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  1. Shellseeker

    Haile Quarry, March 3rd

    I added a couple of threads on Activities connected with FPS field trip to Hallie Quarries in the vicinity of Newberry, Florida. I have some photos of the Quarry to provide a sense of what it was like and some additional finds. The Quarry I visited is just one of many at this location. and the one I was in... huge. A wall in the distance, heavy movers to stay far away from, a "tiny" FPS member searching the low wall ahead. I am walking around this mountain of rock on my left , searching for fossils that may have fallen down the cliff face. I am very careful the few times I attempt to climb the cliff face reaching for a fossil just a little too far away... There can be great rewards... Gorgeous, and and there are lots of potential shell, and echinoids in this semi hard rock, I have a rock hammer and trowel. Can I possible get this out in one piece.. I have already broken others or found that they were already broken before my arrival. So I decided not, and just walked on with a photo and a memory. As I continued around the mountain, I came to this site , took a step forward, and quickly stepped back . A sinkhole about 4 feet across, and with a single glance inside I saw it was at least 25 feet deep. This one is not particularly large. The Quarry has lost a number of large earth movers in sinkholes. This is where I recall signing the waiver stating that I am totally responsible for any of the various dumb things I might do while hunting for fossils and hold the Quarry owners blameless for any/all damages to my body. Roger Portell was our guide and Advisor and we moved a couple of times to locations that might provide different fossils. The last stop was supposed to contained marine (shark teeth) and mammal fossils. As we stepped out of our vehicles, Roger showed us another sinkhole, advised us to be careful , and described recoveries of mammal bones and teeth from this area decades past. I was fortunate to find one of those teeth, described in this TFF thread. https://www.thefossilforum.com/topic/139986-love-the-surprises/#comment-1479029 It was laying on the ground 5 feet to the left of this sinkhole. Sometimes I am just blessed in the right place at the right time. Here are some other finds of the day, with what ever I currently know about them... 1) M. americanum , a Sea Biscuit, approximately 4 inches in width, encased in matrix. 2) What I refer to as Jingle shells, and a small Echinoid...On the Echinoid, I have to wash, brush , scrap off some of that concrete like matrix to figure out what it is.... 3) A couple of Oysters... there few shells free floating from the concrete like matrix like these. 4) More shells, this time in Matrix 5) Did I mention Endocasts ? All over the place.... Sometimes hard to differentiate from shells. 5a) This one reminds me of a cowrie.... but not like any modern or even fossil ones that I have seen... I had previously found exactly like this one in a bone valley creek.. Would like to Identify.. Hope you enjoyed the trip. Comments always appreciated.
  2. Found these nice fossils not on a planned hunting trip, but while working in the garden. We were filling up some flower pods whith gravel, in which i found them : 6 belemnites, 2 pieces of mineralized wood, 1 partial oyster shell, and 2 pieces of baltic jade. The highlights are definetly the pieces of wood because theyre quite rare up here and i have never found one before. Also one of them is beautifully preserved.
  3. SharkySarah

    Oyster, Pycnodonte percrassa

    From the album: Miocene, Maryland and Virginia, USA

    Calvert formation. Scale in cm. Calvert co. Maryland.
  4. Texas has SO many of these little fossils, but I love them and can't help but pick them up. Behold a plethora of Illymatogyra arietinas. (I got a new lighting set up and I am LOVING the way the photos are coming out!) Size (1/2 - 1 3/4 inches)
  5. Mosasaurhunter

    Need help identifying oyster

    Hello, my neighbor recently found this fossil oyster from digging a pond and this was found in the sediment that was dug out of the ground. I believe it is an Exogyra oyster or maybe a Gryphaea but I am unsure. It was probably found in Cretaceous sediment from the Ripley formation. Oyster is 4.5 inches in length and 3 inches wide
  6. bockryan

    Ostrea alepidota

    From the album: Fossil Collection: DC Area and Beyond

    Ostrea alepidota Henson Creek, MD Aquia Formation Paleocene
  7. Lone Hunter

    Ostrea? Gryphaea/Pycnodonte?

