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Looking for help with some identifications on material from the Red Hill fossil site in Pennsylvania. I think many of them are fish scale fragments, but I am not sure about the others. Thank you in advance! 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
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Fossils from Marcellus Fm (Hamilton Grp) Middle Devonian near Kingston, NY
Bob Clouser posted a topic in Fossil ID
I found some interesting fossils along Rte 209 in Kingston, NY. It's big high road cut in dark maroon shale mapped as middle Devonian Hamilton Group (others say Marcellus shale). Lots of bivalves that I've been calling Palaeoneilo. But similar ones I've come across on this site people are calling Nuculites or Nuculoidea. I included some pictures of these and others: three brachiopods, a trace fossil or plant fossil, and a possibly different bivalve. Any ideas on ID is greatly appreciated. Bivalves I've been calling Palaeoneilo. They all have a distinctive notch coming from the umbo and an inflated triangular shape. Are these Nuculites? I don't know if this is a trace fossil (animal track) or an actual plant fossil. A different bivalve, lacking the notch. A close-up of one of the specimens I've been calling Palaeoneilo. Two brachiopods. Might be same genus? View of the above left-hand brach showing hingeline and sockets. Same as above showing fine concentric and broad radial ornamentation. These two image are of a third brachiopod. Any help is greatly appreciated!! Thanks, Bob
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This is a little prepwork that turned out realy wel. While cleaning up my backlog of goniatites I found this little fellow. The outlines were well visible so I went over some spots with the airscribe to remove a little of the matrix. After that he went in for a little tratment with potassium hydroxide. After rinsing and drying I went over it with a little bit of the micro sandblaster and finaly gave him a layer of collor deepener/stain protecter for used for Marble countertops. Manticoceras sp. Late Devonian - Frasnian -Matagne formation Lompret - Belgium
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Hello everyone, it's been a while since I've been a while since I've been out to collect fossils but yesterday I finally got to enjoy some time collecting and had some interesting finds I thought I'd share. Yesterday morning I got to meet up with @Jeffrey P who showed me his vast and beautiful collection of fossils before we went to collect two locations nearby in Eastern NY. The first location we visited was the Glenerie Limestone, a very interesting location due to the diversity of organisms found there and the unique preservation which results in many silicified shells a number of which are completely out of matrix. This was my second time collecting at this location and as it had just been snowing and everything melted, there was a lot of nice freshly washed out material to pick through. By far the most abundant fossils here are brachiopods and of those, the most common is probably Leptocoelia flabellites, I collected a few of these and some appear on the larger matrix pieces with other fossils but they're really common so only a few were kept: Meristella sp. are also pretty abundant, I picked up a few that I thought had nicer preservation, or were complete as those are not as common at this site These are the shells of two spiriferid, I collected a number of these last time, the most common ones are Acrospirifer sp. and Howella sp. I believe but I do not know how to differentiate between the two This piece of matrix had some particularly nice spiriferids, one was pretty big for the site and another on the side of the piece has really nice preservation of some of the finse structure on the outside of the shell. I also found a Rensselaeria sp. Terebtatulid brachiopod, my second from the location, this one has more of it preserved although it is quite distorted and with little of the shell material but I still kept it as I like these Devonian Terebtatulids and they are not as common. Here's a tiny complete brachiopods I picked up, not sure about the ID yet, the detail preserved on such a small shell is actually pretty nice but the camera doesn't show it that well. Two of the brachiopods found appear to be inarticulate brachiopods, although I'm not sure if it's possible to put an ID to either of them, the first is preserved as an impression, I did look at some of the internal anatomy of lower Devonian inarticulate brachiopods and this does look a lot like Craniops sp. but I don't know if I could call it that without further evidence The other has some shell material but it's small and not completely exposed so I am not sure if it can be identified or even if it is an inarticulate brachiopod And some miscellaneous brachiopods I haven't yet Identified: Here's another item that confused me, it appears to be a brachiopod from the overall shape, as it is flat on one side and is in the shape of a semicircle, but if it is a brachiopod it has some kind of unusual epibiont on it with an unusual structure unlike anything else I've seen, does anyone know what this may be? Other than brachiopods, gastropods are also fairly abundant at the site, last time I was here I found a couple but nothing too special. This time, I don't know if it was the freshly washed out material, a better pattern recognition or just pure luck I found a lot, of different sizes and different quality. I was very happy to find these they're really interesting and I love the way they are preserved here, here is most of them: most of not all of them are Platystoma sp. I believe. And finally, I also found a coral, the first time I was at the site I found a tabulate coral which @Jeffrey P told me is the first he'd seen ever from this site, and this time I found a solitary rugose coral. Unfortunately it is cracked as it was laying on the surface, exposed to the elements but I was able to safely get it home and I'm currently trying to stabilize it with some glue, hopefully it will remain intact. I believe it might belong to the species Enterolasma strictum. After Glenerie we stopped at a site not far away which was in the Middle Devonian, lower Hamilton Group, part of the Marcellus Shale, also a very interesting site which was new to me, and we had some nice finds there too which I will post later once I get them photographed. Thanks for looking! Misha
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New site for me: NY rte 9W opposite Glenerie Falls, NY
Bob Clouser posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
Back in August I spent about an hour at a new site for me: along NY Rte 9W opposite and a little north of Glenerie Falls. Mostly limestone. I think it's mapped as Onondaga but I'm not sure. Early or middle Devonian. Below are some pictures. I was hoping some of the experts could suggest identification for them. Any help is appreciated. Lots of spiriferid brachiopods. Two trilobite pygidia. One I think is Phacops. The other I'm not sure: Dechenella, Dalmanites, or Odontochiles. And a tiny little brachiopod with both valves. Thanks, Bob
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I'm currently in Alfred, NY, and ventured out to visit a part the creek nearby. After wading for a few seconds, I looked down to find that almost every stone in the brook was some form of Devonian fossil! I grabbed a few of the closest and nicer looking ones near me and cleaned them up a little or photographed them. Will definitely do some more exploring soon!
