kenballus Posted July 6, 2018 Share Posted July 6, 2018 I found these two when I was a child in Orange County, NY. Does anyone have an ID? From what I can tell, they're Goniatites. I can post more pictures if these aren't clear enough. Thanks! Here are the pictures. For some reason, it's not letting me upload them here. https://imgur.com/a/tRRAfi1#BtnFMPp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kane Posted July 6, 2018 Share Posted July 6, 2018 As long as your pictures can be resized to below 3.5 mb, we'll see them. The danger of posting them on third party sites is that they may no longer be viable in future. In addition, some of us are not happy viewing images from sites that gather our personal data. Do try again to post images here. ...How to Philosophize with a Hammer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miocene_Mason Posted July 6, 2018 Share Posted July 6, 2018 I gotcha: 2 “...whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been and are being evolved.” ~ Charles Darwin Happy hunting, Mason Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miocene_Mason Posted July 6, 2018 Share Posted July 6, 2018 A goniatite for sure, though I can’t tell them apart. I know one of the more common (well for a goniatite) ones is Tornoceras 1 “...whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been and are being evolved.” ~ Charles Darwin Happy hunting, Mason Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kane Posted July 6, 2018 Share Posted July 6, 2018 Looks like goniatite to me. Thanks @WhodamanHD! ...How to Philosophize with a Hammer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobWill Posted July 6, 2018 Share Posted July 6, 2018 It looks a lot like the Imitoceras sp. we find in Texas. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeffrey P Posted July 6, 2018 Share Posted July 6, 2018 Those do look like partial goniatites. Nice finds. I'm curious. I've collected fossils in Orange County, NY. I've never encountered any goniatites there. They would have to be from Middle Devonian sediments which are exposed in Highland Mills or in the western side of the county such as near Port Jervis and Cuddlebackville. Are those from any of the above mentioned places? Otherwise I suspect they might be a product of glacial or human transport. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenballus Posted July 7, 2018 Author Share Posted July 7, 2018 @Jeffrey P It was a very long time ago that I found these, but I'm pretty sure they were from Montgomery; I very rarely hunted anywhere else. I never found any other goniatites in my many hours of searching as a kid, so I think it's pretty likely that they were transported to my area somehow, unless I found them somewhere else and forgot. Thanks @WhodamanHD for posting my pictures. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeffrey P Posted July 7, 2018 Share Posted July 7, 2018 Montgomery, N.Y. has the highest concentration of mastodon remains in New York. Ever find any of those? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenballus Posted July 7, 2018 Author Share Posted July 7, 2018 Unfortunately, I never found a mastodon. I haven't been in Montgomery for any substantial amount of time since I was about 14. I went to middle school right across the street from a site where they dug one up. Apparently, they built a dollar store right next to it a few years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenballus Posted July 7, 2018 Author Share Posted July 7, 2018 (edited) Does anyone have any suggestions for how to clean these up? My girlfriend's birthday is coming up and I want to mount one of them and make a necklace. If I were to polish them traditionally, would I risk rubbing out some of the detail? Edited July 7, 2018 by kenballus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kane Posted July 7, 2018 Share Posted July 7, 2018 1 minute ago, kenballus said: Does anyone have any suggestions for how to clean these up? My girlfriend's birthday is coming up and I want to mount one of them and make a necklace. If I were to polish them traditionally, would I risk rubbing out some of the detail? I give them a few blasts from my Paasche for abrasion. Be careful, though, as you can strip the coverage if the PSI is too high. 1 ...How to Philosophize with a Hammer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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