    Cretateous oyster from Grayson formation that I need to mark off my list. Largest oyster I've found, both valves present, weighs half a pound, but umbo and beak are obliterated so undecided. I think Ostrea when I see ruffles. And now Gryphaea are going by Pycnodonte? They stick an e on the end of fish name and it's an oyster now? Why do they want to confuse us more
  8. bockryan

    Ostrea sinuosa

    From the album: Fossil Collection: DC Area and Beyond

    Ostrea sinuosa Nanjemoy WMA (Purse), MD Aquia Formation Paleocene
  9. bockryan

    Ostrea alepidota

    From the album: Fossil Collection: DC Area and Beyond

    Ostrea alepidota Nanjemoy WMA (Purse), MD Aquia Formation Paleocene
  10. bockryan

    Exogyra cancellata

    From the album: Fossil Collection: DC Area and Beyond

    Exogyra cancellata C&D Canal, DE Mount Laurel Formation Late Cretaceous
  11. bockryan

    Ostrea falcata

    From the album: Fossil Collection: DC Area and Beyond

    Ostrea falcata C&D Canal, DE Mount Laurel Formation Late Cretaceous
  12. bockryan

    Pyncnodonte mutabilis

    From the album: Fossil Collection: DC Area and Beyond

    Pyncnodonte mutabilis C&D Canal, DE Mount Laurel Formation Late Cretaceous
  13. bockryan

    Panopea sp.

    From the album: Fossil Collection: DC Area and Beyond

    Panopea sp. Matoaka Beach Cabins, MD Choptank and St. Mary's Formations Miocene
  14. bockryan

    Exogyra costata

    From the album: Fossil Collection: DC Area and Beyond

    Exogyra costata Big Brook, NJ Mount Laurel, Navesink, and Red Bank Formations Late Cretaceous
  15. Ofap

    Maryland Fossil Oyster

    Collected this oyster? in Maryland, Prince Georges county, I believe it was in the Aquia Formation.
  16. Shaun-DFW Fossils

    Oysters/clams Duck Creek/Fort Worth?

    I don’t find these too often, and rarely can they be extracted in a way that looks good (in my limited experience), but these two were found as shown already separated on all sides. The bigger one is REALLY big compared to those I usually find. I placed a smaller one found in the same spot right next to it for comparison. I tried to use Lance Halls northtexasfossils site to find something similar and there’s a Pennsylvanian specimen that sort of looks similar, but many of his pics aren’t loading properly so I don’t know if I overlooked a likely candidate. Any ideas? This is Tarrant county TX, a spot where I can find exposure of kiamichi clay and Fort Worth formation as well as duck creek.
  17. Clayton Jones

    Durant Oyster Bed

    I just got home from a fossil hunting trip to a site a few miles northwest of Durant, Oklahoma. Some friends own a small plot of land with a very shallow pond on it that just happens to be a good exposure of the underlying Caddo formation limestone and clay found all over the area. The limestone surface has been broken up a bit by natural erosion as well as by the initial excavation of the pond and construction of the dam, which is evident through a few scrape marks left by an excavator bucket. The site predominantly yields smallish (~2" in length) oyster fossils of varying quality but, there is also an occasional secondary species of small bivalve (Neithea?) and even less commonly, echinoids and turritella(?) casts, of which I only found a fragmented turritella cast today. Some of the oyster shells also have small holes through them, these might be due to worms, maybe? This is is the first fossil hunting trip that I've been on in quite a while and it's the first that I've documented for my Museum of the Cosmos project. I'll be 3D scanning the better fossils and hash plates I found today and uploading them to the Museum of the Cosmos Sketchfab account soon, along with a video on the YouTube channel and write up of the hunt on the main museum website. For now, I'm combing through literature to figure out exactly what species of Oysters these are (Gryphea, texigryphea...?), as well as the other bivalve (Neithea?).
  18. Clayton Jones

    Oyster shells with holes

    From the album: Durant Pond Site trip November 11, 2023

    These oyster shells have small holes in them that appear to tunnel through to the other side. Possibly the work of some type of worm?
  19. cthamon

    Oyster ID, Goose Creek Limestone

    Pretty sure this is both halves of the same specimen, they fit together perfectly. Berkley Co., SC
  20. Glitterhorse

    Possible petrified oyster shell?

    Hello! I found this item in the mouth of a creek that empties into The Great South Bay on L.I. The creek has been used by Indigenous Peoples before European settlers arrived circa 1720. Is this a petrified oyster? I can’t tell for sure, but I feel the dark/gray/silver area is what’s left of the calcium? Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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