Jump to content

Search the Community

Showing results for tags 'upstate ny'.

  • Search By Tags

    Type tags separated by commas.
    Tags should be keywords or key phrases. e.g. otodus, megalodon, shark tooth, miocene, bone valley formation, usa, florida.
  • Search By Author

Content Type


Forums

  • Fossil Discussion
    • Fossil ID
    • Fossil Hunting Trips
    • General Fossil Discussion
    • Partners in Paleontology - Member Contributions to Science
    • Fossil of the Month
    • Questions & Answers
    • Member Collections
    • A Trip to the Museum
    • Paleo Re-creations
    • Collecting Gear
    • Fossil Preparation
    • Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
    • Member-to-Member Fossil Trades
    • Fossil News
  • Community News
    • Member Introductions
    • Member of the Month
    • Members' News & Diversions
  • General Category
    • Rocks & Minerals
    • Geology

Categories

  • Annelids
  • Arthropods
    • Crustaceans
    • Insects
    • Trilobites
    • Other Arthropods
  • Brachiopods
  • Cnidarians (Corals, Jellyfish, Conulariids )
    • Corals
    • Jellyfish, Conulariids, etc.
  • Echinoderms
    • Crinoids & Blastoids
    • Echinoids
    • Other Echinoderms
    • Starfish and Brittlestars
  • Forams
  • Graptolites
  • Molluscs
    • Bivalves
    • Cephalopods (Ammonites, Belemnites, Nautiloids)
    • Gastropods
    • Other Molluscs
  • Sponges
  • Bryozoans
  • Other Invertebrates
  • Ichnofossils
  • Plants
  • Chordata
    • Amphibians & Reptiles
    • Birds
    • Dinosaurs
    • Fishes
    • Mammals
    • Sharks & Rays
    • Other Chordates
  • *Pseudofossils ( Inorganic objects , markings, or impressions that resemble fossils.)

Blogs

  • Anson's Blog
  • Mudding Around
  • Nicholas' Blog
  • dinosaur50's Blog
  • Traviscounty's Blog
  • Seldom's Blog
  • tracer's tidbits
  • Sacredsin's Blog
  • fossilfacetheprospector's Blog
  • jax world
  • echinoman's Blog
  • Ammonoidea
  • Traviscounty's Blog
  • brsr0131's Blog
  • brsr0131's Blog
  • Adventures with a Paddle
  • Caveat emptor
  • -------
  • Fig Rocks' Blog
  • placoderms
  • mosasaurs
  • ozzyrules244's Blog
  • Terry Dactyll's Blog
  • Sir Knightia's Blog
  • MaHa's Blog
  • shakinchevy2008's Blog
  • Stratio's Blog
  • ROOKMANDON's Blog
  • Phoenixflood's Blog
  • Brett Breakin' Rocks' Blog
  • Seattleguy's Blog
  • jkfoam's Blog
  • Erwan's Blog
  • Erwan's Blog
  • marksfossils' Blog
  • ibanda89's Blog
  • Liberty's Blog
  • Liberty's Blog
  • Lindsey's Blog
  • Back of Beyond
  • Ameenah's Blog
  • St. Johns River Shark Teeth/Florida
  • gordon's Blog
  • West4me's Blog
  • West4me's Blog
  • Pennsylvania Perspectives
  • michigantim's Blog
  • michigantim's Blog
  • lauraharp's Blog
  • lauraharp's Blog
  • micropterus101's Blog
  • micropterus101's Blog
  • GPeach129's Blog
  • Olenellus' Blog
  • nicciann's Blog
  • nicciann's Blog
  • Deep-Thinker's Blog
  • Deep-Thinker's Blog
  • bear-dog's Blog
  • javidal's Blog
  • Digging America
  • John Sun's Blog
  • John Sun's Blog
  • Ravsiden's Blog
  • Jurassic park
  • The Hunt for Fossils
  • The Fury's Grand Blog
  • julie's ??
  • Hunt'n 'odonts!
  • falcondob's Blog
  • Monkeyfuss' Blog
  • cyndy's Blog
  • pattyf's Blog
  • pattyf's Blog
  • chrisf's Blog
  • chrisf's Blog
  • nola's Blog
  • mercyrcfans88's Blog
  • Emily's PRI Adventure
  • trilobite guy's Blog
  • barnes' Blog
  • xenacanthus' Blog
  • myfossiltrips.blogspot.com
  • HeritageFossils' Blog
  • Fossilefinder's Blog
  • Fossilefinder's Blog
  • maybe a nest fossil?
  • farfarawy's Blog
  • Microfossil Mania!
  • blogs_blog_99
  • Southern Comfort
  • Emily's MotE Adventure
  • Eli's Blog
  • andreas' Blog
  • Recent Collecting Trips
  • retired blog
  • andreas' Blog test
  • fossilman7's Blog
  • Piranha Blog
  • xonenine's blog
  • xonenine's Blog
  • Fossil collecting and SAFETY
  • Detrius
  • pangeaman's Blog
  • pangeaman's Blog
  • pangeaman's Blog
  • Jocky's Blog
  • Jocky's Blog
  • Kehbe's Kwips
  • RomanK's Blog
  • Prehistoric Planet Trilogy
  • mikeymig's Blog
  • Western NY Explorer's Blog
  • Regg Cato's Blog
  • VisionXray23's Blog
  • Carcharodontosaurus' Blog
  • What is the largest dragonfly fossil? What are the top contenders?
  • Test Blog
  • jsnrice's blog
  • Lise MacFadden's Poetry Blog
  • BluffCountryFossils Adventure Blog
  • meadow's Blog
  • Makeing The Unlikley Happen
  • KansasFossilHunter's Blog
  • DarrenElliot's Blog
  • Hihimanu Hale
  • jesus' Blog
  • A Mesozoic Mosaic
  • Dinosaur comic
  • Zookeeperfossils
  • Cameronballislife31's Blog
  • My Blog
  • TomKoss' Blog
  • A guide to calcanea and astragali
  • Group Blog Test
  • Paleo Rantings of a Blockhead
  • Dead Dino is Art
  • The Amber Blog
  • Stocksdale's Blog
  • PaleoWilliam's Blog
  • TyrannosaurusRex's Facts
  • The Community Post
  • The Paleo-Tourist
  • Lyndon D Agate Johnson's Blog
  • BRobinson7's Blog
  • Eastern NC Trip Reports
  • Toofuntahh's Blog
  • Pterodactyl's Blog
  • A Beginner's Foray into Fossiling
  • Micropaleontology blog
  • Pondering on Dinosaurs
  • Fossil Preparation Blog
  • On Dinosaurs and Media
  • cheney416's fossil story
  • jpc
  • A Novice Geologist
  • Red-Headed Red-Neck Rock-Hound w/ My Trusty HellHound Cerberus
  • Red Headed
  • Paleo-Profiles
  • Walt's Blog
  • Between A Rock And A Hard Place
  • Rudist digging at "Point 25", St. Bartholomä, Styria, Austria (Campanian, Gosau-group)
  • Prognathodon saturator 101
  • Books I have enjoyed
  • Ladonia Texas Fossil Park
  • Trip Reports
  • Glendive Montana dinosaur bone Hell’s Creek
  • Test
  • Stratigraphic Succession of Chesapecten

