KelseyM Posted July 9, 2019 Share Posted July 9, 2019 It's taken me a while to post this, but my boyfriend and I took another trip to Penn Dixie on the Fourth of July! For those who have been to Penn Dixie I'm sure you know it's impossible even for a total newbie to leave empty handed. I didn't get anything super amazing like some of the full trilos th at I've seen other people post, but I did get what I went in hoping to find - gastropods!!! I THOUGHT that I found 2 - the large one and the good spiral one. But when I started washing the mud off them last night I discovered two others on the other side of some chunks that we had kept for their trilo fragments! They aren't perfect, but I'm so happy because all I've wanted to find since I started going to Penn Dixie was a snail It has a little bit to do with my love for David Attenborough shows and learning that we are currently in the Golden Age of the Snail which makes me unreasonably happy. I'll try to get some more pictures tonight of everything we found to help illustrate how many fossils you can leave Penn Dixie with - even when your boyfriend is making you be more selective and says you can't keep everything! I took a picture right after I found the third gastropod (the smaller not spirally one - I know the name is in the Penn Dixie guidebook but I can't think of it right now) Realized I jumped the gun by taking a picture of the three when I found this guy! He's definitely not as great as the other spirally one, but I might try to extract him better at some point! Not even the best trilobite pieces we found, but the only ones I have pictures of at the moment! 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted July 9, 2019 Share Posted July 9, 2019 Looks like some nice gastropods, including some Platyceras sp. 1 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...
Mark Kmiecik Posted July 9, 2019 Share Posted July 9, 2019 Nice finds. Thanks for the photos. Mark. Fossil hunting is easy -- they don't run away when you shoot at them! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CasualCoprolite Posted July 9, 2019 Share Posted July 9, 2019 This just made me more excited to get out to Penn Dixie! Thanks for sharing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monica Posted July 10, 2019 Share Posted July 10, 2019 I love gastropods too!!! Congratulations on the great finds!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nimravis Posted July 10, 2019 Share Posted July 10, 2019 Great finds- this is a place that I would love to hunt someday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KelseyM Posted July 11, 2019 Author Share Posted July 11, 2019 Sorry these aren't the best pictures. I haven't gotten around to cleaning everything up yet but I felt bad that I hadn't updated with a picture of everything we left with so I took a couple of quick pictures this morning! I usually don't take this many horn coral, but I was just mindlessly putting anything I found into their baggies and before I knew it I had a million of them. They're good for giving to friends and family because they're easier for me to part with than brachiopods and trilobites - although I have been collecting more trilobite fragments that aren't necessarily amazing so that I can give those to people too. Everything minus the gastropods and about 10 trilobite fragments that I'm in the middle of cleaning up/I was in too much of a rush to go grab when I was taking the pictures this morning The best trilobite fragments are of course not the ones in the pictures because they're the ones over where I was cleaning but here's a slightly better view of the fragments I was able to quickly take a picture of today (they do all have fragments on them - some are just dusty and a few are upside down ) And a slightly better look at the brachiopods/crinoids. I didn't get a lot of crinoids but if you're super into them Penn Dixie has a whole area that's called "crinoid heaven" and it's basically just like everything you're walking on is crinoids This wasn't our best overall haul, but I got my gastropods and that's all that mattered to me!!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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