Mix and Match from Recent Trips

[bockryan]

Hi everyone! Wanted to share a pretty wide variety of finds from some recent trips over the Summer.

 

First, I had the chance to go to NAPC in July which was an amazing experience - lots of great talks and posters, including one based on fish fragments and some other cool fossils found by a few forum members in the Needmore formation in WV. I understand a few other forum members made presentations as well, which I got to check out. The conference included several field trips that I went on as well, I am still organizing my finds but a few are included here. Also have had a lot of success at various Pennsylvanian Llewellyn Formation sites, some finds from Penn Dixie that have prepped out over the Summer, and some other finds I had handy that I don't think I've posted.

 

Edit - I was 90% done with all the labels and then my computer randomly restarted. Will fix them  For now just enjoy the pictures I suppose!

 

Brachiopod from Deer Lake Tavern - Middle Devonian: love the little details on this one

 

Graptolite from Mint Springs, VA - fun little spot that is on the way to a lot of localities for me. Nothing but graptolites but what's there is fairly nice.

 

A nice chunk of goniatite from Penn Dixie - doesn't show the sutures unfortunately

 

A fern I put back together (mostly) from Ambridge - still a good spot but have been having less success lately

 

Good sized Nautiloid from the Maysville roadcut with crystals - love finding these

 

Graptolite from Penn Dixie - prized find from DWTE this year

 

A lovely gift at NAPC from the wonderful folks at ESCONI

 

Coral from the construction piles around my parents' new house - lots of little things like this in the gravel from the glaciers

 

More lovely ferns from Centralia 

 

Centralia - not the best preservation but something different from the usual forms

 

More plants from Centralia

 

Hash from another of the NAPC field trips - this one to the Mississippian Marshall Sandstone, which is a fun glacially moved deposit 

 

Bryozoans from the Bluefield Formations in WV

 

A nice gastropod from Deer Lake

 

More Bluefield bryozoans

 

Nautiloids from the Marshall Sandstone, along with other fragments

 

Bivalves from the Marshall - very abundant at the locality 

 

Fun Ordovician trilobite hash and an inarticulate brachiopod from Wilder, KY

 

Cones (?) from Centralia, could also just be bark impressions, unsure.

 

Annularia from a different locality, lovely silver preservation

 

More ferns from the same locality as above

 

Plants!

 

More plants!

 

Still a plant, but something a little different, have not looked to try IDing yet. 

 

A different view of the same one as above

 

Another somewhat poorly preserved but interesting Centralia find - usually don't find "articulated" branches

 

Seeds or pods of some kind

 

My favorite of the whole bunch

 

And Alethopteris - would be nice to find a bigger one

Edited August 22 by bockryan

[NickG]

I think I spotted some Mississippian fossils from Michigan in there? ;-)

[Jeffrey P]

Some very attractive and interesting finds, especially the ferns. Also love the bivalves and gastropod internal mold. Thanks for sharing these. Are #2 and #6 graptolites? 

[bockryan]

16 hours ago, NickG said:

I think I spotted some Mississippian fossils from Michigan in there? ;-)

 

I did manage to get a few despite that quarry being baking hot!

[bockryan]

13 hours ago, Jeffrey P said:

Some very attractive and interesting finds, especially the ferns. Also love the bivalves and gastropod internal mold. Thanks for sharing these. Are #2 and #6 graptolites? 

 

They are! One from Mint Spirngs, VA and the other in the gray shale is from Penn Dixie, which apparently aren't common.

[connorp]

In the KY piece, is the inarticulate brachiopod you are referring to the circular object? If so, that is the bryozoan Aspidopora.