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Last sunday was my first time hunting this year I went hunting in a place which contains old coast defences. The rocks are Tournaisian in age, probably from the area Tournais, or maybe the area of Soignies. The fossils are Tournaisian aged. I mostly found corals; Caninia sp., Michelina favosa etc. and brachiopods; Spirifer, Aletyphorus, Productus, Leptaenea, Rhipidomella etc. I also found trilobite pygidia from Plitonia kuehnei. When i came home and started unpacking everything i found out i was blessed. I had found a very rare Cochliodus contortus tooth without knowing it. some of my finds : 1: Caninia sp. 2: Piltonia kuehnei 3: Michelina favosa 4: unidentified 5: Cochliodus contortus 6: unprepped, probably Leptaenea analoga 7: Aletyphorus tornaciensis
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These fossils are from old coast defences. They are probably from the region around Tournais, the type locality of the Tournaisian. Can someone help me to ID these? I cant find any good literature to ID these. thanks. Jasper
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Taxonomy from Poplin & Lund 2000. Description for the genus from Woodward 1893, p 286: "Trunk elegantly fusiform, more or less elongated. Mandibular suspensorium oblique, and dentition compromising conspicuous well-spaced conical laniaries; external head and opercular bones completely ornamented with striations, vermiculating rugae, and dots of ganoine. Fins small, without fulcra, and the rays delicate, distally bifurcated. Dorsal and anal fins triangular, the former opposed to the space between the pelvic and anal fins; upper caudal lobe slender and the caudal fin forked. Scales large and thick, covered with ganoine and ornamented with transverse ridges, usually serrated at the hinder border; principal flank-scales not much deeper than broad, and no enlarged series of ridge-scales; lateral line conspicuous." Line drawing from Birstein et al. 1997, p. 17: Identified by oilshale. References: Woodward (1893) Palaeichthyological Notes. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) 12. Obruchev, D.V. 1955. L.S. Berg’s works on fossil fishes. pp. 127– 137. In: E.N. Pavlovskii (ed.) To the Memory of Academician L.S. Berg, Izdatelstvo Akademii Nauk USSR, Moscow (in Russian). Birstein, V. & Bemis, W. E. (1997) Leo Semenovich Berg and the biology of Acipenseriformes: A dedication. Environmental Biology of Fishes 48: 15–22. Lund, R. & Poplin, C. (1997) The Rhadinichthyids (Paleoniscoid Actinopterygians) from the Bear Gulch Limestone of Montana (USA, Lower Carboniferous). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Vol. 17, No. 3, pp. 466-486. Lund, R. & Poplin, C. (2000) Two New Deep-Bodied Palaeoniscoid Actinopterygians from Bear Gulch (Montana, USA, Lower Carboniferous). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 20(3):428-449.
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Complete newbie with a bunch of new fossils so brace yourselves. The fossil was found in east Clare (Ireland) Waulsotian limestone. This rock is dated Tournaisian - Lower Visean, and is a mix of solid limestone & a brittle lime mud. (Id'd using geological survey maps) "Waulsortian limestone is extensively developed in Ireland, and it represents a phase of submarine bank development during the Tournaisian (Mississippian, Carboniferous). These carbonate buildups are rich in (now lithified) lime mud, contain a shelly marine fossil fauna and generally lack any sign of a rigid supporting framework." Murray, John & Henry, Tiernan. (2018) Lots of crinoid, bryozoan and brachiopod fossils found a round it. It appears to be a part of a longer section (unexcavated). I wasn't able to find anything online that resembled it so would be delighted if anyone could steer me towards an answer. Thanks! Source Material: Bedrock Survey Map https://www.gsi.ie/en-ie/data-and-maps/Pages/Bedrock.aspx, Quoted Abstract: Murray, John & Henry, Tiernan. (2018). WAULSORTIAN LIMESTONE: GEOLOGY AND HYDROGEOLOGY. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/324746661_WAULSORTIAN_LIMESTONE_GEOLOGY_AND_HYDROGEOLOGY Dims: Length 70mm (2.75in), Diameter 28mm (1.1in)
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Bicknell, R.D. and Pates, S., 2019. Xiphosurid from the Tournaisian (Carboniferous) of Scotland confirms deep origin of Limuloidea. Scientific reports, 9(1), pp.1-13. open access A related paper is: Bicknell, R.D., Pates, S. and Botton, M.L., 2019. Euproops danae (Belinuridae) cluster confirms deep origin of gregarious behaviour in xiphosurids. Arthropoda Selecta. Русский артроподологический журнал, 28(4), pp.549-555. open access Alternative file of above paper Yours, Paul H.
