Fossil hunting in the Bois Blanc and Onondaga formations

[Bobby Rico]

Some very nice coral here, I have a little collection too.

 

cheers Bobby 

[FossilNerd]

On 12/10/2019 at 4:05 PM, dinosaur man said:

Unknown Brachiopod 

I believe that this one is not a brachiopod, but a solitary rugose (horn) coral. The picture is a view looking straight down into the calyx. The visible lines seem to be septa and not plications of a brachiopod valve.

[dinosaur man]

1 hour ago, Bobby Rico said:

Some very nice coral here, I have a little collection too.

 

cheers Bobby 

 

1 minute ago, FossilNerd said:

I believe that this one is not a brachiopod, but a solitary rugose (horn) coral. The picture is a view looking straight down into the calyx. The visible lines seem to be septa and not plications of a brachiopod valve.

Thanks!!

[Kane]

On 2019-12-10 at 4:13 PM, dinosaur man said:

. I also have my eye out for Trilobites in these formations haven’t found any yet!!.

 

Trilobites will definitely be a challenge to find, and will likely be disarticulated fragments (which can still be exciting!). I find the chances improve if you are in a layer with bryozoans and large brachiopods. 

[dinosaur man]

Thanks @Kane!!

[dinosaur man]

Thanks @Monica and i'm thinking they could be Cephalopod too!

[dinosaur man]

Some new finds

[dinosaur man]

Where they where found

[dinosaur man]

[dinosaur man]

Just went to my site Wednesday and found these:

 

what looks like a Trilobite glabella and part of a genal spine, if so it will be my first Trilobite fossil I ever found from this formation (as they are very rare!)!  It is very odd with the shape, and I haven’t found anything like this before!

 

[dinosaur man]

And I also found this, which is a square foot rock with different types of coral in it!

[dinosaur man]

And here’s some photos of around the area where I found these fossils, also soon I will be going mastodon hunting in the mastodon site I just found!

 

 

[dinosaur man]

[Kane]

1 hour ago, dinosaur man said:

Just went to my site Wednesday and found these:

 

what looks like a Trilobite glabella and part of a genal spine, if so it will be my first Trilobite fossil I ever found from this formation (as they are very rare!)!  It is very odd with the shape, and I haven’t found anything like this before!

 

 

Sadly, I’m not seeing trilobite here, but you have a nice plate of bryozoans in your other photo.

[dinosaur man]

18 minutes ago, Kane said:

Sadly, I’m not seeing trilobite here, but you have a nice plate of bryozoans in your other photo.

Thank you!