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24 minutes ago, stats said:

There are some nice ones there.  The second one in your first post looks like a Neuropteris.  Love the cone.  A bunch of cones and Lycopodites have come from that spot.

 

Cheers,

Rich

 

Thanks Rich and that second piece preserved helter skelter. 
 

And you are correct about that location.

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Some very nice and unusual specimens from this batch. Thanks for the photos.

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Today I decided to whack open all of the concretions that I collected on Wednesday of last week. 
 

Some of these concretions are very hard and many did not open the way that I would have liked. I found Neuropteris, Annularia, Cyperites, Crenulopteris/Pecopteris, Calamites internode, bark, and a couple unknown things.

 

On this recent collecting trip, I found some larger pieces that had flora inside, her is on such example. I believe that rather that bark, it might be Cyperites. I split this one open on the day I collected it.

 

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Here is my favorite piece from the day, it appears to be a Calamites internode.

 

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Here is another piece (Neuropteris) that I like, it was in my bucket with only half of the concretion that had weathered out. There are two pictures, one as it came out of the bucket and the second, after I cleaned it up.

 

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Here is an unknown piece.

 

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Here are some other pieces:

 

Macroneuropteris-

 

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Some nice ones in there!  I like the Calamites internode and the couple Neuropteris.  

 

Cheers,

Rich

 

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Some really nice pieces in this batch. Thanks for the photos.

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Well I figured it was time to get back into this thread and start whacking concretions open. These will only include concretions that I collected and not the ones I acquired recently from a friend.

 

I did not spend a lot of time doing this today, but it felt good to get back into it.

 

Again, nothing special was found, by my favorite was this Myalinella meeki.

 

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Next was this nice little 5 whorl Annularia.

 

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The other pieces included Neuropteris, Pecopteris and other miscellaneous ferns and plant material, plus a pretty piece of pyrite.

 

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Pyrite

 

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Today I spent sometime going through some concretions. Not much of anything was found, but it did give me more pieces to add to the buckets for the ESCONI trip.

 

Some of these concretions were perfect in every way, except that they were void of fossils. Many of them looked like this after opening.

 

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There were also many like this.

 

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This large and thin concretion looked very promising when a beautiful crack formed around it after a couple taps, but like so many today, that was not the case.

 

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Here are the fossils that were found.

 

Essexella asherae 

 

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Annularia-

 

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Misc plant material- I am thinking Taeniophyllum latifolium.

 

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Cone Bract-

 

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This piece looks like Lycopodites meeki.

 

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Another session that did not yield too much, but it allowed me to reduce the number of concretions that I want to whack open. Like last time, these concretions were small. In the past, I had great luck with smaller pieces that contained some beautiful pieces, but that was not today.

 

This first one contains some very small bivalves, but I cannot think of an id, if anyone has a guess, let me know. I do not think they are small Mazonomya mazonensis.

 

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Annularia-

 

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Odontopteris?-

 

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Coprolite-

 

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Sedgwickia-

 

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Pecopteris-

 

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Cyperites-

 

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Taeniophyllum latifolium-

 

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Another unknown piece- most likely random plant material.

 

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Very nice! Not sure about the ID but I especially like the Odontoperis. I have a couple similar-looking bivalve plates with each being small like that. Someone gave me a possible ID as Permophorus sp. from page 109 of the Richardson book. So perhaps that could be it.  Chris

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17 minutes ago, bigred97 said:

Very nice! Not sure about the ID but I especially like the Odontoperis. I have a couple similar-looking bivalve plates with each being small like that. Someone gave me a possible ID as Permophorus sp. from page 109 of the Richardson book. So perhaps that could be it.  Chris

Thanks Chris, I will check it out.

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Today with the temperature reaching 92 degrees, I decided to whack open a bunch of small concretions. In the past, small concretions were great for finding nicely preserved fossils, but this day was not the case. I was not positive where these concretions came from, but believe they came from Pit 11. The telltale for me was the screwdriver that I found in the bucket and a very large coprolite. I used to use the screwdriver to prior concretions out of the ground at the Tipple area.

 

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As with the collecting at the Tipple, many pieces that were in the bucket were found open. A poorly preserved Cyclus and worm.

 

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I whacked open a weak shrimp molt.

 

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Myalinella meeki-

 

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Some miscellaneous flora pieces- Pecopteris, Neuropteris, Alethopteris, Calamites, Lepidostrobophyllum bract.

 

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Another sign that the pieces were from the Tipple area is a few pieces of petrified wood, like the one below and many pieces of pyrite that we would collect to give to my friend Walter and he include a piece in each grab bag of fossils that we would give out at the Braidwood Library fossil trips to Pit 11.

 

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Pyrite-

 

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17 hours ago, Nimravis said:

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This one is interesting.

 

 

Mark.

 

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

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13 hours ago, Mark Kmiecik said:

 

This one is interesting.

Looks like a shoot / growth tip from a plant 

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On 6/4/2023 at 4:43 PM, Nimravis said:

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I thought I saw something similar to the one I quoted above earlier in this post, and here it is. I'm thinking maybe Asterophyllites?

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6 hours ago, Mark Kmiecik said:

 

I thought I saw something similar to the one I quoted above earlier in this post, and here it is. I'm thinking maybe Asterophyllites?

My guess is terminal foliage of Asterophyllites.

 

Cheers,

Rich

 

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Today I whacked a bunch of concretions and 98% were duds, and the ones that did have something in them were nothing special.

 

The garbage-

 

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The “nothing specials”-

 

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I did find a very weak worm that was already opened.

 

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I collected this flat piece of granite about 30 years ago when I was collecting at Tipple Hill (Pit 11). This is one of my favorite rocks to use when whacking open concretions.

 

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Somehow, I've missed this thread for nearly a year! 

Still, very nice catching up. :)

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Life's Good!

Tortoise Friend.

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1 hour ago, Tidgy's Dad said:

Somehow, I've missed this thread for nearly a year! 

Still, very nice catching up. :)

I really need to get back into this thread, I have a lot of concretions to go the through.

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I was at it again today, not much found, but did find a nice little Myalinella meeki, which appears to be attached to a piece of flora.

 

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A couple partial Neuropteris.

 

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Bark / Subsurface Bark-

 

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A neighbors dog (Lucky) stopped by to see what I was doing.

 

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A couple more Myalinella meeki.

 

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A piece of coprolite.

 

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A piece of coprolite.

 

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There is an ESCONI Trip to the Braceville Shaft Mine tomorrow and Sunday. I dropped off a few buckets of fossils with Rich @stats , he will take it to the outing. I will not be able to attend, I am heading down to Southern Indiana and Northern Kentucky for some Ordovician collecting.

 

 

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On 9/15/2023 at 10:29 PM, Nimravis said:

There is an ESCONI Trip to the Braceville Shaft Mine tomorrow and Sunday. I dropped off a few buckets of fossils with Rich @stats , he will take it to the outing. I will not be able to attend, I am heading down to Southern Indiana and Northern Kentucky for some Ordovician collecting.

We missed you yesterday.   It was nice and cool.  Everyone enjoyed your contribution.  It's going to be rainy and probably muddy today.  I'll post a report soon.

 

Cheers,

Rich

 

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40 minutes ago, stats said:

We missed you yesterday.   It was nice and cool.  Everyone enjoyed your contribution.  It's going to be rainy and probably muddy today.  I'll post a report soon.

 

Cheers,

Rich

 

Cool- it is beautiful in Kentucky.

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