Rockin' Ric Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 Hello all! Love hunting Carboniferous fossils since there is so much of it in my area. I got the chance to go hunting right after Thanksgiving to a local mine spoil piles and it didn't disappoint! Right off the bat the first spoil pile I encountered contained slabs of bivalves and gastropods. Never seen both on the same slab, the Gastropods were a first for Carboniferous fossils? One person I know pointed out they were Ammonites??? Found huge slabs of shale containing fern fossils...I was like a kid in a candy store amongst those piles of rocks! I was able to bring a few slabs of those home...at least the ones I could carry and place into my vehicle. It was a great day, my vehicle was so full of fossils I could no longer place any other in it and hope to visit the same location in the future? Found these three in a spoil pile...too large to carry out so a picture had to do. The leaf scars on the Lepidodendron are the largest I have ever seen measuring at least 2.5" in length. Stigmaria and what appears a Sigillaria trunk impression. Lyginopteris ferns with some Mariopteris ferns mixed in. These are the largest slabs I could take home! Really nice detailed bivalves. Gastropods. Lepidodendron branch. Sigillaria bark impression. Fern Rachis mixed in with bivalves and gastropods. Lyginopteris and Mariopteris fern frond with branch, notice the briars protruding from the branch. This looks like Stigmaria nodes but could be another version of Sigillaria? 16 WELCOME TO ALL THE NEW MEMBERS! If history repeats itself, I'm SO getting a dinosaur. ~unknown www.rockinric81.wixsite.com/fossils Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juan Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 Great discoveries!! Congratulations !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruger9a Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 WOW!!! What a great day you had.. Thanks for sharing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeffrey P Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 I've encountered mixes of fossil plants and marine life, but not to that degree. As always I love the preservation of your plant specimens. Those bivalves are especially cool too. Thanks for sharing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Misha Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 Beautiful fossils! I especially love those amazing bivalves Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
historianmichael Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 I love the association of plants and marine life. I think your bivalves are Edmondia. I found something very similar in the Late Pennsylvanian Glenshaw Formation not that long ago. 4 Follow me on Instagram (@fossil_mike) to check out my personal collection of fossils collected and acquired over more than 15 years of fossil hunting! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deutscheben Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 Those are some super nice finds, I really enjoy the unusual mix of flora and fauna. I definitely hope you can go back again in the future too, it looks very promising. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nimravis Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 Those are some great pieces, I love the way the bark shows on those versus on Mazon Creek concretions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monica Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 Fantastic finds!!! I especially like the piece containing a fern rachis and bivalves Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FossilNerd Posted December 31, 2020 Share Posted December 31, 2020 You have been doing well lately in hunting the Carboniferous! Great finds! I love the plant fossils and the marine fauna mixed in is wonderful. The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it. -Neil deGrasse Tyson Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't. -Bill Nye (The Science Guy) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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