Wrangellian Posted October 29, 2011 Share Posted October 29, 2011 (edited) Here is my latest 'big' find, one of my 2 best Uintacrinus specimens from Mt Tz(o)uhalem, Vancouver Island (Upper Santonian). I have not heard of any others this good being found on this Island, so it may be one of the best of all. May not look like much right now, but I've got some stabilizing still to do and then it could use some prepping (by someone with the right equip. and who knows how!), but the head is in lower right and arms branching toward upper left. This was a free-floating crinoid, one of two types we find in the U. Sant. here. Edited October 29, 2011 by Wrangellian 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shamalama Posted October 29, 2011 Share Posted October 29, 2011 Hey, that's cool! Not often you hear about floating crinoids from the cretaceous. Good luck stabilizing that, the matrix looks crumbly. -Dave __________________________________________________ Geologists on the whole are inconsistent drivers. When a roadcut presents itself, they tend to lurch and weave. To them, the roadcut is a portal, a fragment of a regional story, a proscenium arch that leads their imaginations into the earth and through the surrounding terrain. - John McPheeIf I'm going to drive safely, I can't do geology. - John McPheeCheck out my Blog for more fossils I've found: http://viewsofthemahantango.blogspot.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FossilDAWG Posted October 29, 2011 Share Posted October 29, 2011 Wow, that's the nicest one I've seen from the Haslam. It should look great once you have it prepped. Do you also find Marsupites at that site? I have one from Haslam creek. Don Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nandomas Posted October 29, 2011 Share Posted October 29, 2011 Great finds. Congratulations. I know it is very difficult find Untacrinus from Kansas on the market, so those from Canada are more than welco me Erosion... will be my epitaph! http://www.paleonature.org/ https://fossilnews.org/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrangellian Posted October 30, 2011 Author Share Posted October 30, 2011 (edited) Ha! Yes I've seen pics of those from Kansas, but here on the west coast they are quite rare. I might have some small platelets from a Marsupites but otherwise I haven't seen any at this site. I need to get up to Haslam Creek one of these days, I guess. Anyway it is quite diverse at this site - the worst thing is, yes, it is very crumbly. It keeps my pretty busy when I bring a bunch home to stabilize. BTW Here is a reconstruction of a Uintacrinus and a repost of my earlier one: Edited October 30, 2011 by Wrangellian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fossisle Posted October 30, 2011 Share Posted October 30, 2011 Awesome finds!! Cephalopods rule!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trilobiteruss Posted October 31, 2011 Share Posted October 31, 2011 awesome find, I love those crinoids. have a large slab from Kansas and found a site in colorado that may someday produce some nice ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrangellian Posted October 31, 2011 Author Share Posted October 31, 2011 Nice, would like to see them when it does. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ssuntok Posted March 9, 2012 Share Posted March 9, 2012 Here is my latest 'big' find, one of my 2 best Uintacrinus specimens from Mt Tz(o)uhalem, Vancouver Island (Upper Santonian). I have not heard of any others this good being found on this Island, so it may be one of the best of all. May not look like much right now, but I've got some stabilizing still to do and then it could use some prepping (by someone with the right equip. and who knows how!), but the head is in lower right and arms branching toward upper left. This was a free-floating crinoid, one of two types we find in the U. Sant. here. Hi Eric, I think you've helped me with an ID I was having trouble with. I found a little cluster of what looked like an "egg sack" at Tzouhalem last month, which now appears to me to be plates from your specimen displayed here. What do you think? Steve Suntok Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ssuntok Posted March 9, 2012 Share Posted March 9, 2012 Wow, that's the nicest one I've seen from the Haslam. It should look great once you have it prepped. Do you also find Marsupites at that site? I have one from Haslam creek. Don hey Don Have you any pics of the one you found at Haslam? Steve Steve Suntok Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrangellian Posted March 9, 2012 Author Share Posted March 9, 2012 Yep, that looks like Uintacrinus bits.. I found another good one just yesterday myself, I'll try to make a scan of it. It says in West Coast Fossils they are found as "dense clusters of large, thin, hexagonal plates" on Trent River. Now with Tzuhalem, there are more than just plate clusters. This is one reason why I wish they would do an update to the book, because I could contribute pics of some new/better things myself and I'm sure there are others who could also. I'd like to see a pic of that Marsupites too, Don. