A little variety this time

[Emthegem]

Hello all!

Here are some of my my favourite scenery and fossil pictures from the last few weeks! Decided to hit up some new spots way up in the north end of Toronto along the Humber river - which yielded some very nice shells and crinoid segment (instead of the usual nautiloids). I'm in the midst of getting the weird nautiloid section so stay tuned:

 

Lets kick things off with a couple very pretty shells and crinoids from the north end trip: 

the 7 shells from the left are Ambonychia, with the two black right shells being Pholadomorpha pholadiformis (I believe). Some crinoid segments on the far right

 

These Ambonychia shells were definitely my favourites of the bunch^

 

When it comes to crinoids, this is about as good as it gets here in Toronto!!!! Almost nobody finds calyxes here, so this is about as good as it gets! 

 

[Emthegem]

Never found a piece of nautiloid so smooth, maybe its a living chamber?

 

A very chunky nautiloid segment

 

This seems to be a lingulid brachiopod (very small, but also very pretty!)

 

Probably one of the nicest (and largest) Pholadomorpha pholadiformis impressions I've ever found!!

 

Some nice treptoceras crebriseptum fossil in the wild

[Emthegem]

A very cool bivalve party  I believe they are mostly Rafinesquina brachiopods.

 

Cool seafloor trace fossil:

 

And finally to top it all off, here is some nice scenery from the heart of Toronto:

 

Hopefully this is a little more interesting than the typical Treptoceras crebriseptum onslaught I typically post here haha!

 

-Em

 

 

[FossilNerd]

Nice! Thanks for sharing.  

 

That crinoid plate is great, and I have been all about ichnofossils lately, so the water ripples are super cool!

I don’t think ripple marks are technically fossils, as they are not biological in origin, but I still want one in my collection!

[Fossildude19]

Nice report!

Thanks for posting it.

A very nice variety.  

[Emthegem]

17 minutes ago, FossilNerd said:

Nice! Thanks for sharing.  

 

That crinoid plate is great, and I have been all about ichnofossils lately, so the water ripples are super cool!

I don’t think ripple marks are technically fossils, as they are not biological in origin, but I still want one in my collection!

Thanks! Maybe I could see if I can break a couple pieces off and send em to ya some day. There are ripple mark ichnofossils alllll over the cit, they are very common here.

 

13 minutes ago, Fossildude19 said:

Nice report!

Thanks for posting it.

A very nice variety.  

Thanks! 

[FossilNerd]

11 minutes ago, Emthegem said:

Thanks! Maybe I could see if I can break a couple pieces off and send em to ya some day. There are ripple mark ichnofossils alllll over the cit, they are very common here.

Awesome! Sounds like a plan to me.  

[Monica]

I especially like that crinoid plate, Em - very nice!

[Emthegem]

6 hours ago, Monica said:

I especially like that crinoid plate, Em - very nice!

Thanks Monica!