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Over the Fourth of July weekend, I made my annual pilgrimage to Western NY for a family get-together/reunion. I have been going to the Rushford Lake area for over 20 years now. I usually take a partial day to do some fossil hunting further north and west of that area, closer to Buffalo, NY. This year, as a change of pace from hunting my usually Middle Devonian haunts, I decided to try to get back to a site I went to last year with Jeffrey P that exposes some Silurian aged sediments. I've come across differing opinions on what stratigraphy this site exposes. Some consider this site to be part of the Clinton Group and Lockport Formation, while others consider it to be a Rochester Shale/Lewiston Member exposure. Either way, these fossils are Silurian in age. This is a surface collecting locality, where I get down on hands and knees to search for tiny fossils that have weathered out of the under-laying limestone/shale areas on a hillside. There are chunks of matrix to collect as well, that show hashplates of bryozoans, crinoid, and shell material. I arrived to the site a bit after 8:00 AM. I took my time, and scoured the hillside with a pair of +3.00 reading glasses on, to better see the tiny fossils. It stinks, getting old! This is what the area basically looks like: Rock hammer for scale lower center. As I hunted, I threw interesting looking fossiliferous chunks of matrix down to the bottom of the hill, as I explored the surroundings. I took a few small chunks home to put in the garden to weather out some. I came across a few interesting/photo worthy flora and fauna while hunting. A nice Common Daisy: And a little Yellow caterpillar - possibly a Tiger moth caterpillar: Here he is, on the ground, looking for fossils with me. Note the large amount of ramose bryozoan bits, scattered along the ground. There are also some fenestrate bryozoans, and a Leptaena brachiopod visible in this picture. . I spent about 2 to 2.5 hours at the site, moving along on hands and knees, picking up whatever looked interesting. I found quite a few things. Some corals, both Favosites parasiticus, and Enterolasma caliculus. Ramose and Fenestellid bryozoans. A number of small to miniscule brachiopods - Rhynchonellids, spiriferids, and strophomenids. A few bits of trilobites, both Dalmanites and Flexicalymene. A gastropod, which still needs some prep, and a few crinoid bits. (My identifications come from THIS WEBSITE. ) Here is a group shot of my loose finds. I will have to take some pics this evening or tomorrow of my matrix pieces. I found a really nice, large plate of a crinoid calyx. cystoid! Caryocrinites ornatus. Ruler is in CM. Here are the Trilobites: And a Leptaena with a crinoid (or cystoid?) plate attached, and a tiny brachiopod- unidentified at the moment. More to follow.
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Recent Forays in New Jersey (Upper Cretyaceous and Paleocene)
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A couple trips I recently took to New Jersey: The first was two weeks ago- to Ramanessin Brook near Holmdel. Ramanessin exposes the Upper Cretaceous marine Wenonah Formation. I met up with Tony, (NJfossilhunter), who helped introduce me to fossil hunting here back in 2014. .We headed down to a section of the brook that has been productive in the past. Fortunately, a very deep pool that was there on two previous trips is no longer so deep making access a whole lot easier. Here's a photo of the finds I kept. Most of the broken or worn shark teeth I ended up tossing. I did keep a couple of broken goblins as give aways. I work with children. The large goblin Scapanorhynchus texanus was found at the very end of the day in different location downstream. What was notable was the abundance of Squalicorax, crow shark teeth. I think, because of their rounded shape, they tend to be more intact than the other shark teeth. Even some of those I ended up tossing. My best finds of the day were a piece of Enchodus (fish) jaw with an intact tooth and a juvenile mosasaur tooth, 3/8ths of an inch long. I have a mosasaur tooth I found a few years ago that's relatively the same size. Both are my smallest mosasaur teeth.
