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Cretaceous Porcelain Crab Petrolisthes landsendi new species Late Cretaceous (Comox/Haslam Formation) Saanich Peninsula, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada Donated to the Royal British Columbia Museum, Victoria, BC https://www.researchgate.net/publication/347129633_A_new_species_of_Petrolisthes_STIMPSON_1858_Anomura_Porcellanidae_from_the_Upper_Cretaceous_upper_Santonian_of_Vancouver_Island_Canada It was determined that this fossil specimen collected by me and formerly residing in my collection was potentially a new species. After sending the specimen to Torrey Nyborg for examination, it was confirmed to be a new species of Porcelain crab from the late Cretaceous of Southern Vancouver Island. This new species was determined to be the "oldest species of Petrolisthes Stimpson, 1858 and is the first species from the northeastern Pacific".
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My aunt found this on the Chemainus River recently. Usually I can tell if something is a fossil even if I don't know what kind of fossil, but this one has question marks all around it. The rock looks like flint to me (at least chert - we have lots of chert around here but actual flint is not something we see very often here on Van Isle, so I'm not sure of that either). As you can see it is in the process of being sliced, so there is one cut surface to look at there, opposite the one that is glued to the wood block (pics 3 and 5). The glossy look is partly due to the rock saw oil still covering it. It is quite fine-grained in the 'bubbly' looking area anyway. Is there any sort of fossil that could account for the 'bubbles'? (e.g. sponge, radiolarian...? - just shots in the dark), or is it purely geological? Do I need to get microphotos of the inclusions for an ID? (That could be difficult - I could try a macro lens on the camera).
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Anyone have an idea what this could be? It looks like it could have been a collections of small ribs?? They are hollow looking and possible some cartilage vertebrae?? Never seen anything like this in my area no idea it was heavy to pack out though lol!!! (Rock is 15" long for ref)
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Because it's only a short ferry ride away from the mainland, I often try to make a point to go to Vancouver Island when I have some time free, both to explore its natural beauty and to hunt for fossils in its rich and varied Cretaceous deposits. Much of the eastern coast of the island adjacent to the Strait of Georgia, as well as many of the smaller islands just offshore, are underlain by the Nanaimo Group - an ancient marine basin whose age extends from about 90 to 65 million years. Many of the shorelines, creeks, and quarries of Vancouver Island, where the formation crops out, can be explored for their fossil bounty. I've just come back from a solo camping trip a few weeks ago, where I spent most of my time exploring the abandoned shale pits east of Nanaimo. While this was the main purpose of the excursion, it also gave me a good reason to visit the Courtenay and District Museum to get some paperwork sorted to donate a fossil cycad seed I found on a previous trip (detailed here). That said, I'm going to cheat a little in this post, and also include some photos and finds from two previous trips - one earlier in the spring, and another from late last summer. Anyway, I hope you enjoy! First I'll start with some photos from the field. Late summer, 2021 Glyptoxoceras fragment (Trent River): Seals chilling in the distance, Hornby Island: The elusive otter: The iconic arbutus!: Sunset, Hornby Island:
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Hunting for Fossil Whales in the Clifts of Vancouver Island, British Columbia.
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This Cliff Face Is Packed With Fossilized Whale Remains Devon Bidal, (Hakai Magazine) Smithsonian Magazine, February 18, 2022 Yours, Paul H.- 3 replies
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Hello all, I recently collected this interesting permineralized fruit from the Browns River on Vancouver Island, B.C. This river exposes outcrops of the lower Trent River formation of the Nanaimo Group, which represents a relatively nearshore Campanian marine environment. The fossil itself was found in an outcrop of fairly poorly consolidated sandstone, which also contained large pieces of coalified wood debris and a poorly preserved, crushed ammonite. I'm not particularly optimistic about getting a positive ID on this, but I am interested to see what others think about it, and would definitely appreciate some educated suggestions about a possible affinity. As far as I'm aware, fossil fruits from the Nanaimo Group are quite rare, so I would also be interested to know if anything similar to this has been found before or not. (Fossil is ~1.5cm long, the angle it's photographed at isn't completely flat). Front (note the longitudinal groove): Rear (this end is partially eroded away, presumably because it was the part sticking out of the rock): Top (note the round scar of the hilum): Bottom: Surface texture: Thanks for your attention! @Wrangellian@fossisle
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A large rock with fossils on one end, and situated at the river mouth of Chemainus River, British Columbia. Some small bivalves? Heteromorph ammonites?
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Please ID this odd little ball of fossils from Vancouver Island, BC Canada.
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My mom picked up this oddity of a rock at the mouth of Chemainus River, one Vancouver Island BC. The River carves away the surrounding sedimentary hills. Is this a part of bivalves or ammonites???- 12 replies
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This was found in blasted rock with shells, geodes on Vancouver Island. It is covered in some very thin hair like crystals and larger more solid quarts like crystals. It has a wood grain, very dark, charcoal like. I originally thought petrified wood but it is soft if you press your nail into it. Can anyone identify it for me? Thanks!
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Hey everyone! Amateur fossil hunter here! Can someone help me out with what this is? Found in Nanaimo in a shale deposit, not sure what the vertical lighter section is. Was surround by fossilized shells. Thanks for your help!
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Hi all. A real Newbie here wondering if anyone can ID this as Coprolite? It's 3" in length and weighs 100 grams (it's hard as rock). I found it amongst all the rocks on the beach on the eastern coast of the island (Georgia Straight side). Does that mean that it may have come from an ancient sea creature? Thanks for any info. Cheers!
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So out hunting in some sedimentary rock from the nanaimo group on vancouver island here and found this. Sticking out of a rather large chunk of rock. Any idea what this might be? (If anything?) I've looked through my "westcoast fossils" book but does not look (to me) like anything from that.
