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This morning I drove from my hotel in Lawrenceburg, Indiana into Kentucky for a little collecting (more on that on a separate post), and then I driven into Cincinnati, Ohio to attend the Dry Dredgers GeoFair 2022. This is one show that I have always wanted to attend, but never had the time. This year it worked out well since I was stopping over to do some collecting on my way home from Sanibel Island. I arrived at the show at 10:00 am and there was a huge line waiting to get in, I would guesstimate 125+ people. The show was held at the Sharonville Convention Center and it runs Saturday and Sunday. Outside of the venue they have a few people selling things at the Swap Tables. I really do not know much about this, except they cannot take cash and you have to use tokens that are purchased inside to get the items. Once inside, the have to booths that are manned and they collect $10.00 per adult of $15.00 if you are going to visit both days. I do not know how much it is for children. Here are some pictures from the inside of the show. CONTINUED ON NEXT POST-
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I’m looking to get some info on this. Which I found in central Ohio.
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Snake heads, vertebrae and tails, please help me identify species?
GrannyRaeRae posted a topic in Fossil ID
While playing outside with my grandkids I found what I thought were just fossils however discovered they’re snakes. I have quite a few pieces a lot with detailed markings but I’m not sure of species. There’s various sizes and I also found skins, tongues and teeth. Some still have stuff inside of the head. They’re also in different rock/mineral forms. I have many more of various colors, shapes and sized. Thanks for your help
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I found these in my flower beds around my house. I've been noticing some small little fossilized type sea shells that are really tiny in general. I've also found a few other items that I'm really curious about. The first item found looks like a tooth and I'm trying to figure out if it is or not as well as if it is indeed a tooth if it is something that is prehistoric. The other few pictures look like cylindrical rocks that are the same in size and shape. They each have an end on them that looks sort of like they've been clamped and it has a indentation on that end of the rock as well. However the interesting part is that the one that I found that was broke open has almost like a white hard substance on the inside. For the life of me I have researched this and can't figure out what it is. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you very much.
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Hello, I've been recently fascinated by large isotelus trilobites. Does anyone on here own one and would like to show and talk about it, I would if I owned one but I don't see that happening anytime soon haha. This is the largest I've seen for sale so far that would've been 8 inches, would be nice to be able to find one but I don't have that luxury.
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Greetings. I am new to the forum and this is my first post. I'm an amateur collector in Ohio who recently visited the Caesar Creek park and came back with a fossil I can't identify. Here is data about the site: Liberty and Whitewater Formations (Camp, Roadside Geology of Ohio, p. 61) Classified Ordovician Limestone and Shale The fossil is just over six centimeters long. It washed out of the formation naturally; I've done minimal preparation. The fossil has a flattened cone shape. One end has a distinct point, the surface is pitted and wrinkled (skin-like), and there are parallel lines on the opposite end. There are ribbed, tube structures on one side, which I believe are separate fossils (Cornulites or Tentaculites? Thompson, National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Fossils, entries 345, 346). I polished one edge with parallel lines to see internal structure. When I saw the fossil on the ground, I thought, "Large bivalve" because of the parallel lines. But it is not a bivalve. Though it has a cone-like shape, it also does not look like the horn corals I picked up at the same location. Suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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Taxonomy from Lowney 1980. Diagnosis from Lowney 1980, p. 949: "The skull roof is usually ornamented faintly at the lateral borders of the dermopterotics and frontals; the center of the skull roof appears smooth. The maxilla narrows under the orbit and tapers sharply at the anterior end (Text-fig. 3; PI. 2, fig. 4). The nasals are Y-shaped, with a long posterior process. The suboperculum is equal to or larger than the operculum. The lateral line scales remain tall and serrate all the way to the caudal (P1. 