PFOOLEY Posted August 23, 2017 Share Posted August 23, 2017 After visiting my crew out in Placitas (short drive from ABQ), I decided to stop at a BLM open space at the roadside. There is a supposed Upper Cretaceous section exposed here and I figured I would eat my lunch and go for a short walk. If there was an K section, it did not look the part... ...the surface of the slopes are covered with Carboniferous (Pennsylvanian) rocks. I mosied along the trail, munching on a granola bar when I spotted some concretions and shale up a gully... ...and upon further inspection, an ammonite! I quickly marched my coiled companion to the truck...back to work! There is definitely some Upper Cretaceous rocks here and well worth a return trip. Planned or impromptu...happy hunting! -P. 5 "I am glad I shall never be young without wild country to be young in. Of what avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?" ~Aldo Leopold (1887-1948) New Mexico Museum of Natural History Bulletins Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old bones Posted August 23, 2017 Share Posted August 23, 2017 Whoa! A nice big fat one! Can't wait to see it uncovered. Beautiful land... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnBrewer Posted August 23, 2017 Share Posted August 23, 2017 Nice find! Looking forward to seeing it prepped John Map of UK fossil sites Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted August 23, 2017 Share Posted August 23, 2017 Gotta love being able to fossil hunt on a lunch break. 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...
Arizona Chris Posted August 23, 2017 Share Posted August 23, 2017 You have to love the yellow color of many cretaceous rocks! I expect oysters and ammonites to be leaping out of the rocks. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Arizona Chris Paleo Web Site: http://schursastrophotography.com/fossiladventures.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monica Posted August 23, 2017 Share Posted August 23, 2017 Wow - beautiful!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pilobolus Posted August 23, 2017 Share Posted August 23, 2017 You forgot the lat-long Nice find Mike! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJB Posted August 23, 2017 Share Posted August 23, 2017 Beautiful pics! and on your lunch break even! RB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miocene_Mason Posted August 23, 2017 Share Posted August 23, 2017 Nice Ammo, better than the rock I pick up at lunch (schist)! “...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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted August 23, 2017 Share Posted August 23, 2017 Well, whodathunkit? Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrangellian Posted August 24, 2017 Share Posted August 24, 2017 That's a skookum ammonite, I can't wait to see it prepped either! Any idea yet what part of the Upper Cret.? What does the Penn stuff look like? What is that, 220 million years in a few steps? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FossilDudeCO Posted August 24, 2017 Share Posted August 24, 2017 Nice find! Get out there again soon! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeffrey P Posted August 24, 2017 Share Posted August 24, 2017 Congratulations Mike. Great find! Nice to know there is easily accessible Upper Cretaceous rock and fossils not far from you. Definitely worth exploring further. Love to see that fat boy prepped. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PFOOLEY Posted August 24, 2017 Author Share Posted August 24, 2017 I took my wife and daughter for a drive this evening and ended up here again... ...thought I saw more concretions as we were leaving ... ...I'll check those next time. 1 "I am glad I shall never be young without wild country to be young in. Of what avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?" ~Aldo Leopold (1887-1948) New Mexico Museum of Natural History Bulletins Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doushantuo Posted August 24, 2017 Share Posted August 24, 2017 great photography,PF,really got the feel of the place Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted August 24, 2017 Share Posted August 24, 2017 Nice find Mike! Great pictures too. 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...
belemniten Posted August 24, 2017 Share Posted August 24, 2017 Wow great pictures ! You hunt in a beautiful area ! Nice finds as well Many greetings from Germany ! Have a great time with many fossils Regards Sebastian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nala Posted August 24, 2017 Share Posted August 24, 2017 Great pictures and finds! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jewelonly Posted August 24, 2017 Share Posted August 24, 2017 Congrats on the serendipitous lunch break ammo! Love the photos! Leah Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixgill pete Posted August 24, 2017 Share Posted August 24, 2017 Looks like an amazing place Mike. I love living my ammonite fantasies through your posts, being they are so rare here in N.C. and we hare limited to a very small handful of species. 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...
PFOOLEY Posted October 11, 2017 Author Share Posted October 11, 2017 Thank you all for the comments! I ended up making one last trip to this beautiful little spot to take a closer look at the geology. I was able to locate the Juana Lopez member... ...a conretionary horizon... ...and some specimens of the Late Middle Turonian oyster, Lopha lugubris. Further down in the section was the Semilla Sandstone. After some conversations with Spencer Lucas, all the specimens I found will be added to the NMMNH collections and the section will be measured. 1 "I am glad I shall never be young without wild country to be young in. Of what avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?" ~Aldo Leopold (1887-1948) New Mexico Museum of Natural History Bulletins Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PFOOLEY Posted October 11, 2017 Author Share Posted October 11, 2017 @Wrangellian... "I am glad I shall never be young without wild country to be young in. Of what avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?" ~Aldo Leopold (1887-1948) New Mexico Museum of Natural History Bulletins Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted October 12, 2017 Share Posted October 12, 2017 Nice! Congratulations on the special location find! 1 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...
Wrangellian Posted October 12, 2017 Share Posted October 12, 2017 I take it this is the Pennsylvanian stuff? I can see a crinoid stem and a coral, what are the things in pics 1, 2, 3, 5, 7? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PFOOLEY Posted October 12, 2017 Author Share Posted October 12, 2017 5 minutes ago, Wrangellian said: I take it this is the Pennsylvanian stuff? Yes. 6 minutes ago, Wrangellian said: I can see a crinoid stem and a coral, what are the things in pics 1, 2, 3, 5, 7? Not sure...I just took pictures of interesting rocks to show ya. "I am glad I shall never be young without wild country to be young in. Of what avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?" ~Aldo Leopold (1887-1948) New Mexico Museum of Natural History Bulletins Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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