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From the album: Tertiary
Trochocyanthus sp. Scleractina or Stony Corals Paleocene Vincentown Formation Ranococas Creek Vincentown, N.J. -
Fossil hunting weekend to the Jurassic of Luxembourg (BE & LUX)
ziggycardon posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
Hi everyone, Two months ago our fossil club the BVP (Belgische Vereniging voor Paleontologie) orginized a fossil hunting weekend to the Jurassic of Luxembourg (Both in Belgium & the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg) during the 13th & 14th april 2024. The first day we visited the Socogetra quarry in Sampont, Arlon, Gaume region, Luxembourg, Belgium. The layers in this quarry date back to the early Jurassic, the sinemurian to be exact, around 200 million years ago. While not an extremely rich quarry when it comes to fossils, potential finds are Bivalves like Pinnidae, Greslya, Cercomya and Cardinia. Currenly there was a temporary exposure where some Gastropods were to be found, which were my personal favorite finds in the quarry. Besides that there is a chance to find ammonites (though very rare) as well as sometimes shark teeth (even rarer) and Brittlestars (very rare). The most common finds are crinoïd stems. Day 1: Sampont, Belgium - 13 april 2024 We met in the morning at a forest road which led to the quarry where we met with the quarry owner who told us a bit about the quarry itself. I soon met with my friends Tom & Tineke who I hang out with most during our hunting trips, and we were joined by another girl called Anne who was new in our club but who decided to hang out with us the entire day. While the finds where sparse and not always of great quality we all did go home with some nice gastropods and lots of Crinoïd stems. But most important of all, we had a fun day with great weather and amazing company! Some people were lucky enough to have found some decent ammonites. This was the spot where we started and ended as it seems the best fossils were to be found here. Full of Crinoid stems and if you started sieving the sand you could find the gastropods. We first searched the surface. Lot's of pieces of Crinoïd stems on the sand. After doing some surface hunting we went to a higher level of the quarry. Here we found some bivalves (though not of great quality) as well as some partial ammonites, though other members managed to find complete ones. Partial weathered ammonite block with Bivalves Me & Tineke After finding not really much at the higher level we went back to our original spot but started sieving instead, it was then that we found some of the nicer gastropods. Cardinia sp.
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As I wrote in my previous Deep Springs Road Quarry thread, the very next day I was off to Kentucky. Like my other trips there, the purpose was primarily family/social. My father was turning 95. Between spending quality time with family, I was able to visit a couple of my favorite roadcuts exposing Paleozoic marine sediments and collect specimens I don't have access to in New York. The first site I visited was the very first site I was to acquaint myself with in Kentucky years ago. It is located near the town of Leitchfield, about a half hour from my family in Elizabethtown. Years ago, it was my very first exposure to rocks of the Mississippian Age and it has been a favorite ever since. I've visited this site every time I've been to Kentucky in the past seven years. The site, more specifically, is an Upper Mississippian marine site, the Leitchfield Limestone, Glen Dean Member. Since I've been there last year, they've done a bit of work on the road, installed curbs and a sidewalk, severely restricting the offroad parking situation. It also appears they are planting grass which will limit the collecting area. Fortunately, there was enough room to park my car and the collecting area was still open. The weather was pleasant and sunny as I wandered up and down and across the slopes of weathered shale and limestone exploring and searching for specimens. There were a number of rugose corals present, though most were badly weathered I ended up keeping this one- Zaphrentoides spinulosum:
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It was the day before I was supposed to leave for Kentucky, but the only time we could all get together. The weather prediction kept changing every day, finally settling on cloudy with showers later in the afternoon. Tim (Fossildude19) and I met at 6AM at our usual meeting place, a park n' ride off Interstate 84, and drove up to DSR, stopping once in Roscoe, N.Y. off Route 17 at the diner for coffee and Tim's breakfast sandwich. It was my second time going to DSR this year, but I've been there dozens of times since I first visited the site in the spring of 2013. In late 2014, I introduced Tim, my new fossil hunting buddy to the site and suggested it might be a good place for TFF meetups because of the blanket permission to collect there, the easy accessibility and collecting, and the wide biodiversity and abundance of late Hamilton Group specimens there. The following year we did have our first TFF meetup there and the rest is history: Deep Springs Road