JurassicParkCarnotaurus Posted August 9, 2018 Share Posted August 9, 2018 Wow. I recently got back from a trip to visit some family in Buffalo, New York and Canada, Eh?. In Buffalo my Aunt and Uncle have a house on Lake Erie. It never occurred to me to look for fossils on the beach (mostly rocks down there), until this trip. So I went down for about an hour or so and broke a few rocks but mostly just found the fossils lying around. I can tell you, this was the most productive hour of fossil hunting in my life. I could barely go a minute without stumbling on one! I don’t even know what to do with all these. A great expirece overall and my Uncle especially enjoyed seeing all the treasures. So without further a due here we go... (sorry if the pics are a bit blurry my camera is trash) Enjoy! Brachiopods and such 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JurassicParkCarnotaurus Posted August 9, 2018 Author Share Posted August 9, 2018 Corals and Crinoids 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JurassicParkCarnotaurus Posted August 9, 2018 Author Share Posted August 9, 2018 Trilobites and whatever is on the upper left rock 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JurassicParkCarnotaurus Posted August 9, 2018 Author Share Posted August 9, 2018 More Corals (I think) and a cool metal thingy 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted August 9, 2018 Share Posted August 9, 2018 Nice finds! And so many... The "cool metal piece" looks like a pyrite ammonite, but need more views to be sure. Darwin said: " Man sprang from monkeys." Will Rogers said: " Some of them didn't spring far enough." My Fossil collection - My Mineral collection My favorite thread on TFF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted August 9, 2018 Share Posted August 9, 2018 Nice finds! Western New York is quite prolific for fossils. The things in the 1st picture upper left look like cephalopods, - maybe something like Bactrites? In the last picture, you have some Pleurodictyum americanum , a tabulate coral. Check the bottoms of them. Sometimes you can see an imprint of the shell they grew on. They liked to grow on Paleozygopleura hamiltonae gastropods, for some reason. See Brett, C.E., and Cottrell, J.F., 1982, Substrate specificity in the Devonian tabulate coral Pleurodictyum, Lethaia, v. 15, p. 247-262. 2 Tim - VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER VFOTM --- APRIL - 2015 __________________________________________________ "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir ~ ~ ~ ~ ><))))( *> About Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peat Burns Posted August 9, 2018 Share Posted August 9, 2018 Nice finds. Of the brachs I can see well enough: Mucrospirifer, Atrypa, and Athyris. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FranzBernhard Posted August 9, 2018 Share Posted August 9, 2018 Congratulations! Those fossils are superb!! I generally like the prep of mother nature and the slightly water worn appearance very much (I know, my taste is probably not mainstream... .) Franz Bernhard 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrangellian Posted August 9, 2018 Share Posted August 9, 2018 44 minutes ago, FranzBernhard said: Congratulations! Those fossils are superb!! I generally like the prep of mother nature and the slightly water worn appearance very much (I know, my taste is probably not mainstream... .) Franz Bernhard My taste is like most - pristine is best - but I'm surprised how well these have stood up to the weather and waves(?); evidently they have not been exposed for long. I would not hesitate to collect them! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JurassicParkCarnotaurus Posted August 9, 2018 Author Share Posted August 9, 2018 Thanks guys! Here are some pics of the ammonite/metal piece and of the undersides of the corals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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erose Posted August 9, 2018 Share Posted August 9, 2018 Yep, the last item there is an orthoconic cephalopod. You can see the siphuncle in the end view. Nice mix of corals, brachs, and a few crinoid stems. Trilobites too! Were you close to Hamburg? There is a very well know stretch along 18 Mile Creek at the lake. Haven't been there for almost 15 years. Nice collection. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JurassicParkCarnotaurus Posted August 9, 2018 Author Share Posted August 9, 2018 Nice! And here I was thinking it was just some screw or something. And yes, we were in Hamburg. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nimravis Posted August 9, 2018 Share Posted August 9, 2018 Great finds and you need to go back. Adam @Tidgy's Dad dad would love those brachiopods. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tidgy's Dad Posted August 9, 2018 Share Posted August 9, 2018 2 hours ago, Nimravis said: Great finds and you need to go back. Adam @Tidgy's Dad dad would love those brachiopods. Indeed! Lots of other great finds too, though. Life's Good! Tortoise Friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FossilDAWG Posted August 9, 2018 Share Posted August 9, 2018 Nice finds! Is that enrolled trilobite complete? You're lucky indeed to have access to the shore at Hamburg. Formerly, people could access the beach by walking down 18 Mile Creek, as Erose said. However a few years ago property owners posted the creek and they are prosecuting anyone who tries to get to the shore that way. Don 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JurassicParkCarnotaurus Posted August 9, 2018 Author Share Posted August 9, 2018 Thanks guys! 1 hour ago, FossilDAWG said: Nice finds! Is that enrolled trilobite complete? You're lucky indeed to have access to the shore at Hamburg. Formerly, people could access the beach by walking down 18 Mile Creek, as Erose said. However a few years ago property owners posted the creek and they are prosecuting anyone who tries to get to the shore that way. Don I had no idea about the shore. That really sucks that it isn’t a public site and explains the abundance of fossils. And yes the trilobite is complete! I just found him lying there, recently washed up by a wave. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monica Posted August 18, 2018 Share Posted August 18, 2018 Beautiful beach finds!!! I love the cottage that we go to every year, but I do wish I could find some fossils up there like you did on your beach hunt - I am (FYI: the cottage we rent is up on the Canadian Shield so there's lots of rock, but no fossils, unfortunately ) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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