New finds from Mistelgau

[belemniten]

After this post:

http://www.thefossilforum.com/index.php?/topic/72434-a-very-beautiful-quarry/#comment-762636

I want to show you other finds from the same day but from another quarry !

After my visit in Ludwag i spend two hours in a quarry near Mistelgau. I already posted a hunt there a while ago:

http://www.thefossilforum.com/index.php?/topic/69816-a-visit-in-mistelgau/#comment-732319

 

Sorry but i dont have in-situ pictures (it was simply too dark). However the quarry didnt change a lot

 

I mostly found again small ammonites which come from the "Jurensismergel formation", so about 182.7 Ma till 174.1 Ma (Toarcian).

Here is a picture of all finds: (Not spectacular )

 

 

Some detailed pictures of those ammonites:

A nice 3.5 cm long Pleydellia sp.:

 

 

Another Pleydellia from another perspective :

 

 

The biggest one with a length of 5 cm: (Cotteswoldia ?)

 

 

Two medium sized (3 cm) ammonites with a nice preservation. I think they are also Cotteswoldia ...

 

 

And i  want to show another nice find:

This nice gastropod is one of the best Costatrochus i have found until now ! Its 1.5 cm long and well preserved ....

 

 

Thanks for viewing ! Hope you enjoy

 

 

 

[Jesuslover340]

Those are some nice ammonites! Wish I could find that many!

[Dsailor]

Those 3 cm ammonites are beautiful. Nice finds

[Ludwigia]

Hi Sebastian,

I think that your "Costatrochus" is rather a Toarctocera subpunctata. Costatrochus looks like this.

[Yvie]

Wow great finds

Yvie

[Fossildude19]

Well done, Sebastian.  

Regards,

[sixgill pete]

Very nice. From someone who is in an area where ammonites are all but impossible to find, I am envious. 

[ynot]

Neat finds!

Tony

[belemniten]

11 hours ago, Jesuslover340 said:

Those are some nice ammonites! Wish I could find that many!

Thanks 

 

11 hours ago, Dsailor said:

Those 3 cm ammonites are beautiful. Nice finds

Thanks ! I also like them ...

 

11 hours ago, Ludwigia said:

Hi Sebastian,

I think that your "Costatrochus" is rather a Toarctocera subpunctata. Costatrochus looks like this.

Thanks for your ID help ! 

Sorry for my mistake ... I twisted it !

So this is a Costatrochus found by me (also from Mistelgau):

 

By the way nice specimen !

 

10 hours ago, Yvie said:

Wow great finds

Yvie

Thanks for your kind words Yvie !

 

10 hours ago, Fossildude19 said:

Well done, Sebastian.  

Regards,

Thanks Tim

 

9 hours ago, sixgill pete said:

Very nice. From someone who is in an area where ammonites are all but impossible to find, I am envious. 

Thanks ! Sorry for my ignorance but why they are impossible to find in your area ?

 

8 hours ago, ynot said:

Neat finds!

Tony

Thanks Tony !

 

I just displayed them and thought i would share those pictures...

The better ones stand in the cabinet:

 

 

And the others come into a drawer ....

 

[sixgill pete]

4 hours ago, belemniten said:

14 hours ago, sixgill pete said:

Very nice. From someone who is in an area where ammonites are all but impossible to find, I am envious. 

Thanks ! Sorry for my ignorance but why they are impossible to find in your are

 

Here in NC the very few and extremely rare ammonoids are found in the upper part of the PeeDee formation which is late Maastrichtian. The most common is Sphenodiscus lobatus and it is rare. There are also a few other that have been extremely rarely found, Placenticeras placenta, Discoscaphites gulos and 2 Baculites. All extremely rare and only known from 3 or 4 locations in the entire state.

 

I have found only 2 small pieces of a cast of S. lobatus and these suture pieces ....... 

 

 

 

But, one of these days, a complete one will be mine .......... 

 

 

[belemniten]

On Sunday, March 19, 2017 at 4:42 PM, sixgill pete said:

 

Here in NC the very few and extremely rare ammonoids are found in the upper part of the PeeDee formation which is late Maastrichtian. The most common is Sphenodiscus lobatus and it is rare. There are also a few other that have been extremely rarely found, Placenticeras placenta, Discoscaphites gulos and 2 Baculites. All extremely rare and only known from 3 or 4 locations in the entire state.

 

I have found only 2 small pieces of a cast of S. lobatus and these suture pieces ....... 

 

 

 

But, one of these days, a complete one will be mine .......... 

 

 

Thanks for the information !

I wish you the best of luck that you will find one  

[Jeffrey P]

Congratulations Sebastian on a very productive trip. Those finds look very impressive, especially for only two hours of surface collecting. I take it that Mistelgau is open for surface collecting like you did. Would love to go there.

[belemniten]

10 hours ago, Jeffrey P said:

Congratulations Sebastian on a very productive trip. Those finds look very impressive, especially for only two hours of surface collecting. I take it that Mistelgau is open for surface collecting like you did. Would love to go there.

Thanks Jeffrey !

Hopefully you can visit the quarry and find something good