Phevo Posted March 26, 2017 Share Posted March 26, 2017 I thought I would write a short trip report with some of my finds since I enjoy reading the reports other people make alot. This quarry exposes a layer of rock just under the KT boundary of around 65 m.y.a. in an area with an estimated depth of around 200m based on the fauna found here, in this particular location we call the chalk bryozoan chalk because the majority of it consists of bryazoans. When i went on the trip it was snowing but there is always an abundance of fossils witch makes up for it ;P Anyway without further delay here comes some pictures 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phevo Posted March 26, 2017 Author Share Posted March 26, 2017 Some of the sponges found here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phevo Posted March 26, 2017 Author Share Posted March 26, 2017 Cyclaster sp. Echinocorys sctutata Temnocidaris sp. ? Echinocorys scutata with Bryozoan colony The colony Cyclaster sp. Echinocorys scutata with Bryozoan colonnies, "young" oysters and more. A crushed Echinocorys scutata The Brachiopod Terebratulina aff. Chrysalis The Brachiopod Terebratula fallax Nielsenicrinus sp. Spondylus sp. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peat Burns Posted March 26, 2017 Share Posted March 26, 2017 Awesome fossils. Thanks for posting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted March 26, 2017 Share Posted March 26, 2017 Nice finds! 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...
Fossildude19 Posted March 26, 2017 Share Posted March 26, 2017 Quite an assortment of good finds. And from just before the major event! Cool. Thanks for posting them. Tim - VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER VFOTM --- APRIL - 2015 __________________________________________________ "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir ~ ~ ~ ~ ><))))( *> About Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ridgehiker Posted March 26, 2017 Share Posted March 26, 2017 Nice to see these. My favourites are your brachiopod finds. Are your fossils mostly from a particular layer in the quarry?. We also have a lot of KT boundary material...some marine but mostly terrestrial. Our marine deposits are mosly shales and clays...no chalk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dsailor Posted March 27, 2017 Share Posted March 27, 2017 The Nielsenicrinus is awesome Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Archimedes Posted March 27, 2017 Share Posted March 27, 2017 very nice fossils and pics thanks for sharing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrangellian Posted March 27, 2017 Share Posted March 27, 2017 Nice preservation and diversity. I have an echinoid from Denmark that looks a lot like the one in your avatar, but I don't have accurate locality info (or a name) for it, maybe I should ask you... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phevo Posted March 27, 2017 Author Share Posted March 27, 2017 20 hours ago, Canadawest said: Nice to see these. My favourites are your brachiopod finds. Are your fossils mostly from a particular layer in the quarry?. We also have a lot of KT boundary material...some marine but mostly terrestrial. Our marine deposits are mosly shales and clays...no chalk. The truth is that it is mixed together, the way they mine in this particular quarry is to bring down layers vertically and then sort it, dry it etc. so it is mixed from the start. You could break down parts yourself but the fossils are far and few between before all the flint has been sorted from the chalk. The boundary here is at the very top of the quarry, and I have had a look at it previously but diden't find anything. 15 hours ago, Wrangellian said: Nice preservation and diversity. I have an echinoid from Denmark that looks a lot like the one in your avatar, but I don't have accurate locality info (or a name) for it, maybe I should ask you... I would like to see it, as to location it is very likely I wont be able to help you there, as we have had alot of glacial activity and you can find fossils that have arrived from the north, east or south respectively. I'm sure it would be possible to match your echinoid to it's generic name, but the specific can be quite challenging to identify correctly if it's an internal mold of flint. 16 hours ago, Dsailor said: The Nielsenicrinus is awesome I'm glad you like it, it's one of the few I have found from that location that are articulated to some extent Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrangellian Posted March 28, 2017 Share Posted March 28, 2017 It is either an internal mold/steinkern or at least it has been weathered (or does flint preservation just look that way?), so I doubt it can be ID'd to species and maybe not even to genus. I'll see if I can get a decent pic of it. It is dark like yours with white in the recesses. Someone along the way suggested it could be from Treldenæs - is that where yours is from? The only location that came with it was 'Jutland'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Archie Posted March 28, 2017 Share Posted March 28, 2017 Awesome fossils and great report! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phevo Posted March 29, 2017 Author Share Posted March 29, 2017 On 3/28/2017 at 4:31 AM, Wrangellian said: It is either an internal mold/steinkern or at least it has been weathered (or does flint preservation just look that way?), so I doubt it can be ID'd to species and maybe not even to genus. I'll see if I can get a decent pic of it. It is dark like yours with white in the recesses. Someone along the way suggested it could be from Treldenæs - is that where yours is from? The only location that came with it was 'Jutland'. Treldenæs is an Eocene deposit, witch consists of clay in that area, so your echinoid would be from a glacial deposit if it is from there, there is lots of glacial material there so it is very possible I will take some pictures later of some examples of internal molds in flint, the ones with the original mold are found near exposures of chalk like a quarry or cliffs near the ocean, the internal flint molds have been polished by the ocean or by glacial rivers back in the day so the original shell has been polished away 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixgill pete Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 Fantastic!! The echinoids are really nice. But that little brachiopod, Terebratulina aff. Chrysalis is beautiful. Bulldozers and dirt Bulldozers and dirt behind the trailer, my desert Them red clay piles are heaven on earth I get my rocks off, bulldozers and dirt Patterson Hood; Drive-By Truckers May 2016 May 2012 Aug 2013, May 2016, Apr 2020 Oct 2022 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JUAN EMMANUEL Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 Really loved those sponges Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrangellian Posted April 6, 2017 Share Posted April 6, 2017 Almost forgot... Here is my echinoid. Not sure if the fossil or the pics are good enough to tell anything with certainty... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phevo Posted April 8, 2017 Author Share Posted April 8, 2017 On 4/6/2017 at 8:40 AM, Wrangellian said: Almost forgot... Here is my echinoid. Not sure if the fossil or the pics are good enough to tell anything with certainty... It's definately an internal cast of an echinocorys, but I woulden't go any closer than that on an id. And it could very well be from treldenæs (as a secondary deposit) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrangellian Posted April 8, 2017 Share Posted April 8, 2017 Thank you. I did not have that much of an identification before... So it could be from Treldenæs or it could be from any number of other places? And the source would be Eocene in any case? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phevo Posted April 9, 2017 Author Share Posted April 9, 2017 I would put it alittle older, in Maastrichtian in the cretaceous period, or possibly from the Paleocene of Danien. From these internal molds all the details needed are gone so it complicates things. And yes if it is from Treldenæs it could be from a number of places, because it received material from several different glaciers arriving from the NE, E and SE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
masonboro37 Posted April 9, 2017 Share Posted April 9, 2017 Enjoyed your report, finds and pictures! Process of identification "mistakes create wisdom". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrangellian Posted April 9, 2017 Share Posted April 9, 2017 14 hours ago, Phevo said: I would put it alittle older, in Maastrichtian in the cretaceous period, or possibly from the Paleocene of Danien. From these internal molds all the details needed are gone so it complicates things. And yes if it is from Treldenæs it could be from a number of places, because it received material from several different glaciers arriving from the NE, E and SE. OK. It could have originated in Treldenæs before the glaciers but could have been picked up anywhere to the NE, E or SE of there. Got it. Thanks again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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