Jackson g Posted May 24, 2020 Author Share Posted May 24, 2020 Decided to remove that little druzy brachidium from the earlier posted partial brach I found. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FossilNerd Posted May 24, 2020 Share Posted May 24, 2020 Looks like I missed a few updates, so I went back through the thread. I really like your finds here Jackson! The preservation of the lophophore on some specimens, the crystallization, the golden coloring, etc. Beautiful stuff! Excuse me while I wipe the drool from my mouth... 1 The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it. -Neil deGrasse Tyson Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't. -Bill Nye (The Science Guy) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jackson g Posted May 25, 2020 Author Share Posted May 25, 2020 On 5/24/2020 at 1:54 PM, FossilNerd said: Looks like I missed a few updates, so I went back through the thread. I really like your finds here Jackson! The preservation of the lophophore on some specimens, the crystallization, the golden coloring, etc. Beautiful stuff! Excuse me while I wipe the drool from my mouth... Thanks so much! Brachiopods sure do bring me joy, and I'm glad to share and have others enjoy them too! I hope it inspires more Missourians to get out there and fossil hunt. I'm spoiled and have a lot of variety and formations in my area, but it just never ceases to amaze me I'm always the only one out collecting it. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jackson g Posted May 25, 2020 Author Share Posted May 25, 2020 A tiny brachiopod I prepared earlier today out of its cherty matrix home. I just love the mineral staining on the back valve. Pretty unique! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FossilNerd Posted May 25, 2020 Share Posted May 25, 2020 5 minutes ago, Jackson g said: I'm spoiled and have a lot of variety and formations in my area, but it just never ceases to amaze me I'm always the only one out collecting it. I have a similar situation! There are many amazing exposures, with fossils everywhere, around my neck of the woods, but I have yet to run into anyone else hunting them when I’m out there. I know there are some others that collect here, but obviously not many. I haven’t been to some of the more popular, and well documented exposures yet though. I’m sure if I went to Maysville, I wouldn’t be the only one there. 1 The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it. -Neil deGrasse Tyson Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't. -Bill Nye (The Science Guy) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jackson g Posted June 13, 2020 Author Share Posted June 13, 2020 Haven't done much brachiopod prep in a while, so here's another neat one I purposely scribed some shell away to expose the crystally inner support. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jackson g Posted June 20, 2020 Author Share Posted June 20, 2020 Cleaned up my first ever ammonite fossil today. I cannot get over how beautiful the suture patterns are on these animals' shell. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jackson g Posted July 1, 2020 Author Share Posted July 1, 2020 Finished cleaning up this nice rugose coral this morning. It has an orange color with some beekite rings. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FossilNerd Posted July 2, 2020 Share Posted July 2, 2020 6 hours ago, Jackson g said: Finished cleaning up this nice rugose coral this morning. It has an orange color with some beekite rings. I really like this one Jackson! I have a soft spot for beekite, and the orange color is super cool on the horn coral. All of the beekite I have found has been white. The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it. -Neil deGrasse Tyson Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't. -Bill Nye (The Science Guy) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jackson g Posted July 9, 2020 Author Share Posted July 9, 2020 On 7/1/2020 at 7:47 PM, FossilNerd said: I really like this one Jackson! I have a soft spot for beekite, and the orange color is super cool on the horn coral. All of the beekite I have found has been white. Thanks, I too really like this one's color. I got lucky, the nice orange corals only appear in a specific layer at one of my Burlington Formation locations. All the others produce the familiar pale white fossils and white color beekite, like this dirty one. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jackson g Posted July 9, 2020 Author Share Posted July 9, 2020 Found and cleaned two different good examples of Burlington Formation blastoids. Correct me if my IDs are wrong, blastoids aren't my strong suit. Globoblastus norwoodi 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jackson g Posted July 9, 2020 Author Share Posted July 9, 2020 Globoblastus melo 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jackson g Posted July 12, 2020 Author Share Posted July 12, 2020 Hit the road today on my day off to do some recon on some exposures I haven't yet searched. I lucked out, and the last spot had exposed Burlington chert and limestone. I happily walked home with my favorite type of treasure from the new spot, after a long hot day. I'm 50/50 on if I want to continue to prep it completely free out of the matrix or not. Unfortunately the spiralia are not complete due to partial weathering from what was exposed to the elements. It was tricky to get a good photo of the almost complete one though! