Bess Posted November 9, 2017 Share Posted November 9, 2017 My brother found this rock in a small area full of rocks near Miry Run in Hamilton NO. The rocck in this area is mostly form the Triassic and Cretacious with a small bit of rock from the Cambrian. Inside the rock, there is a circle that has 2 "prongs" coming of of it. My brother thinks that it is a vertebra. Here is a picture. The 2 prongs are on the bottom. I hope you can identify this. Thank you in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted November 9, 2017 Share Posted November 9, 2017 Can We see pictures from other angles? Front, back, top, bottom and sides, please. 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 November 9, 2017 Share Posted November 9, 2017 Cropped the image. 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...
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Tidgy's Dad Posted November 9, 2017 Share Posted November 9, 2017 Looks like bits of brachiopod to me. Possibly bivalve. Life's Good! Tortoise Friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted November 9, 2017 Share Posted November 9, 2017 Yeah, it is not a vertebrae. It could be a bivalve, but hard to be sure with the amount of erosion on it. Definitely looks like shell of some type. 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...
FossilDAWG Posted November 9, 2017 Share Posted November 9, 2017 I'm seeing a trilobite cephalon, likely a phacopid such as Eldredgeops. Don Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bess Posted November 9, 2017 Author Share Posted November 9, 2017 I LIKE TRILOBITES...thanks for your replies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kane Posted November 9, 2017 Share Posted November 9, 2017 I think @FossilDAWG may have it. You can also make out the impression of the tubercles on the glabella. To better confirm, you might be able to remove some of the overlying matrix (particularly between glabella and eye). If this is a phacopid (and it may be, for as much of the eye we can see), you may need to have a closer look at where this was collected from as it would not be Cambrian, Triassic, nor Cretaceous, and so most likely Devonian. To confirm, you may want to go back and collect a few more samples of the rock - and I assume you will want to anyway if there are trilobites to be found. ...How to Philosophize with a Hammer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FossilDAWG Posted November 9, 2017 Share Posted November 9, 2017 By the way, where is Hamilton NO? There is no state with an abbreviation NO. Don Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeschWhat Posted November 9, 2017 Share Posted November 9, 2017 I think it is New Jersey...with a bit of an accent. Were their trilos in the Triassic & Cretaceous? Lori www.areallycrappystory.com/fossils www.facebook.com/fossilpoo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bess Posted November 9, 2017 Author Share Posted November 9, 2017 1 hour ago, FossilDAWG said: By the way, where is Hamilton NO? There is no state with an abbreviation NO. Don That was a mistake. Oops. I meant NJ. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FossilDAWG Posted November 9, 2017 Share Posted November 9, 2017 Paleozoic fossils are not uncommon in stream and glacially transported pebbles and cobbles in New Jersey. I have some confidence that your specimen originated in Devonian rocks in northern New Jersey (where the Coeymans Limestone, the Mahantango Formation, and the Marcellis Formation occur) or further north/northwest in Pennsylvannia or New York. Don Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bess Posted November 9, 2017 Author Share Posted November 9, 2017 Thanks for the reply. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bess Posted November 9, 2017 Author Share Posted November 9, 2017 I am thinking about making a small Trilobite "exhibit". Is it possible that you can identify the genus or family that it is from (if it is a trilobite)? Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bess Posted November 10, 2017 Author Share Posted November 10, 2017 Here's a picture of one of the eyes. Thanks again for your replies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Douvilleiceras Posted November 10, 2017 Share Posted November 10, 2017 9 hours ago, GeschWhat said: Were their trilos in the Triassic & Cretaceous? The last trilobites were wiped out in the Permian Extinction. By the time of their demise, only a few genera of the Order Proetida still survived, marking a major decline from the dozens of families and many more genera alive during pre-Carboniferous times. Regards, Jason "Trilobites survived for a total of three hundred million years, almost the whole duration of the Palaeozoic era: who are we johnny-come-latelies to label them as either ‘primitive’ or ‘unsuccessful’? Men have so far survived half a per cent as long." - Richard Fortey, Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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