pleecan Posted December 16, 2009 Author Share Posted December 16, 2009 Thank you Nala for sharing your leaf collection! PL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plantguy Posted December 19, 2009 Share Posted December 19, 2009 Very nice Green River material everyone! Great variety! I haven't collected there and I'm envious of all you that have and are actually out in that neck of the woods--maybe I'll get out that way some day. I've got a few small fish but I couldnt miss the opportunity to post another leaf. Here's a Sycamore leaf that I acquired along the way: Macginitiea wyomingensis Can anyone recommend the best references/books or websites for fauna/flora from there? Thanks. Regards, Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pleecan Posted December 19, 2009 Author Share Posted December 19, 2009 Chris, Thanks for posting.... leaf reminds me of the old Canadian Maple leaf. PL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebrocklds Posted December 19, 2009 Share Posted December 19, 2009 Can anyone recommend the best references/books or websites for fauna/flora from there? Thanks. Regards, Chris you should look into getting "common fossilplants of western north america" by william tidwell. also "paleontology of the green river formation" by Lance Grande Brock Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plantguy Posted December 19, 2009 Share Posted December 19, 2009 you should look into getting "common fossilplants of western north america" by william tidwell. also "paleontology of the green river formation" by Lance Grande Brock Thanks Brock! I did just recently pickup Tidwell's book and it is a very good reference. I'll look around for Grande's...Regards, Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MOROPUS Posted December 20, 2009 Share Posted December 20, 2009 Another Sycomore: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pleecan Posted December 20, 2009 Author Share Posted December 20, 2009 Another Sycomore: The leaf looks so real... you almost can pick it off the rock matrix. Nice preservation. PL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted December 20, 2009 Share Posted December 20, 2009 S'more? "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pleecan Posted December 20, 2009 Author Share Posted December 20, 2009 Great collection Auspex... amazing the fine details of perservation of feathers... wonderful symmetry... reminds me of fine fossilize Silurian algae.... I like the neat combo of 2 insects and a feather! Thanks Auspex for sharing and taking the time to post. PL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pleecan Posted February 3, 2010 Author Share Posted February 3, 2010 Package containing Green River Fish fossil arrived in the mail today: 9" Mioplosus, from Kremmerer Wyoming. 6" Mioplosus, from Kremmerer Wyoming. 5.5" Priscacara, from Kremmerer Wyoming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
32fordboy Posted February 3, 2010 Share Posted February 3, 2010 (edited) Great stuff, guys! Auspex, that skeleton is sweet! How on earth do you come upon stuff like that? How about a Green River footprint? It's from a brontothere--front foot and back foot with the classic print overlap. Nick Edited February 3, 2010 by 32fordboy www.nicksfossils.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Menser Posted February 3, 2010 Share Posted February 3, 2010 Be true to the reality you create. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ytowndan Posted July 19, 2010 Share Posted July 19, 2010 Here's a few of mine... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oilshale Posted July 19, 2010 Share Posted July 19, 2010 One of the rarer fishes. Not well preserved, but the only one I got so far. This one comes from Lake Gosiute - Amyzon gosiutensis. Thomas Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes (Confucius, 551 BC - 479 BC). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted July 19, 2010 Share Posted July 19, 2010 One of the rarer fishes. Not well preserved, but the only one I got so far. This one comes from Lake Gosiute - Amyzon gosiutensis. Thomas There is a whole different fauna in the Lake Gosiute member. "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oilshale Posted July 20, 2010 Share Posted July 20, 2010 There is a whole different fauna in the Lake Gosiute member. Fish fossils of Diplomystus and Knightia are found in Fossil Lake but not in Lake Gosiute. On the other hand, only Lake Gosiute has fossils of catfish (2 species, Astephus and Hypsidoris), suckers (Amyzon), pirate perches (Asineops) and the small clupeid Gosiutichthys (quite often misinterpreted as Knightias). This is an Astephus antiquus from the Currant Creek Fossil Quarry operated by Dave Freeman: Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes (Confucius, 551 BC - 479 BC). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oilshale Posted July 20, 2010 Share Posted July 20, 2010 (edited) There is a whole different fauna in the Lake Gosiute member. Here are two pirate perches (Asineops squamifrons) from the Lake Gosiute member . You won't find them at Fossil Lake. Edited July 20, 2010 by oilshale Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes (Confucius, 551 BC - 479 BC). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pleecan Posted July 20, 2010 Author Share Posted July 20, 2010 Thanks for posting Thomas... very interesting fossils from Lake Gosiute member..... Peter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oilshale Posted July 20, 2010 Share Posted July 20, 2010 (edited) Here are two pirate perches (Asineops squamifrons) from the Lake Gosiute member . You won't find them at Fossil Lake. Sorry, I just made two mistakes: Asineops squamifrons was first described by Cope as having an affinity to the pirat perch family. Later, with more detailed study, this species was found to lack the diagnostic characters of that family. Thus it is not yet clearly assignable to order. Although this species is much rarer in the Fossil Lake sediments than in Lake Gosiute deposits, the specimens from Fossil Lake are much larger than those from Lake Gosiute. Thomas Edited July 20, 2010 by oilshale Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes (Confucius, 551 BC - 479 BC). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oilshale Posted July 22, 2010 Share Posted July 22, 2010 Notogoneus osculus (Latin from “little mouth”) was a bottom feeder, spending most of its live in the rivers that fed Fossil Lake and only entered the lake during certain seasons when the bottom waters were nontoxic. Hence Notogoneus is uncommon in the Green River Formation. Average size is around 18 inches, maximum length is 3 feet. Small specimens are extremely rare. It was a predatory creature and would have fed off of creatures on or near the bottom of its habitat, likely at night. It resembled a modern day sucker fish. Thomas Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes (Confucius, 551 BC - 479 BC). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimB88 Posted July 27, 2010 Share Posted July 27, 2010 A few of mine... Bird tracks and fish tail marks as they attempted to get away from the birds.. mmmm..bughash (beetle larvae) big leaf.. leaf and seed... and many insects (which I havent photographed yet (one of the plecia has color patterns on its wings, many crane flys, beetle larvae and one knightia.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted July 27, 2010 Share Posted July 27, 2010 A few of mine... Bird tracks and fish tail marks as they attempted to get away from the birds.. Now that right there is pretty cool! "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimB88 Posted July 27, 2010 Share Posted July 27, 2010 Now that right there is pretty cool! Thought youd like that. Makes you wonder if the fish got away? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted July 27, 2010 Share Posted July 27, 2010 It's not on my hands yet, but the deal is done: Presbyornis trackway, showing toe-webbing. Lake Uinta deposit, Green River Fm. "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pleecan Posted July 27, 2010 Author Share Posted July 27, 2010 Auspex and Jim: Thanks for sharing your fossils... the Green River formation offers such a diverse fossilized biota. Auspex now that is a neat looking set of tracks.... congrats on our new aquisition. PL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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