hmrbri Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 (edited) Hello everyone, these are a few of the many fossils we've collected in a cut of exposed gravel near the Moose Jaw river. I've never seen ones like these before and couldn't find any info on the interweb. any idea what i'm looking at? brian Edited January 11, 2017 by hmrbri Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramon Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 The first one is a clam the second one maybe geology!!! "Without fossils, no one would have ever dreamed that there were successive epochs in the formation of the earth" - Georges Cuvier Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 Welcome to The first picture shows a boulder of sedimentary rock. Two layers of sandstone(?) sandwiching a layer of marle. The marle layer may have some fossils in it but I can not tell from this picture. Do not know about the other picture. 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...
dinodigger Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 Peloids??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobWill Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 Welcome to the forum. These are interesting looking but it will be difficult to tell you much without a little more information. It helps to have some idea of the size of the specimens if you could include something for scale in your photos. The other unknown is the age of the material. If you don't know the geological formation then please give us more detail about the location. You may find what we need on a geological map of the area. Thanks for posting your finds. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vieira Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 Both seems to me geologic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 The second one looks like a Fisherites (Receptaculites), similar to those found in the Tyndall Stone . 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...
FossilDAWG Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 I agree, the second one is a recepticulitid, likely Fisherites. The first one could possibly the impression of the siphuncle of a large nautiloid such as Armenoceras. Maybe a closer-in photo would help. Anyway that's a very low-confidence guess. These fossils seem a bit confusing as the bedrock around Moose Jaw is Upper Cretaceous, far too young for recepticulitids. However there are a lot of glacial erratics and there are Ordovician outcrops of the Red River Formation and some Silurian formations to the North-East, so I suppose Paleozoic fossils could have been transported by glaciers and deposited near Moose Jaw. Don Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashcraft Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 How about a pellet filled burrow for #2? Brent Ashcraft ashcraft, brent allen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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