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From the album: Plants of the Lewellyn Formation
Peek a boo! A Carboniferous Zeilleria fern from northern Pennsylvania is exposed through a chip in the shale. Normally I'd just chip it out, but I'm thinking I might just leave this as is. It appeals to the artist in me. Lewellyn Formation Pottstown Member -
From the album: Plants of the Lewellyn Formation
Fern leaf Columbia County, Pennsylvania Carboniferous Lewellyn Formation -
From the album: Plants of the Lewellyn Formation
Fern leaf with colorful iron oxide coating left by the plant itself Columbia County, Pennsylvania Carboniferous Lewellyn Formation-
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Fern pinnae Columbia County, Pennsylvania Carboniferous Lewellyn Formation -
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Leaf cast with iron oxide coating left by the plant itself Columbia County, Pennsylvania Carboniferous Lewellyn Formation-
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Giant horsetail plant Columbia County, Pennsylvania Carboniferous Lewellyn Formation -
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Tree Fern leaf impression Columbia County, Pennsylvania Carboniferous Lewellyn Formation -
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Tree Fern Leaflet The white highlights are most likely kaolinite left from the plant itself. Columbia County, Pennsylvania Carboniferous Lewellyn Formation -
From the album: Plants of the Lewellyn Formation
Cast of pith from unknown plant (Cordaites?) Columbia County, Pennsylvania Carboniferous Lewellyn Formation-
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Leaf impression in siltstone Carboniferous period Ralston, Pennsylvania -
A very small group of us ventured into the wilds of northern PA last weekend, equipped with masks and a permit to poke around a state wildlife preserve with Carboniferous Lewellyn Formation exposures. It was a gorgeous day and the colors of the limestone really shone in the sunlight. As we got there, a pair of permit-less fossil poachers were just leaving. How do I know that they didn't have a permit? Because they absolutely did not follow the rules. Since it is a wildlife preserve, it is important that anyone looking for fossils not leave craterous holes in the ground and replant any plants that were uprooted in the process of digging said holes. They left holes everywhere. Our intrepid permit holder filled in most of the holes so that she could keep getting permits in the future. For this reason, I'm not going to be any more specific about the location. That said, there were so many wonderful plant fossils to find! The site is remarkable for its red, orange and yellow limestone, which makes for some terrific, high-contrast fossils. Many of them had crisp details. What's more, there was quite a variety.
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Lower Cambrian Trilobites in South Central PA?
cameronsfossilcollection posted a topic in Questions & Answers
Hey there everyone. I’m currently up in New York hunting for fossil, and tomorrow I’ll be riding through PA and have been itching to collect at the Kinzers Formation and was wondering if anybody in the forum was familiar with any public access areas to find any Cambrian material? I’ve done a fair amount of reading and it seems like a lot has either been over-collected or is in closed quarries. Any information would be greatly appreciated! -
From my collection of St Clair plant material - any ideas? Less than half a centimeter thick, about two inches long.
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It’s a Crinoid column, that’s for sure. Unfortunately I found these in road gravel limestone. It’s not local, I’ve never seen one with the star shape until today. I just happened to see each one while walking today. Top left is 13mm. Bottom right is 16mm. There are 4 stacked, each about 2mm thick. I can get much closer if that helps.
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Hi, I'm new to this forum. As a child lived in a small town in western Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh, and I was an amateur rock collector. One of the possible fossils I found is shown below. I thought it looked like a footprint. However, at the time I didn't give it much thought. Recently I've become interested in trying to identify what made this impression. Was it caused by weathering or is it really a footprint? If it's a footprint what type of animal made it and how old is it? My knowledge of geology and paleontology is limited so I would appreciate any advice you could give me. I've attached 2 photos of the specimen and a 3rd photo showing the cliff face it was pulled from many years ago.
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I'm new to all this, and was wondering if you folks can help me. I noticed this lying in a small creek bed in Berks County, PA. Didn't find anything else like it. Is it a fossil of some kind, or just a rock? Thanks!