Quarry is the easternmost exposure of the Middle Devonian Moscow Formation Windom Shale, the same formation and member that is exposed at Penn Dixie and a number of other sites near Buffalo. However, the marine fauna exposed here is far different from those other sites to the west. Trilobites, especially Eldredgeops and rugose corals are more abundant at those other sites. This site, which was much closer to the Catskill Delta, was likely cloudier and this less hospitable to corals which are uncommon to rare at DSR, but more favorable for bivalves and gastropods. Trilobites are not as abundant as they are near Buffalo, but they are still common. While Eldredgeops trilobites can be found, Greenops trilobites are the most common species seen at DSR, and the second most common are Dipleura dekayi which are pretty rare in western New York. We arrived between 9 and 10. The temp was in the 60s, so good. Dave, (Shamalama), Mike (Biotalker), and Veenasaur and her husband were already there digging. I was Tim made me jealous right off the bat, finding the tiny comma-shaped bivalve, Phestia brevirostra, the only bivalve species I have yet to find at DSR in ten years of active searching. Tim did gift me a specimen a few years back, so I do have one in my collection. It was my first time meeting Veenasaur who came up from Massacusetts. I hadn't seen Dave in at least two years. I always appreciate Dave's focus on things most of us overlook and in the process finding real treasures of the prehistoric world. It was also great seeing Mike again. Last time was at Penn Dixie at the Dig with the Experts, roughly a year ago. Mike found wonderful examples of the rare tear-shaped scallop ancesetor, Mytilarca oviformis and Pseudoaviculopecten princeps. Despite being a bit hobbled having had a bicycle mishap the week before resulting in a broken rib, though I was making an excellent recovery by that point, I made a few decent finds: My favorite was this smallish phyllocarid, Echinocaris punctata, both valves. It was in a pile of rocks. I first found the imprint and a few minutes later, the other side, unfortunately broken, but recoverable.
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Hello, I wanted to see if anyone would be able to identify this fossil I found in Clarington Ohio. I know it's a coral and I know it's a bryozoan and I'm suspecting it's a Rhombopora however I'm willing to look into any of the species you guys can offer! Thanks for your help. (The fossil in question is roughly an inch long if you're wondering)
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Kids & I found corals fairly well preserved in the red clay/dirt & I soaked I water & small amount of vinegar. After cleaning with toothbrushes -They came out sparkly-like a crystalline cover. These are a couple smaller sections. Red clay is difficult to remove. Tips on removing clay without removing the sparkle? Are these worth anything or bother donating to museum. Thank you
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From the album: Credit River Fossils from Streetsville, Ontario (Georgian Bay Formation, Upper Member)
Favistina calicina coral from the Credit River near Streetsville, Mississauga. Georgian Bay Formation, Streetsville Member, late Ordovician. Found as a loose specimen by the banks of the Credit River. This colonial rugose coral is very abundant along the site with many small loose colonies. Some colonies can be found on a limestone matrix. Please click on image sizes to see details of the corallites. -
From the album: Credit River Fossils from Streetsville, Ontario (Georgian Bay Formation, Upper Member)
Favistina calicina Found as a loose specimen at an exposure at the Credit River on Streetsville, Mississauga, Ontario. Late Ordovician, Georgian Bay formation. A rugose colonial coral. Coral approximately 10 cm excluding extra matrix. -
My annual excursion to visit my family which migrated to Kentucky years ago took place at the end of October into November, lasting two weeks. Of course, the planned trip took me in the vicinity of some excellent fossil bearing sediments and though quality time with family was the primary purpose, I did hope to add to my collection. All of the spots I visited were ones I've been to before; however, the first stop was a new one for me- Paulding, well known and documented on the Forum for its Middle Devonian marine fauna. I drove from the suburbs of New York City for almost eleven hours, raining most of the way, arriving at and spending the night at a hotel in Defiance, Ohio. Paulding was about fifteen minutes away. Drove there the following morning, It was a brisk forty degrees, mostly cloudy, but sunny at times. A TFF member I was supposed to hook up with there unfortunately had to bail last minute. A nearby quarry which exposes the famed Devonian Silica Shale had, years ago, stopped allowing collectors to hunt there. There was a big outcry and the quarry set up a fossil park dumping fossiliferous rock onto a property they owned which the public were free to collect from. Much of it is now overgrown and much of the rock has been reduced to gravel. However, there are still many fossiliferous chunks out there if one is willing to look.
