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Cambrian rocks or fossils?


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I went hunting to the kinzer formation (cambrian) from a suggestion of a member here (thanks very much for that), and hunted for around two hours in the shale. Nothing I found screamed trilobite  (my target fossil) but I did come back with a few interesting looking rocks. I'm not too familiar with the paleofauna here, so I'm putting most of my finds up here so you guys can tell me what fossils I've found (or lack there of).

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“...whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been and are being evolved.” ~ Charles Darwin

Happy hunting,

Mason

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Hello WhodamanHD,

 

Your rocks look like Kinzers Shale. Nothing pops out. #10 should get a better look as non Trilobite material. My last visit to York, PA turned up nothing. Use this as determination not discouragement.

 

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2 minutes ago, fossilcrazy said:

Hello WhodamanHD,

 

Your rocks look like Kinzers Shale. Nothing pops out. #10 should get a better look as non Trilobite material. My last visit to York, PA turned up nothing. Use this as determination not discouragement.

 

Yeah, the effort vs reward isn't great, as it's about an hour and a half away. Any thoughts as to what ten could be? It's probably the most interesting thing I found. Could 4 and 5 be camptostroma? 

“...whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been and are being evolved.” ~ Charles Darwin

Happy hunting,

Mason

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11 hours ago, WhodamanHD said:

I went hunting to the kinzer formation (cambrian) from a suggestion of a member here (thanks very much for that), and hunted for around two hours in the shale. Nothing I found screamed trilobite  (my target fossil) but I did come back with a few interesting looking rocks. I'm not too familiar with the paleofauna here, so I'm putting must of my finds up here so you guys can tell me what fossils I've found (or lack there of).

 

9 and 12 look to have some worm burrows in them.

 

The last one might be a sponge.

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3 hours ago, treuwood said:

did you consider radiodonts

 

Pretty sure Fossilcrazy did. 

Do you see anything that makes you say that?

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yes

 

one of the features circled in red may be agnostid pygidium. 

 

i have never collected in kinzer. 

 

radiodonts are big, as in the rocks are part of the animal (if they are radiodonts, i think so). 

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