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Hello to all. 4 cystoids from my collection. Found in the Leningrad region of Russia. Replaced by calcite. Size: from 25mm * 23mm * 17mm to 30mm * 30mm * 27mm. Have a nice day VID_20240128_100819.mp4 VID_20240128_100845.mp4 VID_20240128_100903.mp4 VID_20240128_100922.mp4 VID_20240128_100942.mp4 VID_20240128_100958.mp4 VID_20240128_101012.mp4

Hi Everyone, In the latter half of last month I took a two week trip to Kentucky and Tennessee. My sister, her husband, two of her adult children, and my parents all live in the Elizabethtown/Louisville area and I was able to spend some quality time with them. Fossil collecting was also part of my agenda. Herb, my primary fossil collecting partner in Kentucky and I had a three day trip down to Tennessee planned. Before I went on that expedition, I was out with my brother-in-law driving around central Kentucky. He dropped me off for 20 minutes at the Upper Mississippian site at Wax where the Glen Dean Formation is exposed in a roadcut. I picked these up:

I have heard that cystoids had stems like crinoids. Is that True? And can u find the stems? Here are some cystoids i found. One of them has like a little hole that looks like a stem would connect. And the other looks like a cystoid with the stem. Not sure if it may be a worm trace. These were found in kinnekulle

Its been a long time since Ive posted any find on here, so I thought Id show some of what I collected during this past winter. I took a trip to the Silurian of Tennessee to collect with a friend and did pretty good. This was my first time collecting Silurian fossils. These are from the Brownsport Group. I'll start with the sponges Astraeospongia meniscus a fairly common sponge, I collected several. Next up is a neat little Brachiopod. Machaeraria sp. And now enchinoderms. Calyx of the crinoid Lampterocrinus tennesseensis Another first for me...a cystoid! Caryocrinites ornatus and another! A nice blastoid - Troosticrinus reinwardi Heres a shot showing the complete ones I found. The two large objects on the top left are sponges. The items with the branches may be bryozoans (one has a stem wrapped around it.) The crinoid cups to the right are Parapisocrinus sp. And the item by the penny is a tiny Leptaena sp. brachiopod (another first!) And now for my sole arthropod find. The surface is very rough, but it seems there is a mold under that. I may try to uncover it. The pygidium is folded down ninety degrees to the rest of it. Not sure as to id at this point. But it seems to be mostly there. I forgot to photograph the corals I found on this trip so I will add those this weekend. About a month ago I found myself very early for work so I decided to stop at the Pennington formation ( Upper Mississippian) for a quick hunt. I didnt keep much but I did snag this partial Deltodus affinis tooth. Thats all for now, thanks for looking.

I was very happy to have my first ebay bid won and this plate was what I got. I've always wanted some fossils from the Lake Simcoe area but I never had the capacity to travel outside that far out of Toronto. Apparently there are two types of cystoids on this plate. This plate comes from the Upper Bobcaygeon formation, Ordovician period from Simcoe County, Ontario. It's a very different fauna from what can be found here in the bedrock of Toronto. Cystoids don't occur in the Georgian Bay formation. Paying for this plate took a bit of a hit on my wallet but I think I think it's worth it considering that I don't have anything like this in my collection.