Briggs TFF Report

[Peat Burns]

This is a belated report from the Briggs TFF gathering last spring.  Here are some photos of TFF'ers working the site:

 

 

 

Here are my finds (not in phylogenetic order).  Scale in mm throughout.  I guess I'll start with one of my bucket listers, a large goniatite:

 

Next, the trilobotes:

 

 

 

 

 

 

And "those other arthropods":

 

 

Now the gastropods:

 

 

Other Mollusca:

 

 

Crinoidea:

 

 

Seedless vascular plant bits:

 

 

I don't usually collect "hash plates" but such accumulations don't seem very common at these sites, so I picked up this nice one.

 

 

 

[Peat Burns]

Now the bivalvia (not as diverse as DSR apparently):

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

That's all folks.  Thanks for looking.

[Emthegem]

Wow I loove the striations on the the paleoneilo emarginata! Very nice haul! 

[Peat Burns]

3 hours ago, Emthegem said:

Wow I loove the striations on the the paleoneilo emarginata! Very nice haul! 

Thanks, Em. I like the "sulcus" on it, too.  A new taxon for me.  I don't think I got one at DSR

[Nautiloid]

Love those trilobites! 

[PrehistoricWonders]

Nice finds!!!

[Jackson g]

Awesome report. I can see why that goniatite was on your bucket list. I would surely shriek like a banshee if I found such a nice example!

[grandpa]

Love your reports on this and the DSR site.  I especially love the rich bivalve variety at each site; beautiful specimens.  Thanks for sharing!

[Peat Burns]

2 hours ago, Familyroadtrip said:

Nice finds!!!

Thank you 

1 hour ago, Jackson g said:

Awesome report. I can see why that goniatite was on your bucket list. I would surely shriek like a banshee if I found such a nice example!

Thank you. Prior to this one, my largest was about 2 cm from Penn Dixie.

39 minutes ago, grandpa said:

Love your reports on this and the DSR site.  I especially love the rich bivalve variety at each site; beautiful specimens.  Thanks for sharing!

Thanks, Grandpa.  The bivalves were the real attraction for me.  I wouldn't have tossed a complete Dipleura , but I went mainly for the bivalves 

[FossilDAWG]

Another very nice selection of Devonian goodies!     Such a shame this site is now extinct. 

Don

[Peat Burns]

Just now, FossilDAWG said:

Another very nice selection of Devonian goodies!     Such a shame this site is now extinct. 

Don

Thanks, Don.  Yes, it's a shame.  I only recently heard the news.  I don't know what happened,  but it's a shame to see it go.

[FossilDAWG]

I think someone built a house on the hill just above the quarry, and filled in the quarry with dirt they dug for the foundation.

 

Don

[Nautiloid]

17 minutes ago, FossilDAWG said:

 

I think someone built a house on the hill just above the quarry, and filled in the quarry with dirt they dug for the foundation.

 

Don

 

That’s too bad. I never had a chance to go to that site before it went away. 

[Peat Burns]

Ugh. That's a worse-case-scenario... it's essentially gone.

[FossilDAWG]

@Al Tahan posted about it a while ago.  Apparently there is nothing left of the pit.  I also did not manage to make it there unfortunately.

 

Don

[RandyB]

Glad nobody will be able to do any facial recognition on those pics, wouldn't want to blow anyones cover.  Though I will acknowledge that my wife and I are in the 1st pic. That was my one and only visit to Briggs and I am glad we got to visit before they backfilled it... even if it was snowing.  

Looks like you did well that day, congrats on the haul.

[Ludwigia]

Thanks for placing what may now be the last report on this now extinct site. Let's just hope that someone else now decides to to some exercise with a bulldozer and backhoe a little farther down the road But seriously....

[Monica]

That goniatite is indeed awesome, but the Glyptomaria capillaria gastropods are exquisite!!!  And I'm a sucker for Tentaculites, so that's one of my favourite finds of the bunch, too.

 

By the way - do I spot an orthoconic nautiloid in this photo???

 

[Peat Burns]

18 hours ago, RandyB said:

Glad nobody will be able to do any facial recognition on those pics, wouldn't want to blow anyones cover.  Though I will acknowledge that my wife and I are in the 1st pic. That was my one and only visit to Briggs and I am glad we got to visit before they backfilled it... even if it was snowing.  

Looks like you did well that day, congrats on the haul.

Thanks, Randy.  I have better photos of you guys and the other participants, but it just seems a good practice of courtesy to ask before posting on a public forum  .  You guys were working right next to me and also coming up with some goodies!  It was nice meeting you and the others. 

13 hours ago, Ludwigia said:

Thanks for placing what may now be the last report on this now extinct site. Let's just hope that someone else now decides to to some exercise with a bulldozer and backhoe a little farther down the road But seriously....

I never even realized that mine could be the last report of the site.  I should have written a eulogy, but I think that honor should go to darktooth or one of the other regulars of the site .  Someday, that site may be lost to public consciousness, and no one will know what treasures and memories lay below...

12 hours ago, Monica said:

That goniatite is indeed awesome, but the Glyptomaria capillaria gastropods are exquisite!!!  And I'm a sucker for Tentaculites, so that's one of my favourite finds of the bunch, too.

 

By the way - do I spot an orthoconic nautiloid in this photo???

 

Thanks, Monica.  Yes, that is an Orthocone "by-catch" 

[Nimravis]

Great finds Tony and a beautiful presentation.

[Pagurus]

Thanks for the great photos. Now I'm even more sorry I wasn't able to meet up with you and the others last spring. I'm happy you found that great-looking goniatite, along with your other fine finds.

 

[Peat Burns]

4 hours ago, Nimravis said:

Great finds Tony and a beautiful presentation.

Thanks, Ralph 

2 hours ago, Pagurus said:

Thanks for the great photos. Now I'm even more sorry I wasn't able to meet up with you and the others last spring. I'm happy you found that great-looking goniatite, along with your other fine finds.

 

Thanks, Pagurus.  Luckily DSR is still there (the better of the 2 sites).  Maybe there'll be another TFF hunt there again some day and you'll be able to come.

[Fossildude19]

You did well on that trip, Tony. Thanks for posting them here.  

[Pagurus]

9 hours ago, Peat Burns said:

... Luckily DSR is still there (the better of the 2 sites).  Maybe there'll be another TFF hunt there again some day and you'll be able to come.

 

I've been going to DSR for years, Tony, but somehow never made it over to Briggs. I had occasionally planned on spending a few hours at DSR and then moving on over to Briggs, but I could never drag myself away from the next awesome find I was about to make.        I always look forward to the next TFF hunt at DSR, but it's been getting harder to get there the past year or two. Maybe next time.

 

Mike

[Jeffrey P]

Congratulations Tony. Looks like you obtained an excellent assortment of specimens from Briggs. I've never seen a Tentaculities from any Hamilton Group (Middle Devonian) site, so count that as a super rare find. The goniatite and rhinocarid were also special finds and you scored a bunch of nice bivalves from there as well. I first visited Briggs Road Quarry in 2012 and it was my first good taste of Central New York Middle Devonian biodiversity. I was immediately smitten. I returned several months later, also visiting DSR and Cole Hill and the rest is history. Glad you had the chance to check out those sites.