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Hey, I am heading down to West Virginia for a family trip and I was wondering if anyone knew of some good local spots near Sutton? The closest place I found is about 2 hours away from there and it might just be too far to convince my family to follow. I know the area is Pennsylvanian formation, but I don't know much other than that.
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I recently bought a smallish "fossil kit" online. Just some fossils in a bag from an outfit in West Virginia. I figured there would be a lot of steinkerns & bad preservation. I wasn't wrong in that. Lots of gastropod steinkerns, mangled urchins & urchin spines & star shaped crinoid stem sections. And some shells that seem sort of crystallized that light shines through. 2 reg pics of one of the better ones + 2 pics of light shining through. Pic #5 is an edge view of one of the broken ones & #6 is what I think may be beekite, which is present on several of them. Not really concer
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Hey all, after a long work-related hiatus I have found myself back in a part of West Virginia that has fossils! Yesterday I found a long bed of unknown material exposed on a ridge in northern Monroe County with a lot of fossils in it. I don't know the formation, but from what I could find out this area should be Mississippian. Am I right in thinking the attached photo is a bryozoa? Also, if I collect more samples, take photos of the outcrop, and give a good description of the material might it be possible to identify the formation? Thanks
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These 2 are part of a many (50 or more) fossils/imprints I found in a creek bed on a visit this summer to our family farm in Ritchie County, WV. Since we're going back for a visit next week, I thought I'd try to ID these now and look for more while I'm there again. The bulk of the fossils/imprints I've ID'd as ferns, and maybe lycophytes (if my research so far is correct) but can't find anything on the imprints in the attached photos. I'm new to plant fossils, so would appreciate some help in ID'ing this set. Here's what I know: All the fossils/imprints
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Found this (Needmore Formation) at Lost River Site near Wardensville, WV. Size is 40mm, 1.5 inches. Anyone know what this might be? Thank you.
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Hi folks. I cleaned up the horn coral that I posted a pic of earlier. (was wondering if I could find it easily, then realized all I had to do was look for my watch. The missing Timex was much easier to spot. ) Here is pics of it. It is the largest of the many I have found here. Regards,
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Is this a toot, as I suspect. If it is, I would love opinions of what type. I found this, as well as several other specimens, in my yard after buying the house. I always thought they might have some importance, so I just kinda found a spot for them, and they stayed there until I got curious enough to look at them closely. This one photographs better than most of them. Can someone help me? It’s driving me crazy! LOL Thanks
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From the album: MY FOSSIL Collection - Dpaul7
Brachiopod Fossil, with Tentaculites SITE LOCATION: West Virginia TIME PERIOD: Devonian Period (over 350 million years ago) Nicely detailed small Devonian brachiopod from West Virginia as well as several tentaculites impressions. Brachiopods, phylum Brachiopoda, are a group of lophotrochozoan animals that have hard "valves" on the upper and lower surfaces, unlike the left and right arrangement in bivalve molluscs. Tentaculites is an extinct genus of conical fossils of uncertain affinity, class Tentaculita, although it is not the only member of the class. It is known from Lower -
From the album: MY FOSSIL Collection - Dpaul7
Brachiopod Fossil, with Tentaculites SITE LOCATION: West Virginia TIME PERIOD: Devonian Period (over 350 million years ago) Nicely detailed small Devonian brachiopod from West Virginia as well as several tentaculites impressions. Brachiopods, phylum Brachiopoda, are a group of lophotrochozoan animals that have hard "valves" on the upper and lower surfaces, unlike the left and right arrangement in bivalve molluscs. Tentaculites is an extinct genus of conical fossils of uncertain affinity, class Tentaculita, although it is not the only member of the class. It is known from Lower -
From the album: MY FOSSIL Collection - Dpaul7
Brachiopod Fossil, with Tentaculites SITE LOCATION: West Virginia TIME PERIOD: Devonian Period (over 350 million years ago) Nicely detailed small Devonian brachiopod from West Virginia as well as several tentaculites impressions. Brachiopods, phylum Brachiopoda, are a group of lophotrochozoan animals that have hard "valves" on the upper and lower surfaces, unlike the left and right arrangement in bivalve molluscs. Tentaculites is an extinct genus of conical fossils of uncertain affinity, class Tentaculita, although it is not the only member of the class. It is known from Lower -
From the album: MY FOSSIL Collection - Dpaul7
Brachiopod Fossil, with Tentaculites SITE LOCATION: West Virginia TIME PERIOD: Devonian Period (over 350 million years ago) Nicely detailed small Devonian brachiopod from West Virginia as well as several tentaculites impressions. Brachiopods, phylum Brachiopoda, are a group of lophotrochozoan animals that have hard "valves" on the upper and lower surfaces, unlike the left and right arrangement in bivalve molluscs. Tentaculites is an extinct genus of conical fossils of uncertain affinity, class Tentaculita, although it is not the only member of the class. It is known from Lower -
We are heading down to Athens, WV this weekend to visit some friends who just moved there from the midwest. None of the four of us knows the area. Anyone have any suggestions for a reasonably short road trip to do some hunting in their vicinity?
