Kane Posted October 5, 2019 Share Posted October 5, 2019 Last weekend I made the four hour trip to a spot I prospected back in July, exposing the upper Cobourg Fm near Nottawasaga Bay. The exposure was quite long with a maximum strata height of about 3 metres. Unfortunately, for all the travel and expense, no fabulous finds. The exposure is extremely weathered, and splitting mostly revealed tiny bits or blank muddy/chunky bedding. Still, I collected a flat of items that our local collectors would consider junk, but will make their way into the collections of other more farflung forum members at collecting meet-ups who do not get to collect up here. First up, Isotelus fragments which dominated the rock as very small bits, but occasionally larger partials appeared. The second image is of the wide pygidium with a free-standing section showing the doublure. 6 ...How to Philosophize with a Hammer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kane Posted October 5, 2019 Author Share Posted October 5, 2019 Not far from the Rafinesquina shell pavements would be a variety of gastropods. I usually can't resist pocketing the matrix-free ones and the high-spired specimes. Also in that mix is a tiny orthocone and the bivalve Lingula cobourgensis on the upper left. There's also a nice Rhynchotrema at the bottom left with both valves that will pretty up nicely under abrasion. 4 ...How to Philosophize with a Hammer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kane Posted October 5, 2019 Author Share Posted October 5, 2019 My goal of finding complete trilobites was pretty much frustrated by the nature of the deposition, and so trilo-bits were the poor consolation prize. Pictured here are some Flexicalymene senaria bits, a Ceraurus cephalon, a few beat up Pseudogygites latimarginatus pygidia, and a small bevy of Thaleops cephalons. 6 ...How to Philosophize with a Hammer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kane Posted October 5, 2019 Author Share Posted October 5, 2019 Very little by way of bigger specimens was coming out of this material, but every once in a while I'd bump into sections of the giant nautiloid Endoceras proetiforme. I left them where they lay as I wasn't going to lug these around. So, I mostly whiffed, but I can take some pride in the fact that I prospected this spot on my own and performed my due diligence in spending a long time going through it. It is unlikely a spot I will be returning to. But I'll be off later today to have another crack at the Ordovician for tomorrow at one of the last active quarries in Ontario that permits collectors, so fingers crossed that the Ordovician will be a bit kinder this go-round. 8 ...How to Philosophize with a Hammer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FossilDAWG Posted October 5, 2019 Share Posted October 5, 2019 Good luck tomorrow! Don Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JUAN EMMANUEL Posted October 6, 2019 Share Posted October 6, 2019 Thats a pretty nice haul for a start. Cant wait to see more goodies! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kane Posted October 6, 2019 Author Share Posted October 6, 2019 10 minutes ago, JUAN EMMANUEL said: Thats a pretty nice haul for a start. Cant wait to see more goodies! Thanks! Sadly, this is a bad patch of Cobourg so I won’t be going back there. Too bioturbated and nodular biomicrite environment. But I gave it a go! ...How to Philosophize with a Hammer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monica Posted October 6, 2019 Share Posted October 6, 2019 Nice gastropods! Good luck at the quarry today! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kane Posted October 6, 2019 Author Share Posted October 6, 2019 3 hours ago, Monica said: Nice gastropods! Good luck at the quarry today! Thanks, Monica. Unfortunately, I'll have to wait until next spring due to car trouble. Luckily, I have some good Devonian material nearby. 1 ...How to Philosophize with a Hammer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Tahan Posted October 6, 2019 Share Posted October 6, 2019 Very nice Kane! Love seeing the master at work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shamalama Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 On 10/6/2019 at 11:02 AM, Kane said: Thanks, Monica. Unfortunately, I'll have to wait until next spring due to car trouble. Luckily, I have some good Devonian material nearby. Not too bad, you actually picked up some non trilobite fossils. I'm proud of you! Missed you at the Quarry this weekend, Kane. Hope to meet up with you again next year! Good luck with the car too. -Dave __________________________________________________ Geologists on the whole are inconsistent drivers. When a roadcut presents itself, they tend to lurch and weave. To them, the roadcut is a portal, a fragment of a regional story, a proscenium arch that leads their imaginations into the earth and through the surrounding terrain. - John McPheeIf I'm going to drive safely, I can't do geology. - John McPheeCheck out my Blog for more fossils I've found: http://viewsofthemahantango.blogspot.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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