From Gilboa and Schoharie Areas ....

[sebachinger]

Hello!  Just wanted to post a few of my recent find from the Gilboa and Schoharie areas - would love to learn more about them, and appreciate any info! In the image of the light yellowish color rock, I am curious if that may or may not be stromatolites, or just a layer of chert? That was found in Schoharie near the quarry - Thank you!

 

 

From Gilboa area

[sebachinger]

From Gilboa (my apologies for the previous image format ...)

 

 

 

[sebachinger]

From Schoharie : 

[EMP]

1. Looks like it might be a bryozoan. It looked like a plant remain at first, but from the other photos of it I'd lean towards it being bryozoan or another colonial animal. 

 

2. Hard to tell. Definitely a fossil, but whether it's a trace fossil, plant fragment, or something else is hard to say. My tentative guess would be plant fragment.

 

3. I'd lean towards it not being a stromatolite. There are some nice trilobite molt fragments in the one photo, and judging by the other fauna it was likely deposited in an environment that stromatolites aren't typically found in. I think it's multiple layers of rock in one specimen. 

 

4. A nice trilobite pygidium!

[Kane]

The ribbing on the pygidium is suggestive of it belonging to the Synphorinae. 

[Fossildude19]

I respectfully disagree on the first item.
This looks like some sort of branching plant fossil, to me, especially considering the location found.

[EMP]

11 minutes ago, Fossildude19 said:

I respectfully disagree on the first item.
This looks like some sort of branching plant fossil, to me, especially considering the location found.

 

I thought it was preserved in some calcite going by the other specimens which made me think colonial, but you're right with plant if it's from Gilboa.