pleecan Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 Below is a photo of Phyllocarid telson to left and to the right Horseshoe Crab. Bertie Group/ Williamsville Formation. Fort Erie ON. PL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 I love that one, PL! Is the Limulus a ventral view? "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pleecan Posted December 15, 2009 Author Share Posted December 15, 2009 I love that one, PL! Is the Limulus a ventral view? Yes it is Auspex... Limulus is shown with ventral view.... the fossil is extremely faint and had to be contrast enhanced to bring out the details... wonders of electronic digital darkrooms to bring details that the eye has trouble seeing. PL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Acryzona Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 Here are some photos of ostracods from the Middle Devonian Silica Formation collected at Fossil Park in Sylvania, OH Collecting Microfossils - a hobby concerning much about many of the little paraphrased from Dr. Robert Kesling's book Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pleecan Posted December 15, 2009 Author Share Posted December 15, 2009 Thanks for sharing those photos Acryzona... give me a new perspective on ostracods. PL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bear Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 Me too, thanks for sharing those with us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry Dactyll Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 (edited) Heres a few of what I've found in the upper carboniferous of the North West UK..... Westphalian in age.... Euproops & Myriacantherpestes Bellinurus trilobitoides & Maiocercus celticus Anthrapalaemon dubius & Arthropleura armata spiney millipede + inesct leg & Anthracosiro woodwardi Edited December 15, 2009 by Terry Dactyll Cheers Steve... And Welcome if your a New Member... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry Dactyll Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 (edited) heres a couple more.... Upper Carb Scorpion & Claw You might not of even heard of this one, I got it Id'd by an upper carb specialist in the uk who works at the Sedgewick in Cambridge... he said there maybe only half a dozen examples exist...Camptophyllia... Lower Jurassic Lobster claw... Edited December 15, 2009 by Terry Dactyll Cheers Steve... And Welcome if your a New Member... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Menser Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 Be true to the reality you create. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pleecan Posted December 15, 2009 Author Share Posted December 15, 2009 (edited) Terry Dactyl (Steve) and Frank... what a fabulous collection! I am amazed by the scorpion like fossils.... thank you both for sharing those photos... like touring a virtual museum. Steve you should open up a museum.... you have a lot of rare material in your collection... nicely done. PL Edited December 15, 2009 by pleecan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 Terry Dactyl, I've been waiting for your post in this thread, biding my time by practicing screaming like an excited little girl while drooling (try it, it's harder than it sounds)! "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry Dactyll Posted December 16, 2009 Share Posted December 16, 2009 Pleecan.....Cheers.....no doubt they will all end up in a museum at some point, and there rarity is down to a shortage of opportunities to collect and record this stuff...I should dig straight down in my garden im sure theres plenty more to be found when I hit the 100 foot mark.... Auspex.... lol.... I do it everytime I find something.... I am a well practiced drooler... ... I know its all pretty rare stuff.... I think arthropleura amata is my favourate carb critter, you really do struggle finding bits of this monster... ..I will get some more stuff photographed in the future at some point.... http://www.geology.cz/aplikace/fotoarchiv/sobr.php?r=700&id=14570 http://jahandost.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/arthropleura.jpg Cheers Steve... And Welcome if your a New Member... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roz Posted December 16, 2009 Share Posted December 16, 2009 Here are some photos of ostracods from the Middle Devonian Silica Formation collected at Fossil Park in Sylvania, OH Those are very good finds. Does the fossil park let you keep all finds? Just curious. The one in Iowa lets you keep everything as long as no fossils are sold from there. I don't sell but wondered about their rules. Welcome to the forum! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Acryzona Posted December 16, 2009 Share Posted December 16, 2009 Rozzilla, Yes, you can keep your finds from the Fossil Park in Sylvania, OH. However, the day I went last summer, the pickings looked pretty slim for macrofossils. As per my collecting method there, I just scooped up a few quarts of mud from the bottom of the kiddie pool that they use as a catch basin when people want to clean their specimens! I then packed the mud in the car and processed it through sieves once I returned to PA. The Silica Formation has great micros - wish I lived closer! Arcyzona Collecting Microfossils - a hobby concerning much about many of the little paraphrased from Dr. Robert Kesling's book Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sseth Posted December 16, 2009 Share Posted December 16, 2009 Those are pretty amazing finds. Seth _____________________________________ Seth www.fossilshack.com www.americanfossil.com www.fishdig.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pleecan Posted December 19, 2009 Author Share Posted December 19, 2009 Carapace from a Phyllocarid Ceratiocaris acuminata, Bertie Formation. Fort Erie ON. PL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plantguy Posted December 20, 2009 Share Posted December 20, 2009 Heres a few of what I've found in the upper carboniferous of the North West UK..... Westphalian in age.... Euproops & Myriacantherpestes Bellinurus trilobitoides & Maiocercus celticus Anthrapalaemon dubius & Arthropleura armata spiney millipede + inesct leg & Anthracosiro woodwardi Hey all, very nice creatures you have! Phyllocarid, Ostracods, Thallasina and the other crabs are all great. TD, in particular I've gotta to say Euproops is another small critter that intrigues me everytime I see one!! Don't really know why, maybe its my fascination with horseshoe crabs. Always wanted a Solnhofen Mesolimulus! I started collecting fossils before we had an internet and all its glorius references and actual fossil photos and as I recall most of the books I ran across did not have illustrations of Euproops! No doubt I was looking at the wrong books!!! Say I'm crazy but seeing that little guy again is almost as good as a seeing one of Bruno's plant fossils!!! No offense to our vertebrate friends/colleagues here---we love you too!! Thanks TD for posting!!! Regards, Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kosmoceras Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 Carpopenaeus callirostris Cretaceous, Cenomanian Hajoula, Lebanon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pleecan Posted January 13, 2012 Author Share Posted January 13, 2012 (edited) Carpopenaeus callirostris Cretaceous, Cenomanian Hajoula, Lebanon Cool looking prawns .... Edited January 13, 2012 by pleecan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kosmoceras Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 Dragonfly Larva - Libellula doris Original colour still preserved. Upper Miocene Cuneo, Italy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kosmoceras Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 Cool looking prawns .... Thanks again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TMNH Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 I know its all pretty rare stuff.... I think arthropleura amata is my favourate carb critter, you really do struggle finding bits of this monster... .. Mine too! Great fossils everyone! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
palaeopix Posted January 14, 2012 Share Posted January 14, 2012 Here's one I've posted somewhere else here on the Forum but, I thought it was worth posting again. This is the Cretaceous lobster Hoploparia tshudyi from the Haslam Formatiom of southern Vancouver Island. Dan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pleecan Posted January 14, 2012 Author Share Posted January 14, 2012 That is a cool looking "rock lobster" , Dan. PL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeymig Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 Here are a few of my Echinocaris punctata ( Phyllocarids) from the Middle Devonian of New York State, USA. I dont mind if you drool a little. Many times I've wondered how much there is to know. led zeppelin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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