Summer Hunts of 2023

[JUAN EMMANUEL]

I have had multiple trips this summer to my favourite localities in Hamilton, Ontario and Toronto. I dont think the winter of this season was severe to render a great deal of erosion since I couldnt pick out a lot of material surface wise. 

My first trip is at the Niagara Escarpment of Hamilton in which I visit many formations of the Cataract and Clinton Groups. 

Always keep an eye out on your overhead! These rocks of the Whirlpool sandstone (Cataract Group) on top of the Queenston formation can drop on any unsuspecting person!

Below are some partial pentamerid brachiopods Pentameroides subrectus of the Reynales formation at Hamilton, Ontario. They look like pecans. 

My next summer trips were at the Humber River area in Toronto. I visited my favourite spots to check out what I can surface collect, since I was carrying light materials with me on those days without a hammer and chisel. Both the formations exposed at the Humber River and Mimico Creek belong to the late Ordovician Georgian Bay formation. 

And recently this Saturday I was at Mimico Creek in Toronto revisiting my old hunting grounds. I came across a nice Treptoceras crebiseptum slab, which I chiseled out of the shale with my hammer- before it fractured into many pieces. I also found a nice trace fossil which had a Cruziana sp. on it, but it had some oil grease on it for some reason. 

Usually, if the winter was severely cold, a portion of an exposure like this would be falling down to the bottom, revealing surface-collecting fossils. 

An interesting trace fossil i found but chose not to keep. 

In situ of the Treptoceras plate I chose to extract. 

Below is the nice trace fossil i decided to keep. Im a very picky person when collecting and I only the best specimens I can find.

Another entirely separate exposure at Mimico Creek that I visited on the same day. 

Edited September 27, 2023 by JUAN EMMANUEL

[JUAN EMMANUEL]

And here is the Treptoceras plate on situ I showed previously that fractured. I washed it on creek water to get rid of the muddy shale around it. :p This thing measures over 30 cm in length.

[Ludwigia]

Great report! Thanks for sharing some impressions of my old homestead!

[trilobites_are_awesome]

Those are some great finds!.

[JUAN EMMANUEL]

17 hours ago, Ludwigia said:

Great report! Thanks for sharing some impressions of my old homestead!

 

11 hours ago, trilobites_are_awesome said:

Those are some great finds!.

Thanks guys.