TqB Posted July 13, 2016 Share Posted July 13, 2016 (edited) Showing a lot of storm or flood debris, this is from the very top of the marine phase of a Brigantian cyclothem that apparently ended with a catastrophe. The mudstone that immediately overlies this is virtually unfossiliferous, eventually passing up into layers with burrows and plant fragments. From County Durham, UK. Photographed in a container of water to highlight the detail. Brass scale is 1cm. Edited July 13, 2016 by TqB 2 Tarquin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TqB Posted July 13, 2016 Author Share Posted July 13, 2016 A bit closer: 1 Tarquin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fossilized6s Posted July 13, 2016 Share Posted July 13, 2016 Beautiful hash plate, Tarquin. ~Charlie~ "There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why.....i dream of things that never were, and ask why not?" ~RFK ->Get your Mosasaur print ->How to spot a fake Trilobite ->How to identify a CONCRETION from a DINOSAUR EGG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doushantuo Posted July 13, 2016 Share Posted July 13, 2016 Awesome cubed and squared. I've just taken a hefty dose of Envian,the anti-envy drug. Waiting for it to kick in... Yes,but no,but,yes no but yeah,you is well out of order in showing this,Tarq. ***nailbiting envy sets in,depite heavy mediacation******** Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted July 13, 2016 Share Posted July 13, 2016 Very nice hash plate. Tony Darwin said: " Man sprang from monkeys." Will Rogers said: " Some of them didn't spring far enough." My Fossil collection - My Mineral collection My favorite thread on TFF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caldigger Posted July 13, 2016 Share Posted July 13, 2016 The first fossil I ever remember getting was a hash plate very similar to this from Kentucky. The hills were scattered with them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted July 13, 2016 Share Posted July 13, 2016 Excellent find, Tarquin,congrats for this ! Also the fenestrate bryozoans are nicely preserved. " 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...
Ridgehiker Posted July 13, 2016 Share Posted July 13, 2016 (edited) The first fossil I ever remember getting was a hash plate very similar to this from Kentucky. The hills were scattered with them.Often the most fascinating fossils are often the ones that are posted from another part of the world but are akin to what we find locally. Familiar but still different. One can take hash plates from the UK, Kentucky and our nearby Rockies, place them side by side and instantly know they are of similar age.Quite the hash plate! Nature making a work of art. Its neat seeing various degrees of separation of the crinoid segments. Usually they are either still tight together or already single fragments. Edited July 13, 2016 by Ridgehiker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TqB Posted July 14, 2016 Author Share Posted July 14, 2016 Thanks for all the comments! I'm in contact with a bryozoan specialist and am slowly getting them sorted out. There are some semi-articulated crinoids in this bed, even the occasional calyx. I'm dreaming of an articulated Archaeocidaris but it seems unlikely. More exotic echinoderm plates and teeth sometimes crop up but not in this piece as far as I can see. 1 Tarquin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doushantuo Posted July 14, 2016 Share Posted July 14, 2016 (edited) biogeography: http://kpfu.ru/portal/docs/F1332157397/Tolokonnikova.2014.pdf from G.divers: http://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/sites/default/files/articles/pdf/g2015n2a2-low_0.pdf as you probably know,there's some Belgian literature on the Marbre Rouge, a fairly bryozoan- dominated Visean Bioherm Lyropora,Fenestella? I take it you are aware of the fact that the Bancroft thesis is freely available? Edited July 14, 2016 by doushantuo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TqB Posted July 14, 2016 Author Share Posted July 14, 2016 biogeography: http://kpfu.ru/portal/docs/F1332157397/Tolokonnikova.2014.pdf from G.divers: http://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/sites/default/files/articles/pdf/g2015n2a2-low_0.pdf as you probably know,there's some Belgian literature on the Marbre Rouge, a fairly bryozoan- dominated Visean Bioherm Lyropora,Fenestella? I take it you are aware of the fact that the Bancroft thesis is freely available? Many thanks, I hadn't seen those papers - the second one is extremely useful, with many fine plates and diagnoses. I don't know the Marbre Rouge (will have a look) but am well acquainted with Bancroft, thesis and papers! Tarquin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doushantuo Posted July 14, 2016 Share Posted July 14, 2016 (edited) A pretty nice thesis,if you ask me,on bioherms,old and new(about 18 MB) . http://elib.suub.uni-bremen.de/edocs/00104382-1.pdf Good pics,diagrams,etc. Your typical Bremen thesis Edited July 14, 2016 by doushantuo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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