Beltzville State Park - Middle Devonian (Mahantango Formation)

[Masonk]

Family and I took a trip to Beltzville State Park earlier this week. We stayed around the lake, looking along the shoreline and wading through water. Found some pretty cool Middle Devonian fossils. My wife lucked out with two Trilobite pieces, one of which is a really nice head imprint. 

 

I'm still working on identification, so please bare with me. Any help of course is appreciated. 

 

Coin is 22mm

 

Shoreline

 

Trilobite head (Phacops rana?) surrounded by Crinoid stems

 

Trilobite (Phacops rana?) - lower abdomen

 

Crinoid stems

 

Crinoid stems

 

Pleurodictyum tabulate coral (?) and brachiopod

 

Crinoid stems

 

Brachiopods and I'm not sure what the orange/black dotted impression is. 

 

Edited July 28, 2023 by Masonk
photos not showing on mobile

[Kane]

The lappets suggest an asteropygine, such as Greenops. Also, there is no longer a Phacops rana as the genus was reassigned to Eldredgeops for all North American trilobites that were formerly under the Phacops genus.

[Masonk]

 

Few items here, top, L to R - Brachiopod, Crinoid Stem, Brachiopod, Brachiopod

 

Brachiopod

 

Combo of Brachiopod and crinoid stem

 

Pleurodictyum tabulate coral with crinoid stems

 

Crinoid stem

 

Brachiopod and crinoid stems

 

Large impression - Grammysioidea?

 

Internal mold of Rugose Horn Coral?

[Masonk]

8 minutes ago, Kane said:

The lappets suggest an asteropygine, such as Greenops. Also, there is no longer a Phacops rana as the genus was reassigned to Eldredgeops for all North American trilobites that were formerly under the Phacops genus.

 

Thank you for that information! I'm realizing a lot of the online resources I'm using are a bit outdated. Add to that me being a complete novice, and its a recipe for misinformation. 

Edited July 27, 2023 by Masonk

[EMP]

Looks like a nice haul! I agree the pygidium is a Greenops boothi not Phacops rana. 

[Masonk]

 

Brachiopod and crinoid stems

 

 

Brachiopod and crinoid stems

 

Nice Brachiopod impression

 

Rugose horn coral internal mold

 

 

A few different crinoid stem molds

 

 

Brachiopods

 

 

Few creatures in here. Curious about the item in the bottom right panel. Brachiopod? There is an impression of the ridges underneath. Or is this the stem of the coral

[Fossildude19]

Can't see any pictures in the first post.   

[Fossildude19]

These are all fenestrate bryozoans.

 

 

 

 

And a Pleurodictyum internal mold:

 

[Masonk]

2 hours ago, Fossildude19 said:

Can't see any pictures in the first post.   

 

The forum was giving me problems yesterday uploading photos. At one point I had a duplicate post that suddenly disappeared.

 

Photos are visible for me on desktop, but not mobile. Screenshots below. Gong to try to edit the first post, delete then add back the photos. 

 

Mobile

Desktop

[Masonk]

14 hours ago, EMP said:

Looks like a nice haul! I agree the pygidium is a Greenops boothi not Phacops rana. 

 

Thanks! I definitely have to step up my ID game. 

[Masonk]

3 hours ago, Fossildude19 said:

These are all fenestrate bryozoans.

And a Pleurodictyum internal mold:

 

Thank you for the correct ID's! Truly appreciate it, and noted for future reference.

[Fossildude19]

I had tried mobile, tablet, and PC. None were showing for me before.  They ARE showing now.

[Kane]

13 minutes ago, Masonk said:

At one point I had a duplicate post that suddenly disappeared.

 

 

If you are referring to the duplicate topic (not post), you had changed the duplicate topic title to "delete" and I obliged.  

[Masonk]

21 minutes ago, Kane said:

If you are referring to the duplicate topic (not post), you had changed the duplicate topic title to "delete" and I obliged.  

 

Correct on topic, not post. You're pretty fast. I was deleting the photos, etc., and it suddenly the topic was gone. I thought my computer was lagging, making it seem like a duplicate was made.

 

I went back to edit the 1st post to reflect the correct trilobite species and everything went haywire after that. Weird. Thanks for the help!

[Kane]

Any time! We're not just paid(1) for our good looks(2).

 

(1) We get paid?

(2) Present company excluded   

[Masonk]

1 minute ago, Kane said:

Any time! We're not just paid(1) for our good looks(2).

 

(1) We get paid?

(2) Present company excluded   

 Lol! I managed a military collector forum for several years. It's definitely a thankless job, sometimes. Likewise on #2!