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Hi this was found at the Wrens Nest in Dudley UK. I believe it is a Gastropod shell and I was wondering if anyone could confirm or offer me a species name? It seems a little crushed and flattened at the tip.
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Pasternakevia Podolica and Eurypterus Tetragonophtalmus
Svetlana posted a topic in Member Collections
Hello, my friends. Recent find - Pasternakevia Podolica and Eurypterus Tetragonophtalmus on one sample. Upper Silurian, Epoch of Ludlow, Gortian Stage, Ustovska World (427.4 million years). Place of discovery - Khmelnitsky region, Ukraine. Have a nice day
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Hi, here's another batch of brachiopods I found at the Wrens Nest, Dudley, UK. I have grouped these together as they seemed a similar shape. Upon closer inspection however, I noticed that they have differing amounts of ribs on the valves. (Ontogenetic?) I was hoping for some species names if possible. Thanks in advance.
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Hello, fossil fanatics! It has been awhile since I have done a trip report. This past Summer was extremely hot and busy for me. Due to this I haven't gotten out much until a couple weeks ago. On August 24, my friend @Buffalopterus and I decided to go on a hunt. We started off at a site which had no shade, but full sun. We roasted to nearly being overcome with heat exhaustion. Because of this, and not having much luck in finding anything, we decided to take a break and rethink our plan. I would like to mention that @Buffalopterus (Stephen) had suffered heat exhaustion a few weeks prior while out hunting. An ambulance had to be called and he went to the hospital. Just a cautionary tale, as a reminder of things that can happen in the field. After getting lunch and sitting in the air conditioning of my truck we formulated a new plan to go to a different site for Devonian fossils where we may get some shaded area if we needed it. As we were on our way, we came to an intersection which Stephen recognized was only about a mile and a half from a Eurypterid site so we decided to go there instead. We were both still hot and weak but the lure of fossils was strong. When we got there we found a spot that looked promising and I was able to removed a couple slabs. I was shocked when I flipped one over and saw the outline of my first Eurypterid! Unfortunately the preservation is not the greatest as the Eurypterid was in a ud filled crack. The positive side has a crusty coating which the Eurypterid blends in with and is hard to see. The negative was also in the mud but did not have the crusty coating on it. Unfortunately when I tried to remove it it broke it half and one side broke into a bunch of pieces. It is really a shame as the positive half shows the appendages but the preservation is just bad. Anyways I was still excited and dug some more after another couple slabs came another Eurypterid in the crusty layer. This had the head and body, but yet again the preservation horrible. The Eurypterid itself crumbled apart by the time I got home and left me with just the negative. Stephen and I were both excited to find those despite the condition, but we were exhausted and decided to call it quits but we knew we were on to something good and knew we had to get back there A.S.A.P. To be continued................. I apologize but these do not photograph well.
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I have tried to group some brachiopods I found at the Wrens Nest, Dudley, UK into groups which I believe are matching species. (I'm suspicious that #4 may not match) Can anyone please identify the species of these ones? They are the smallest ones I found. Thank you in advance.
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Hi. I believe these to all be the same species ( please correct if I'm wrong.) They were found at the Wrens Nest, Dudley. I was wondering if anyone could identify their spices? They all have a distinctive kink in the top of the shell which I tried to show in the pictures. Thank you in advance.
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I have piece of rock from the Waldron shale that has a small bumpy black piece on it, was thinking maybe a piece/small fragment of a placoderm?
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Hi. I was wondering if anyone had any information on this shell I found today at the Wrens Nest, Dudley, Uk. I've found many brachiopods there, but never a shell like this. It seems to bend at almost a 90° angle at its outer edge. I'm not sure if the pictures clearly show this. If it originally had one, the other half of the shell is missing.
