Nimravis Posted February 4, 2023 Share Posted February 4, 2023 (edited) Yesterday I stopped by another good friend of mine (Marty) that I have known for about 30 years. He has been collecting Mazon Creek fossils a lot longer that I have and also use to collect with my mentor Walter. Every once in a while he contacts me and has me stop by to pick up Mazon Creek concretions that he does not want and I go through them and place them into 5 gallon buckets for the ESCONI Braceville trip. I then bring the buckets and dump fossils for the participants. Here is a picture of the bags that I picked up yesterday. Marty also pointed out a bag of concretions that he received from Walter, probably back in the early 1980s. In this bag there were two fossils mounted on cardboard, that were given to Walter from a fellow collector that lived in Marietta Ohio. These two fossils, one is a Cyclopteris, and the other I am not sure of, or collected from the Permian- Washington formation, that is found in southeast Ohio. Pictures are below. I also looked at one other piece that was in this bag, and it came from Pitt 11. It is really cool, since it has four different fossils in the concretion. Euproops danae, Pecopteris, Neuropteris? and maybe a lycopod leaf. I had to get acetone to get rid of the writing on the concretion. When I go through the other bags, I will include some future pictures. Edited February 4, 2023 by Nimravis 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stats Posted February 4, 2023 Share Posted February 4, 2023 Nice ones... What a Cyclops tourist? I think spell check got you... Cheers, Rich 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Kmiecik Posted February 4, 2023 Share Posted February 4, 2023 (edited) Cyclops tourist is one of the rarest species ever found as it is unique. Most Cyclops species never moved far from their initial habitats, and this is what makes the C. tourist what it is, as it is the only one found west of the Greenwich meridian, yet still identifiable as an Eastern species due to the method of transport. Deserves further study and discussion. It would be even more significant if April was nigh. Show us the rest of the contents of the bags if you have the time. I think there's going to be a lot of happy novice fossil hunters at the outings you attend this year! Edited February 4, 2023 by Mark Kmiecik 3 Mark. Fossil hunting is easy -- they don't run away when you shoot at them! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nimravis Posted February 4, 2023 Author Share Posted February 4, 2023 45 minutes ago, stats said: Nice ones... What a Cyclops tourist? I think spell check got you... Cheers, Rich Lol- thanks for pointing that out, it is too funny. I was doing a verbal text. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nimravis Posted February 4, 2023 Author Share Posted February 4, 2023 9 minutes ago, Mark Kmiecik said: Cyclops tourist is one of the rarest species ever found as it is unique. Most Cyclops species never moved far from their initial habitats, and this is what makes the C. tourist what it is, as it is the only one found west of the Greenwich meridian, yet still identifiable as an Eastern species due to the method of transport. Deserves further study and discussion. It would be even more significant if April was nigh. Show us the rest of the contents of the bags if you have the time. I think there's going to be a lot of happy novice fossil hunters at the outings you attend this year! Mark- haha, that is so true. Very rare and hard to identify due to their random movements. I will post more pics. I plan i looking through them tomorrow. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meganeura Posted February 4, 2023 Share Posted February 4, 2023 These look awesome! Though I certainly love the CRAB 1 Fossils? I dig it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FossilDAWG Posted February 4, 2023 Share Posted February 4, 2023 11 hours ago, Nimravis said: ...These two fossils, one is a Cyclopteris, and the other I am not sure of, or collected from the Permian- Washington formation, that is found in southeast Ohio. ... I'm confused by this statement. Are you saying there is a Permian aged formation with fossil bearing nodules in Ohio? I've not heard of fossiliferous Permian deposits anywhere in the area. Don Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranha Posted February 4, 2023 Share Posted February 4, 2023 5 hours ago, FossilDAWG said: I'm confused by this statement. Are you saying there is a Permian aged formation with fossil bearing nodules in Ohio? I've not heard of fossiliferous Permian deposits anywhere in the area. Don There are a bunch of Permian plants in southeast Ohio: Feldmann, R.M. & Hackathorn, M. (eds.) 2005 Fossils of Ohio: Geological Survey Bulletin, 70:1-577 Feldmann & Hackathorn–Permian Plants Ohio.pdf 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdp Posted February 4, 2023 Share Posted February 4, 2023 Some vertebrates in that sequence too...a couple of really nice (historical) sites in the Marietta area with Diploceraspis, Eryops, Diadectes, and other classic early Permian animals. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FossilDAWG Posted February 4, 2023 Share Posted February 4, 2023 Thanks all. Learned something today. Don Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nimravis Posted February 5, 2023 Author Share Posted February 5, 2023 45 minutes ago, FossilDAWG said: Thanks all. Learned something today. Don Don- I would not have known about this either if I did not get those fossils and look them up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nimravis Posted February 5, 2023 Author Share Posted February 5, 2023 Today I was able to go through 2 of the bags and here are a couple pieces, some were wrapped in paper towels and dated 1986 - 1988. There are: Cyclopteris, Alethopteris, Annularia, Lepidistrobophyllum majus, Calamites, Cyperites, Essexella asherae, etc. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meganeura Posted February 5, 2023 Share Posted February 5, 2023 This really makes me miss sometimes you have to whack it… 1 Fossils? I dig it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nimravis Posted February 6, 2023 Author Share Posted February 6, 2023 4 hours ago, Meganeura said: This really makes me miss sometimes you have to whack it… Once the weather gets warm, I will be back to whacking concretions. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meganeura Posted February 6, 2023 Share Posted February 6, 2023 7 hours ago, Nimravis said: Once the weather gets warm, I will be back to whacking concretions. Hooray! Fossils? I dig it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Kmiecik Posted February 6, 2023 Share Posted February 6, 2023 17 hours ago, Nimravis said: Once the weather gets warm, I will be back to whacking concretions. Mid- to high forties for two weeks. Time to get crackin'? 1 Mark. Fossil hunting is easy -- they don't run away when you shoot at them! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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