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Well the kido and I have been hunting around the reef for a while (we gave up for a bit and went to some upper cretaceous shale on a river for the summer...more opportunity to swim if she got bored lol) but today we went down to the beach to hunt for some shells for a craft and I couldn't help but look a little lol found a small ammonite (I think) and then we saw this concretion laying there I smaked it open and 432nd time is the charm haha!! It looks to be in pretty great shape even the spines are sharp on the carapace! Kinda neat that these are found only at this reef Emma (my daughter) was so excited normally I just get the thumbs up "cool dad" when we find something hahaha.
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I recently found this coral (I'm calling it Platycyathus vancouverensis until I learn otherwise) at my local site, Mt. Tzuhalem (Haslam Fm, Santonian), with apparently a cluster of pellets inside the 'cup' formed by the septa on the top side. Usually only the rounder bottom side is exposed when I find these corals, as the septa tend to hold onto their matrix. I'll try for better pics if needed, but it's tough! Note that they are all quite small - less than a millimeter. Another specimen that I've had for longer, with septa exposed (more or less), seems to have less obvious bumps or pellets. Maybe the septa have some degree of bumpiness but the example in the first pic above seems different from this:
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Hey there, Thanks for any help you can offer! This was found on the southern banks of Island View Beach on the east side of Southern Vancouver Island. It's shape, apparent slight porosity, and coloration peaked my curiosity but I'm not certain that it's anything of interest. Thanks for your input!
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Well my daughter and I have been hard at work hunting we got into it after her birthday and had a tiny bit of success at the beach but found a much better area to dig in the nanaimo group strata. I got "west coast fossils" the book so we could figure out what we were finding and finally these last few outings we are finding some great stuff! My only sadness is I found this huge bivalve but I dont think there is anyway to get it out without damaging it! Lifted a large 5" 2x3' slab off the top of this larger rock and we found this which was pretty awesome first large fossil we have found
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Hi. Kicking around Mt Tzuhalem yesterday and found a few bits that I'm curious about. The first I think is a gastropod cast but it seems to have spines? The second is a small baculite? Thanks in advance.
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Wood fossil found at the Trent River, near Comox BC, Canada. Trent River fossils date around 80 million years (so I’ve read), interested to see if anyone can identify exactly what type of tree/plant this came from. Have always thought it was bamboo, but I really don’t know what I’m talking about. Please let me know if you need more photos.
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This was sitting in my yard when I bought this house. The owner found it but didn't know what it was. Now every time I walk by it, it bugs me. Anyone have any idea's? The fossil's here on Vancouver Island are cretaceous sea creatures for the most part if that helps. Thanks!
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I found this one last month at my usual site, Upper Cretaceous Haslam Fm. (Nanaimo Group) Pretty sure it's plant as it's got that coaly carbonized look. A piece of it appears to be missing but the full outline is there. I'm seeing an oval shaped body (flattened but some thickness still left), surrounded by a flat membrane like an Elm samara. I don't really expect to come to any conclusions with this one, but thought it was interesting enough to post for ideas. I'd be happy if someone could tell what modern taxon has seeds resembling this one in any way. If nothing, it will end up in the museum for future paleobotanists to inspect. It's not the only seed- or nut-like thing I've found at this site. Forgot to include something for scale, but it's ~24mm long.
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We were looking for Herkimer diamonds on Mount Tzouhalem on Vancouver Island, BC, Canada again today. The area we were in had been blasted to make a golf course which never happened, about 10 years ago. It exposed basalt reportedly from the Devonian period, and there's lots of shale exposed. We were digging in the shale and dug out this piece of rock with a possible shell fossil in it. Any further info or identification of what it might be would be appreciated. Thanks.
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We were looking for Herkimer diamonds on Mount Tzouhalem on Vancouver Island, BC, Canada today. The area we were in had been blasted to make a golf course which never happened, about 10 years ago. It exposed basalt reportedly from the Devonian period, and there's lots of shale with some veins of clay that the Herkimer diamonds are found in. We found this possible fossil just laying amongst the loose shale. It seems to have some characteristics of bone, and is a fair size chunk. Here's the pictures. Any help would be appreciated.
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My son and I were at Amonite Falls in Naniamo, BC and we found this intriguing object on the river bed. Found July 22, 2019. Rocky and lots of shale along the river in a forested area. The ruler is in centemeters. Any help identifying this would be greatly appreciated!
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Hello, I found what I believe are marine fossils, but I have not been able to identify them thus far. I'm hoping I might find some help here. The photo lighting isnt the best, but I hope there is enough info here to help. These were all picked up in October 2018, on Vancouver Island in BC, Canada. The area is the Comox valley, and found in shale. The fossils found in this region are marine species from the Cretaceous period. Fossil 1: This was picked up along the Trent River, above the Trent Falls (about 150 yards following the river back up stream from the falls). The area is south of the town of Courtenay. It was found with the 'point' down in some harder rock that accompanies the shale formation there. It was loose enough that I was able to pick this out after tapping along the edges with a chisel. The fossil is not wet in photos. The 'point' is smooth, for the most part, and shiny. Bottom view - What I seen when I found it: Close up of bottom: Top view of 'point' - This was the part embedded in the stone, point down: Side view: Another side view: A couple of close ups of the point:
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This crab along with another of the same type are currently with Torrey Nyborg of Loma Linda University in California. I'm told they are Paradoxicarcinus sp. (possibly P. nimonoides or maybe something new). At any rate Torrey Nyborg expressed interest in examining and describing them because he felt they may be something new. If they are indeed new and/or are published they will be donated to the Royal British Columbia Museum, in my hometown of Victoria (BC), not far from where these and other crab fossils were found).
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