Sometimes You Have To Whack It !!

[Meganeura]

7 minutes ago, Nimravis said:

 

These are some gorgeous Annularia! 

[Nimravis]

53 minutes ago, Meganeura said:

These are some gorgeous Annularia! 

Thanks Daniel.

[stats]

Nice!  Always good to see what you find in your pile. 

 

That one does look shrimpy.   Pit 4 sure had a bunch of bivalves.  Occasionally, I would see them in Fossil Rock (Pit 2).

 

Cheers,

Rich

 

[Nimravis]

11 hours ago, stats said:

Nice!  Always good to see what you find in your pile. 

 

That one does look shrimpy.   Pit 4 sure had a bunch of bivalves.  Occasionally, I would see them in Fossil Rock (Pit 2).

 

Cheers,

Rich

 

I never had the chance to collect there, hopefully one day they open it back up.

[stats]

Sorry, should have been more specific.  Isn't this the place "Across from Pit 4"?  I guess I still think of it as Pit 4.

 

I have never collected Pit 4, but if what you have is predictive... it would be similar to the "Across from Pit 4" locality.

 

Pit 2 and 3 is terrestrial - mostly plants and a rare animal.

 

Cheers,

Rich

 

[Nimravis]

2 hours ago, stats said:

Sorry, should have been more specific.  Isn't this the place "Across from Pit 4"?  I guess I still think of it as Pit 4.

 

I have never collected Pit 4, but if what you have is predictive... it would be similar to the "Across from Pit 4" locality.

 

Pit 2 and 3 is terrestrial - mostly plants and a rare animal.

 

Cheers,

Rich

 

My mistake- I am saying that I never collected at Pit 2.

[Nimravis]

Today was one of most least productive days in a very long time, and I went through a lot of nice looking concretions  that were void of fossils. 
 

One of these times I need to figure out how many swings of my hammer I take to open 75 concretions. It would be impossible to tell since some open with one whack and others take 20 or more, either way, it is a lot.

 

Here was my best piece today and it was anything but special. A small tip of a concretion that held the tip of a nice Macroneuropteris.

 

 

I also found a neat little Myalinella meeki that appears was trying to escape it entombment.

 

 

 

Here is another half of one.

 

 

Pecopteris 

 

 

Found a number of miscellaneous flora material.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

When I first saw this piece, I thought is was a very weak Cyclus americanus, but after some cleaning, it does not appear to be.

 

I hope I have better luck with finds on my next session.

[Mark Kmiecik]

Some very nice flora there, indeed! Always a pleasure seeing your posts.

[Nimravis]

1 hour ago, Mark Kmiecik said:

Some very nice flora there, indeed! Always a pleasure seeing your posts.

Thanks Mark, I wish I took pics like you.

[Nimravis]

After some rain today, decided to break open some concretions that I collected in the 90’s from the Tipple Area of Pit 11.

 

Found a diverse group of fossils today and some concretions with pyrite inclusions. Some of these pieces can be very pretty, here are a few from today.

 

 

 

The below piece has some plant material.

 

 

 

Here are some other misc. flora pieces.

 

Pecopteris-

 

 

Lepidostrobophyllum majus-

 

 

misc. flora-

 

 

 

 

Here are the fauna pieces-

 

Essexella asherae Jellyfish-

 

 

 

Here is a jellyfish that I have not found in quite sometime, Octomedusa pieckorum.

 

 

 

 

Here is a cute little Cyclus americanus.

 

 

 

Here is a poorly preserved polychaete worm, that I believe is an Esconites zelus.

 

 

 

 

Here is an unknown, partial worm.

 

 

 

Here is a so-so preserved shrimp, that I believe is a Peachocaris strongi.

 

 

 

Here is a Sea Cucumber, Achistrum sp.

 

 

Here is a possible, partial one.

 

 

Here is a small Myalinella meeki.

 

 

This pieces may the bivalve Acharax radiata.

 

 

A small coprolite.

 

 

As with a many Mazon Creek concretions, there are always unknown pieces and here are a couple from today.

 

 

 

 

All in all, it was not a bad day.

 

 

Edited June 26, 2022 by Nimravis

[Meganeura]

2 hours ago, Nimravis said:

Here is a jellyfish that I have not found in quite sometime, Octomedusa pieckorum.