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrangellian Posted March 9, 2012 Author Share Posted March 9, 2012 OK, here's my new one from yesterday - it's a thin, flat piece - pretty much just the flattened crinoid without matrix - but surprisingly is holding together well enough without glue: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xonenine Posted March 9, 2012 Share Posted March 9, 2012 pretty neat Eric, I hadn;t seen those first several, that looks like difficult matrix to take larger fossils out of, way to go "Your serpent of Egypt is bred now of your mud by the operation of your sun; so is your crocodile." Lepidus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrangellian Posted March 10, 2012 Author Share Posted March 10, 2012 You bet it is Carm, I've got quite a few chunks waiting for the right equipment to prep out the fossils! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FossilDAWG Posted March 11, 2012 Share Posted March 11, 2012 Here's that Marsupites. It's not complete, just some basals and one arm base radial, but given the rarity of the species in the Haslam I'm pretty happy with it. Don 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrangellian Posted March 11, 2012 Author Share Posted March 11, 2012 Thanks Don, It may be incomplete but like you said, it's rare, and it's more than I have! Plus it's an index fossil, I tend to pick up even single plates when I see them (which is not often). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ssuntok Posted March 12, 2012 Share Posted March 12, 2012 Very nice Don - I've never seen one before, other than the picture in West Coast Fossils - thanks for sharing it. Nice find too Eric! You've got a good eye Steve Suntok Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ssuntok Posted August 27, 2013 Share Posted August 27, 2013 (edited) Wow, that's the nicest one I've seen from the Haslam. It should look great once you have it prepped. Do you also find Marsupites at that site? I have one from Haslam creek. Don Hey Fossildawg, I found one this past week-end from the same area. Not sure if it's Marsupites or Uintacrinus. I believe it to be the former, but I'm no expert. Here's a pic of the speciment I found: Edited August 27, 2013 by ssuntok Steve Suntok Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PFOOLEY Posted August 28, 2013 Share Posted August 28, 2013 Great find Wrangellian. A most excellent specimen! I did not know there were free floating crinoids. Very cool. "I am glad I shall never be young without wild country to be young in. Of what avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?" ~Aldo Leopold (1887-1948) New Mexico Museum of Natural History Bulletins Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FossilDAWG Posted August 28, 2013 Share Posted August 28, 2013 Hi ssuntok, That's definitely a Marsupites. Marsupites had only a few large plates (basals [partly fused together] and radials) in the calyx, and Uintacrinus had a much more flexible calyx made up of many small plates, as the lower parts of the arms and numerous interradials were included. I believe there was only one species of Marsupites, M. testudinarius, which occurs worldwide up to the end of the Santonian. It's extinction is a biostratigraphic marker for the beginning of the Campanian. An excellent, and a rare, find! Don Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrangellian Posted August 28, 2013 Author Share Posted August 28, 2013 Dang, I still haven't made it to that spot to find my own! Nice one, Steve. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ssuntok Posted October 14, 2013 Share Posted October 14, 2013 Uintacrinus from the same spot today Steve Suntok Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrangellian Posted October 14, 2013 Author Share Posted October 14, 2013 From Haslam Ck? Is it worth showing a pic? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ssuntok Posted October 14, 2013 Share Posted October 14, 2013 Sorry I thought I did but it didnt work . Here it is Steve Suntok Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blastoid Posted October 15, 2013 Share Posted October 15, 2013 Holy schnikes, nifty 'noids! Just thinking of what you'd have to do to prep those puppies is enough to give me the willies. Makes the barely-hardened clay we call the Arkona Shale around here look easy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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