I follow the Moskva...

[sharkdoctor]

Loved the report with all of the site photos and narrative. It made me feel like I was there with you, poking about in the river. Great finds!

[Shamalama]

Another wonderful report, Thank you!

[FossilDAWG]

16 hours ago, RuMert said:

 

This is a Pavlovia pavlovi ammonite...

 

 

I could tell, because it makes me drool!

 

Don

[RuMert]

Thank you all for the kind words! Much appreciate your opinion

16 hours ago, FossilDAWG said:

I hate it when fossil sites are lost to "site improvements" like concrete, riprap, stonework, etc.  That river doesn't really look like something I would want to swim in, but I wonder if you could find more by snorkeling (in a wet suit of course).

Yes, that sux. Unfortunately nobody, paleontologists included,  is doing anything to save historic fossil sites and keep them available to the public.

As to snorkeling, I wouldnt try that there:) 

8 hours ago, Ludwigia said:

Did you find anything with your fish net?

I was using the net to get suggestively looking stuff without putting my hands in the ice-cold water Not much actually

7 hours ago, Monica said:

Thanks for taking us along on your hunts 

4 hours ago, sharkdoctor said:

It made me feel like I was there with you, poking about in the river

Thank you,  that was the point:)

1 hour ago, FossilDAWG said:

I could tell, because it makes me drool!

[Andy B]

great pics. Thanks

[Mark Kmiecik]

Thank you for the tour.

[RuMert]

Hi all !

As with another hunt's finds I finally sorted out the concretions picked up in this trip. They are fairly solid and tough, but a bit of freezing and heating on the stove did the job. The funny thing is that a sizable load of big concretions produced a small pile of tiny (but interesting) fossils. I'm posting them here not to make unnecessary new topics.

 

No gorgeous ammonites this time, their state of preservation is peculiar:

 

Tough and weathered body chamber and extremely fragile empty fragmocon blown away with a slightest wind. These ammos had a tender soul under their brutal appearance:)

[RuMert]

Here are a few ammonites that survived. They are of different species and the most interesting is the last one, not characteristic of the layer and looking more like Cadoceras (Callovian)

[RuMert]

Lots of bivalves (mostly Buchia spp.)

 

And gastropods which unfortunately, akin to ammonites, were not preserved whole

[RuMert]

Some fossils are strange, for example this one: internal mold probably, but why is it bifurcated?

 

And this one too, haven't seen anything alike

[RuMert]

Echinoids!

Did you know you could find tiny complete echinoid shells in there? I didn't

 

 

 

[RuMert]

Oyster? This piece is enteresting as on the other side it has another nicely preserved bivalve and on top of that  - an echinoid fragment. Sea urchin shells are very rare in Moscow Jurassic and their abundance here was totally unexpected

[RuMert]

That's all for now, thanks for reading

[Al Dente]

14 minutes ago, RuMert said:

Some of them strange, for example this one (mold probably, but why is it bifurcated?

It's a steinkern of a brachiopod. The round object in the next photo looks like an imprint of an inarticulate brachiopod.

[RuMert]

Interesting, I didn't think it would be round

[Al Dente]

1 hour ago, RuMert said:

Interesting, I didn't think it would be round

Discinisca is a possibility for the Jurassic. Here's a photo and reference.

 

 

[RuMert]

Thank you for the information:) I could have seen 2-3 of these but always on the edge of "just imagination" feeling. They must be very rare or I was not attentive enough

[Monica]

The little echinoids are especially adorable - thanks for showing us your itty-bitty finds!

[RuMert]

Thank you @Monica, I was very surprised to find them, we aren't used to piles of Jurassic echinoid tests here in the region. Nobody has even posted them on local resources for years.

Do you like more the 1st or the 2nd? Wanna present them for IPFOTM

[Monica]

12 minutes ago, RuMert said:

Thank you @Monica, I was very surprised to find them, we aren't used to piles of Jurassic echinoid tests here in the region. Nobody has even posted them on local resources for years.

Do you like more the 1st or the 2nd? Wanna present them for IPFOTM

 

I think the first one is nicer (although they're both really cute!) 

[RuMert]

Ok, thanks

[BudB]

Thanks for sharing! I found myself whistling "Wind of Change" the entire time I was reading.

[HemiHunter]

That was really cool.

[Wrangellian]

On 6/2/2020 at 8:25 AM, RuMert said:

And this one too, haven't seen anything alike

If I had found this thing in my local Santonian site, I would have no doubt it was a limpet-like gastropod called Capulus corrugatus. I would not suggest that genus for your Jurassic specimen, but I wonder if it is something akin to it?

[RuMert]

11 hours ago, Wrangellian said:

I wonder if it is something akin to it?

Definitely looks like it. But I have no idea,  I'm not used to seeing this form, be it gastropod or brachiopod

 

Thanks all for the new comments