 

 

 

I didn’t realize you could find other jellies in Mazon Creek! That’s really cool, what a neat find!

[Nimravis]

1 minute ago, Meganeura said:

I didn’t realize you could find other jellies in Mazon Creek! That’s really cool, what a neat find!

There are a few different types found there.

[stats]

Awesome, Octomedusa!  You had some good luck!  I heard the tipple was a good place to go.  I haven't had much luck there.  Mostly burned out concretions.

 

Cheers,

Rich

 

 

[stats]

1 hour ago, Nimravis said:

There are a few different types found there.

Essexella, Octomedusa, Anthracomedusa, and a few more.. at least 5 species are known.

 

Cheers,

Rich

 

[deutscheben]

That’s a really nice batch!

[Nimravis]

47 minutes ago, stats said:

Awesome, Octomedusa!  You had some good luck!  I heard the tipple was a good place to go.  I haven't had much luck there.  Mostly burned out concretions.

 

Cheers,

Rich

 

 

Yes it was and would still be if they would turn it over. I found my Ilyodes (Heleonodora) inopinata there, it now resides in Dave’s Down to Earth Rock Shops museum.

 

Edited June 26, 2022 by Nimravis

[Nimravis]

It was a beautiful day out today, temps in the mid 70’s, so I decided to whack open a number of concretions. Here are some of the things that I found.

 

I think my favorite was this little leaf whorl, I believe it is Sphenophyllum emarginatum.

 

 

 

 

I believe this is another example.

 

 

Here are a couple Pecopteris.

 

 

 

Here are a couple pieces of miscellaneous Flora.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I think that this is a partial Sphenopteris.

 

 

I found a couple poorly preserved worms, here is one.

 

 

I found a couple small concretions that appear to be Sea Cucumbers.

 

 

 

 

 

I found a few bivalves-

 

 

 

 

 

This piece appears shrimpy.

 

 

 

This could be a possible trail.

 

 

Here are some unknowns.

 

 

 

 

 

That is all for today.

[stats]

Nice!  Definitely looks shimpy!  That's a huge bivalve!

 

Cheers,

Rich

 

 

[Nimravis]

1 hour ago, stats said:

Nice!  Definitely looks shimpy!  That's a huge bivalve!

 

Cheers,

Rich

 

 

Thanks and It is Rich, a slight tap and it popped out.

[Wrangellian]

11 hours ago, Nimravis said:

It was a beautiful day out today, temps in the mid 70’s, so I decided to whack open a number of concretions. Here are some of the things that I found.

 

 

That is all for today.

 

Is this not a millipede?

[Nimravis]

11 hours ago, Wrangellian said:

 

Is this not a millipede?

I was thinking that too when I opened it, but I just took a quick pic and put it down. Later on I will pull it and and look under a scope. 

[Nimravis]

13 hours ago, Wrangellian said:

 

Is this not a millipede?

I pulled it out of the container that I put it in yesterday and took a couple close up pics and it does appear to be a so-so preserved Euphoberia. Thanks for commenting on it, I would not have gone back to look at it. The other day I had to remember to grab the Octomedusa jellyfish out of the container, or it would have ended in a bucket for the ESCONI Braceville trip.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Wrangellian]

Very good, you're welcome.

[Nimravis]

Here are some finds from today. The vast majority of concretions were void of fossils. 
 

The below picture shows something that happens quite often when whacking or freezing concretions, they shatter, as this one did with a little tap.

 

 

Here is a piece that I put into the “Fossil ID” thread, I will wait for a consensus and update later. It is a very pretty piece.

 

 

 

Here is a nice Myalinella meeki bivale.

 

 

Here are some other bivalves.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This next piece I also believe is a bivalve, but not sure.

 

 

 

As always, I come a too pieces that I call Pyrite Ghosts, some can be very cool.

 

 

 

 

Here is a Jellyfish, Essexella asherae.

 

 

 

Annularia and some miscellaneous things.

 

Misc plant material.

 

 

Pecopteris 

 

Possible coprolite.

 

 

 

Edited June 28, 2022 by Nimravis

[Mark Kmiecik]

What's this thing down here? Mineral inclusion or biological?

 

 

 

Edited June 29, 2022 by Mark Kmiecik
fix typo