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This is #8 and #9. Both were in the same split of shale. The larger one was barely visible, just 1/2 of the fwd center ridge. Took quite a bit of digging to expose it. I was pretty sure what it was, getting used to the little clues. Thanks again !
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From my first true fossil excursion, Lost River WV. Most of the finds were shells and such, but a few anomalies turned up. So this is a part 'Fossil Hunting Trips' part 'Identify Help'. Sorry for the long thread, but the file sizes are too large. (One of the weirdest and most diverse of all of the finds was this.) ID Help... (These things were everywhere, but this was the most profound of them.)
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I was prepping out a shell (it may seem stupid but I don't trust myself with other things) in a piece of matrix given to me by @Rocky Stoner (thx for the stones!) and this little dotted piece caught my eye. Could it be a frag of a trilobite, or is it the usual suspects. I am btw not referring to the obvious bryozoan, but the shiny piece with four holes.
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Hi again folks. There are sparsely scattered chunks of sandstone and other rock here. Today I found this one barely exposed at the surface. It was extremely difficult to break in two and is full of sparkles, like small quartz flakes. It is not the normal sandstone. There appears to be a section of a crinoid and a spiral gastropod of sorts. I found no reference to it in the link posted above and have not seen another one here. Looks like it may be an "open" tapered coil where the coils do not touch one another, not sure though. Something new here every day .... nev
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Hi folks, Rocky again. We had a nice shower this eve., walked the yellow shale plowed area and found these tidbits rinsed off. The longer one is the best orthoceras segment that I've found here so far. Also found the delicate little arrowhead. But as usual, it is broken. This is the first rain since the tilling. I'm hopeful (and confident) that more will pop up after several more rains and another tilling ... or 2. Kind regards.
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Hi folks, 1 item here for ID. It is a beautiful half bagel shape with the surface made up of polygons. A portion of a smaller one to the side. I searched it a bit and determined Echinoid coral, but found no illustrations resembling this one. I wetted it slightly for the pic to enhance the details. Please verify. Thanks.
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Could this be my first trilobite ? It was found within a foot of the coral I just posted. Looks like faint indications of several (pieces) in the pics. Go ahead .... make my day.
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Have a box-ful's worth of fragile plant fossils. I've heard of a glue-water-mix preparation trick but don't know exactly how to do it or if it is the best way to go at it. The fossils are in a sandy-black shale and some are fragile enough to break just by holding them. If this has been posted before just send me a link to the original. Thanks;
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Might be a case of pareidolia but these oddly shaped rocks resemble something... First to me looks like tree bark. (is it real?) Second i have no idea what it looks like (most likely just a weird way the rock broke) [Found in Kanawha County WV, Dunkard Group]
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After some research on the geological structure of my home state - West Virginia, It has come to my attention that what I once thought to be a land barren of fossils is actually very large plethora of different age rocks being oldest - extreme east, and newest rocks - to the west. But something odd turned up on some of the maps and papers in my scavenging through records of professors in paleontology or geological surveys: Quaternary rocks are riddled all throughout the state, almost as if a large region was once covered but now is reduced and weathered away into small outcrops in random place
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Hi all! So I am a new member here, but I've been a lurker for about 3 months or so, trying to take in as much information as I can! My sister and I are looking to go on a fossil hunting trip in northwestern VA/WV and I was wondering what we'd need? We're at hunting outside of Lost River Park in WV(known as The Needmore Formation, Roadside quarry is the part we're looking into going). I've heard it's a pretty popular area, and that most people leave with at least something. Anyway, I figure for that area, I'd be bringing a stone hammer, chisel, screwdriver, and maybe a brush for ba
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Where to go on a weekend spring fossil hunt with my son
Adam86cucv posted a topic in General Fossil Discussion
My son is turning 7 soon and want to take him on a weekend trip to fossil hunt. We've been to Calvert Cliffs, Brownies Beach, and Swatara State Park. Ideally in a 200 mile or so radius from central Maryland (Frederick area). I had thought about going to Big Brook in New Jersey and anything else in that area since Big Brook is only 5 per person a day and maybe on the way home detouring to the C&D canal dredging piles. I would like to be able to hunt both Saturday and Sunday morning before heading home in the afternoon. I also thought of doing Purse State Park one day and then over to t -
Hello, My family has come across a tooth that was found in West Virginia or Virginia. It was purchased at a yard sale from the person who found it. Supposedly, a large molar was found with it. I have a feeling it's fake, but hoping I'm wrong. It was given to us for free and the person believes it to be a "Bigfoot tooth." Due to my photos exceeding the size limit, here is all of them. Link is to Imgur.
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