Find results in...

Find results that contain...


Date Created

  • Start

    End


Last Updated

  • Start

    End


Filter by number of...

Found 16 results

  1. I found this in orange county, Hudson valley NY. The specimen is approximately 6 inches in diameter. It has little tunnel like holes in it and this ridged fossil. Could this be a coprolite? Is the fossil a wing, or could it be plant material? Thank you for your help!
  2. Hello! This was our first trip where we went looking for Devonian fossils in Upstate New York. Being our first time we were not sure about how accessible the location would be. A big thanks to @Fossildude19 and @Jeffrey P for guiding us and without their reassurance we might not have made the trip. We left early and it took us about 4 hours to drive to the location at the Kingston 9W roadcut to mostly surface collect fossils. We reached around 11am and got to work pretty quickly. We collected for about 2.5 hours and decided to stop after the traffic got too heavy. The location was great. There were fossils everywhere one could set their eyes upon. It was unbelievable. We walked around for a while just admiring the great preservation of fossils. Felt like we were on the ocean floor minus the water of course. It was awesome would definitely recommend checking it out but would recommend going early in the day or during weekdays as lesser traffic will let you explore more freely. We found several fossils but mostly Brachiopods which were pretty abundant. The fossils which had fallen out of the matrix were pretty delicate. The preservation in the limestone was great. The finds are as follows. Some pictures of the fossils on the surface which were cool to admire but near to impossible to extract. Mostly Tentaculites and a gastropod hiding Brachiopod heaven Very abundant fossils in every layer. Here are the things we were able to bring with us. A Spiriferid Brachiopod which is buried in many smaller brachiopods and its cross-section. Another Spiriferid brachiopod. A tentaculite imprint along with its fellow brachs. My first Trilo-bit Mostly Brachiopods and tentaculites from here on. A bryozoan of some kind Also need help identifying this one. Here are some of my finds from the trip. I have a lot more pictures which I will put in my gallery. So check that out if you want to see mostly hash plates full of brachiopods which I am planning to extract some brachiopods from hopefully. I might also not because it is too much work and I am not equipped with the equipment to remove them safely. Also what am I supposed to do with all these not so small can't be stored in a box fossils? I can't bring myself to throw them out because they are so pretty. How do you people deal with it? Should I allocate a corner of my basement to rock piles from my fossil hunting adventures? Hope you all enjoyed my post. -Vee
  3. Honeymayoon