1, fig. 5). There are often a few vertebral centra visible anteriorly (Text-fig. 3B). The position of fins is as follows: dorsal-15, anal13, pelvic-6, caudal-21. The depth of the lateral line scales is three and one half times the width." Identified 2015 by TFF member dshamilla. Line drawing from Lowney 1980, p. 943: Microhaplolepis serrata, scale = 2 mm. References: Newberry, J.S. (1856) Description of several new genera and species of fossil fishes, from the Carboniferous strata of Ohio. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 8: 96–100. Westoll, T. S. (1944) The Haplolepidae, a new family of late Carboniferous bony fishes : a study in taxonomy and evolution. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 83, article 1. Lowney, K. (1980) A Revision of the Family Haplolepidae (Actinopterygii, Paleonisciformes) from Linton, Ohio ( Westphalian D, Pennsylvanian). Journal of Paleontology, Vol. 54, No. 5, pp. 942-953. Hook, Robert W and Ferm, J. C. (1985) A depositional model for the Linton tetrapod assemblage (Westphalian D, Upper Carboniferous) and its paleoenvironmental significance. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B 311, 101-109. Hook Robert W. and Baird, Donald (1986) The Diamond Coal Mine of Linton, Ohio, and its Pennsylvanian-age vertebrates. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Vol. 6, 1986, pp. 174-190. Hook, Robert W. and Baird, Donald (1988): An Overview of the Upper Carboniferous Fossil Deposit at Linton, Ohio. The Ohio Journal of Science. v88, n1, 55-60. dshamilla, May 19, 2015: Identifying Paleoniscoid Fishes From Linton Ohio, Upper Pennsylvanian - General Fossil Discussion - The Fossil Forum
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Hi everyone, I only have a couple weeks before I leave for a new chapter in my life and my best bud has been asking me to take him and his boy on a trip. Ohio is only an hour away for us and is significantly warmer right now. Was wondering if anyone could tell me how bad the snow cover is and if we have a chance at some clean ground.
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Good morning, Tank here. I hate asking, especially when I am probably completely wrong too, but I've given myself a migraine searching through other sites. I've narrowed it down to something between anything and everything thanks to Google. I found this one, and quite a few more as well, along the bank of the Tuscarawas River in New Philadelphia Ohio. Google New Phila Hog Heaven and there is the spot I've been getting them. None are exactly alike but all appear to be somehow connected by color texture and all likenesses I guess. I just haven't any idea what I'm finding and my wife calls it Aliens Baby, which is banned from our home. Depending on what it is, I might get to show her the pics posted are from inside, with some priceless help if possible. Thanks for the chance to ask you all.
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New here hopefully learn more about what my family and I have been collecting for last 7 months. I have been studying and can identify some common rocks and fossils but it's a serious uphill battle starting from nothing. Couple bins of random things we have found.
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An End-of-Year Fossil Hunt with Stromatolites Galore
Elasmohunter posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
What better way to celebrate the end of the year than with a little fossil hunting? And the hunt ended with some spectacular stromatolites; read on! ----- When I got an itch to hit the field last month, I reached out to a quarry in Perrysburg, Ohio to collect fossil and mineralogical samples for donation to academic institutions. The quarry was kind enough to grant me permission to collect on their property for several hours in late December, so when the time came, I suited up and headed out with a trusty assistant. The quarry exposed outcrops of the Lockport and Greenfield Dolomites separated by a thin lens of shale. We were permitted to collect from the outsides of the berm piles surrounding the walls, but I wasn't sure what to expect, as dolomites often exhibit poor fossil preservation, and I had never hunted these units before. Even so, we eagerly hit the berm piles with rock hammers in hand. The quarry wall. The Greenfield Dolomite (red line) sits on top of the Lockport Dolomite (blue arrow), which extends to much deeper than the shelf upon which the photo was taken. The shale horizon between them can be clearly seen as a dark line. Almost immediately, I found a small brachiopod, but