VirginiaWilderness Posted November 15, 2016 Share Posted November 15, 2016 Sharing for fun. Some of the fossils we've found in a large pit dug in Suffolk, VA where the sea level hasn't been in thousands, or maybe millions, of years. https://goo.gl/photos/6oDYj3mdYvjNvzRb6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crinoid1 Posted November 15, 2016 Share Posted November 15, 2016 Your fossils are quite beautiful! I remember taking a trip when I was much younger to a phosphate pit in Florida. There were shells very similar to yours littering the ground, and mixed in with them were shark and crocodile teeth and a whole host of miscellaneous bones. It was perhaps one of my favorite fossil trips I've been on. My expertise does not lie anywhere near the vicinity of the Pliocine, but do be on the lookout for vertebrate material! Thanks for sharing! I like crinoids...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
minnbuckeye Posted November 15, 2016 Share Posted November 15, 2016 Love the fossils. Tell me about how you have them displayed. I have been tinkering with some artificial water and fossils with the intent of putting a display together for a local park this winter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tmaier Posted November 15, 2016 Share Posted November 15, 2016 Yeah, nice. Looks like what we find here in Florida, and some of the species are likely the same. http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/invertpaleo/galleries.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VirginiaWilderness Posted November 15, 2016 Author Share Posted November 15, 2016 The folks that live on the property put the fossils everywhere... All over the inside of the house and their garden. The lady there has started making little turtle sculptures out of oyster shells. lol The ones I've collected I haven't done anything with so far. I found one shark tooth and I'm hoping to find more though. If anyone can identify anything they see in my pictures (click the link to see the full album), please let me know! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VirginiaWilderness Posted November 15, 2016 Author Share Posted November 15, 2016 54 minutes ago, tmaier said: Yeah, nice. Looks like what we find here in Florida, and some of the species are likely the same.http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/invertpaleo/galleries.htm Yes, we are finding many of the same things I like finding the bivalves that are still whole and fused shut. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeR Posted November 15, 2016 Share Posted November 15, 2016 Cool material! Definitely Zone 2 Yorktown either Rushmere or Moorhouse Member. "A problem solved is a problem caused"--Karl Pilkington "I was dead for millions of years before I was born and it never inconvenienced me a bit." -- Mark Twain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plantguy Posted November 18, 2016 Share Posted November 18, 2016 On 11/15/2016 at 5:06 PM, MikeR said: Cool material! Definitely Zone 2 Yorktown either Rushmere or Moorhouse Member. Nice Finds VirginiaWilderness! Looks similar to stuff from down here... Hey Mike, so I keep seeing Yorktown references and the similarities to the Sarasota material and wanted to ask if this chart is still pretty current with respect to Yorktown and Tamiami ages? I suspect you may have mentioned it one of your blogs/refs and should have read it but I just accidentally stumbled across it and started to read about the big picture in the Pliocene again....If I could just remember 0.01% of what Ive read or someone has told me to read I might be worth a dang... Pliocene climate and seasonality in North Atlantic shelf seas Mark Williams, Alan M Haywood, Elizabeth M Harper, Andrew L.A Johnson, Tanya Knowles, Melanie J Leng, Daniel J Lunt, Beth Okamura, Paul D Taylor, Jan Zalasiewicz Published 13 January 2009. http://rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/367/1886/85 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeR Posted November 18, 2016 Share Posted November 18, 2016 It is fairly accurate although some paleontologists might have different views on the ages of some of the units. For instance, where to place the Caloosahatchee equivalent James City and Wacamaw Formations in this chart. I would need to go back and read the paper but I am assuming that only part of the Caloosahatchee is in the Gelasian with the remainder along with Wacamaw and JC in the Calabrian and Bermont Formation in the Middle Pleistocene. The main change is that the Pliocene boundary was placed a couple of years ago to 2.58 mya putting those units in the Gelasian as Lower Pleistocene. Here is a link to the latest ICS chart LINK. Mike 1 "A problem solved is a problem caused"--Karl Pilkington "I was dead for millions of years before I was born and it never inconvenienced me a bit." -- Mark Twain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max-fossils Posted November 18, 2016 Share Posted November 18, 2016 Those are some amazing finds!!! I really like pectens... And is that a Busycon on the trunk completely to the right? Best regards, Max Max Derème "I feel an echo of the lightning each time I find a fossil. [...] That is why I am a hunter: to feel that bolt of lightning every day." - Mary Anning >< Remarkable Creatures, Tracy Chevalier Instagram: @world_of_fossils Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plantguy Posted November 19, 2016 Share Posted November 19, 2016 12 hours ago, MikeR said: It is fairly accurate although some paleontologists might have different views on the ages of some of the units. For instance, where to place the Caloosahatchee equivalent James City and Wacamaw Formations in this chart. I would need to go back and read the paper but I am assuming that only part of the Caloosahatchee is in the Gelasian with the remainder along with Wacamaw and JC in the Calabrian and Bermont Formation in the Middle Pleistocene. The main change is that the Pliocene boundary was placed a couple of years ago to 2.58 mya putting those units in the Gelasian as Lower Pleistocene. Here is a link to the latest ICS chart LINK. Mike Thanks Mike! I wasnt even aware of that of that chart...I think I've always used the GSA's version. I've been out of the loop I guess for years...thanks again. Regards, Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doushantuo Posted November 19, 2016 Share Posted November 19, 2016 Ward et al: https://pubs.usgs.gov/bul/1482d/report.pdf Some more on the Pliocene: LawrenceRaymonatlantPlioceAGUPA+.pdf scheppergroeneveldplospliocene2013.pdf haywoodpliocenecp57,8,14-2013.pdf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeR Posted November 19, 2016 Share Posted November 19, 2016 20 hours ago, Max-fossils said: Those are some amazing finds!!! I really like pectens... And is that a Busycon on the trunk completely to the right? Best regards, Max Carolinapecten eboreus and Busycon maximum 1 "A problem solved is a problem caused"--Karl Pilkington "I was dead for millions of years before I was born and it never inconvenienced me a bit." -- Mark Twain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max-fossils Posted November 19, 2016 Share Posted November 19, 2016 Just now, MikeR said: Carolinapecten eboreus and Busycon maximum Ok, thank you! Max Derème "I feel an echo of the lightning each time I find a fossil. [...] That is why I am a hunter: to feel that bolt of lightning every day." - Mary Anning >< Remarkable Creatures, Tracy Chevalier Instagram: @world_of_fossils Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeR Posted November 19, 2016 Share Posted November 19, 2016 11 hours ago, Plantguy said: Thanks Mike! I wasnt even aware of that of that chart...I think I've always used the GSA's version. I've been out of the loop I guess for years...thanks again. Regards, Chris Thanks Chris for sharing that paper. I thought it might have been a publication that I referenced before but it is not and is relatively recent (2009). It is a nice review of the US and English Pliocene. Mike "A problem solved is a problem caused"--Karl Pilkington "I was dead for millions of years before I was born and it never inconvenienced me a bit." -- Mark Twain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plantguy Posted November 19, 2016 Share Posted November 19, 2016 3 hours ago, MikeR said: Thanks Chris for sharing that paper. I thought it might have been a publication that I referenced before but it is not and is relatively recent (2009). It is a nice review of the US and English Pliocene. Mike Good deal! thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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