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Greetings, all! I am currently writing a thesis involving fossils from the Burlington Limestone near its type section along the Illinois/Iowa border. To demonstrate the diversity of the crinoidal remains from the limestone (over 400 species have been described from the Burlington alone!), I am looking for photographs of articulated crinoids. Do any of you have any that you would like to let me include in my thesis? If possible, I would like high-res images of crinoids identified to genus or species with a scale bar/ruler present in the image as well as the collection/locality info. I can't guarantee that I will use every image posted, but if I use your image, then I will acknowledge you in my acknowledgements and give you credit for the image. Thank you for your time & assistance! -Elasmohunter
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References: Matveeva (1958). Palaeoniscids from the Izuik-Chal horizon (L. Carboniferous) of the Minusinsk Basin. Vop. Iktiologii. Akad Nauk SSSR, No. 11, 154-161.
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Hell All I was going through some micro-matrix from the quarry in Soignies when I found this tiny object. I'm not sure it's a fossil but I wanted to check and it seems to be too symmetrical to be geologic. The piece is 2,5 mm in size. It's found in marine deposits togheter with crinoid parts, trilobites... It's from the Tournaisian (Carboniferous). What do you all think? Picture one shows one side and the second picture the opposite side. It's round and nearly perfectly symmetrical. Thanks already
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Carycinacanthus lopatini and Homalacanthus lopatini are alternative names for Acanthodes lopatini. Reconstruction from Beznosov 2009, p. 191: References: Rohon, J. V. (1889) Über fossile Fische vom oberen Jenissei. – Memoires de L’Académie Impériale des Sciences de St-Pétersbourg, VII Séri 36: 1–17. Beznosov, P. (2009) A redescription of the Early Carboniferous acanthodian Acanthodes lopatini Rohon, 1889. — Acta Zoologica (Stockholm) 90 (Suppl. 1): 183–193. Beznosov, P. (2017) Ontogeny of the Early Carboniferous Acanthodian Acanthodes lopatini Rohon. Paleontological Journal, 2017, Vol. 51, No. 7, pp. 746–756. ISSN 0031-0301.
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Last week I got a written permission from a quarry nearby that allowed me to visit the location, and I was allowed to bring a few extra people. So I a friend and his wife where going to join me on the field trip, they are particularly interested in trilobites and this might be one of the best spots in Belgium to find some, although complete specimens are still hard to find. The rendez vous point was the parking of the quarry, so I left early in the morning in not so great weather conditions: gray clouds, rain and lots of wind. I got to the place at 9 AM and waited a while for my 2 friends. Once everybody was ready we made the descent to the fossiliferous layers with of course some stops on the way down to make a few pictures. The rain and wind of the past week had an impact on the cliffs in the quarry, and at a few locations some rocks had fallen on the roads that led down in the pit. This is where I made my first finds, and this already made my day. In the middle of the road between some small rocks that fell of a higher part I picked up a complete but slightly damaged trilobite (Phillipsia ornata belgica) This was already one of the best finds I ever did at this location, but it only got better, A few feet next to the trilobite I found a primitive shark tooth! And we still had to get to the fossiliferous part of the quarry. Once at the spot that we were going to prospect we dropped our bags and started to search the slope and wall for corrals, brachiopods and trilobite parts. The rain cleaned up most of the slope, so the corals and brachiopods made easy pickings . the trilobite pygidiums where scarce, but we each still found a few of them. This is where we spent the rest of the day, until the slope became too muddy. We also tried to free a few rocks from the wall in the hope to get some extra stuff and this delivered mainly a few extra pygidiums. Here in the slope I found my 2nd more or less complete trilobite, but sadly half of the scale was lost in the mud. Still leaving the imprint in the matrix. The heavy wind did offer some funny notes during the day were we had to run after bags or boxes that where taken away by the wind. This trip proved to be one of the best I ever made at this location, hopefully I can make a few extra visits here in 2016. more pictures of the discoveries will follow ... Kevin
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