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Mystery Carboniferous Plant - just another fern or something else?
cameronsfossilcollection posted a topic in Fossil ID
Found this in some Pennsylvanian aged shale in Ambridge, PA at the well known mahoning exposure. It doesn’t have visible pinnae like the ferns I’ve found in the area, but it could just be a strange preservation. Any ideas - is this just a fern? Thanks!
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Hi everyone. I've been a lurker for awhile and finally decided to join. I've only really started hunting this month with my three boys. I'm not sure if we've found much of anything just yet (we've been searching on some old shale pits south of State College), but we're enjoying the time in the woods! I'm hoping to find out more about the area, so I can decide if we've actually found anything or if it's just discoloration in the shale
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Hi all, Here’s an interesting plant find. I discovered it in a locality in Western PA known for producing good plant fossils. I’m thinking seed fern, maybe related to Alethopteris somehow but to be honest I’m not sure what the species is. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance Stratigraphy: Connelsville Sandstone of the Casselman Formation of the Conemaugh Group. Age-Late Pennsylvanian, ~305 MYA
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Hi! Please excuse us if we aren’t following decorum with our photo sizes, staging, etc. Since the quarantine has us unexpectedly homeschooling, we took our 5th grader to collect some fossils and though I’m sure they are pretty basic, I’m having a hard time helping her ID all of them. Any info is appreciated, as we are absolute beginners. ☺️ These were collected at a random roadcut in northern PA, another in West Virginia, and also at Beltsville Lake (where we searched all day for a trilobite until I realized I probably don’t even know what the fragments would look like).
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Good morning all!- hope you are all healthy! I found these foraminifera (my first!!!) on April 20, but took my time fishing them out of some limestone, then meticulously cleaning and prepping them. Thanks to Clear Lake for suggesting, in my first post that it looks similar to Ozawainella ciscoensis-really appreciate it! They were all found in winterset limestone in Kansas City. Researching numerous references, I found it is far more complicated identifying them, so I'll send them to someone with more expertise in i.d.s! , and am leaving them as simply Foraminifera. I i.d. them under a dissecting scope, then used 30 gauge needles to loosen them with applications of vinegar, then washed them in alternating vinegar and water, then placed them on blue clay to make them stick in place. The best one has 4 views. Just received my digital microscope and love it!! So simple and easy to use! My previous post stated it measured 458um or so, but I used the wrong objective- all of these are 860-900um in diameter. I went ahead and placed them on the fossil of the month, only because I haven't seen a lot of images on them in the forum (though I'm still looking through ).Thoughts and suggestions appreciated, and thanks for making me feel like a kid again! Hope you enjoy!- The beauty of some things simply cannot be appreciated unless you look closely!!!! Bone
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Hello from New Jersey, I live in Haddon Township near the discovery site of the first Hadrosaur but I am more interested in earlier fossils most notably giant arthropods such as pterygotus and arthropleura. I enjoy hunting some of the Carboniferous formations of Pennsylvania and look forward to posting some of my finds once I figure out how to use the members gallery. If you have info about good spots near philly I’d love to hear it. looking forward to meeting everyone, Noel Hecht.
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Hello everyone, I have recently received these three pieces of Pennsylvanian Flora from Pennsylvania along with some fossils of stigmaria. I have no idea what they may be from and any help is appreciated. The patterns on the first two may be recognizable to someone but I do not have hopes of finding an ID for the last one, I will leave it here just in case. All of the pieces are about 7 cm in length.
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I live in jersey near Philadelphia and I was hoping to find eurypterid fossils but the only stop I can find is Lang’s quarry which is over 5 hours away and cost a ton to hunt. I am wonder if anyone has found evidence of eurypterids in Pennsylvania , Maryland, or southern New York. If you have any pictures I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks, Noel.
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Hello all! I am a new member, and this is my first post. Could I please have some help figuring out if these rocks are petrified wood? Most of them were found in a small Pennsylvanian stream. It looks like they are quartz, crystal quartz, but I am no expert. There should be about two pictures of each rock. Thanks for your help, and I have more pictures of different rocks if needed.