then it was several more minutes before we found other fossils. We proceeded to find a variety of reef-building organisms. A small brachiopod (1) and . . . the underside of a Favositid coral (2)? A friend suggested that the larger of these two fossils (3) is a Favositid coral. I'm not sure about the smaller one (4); maybe a bryozoan? This find (5) confused me: it looked like a concretion, seemed to be covered in iron oxide, and had an odd, striped/fluted pattern inside. A friend suggested that it could be slickenslides. It was the only rock that I saw that looked anything like this, and it really stood out against the dolomite. The best finds of the day, however, were undoubtedly the stromatolites. The quarry exhibited them in abundance, and they were readily found throughout the berm piles. The rounded tops of a group of stromatolites. The mottled top of a stromatolite. More layers can be seen just above the left side of the rock hammer. Check out this stromatolite (6)! The coin on it is an American penny. It came from a stromatolite that seemed to be at least 60 or 70 cm in diameter. Not only did we find fossils, however; we also found several crystals, as the dolomites were scattered throughout with crystal-containing vugs. Here's the largest crystal that we found. I haven't tested it with acid, but I suspect that it's calcite. We collected a few other crystals too and even saw some purple ones hiding in a seam in a large boulder. Unfortunately, someone beat me in discovering stromatolites here by many decades, so I didn't make an groundbreaking discoveries, but the trip was nevertheless a wonderful way to round out the year, and all of these samples will end up in academic institutions. May you all have even better fossil hunts in the new year! Cheers, Elasmohunter
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Help with Identification of possible Prehistoric? Camel Tooth?
Imanoldfossil posted a topic in Fossil ID
Help with Identification of possible Prehistoric? Camel Tooth? Thank you for looking at this recent find. I found this on the banks of SE Ohio River yesterday. I used Google Lens to possibly identify this as an prehistoric camel tooth. Interestingly enough, this was found in an old trash dump? on the river with other antique broken pottery pieces. The river has widened over the years and now may envelop old dumps as the soil has eroded. Near the tooth, I found an old Indian Trade Pipe. I may be totally wrong, but I think this is a camel tooth. Many years ago, in the 1940's, I was told there was a circus here in this town and there were camels. I also just did a bit of research and found that John Robinson's Circus was at Middleport, Ohio in 1878 in the days when it traveled by boat. So, many possibilities! Thank you for looking!
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Trammel Fossil Park (or other Southern Ohio sites)
ShanLambert posted a topic in Questions & Answers
I will be visiting family around Christmas in Northern KY and was looking at trying out Trammel Fossil Park. This will be a new type of fossil hunting for me, as I am from SC and used to creek hunting for shark teeth and other sea fossils. Has anyone been to this park and would like to give opinions/advice/ pointers? Thanks for any help! I'm excited to look for some new types of fossils! ~Shannon -
Found in a river in central Ohio. The stem made me feel it might be a fossil??? It’s very hard and about the size of a tablespoon. Thanks for your help in identifying.
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Hello! I have been lurking on this Forum for a while because I was very busy lately and still is! I found few fossils and I thought it might be trilobits- pieces of trilobite and also something else that I thought it seems 'fishy' and somewhat resemble a fish spine. These fossils are not found in situ but the bedrocks are Silurian. If they are trilobites, it would be my first time found one! I found this on the beach of Lake Erie, just east of Toledo, Ohio two weeks ago. Approximately half centimeter. Yesterday, I found this fossil on the beach of Lake Michigan in Kenosha, Wisconsin - just north of Illinois state line. It looks like a cross section of a trilobite to me. Approximately a centimeter and half wide. Unknown and resembles a fish spine, approximately two centimeters long. Thank you in advance and I am looking forward to seeing the responses!
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Greetings, all! After exploring outcrops and spoils piles from Quebec down to Florida, we are heading west from Delaware to Crawford, Nebraska and back this fall. Planning to stop by Sylvania, OH and Clear Lake, IA. Probably Richmond, IN. Any other suggestions? Thoughts on these three?