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jackson g Posted July 17, 2020 Author Share Posted July 17, 2020 Got another sweet brach in the process of prep currently, thanks to the new exposure I found last weekend. I figured this was worth sharing in the meantime though, not too often one finds an almost complete crinoid in the scraps. Cool, but not much left there nonetheless. Easy to see the outline of the calyx, stem, and arms. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FossilNerd Posted July 18, 2020 Share Posted July 18, 2020 Love the crinoids Jackson! There are some very productive crinoid layers near me in the Borden Formation, but it's mostly fragments and individual columnals. I would lose my mind if I found something like this in the scree! The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it. -Neil deGrasse Tyson Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't. -Bill Nye (The Science Guy) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jackson g Posted July 18, 2020 Author Share Posted July 18, 2020 19 hours ago, FossilNerd said: Love the crinoids Jackson! There are some very productive crinoid layers near me in the Borden Formation, but it's mostly fragments and individual columnals. I would lose my mind if I found something like this in the scree! Thanks me too, I was happy to find it! Though I don't share too many of my crinoid finds anymore. I understand that though, finding a lot of bits and pieces. Only certain spots in my area produce nice, uncompressed calyxs worth prepping and cleaning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jackson g Posted July 18, 2020 Author Share Posted July 18, 2020 Well heres the brach I finished up yesterday. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jackson g Posted July 18, 2020 Author Share Posted July 18, 2020 While removing that one from its chert home, this partial one was revealed. I have had good luck with tiny brachiopod steinkerns like this with the delicate calcite shells, so like in the past I decided to do some dissection. It's hard to get a picture of these spiralia because they are coated in so much druzy! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jackson g Posted July 19, 2020 Author Share Posted July 19, 2020 Who's up for a jigsaw puzzle, lol!? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jackson g Posted July 21, 2020 Author Share Posted July 21, 2020 Not every disection produces results. Heres 2 of the same species of (probably) composita brachiopods I found on my last hunt. The first I entered in FOTM and with great results, the second shows you what I end up with more than often. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TqB Posted July 21, 2020 Share Posted July 21, 2020 2 hours ago, Jackson g said: Not every disection produces results. Heres 2 of the same species of (probably) composita brachiopods I found on my last hunt. The first I entered in FOTM and with great results, the second shows you what I end up with more than often. Gorgeous specimen. 1 Tarquin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jackson g Posted August 1, 2020 Author Share Posted August 1, 2020 After much success yesterday, I went back out again today to hit up some more Burlington Limestone. It really is amazing how quick the crinoidal packstone, limestone, and grainstones weather after some heavy rain. Heres the top 3 finds for today I wanted to share! To start off we have a very nice, and rarer species from my honey hole of an exposure, a crinoid! An Actinocrinus scitulus I spent about 3 hours scraping matrix off. It would benefit from air abrasion, but I only have aluminum oxide currently and would rather not burn off the detailed plates. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jackson g Posted August 1, 2020 Author Share Posted August 1, 2020 I guess this is just my week for rare finds. Second up we have the forth I've found, and largest yet Deltodus sp. crushing tooth! This one doesn't have great color, but it's still nice in my eyes. These teeth that have weathered out of the limestone don't last very long in this condition, or at all to say the least. They are porous, pop off the encrinite stone, and destroy so quickly after a rainstorm that in my opinion it's pretty lucky to find them on the matrix, or free of it at all. You can easily feel the dimples covering the surface when you run your finger across the plate. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jackson g Posted August 1, 2020 Author Share Posted August 1, 2020 Last but not least, we have a cute Platyceras gastropod from the chert layer that weathered down into the scraps. I took my time with it, so the curl was kept! That's all until next time. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
connorp Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 On 7/31/2020 at 11:24 PM, Jackson g said: I guess this is just my week for rare finds. Second up we have the forth I've found, and largest yet Deltodus sp. crushing tooth! That's a pretty nice and big tooth plate. I might be more inclined to call this Psephodus. It's similar to 58.C below (from the Handbook of Paleoichthyology Vol. 4). Hard to tell without the specimen in hand. That said, I would try not to get super caught up on trying to identify these crusher tooth plates. There are many undescribed "species" plus morphological variations within "species". I say "species" because many of them are based on only isolated tooth plates, which in some cases likely came from completely different animals. Really a whole messy business. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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