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Collecting from the Blue Springs, MS. Coon Creek Member, Ripley Formation
Jeffrey P posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
A little over a week ago I flew to Memphis and then drove down to Tupelo, Mississippi to spend two days collecting at the nearby Blue Springs fossil site, Upper Cretaceous, Ripley Formation, Coon Creek Member. It was my fourth trip there in the past two years. Weather was decent- 65 degrees the first day, 55 the second., a mix of sun and clouds both days. The site was very mucky the first day there, but it dried up for the most part by the second. The first time I visited there, the surface collecting was excellent. Not so much the last three times and this time was exceptionally poor. So, as you can see from the photo, I did a lot of digging. The softer material near the top did have fossils, but normally they crumpled as soon as they were exposed. One particular small nautiloid that was original shell material and mostly gold color was especially heart breaking. As I dug deeper, more intact fossils appeared in the now tougher marl, mostly mollusks with at least some shell material though much of it came off when the rock split.- 31 replies
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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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Show us your shrimp fossil. A silly little thread or It could be shrimply fun. A birthday gift of MrsR this stunning and rare Carboniferous Muirhouse / Granton Fossilised Shrimp Bed, Edinburgh, Scotland. Gorgeous example that has some exceptional Crangopsis specimens preserved upon it. Lower Carboniferous, some 359 to 323 million years ago. I think it is worthwhile posting on the forum it a beauty. cheers Bobby
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Would like to label the species if possible, I'm hoping the antennae help? Found in Washington (the beautiful one) 260238205_Crab2_83mm.tif Antennae.tif
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From the album: Cretaceous
Protocallianassa morton Ghost Shrimp Claw in Matrix Upper Cretaceous Wenonah Formation Matawan Group Big Brook Marlboro, N.J.-
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Hi Everyone, Last month I took a trip from New York to Elizabethtown, Kentucky to attend my parents' 70th anniversary. My sister and her husband, two of her adult children, and my parents, both in their 90s have all resettled there. I try to visit them at least once per year, but my parents' 70th wedding anniversary could not be missed. It is a very long trip from the suburbs of New York City to E-Town and a stop along the way was the sensible thing to do, so I spent the night in Harrison, Ohio near the border with Indiana and only 15 minutes from St. Leon, the well known Ordovician roadcut. I've been there twice before. It is a huge outcrop, fossiliferous from top to bottom, with plenty to explore. With even a full day it is impossible to do justice to the site. As it was, I spent a half day. Most of you I'm guessing have been to or seen pictures of the roadcut. Here's a couple anyway:
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Could these be compression fossils of Paleozoic invertebrates (such as someone of the strange shrimp-like creatures)? Crane Hill, AL Carboniferous Thanks for looking.
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Hoploparia gabbi Partial Lobster (just under 3.5 inches long) Upper Cretaceous Wenonah Formation Matewan Group Ramanessin Brook Holmdel, N.J. A gift from Ralph Johnson- an unprepared specimen in a concretion- later, partially prepared by this writer.-
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I got a box of micro matrix from PaleoCris - Bone Valley Formation from Florida and I am STUNNED by the beautiful colors and preservation! I knew Bone Valley stuff was good...but wow. And he threw in some "extra" fossils of a nice big echinoid and a claw of some thing...maybe extinct armadillo. I still havn't gone through all the matrix, but wanted to show ya'll some of the nice stuff: All are around 1/8 inch - 1/4 inch This crazy Fish tooth plate - Labrodon sp. I think this is Baracuda? I love the little ray teeth Rhynchobatus. Sadly, this one leaped for freedom from my tweezers right after I photographed it. Gone gone. A pretty blue one Rhibobatus sp. Some Crab Claws I hope I find a whole sting ray tail spine. And of course...the SHARK TEETH! THE COLORS! And I am in no way confident in my ID on these teeth, so if you see something ID'd wrong, please let me know. Galeocerdo contortus Carcharhinus plumbeus Negaprion brevirostris Unsure of the ID on this one. If you know it, please enlighten me! Carcharhinus leucas Carcharhinus brachyurus
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Jurassic, Callovian, Oxford Clay, Peterborough Member, Yaxley, Cambridgeshire I've found a few of these recently, and been trying to puzzle them out. I had thought they might be crab claws. Today I found my largest and best preserved one so far. I can clearly see plates, but I haven't found plates on images of Jurassic crustaceans, including in Martill. What it more looks like is the diagram of Ophiuroids in the book, which is what @JamieLynn, suggested might be the case, due to the plates. I have found brittle star at the site before, but the preservation was very different, not at all pyratised. So I'm wondering if this is Ophiroid, crustacean or something else entirely. If crustacean I was wondering about Thalassinidea, because I find so many burrows. I've attached images of the fossil and images from this article for comparison: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-paleontology/article/brittle-stars-from-the-british-oxford-clay-unexpected-ophiuroid-diversity-on-jurassic-sublittoral-mud-bottoms/8B34E184DFCF1CEEE275194CE2498B17 Any help would be greatly appreciated. The ends I find particularly fascinating.
