kazzoo Posted August 29, 2008 Share Posted August 29, 2008 Had a hour to kill coming back from a appointment and had sometime to kill. Took a detour down some Department of Natural Resources dug roads and had me a walk in the woods. Looking at a wash or gulley cut down a side of a hill that still had water trickling down it I remember all you folks talking about finding fossils in streams. So I had a look and sure enough there were all these rocks washed out from the sides of the hills from under planes of hard dolomite limestone and this is what I found. I wet the area with water to contrast the thing from the surrounding area. Either I have a very pretty rock or I got a soft bodied jelly fish type creature here. Some sort of blastiod with its guts knocked out" Regards Kaz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Nicholas Posted August 29, 2008 Share Posted August 29, 2008 Kez, your specimen intrigues me. Could you please post a clearer more focused photo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest solius symbiosus Posted August 29, 2008 Share Posted August 29, 2008 The pick is out of focus. Can you get a better one? Blastoids are very rare in the Ord, and Jellyfish are probably even more rare. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kazzoo Posted August 29, 2008 Author Share Posted August 29, 2008 Will do the best I can with the 5mp camera, already thinking if so, cyndaria scyphoza? Gave the whole piece a water spray this time. Regards Kaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted August 29, 2008 Share Posted August 29, 2008 I don't see fossil; looks like a conglomerate. "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...
Guest solius symbiosus Posted August 29, 2008 Share Posted August 29, 2008 I can't tell from the pic, but it is highly unlikely that it is a Scyphozoa. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Nicholas Posted August 30, 2008 Share Posted August 30, 2008 Top left is a brachiopod shell, the right middle is the impression of what used to be a brachiopod shell. There looks to be other "Shelly" material within it too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted August 30, 2008 Share Posted August 30, 2008 Top left is a brachiopod shell, the right middle is the impression of what used to be a brachiopod shell. There looks to be other "Shelly" material within it too. Are we looking at the same rock? I gotta' get a new computer screen... "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...
Guest Nicholas Posted August 30, 2008 Share Posted August 30, 2008 Are we looking at the same rock? I gotta' get a new computer screen... That's what the fuzziness has shown me. I see evidence of 2 brachs the rest i just mineral or rock. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kazzoo Posted August 30, 2008 Author Share Posted August 30, 2008 I am with you Auspex, The media is like a coquina of shells and sediment. Primaily hard limestone. Chocked full of goodness. A little more reading on my part surely makes this unlikely to be a soft body structure. Was looking at existing recorded specimins on soft bodies and the softbodies all seem to be nothing more than stains on a flat rocks. This one isnt. So not likely to be one. I doubt I have found something new. I can tell you I got excited to see it. Because it is all of one piece and there are no breaks in the structure. It lies on top of several brachyopod shells along its length. I found it because water was trickling over it making the feature standout. Sure looks like how a man o war or jelly fish should be. I really appreciate you guys taking the time on this one. I am willing to admit that this could just be a interesting feature of this rock, or several remains lying very close together making this look like a whole one. Makes me look twice. I am very very new at this. I promise I will keep finding them and posting them. Regards Kaz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kazzoo Posted August 30, 2008 Author Share Posted August 30, 2008 Just to give other angles and discriptions, the object body is about the size of a dime and is the same thickness. One end of the body is up off the matrix. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kazzoo Posted August 30, 2008 Author Share Posted August 30, 2008 another shot Regards I am trusting these are clearer, fossil newbie as well as camera one as well. Kaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kazzoo Posted August 30, 2008 Author Share Posted August 30, 2008 From same matrix and same location Regards Kaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest solius symbiosus Posted August 30, 2008 Share Posted August 30, 2008 I love Ordovician stuff. From what part of the country are you collecting? This is a good link that has pics of some of what the Cincinnatian has to offer. http://www.uga.edu/~strata/cincy/fauna/fauna.html KPS also has some good pics. http://www.uky.edu/OtherOrgs/KPS/pages/fossilphoto.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted August 30, 2008 Share Posted August 30, 2008 Much better pictures! It looks like "hash" from a fairly high energy depositional environment, or else possibly reworked at some point. As an aside; give the members with a slower connection a break and resize your pics to around 800 wide. I'm fortunate to have high-speed, but those with dial-up won't even try to open monster photos (which is a shame, 'cause these are cool!). "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...
kazzoo Posted August 30, 2008 Author Share Posted August 30, 2008 Greetings Solius This would be in southwest Wisconsin in the Driftless area. Not far where the Wisconsin River meets the Mississippi. On an area geologically speaking is called a Palaeozoic plateau. The stuff is like pre historic concrete, substitute the stones with shells and you get the idea. Regards Kaz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest solius symbiosus Posted August 30, 2008 Share Posted August 30, 2008 ^It looks very similar to the Ord stuff that I find in Ky. The stuff around here is also very hard(well indurated). On a side note, they say that continental glaciers aren't affected by topography, but the Driftless Plains sort of contradict that ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Nicholas Posted August 30, 2008 Share Posted August 30, 2008 Much better pictures! It looks like "hash" from a fairly high energy depositional environment, or else possibly reworked at some point.As an aside; give the members with a slower connection a break and resize your pics to around 800 wide. I'm fortunate to have high-speed, but those with dial-up won't even try to open monster photos (which is a shame, 'cause these are cool!). Told you so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jkfoam Posted August 31, 2008 Share Posted August 31, 2008 I don't think you have jellyfish. generally it takes very special circumstance to get the preservation of scyphozoa either as an imprint or as a cast. Shown below are two that I have. The first is Brooksella alternata from the Cambrian in Alabama and the second is Duodecimedusina typica from the Permian near Fife, Texas. JKFoam The Eocene is my favorite Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MB Posted August 31, 2008 Share Posted August 31, 2008 Just to give other angles and discriptions, the object body is about the size of a dime and is the same thickness. One end of the body is up off the matrix. Not jellyfish, just a type of alga for me http://www.mbfossilcrabs.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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