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Hit a new spot for a very short period today after work and grabbed these. Found 3 good sized flexicalymene but damaged, two appear to have been smashed before fossilization. Also found some good sized isotelus sections that I left and will inspect when I get back there to see if they are worthe keeping, along with alot of flexi partials that I left. Could have collected 100s of matrix free brachiopods... they are everywhere. if any of you guys need any for your collection let me know. Maybe we could do some type of trade or something.
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Rice and Goodhue Counties (SE MN) - The Journey Begins
Adam Hess posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
I just started learning how to fossil hunt last summer, and had been looking at some Ordivicean roads cuts kinda near me (Rice and Goodhue counties in MN). Looking through county highway roadcuts, I immediately came across alot of brachiopods and bryozoan bits. In one spot on 52, I did find a few gastropods (snails). My best one might even have evidence of a pathology (why it died). It seems like there is a drill hole in the shell What I considered my luckiest find was this Bryzoan sponge. There was ZERO prep involved in this. I just found it on the hill side This year I started getting the itch again, and on a sunny 40 degree day in March (I want even that weather to come back again!) I was over in Goodhue and by chance discovered a newish road cut. Probably in the last 10 years? My goal for this year was to finally find a trilobyte, with a wish for maybe a cephalopod. Well, God smiled that day. Up the hill side on a ledge about 4 ft high this was just sitting in the sun looking at me: Acheivement unlocked! All I had to do was pick it up. Then at the top of the slope I might've used up all my luck for the year at once and started finding cephalopod parts! Plus additional ones too. They were also washing down in the hill in 2 locations. I also found some inverted ones, where they were hollow instead. There is one of those two: So this has been quite eye opening. I grew up in MN hearing that we had no fossils but a few shark teeth. While true that we mostly lack mesozoic rocks, theres always something (shakes fist at glacial till). A suprising thing also happened mentally. After finding so many brachiopod bits, I started going "meh, more little shells". I'm hoping to get to NW nebraska this weekend (maybe dawes and souix counties). I've been using http://donaldkenney.x10.mx/STATES/NE.HTM and the MN counter part to get ideas of where to look. Wish me luck. -
Is this a fossil of some sort? There is like shells pieces on the sides. Sorry for poor pics was trying to beat night fall. About 1 ft long rock. Thanks
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Hi. This is the first fossil I have found that is straight, which is pretty exciting. It seems like a cephlapod, but unsure specific classification/species. Any info is greatly appreciated. I found this in shale near Lebanon, NY. Devonian. July 2022
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From the album: Muncie Creek Shale Phosphatic Nodules
I assume this is some sort of bone either from a fish or some sort of other specimen. It could be a spine of some sort but I am extremely doubtful -
Hi. We found this amongst the mortality plates. It is an ordovician exposure along the water in Green Bay Wisconsin. Can anyone help us Id?
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Howdy folks, About Ten years ago, on my first and only trip to the famous Whiskey Bridge in Bryan Texas, I unknowingly found and brought home not one, but two cephlapod fossils. Well, I smashed one thinking there might be some “cool shiny mineralization” in this odd odd rock that seemed anomalous and out of place since all I read about were shells and sharks teeth. Shameful... I know... however, something strange looking fell out and I held onto it, taking care to store it carefully due to it, and the fossils themselves, being siderite and prone to oxidizing. It’s current state is as it was found, slightly rusty and wierd. I have the rest of the original fossil but it’s in pieces. included are two of the chambers and the anomaly which happens to look a lot like soft tissue. Unlikely... but it’s worth having someone with expertise take a look.
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I live in Maineville, Ohio and have been collecting fossils since childhood. I can easily ID bryozoans, crinoids, brachiopods, trilobites, and cephlapods as I've seen many throughout my life. However, this one has me stumped. It was found in our neighborhood, and I was told by the Ohio Fossils Facebook page that it's a cephlapod. However, no one seems to recognize the rows of circles along the side and top, so they suggested I come here. Does anyone know what this could be? If it's a cephlapod, what kind is it?
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Partial fossil, maybe gastropod, cephlapod, chiton - too far gone to tell?
turtlefoot posted a topic in Fossil ID
Hey All, I don't know if there is even enough of a fossil here to identify. I am nowhere near good enough to give a real good guess. First thought was either a small piece of a cephlapod or chiton. If it is a gastropod, it is a type that I have never found before. It was found on the side of a dry creek bed near Willow Springs, Missouri, USA in an Ordovician Formation. The remnant that remains measures 13mm wide by 15mm long. The bed the fossil remnant is laying is measures 24mm long. There is an indented type of division going horizontally across the fossil. It does not go all the way through to make the remnant two separates segments though (just an indentation type of division line). Other fossils in the same rock include gastropods, a brachiopod and what looks like a very worn rugose coral. If anyone can give me a probably identification, I would appreciate it. -
I have found this coiled cephlapod in Pennsylvanian age limestone in Missouri. I believe it to either be a temnocheilus or cooperoceras. I was wondering if there is anyway to tell if this fossil was silica. And if it was could it be prepped by using acetic acid. TIA!
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Huge Concretion with many large fossils embedded
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From the album: Catheys/Liepers outcrop