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The Paleontological Society of Austin gets to go to the Lake Jacksboro site once a year.. Dallas Society also goes out there, so we try to make sure not to overlap, but surprisingly, the site is so productive, there's always great stuff to find! The Carboniferous Period- Pennsylvanian site is well known for its wide variety of fauna. I've been out there a dozen times and almost every time I find something new! It may seem a bit desolate, but it's worth the trek! My first happy find was a crinoid calyx. As with most Pennsylvanian sites, crinoids are prolific. But I've not found much complete crinoid material...but this time, I found two! Another fossil that is a special find out there is a little thing called a Rostroconch. It was originally thought to be a bivalve, but has been given it's own class. This is only the third one I've found. They are not common. Another of the most sought after fossils there are the Goniatites and Nautiloids. The big ones are rarely found whole, but you can also find tiny ones in the micro zone. Gonioloboceras and Tainoceras are the most common largeish ones and I have yet to find a GOOD complete one of either. I have found a few Gonioloboceras what were either almost whole or were so weathered that they look like zombies! This time I THOUGHT I had finally found a good complete one! This is what I saw and my heart did a flip flop! Unfortunately when I cleaned it up, the center was eroded but I actually kind of like the other side, even though it is weathered and a little "zombified" at least it's mostly whole! But the zigzag sutures are amazing! I found a few smaller ones in the field, but the big payday was the two 5 gallon buckets of micro matrix I brought home with me from the micro zone and found a PLETHORA of tiny goniatites this time! Top Row- R: Glaphyrites millsi C: Imitoceras grahamensis L: Neodimorphoceras texanum Bottom Row: Prouddenites grafordensis C: Wiedeyoceras pingue L: Unknown But this is kind of fascinating - it was encased in a little bit of matrix, so I tried to break it off but ended up kind of breaking the whole thing. But because of that, it released the tiny interior! Peritrochia sp. I certainly wish it were whole, but it's still fascinating to see the interior. Another new find was this little Brachiopod Fimbrinia - I'd been looking for one of these for a while and finally found one! Another nice little Brach with a surprising pearlescent surface - Kozlowskia splendens Also found this little Orbiculoidea missouriensis Here is an unusual coral called Palaeacis perpendicularis Found lots of cool gastropods, but my all time favorite is Cymatospira montfortianus I am already excited about getting back out there, maybe in the Fall because Texas summertime is NOT when you want to be out on those flats!
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I am going to start adding some images of my favorite finds which I call Collection Pieces. Identifications range from maybe, probably to most likely. I've only started to seriously collect over the past year. I've spent a great deal of time studying and learning Geology, as a hobby. I am located in Western Pennsylvania. At first, a map of the area. Anything in bright yellow is the Glenshaw Formation. The Ames Limestone layer exists between the Glenshaw and the Casselman Formations, which is the Orange color on the map. I have yet to explore the Ames Limestone, so I've only found fossils that exist in the marine zones below the Ames. Second and Third, are Metacoceras. The Fourth photo is of another Metacoceras. The id is slightly less likely as I can only see a few of the rounded spines. But I'm pretty sure it is one. Coming up next is a Mooreoceras that I found just this past weekend. I maintain everything on a website, that is listed in my profile. Thank you! Clint
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Fossil shells and impressions of shells found in Tryghamma, Svalbard.
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Probably Carboniferous, possibly early Permian. Could these be Brachiopods? Most of them seem to be double loved. Most are squashed so I took close up photos of the best ones.
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I had recently made a visit to Besom Hill, Old Ham, Manchester, UK for the spectacular remains of carboniferous fossils such as calamities, gastrioceras, and many more. Although I found some strange impressions in the shales (Listeri Marine band) and wished to get some idea on what it might be. It appears as an impression on the dark shale, has a sort of 3D impression on bottom and top. The pattern is lines radiating in a parallel manner, with slight but observable curvature. Surface is not flat, rather slightly wavy. First impression was possibly burrows, but probably not. Would it be some sort of shell or plant impression instead? Another specimen follows along as a cylinder.
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Carboniferous fossil identification if anyone could help much appreciated!
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Hi I'm back again, I'm stuck identifying a few fossils and was wondering if anyone knows what any of the images exactly are? I think I've finally narrowed it down to them being of the following: coradite, neuropteris, alethopteris and pecopteris I don't know if information on sizing would help work out but if anyone knows? Thanks youu
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trilobite fragment. carboniferous oquirrh formation, utah.
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I am attaching photos of sigillarius fossils in my collection. Members of the Forum have been helpful before and as always, suggestions/comments/corrections are welcome. The first image is of a Pennsylvanian sigillarius syringodendron specimen from Czechoslovakia. The second image is of a sigillarius specimen from the Pennsylvanian in Eastern Kentucky. The third image is a Pennsylavanian sigillarius specimen from the Westphalian in Czerwionka, Poland. The fourth image is of Pennsylvanian sigillarius leaves from Podrovskoe, District of Donetsk Region, Ukraine. The contrast is poor but these leaves do have a remarkable similarity to grasses (although grasses did not evolve until hundreds of millions of year later). The last image is of a Pennsylvanian specimen from Kentucky that was identified by a helpful Forum member as a sigillarius cortex specimen.
