I have found sea fossils in the carb for the first time today.:)

[nala]

I find the time to make a hunt today and was rewarded by a real unexpected find,a big grey rock with a strange round shape,i split it to see further(the rock is very hard)an when it open i saw a orthoceras! i split more and find two others ,and brachiopods various tracks,other shells,i never found sea fossils in the carboniferous before only very little shells one time(in more than 20 hunts!)!  a real surprise for me

[TqB]

Very nice orthoceratids, they've split out pretty well. They're rare in my local Carboniferous too. 

[fossilized6s]

Congratulations! Cephalopods are extremely rare from the Francis Creek shale (Mazon Creek). 

[ynot]

Nice finds!!

Congratulations on the "firsts".

 

Tony

[Ash]

Love it!  Good size, too!

[Shamalama]

So you have some marine intervals in your local carboniferous? Very cool Gery! Keep splitting and see what else you find, maybe a shark tooth?

[erose]

Nice specimens! 

 

[JohnJ]

Great hammer work, Gery.   

[abyssunder]

Really nice !

[docdutronc]

Hi Gery

These samples are not from carboniferous levels !

 

In 1920 ,  when the coal mines dug new wells in the southern boundary of the concession (Liévin / Vimy region), they encountered lands dating from the Siluro-Devonian over the Carboniferous due to the presence of a reversed series . Due to the great fault "du midi " passing in this sector. Numerous brachiopods, orthoceras, rare trilobites were discovered, and I searched in those dumps which were still visible in the 1990s. The samples are now in Lille Museum collections .

 

Look this book :

Description de la faune Siluro-Dévonienne de Liévin / par Mm. J. Gosselet, Ch. Barrois, M. Leriche, A. Crépin. Lille : Liegeois-Six, 1912-1920.

 

en 1920 , lorsque les charbonnages creusèrent de nouveaux puits dans la limite sud de la concéssion ( région de Liévin/ Vimy ) ,ils rencontrèrent des terrains datant du siluro-dévoniens au dessus du carbonifère en raison de la présence d 'une série renversée , due à la "grande faille du midi" qui passe dans ce secteur . De nombreux brachiopodes (spirifers , orthidées ) , des orthocères , de rares trilobites ( Griphaeus ) furent découverts , j'ai fouillé dans ces haldes qui étaient encore visibles dans les années 1990 . Ces pièces sont maintenant au Muséum de Lille ( Nord ) .

 

Bonne chance pour la suite ...

 

Bruno

 

[nala]

Hello Thanks a lot Bruno for these explanations! i was really lucky to find one rock of this historical dug!i didn't see that before!Perhaps you could help me also to ID this fern and bark from the same site?found the same day,regards Gery

 

[Plantguy]

Awesome finds Gery! Interesting mix of strata. Neat to hear that Bruno has collected there. Regards, Chris 

[nala]

Thanks Chris,i made also a good sphenopteris plate,a very good hunt!

[Ludwigia]

That pink color is just amazing! Does it stay like that after it dries out? Congratulations also on the rare marine fauna, even though it comes from elsewhere.

[CBOB]

Wow!  Super finds!  

[nala]

Thanks CBOB,and after the clean the result is not too bad Roger:)

[Ludwigia]

Very nice pastel colors.

[docdutronc]

Hi all

 

Gery look here ,very similar to Fortopteris latifolia Zeiller.

 

http://forums-naturalistes.forums-actifs.com/t3939-fortopteris-latifolia-zeiller

 

Cordialement

 

Bruno

[nala]

Thanks a lot Bruno!

[nala]

Today I broke a little more the stone from the Silurian Devonian Stone i have found few days ago,with several Orthoceras in it and find this,could it be a aptychus or only a shell? What could be be ID for these?

[docdutronc]

11 hours ago, nala said:

Today I broke a little more the stone from the Silurian Devonian Stone i have found few days ago,with several Orthoceras in it and find this,could it be a aptychus or only a shell? What could be be ID for these?

 Hi Gery

You must try to find this bibliography .

They are all Brachiopoda except picture 4 who is a Bivalvia ( mollusqua ) Actinopteria tricultata Fuchs , 1919.

pictures 1/2/3 Orbiculoidea rugata Sow.  

picture 5 Orthoceras sp.

picture 6 Orthis ( Damanella) canaliculata Lindstr.   

Look these plates in "Faune Silro-Dévonienne de Liévin . 1920 "  ,  and P. Racheboeuf 's  book .

 

Best regards

 

Bruno

 

   

[nala]

Excellent!thanks again Bruno!

[Archimedes]

lovely fossil display

thanks for sharing