A TFF Gathering in an Upstate New York Middle Devonian Paradise

[njfossilhunter]

Well  I just couldn't keep away from this site early Wednesday morning around 5 AM I left for NY ...Here are a few other items I found, The first one I need a confirmation on which one it is. and the second one I think is a Goniatite ?????and I split it in half and I need to try to remove the portion the stuck to the other half...it looks to be all there...I hope. I think it will make a nice display piece if all works out. I have a few other pieces such as trilobites I need to take pictures of.

 

First one

 

And here is the ??? Goniatite ???

   

Here is a multi view of the bi-valve....I think. in the previous post I just made.

 

 

 

[njfossilhunter]

Here is another pic

 

 

[Trevor]

Awesome finds Tony! A cool Wednesday fossil fix. 

[Fossildude19]

Glad you got out there again, Tony!

Looks like you did OK.  

Thanks for posting these.

 

[Jeffrey P]

Hi Tony,

Glad you got up there again and had more success. Those are Grammysia and Grammysioidea bivalves and your goniatite is indeed a goniatite. Looks like pyrite preservation. Really nice specimens. Congrats.

[Mediospirifer]

Very cool stuff for everyone!

 

I'll post a pic (or three) tomorrow evening of some of my smalls.

 

[Wrangellian]

It keeps getting better. Keep them coming!

[Dsailor]

Wow, Tim, I love that plant fossil. I keep looking for for one of those. Thanks again to everyone who went. I had a great time. Here are some pics.

 

My best trilobite that I found and a cool trilobutt

[Dsailor]

a bivalve and fairly squished gastropod

[Darktooth]

@njfossilhunter Hmmmm..... you drove out at 5am Wednesday, just 3 days after the group trip. I think somebody got themselves hooked on Deep Springs! Glad you got back out there again Tony. That means you must of enjoyed the site. I know the feeling, I love it there. Nice finds. 

@Dsailor Nice finds Dom!

[njfossilhunter]

8 minutes ago, Darktooth said:

@njfossilhunter Hmmmm..... you drove out at 5am Wednesday, just 3 days after the group trip. I think somebody got themselves hooked on Deep Springs! Glad you got back out there again Tony. That means you must of enjoyed the site. I know the feeling, I love it there. Nice finds. 

@Dsailor Nice finds Dom!

 

You could say that Dave.....

I'm going to post another pic of the Gonotite in a few.

[njfossilhunter]

He is another pic of the Gonotite after I did some more work on it. It still needs a little more work on it. 

 

 

 

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[njfossilhunter]

On 5/23/2017 at 7:32 AM, frankh8147 said:

 

That a cool looking Goniatite Frank.....I'm starting to really liking these things...they are so cool 

On 5/26/2017 at 8:06 PM, Dsailor said:

a bivalve and fairly squished gastropod

  

 Love those Goniatite's.....

Mine above is crushed too....  

[Jeffrey P]

Tony, Thanks for posting the updated goniatite fossil after you prepped it a bit. It certainly is looking better and better.

Dom, very cool finds- Congratulations! Deep Springs Road is my favorite site for collecting Greenops trilobites. Looks like you found some good ones. That bivalve you posted is Orthonota undulata, the same species as the one I posted on the first page of the report, except yours the shell is open. Almost every cephalopod I've found at Deep Springs Road the shell was crushed. Still a very nice specimen.

Diane- can't wait to see your finds-especially the Pleurodictyum- another new species for the site.

 

 

[njfossilhunter]

Here is something else I found on the second day out...It looks like some kind of plant..I lost the last inch or so and it had what looked like were the branch attached to another stem. Jeff you seem to be the go to guy on this Devonian stuff........ Maybe you can help me on this one .....

 

[njfossilhunter]

Here is another pic of the plant.

