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Hello everyone! I want to tell you about a trip to a stream in a snow-covered park. I took my three-year-old daughter (who has already helped me search for fossils) on a trip. Konkovsky or Stone stream is located on the territory of the Bitsevsky Forest Park (the southern outskirts of Moscow), I had information (https://www.ammonit.ru/foto/61829.htm ) that carboniferous rocks accessible as a result of glaciations (quaternary moraine deposits) can be found there. The temperature on the day of the trip was -2...- 5oC (28...25oF) with a very unpleasant cold wind at a speed of 6 m/s. The entire bottom of the stream is really covered with moraine stone. As a result, I was able to briefly examine about 20% of the stream. Brachiopods replaced with flint were found. The imprint of a large single coral rugosa. As a result, there are prospects for further finds, I plan to explore the stream in a more favorable environment to the place of its confluence with the Chertanovka River. And in early spring, start searching on the Chertanovka River itself.

Hello all! It's a dreary day, so I'm trying to organize some of my fossils into my new display cabinets, and I was hoping to get some help with identifications. All of the fossils below were found in the south pit of Hungry Hollow near Arkona, Ontario. The age is mid-Devonian. Thanks in advance for all of your help! Monica Photo #1: Definitely a coral, but which one? A type of Favosites, perhaps? Photo #2: Another coral - perhaps Alveolites goldfussi? Photo #3: Still another coral - perhaps Platyaxum frondosum? Photo #4: I have no idea what this brown thing is - help! Photo #5: A trilobite pygidium - can anyone tell which trilo? Photo #6: A brachiopod - no idea which one... Photo #7: Three brachiopods - again, I don't know their identity/ies Photo #8: Two brachiopods - I used to think they were both Devonochonetes scitulus, but up close they appear to look a little different to me - what do you think? Photo #9: The back of the rock from Photo #8 - any idea what those black fragments are?! Photo #10: A pyritized bivalve (thanks, Adam @Tidgy's Dad!) - again, I'm at a loss as to what its identity is Photos #11 and #12: A Mucrospirifer brachiopod, but I'm wondering - is that the lophophore that I see inside of it, or is it just the valve that's been crushed inwards?