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While heading to visit family in southern Indiana, I decided to leave a day early to do a bit of collecting in the Cincinnatian. The first stop was, as usual, St. Leon, to look for the famous Flexicalymene rollers. In the past, I've usually found 2-4 per visit, but was quite lucky this time, walking away with 10 rollers and my first prone. Here are a couple in situ shots. After a couple hours at St. Leon, I headed towards my hotel. As it turned out, it was just down the road from Trammel Fossil Park. I had not been here before. It exposes several formations (which are helpfully marked). I only spent about 20 minutes here but did find a beat up edrioasteroid (my first!) in the Miamitown. I would imagine it is very picked over, but it's a neat place to visit nonetheless. The following day I woke up quite early and drove down into Kentucky to check out a couple spots in the Kope along the AA Highway. Not much success was had, so I decided to head back towards Cinci to visit a popular site where the crinoid Ectenocrinus is often found. Again, little success. That was until I decided to flip over one last rock sitting right next to my car. And as luck would have it, the rock was covered in crinoids. At least half a dozen individuals were visible, but I suspect that many more are buried.
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How to clean this sandstone(?) out of these cool rocks I found
rock finder posted a topic in Rocks & Minerals
I'm not entirely sure what kind of rocks these are but I found them in a creek in central Ohio. The dark colored rocks form thin wafers with lots of undulations and connections to other wafers, and then appear to get filled in with some kind of ... maybe sandstone? I don't know. If you apply a bunch of pressure and friction to the tan filler rock it will gradually crumble away, but I'm wondering if there's any faster/easier way to remove it from the larger of these two rocks so I can see the darker rock's features and crevices better. I read online that DMSO can help disintegrate sandstone, although I'm not sure if it would do any damage to the darker bands of rock since I'm not sure what those are. I'd appreciate any information or insights you could provide!
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Hello TFF friends, I recently recieved some Ordovician Brachiopods from Ohio and would love some help with getting IDs for them, First up are two Lingulid Brachiopods from the Waynesville Formation: I have not been able to find much on the brachiopods from this formation, the brachiopods also look slightly different so I am not sure if that indicates some kind of different species or these are just differences between individuals. Both are about 1.5 cm in length Next up are two rhynchonellids, these two are preserved together and are about 2 cm in width, perhaps Lepidocyclus sp.? Then finally, there are some brachiopods that I believe are Platystrophia sp., also liberty formation: Thank you for any help!
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I purchased a couple of buckets of fossil/rocks from a friend who found them in the Ohio/Indiana area...which he told me was Ordovician and Silurian. Unfortunatly I've lost the paper that described where this section of fossil/rock came from. At first I thought it was a Crinoid...upon further inspection I noticed that there were patterns along with the ridges. So, I scribed it out of the rock. I noticed that one end was slightly larger than the other and that it was on the "Oval" side. There is a bit of pyritisation...especially inside the small end. So, I'm not really sure ...but I found one similar on the internet(last photo). It looks to be the same but would like your opinions. Thanks Greg
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My son found this in our rock bed landscaping. We live with the Dayton, Ohio region.
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We found this piece in our creek located in Licking County, Ohio. We’ve been wondering what it was from for a several years now and have never found the answer. it is very light weight. Hopefully someone here can assist us!
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This little bone chip is from the Dundee Limestone (Middle Devonian) of Ohio. I find a lot of bone fragments in these rocks, but this one seems different. In particular, along one edge there look like there might be serrations, so maybe a tooth fragment? It measures approximately 1cm at the largest dimension. Thanks for any input.
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I found this specimen in the Silica Shale (Middle Devonian) of Ohio this past weekend. It measures approximately 2cm at the widest point. I have not come across anything like it before. I'm getting a fish vibe but I'm not certain. Any thoughts? Front Back
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I recently found this fossil while walking in a shale creek bed in Cuyahoga County, Ohio (Northeast Ohio just south of Cleveland). The area is late Devonian - early Mississippian. The piece is approximately 11cm x 7cm (4.25in x 2.75in). Any help in identifying it would be greatly appreciated.
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