 

 

[Jeffrey P]

HI Tony,

Nice find and congratulations. That is a fossil plant (twig). It probably lacks sufficient diagnostic features to ID it. Plants remains are fairly common at DSR. Recall the section of lycopod bark that Tim's wife found. Although Deep Springs Road is a marine site, the Catskill Delta was just east of here and quite a bit of plant material washed into the rivers and out to sea. I've seen plant remains at all of the Madison County sites.

[njfossilhunter]

7 minutes ago, Jeffrey P said:

HI Tony,

Nice find and congratulations. That is a fossil plant (twig). It probably lacks sufficient diagnostic features to ID it. Plants remains are fairly common at DSR. Recall the section of lycopod bark that Tim's wife found. Although Deep Springs Road is a marine site, the Catskill Delta was just east of here and quite a bit of plant material washed into the rivers and out to sea. I've seen plant remains at all of the Madison County sites.

 

Thanks Jeff......To bad it can't be IDed.  Let me know when you want to do another trip......

[Mediospirifer]

Time for a few samples from my collection!

 

Here's the overview. I'll admit, for the individual pictures I've just cropped pieces out of (one of several variations of) this image. Hey, it was late last night that I did my photography, and my camera wasn't going to focus much closer, so we have what we get:

 

 

I'll post the IDs (as best I can) in the next post (or several; however many it takes!).

 

[Mediospirifer]

Edited to add: For scale, the long side of the book is 10 inches.

First, the bivalves. I think this top one is Paleonielo emarginata, the lower I can't see the margin of so I'm not prepared to offer an ID.

 

 

Grammysioidea sp. at upper right, an unknown at left, Paleonielo constricta at bottom:

 

A couple more Grammysioidea pieces:

 

 

Two nice Modiomorpha sp.

 

 

A broken (but nearly complete) Orthonota undulata:

 

 

Some brachiopods next. Two Rhipidomella at top, Athyris spiriferoides at middle and bottom left, Tropidoleptus carinatus at bottom right.

 

 

Another Athyris spiriferoides:

 

 

Three Mucrospirifer mucronatus over the next two pictures:

 

 

And a Pseudoatrypa devoniana with another Tropidoleptus carinatus attached:

 

An assortment of fossils. Two gastropods, probably both Glyptomaria at top, an unidentified bivalve at top right (possibly Paleonielo constricta), an Ambocoelia umbonata brachiopod at left, four hyolithids (Hallotheca aclis) in the middle, and another bivalve (possibly Nuculoidea corbuliformis) at bottom right:

 

 

And my smallest goniatite (in two pieces, sadly):

 

 

Edited to resize images.

 

[doushantuo]

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[Mediospirifer]

An Eldredgeops rana cephalon:

 

 

A Dipleura dekayi body segment, and a piece of a huge cephalon after:

 

 

Last (for this bunch) but certainly not least, the Pleurodictyum that Mr. Spirifer found:

 

 

And, for anyone curious about my background surface:

 

 

I thought it seemed appropriate!

 

[doushantuo]

[Dsailor]

On 5/26/2017 at 10:29 PM, njfossilhunter said:

Here is something else I found on the second day out...It looks like some kind of plant..I lost the last inch or so and it had what looked like were the branch attached to another stem. Jeff you seem to be the go to guy on this Devonian stuff........ Maybe you can help me on this one .....

 

That's really nice. I find a lot of those over in Gilboa NY but sadly there just isn't a way to ID them. I find it frustrating and that why I am still on the lookout for a piece of "foliage" that I can ID. If you ever find a branch with a discernible crosshatch pattern of little diamonds it could be Haskinsia. 

There are pictures here.   

 

[Fossildude19]

10 hours ago, njfossilhunter said:

Here is another pic of the Goniatite after I did some more work on it. It still needs a little more work on it. 

 

Very cool specimen, Tony.  

 

11 hours ago, Dsailor said:

a bivalve and fairly squished gastropod

 

Dom,  

Nice finds! 

That Greeonps  looks like it might be a complete enrolled or partially enrolled specimen.

And what you are calling a gastropod is actually a goniatite. Nice one, too. 

Thanks for showing them.

Regards,