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Last sunday was my first time hunting this year I went hunting in a place which contains old coast defences. The rocks are Tournaisian in age, probably from the area Tournais, or maybe the area of Soignies. The fossils are Tournaisian aged. I mostly found corals; Caninia sp., Michelina favosa etc. and brachiopods; Spirifer, Aletyphorus, Productus, Leptaenea, Rhipidomella etc. I also found trilobite pygidia from Plitonia kuehnei. When i came home and started unpacking everything i found out i was blessed. I had found a very rare Cochliodus contortus tooth without knowing it. some of my finds : 1: Caninia sp. 2: Piltonia kuehnei 3: Michelina favosa 4: unidentified 5: Cochliodus contortus 6: unprepped, probably Leptaenea analoga 7: Aletyphorus tornaciensis

Crows Feet? I’ve seen these in limestones but not in dolostones. Plenty of bits and pieces. I think Favosites and molds of crinoid columinals. More crinoid molds and both brachiopod molds and bits and pieces. Very very crystalized. But fun challenge.

Hello y’all! Since my last brach prep thread, I have actually prepped another brachiopod that I intended to make this thread about, but it turns out that it had been crushed prior to fossilization. I decided that it wasn’t worth writing home for, so I present to you: Project Sticky! Here it is before any prep: Now, the name is self explanatory: the matrix is so sticky, it’s pulling off a layer of shell with every rock flake!!! You can see an area where it pulled off much more than everywhere else: I decided that while this one will be a rough brach, I might as well finish it. I’m still trying to learn, so really this is partially a practice prep. Anyways, here it is after a total of 40 min prepping: Still far from done. Aaand, when I went to hammer some of the excess matrix, this got exposed: Looks like this rock will have a double brach prep. Should make it look more eye-appealing when done. Anyways, I did all this yesterday, and it took about 1 1/2 hours. Didn’t take any pics, but I did paraloid the exposed parts of the main shell. Next update may come tonight, or tomorrow morning. Hope y’all enjoyed this, have a great day!

Well, I’m stumped. Can’t find anything like it in my references. Was found in KC area, likely Pennsylvanian. Thank you so much in advance everyone!

I found some fossils in limestone, there are two Brachiopods close together. There is also a crinoid stem. On the left, there is a weird bean shaped inclusion, is this another fossil? If so, what is it? The first picture is of the whole piece, second and third pictures are of the weird bean.