Carboniferous Fauna

[t-tree]

In the years of fossil hunting some fossils caught me by surprise especially the ones out of rough pieces that had no resemblance to nodules . These are some of my less common finds myriapods,arachnids, arthropleura tergite,shrimp carpace and the nymph idoptilus sp.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I also found fish scales and flora though not as abundant as Mazon creek .

Cheers John

 

 

 

 

[t-tree]

One of the opencasts before it closed it is a lovely field now.

 

 

John

[Fossildude19]

Love the stuff you are posting, John! Fantastic fossils!!

Thanks for showing us.  

 

[Ludwigia]

I'll echo Tim. You sure are showing us a lot of unique fossils!

[Mark Kmiecik]

Great finds. Don't you just love it when they bury a great fossil site? 

[deutscheben]

Another set of great fossils- the sandy/buff color of the matrix and fossils is so different from Mazon Creek and the other similar Pennsylvanian fossils I find in Illinois. I like it! 

 

Could you label what each specimen is, roughly? I think I have a good idea on most of them, but a few are unfamiliar. Thanks again for sharing your collection, will you be doing a post with those fish scales and flora too?

[t-tree]

 

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Could you label what each specimen is, roughly? I think I have a good idea on most of them, but a few are unfamiliar. Thanks again for sharing your collection, will you be doing a post with those fish scales and flora too?

 

1/ Trignotarbid Anthracasiro

2/ Anthacassiro Fitschii 

3/Crustacea (only rough id ) Myriapod similar to Eileticus

4/Arthropleura tergite

5/ Shrimp carapace possible Tealliocaris

6/ scorpion

7 millipede

8/ Myriapod

9/ Nymph Idoptilus sp

 

I'm open to better ids as these were uncommon finds for me.

Posting the fish scale would be easy but the flora i wouldn't know where to begin and the Mazon creek ones are better.

 

[t-tree]

12 hours ago, deutscheben said:

 will you be doing a post with those fish scales 

 

Strepsodus

 

Fish scale of ?

 

Megalichthys

 

Cheers John

 

[deutscheben]

Wonderful, thank you! 

[Petalodus12]

Wow, wonderful finds!!!