married2rick Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 More fossil ID's please! Found at Seven Stars location. Devonian I presume. 1 & 2 are of some sort of ball or spherical rock/fossil? Front & back. More to come. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
married2rick Posted November 13, 2015 Author Share Posted November 13, 2015 Pics 3 & 4. This looks like an extremely smooth clam/bipod. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
married2rick Posted November 13, 2015 Author Share Posted November 13, 2015 Pics 5 & 6 Okay, so I want to mention this looks like a footprint but I won't. .. wait, I already did. lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
married2rick Posted November 13, 2015 Author Share Posted November 13, 2015 Pic 7 & 8. I feel pretty sure this is a trilobite thorax but wanted confirmation. Included a pic of the matrix back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 (edited) Just a guess for 1-4,7-8 may be coiled trilobites like Dipleuras? Edited November 13, 2015 by abyssunder 1 " We are not separate and independent entities, but like links in a chain, and we could not by any means be what we are without those who went before us and showed us the way. " Thomas Mann My Library Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sifrel Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 Howdy, I'm by no means an expert in invert identification, but I know the local Mahantango is lousy with siderite concretions. I don't see much complexity along the fracture of the spheroid in image 2, so I'd hazard a guess that those are geological rather than fossil. As for the "footprint" in 5 and 6, I see crinoid remains. Specifically, either the empty mold of crinoid columns or possibly arms where the columnals have weathered out. Crinoid columnals, much like siderite nodules, are also fairly common in the local Mahantango. Again, I'm no expert, but that's what I see. Cheers, Sifrel 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herb Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 I agree with Sifrel, and I think 3 and 4 may be a pelecypod 1 "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence"_ Carl Sagen No trees were killed in this posting......however, many innocent electrons were diverted from where they originally intended to go. " I think, therefore I collect fossils." _ Me "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."__S. Holmes "can't we all just get along?" Jack Nicholson from Mars Attacks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockwood Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 The track could be a weathered internal mold of a brachiopod. It would be helpful to include something to show the scale of the pieces. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 (edited) M2R, I agree with the others - 1) Concretion - but the bottom area intrigues me - I have seen a concretion like this from the Mahantango that had a fossil in it. (Greenops Trilobite) Might be worth splitting it to see. 3) Internal mold of a pelecypod. Mud filled the shell, and the shell disloved away. The crease or curved line at the bottom reminds me of Paleoneilo sp. 5) Devonian is too early for Tridactyl footprints. I agree with possible crinoid imprints, possibly of the holdfast or some other part of a crinoid. Sometimes, the preservation detail is lacking in the Mahantango Formation fossils. 7) Looks like a Dipleura dekayi thorax to me as well. Keep them coming. Regards, EDIT: Hmmm. The more I look at it, the more # 5 looks like Rockwood said - maybe a brachipod internal mold. Can we see the back and sides of this item? I see what appear to be indications of shell material in the bottoms of the imprints. Edited November 13, 2015 by Fossildude19 1 Tim - VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER VFOTM --- APRIL - 2015 __________________________________________________ "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir ~ ~ ~ ~ ><))))( *> About Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 ...and for 3-4 I thought it is a Dipleura dekayi cephalon... 1 " We are not separate and independent entities, but like links in a chain, and we could not by any means be what we are without those who went before us and showed us the way. " Thomas Mann My Library Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
married2rick Posted November 14, 2015 Author Share Posted November 14, 2015 (edited) Thanks everyone. Thank you for sharing your knowledge & opinions, I appreciate each and every one of you! TIM - Here are more pics of #5 as requested. Edited November 14, 2015 by married2rick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Fossildude19 Posted November 14, 2015 Share Posted November 14, 2015 M2R, Thanks for the additional pictures. I am still having trouble getting a bead on this one, but I am leaning more towards brachiopod internal mold. The item appears a bit too spherical (Pic 2 in 1st set of new pics.) to consider much else. It is also possible that the strange "footprint" shape was pressed into the shell at some point. Weird. Thanks again for the pics. Regards, Regards, 1 Tim - VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER VFOTM --- APRIL - 2015 __________________________________________________ "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir ~ ~ ~ ~ ><))))( *> About Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PA Fossil Finder Posted November 15, 2015 Share Posted November 15, 2015 M2R, I agree with the others - 1) Concretion - but the bottom area intrigues me - post-6072-0-07451600-1447375874.jpg I have seen a concretion like this from the Mahantango that had a fossil in it. (Greenops Trilobite) Might be worth splitting it to see. I have noticed that many of the concretions (especially the really spheroidal ones) in the Montour Preserve Fossil Pit contain good fossils - an area that is also from the Mahantango Formation. It is probably worth your time to try and collect concretions and split them if you ever find them in the Mahantango. In my concretions, I have found large lingulid brachiopods, trilobites, some weird mystery stuff, and also some cool minerals like chalcopyrite and calcite. They were all rather well preserved, occasionally better than the fossils in the surrounding rock. 1 Stephen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PA Fossil Finder Posted November 16, 2015 Share Posted November 16, 2015 I think #5 is a brachiopod mold. Compare mystery object #5 with Schizophoria internal molds: Stephen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
married2rick Posted November 16, 2015 Author Share Posted November 16, 2015 Thanks Fossildude19, PA Fossil Finder & others! Your responses prompted me to do a Google search on brachiopod internal mold & Schizophoria internal mold and I found a pic of an internal mold with the "footprint" but it wouldn't let me paste it here. I'm going with Schizophoria mold........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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