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On 7.1.2019 at 11:35 PM, Innocentx said:

Things like this make my day!

I think, I can understand this :fistbump:! Congrats!

Btw - IPFOTM-candidate!!

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Thanks, Franz. I really should find out more about this bryozoan as I only find these(I have about a dozen) in one particular layer and I'm curious about them.

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11 hours ago, Innocentx said:

I really should find out more about this bryozoan as I only find these(I have about a dozen) in one particular layer and I'm curious about them.

Sounds like a nice little project! Are all bryos growing on brachs there? Do you have a ref about this layer?

@Tidgy's Dad

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On 12/14/2018 at 8:22 PM, Innocentx said:

Found this piece of chert with some pygidium (Ameura?). These would be among the last of the trilobites, from Wreford formation, lower Permian, Greenwood County, Ks.

Love this! :wub:

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On 1/7/2019 at 11:35 PM, Innocentx said:

I found this (Red Eagle formation, early Permian) bryozoan which had grown over a brachiopod valve. Things like this make my day!

 

Beautiful! :wub:

Bryozoans are often found growing over brachiopod valves, but I've never seen a case quite this extreme! 

Amazing find. :)

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Glass sponge, campanian

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Guettarrdia stellata sponge, lutetian

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Lutetian pectens and Serravalian gasteropod

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From an unsuccessful hunt at the spoil on Saturday ( trying to find nodules  with fauna / flora ) .

 

UK pit spoil Neuropteris.

 

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On 1/9/2019 at 5:48 AM, Tidgy's Dad said:

Bryozoans are often found growing over brachiopod valves, but I've never seen a case quite this extreme! 

Amazing find. 

Thanks, Adam. :)

On 1/8/2019 at 10:43 PM, FranzBernhard said:

Are all bryos growing on brachs there? Do you have a ref about this layer?

Some, yes, though usually only a hint at what they were (mainly impressions). I've read the references I could find from KGS. I'm going to post a more revealing specimen for fossil ID. 

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5 hours ago, t-tree said:

From an unsuccessful hunt at the spoil on Saturday ( trying to find nodules  with fauna / flora ) .

UK pit spoil Neuropteris.

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John

Unsuccessful ? I would like to have so unsuccessful hunts more often !:)

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@fifbrindacier. Nice sponges and mollusks! I've always thought the glass sponge fossils are quite beautiful, and your Serravalian gastropod is cute. Fossils can be cute, right?;)

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7 minutes ago, Innocentx said:

@fifbrindacier. Nice sponges and mollusks! I've always thought the glass sponge fossils are quite beautiful, and your Serravalian gastropod is cute. Fossils can be cute, right?;)

Very, very, ugly sometimes, but very very very cute often, whatever, always interestings and exceptionals. That one is cute, i found it where there was nothing else to find except broken shells of oysters. When i tried to disengage it, it broke and i had to glue it back. Hence, i don't dare to touch it any more and so, won't know what species it is, but that's the fun of it : trying to know and sometimes just have Something cute without a name.

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Your 'unsuccessful' hunt?? Are they usually gold plated? :D

 

Look excellent to me!!! @t-tree

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1 minute ago, fifbrindacier said:

that's the fun of it : trying to know and sometimes just have something without a name

Sounds like most of my collection.:headscratch:

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2 minutes ago, Innocentx said:

Sounds like most of my collection.:headscratch:

I can be a very persistent person and can spend a lot of time trying to find the family name of my fossils, but, despite my huge stubbornness, i very often stumble on their first name.

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"We only well see with the heart, the essential is invisible for the eyes."

 

In memory of Doren

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Gone this morning to pick some Exogyra in a Maastrichtian limestone site I have spotted last Sunday:

 

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As I was at work some passers-by looked at me...

 

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And finally, not much diversity, but fine production:

 

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And a piece of Almucidaris falgarsensis as a tip:

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Now it's time to find out wich Exogyra are they.

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On 1/10/2019 at 1:50 PM, ricardo said:

A few Km to West in other outcrop. Collected  from C level...

 

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Nice urchins, very nice urchins.

 

On 1/12/2019 at 2:03 PM, Quer said:

Gone this morning to pick some Exogyra in a Maastrichtian limestone site I have spotted last Sunday:

 

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As I was at work some passers-by looked at me…

 

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And finally, not much diversity, but fine production:

 

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And a piece of Almucidaris falgarsensis as a tip:

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Now it's time to find out wich Exogyra are they.

 

 

Nice, particularly the raptor and that cidarid.

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"We only well see with the heart, the essential is invisible for the eyes."

 

In memory of Doren

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18 hours ago, fifbrindacier said:

Nice urchins, very nice urchins.

 

Indeed, I like them also. Unfortunately our Cretaceous outcrops are few and not so outsized as French ones. 

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Just so long as it's not he and a bunch of his buddys circling you overhead, you should be alright. 

You might want to check your pulse though! :P

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8 hours ago, caterpillar said:

Raptor = vulture

I didn't see that. I think you're right, but I'm not familiar with European birds. It's a beauty.

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