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Receptaculites, We Hardly Knew Ye! Please, Show Us Your Receptaculites.

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Hi guys, please show to me and to the other forum members your Receptaculites.

Lately I am totally hooked by those fossils.

I should like to find my first one next time I will visit the Mid-West. So I am also looking to good locations where there is the chance to find this fascinating fossil.

Nando

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Erosion... will be my epitaph!

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Wrangellian Regular Member

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Nice one, Nando! Is that one you bought? Did I hear that these have been renamed?

I might have already shown mine somewhere but here it is again:

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R. occidentalis, Black River Gp (Ordov.-Mowhawkian), Mascot, TN

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Nice one, Nando! Is that one you bought? Did I hear that these have been renamed?

I might have already shown mine somewhere but here it is again:

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Sadly I have not Receptaculites in my collection, the one in the opening post I borrowed from internet :ninja:

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Erosion... will be my epitaph!

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This one is my most unique so far :)

Galena Formation, Stewartville member, Ordovician Era, SE MN :)

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These are all Herb's that I just sent him :)

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This is a nice cross section and it sparkles!

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This has super definition, I think :) And it rolls over onto the side as well.

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Really sharp cross section, also sparkles :) Wraps around to the other side. I kind of knicked it with the hammer trying to get it out of the ice. Then I went and poured boiling water on it and that worked.

These are extremely common here. I don't even bother to pick them up anymore.

Bev :)

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Well I only have the one, I'm a little jealous if your ability to collect them in your neighborhood!

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But you have a GREAT ONE! Quality, not quantity! :)

Thx, I think it's a bit weathered, I was a little disappointed after how much I paid for it, it was not that obvious to me in the pics before I bought, but I really don't know how it compares, I've seen so few of them and even fewer available to me!

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Nando:

Here is one from Iowa. I collected it many years ago, I believe it was from the Galena Formation. I cut and polished this one to see the internal structure.

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Nando "Minnesota is just under the Iowa corner? Who knows... Maybe I will be at MAPS in Iowa City :);)

There are also brachiopods in that formation?"

LOL Minnesota is just above Iowa! :)

What is MAPS????

Have I got a deal for you! LOL :) I'm within 15 miles of the Iowa line, so if you have time for a day hunt I will take you to my "honey spot" where I found the two trilos, tons of brachs, lots of bivalves, crinoids and some reps. If they aren't working in my favorite quarry that day, I will take you there and you are then guaranteed to find reps. worst case scenario, you can pick through my boneyard :) Check out my Gallery post--The Bev Formation :)

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Here is a picture of a few pieces of recepts that I found when I was 12 years old in northeast Iowa (Ordovician). They're not quite as impressive as others on this thread, but I'm proud of them :P

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Nando "Minnesota is just under the Iowa corner? Who knows... Maybe I will be at MAPS in Iowa City :);)

There are also brachiopods in that formation?"

LOL Minnesota is just above Iowa! :)

What is MAPS????

Have I got a deal for you! LOL :) I'm within 15 miles of the Iowa line, so if you have time for a day hunt I will take you to my "honey spot" where I found the two trilos, tons of brachs, lots of bivalves, crinoids and some reps. If they aren't working in my favorite quarry that day, I will take you there and you are then guaranteed to find reps. worst case scenario, you can pick through my boneyard :) Check out my Gallery post--The Bev Formation :)

Bev :)

:D :D :D :D :D

Due of European economic crisis, I am seriously thinking to retire and sell my business well before I planned, so it could be I really will be there in April. Thanks for the invitation :)

p.s. I know very well where Minnesota is, but I know not so well American adverbs :wacko: ... behind the Iowa corner was the right word :(

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Erosion... will be my epitaph!

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Here are a couple from my collection:

Fisherites reticulatus - 15 cm

Middle Ordovician - Missouri

Kimmswick Formation

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Receptaculites neptuni - 3 cm

Upper Devonian - Belgium

Neuville Formation

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So many Receptaculites in Missouri, but I've yet to find one.... I must remedy that. :)

Context is critical.

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Nice one, Nando! Is that one you bought? Did I hear that these have been renamed?

I might have already shown mine somewhere but here it is again:

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R. occidentalis, Black River Gp (Ordov.-Mowhawkian), Mascot, TN

Here's what FOSSILS OF OHIO (1996) says:

Order Dasycladales (calcareous green algae)[dasyclads]

Family Dasycladaceae (extinct and recent)

Family Receptaculitaceae (extinct)

Tribe Receptaculiteae [receptaculitids]

Tribe Cyclocriniteae [cyclocrinitids]

"Fossils of this order [dasyclads] are only rarely recognized by collectors.". . .

"Fossil dasyclads are globose to cylindrical or club shaped in outline. They grew on the sea floor to several centimenters in height.

"Internally, a central, noncalcareous structure, the stem or stipe, was surrounded by worled branches or protuberances (rays). . . . They are generally visible only in cracked or broken specimens.

"The primary branches or rays of some dasyclads are rounded at the tip; some have bristlelike or spinelike appendages; others have cuplike or prismlike tips that may be fused as an outer covering of small polygons.

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Possible dasyclads from the Pennsylvanian:

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I think the Ordovician ones are more impressive. :)

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My understanding is that they have been renamed Fisherites oweni from my 2005 book. At least I can say that word!

There are so few posts! I was really looking forward to seeing what others had. Are these rather rare? Just a lot around here?

Bev :)

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And I would love to see more examples of those dasyclads! I would miss them! :)

But my eyes are old and I appear to just go for fossils I can readily see :)

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S. C. Finney and M. H. Nitecki

"Fisherites n. gen. reticulatus (Owen, 1844), a new name for Receptaculites oweni Hall, 1861" Journal of Paleontology, May 1979, v. 53, p. 750-753

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So, if Fisherites was to replace Receptaculites in 1861, why do we still call them Receptaculites in 2013?

Hey, I'm not trying to be a smarty pants here. I would just like to know if it is that old and by such reputable people in the field, why has it not changed?

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So, if Fisherites was to replace Receptaculites in 1861, why do we still call them Receptaculites in 2013?

Hey, I'm not trying to be a smarty pants here. I would just like to know if it is that old and by such reputable people in the field, why has it not changed?

Bev :)

Sometimes folks are reticent to follow suit or notice :P You could write to the authors to verify the name still has validity.

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