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I found this out of a field in western Iowa and I’m not sure what kind of coral it is
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From the album: Middle Devonian
Aulocystis sp. Tabulate Coral Tabulate Corals Middle Devonian Widder Shale Hungry Hollow Member Hungry Hollow (South Pit) Arkona, Ontario -
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Heliophyllum halli Rugose Corals Tabulate Corals Middle Devonian Widder Shale Hungry Hollow Member Hungry Hollow (South Pit) Arkona, Ontario -
From the album: Middle Devonian
Favosites alpenensis Tabulate Corals Middle Devonian Widder Shale Hungry Hollow Member Hungry Hollow (South Pit) Arkona, Ontario -
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Cladopora sp. Tabulate Corals Middle Devonian Widder Shale Hungry Hollow Member Hungry Hollow (South Pit) Arkona, Ontario -
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Cladopora roemeri Tabulate Corals Middle Devonian Widder Shale Hungry Hollow Member Hungry Hollow (South Pit) Arkona, Ontario -
Tabulate Coral from the Dundee Formation, Ontario
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From the album: Middle Devonian
Emmonsia sp. Tabulate Coral Middle Devonian Dundee Formation Pittock Reservoir Woodstock, Ontario -
Tiny Button Coral from Hungry Hollow, Ontario
Jeffrey P posted a gallery image in Member Collections
From the album: Middle Devonian
Microcyclus thetforensis Button Coral Middle Devonian Widder Shale Hungry Hollow Member Hungry Hollow (South Pit) Arkona, Ontario -
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Cystiphylloides sp. Rugose Coral (cross section) Middle Devonian Amherstburg Formation Detroit River Group Formosa Reef Formosa, Ontario-
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From the album: Middle Devonian
Emmonsia sp. Tabulate Corals Middle Devonian Amherstburg Formation Detroit River Group Formosa Reef Formosa, Ontario-
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Hunting 10 days ago, I found a fossils at different spot and now have the time to show these: I believe it to be a Tapir right side mandible with no teeth. As time permits , I may try to ID which tapir. Upper right is an antler stub, then a barnacle cluster and a number of shells that I have not IDed. I think the coral on the right is Solenastrea hyades, which did exist in the Pliocene_Pleistocene of Florida But the fossil I want to identify is this: What is it ?... echinoid ? I have a sand dollar that is something like that... maybe gastropod worn down to an inner slice ? In this case, your guess is definitely as good as mine, because mine is not very good.
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Just would like some options on if it's agatized coral and if yall think it's worth cutting open... 20230827_111655.mp4 20230827_111627.mp4
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From the album: Cretaceous
Micrabacia marylandia Micrabacidae Coral 1/4 inch wide Upper Cretaceous Severn Formation Monmouth Group Prince George's CO., MD. A gift from HistorianMichael-
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Branching Tabulate Coral from Darien Lakes State Park
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From the album: Middle Devonian
Thamnoptychia limbata Branching Tabulate Coral 2 1/4 inches long Middle Devonian Lower Ludlowville Formation Wanakah Shale Hamilton Group Darien Lakes State Park Darien Center, N.Y.
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