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Since Thanksgiving I'd only been out collecting once. Snow and cold, car repair, work, and other personal matters effectively kept me out of the field. Finally, yesterday I was able to get back out again. I wasn't waiting for ideal conditions and it was COLD!!!!! Temperature only reached 38 degrees and there was little sun for warmth. Winter collecting for me is usually the Cretaceous brooks of Central New Jersey, two hours south of where I live in New York City's northern burbs. Most of the time I go with frankh8147, a great companion, but unfortunately not free that day. He was out collecting Pennsylvanian ferns. Normally we go to Big Brook, but since I was going solo I decided to hit Ramanessin instead. I have a favorite spot I hadn't been to in many months I thought worth checking out again. After I arrived I first I hit a different spot that's closer (and much easier to get to) where I found a hadrosaur tooth last year, a small area that's either hot or not and this time it was not. After a half hour of sifting I decided it wasn't worth staying in that spot so I moved upstream to my favorite area. Getting there was a challenge since there were more downed trees and one I had to crawl under, getting my clothes wet and muddy in the process. Finally got there and started sifting. The first sift turned up what I believe is a small crocodile tooth, 5/8ths of an inch long. It is only my second Cretaceous croc tooth I've ever found and knew already it was going to be my find for the day. A bit later I found a Protocallianassa morton (ghost shrimp) claw, one of my best (includes the bottom pincer). Besides those two finds it was nothing to write home about: The four common shark teeth, Archaeolamna kopeingensis, Cretolamna appendiculata, both mackerel sharks, Scapanorhynchus texanus (goblin shark), and Squalicorax sp. (crow shark), a small shark vert. I picked up a few of damaged goblin shark teeth as giveaways. Also found a small Anomoeodus phaseolus (a pycnodontid shell crushing tooth) and a small Enchodus fang. Also found a partial rodent (beaver) incisor. Most likely recent but could be Pleistocene. I left a bit early because of the cold, but over all this was, after a long hiatus, a fairly nice return. Looking forward to more outings this spring with Frank and then up to New York's Paleozoic sites.
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Pygocephalomorph crustaceans? What species? I found hundreds of these today, it's funny as I have not even seen these in this location before and today they where everywhere. Also found some mesosaur material, not the best specimens. These fossils are found in the early to middle permian Ecca group which is a part of the Karoo super group. Today I was just thinking how blessed I am to have a variety of different aged formations so close to home. I live in the heart of the Devonian bokkeveld and witteberg group which forms part of the cape supergroup, there are Mio-Plio-pleistocene deposits an hour and half west and south, as well as some Karoo super Group locations 10min from my home. So much to explore and learn. Also this forum has really helped me these last couple of months since I have taken fossil hunting much more seriously now, than in the last few years. Thanks to everyone
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I was not aware but convergent evolution has created crab shaped creatures 5 separate times! https://boingboing.net/2020/10/15/animals-have-evolved-into-a-crab-like-shape-at-least-5-separate-times.html
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Hi, I would really appreciate an ID on these crustaceans found 2019 at Miami, Mermaid And Nobby beaches on the Gold Coast, Australia. I've done some basic research and came up with Pliocene era. Thankyou so much!
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From the album: Crustacean Fossils of the Pliocene era in South East Queensland.
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From the album: Crustacean Fossils of the Pliocene era in South East Queensland.
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From the album: Crustacean Fossils of the Pliocene era in South East Queensland.
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From the album: Crustacean Fossils of the Pliocene era in South East Queensland.
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From the album: Crustacean Fossils of the Pliocene era in South East Queensland.
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From the album: Crustacean Fossils of the Pliocene era in South East Queensland.
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From the album: Crustacean Fossils of the Pliocene era in South East Queensland.
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From the album: Crustacean Fossils of the Pliocene era in South East Queensland.
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From the album: Crustacean Fossils of the Pliocene era in South East Queensland.
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My top soil is very rocky. When I'm working in my garden I remove the rocks that surface over time, sometimes I toss them in a bucket, sometimes curiosity overcomes me and I bring them into my kitchen sink, this rock below is one such such curiosity. Now I have the Fossil Forum! I was wandering through your Collections, crustaceans and there was something familiar about the photo of the Pulatius Vugaris. Further research on the web led me to following article, A new mid-Silurian aquatic scorpion-one step closer to land? January 1 2015 Janet Waddington, David M Ruskin and Jason A. Dunlop The article explains the fossil was found by workers who had purchased the shale from a local quarry. They were doing a landscape project.The authors wrote “We postulate that these animals were aquatic but occasionally ventured into extremely shallow water or into a transient sub aerially exposed surface while moulting before returning to deeper water” They named this new species Eramoscorpius Brucenis (named after the Bruce Peninsula ). The rock is now soaking in vinegar. I’m planning to remove more matrix, and possibly removing the shells and seeing if I can piece this together? Not sure if this is do able. So I’m asking for any advice available, any thoughts?
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Found this yesterday. Not perfectly round, but really close. Very smooth except the “eyes”. There is a pattern of sorts that looks like a crab, maybe. Diameter is the same as a penny.
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