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I found several Devonian Martin Formation vertebrate fossils near Payson: probably fish. 1: The larger one is about 8 inches between the yellow marks. See detail of photo. Is this a head? 2: is a 2-3 mm piece that sort of looks like a jaw section with teeth. All were left because I have no permit to collect. The rest of the photos are probably exterior fish plates except for 4 which is about 5 cm long. Any possible IDs? Thanks. @oilshale
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Hello again kind people I tried to get a picture through a magnifying glass because apparently the iPhone 15 zooms like a potato. I’m so sorry they are not clear. My next purchase will be a magnifier with screen. This micro fossil is 10mm (1 cm) or 3/4”. It was in the fine sand after sifting and washing a bunch of other micro bits from the Devonian Widder fm. Is it a fish tooth? It doesn’t look like any other bactrites or tentaculites that I usually find. I’ve also never found a fossil in Ontario this colour. thank you for your input.
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I'm currently working on a simulation of extinct biomes, i'm slowly learning how to make everything as realistic as possible for realtime 3d simulation. I would like to start with plants recreated from some Silurian, lower devonian and upper devonian, and slowly working to recreating the biomes in the areas where they lived and later i'l like to add animals aswell. All my research is made with google i'm not a professional in archeology or 3d art, some of the models are very simple and unpolished for now and will be updated. The project is in the early stages for now but it runs very well on most pc's Here are ome of the plants that lived in the late devonian Tetraxylopteris and leaf detail Archeopteris and branch detail Calamophyton Protolepidodendropsis Uang (China) Weylandia rhenana Aneurophyton Wattieza Leclercqia
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From the album: Vertebrates
Yenisei river, Krasnoyarsk. Devonian. -
From the album: Vertebrates
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A recent trip of mine brought me through Kingston and Glenerie where I briefly stopped by a road cut in each. If anyone has good resources for identifying fossils from Glenerie, let me know. My book on New York Devonian fossils overlooks them. I’d also appreciate any species identifications. Here are the fossils from Kingston: and from Glenerie
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From the album: Plants (miscellaneous)
Kursk Oblast. Givetian (Devonian). Bought from a private collection. -
From the album: Novgorod Oblast
Buregskaya or Rdeyskaya Formation of the Ilmen Klint in Novgorod Oblast, Russia. Frasnian (Devonian). -
From the album: Novgorod Oblast
Buregskaya or Rdeyskaya Formation of the Ilmen Klint in Novgorod Oblast, Russia. Frasnian (Devonian). -
From the album: Novgorod Oblast
Buregskaya or Rdeyskaya Formation of the Ilmen Klint in Novgorod Oblast, Russia. Frasnian (Devonian). -
From the album: Novgorod Oblast
Buregskaya or Rdeyskaya Formation of the Ilmen Klint in Novgorod Oblast, Russia. Frasnian (Devonian). -
From the album: Invertebrates
Mitrocystites styloideus DEHM 1934 Alternative name: Anatifopsis styloidea Early Devonian Emsian (early) Bundenbach Hunsrück Rhineland-Palatinate Germany-
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Looking to identify this fossil found on the shore of Lake Michigan in Saugutuk, Michigan.
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Buregskaya or Rdeyskaya Formation of the Ilmen Klint in Novgorod Oblast, Russia. Frasnian (Devonian).
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Plates of placoderm Plourdosteus trautscholdi and other fish remains
Krauklis posted a topic in Member Collections
Buregskaya or Rdeyskaya Formation of the Ilmen Klint in Novgorod Oblast, Russia. Frasnian (Devonian). Specimen 1. Impression of Plourdosteus trautscholdi plate Specimen 2. Fish bones Specimen 3. Fish bone/plate Specimen 4. Fish bones Specimen 5. Plourdosteus trautscholdi plate (+ lots of crinoid fragments) Specimen 6. Plourdosteus trautscholdi plate
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Buregskaya or Rdeyskaya Formation of the Ilmen Klint in Novgorod Oblast, Russia. Frasnian (Devonian). Some of the thousands of shell fossils from the Lake Ilmen. As a bonus, one of the casts contains a nice little geode. Specimen 1. Specimen 2: Specimen 3:
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Buregskaya or Rdeyskaya Formations of the Ilmen Klint in Novgorod Oblast, Russia. Frasnian (Devonian).
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Is this a leaf fossil? And what is the second fossil I have?
Samuel.73727 posted a topic in Fossil ID
Found in a road cut in west va I’m wondering if it a leaf fossil. The second one I have no idea what it is and am wondering what it could be? fossil 1 fossil 2
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Trying in vain to identify some of the unusual erratic fossils that have washed onto the Delmarva Peninsula from probably hundreds of miles away. Some are oddly common but I can't find them in the NJ, NY or PA literature I have. Anyone recognize this circular life form? It's only a few mm across. Took the picture with a microscope camera. Looks like coral, but I can't find it in the books. This is one of a couple I found, both elliptical and dimpled.
