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In the last issue of our German magazine "Fossilien" there was an interesting article about a site right in the middle of my stomping grounds of which I was not aware. My area is practically all Jurassic, but this site is in a basin which exposes a middle miocene maar lake, so the other day I figured I'd go have a look for some gastropods, plants and bivalves. Sorry, I forgot to take my camera again. The area is not all that big and I was able to walk over and around the fields on it within a few hours. There were a lot of loose stones to inspect, but unfortunately there were hardly any fossils to be found despite the fact that I did an awful lot of hammering. At least I came up with a couple of little freshwater bivalves and funnily enough, although this was not mentioned in the description, an ammonite on a late Jurassic limestone block.

 

Pisidium sp. on the left. Can't identify the other one. Any ideas?

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Trimarginites sp.

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I still had a couple of hours to spare, so I decided to take a walk over one of my favorite fields near Geisingen and this time I had a bit more luck. Here they are all prepped.

 

Garantiana sp.

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Prorsisphinctes pseudomartinsi

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Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger

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Can't help with the Miocene piece, but the ammonites are lovely as always. :)

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Tortoise Friend.

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16 minutes ago, Tidgy's Dad said:

Can't help with the Miocene piece, but the ammonites are lovely as always. :)

Thanks Adam. Your presence has just reminded me that there's a terebratulid brachiopod on the back of the limestone block with the Trimarginites. Here you go.

 

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Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger

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Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:D

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6 hours ago, Ludwigia said:

funnily enough, although this was not mentioned in the description, [I found] an ammonite on a late Jurassic limestone block.

Of course you did!

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Wonderful finds, Roger - my favourite this time is the Trimarginites sp. with bonus brachiopod on the back - congratulations!

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Nice Roger. I specially like the black Garantiana.:D

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

 

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5 hours ago, Monica said:

Wonderful finds, Roger - my favourite this time is the Trimarginites sp. with bonus brachiopod on the back - congratulations!

 

5 hours ago, nala said:

Very nice finds Roger!B)

 

4 hours ago, fifbrindacier said:

Nice Roger. I specially like the black Garantiana.:D

Thanks everyone. I must admit, I like that Garantiana best as well, although the Trimarginites was a nice surprise.

 

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Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger

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Your ammonite finds never cease to impress, especially the Prorsiphinctes. For you they turn up in all of the best and most unlikely places. Congratulations and thanks for sharing.

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8 minutes ago, Jeffrey P said:

Your ammonite finds never cease to impress, especially the Prorsiphinctes. For you they turn up in all of the best and most unlikely places. Congratulations and thanks for sharing.

Thanks Jeff. It was a bit of a struggle to coax that Prorsisphinctes out of a very hard block, and the Garantiana as well for that matter, but it was worth it. The latter was from a block only one horizon below the former, but it's remarkable what a difference in coloration there is.

 

Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger

http://www.steinkern.de/

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15 hours ago, ynot said:

Some folk have all the luck and fun!

Congrats on the new location and out of place find. (The other finds are nice too.)

Thanks Tony.

 

Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger

http://www.steinkern.de/

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