Sometimes You Have To Whack It !!

[Nimravis]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Nimravis]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

That is it for today, hopefully I will get some more to post tomorrow.

[Meganeura]

1 minute ago, Nimravis said:

Some really pretty finds today - I love this one a lot!

[Nimravis]

1 minute ago, Meganeura said:

Some really pretty finds today - I love this one a lot!

Yea that is a cutie and was already opened in the bucket.

[stats]

Nice ones, Ralph!

 

Cheers,

Rich

 

Beautiful!  Looks like George's Neuropteris.

 

Cool terminal pinnule!

[Nimravis]

This is going to be a picture heavy post of what came out of some of the concretions that I opened today. All of the recent posts that I made are newly collected concretions and I have many more to go through. As with yesterday, almost all of the concretions that I opened today were partial and many of them were extremely large. I take large concretions, even though they are usually duds, because every once in a while something is enclosed, as with the below pice that contains a beautiful coprolite. My favorite find of the day.

 

After one whack, a crack appeared.

 

 

 

Here are a couple examples of larger concretions.

 

 

Some other fossils that came out of these type of larger concretions.

 

Bark-

 

 

 

 

 

 

Annularia-

 

 

Cyperites-

 

 

This next piece looked promising, since it was the same shape as the one that contained the coprolite, but in the end, it was nothing but garbage.

 

 

 

One more whack and the other side opened.

 

 

 

 

This is my favorite rock that I use for whacking open concretions. Years ago I carried this heavy piece about 3/4 of a mile from Pit 11.  It has seen thousands of whacks and it looks the same as the first time that I found it.

 

 

I have to take a closer look at this next piece, I believe that it is a shrimp, my first fauna, minus the coprolite, from the site that I have been collecting.

 

 

 

 

Continued on next post-

 

Edited August 28, 2022 by Nimravis

[Nimravis]

As usual, there are a lot of Cyperites, here are some examples.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Alethopteris-

 

 

 

 

Pecopteris-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Annularia-

 

 

 

 

Macroneuropteris-

 

 

Continued on next post-

 

Edited August 28, 2022 by Nimravis

[Nimravis]

A small cone-

 

 

This is another piece that I need to clean and take a better look at.

 

 

 

Here are some other finds, including Neuropteris, Pecopteris, etc

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This next piece is very pretty.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Mark Kmiecik]

Some really nice specimens there, and some very colorful ones as well. I think this one has something else in addition to the Pecopteris.

 

[Nimravis]

36 minutes ago, Mark Kmiecik said:

Some really nice specimens there, and some very colorful ones as well. I think this one has something else in addition to the Pecopteris.

 

Correct - another fern.

 

Edited August 29, 2022 by Nimravis

[Nimravis]

I took a closer look at this piece and determined it is the millipede, Euphoberia sp. If anyone thinks differently, please let me know.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited August 29, 2022 by Nimravis

[stats]

Definitely a millipede.  Nice!

 

The fern (Diplazites) on top of another one is interesting.

 

Cheers,

Rich

 

Edited August 29, 2022 by stats

[Mark Kmiecik]

11 hours ago, stats said:

The fern (Diplazites) on top of another one is interesting.

Doesn't Diplazites have simple, non-forking venation? I'm still having fern ID issues. Can't get them all straight in my head. Every time I look one up it seems to contradict what I think I know.

[Tidgy's Dad]

Love the pieces you've been finding yourself; the cone, the shrimp, the millipede, that coprolite, some of the plant fronds. 

Pretty finds.  

[Nimravis]

1 hour ago, Mark Kmiecik said:

Doesn't Diplazites have simple, non-forking venation? I'm still having fern ID issues. Can't get them all straight in my head. Every time I look one up it seems to contradict what I think I know.

I am on the same boat Mark.

[Nimravis]

1 hour ago, Tidgy's Dad said:

Love the pieces you've been finding yourself; the cone, the shrimp, the millipede, that coprolite, some of the plant fronds. 

Pretty finds.  

Thanks Adam, a lot more will be coming. I even put a few small pieces in the freezer to see what happens.

[connorp]

2 hours ago, Mark Kmiecik said:

Doesn't Diplazites have simple, non-forking venation? I'm still having fern ID issues. Can't get them all straight in my head. Every time I look one up it seems to contradict what I think I know.

I do think the fern is Diplazites. The pinnule with more complex venation looks to be a seed fern pinnule preserved underneath the fern.

[stats]

5 hours ago, connorp said:

I do think the fern is Diplazites. The pinnule with more complex venation looks to be a seed fern pinnule preserved underneath the fern.

Agreed.  I was talking about the one on top.  The one underneath is something different.

 

Cheers,

Rich

 

[Nimravis]

I took the “Sometimes You Have To Whack” thread on the road to Georgia.

 

I brought some fossils down to my brother and a few concretions to Whack open today, some small ones to freeze and few more for him to whack open later. Here are some of the finds from today, the usual suspects: Annularia, Macroneuropteris, Pecopteris and Cyperites.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Nimravis]

 

 

 

Here is a ring that my brother bought at a craft fair.

 

 

 

[Nimravis]

Today I whacked open some concretions that I collected on 9-1-22 and 9-13-22. The session started really poorly and the first 15 or so concretions were void of fossils. These first pieces were partial concretions, but I still collect them.

 

Here are the finds from today in the order that I opened them. 

Pecopteris 

 

 

Annularia

 

 

Unknown Flora

 

 

Bark

 

 

 

 

 

I really loved this next piece that I opened, and thought that it was going to be my best find of the day, but I would have been mistaken.

 

Alethopteris sullivantii 

 

 

 

 

Cyperites 

 

 

Pecopteris

 

 

Alethopteris serli 

 

 

Macroneuropteris

 

 

Pecopteris ??

 

 

 

An opened, partial Lepidostrobophyllum majus 

 

 

Macroneuropteris 

 

 

Pecopteris

 

 

Not sure what this cute, small one is. I will have to take a closer look with better optics lol. Maybe Odontopteris?

 

Pecopteris 

 

 

Calamites with a cool internode.

 

 

 

Another unknown piece-

 

 

 

CONTINUED ON NEXT POST-

[Nimravis]

Possible poorly preserved Cyclopteris.

 

 

 

 

Then there were two Annularia in a row.

 

 

 

Pecopteris-

 

 

As I mentioned earlier, I thought that nice Alethopteris was going to be my favorite find of the day, that was until I opened this next piece with 2 whacks.

 

Cyclopteris orbicularis- This is such a beautiful fossil and my largest one to date.

 

9 cm by 7 cm at it's longest points.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Next came a couple more Pecopteris 

 

 

 

There were 5 concretions that I did not whack open, such as the one below, I will freeze / thaw them.

 

 

This next piece looks like a seed- Cordaicarpus sp.

 

 

 

 

Here is another unknown piece-

 

Thanks to Rob @RCFossils for the ID on this piece he states that it is fairly rare. Cordaianthus ovatus- the fertile structure of the Cordaite.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Even though a lot of the fossils were nothing to write home to mom about and the fact that there a lot of concretions that were void, in the end, I was happy with the results from today.

Edited September 19, 2022 by Nimravis
Updated ID

[Meganeura]

God that's such a beautiful fossil!

[Nimravis]

5 minutes ago, Meganeura said:

God that's such a beautiful fossil!

Thanks Daniel

[RCFossils]

This is a pretty nice example of Cordaianthus ovatus. It is the fertile structure of the cordaite.

They are fairly rare.

Definitely a nice find.