Two Trips to the Hollow

[JohnBrewer]

Great finds guys

[JUAN EMMANUEL]

On 2017-06-26 at 0:34 PM, Ludwigia said:

I guess I might as well add my 2 cents worth now that Kane has opened up the subject. I just love this Forum. Where else do you get the chance to meet such friendly, interesting and multifacetted personalities like Kane? We had a great time together at the site and Deb had made a tasty chicken stew for us by the time we got back to their place for dinner. Here he is in all his glory on the bench on the north shore of the river.

 

 

It didn't take me all that long to prep my finds when I got home, since I was being much more selective about what I was taking, having visited Hungry Hollow already a good number of times. I must admit, I've never been on the north side before, so thanks to Kane for guiding me there and thanks to the flies for being relatively bearable on that particular day.

I was pretty ecstatic when I found what I first thought to be a complete Greenops. It was sitting on top of a little block which practically fell into my lap as I was clearing up some debris in order to access a layer which had some potential for Goniatites. It was caked in mud but I couldn't be bothered to go down to the river to wash it off, so I just wrapped it up and dropped it in my bag. You can probably imagine my disillusinment when I washed it off at my brother's place only to discover that the cephalon was missing. I can at least console myself by the fact that it was on a loose block, so I probably would never have found the positive in a thousand years. At least the negative is still more or less visible.

 

Here is a selection of the rest my finds from that day, some of which were passed along to me by Kane, starting with a nice little hash plate full of Platyceras arkonense gastropods with various fossiliferous debris.

 

Tornoceras arkonense from the Arkona Shale.

 

I've identified this as Tornoceras uniangulare for the time being. Widder Formation.

 

Typical finds from the Arkona Shale. The brachiopods Mucrospirifer thedfordensis and Rhipidomella vanuxemi, and one you have to keep your eyes open for: The gastropod Nanticonema lineata.

 

I really like these little button corals: Microcyclus thedfordensis.

 

I believe that this here is a calyx from Arthroacantha carpenteri with a Platyceras arkonense gastropod attached. I've seen this type of association somewhere before. I'd appreciate it if someone is able to confirm this.

 

I'm not able to identify these ones except to say that they're pyritized orthocone nautiloids from the Widder Formation. Any ideas?

 

One more thing. These little pyritized bivalves are relatively common in the Hungry Hollow Formation and can easily be found weathered out both in the south and north pits. As yet, I've not been able to identify them and would be happy if someone could give them a name for my records.

 

 

Isnt it possible that the nautiloid could be a Spyroceras? I red this genus is Devonian.

[DevonianDigger]

Awesome stuff! Super jealous, lol! I might need to have you bring me one of those "typical" plates for me to buy off you next time you're down. That thing is wicked cool. Some very neat stuff here indeed. I've been running some of that Arkona horn coral you gave me through my new blast setup and they look pretty cool. I'll take some pictures for you when they're finished. Definitely more interesting to look at when they're not encrusted in matrix!

[Kane]

9 hours ago, DevonianDigger said:

Awesome stuff! Super jealous, lol! I might need to have you bring me one of those "typical" plates for me to buy off you next time you're down. That thing is wicked cool. Some very neat stuff here indeed. I've been running some of that Arkona horn coral you gave me through my new blast setup and they look pretty cool. I'll take some pictures for you when they're finished. Definitely more interesting to look at when they're not encrusted in matrix!

I can definitely give you a plate next time I come down to PD.  As luck would have it, I'm going up again today and have been giving thought to putting together some Arkona grab bags for people who for one reason or another might not ever get to this site. It would be a similar idea to what PD already does in the sets they make with one of each type. 

 

Those corals can come out really nice, for sure. I've seen a few cleaned up, and the detail can be quite impressive.