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Of course I forgot the ruler. I have 4 of these all aprox 1/2" to 3/4" or 12.7- to 19.5mm. I added the second pic to show that they don't look like the Mucrospirifers?? that I found there. Someone identified something very similar to it on their website as Delthyris. They are Devonian from Pennsylvania. Thanks for any help on it or actually even both if I identified the Mucrospirifers in the 2nd photo incorrectly. Thanks!!
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I went back to Beltzville recently and found a few more fossils with which I would like help identifying. Last time I found what may have been a partial trilobite, and this time I found another that seems more likely. I also found a fossil that I originally picked up for the crinoid stem, but later noticed a dome with an almost honeycomb-like pattern on it. I am very curious as to what it is. And lastly, what appears almost like a large ring. Any help is very much appreciated. Thanks as always!
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The Delaware Valley Paleontological Society got a permit to explore the restricted area at Beltaville Dam in Lehighton, PA today. The spillway for the dam is immense! The 20-50ish foot walls of the spillway are covered with rubble in swaths of hard blue-black and red stone, soft colorful clay stone, and the occasional bit of tan sandstone. All are from the Upper Devonian Mahantango Formation. The sun was shining, the air was warm and the wind was still. Perfect day for prospecting! Everybody spread out along the walls. There was more than ample room for everybody to claim a big spot to explore. I walked along the north wall until the smooth, flat stones started showing texture. I had expected to find very little in the harder material and lots of things in the colorful clay. That’s been my experience on the beach in the adjacent state park*, anyway. Quite the opposite! As soon as I found a promising spot in the hard matrix, I sat down and examined every rock. The trilobites were lurking watching me from all directions. I found eyes from at least 8 animals. Most I kept, just for the sake of counting. A couple I tossed because this was getting silly. One I gave to someone nearby, “So he can keep an eye out for you.” The best was this 2-inch Phacops sp. cephalon. I now officially claim to have the PA State Fossil. I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to figure out if it’s P. rana, but the right genus is close enough for me. Such a cute little froggie face! I found one tiny brachiopod or bivalve among the buggies that still had the whole shell intact, albeit a might smoothed during its time under water. It's not silicified. It's not pyritized. It's still CaCO3 after all these ages. I tested it. I showed it to our trip leader who said that there was coral preserved like this shell further down the wall. Nifty. There were also some very nice, red-stained bryozoa and hash plates. Unfortunately, the hash plates were mostly at the narrow ends of long rocks, arranged 90 degrees from the plane of the layers in the splitting stone. Most I admired and left behind. There are only so many big, mostly-featureless rocks I can store in the house. After a couple hours, I appeared to exhaust my trilobite supply. People had walked past me with some pretty horn corals molds, so I headed towards the clay to see if I could find any. No luck. There was plenty of colorful stone, buy almost nothing as far as fossils, so I kept picking my way across the wall where I could get footing. I kept getting higher and higher until eventually I needed all 4s to navigate in any direction and abandoned my collection bucket. Another quarter mile or so down the wall, I found a good spot to slid tom the spillway floor. And there they were. In a space covering maybe 5 horizontal feet of the wall were rocks littered with preserved coral bodies. Jackpot! I spent at least an hour at the top. I tried to slide down a little and slid all the way to the bottom, unable to climb back up the steep pile of flat pebbles. There was definitely more at the bottom, but the middle eluded me. While poking around for corals, I found a couple of ½” brachiopods with both sides intact and a preserved crinoid stem. I walked across the spillway and back up the other side but found nothing. I somehow totally missed that the rest of the group had left, with just Rick and Steve watching me from a distance. Typical for me to be the last one out. I'll post a link in the comments to my Beltzville album when I finish sorting through my finds and photographing them. *Yes, I know it is illegal to collect fossils in most states' parks. Pennsylvania is an exception.
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I found this interesting fossil in the area of the Beltzville dam in Pennsylvania. Exposures in the area are generally Upper Devonian Mahantango Formation so I was surprised to see what looked to me like a lycopsid plant. The area where I spotted this find was mostly devoid of fossils but there were exposures with usual marine fauna within a few hundred yards. If anyone has any thoughts, I would appreciate it!
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Does anyone know what this is? I found it in Beltzville State Park, Pa, Devonian period. I’ve been told it could be snake skin, a type of Bryozoan and a certain type of tree. It’s lightweight and the bumps are very pronounced. Thank you!
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Hi! Does anyone have any idea what this is? It was found in Beltzville, Pa, Devonian period. Regards, Ce Ce
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I have this piece I found at Beltzville State Park pretty recently and really want to try to get it more exposed without destroying it. I have no experience at all with fossil prep, therefore I have no tools aside from basic chisels/hammers. I’m just wondering if there’s any suggestions as to what I could do to try to expose it, or anything I might acquire to do so.
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Looking for fossil shark and crocodile teeth have Devonian Fossils to trade
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I am looking to trade some of the fossils I’ve collected at Beltzville State Park and Montour Preserve for fossil shark or crocodile teeth. I pictured the fossils I’m looking to trade. Bivalves, coral, and some rocks with multiple specimens. If someone is interested in anything and has something other than what I’m looking for don’t be shy throw an offer my way, I’m interested in just about everything and would love to help expand others collections. Thanks all If anybody needs any other pictures of anything let me know- 11 replies
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From the album: Beltzville State Park
Pleurodictyum americanum Devonian Manhatango Formation Beltzville State Park, Beltzville, PA Thank you to @fossildude19 for the ID!- 5 comments
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Trilobite segments found just below the water line in the lake at Beltzville State Park, PA Devonian Manhatango Formation -
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Crinoid Stem The first fossil I found at the park. It was sitting on the bottom of the swimming area in waist-deep, crystal-clear water! Devonian Manhatango Formation Beltzville State Park, Pennsylvania -
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Brachiopod with small crinoid impression on shell
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Brachiopod internal mold with crinoid impression Devonian Manhatango Formation Beltzville State Park, Beltzville, PA-
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Brachiopod Devonian Manhatango Formation Beltzville State Park, Beltzville, PA-
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Bryozoan Devonian Manhatango Formation Beltzville State Park, Beltzville, PA-
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Solitary Rugose Coral Devonian Manhatango Formation Beltzville State Park, Beltzville, PA -
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Bryozoa Devonian Manhatango Formation Beltzville State Park, Beltzville, PA -
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Crinoid Stem Pieces Devonian Manhatango Formation Beltzville State Park, Beltzville, PA-
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Rugose Coral External Mold Devonian Manhatango Formation Beltzville State Park, Beltzville, PA -
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Death Assemblage crinoids, brachiopod Devonian Manhatango Formation Beltzville State Park, Beltzville, PA-
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Bryozoan Devonian Manhatango Formation Beltzville State Park, Beltzville, PA-
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Brachiopod Devonian Manhatango Formation Beltzville State Park, Beltzville, PA-
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Rugose Coral Devonian Manhatango Formation Beltzville State Park, Beltzville, PA -
Crinoid plate in one of the rocks firmly embedded in the beach
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Crinoid Plate Devonian Beltzville State Park, Beltzville, PA-
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