New York Devonian Penn Dixie Matrix - ID Help please!

[JamieLynn]

Hiya! I got some New York Devonian matrix (Penn Dixie) and would appreciate some help (or confirmation!) with the ID's of a few thingies. Thanks!! 

 

1. Is this a fish tooth perhaps? Size 1/8 inch

 

2.Is this a Trilobite cephalon?  Size 1/8 inch

 

3. I thought this was a coral, but saw on the Penn Dixie site something that looked like it but it said it was a Fish Plate? Size 1/4 inch

 

4. Not sure what this is....probably part of a crinoid?  Size 1/8 inch

 

5. Not sure at all. Flat plate  Size 1/8 inch

 

6. Coral Trachypora perhaps? or is it Bryozoan? Size 1/8 inch

 

 

 

Thanks for any info!! 

 

 

 

 

[Fossildude19]

Nice finds, Jamie Lynn. 

 

I agree - 1 looks like a fish tooth. 

2 - Glabella of Eldredgeops rana. 

 

Not sure about the others, but the flat plate (5) looks like a fish scale. 

 

@jdp

[jdp]

I think 1 is a piece of a scale. 5 might be a small bit of dermal bone, but it might also be a piece of echinoderm.

[Misha]

5 looks very similar to some Dolatocrinus calyces I have seen

 

Would it be possible to get some more angles of object one?

 

[fossilcrazy]

I need to question the source of these fossils. Did you find these at Penn-Dixie Quarry or were you told that is their origin? I have spent decades collection at that quarry and have found nothing like what is presented. All are fossils, but don't look like Middle Devonian Hamilton group specimens. If they did in fact come from the quarry, they were probably transplants discarded by a previous collector.

[JamieLynn]

1 hour ago, fossilcrazy said:

I need to question the source of these fossils. Did you find these at Penn-Dixie Quarry or were you told that is their origin? I have spent decades collection at that quarry and have found nothing like what is presented. All are fossils, but don't look like Middle Devonian Hamilton group specimens. If they did in fact come from the quarry, they were probably transplants discarded by a previous collector.

 

I got the matrix from a lady who says it was from Penn Dixie Quarry in Blasdell NY.  Here are some of the other things I am finding in the matrix. Many correspond to fossils that are listed on the Penn Dixie site of fossils that are found there as well as the PDF Penn Dixie Official Field Guide. So I have no idea. (All of these are VERY small - 1/8 inch or smaller. Except for the corals which are about an inch)

[Misha]

2 hours ago, JamieLynn said:

I got the matrix from a lady who says it was from Penn Dixie Quarry in Blasdell NY.

Beautiful finds!

Those definitely look like Penn Dixie matrix

The last item in the second row looks like another Dolatocrinus piece

[fossilcrazy]

I stand corrected. Some of the new ones do look like M. Dev. species.  I guess scale was throwing me off. Nice micros.

 

[JamieLynn]

1 hour ago, fossilcrazy said:

I stand corrected. Some of the new ones do look like M. Dev. species.  I guess scale was throwing me off. Nice micros.

 

 

Good to know....I was a little concerned I'd been scammed! hahahhaah