Shmelovka: the 3rd place to hunt in Moscow

[Dimitris]

Lovely fossils! The scenery is typical for most slavic countries. Honestly reminds me one huge park I have nearby, Западен Парк. Yours is better, with less garbage and fossils, ours in Sofia has only the ingredients of depression! 

[Ludwigia]

Thanks for sharing this. Yet another muddy site but nevertheless fascinating.

[Pemphix]

Cool report and nice fossils !

[jpc]

Thanks for this tour of your fossil site... great description and fossils.

 

[RuMert]

Thank you for your kind words

[BudB]

Very nice report and photos.

[aek]

Great report! Looks like fun spot, love the iridescence.

[JonnyNYC]

This is so cool.  New to the site, but love seeing the iridescent ammos!  I have one from a friend from the Caucus (?) I think Mountains

[RuMert]

Thank you!

Another interesting specimen from the site:

The ammo demonstrates prominent constrictions, typical only for that ammonite zone (Craspedites nodiger) - at least to my knowledge. I like the color too

9 hours ago, JonnyNYC said:

love seeing the iridescent ammos!  I have one from a friend from the Caucus (?) I think Mountains

Me too:) But the price is mud and fragility. In our region each of the main Jurassic layers has a special type of preservation: Oxfordian is pyritised as in Frozen fossils, Middle Tithonian is massive and rough with lots of vertebrate remains, Upper Tithonian is muddy, iridescent and fragile. 

The mountains are probably Caucasus