Wrangellian Posted June 13, 2013 Share Posted June 13, 2013 Nice one! Any idea what it's called and what age it is? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TOM BUCKLEY Posted June 13, 2013 Share Posted June 13, 2013 After puzzling over this for a while, thinking it was a weird cephalopod or a giant gastropod, I believe it is a reticulated sponge. Specifically, Dictyospongia Hall and Clarke, 1898 (Ectenodictya implexa, Hall, 1882). What do you think? Thanks. Tom AVOCATIONAL PALEONTOLOGIST STROKE SURVIVOR CANCER SURVIVOR CURMUDGEON "THERE IS A VERY FINE LINE BETWEEN AVOCATIONAL PALEONTOLOGY AND MENTAL ILLNESS" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TOM BUCKLEY Posted June 13, 2013 Share Posted June 13, 2013 After puzzling over this for a while, thinking it was a weird cephalopod or a giant gastropod, I believe it is a reticulated sponge. Specifically, Dictyospongia Hall and Clarke, 1898 (Ectenodictya implexa, Hall, 1882). What do you think? Thanks. Tom I forgot to take a picture laterally. The specimen is slightly curved. It was taken from the Mahantango Formation of Pennsylvania and is Mid-Devonian in age. AVOCATIONAL PALEONTOLOGIST STROKE SURVIVOR CANCER SURVIVOR CURMUDGEON "THERE IS A VERY FINE LINE BETWEEN AVOCATIONAL PALEONTOLOGY AND MENTAL ILLNESS" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TOM BUCKLEY Posted June 13, 2013 Share Posted June 13, 2013 I forgot to take a picture laterally. The specimen is slightly curved. It was taken from the Mahantango Formation of Pennsylvania and is Mid-Devonian in age. I found some lateral photos. 1 AVOCATIONAL PALEONTOLOGIST STROKE SURVIVOR CANCER SURVIVOR CURMUDGEON "THERE IS A VERY FINE LINE BETWEEN AVOCATIONAL PALEONTOLOGY AND MENTAL ILLNESS" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrangellian Posted June 14, 2013 Share Posted June 14, 2013 Interesting specimen! I can't confirm your genus/sp. ID but it does have that characteristic hexactinellid network pattern.. let's see what others say... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
docpaleo Posted June 15, 2013 Share Posted June 15, 2013 Dictyospongia is a good call and most likely the correct one. I have several specimens in my collection and it matches well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TOM BUCKLEY Posted June 15, 2013 Share Posted June 15, 2013 Dictyospongia is a good call and most likely the correct one. I have several specimens in my collection and it matches well. Thanks Doc. Could you post some pictures of your specimens? AVOCATIONAL PALEONTOLOGIST STROKE SURVIVOR CANCER SURVIVOR CURMUDGEON "THERE IS A VERY FINE LINE BETWEEN AVOCATIONAL PALEONTOLOGY AND MENTAL ILLNESS" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
docpaleo Posted June 15, 2013 Share Posted June 15, 2013 The Dictyospongia sp. is packed away at the moment but here is another interesting specimen from the same area called Uphantia sp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
docpaleo Posted June 15, 2013 Share Posted June 15, 2013 I found an image file of one of my specimens of Dictyospongia sp. for you to compare. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
docpaleo Posted June 15, 2013 Share Posted June 15, 2013 And one more sponge from my collection. This one is Leiostracosia angustata from the Misburg quarries in Germany. Sponges are all I collect and have well over 1000 specimens from around the world. I'm in the middle of a full inventory and re-examination so much is packed away as I work on one box at a time. Right now I am on the tail end of the sponges from the clays and sands of the Touraine, Paris Basin, France. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TOM BUCKLEY Posted June 15, 2013 Share Posted June 15, 2013 I found an image file of one of my specimens of Dictyospongia sp. for you to compare. This specimen looks just like the one's shown in the Hall book. Thanks for the help. By the way.....this was my first sponge. Tom AVOCATIONAL PALEONTOLOGIST STROKE SURVIVOR CANCER SURVIVOR CURMUDGEON "THERE IS A VERY FINE LINE BETWEEN AVOCATIONAL PALEONTOLOGY AND MENTAL ILLNESS" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
docpaleo Posted June 15, 2013 Share Posted June 15, 2013 Nice find for a first sponge! Typically a specimen like yours would retail for $75 to $125 if you even care. Keep looking, especially after any recent rains. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TOM BUCKLEY Posted June 15, 2013 Share Posted June 15, 2013 Thanks Doc. I don't sell my fossils but I am grateful to know the value. I'm feeling like I should have looked harder for the rest of it. The formation I found it in is VERY fossilferous......you can't spit without hitting a trilobite, gastropod, cephalopod, bryozoan, or coral. AVOCATIONAL PALEONTOLOGIST STROKE SURVIVOR CANCER SURVIVOR CURMUDGEON "THERE IS A VERY FINE LINE BETWEEN AVOCATIONAL PALEONTOLOGY AND MENTAL ILLNESS" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
