of material to sort and to prep from there. Last weekend while rummaging through a few of those boxes I picked up one that got my interest. A Fragment of a large nodule with a part of a nicely sized Gephuroceratid poking out. After a good look, there were a couple of other fossil fragments visible in there, sadly the matrix was extremely hard. I had to use a grinder and hammer and chisel to get through it, the problem was that apart from the few visible specimens I was grinding in to it blind, so It happened that I grinded through a few fossils that weren’t visible on the outside. But from time to time I was lucky and exposed a few more fossils, including a nice small pyritized Manticoceras. After that I got the specimens out, I used a grinder to go over the matrix and used colour deepener on the fossils, this gives a nice colour contrast between the fossils and the matrix. The fossils visible on the finished piece are: a few Gephurocertids like Manticoceras sp., a little Tornoceratid, a Bactrites sp., a fragment of a nautiloid orthocone and a brachiopod Ryocarhynchus tumidus. The piece is from the late Devonian, Frasnian, Matagne formation near Chimayin Belgium. A goniatite poking out Grinding, chiseling and airscribing... almost done: All cleaned up picture with scale:
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A reconstruction of the Mahantango Formation
Bringing Fossils to Life posted a topic in Paleo Re-creations
I just finished a reconstruction of the Mahantango ecosystem, based off of fossils I have found at corresponding sites. This certainly does not cover all species in this formation, but many of the most prominent (Sorry no Dipleura, haven't done that one yet). I recently learned about Striacoceras and re-identified many of my orthocerids as this obscure genus. Striacoceras is the brown orthocone in the background. I included two crinoid genera, (left to right) Ancyrocrinus and Botryocrinus. an Eldredgeops searches for prey. There are several Mucrospirifer brachiopods, some Orthonota bivalves, a couple ammonoids (Tornoceras and Agoniatites), and some Pleurodictyum coral. In the distance, a shoal of Bactrites drifts. This is one of my first entire ecosystems.
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New Identification Posters for Common Hamilton Group Cephalopods
Bringing Fossils to Life posted a topic in General Fossil Discussion
I just made new ID posters for Hamilton Group Cephaloods - one for Nautiloids and Bactritoids, and one for ammonoids. The reconstructions are either new or updated for accuracy. Color patterns on the first picture are based on close relatives. If anyone has any suggestions, please let me know - I want these to be as useful as possible.
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Here is the complete guide to the Mahantango ammonoids! Koenenites is only included because of two specimens (found by my friend and I) from Swatara Gap, which includes some Mahantango strata according to HynerpetonHunter. Tornoceras is the most common, Koenenites the rarest. Enjoy!
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I finaly got around putting all my best cephalopods specimens that I collected over the past 4 years in the frasnian of southern Belgium on there place in the cabinets. They all come from the same location. (except an orthocone and a receptaculites from the same age but from a different spot ) most of it has already been posted in individual posts, but this gives an overal vieuw of the part of the collection on display. Enjoy al the Manticoceras, Crickites, Tornoceras, Bactrites, Orthocones and more
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Just wanted to share 2 of my last preparations that I’m particularly pleased with. Especially the Tornoceras sp. since I was missing a decent one for my collection. Manticoceras sp. Frasnian ( Devonian ) Chimay area ( Belgium) Tornoceras sp. Frasnian ( Devonian ) Chimay area ( Belgium )
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These are the pyritized inner whorls of what would have been a much larger specimen.
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From the album: Hungry Hollow Fossils
Tornoceras arkonense, Arkona Formation (Eifelian), Arkona (7 mm)© ©
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From the album: Hungry Hollow Fossils
Tornoceras arkonense, Arkona Formation (Eifelian), Arkona (8 mm)© ©
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From the album: Hungry Hollow Fossils
Tornoceras arkonense, Arkona Formation (Eifelian), Arkona (9 mm)© ©