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Can anyone identify? And if so, what gave it away? Are there any keys I could use? All I know is that it's Carboniferous.
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From the album: Zuid-Limburg coal-mining district (Limburg, The Netherlands)
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I saw a post on facebook that someone was looking to get rid of some fossils they had collected locally so I arranged to meet up this afternoon. Most of what was being offered were carboniferous fossil ferns from St Clair and they had some beautiful examples from the site that has been closed to collecting for several years now.
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Any ID help is appreciated. From Provo Canyon, Utah. Carboniferous age limestone. Thanks. 1. Conulariida? 2. Brachiopod? 3. Brachiopod? 4. Tube shapes. Animal Burrows? 6. ?
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L.S., Pecopterid fossils from the Piesberg (Lower Saxony, DEU) are notoriously difficult to ID because the preservation does usually not show the venation (e.g., Josten 1991; PDFs of text and atlas volume). As a group, the pecopterids have also undergone quite substantial taxonomical revisions in the last few years based on material from other localities; not in the least from Mazon Creek (Illinois, USA). This makes identification of my Piesberg-pecopteris a rather daunting endeavour. Perhaps someone on TFF who has experience with the Mazon Creek pecopterids and most current nomenclatural changes would be willing to take a stab at them for me? Images can be enlarged by clicking on them. If photos of specific details are required, let me know and I'll do my best to provide them (but note that venation is often simply not preserved very well). Thanks in advance for any ID suggestions or tips you can provide. Kind regards, Tim Specimens TKTW0048 (left; "Spiropteris sp.") and TKTW0049 (right) Specimen TKTW0542 Specimen TKTW0651 - I'm not even sure this is a pecopterid... Specimen TKTW0826 (left) and TKTW0827 (right) Specimen TKTW1004 Specimen TKTW1078 (left), TKTW1079 (middle) and TKTW1082 (right) - all from same slab of rock (related?) Specimen TKTW1099 - "Spiropteris sp." but what kind of pecopterid is in the foreground? Specimen TKTW1099 - note fertile pinna on the right
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Karinopteris cf. soubeiranii (Zeiller) Boersma 1972
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From the album: Steinbruch Piesberg (Osnabrück, Germany)
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Hello to all. Found this sample few years ago. Place of discovery: Ukraine, Donetsk region, Dobropolsky district. The age of it is the Kasimovian stage of the Carboniferous period (307 Ma). Have a nice day 3.mp4 6.mp4
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Reticulopteris muensteri (Eichwald) Gothan 1941
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From the album: Steinbruch Piesberg (Osnabrück, Germany)
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Greetings, I’ve recently gotten back into prospecting fossils and I’m looking for some suggestions on sites to visit in western Pennsylvania. I frequently visit Ambridge PA to find fern and Calamite fossils from the Mahoning fm and would like to find more. I also would like to find fossils of early Permian (tetrapods, plants, or invertebrates). I hear that Washington county (south of Pittsburgh) has some great spots and would like to know if it were true. I also would like to show some of my findings from Ambridge as well. Note: I’d like this to be suggested places not just western PA but West Virginia and eastern Ohio as well.
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Howdy all, I have reason to suspect that this is a heavily crushed stigmaria I found while fossil hunting today. I was in the mammoth cave region of Kentucky in a creek where I found plates of coal up to two feet long as well as this fossil. I also went down into an exposed lake bed of Nolin lake which was down the hill from the site I was at and found several of what I'm guessing are mississippian crinoids.
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I have a fossil fern (seed fern?) from Kentucky for which I have finally been able to acquire readable close ups of the leaf structure. Members of the Forum have previously been very generous with their advice; however the image was not sufficiently detailed in order to make more definitive suggestions. Various suggestions are that it is possibly a cyclopteris, a neuropteris ovata, or a macroneuropteris scheuchzeri specimen. However, the leaf structure appears to be more robust than images of these types of fossils. With the closeups hopefully a more definitive answer can be found. Suggestions are welcome. The 1st image is of the entire specimen including a neuropteris leaf (disregard the cyclopteris label). The fossil of interest is in the upper right. The remaining images are closeups. Thank you in advance for any suggestions.
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Anthraconaia pruvosti (Chernychev) Trueman et Weir 1946
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From the album: Steinbruch Piesberg (Osnabrück, Germany)
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Reticulopteris muensteri (Eichwald) Gothan 1941
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Reticulopteris muensteri (Eichwald) Gothan 1941
paleoflor posted a gallery image in Member Collections
From the album: Steinbruch Piesberg (Osnabrück, Germany)
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Reticulopteris muensteri (Eichwald) Gothan 1941
paleoflor posted a gallery image in Member Collections
From the album: Steinbruch Piesberg (Osnabrück, Germany)
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From the album: Steinbruch Piesberg (Osnabrück, Germany)
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Hello! I have this iridescent Petalodus tooth that I would like to preserve. Firstly, it has a severe crack though the matrix (see pictures). Secondly, is there anything that I should do with the tooth itself? What are my options? I appreciate your help.
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I’ve been air scribing this piece out and I figured it was a Mooreoceras. However, the ridge going up the front is something I haven’t seen on this species. Is it just squashed a bit? It’s a pointed oval in shape. The length is nearly 3 inches.
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