    Crinoid? Coral? Upstate NY

    Found this in a stream bed in upstate NY near Ravena, NY. It’s roughly 12x6in. To me it looks like the flower of a crinoid but I am no expert so I’m curious to hear some opinion from this forum. Thanks!
  4. Honeymayoon

    Need help identifying mystery fossil

    Wondering if anyone can tell me what this is… looks like a bone not sure if it is a fossil or not. Pieces fit together perfectly. Found near Canaan, NY.
  5. Easwiecki

    Deep Springs Road Meetup

    I finally found something worth posting! For the first time in about a year I found enough free time to take a day off and return to Deep Springs Road quarry. I was able to meet many forum members for the first time including @Fossildude19, @Darktooth, @Jeffrey P, and a few others whose usernames escape me at the moment. It was a beautiful, warm day with a light breeze blowing innumerable fluffy cottonwood seeds hither and yon (and often in the eyes, noses, and mouths of quarrygoers). As we pulled up to the quarry around 8:30 AM @Fossildude19 and @Jeffrey P were already there, digging away. After introductions and some very valuable tips and knowledge of the quarry from the duo, I set about aimlessly splitting shale slabs from a pile recently excavated, perhaps by bulldozer. I found mostly nothing in the early morning while @Fossildude19 showered me with hash plates, curved and straight nautloids, gastropods, and other representative fauna he knew I'd be interested in. I'm very new to fossil collection and identification so apologies if I misidentify anything! @Fossildude19, @Jeffrey P, and @Darktooth were all incredibly helpful in identifying everything I brought to them. Paleozygopleura gastropods Orthonata sp. Nautiloids After a couple of hours in the dirt piles at the quarry entrance I decided to move somewhere I could cut do my own excavation in undisturbed shale. Halfway into the quarry I found a small pit where it looked like someone else had the same idea in a previous visit. As I settled into the 6 inch hole in the ground, @Darktooth and the Syracuse group arrived, and a while later a group from Pennsylvania showed up as well. The quarry was singing with the sound of metal on mineral while I chiseled into the wall of the hole I had found, eventually revealing a very nice bivalve, the name of which I can't remember. Goniophora? The crack in the shale formed after the rock sat in basement for the few days since the quarry trip, which reminds me that I should check the fossil prep section of the forum for preservation tips. I've already heard to use a dust made from grinding the matrix to fill the crack, and a mixture of superglue and acetone to help everything to stay together. Any other tips are graciously welcomed! I was getting tired of the pit after 3 or so hours and wanted to search for Eldregeops in the upper layer of the quarry. "One more layer" I told myself since I had just reached an easily splittable section. Three layers later I stumbled on my first ever complete (or nearly so) Dipleura dekayi fossil! Everything was perfect, the shale on top separated cleanly, there were no defects. I just needed to find a way to get it out without damaging it. Thankfully, @Fossildude19 came again to save the day, this time with a shale cutting handsaw! (Which I absolutely need the Make and Model for). A few seconds later my prize was free! I desperately want to prep it, I see so much detail in the cephalon alone! But when I got it home the surrounding matrix fell apart so easily, I figure it will just shatter if I try anything. Me in the pit I have many more identification pictures to take and share from this trip, but finding time is tricky right now. I wanted to get this up so that my comrades in shale splitting could share their fortune as well. A few bonus pictures: Bryozoans Partial greenops found by sister-in-law Interesting little coral I had so much fun and can't wait to get back out there again!
  6. I pulled this rather large collection of fossilized worms from the base of high falls in downtown Rochester,Ny I'm curious if these are a common find in the greater region and if anyone can ballpark the age and type of species
  7. Stephen Williams

