Montour Fossil Pit ID’s

[cabes234]

Hello, as I mentioned in a recent post, today I led a group with several students from my college to the Montour Fossil Pit and Preserve. All of the members found fossils and several of them want to have their fossils ID’d. These images come from one such member who wants to have her fossils ID’d. I think I know what some of them are and there are others I have no ideas about.

 

Here are my guesses:

 

1.)  Some sort of Bivalve probably Cypricardella?

 

 

 

2.) Very Large Strophodonta

 

 

 

3.) Some sort of brachiopods, I dont know about the bottom left, I can also ask her for a higher quality photo of it if that would be helpful

 

 

 

4.)Crinoid Stem

 

 

 

5.) Center: Horn Coral?, Top and Bottom: Brachiopods

 

 

 

6. Some kind of Gastropod, Can’t identify genus.

 

 

It is totally possible that I am wrong about many of these, (except the crinoid stem, I’m pretty sure of that one), but any help with these would be appreciated.

[ClearLake]

It looks like you are correct about most of them.   Unfortunately, I am not familiar enough with that fauna to get more specific on the ID’s, but one of our members will be along to help, where possible. Some specimens may need more/better pictures to ID properly. Looks like you had a good outing. 

[kgbudge]

The first picture looks a little like a fish scale. What age on the beds?

[cabes234]

Middle Devonian I believe 385-392 MYA, the picture may look like a fish scale, but I saw it when she found it and I would say that it is almost certainly a bivalve.

[Fossildude19]

1 - Cypricardella sp. (bellistrata? maybe)

2 - Mesoleptostrophia junia ?

3 -  Need better pictures

4 - Yup.

5 - The brachiopods look like Tropidoleptus carinatus.

6 - Internal mold, possibly Pleurotomaria or Glyptotomaria sp.

[Oxytropidoceras]

38 minutes ago, cabes234 said:

Middle Devonian I believe 385-392 MYA...

 

It is shale of the Mahantango Formation.

 

For specific information and fossil illustrations go see

the PDF at The Montour Preserve Fossil Pit, Danville, PA 17821

 

Also, there is:

Ellison, R. L., 1965, Stratigraphy and paleontology

of the Mahantango Formation in south-central Pennsylvania:

Pennsylvania Geological Survey, 4th ser., General

Geology Report 48, 298 p. [Available online.]

Yours,

 

Paul H.

Edited December 5, 2021 by Oxytropidoceras
fixed typo and added URL

[Fossildude19]

3 minutes ago, Oxytropidoceras said:

 

It is shale of the Mahantango Formation.

 

For specific information and fossil illustrations go see

the PDF at The Montour Preserve Fossil Pit, Danville, PA 17821

 

 

Paul,

 

Link doesn't seem to be working.

[ClearLake]

8 minutes ago, Fossildude19 said:

 

 

Paul,

 

Link doesn't seem to be working.

Hmmm, worked for me just fine. 

[Oxytropidoceras]

6 minutes ago, Fossildude19 said:

Link doesn't seem to be working.

 

It is working on my computer at

https://montourpreserve.org/wp-content/uploads/Montour-Preserve-Fossil-Pit-brochure-rev20190605.pdf

 

The link to this PDF file is on the "Fossil Pit" web page at

https://montourpreserve.org/fossil-pit/

 

Yours,

 

Paul H.

[cabes234]

Thank You all for your input, I will send this information along and ask to see if she can take a higher quality image for number Three

 

Thanks, Caleb

[Fossildude19]

Link is an automatic download.
I didn't catch that! 

[cabes234]

I have a better image for #3, from it I am assuming she does not want the lower left one Identified.

 

My best guess is Mediospirifer Brachiopod