2013 5 Day Paleozoic Party

[evren]

Here are my finds from squalicorax and my spring break trip. Special thanks to my girlfriend Jessica for taking most of these photos. This trip was loads of fun! There's nothing better than touring around with a car full of friends with like minds.

Day 1

Orphanage Rd. Cut, KY, Ordovician

Trilobite

Cryptolithus Cephalon

Cute Bryozoa

Maysville, KY, Ordovician

Trilobites

Isotelus Hypostomes

Isotelus Thorasic Segments?

Rusophycus

Crinoids

Ectinocrinus

Cephalopods

Brachiopods

Platystrophia (Vinlandistrophia?)

Nice Colorful Plate of Multiple Small Brachs and a Escharopora Bryozoan

Complete Bryozoan Colony

Finally, a plate featuring a nice crinoid from last years trip I had sitting in my trash pile. The crinoid was not visible until I washed a little more dirt off. You never know what you'll find!

Edited March 26, 2013 by evren

[evren]

Day 2

Falls of the Ohio State Park

Waldron Shale Pile, Silurian

I pulled out this beautiful Caryocrinites persculptis Cystoid from the flattened and stomped on waldron pick pile.

Jeffersonville Limestone, Devonian

Brachiopods

2x Spirifers and an Atrypa?

Athyris

Trilobite

Eldredgeops Cephalon and Pygidium

Coral

Big Daddy Rugose Coral

Unknown Coral

Drakes Formation, Ordovician

Brachiopods

Vinlandostrophia ponderosa

Strophomenid

Vinlandostrophia cypha

Edited March 26, 2013 by evren

[evren]

Day 4 was uneventful besides a nice dolomite calymene site in Kentucky. I'll edit the post when I prep them out.

Day 3

Sulphur, IN, Mississippian

Crinoids

Unknown, help on these please!

Itty Bitty Little Guy! So glad I found him.

Trilobites

Blastoids

Nice Archimedes (lower specimen) and Interesting Crinoid (Maybe Blastoid?) Stem (upper specimen). I think the stem is just below where the calyx would attach.

Edited March 26, 2013 by evren

[evren]

Day 5

St. Leon, IN, Ordovician

Trilobites

Found this wopper Flexicalymene trapped in a frozen tomb under the ice. I had to chisel him out and thaw in the car windshield. Unfortunately he lost his cheek at some point before my extraction. He still has a very photogenic left cheek though.

Caritodens

Brachiopods

Hiscobeccus

Laeptena or another type of Strophomenid?

Edited March 26, 2013 by evren

[CH4ShotCaller]

Nice haul and very nice pictures!

[Fossildude19]

Excellent report, finds, and Pics.

Thanks for posting them.

Regards,

[Dave pom Allen]

Good report and finds i do especially like the brach hash.

[evren]

Thank you! I'm looking forward to making more reports with a busy collecting season this summer!

[cowsharks]

Cool finds you have there. I like that Archimedes thing - very odd shape.

Daryl.

[lissa318]

Enjoyed seeing your pics! Congrats!

[Missourian]

I also enjoy Paleozoic parties with like-minded friends.

Nice finds, especially the crowns and hash plates.

[Shamalama]

Nice Haul! In your first post, third pic from the bottom, It looks like you have a nice Escharopora bryozoan (the narrow sword shape) on that brach plate.

[squalicorax]

Your cincinatticrinus is Ectinocrinus probably from maysville kope formation

Unknown brachiopod from the Jeffersonville is Athyris

Bivalve from St Leon is the Pectin Caritodens

And the rynchonellid is Hiscobeccus

See daves blog post about the Vinlandostrophia http://viewsofthemahantango.blogspot.com/2011/12/other-species-of-vinlandostrophia-from.html

[evren]

Nice Haul! In your first post, third pic from the bottom, It looks like you have a nice Escharopora bryozoan (the narrow sword shape) on that brach plate.

Your cincinatticrinus is Ectinocrinus probably from maysville kope formation

Unknown brachiopod from the Jeffersonville is Athyris

Bivalve from St Leon is the Pectin Caritodens

And the rynchonellid is Hiscobeccus

See daves blog post about the Vinlandostrophia http://viewsofthemahantango.blogspot.com/2011/12/other-species-of-vinlandostrophia-from.html

Thanks guys, I've updated my post with the proper ID's.