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I am fortunate enough to have such a huge amount of Middle Devonian Givetian material that I thought it best to put the older Middle Devonian stage, the Eifelian, in its own thread. There are some spectacular fossils here as well though! I thought a good place to start would be in the Formosa Reef, which I believe is quite early Eifelian. This tabulate coral and stromatoporoid reef continues similar complexes found from the Middle Silurian, see my: https://www.thefossilforum.com/topic/84678-adams-silurian/page/3/ thread from page three onwards for details. All these Formosa Reef specimens come from a delightful gift from my good friend @Monica who is a tad busy with life at the moment but is fine and still thinking of the forum. This outcrop can be found on Route 12 near Formosa/Amherstburg, Bruce County, Ontario, Canada. This beautiful-looking specimen came to me with only a third of it revealed but I managed to get it this far after nine days of painful pin prepping. Monica found another one and posted it for ID here: https://www.thefossilforum.com/topic/105528-weird-circular-imprints-formosa-reef-lower-devonian/#comment-1172285 The specimen was identified by another Canny Canadian @Kane to be the little stromatoporoid sponge Syringostroma cylindricum. Hardly a reef-builder, but gorgeous nonetheless. It does have a little thickness to it, but not much. Beautiful! Pretty thin, actually. I love this Monica, thank you!
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Howdy all, I've got quite a few fossils I found in McNeely Lake Park and I'm curious if the age is correct and if any of these could be given an ID.
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Howdy all, Found this Vinlandostrophia last year near the end of the warm season and decided to make it into a necklace without first identifying the exact species. I'm guessing it's a rarer flavor as this is one of two angel-winged vinlandostrophias I've found in my four years of hunting the Drakes Formation and out of the hundreds of vinlandostrophias I've found.
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Howdy all, Was taking a walk around EP. Tom Sawyer here in Louisville, and I found this little fossilized gastropod in a creek bed. I had originally thought that it was of the Silurian, but then I found some coal right next to it, which makes me think this may be Carboniferous. A species ID would also be helpful.
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Howdy all, I've been wondering about this piece for a while. I picked it up thinking it was just a strange rock but someone said it was a worm burrow. What do y'all think? (Found in the Drakes Formation of Louisville, Kentucky).
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Howdy all, Found this in my usual spot in the Drakes formation. Looks like some sort of concretion, what do y'all think? Louisville, Kentucky.
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Howdy all, Found this a little while ago in a Silurian deposit near McNeely Lake park in Louisville, Kentucky. Part of me thinks it's a coral or something like that, but part of me wants it to be a plant fossil of some sort from a younger layer.
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Any idea what this is? Found it at my usual spot in the Drakes formation. Found in Louisville, Kentucky.
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Hi - I know there’s been some posts with people asking about locations in or close to Louisville but they are from 2016/2018 and I know access sometimes changes. either way I’m headed to Louisville on a work trip for about a week and was wondering if anyone can provide locations for collecting fossils. I’m an avid collector. Used to go multiple times a week when I lived in Buffalo and NJ. Eager to get collecting in a new area when I have a chance!
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This is a molt fragment of Isotelus sp. that I found in the Drakes formation in one of my usual spots. I've found isotelus pieces before, but this one is odd to me. In particular, I don't know what the lines on it are (not the cracks, I have the lines I'm talking about outlined in the pictures). I thought they might be a possible injury but I'm not sure.
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I found these two pieces in the Drakes formation of Louisville, Kentucky a little while ago. I'm 85% sure that these are molt fragments from Isotelus maximus but needed a second opinion. One could argue that these are simply iron coatings on pebbles, but if you look at the second one, the "coating" dips down into the pebble, and is also mixed in with a few other fossils such as vinlandostrophia. Then again I could still be wrong, I have been before.
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I found several remains of an orthoconic nautiloid yesterday while hunting in the Drakes Formation. I was showing it to @FossilNerd and he was unsure if it could be from the Ordovician Drakes Formation, or if I found it where the Drakes overlaps with another younger formation. Is there anyone who knows of such a formation or if this is indeed an Ordovician nautiloid? If it is Ordovician, that would most likely make it Endoceras, as this is the only nautiloid that I have found to have some kind of record in this area. The area in particular of the Drakes Formation is the Bardstown Reef. Here's some websites I frequently use to identify things from the Drakes. https://www.mindat.org/paleo_loc.php?id=19139 https://www.uky.edu/KGS/fossils/fossil-kinds-found-in-ky.php
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I found this death plate during one of my hunts in the Drakes Formation and am unsure if it is Rafinesquina ponderosa or some other related species. Found in Louisville, KY, Drakes Formation (Bardstown Reef Site).
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Been finding a few of these at one of my usual crinoid spots in Northern Kentucky. I think it's just another species of crinoid but I'm not sure. The other crinoid I've been finding here is Taxocrinus whitfieldi.
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I am a complete novice but have always had an interest in what I can find along creeks such as arrowheads. I saw this and thought it looked like a petrified vertebrae. It is about 1.25 in. thick and about 2X3 inches across. Am I right? How old might this be? Thanks very much for allowing me to post here.
