A Tour Through The Kansas City Pennsylvanian

[JeepDigger]

Really nice finds, and pictures. That Deltodus is huge!

I know! I am pretty excited about it! Now I just need to learn how to prep stuff with out destroying it......

[Fossildude19]

...The Sunday after our hunt we went to a local rock and mineral show where I couldn't resist picking up a little trilobite. Phacops Rana / Devonian from north eastern United States is how it was labled and as far as I can tell it seems to be accurate. ...

This looks more like a Phacops from Morocco. The lack of detail along with the tool marked matrix looks Moroccan

The eastern US trilos are generally found in a softer gray shale.

Regards,

[Missourian]

Nice haul. I really like the huge Archaeocidaris plate. The hash with the pink and purple fossils is always fun to find.

 

I hope the Peripristis tooth shows up.

[piranha]

The trilobite purchased at the rock show is a proetid. Gerastos / Proetus are the most common Moroccan genera that fit this morphology.

[Fossildude19]

The trilobite purchased at the rock show is a proetid. Gerastos / Proetus are the most common Moroccan genera that fit this morphology.

Doh! Good call Scott!

Of course it's a Gerastos.

I should have looked at the pic a bit more closely.

Thanks for the correct ID.

Regards,

[JeepDigger]

Thanks for the ID guys, I was a little Leary after speaking with the vender but it was pretty cheap. And I knew someone on here would know what it is if he was wrong!

[Kehbe]

I haven't got any pictures taken of my finds for this hunt but I did put a picture together of us all at the Middle Creek exposure! Lots of good stuff in the Middle Creek! Variety, diversity and color! Thanks guys for the great hunt! I'll try and get some pics up soon.

[Wrangellian]

Looks like a successful trip - you guys always seem to come away from those sites with a nice assortment. I like the branching bryos(?)..

[Missourian]

Kyle, how is the nautiloid coming along? Or is it still in the docket?

[Missourian]

On 3/27/2013 at 8:38 PM, Wrangellian said:

I like the branching bryos(?)..

 

Me too. As stingy as the KC Pennsylvanian can be at times, they are one type of fossil that you can expect to find in large numbers.

[Wrangellian]

...them and those snails apparently!

[Missourian]

While we were hunting the Winterset Limestone, I found some wafer-thin slabs of sandy-looking rock:

 

 

This piece is only about 2 mm in thickness. Just on a whim, I took it home with me. The other day, I took a second, closer look. I could just make out little dark bits of something that could be fossils. Thinking there could be more, I placed it under the microscope. It turns out this slab is ostracod hash:

 

 

Increased magnification reveals many of these as Geisina sp. :

 

 

The ostracods are a little less than a millimeter in length.The little dark things I was seeing before are tiny gastropods and bits of carbonized plant material.

 

These particular ostracods indicate a very shallow water environment. I'd like to go back and see if I can trace it back to whichever horizon they came from.

[PetrolPete]

Finally got the chance to upload and edit my photos from the trip, here are the finds from the winterset location:

A partial nautaloid:

A couple trilobite cephalons

Some oddities:

A piece of plant material from the cherty layer:

A couple brachs:

A razor clam:

one of the cool geodized brachs:

[PetrolPete]

Here are some more from the winterset:

A tiny trilobite pygidium:

Some of the coquina-like hashy layer:

And some material from the shale at the base of the roadcut (I think Stark?) including some fish bits and a couple Listracanthus spines

[PetrolPete]

The second stop at the middle creek was really interesting, I had never seen hash with so much color to it, and I found my first echinoid plate.

Here are some assorted goodies from the location:

And some of the colorful hash plates:

[PetrolPete]

And from the third location in the Argentine Limestone where we struck oil:

The great white productid brach, Moby Brach

A smaller, oil soaked brach

And some of the geodized brachs with hydrocarbon stained matrix and crystals:

[PetrolPete]

When we met up at the rock and mineral show, Bullsnake was kind enough to give me a bag of Eudora Shale to look through for conodonts and here are a few of the ones I found:

Here is an odd blue object which might be a fish scale:

[PetrolPete]

And a few more conodonts

[PetrolPete]

Since we didn't have time to make it there, Kehbe was very generous and shared some of his muncie creek concretions with me. I finally got them popped and here is what they contained:

I honestly have almost no idea what this is, aside from maybe a nautaloid or gastropod:

And here is an assortment of others that looked like they might have something interesting in them:

I want to thank everyone again for allowing me to go fossil hunting with you, I had a great time and really enjoyed the hunt and meeting all of you. Hopefully we can do it again some time.

[KansasFossilHunter]

Sweet finds PetrolPete!

[Missourian]

Peter, you certainly did get a decent survey of the Kansas City Group.

[Virgilian]

On ‎4‎/‎12‎/‎2013 at 8:13 AM, PetrolPete said:

And a few more conodonts

 

Just happened to run across this post. All of the conodonts photographed here, from the Upper Pennsylvanian Eudora Shale, are genus Gondollela.