Some fun Penn Dixie pieces

[DevonianDigger]

While moving into my new workshop I came across some cool pieces from my collection that I'm not sure I had ever photographed. My camera flash is broken, so I just took these using a cell phone. There are a few oddities that I'm not sure of their IDs, and a few that are just cool pieces.

 

 

Appears to be a partial Actinopteria decussata. Not a common find at the site.

 

 

Looks like a nautiloid, perhaps a Orthoceras or Spyroceras, but has a really weird surface texture to it.

 

 

Nice long section of crinoid stem. This was very tough to stabilize, it was practically jumping out of the matrix piece by piece.

 

 

A big honkin' Eldredgeops rana that's partially enrolled. Still prepping him out. Unfortunately he's missing a chunk of the left librigina. You can also see the spines of a well-preserved Spinatrypa spinosa in the bottom of the frame.

 

 

I don't know what this is. It's concave, and I think it's the interior of a Spyroceras, but I can't be sure it's such an odd segment to try and classify from.

[Ludwigia]

That last one looks to me like a side view of an Amplexiphyllum hamiltoniae coral.

[Fossildude19]

Nice pieces, Jay!  

Thanks for posting them. 

Regards,

[Vieira]

Nice.

 

I love the Trilo.

[gavialboy]

congrats on the cool finds

[DevonianDigger]

5 hours ago, Ludwigia said:

That last one looks to me like a side view of an Amplexiphyllum hamiltoniae coral.

 

I'm not willing to rule that out. Didn't think about it as a coral. It's certainly a different texture, but stranger things have happened. I'd be comfortable with Amplexiphyllum as an ID.

[Ludwigia]

Prep it out. Then you'll now for sure. The way it tapers on the right is a tell-tale sign.

[DevonianDigger]

There's nothing to prep out! It's just a surface layer. What you see is all that's connected to the matrix. I grabbed a few extra pics from other angles, it plays tricks on the eyes in that first photo. If it is from Amplexipyllum, it's where the actual piece popped out of the matrix and only the outermost "film" stuck around to tease me. But the spaces between the "grooves" seems to be too even and regimented to be from an Amplexiphyllum the more I look at it. (Also learning a real important lesson about my coating methods as they are coming out obnoxiously glossy in photos.)

 

[Ludwigia]

Hmmm. You may be correct in your observation now that I can see this out of other perspectives.