docpaleo Posted June 15, 2013 Share Posted June 15, 2013 Well I for one would be interested in certain sponges if you come across others in your roamings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TOM BUCKLEY Posted June 15, 2013 Share Posted June 15, 2013 You've got it. AVOCATIONAL PALEONTOLOGIST STROKE SURVIVOR CANCER SURVIVOR CURMUDGEON "THERE IS A VERY FINE LINE BETWEEN AVOCATIONAL PALEONTOLOGY AND MENTAL ILLNESS" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caleb Posted October 11, 2013 Share Posted October 11, 2013 Here are some sponges I've collected out of the Maquoketa Formation over the years. Brachiospongia sp. Maquoketa Formation, Elgin member Upper Ordovician Southeast Minnesota Hindia sphaeroidalis Maquoketa Formation, Elgin member Upper Ordovician Southeast Minnesota Aulocopella sp. (I think) Maquoketa Formation, Elgin member Upper Ordovician Southeast Minnesota Phialaspongia fossa Maquoketa Formation, Elgin member Upper Ordovician Northeast Iowa Not Sure Maquoketa Formation, Elgin member Upper Ordovician Northeast Iowa Caleb Midwestpaleo.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evgeny Kotelevsky Posted October 11, 2013 Share Posted October 11, 2013 Here are some sponges I've collected out of the Maquoketa Formation over the years. Brachiospongia sp. Maquoketa Formation, Elgin member Upper Ordovician Southeast Minnesota 4-14--Brachiospongia sp.JPG Hindia sphaeroidalis Maquoketa Formation, Elgin member Upper Ordovician Southeast Minnesota Hindia sphaeroidalis 1.JPG Hindia sphaeroidalis.jpg Aulocopella sp. (I think) Maquoketa Formation, Elgin member Upper Ordovician Southeast Minnesota Unknown Sponge.jpg Phialaspongia fossa Maquoketa Formation, Elgin member Upper Ordovician Northeast Iowa Phialaspongia fossa.jpg Not Sure Maquoketa Formation, Elgin member Upper Ordovician Northeast Iowa post-3840-0-68184200-1381270487.jpg Brachiospongia sp. - excellent quality!!! Hindia sphaeroidalis - very nice! You should try to prep it out Phialaspongia fossa - try to prep it out Aulocopella sp. - nice, but is not complete....I wish you will find one day complete specimen http://evgenykotelevsky.wordpress.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nils Posted November 11, 2013 Share Posted November 11, 2013 Hi! Here is a nice middle-devonian sponge from the Eifel. Its size is about 40mm, found in the Ahbach-Formation, Givetian. Nils Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evgeny Kotelevsky Posted November 11, 2013 Share Posted November 11, 2013 Hi! Here is a nice middle-devonian sponge from the Eifel. Its size is about 40mm, found in the Ahbach-Formation, Givetian. Nils S 024.jpg It's nice! Nice nice nice ))))) spicules are well seen! You etched it by acid? http://evgenykotelevsky.wordpress.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nils Posted November 11, 2013 Share Posted November 11, 2013 (edited) Hi Evgeny! The easiest way to prepare those sponges is by using a micro sandstreaming tool. Isolated sponges can easily be cleaned with an tenside called "Rewoquad". This tenside is almoust the best solution for cleaning fossils out of clay-rich sediments. Here is another sponge from the Ahbach-Formation, Givetian. Those ones are very rare. Unfortunately the sponges are poorly preserved, so it is still impossible to make a determination. Size of specimen is about 10mm. Greets, Nils Edited November 11, 2013 by nils Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Siphuncle Posted November 15, 2013 Share Posted November 15, 2013 This sponge was found years ago in the Pennsylvanian sediments of Texas. I gave it to my ex wife to use it as a loofah, but things didn't turn out so well... Grüße, Daniel A. Wöhr aus Südtexas "To the motivated go the spoils." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
docpaleo Posted November 15, 2013 Share Posted November 15, 2013 Very nice! I have several of those from the Bridgeport Pioneer Quarry. I took one and had it cut sagittally and coronally. It has an exhalant system like Jeriopsis or Jerica. I would like to collect a few more next time I come up that way. There is a deposit on the lake that is exposed at low water levels but I don't know what the level is right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Siphuncle Posted November 15, 2013 Share Posted November 15, 2013 You know you craft and QUARRY quite well, DocPaleo. Grüße, Daniel A. Wöhr aus Südtexas "To the motivated go the spoils." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
docpaleo Posted November 15, 2013 Share Posted November 15, 2013 Hehehehe!This is my area of interest! I have near a thousand specimens from all over the world and always looking for more to add to my collection. I also have a remarkable collection of exetent porifera. Dr. Rigby and Bob Cooper both got me started in this area almost twenty years a go. Post some more pictures of what you got folks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Missourian Posted November 16, 2013 Share Posted November 16, 2013 Girtyocoelia sp. Hickory Creek Shale, Pennsylvanian Wilson County, Kansas Context is critical. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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