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From the album: Rose Hill Formation
Liocalymene clintoni, Perry County, Pennsylvania- 3 comments
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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: Rose Hill Formation
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From the album: Kaliningrad Oblast
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From the album: Kaliningrad Oblast
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Hello All Fossil Finders! New here and excited to share my finds and learn along the way. I have searched everywhere on information on these structure like rocks and the only similar info I can find is either they are flow rocks or stalagmites. I find these everywhere on my property in the ground and some in a creek bed. Live in Oldham County KY near the Ohio river, which it looks also falls in some fault planes. Any info would be much appreciated!
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Taxonomy from Fossilid.info. This species was originally described by Barrande under the name Graptolithus turriculatus. References: Barrande, J. (1850). Graptolites de Bohême. Extrait du Systême Silurien de la Bohême. 74 pp. Published by the author, Prague. Loydell, D.K., Štorch, P. and Melchin, M.J. (1993). Taxonomy, evolution and biostratigraphic importance of the Llandovery graptolite Spirograptus. Palaeontology 36, 909-926. Persson, Ch. (1999). Silurian graptolites from Bohemia, Czech Republic. Examensarbete i geologi vid Lunds Universitet. 20 poäng. Nr. 107, pp. 1-23.
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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.
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I'm making a vain attempt at identifying some of the tumbled fossil cobbles that have travelled probably hundreds of miles to the Delaware shore. Does anyone recognize this life form? It's maybe all of a cm long. Photo taken with a digital microscope.
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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 life form? Scale is in cm.
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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 life form? Scale is in cm.
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I visited the Baoding Natural History Museum today. It’s advertised as the largest Natural History museum in Asia. They’ve got a nice dinosaur collection, but I visited and focused on the great exhibit on the early fishes of Yunnan. I apologise for the fuzzy photos as the nice ones took up too much. But first, some other nice things they had on display. A Pulalius from Washington, lovely leg tips but not comparable to the ones prepped and shown on here. Lovely Edicarian stuff. Moroccan material, some lovely spiny things. Chengjiang Biota. And others. This Ordos basin material is pretty cool. Group. Next post-
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Some sort of trace fossil? Mortimer Forest, Shropshire UK (Silurian)
EntomoloJosh posted a topic in Fossil ID
Hello, Had this one for a while now but never figured out what it was? I collected this a while ago on my first fossil hunting trip, in Mortimer Forest, UK. Not sure at all what it is, not even sure it is a fossil? There's no other unusual markings on the rock as far as I can tell. Thank you!
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Is this half a gastropod shell? Wenlock Edge, UK (Silurian)
EntomoloJosh posted a topic in Fossil ID
Hello, I collected this a while back from Wenlock Edge in Shrosphire, and I've now extracted it from the rock it was in. Judging from the two 'holes' at either end, I think it might be a gastropod? I've included a (very crude) drawing to show what I mean. Thank you!
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Is this the (crushed) cup of a crinoid? Wenlock Edge, UK (Wenlock, Silurain)
EntomoloJosh posted a topic in Fossil ID
Hello, I collected this fossil from Wenlock Edge (Shropshire, UK) earlier this year, and only now have I gotten around to sorting my finds from them. Anyway, is what I have circled in red the crushed cup of a crinoid? If so, is it possible to get further than "crinoid"?, and also is it possible to ID crinoids based off stem cross sections (as seen just above the red circle? Thank you!
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Fossil Identification Request (Might not even be a fossil, I can't find much on it.)
Freelanceangler06 posted a topic in Fossil ID
Hello All, This is my first post on Fossil Forum and I have a question on the find during my second ever fossil hunt. The location is a quarry in Northeastern Wisconsin, on the western edge of the Niagara Escarpment I believe. I'm not sure, but I think these are fossils? I had to do a double take when I first saw it, as I though they could be from drilling into the quarry wall or something, but I found 4 or 5 of various sizes with the biggest one that was exposed to the face of the quarry being about 2 inches in diameter. I also was wondering if 2 of the photos (6 and 7) were a stromatolite? I found all these in about 3 hours, along with a big coral. So I will be going back this weekend
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From the album: Fossil Collection: DC Area and Beyond
Astraeospongia sp. Decatur County, TN Beech River Formation Silurian
