Jump to content

Trip to Arkona, Ontario


Greg.Wood

Recommended Posts

I decided to mix things up last weekend and made the 2.5 hour drive from Mississauga over to Arkona, Ontario. The Hungry Hollow formation is quite different from what I am used to closer to home so I went a little crazy...Within 10 minutes I had a bucket full of horn corals, bryozoans and brachiopods. After washing most of the mud away here are some of my favorites.

 

Scale is in millimeters

 

Trilobite fragments

_16C6556.thumb.JPG.3ed31350acedd54dc191ee45b697e546.JPG

_16C6557.thumb.JPG.1eb7298f6b0ec1274abb2be301871d9b.JPG

_16C6560.thumb.JPG.568b7c45b0b4806c9819d04b5907677e.JPG

_16C6561.thumb.JPG.9281545521eb36610fd91e06e21cb445.JPG

 

Was really hoping for a complete specimen but I am pretty happy with this cephalon pair

_16C6563.thumb.JPG.4b8d38886d999cd63ab777c842892ad2.JPG

 

Brachiopods

Mucrospirifer.thumb.JPG.542e395aa9a599cde32ef9a6305a675b.JPG

Atrypa.thumb.JPG.4561b4d4bcd2edd28041ae6b5f983900.JPG

Leiorhynchus.JPG.5ec13b1fd248b145f633b8011ea00783.JPG

 

Gastropods

5a1e23f05a563_Naticonemalineata.thumb.JPG.ac5d66ecefab933fac12ce3abfafe7c7.JPG

 

Chrinoids

10 _16C6578.thumb.JPG.e1fafa1a53919e663cea79d30f384c36.JPG

11 Decadocrinus.thumb.JPG.1cdaf46bd23950b7b3de504651204aff.JPG

 

Cephalopod - Probably came from the Arkona shale

12 5a1e27784542d_Bactritesarkonensis.JPG.8d67029d48afd7999a565d91d9a36040.JPG

 

@Kane you were right, I spent about 5 hours in the south pit and had a great time. Also met a really interesting guy while I was there (I'm horrible with names I think he said it was Rick). He knew the area quite well and was nice enough to donate a few pieces to get me started (#4 trilo fragment on the right and a few cool bryozoans).

Link to comment
Share on other sites

You're off to a good start. I remember on my first visit there I came out of the south pit with 2 cloth bags stuffed full of corals :P. I just realized later that I couldn't take them all with me on the plane back home, so my family and friends now have a lot of rocks in their garden.

 

Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger

http://www.steinkern.de/

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Nice finds! Can you post more angles of the crinoid in pic #11? It looks like you have some arms but at the base is just a stem piece. Did you find that in the Hungry Hollow or Arkona?

-Dave

__________________________________________________

Geologists on the whole are inconsistent drivers. When a roadcut presents itself, they tend to lurch and weave. To them, the roadcut is a portal, a fragment of a regional story, a proscenium arch that leads their imaginations into the earth and through the surrounding terrain. - John McPhee

If I'm going to drive safely, I can't do geology. - John McPhee

Check out my Blog for more fossils I've found: http://viewsofthemahantango.blogspot.com/

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Well done, Greg. :) You managed to find the "south pit sampler pack," and have a lot of representative specimens from the site. You managed very well on this trip, and I can only assume you will be making your way back at some point in the future.

 

As @Ludwigia noted, I think most of us coming to the site for the first time fill up on corals (they are - to engage in some understatement - somewhat abundant). After a trip or two, you start being more selective in collecting particular rarer coral species, if not also begin getting a bit annoyed that the corals are cluttering up the view of other fossils. Many have been the times when I wish I had the obscure superhero power of making all the coral invisible for a short time. :D 

 

And, yes, it is Rick. He is a very nice and interesting guy who usually spends time chopping out the Arkona mudshale. He tells some good stories, too. I haven't seen him since summer, and I know he usually makes it out there quite often. Glad to hear he is still in fit, fighting fossil form! :) 

...How to Philosophize with a Hammer

 

 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

You are off to a good start. I went there for my first time about 32 years ago. I think I still have a box in the back of the garage of all the corals and brachs I picked up on that first trip... First time there you tend to go nuts. Now when I go I end up walking out with 3 or 4 pieces and I call it a good day......

Link to comment
Share on other sites

11 hours ago, Shamalama said:

Nice finds! Can you post more angles of the crinoid in pic #11? It looks like you have some arms but at the base is just a stem piece. Did you find that in the Hungry Hollow or Arkona?

Heres a slightly different angle and the opposite side. I'm 90% sure it came from the HH. I think it is a small calyx at the base but its coated in some tough matrix that is hard to scrape off.

 

Looks like Decadocrinus maybe? 

5a1f47ed09f52_Decadocrinus(3).thumb.JPG.dfac022566c987934e7cdbd9d68f8289.JPG5a1f480082c42_Decadocrinus(4).thumb.JPG.dd4bbdf5acbde5ec2d0cfd48c5559b02.JPG

Link to comment
Share on other sites

On 11/29/2017 at 7:09 PM, Greg.Wood said:

Heres a slightly different angle and the opposite side. I'm 90% sure it came from the HH. I think it is a small calyx at the base but its coated in some tough matrix that is hard to scrape off.

 

Looks like Decadocrinus maybe? 

5a1f47ed09f52_Decadocrinus(3).thumb.JPG.dfac022566c987934e7cdbd9d68f8289.JPG5a1f480082c42_Decadocrinus(4).thumb.JPG.dd4bbdf5acbde5ec2d0cfd48c5559b02.JPG

Sorry I didn't get back to you sooner. That is a nice caylx there but I can't help with ID. Rare to find them intact like that in the HH.

-Dave

__________________________________________________

Geologists on the whole are inconsistent drivers. When a roadcut presents itself, they tend to lurch and weave. To them, the roadcut is a portal, a fragment of a regional story, a proscenium arch that leads their imaginations into the earth and through the surrounding terrain. - John McPhee

If I'm going to drive safely, I can't do geology. - John McPhee

Check out my Blog for more fossils I've found: http://viewsofthemahantango.blogspot.com/

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Archived

This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.

×
×
  • Create New...