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It was 47 degrees out today so I decided to whack open some concretions.

 

Many times when opening concretions you run into pieces that look like they contain fossils, but they are just duds.

 

This one (Left) has the body shape of a Tully (Right), but is not.

 

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Sometimes pieces like this (Left) look like Mazonova helmichnus eggs (Right), but they are not.

 

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This one could be something, but I highly doubt it, but will look at it closer.

 

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In the bucket that I was going through today, I found these 3 concretions that I put on the side and decided that I will freeze / thaw them sometime, they just had a nice shape.

 

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Here is a Sedgwickia sp. - a marine bivalve.

 

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Here are a couple Myalinella meeki- after the outer crust was broken off, you can see the crack in the concretion and the spot that I will lightly tap to open it.

 

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Here are some pieces of bark and sub-surface bark.

 

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Neuropteris-

 

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Annularia-

 

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Nice Neuropteris with the basal pinnules. The Annularia looks more like Sphenophyllum. The Sedgwickia is very nice. 

 

Keep 'em comin'. Looking forward to some of the freeze/thaw to open.

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Mark.

 

Fossil hunting is easy -- they don't run away when you shoot at them!

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1 hour ago, Mark Kmiecik said:

Nice Neuropteris with the basal pinnules. The Annularia looks more like Sphenophyllum. The Sedgwickia is very nice. 

 

Keep 'em comin'. Looking forward to some of the freeze/thaw to open.

I think you are correct- that is what I get for not looking at pictures in a larger format.

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43 minutes ago, Nimravis said:

I think you are correct- that is what I get for not looking at pictures in a larger format.

It is an example of Annularia sphenophylloides

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20 hours ago, Mark Kmiecik said:

Nice Neuropteris with the basal pinnules. The Annularia looks more like Sphenophyllum. The Sedgwickia is very nice. 

 

Keep 'em comin'. Looking forward to some of the freeze/thaw to open.

Sphenophyllum is possible.  How about A. sphenophylloides?

 

Oops, should have read farther... I agree with Rob.

 

Cheers,

Rich

 

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22 hours ago, RCFossils said:

It is an example of Annularia sphenophylloides

I stand corrected -- overlooked that one.

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After climbing today and dropping the wife off at the mall I decided to Whack open a number of concretions and see what pops.

 

This was the second concretion that I opened and the first fossil. When I first saw it I was thinking spider, but on second look, it reminds me a of Halicyne max, even though it does have a funky preservation, but is more likely Cyclus americanus. @RCFossils Rob, what do you say?

 

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A little later on I cracked opened this poorly preserved Cyclus americanus.

 

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Today like other days I came across a lot of the bivalve Myalinella meeki.

 

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In this bucket that I was going through I also came across a few open concretions that I would have picked up to check out later. Here are a couple Essexella asherae Jellyfish and a portion of one that would have been large.

 

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Here is a piece, though poorly preserved, looks the Echiuran- Coprinoscolex ellogimus.

 

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The last piece that I found opened was a piece of coprolite.

 

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A small piece of Calamites-

 

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Back to some of the things that I cracked open today- Here is some piece of bark and sub-surface bark.

 

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Here are a couple pieces of coprolite- many times with the larger pieces, you can hit the concretion with very lightly and the still shatter.

 

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A possible piece of coprolite or Sea Cucumber portion.

 

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Today I had a lot of nicely shaped concretions that cracked open perfectly, but such is the case with a lot of Mazon Creek concretions, they were void of fossils. Here are a couple examples.

 

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That's it for today.

 

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50 minutes ago, stats said:

As always, interesting!

 

Cheers,

Rich

 

Rich, I forgot to tag you on the first piece, what do you think?

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12 hours ago, Nimravis said:

After climbing today and dropping the wife off at the mall I decided to Whack open a number of concretions and see what pops.

 

This was the second concretion that I opened and the first fossil. When I first saw it I was thinking spider, but on second look, it reminds me a of Halicyne max, even though it does have a funky preservation, but is more likely Cyclus americanus. @RCFossils Rob, what do you say?

 

I think you are probably correct. It has the right general shape to be Halicyne.

Can you take a few more pictures at different angles?

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42 minutes ago, RCFossils said:

Can you take a few more pictures at different angles?

Thanks and I will do that tonight and see how they come out.

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1 hour ago, RCFossils said:

I think you are probably correct. It has the right general shape to be Halicyne.

Can you take a few more pictures at different angles?

 

41 minutes ago, Nimravis said:

Thanks and I will do that tonight and see how they come out.

That is interesting, I look forward to seeing more about this one. 

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1 hour ago, deutscheben said:

 

That is interesting, I look forward to seeing more about this one. 

Don’t hold your breath, lol- I doubt that it is.

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On 12/8/2019 at 7:54 PM, Nimravis said:

After climbing today and dropping the wife off at the mall I decided to Whack open a number of concretions and see what pops.

 

This was the second concretion that I opened and the first fossil. When I first saw it I was thinking spider, but on second look, it reminds me a of Halicyne max, even though it does have a funky preservation, but is more likely Cyclus americanus. @RCFossils Rob, what do you say?

 

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Looks like a Halicyne to me.

Nice find!

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23 hours ago, Nimravis said:

Rich, I forgot to tag you on the first piece, what do you think?

I think you are right on the Halicyne, especially with the closeups.  No central line, so it doesn't look like a Cyclus.  Contrats!  Awesome find!  Is that from Shadow Lakes?

 

Cheers,

Rich

 

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Just now, stats said:

I think you are right on the Halicyne, especially with the closeups.  No central line, so it doesn't look like a Cyclus.  Contrats!  Awesome find!  Is that from Shadow Lakes?

 

Cheers,

Rich

 

Across the street at the place I always call Across From Pit 4.

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2 minutes ago, Nimravis said:

Across the street at the place I always call Across From Pit 4.

Is that Piano Hill?

 

Cheers,

Rich

 

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21 minutes ago, stats said:

Is that Piano Hill?

 

Cheers,

Rich

 

No, if you were looking at the main entrance to Shadow Lakes, it was the property to the right, which would be I believe Novy Road, there is a housing development there now, I collected when they were building it.

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On 12/9/2019 at 10:06 AM, Nimravis said:

Don’t hold your breath, lol- I doubt that it is.

It's nice that something new like that can still show up and surprise you after all those concretions! :D 

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11 minutes ago, Tidgy's Dad said:

Great find, Ralph.

Very glad you got a new, rare one. :)

I don’t think it is rare, but I have never found one.

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