Penn Dixie Report

[piranha]

1 hour ago, FossilDAWG said:

I was just looking up the Penn Dixie web page, and I spotted these prominently featured characters.

Don

 

 

An incognito celebrity, no doubt!   

 

[Darktooth]

@Monica I am glad you and Viola had a great time and found some great stuff!

[Monica]

6 hours ago, DevonianDigger said:

Finding the Athyris in the pit is an odd one. Those are typically found in the Wanakah shale below the Tichenor LS. I wonder if it was a goodie that someone dropped from back by the ravine or in the drainage creek.

 

It was definitely an unexpected find, but a happy one! 

 

Do you by any chance think that my "specimen #9" is a gastropod?  (Please say yes...!!!)

[Tidgy's Dad]

Just now, Monica said:

 

It was definitely an unexpected find, but a happy one! 

 

Do you by any chance think that my "specimen #9" is a gastropod?  (Please say yes...!!!)

Looks more like a goniatite to me. 

Tornoceras, perhaps?

Is that possible in those Penn Dixie beds? 

[Monica]

4 hours ago, Ludwigia said:

@Monica Nice to see Viola in her element!

She had a great time!  Last year, she was hammering rocks just for the sake of hammering, but this year she was trying to split rocks and reduce the sizes of fossil-containing rocks with her hammering, so she was hammering with a purpose - how quickly they grow up (sniff...)

 

3 hours ago, ynot said:

Nice finds @Monica, and Viola looks like a very happy camper!

She was very happy!  She is very proud to have found her own E. rana roller(s) as well as a couple of Spinatrypa spinosa brachiopods (she's still a BIG fan of "shells" )

 

50 minutes ago, Malcolmt said:

Awesome post Monica. Wish I could have been there....

It was a great day out - can't wait until next year!!!

 

33 minutes ago, nala said:

Great pictures and beautifull finds!

Thanks so much, Gery!  Those comments mean a lot coming from you since the pictures you take and the fossils you find are stunning!!!

[Monica]

11 minutes ago, Darktooth said:

@Monica I am glad you and Viola had a great time and found some great stuff!

Thanks, Dave!  We had a wonderful girls' day out, and being able to find fossils at the same time is simply the icing on the cake 

 

5 minutes ago, Tidgy's Dad said:

Looks more like a goniatite to me. 

Tornoceras, perhaps?

Is that possible in those Penn Dixie beds? 

A Tornoceras from Penn Dixie would be a new find for me, too, so either way I'll be happy!!!

 

[DevonianDigger]

@Monica, I think #9 is likely a gastropod of some type, can't tell much from that photo, but my reservation against Tornoceras is that I have never seen one with that type of replacement in the trilobite beds. I believe they we're aragonite and were replaced with different materials during diagenesis. The Tornoceras that I've seen/found in that layer are very difficult to spot because they have very poorly-defined morphological features and match the surrounding matrix in color. However, I'm speaking from my own experience and am not able to rule it out entirely. A closer photo might help put it rest. 

[DevonianDigger]

Looking at it more closely and taking the size into consideration, I'm wondering if it isn't the apex of a Platyceras. Perhaps either the rest is missing or the angle in the matrix is deceptive. Just a thought.