    Mystery formation

    Hello. My first time here. I saw this unusual formation in the creek bed of Mill Creek near Lodi, NY. I think this is shale. There were a number of these roundish shapes in the rock. The 3 photos are all of the same formation. Just wondering if it was something (formerly) organic. In the 2nd photo, you can just see the tip of my #12 size boot for scale. Thanks.
  8. Decided to take a trip to Deep Springs Road in hopes of finding a complete Dipleura dekayi fossil. I have only ever explored the Devonian shales of Erie county, so the differences in the fossils was really refreshing. I have put some of my interesting specimens below. Also I did find a few pieces of trash that I picked up. Please help keep the site clean if you visit! Thank you for the help identifying these fossils that are new to me. 1. Found within my first 20 minutes at DSR, I never sniffed Dipleura again the rest of the day! 2. A type of gonatite maybe? 3. Not sure about this one. 4. Another one that is new to me 5. What I think to be great preservation on this bivalve 6. Saw a lot of gastropods, none of this size. I am guessing this is another bivalve.
  9. Hello All, Super Newbie here, trying to immerse myself in fossil ID and learn more about my surrounding area. I found some interesting patterns on some rocks near me and was hoping someone could shed more light on what they could be. What I've read of the area so far tells me that the Oswego sandstone I've been hunting in can have wave patterns and trace fossils, though I've found crinoids and shell imprints before. Here are my unknowns for this area. 1. Interesting Ringed Rock! 2. Would this be considered a hash plate? - Sorry for the blurry quality, some of these pictures didn't transition well from my phone to my PC. 3. I don't think this is a fossil. Any ideas? - just a hardened mineral lump in the sediment? Is that what concretions are? 4. Interesting orange crinoid imprints - is it common for fossils to be rust colored or is this the iron/pyrite I've been reading about in this area? 5. I'm just above the nautiloid-containing formation (whetstone gulf, I believe), is this a trace fossil of a nautiloid? 6. Bryozoan trace? Or nothing? Sorry about the lack of scale on this one, it was about 8cm long end-to-end. 7. Crystals and Fossils living together?? - Mass hysteria! Any information on this strange occurrence would be very interesting to me. This rock was way too heavy to carry back and too hard to split with just my trusty rock hammer. 8. A chance meeting - Whoops! Sorry fella! I'll just replace your roof and be on my way. My salamander ID is just as novice but I'm thinking Northern two-lined salamander? Not a great pic but I didn't want to stress the little one out too much trying for a glamor shot. Thanks for taking the time to read through this! Let me know if there are any formatting issues or other things I should keep in mind for future posts. Any information is greatly appreciated!
  10. This is my first post on these forums and for transparency I want you guys to know that I know almost nothing about fossils. It's just been an interest of mine and my son shares the same interest so we decided to go digging. This was found in Ilion NY (central NY) near a creek bed with exposed shale stone. Pretty sure it's a footprint of a small mammal but I can't say for sure. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance, your help is very much appreciated.
  11. Hello all! I’ve been going through some of my fossils from the New Scotland Formation and I stumbled upon this intriguing little piece. It’s about a centimeter wide and seems to be separated in the middle, almost like two connected plates of some kind. I’ve got a decent collection from this formation and I’ve never seen anything like this. Hopefully somebody on here can help me out. Thanks for looking!!
  12. FossilDog

    Help with identification please?

    Hello! New member needing help identifying the fossils in these rocks found in Central NY. The rocks were underneath a shed that we demolished, so we don't know for sure where they originated. We live on the Oswego River, and it's possible the rocks were sourced from the shore or river bottom. Thank you for your help!
  13. Ptp2844

    It looks like a tree to me

    Good day everyone. I'm new to this, but very intrigued. My father found this on our camp in Oak Hill NY. It is on the border of Albany and Greene County. We are at approximately 1400' elevation. To me my, my first instinct was "its a tree". But im certainly not a trained eye. Can anyone help? Its approximately 22" diameter. Only about 5" tall. Either way I think its a really cool mantle piece. Thanks in advance
  14. Ralenka

    ID: another wood materials?

    Hi! This was found in a creek in Tompkins county, NY, USA (Devonian period). The shale rock contained these rusty/blackish marks. Is it just rock composition or fossils? Wood? Why is it that fish bones are a rarity in Devonian rocks of Central NY? thanks!
  15. Ralenka

    ID. Wood film?

    Hi! Found this rock on my today’s walk. It is similar to the one I found before and that one was IDed as carbonized wood film. Is this one also wood? Can anything else be learned from this piece? Thanks! Found near a creek, in Tompkins county, NY, USA. Devonian period. The black piece is about 5cm in length.
  16. Ralenka

    A rock with a lot of life in it

    Hi! Found this interesting rock on my walk today with a lot of remains. Sone of them I can try to ID (I see lots of crinoids), but there is also new staff. location: Tompkins county, NY, USA period: Devonian size:1-2 cm Rock compositions: shale with layers of remains-rich material Items of interest: On the last picture what are the comb-like structure and two things that remind me of sea acorn? Thank you!
×
×
  • Create New...