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Hello! I’m from southeast Michigan but I’ve also collected in OH, PA, NJ, MD, and VA on a handful of trips. Another of which I’m going on in a week, down to NJ and MD with lots of stops in PA, back to a few spots I’ve been before, with some new ones along the way. I’m currently in my third year as a dual environmental science and geology undergrad, and hoping to go further in my education towards paleontology. I’m not currently in any of my local clubs, I do plan to join some after my trip, but I am a member of the AIPG chapter at my university. I’m looking forward to meeting new people with a similar passion and I will appreciate the help with identification. And if there’s any fellow local fossil hunters give me a shout.
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A friend of mine found this fossil on South Point of Thunder Bay near Alpena, Michigan. The fossils here are from the Devonian Period. My best guess is that it's syringopora. Any identification help is appreciated. Thanks!
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Found this by Southfield Road, Lathrup Village, Michigan more than 50 years ago, so it could have come in limestone used for road construction. Is it a fish fin (as I assumed at the time) or perhaps a crinoid crown?
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Thunder Bay Formation- Partridge Point Blastoids
Tales From the Shale posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
Here is a comprehensive list of most of the blastoids personally found by me at PP. This is roughly 80 hours worth of collecting the site from 4 total trips. Placoblastus obovatus: Specimen 2 Specimen 3 Hyperoblastus bassleri: Heteroschisma subtruncatum: Nucleocrinus meloniformis: Specimen 2 Specimen 3 Unknown blastoids: Specimen 2 Going to post one massive topic about Partridge Point tomorrow, still working out how to shrink photos so it isn't a mile long. -
From the album: Misha's Middle Devonian Fossils
Strophodonta crassa brachiopods + 1 Atrypids in the top center. Covered with epibionts like microconchids, hederellids, coral. Givetian Potter Farm Fm. Alpena MI Gifted to my be @connorp- 2 comments
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I drive 8 hours with a friend to a location he remembers from his childhood as yielding a lot. Oh boy it did. 100% worth the drive. Lake Huron, among the agates, pyrite, yooperlite, has some extraordinary Devonian fossils. All fossils were collected from the beach of his family’s property except for the fenestelid bryozoan, which was found at a gas station on the way there. please enjoy this collection of gastropods, petoskey stones, various tabulate corals, crinoids, stromatoporoids, bivalves, Brachiopods, tenteculites, horn corals, an unidentified agatized fossil in jasper matrix, and a pudding stone I felt like showing off too. Thanks! I highly recommend the area.
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A couple weeks ago I took a road trip along the entire border of the lower peninsula of Michigan. One of the days was spent collecting Devonian fossils around Alpena. I visited four sites and had a lot of luck, finding dozens of crinoid calyxes, a couple trilobites, and many other interesting things. It will take me a while to sort through everything, but I did finish cleaning up finds from one of the sites and wanted to share. Nothing groundbreaking, but all good finds for me as I rarely get to collect in the Devonian. The coral Trachypora sp. A partial Dolatocrinus calyx encrusted by a bryozoan A partial crinoid holdfast A partial Dolatocrinus calyx (top left) and some plates from a Megistocrinus calyx (center)
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This was acquired in petoskey along the water and I'm still not entirely sure if it's even a fossil at all, it looks like it could be a crinoid stem to me but there are people who know more about crinoid fossils than me
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Small collection of fossils from the Potter Farm Formation (Alpena, MI)
Cassandra Tiensivu posted a topic in General Fossil Discussion
This is a small sampling of some of the more interesting things to come out of the Potter Farm Formation in Alpena, Michigan via one bucket of screen washed muck. Crinoid pieces: Cystoid segments: Trilobite fragments: A platyceras: Blastoids: Loads of brachiopods: And tentaculites: Not pictured are the over abundance of bryozoans. -
Here’s one (technically three) from the Potter Farm formation (Alpena, MI) that I really have no idea on. Crinoid, maybe? All three pieces are basically the same. I just set them up at different angles so you could see how they looked from different views. Any thoughts?
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Hello I found this fossil on the beach shore of Lake Huron just north of Port Sanilac, Michigan while visiting. Can someone help identify what it is and maybe how old it is? The fossil image itself is about 3 & 1/2 inches long by 1 & 1/2 inches wide, it appears to have legs on the sides and fins in the back. Thank you!
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I collected a bucket of muck from my favorite ditch in Alpena (Michigan), and screen washed it. This is the Potter Farm formation. There have been some very interesting things to come out from it. Most of it I can give a basic ID to, but this one has me perplexed. A friend suggested they might be disarticulated pieces of a cystoid. I have never found cystoids before, so this is completely new territory for me. Does anybody have any thoughts? Front: Back: (Sorry about the pen! I misplaced my ruler. Needed something for scale.)
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All Devonian -ish. First is from port Huron, second is from the Milwaukee formation, third is from the Nike missile site in Waukesha WI
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Found two of these fossils now. Both on beaches that are probably Devonian in age. One is from SW Wisconsin on Lake Michigan and the other is in the Lower peninsula of Michigan from the shores of Lake Huron. Organ pipe coral or some sort of burrow trace fossil? Thanks!
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Hi! Just wanting to see if I can get any IDs on my recent finds from Lake Michigan. Thanks for any help. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
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My daughter found this off of Lake Huron shoreline and did a lick test and it stuck.We tried looking online but couldn’t figure it out, does it look like a fossil and if so what kind? Thank you! We are newbies here. (Front and back pictures)
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I found this about a year ago in a farmers field in central/mid Michigan, US. It is rather light. Not much weight to it. Thanks for any help!
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Mastodon Skeleton Discovered in Grand Rapids, Kent County, Michigan
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Mastodon Skeleton Discovered in Grand Rapids, Kent County, Michigan Oakland County Times, August 2022 Kent County road crews discover Mastodon bones by Meghan Bunchman, WOODTV, August 12, 2022 Yours, Paul H.-
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Sorry I don’t have clearer photos or anything in here for scale. This is freshly pulled from a ditch in Alpena, Michigan and we’re still out in the field. I had no idea Michigan had spiked gastropods. Any help on an ID would be most appreciated.