Hungry Hollow Collection

[Maniraptoran]

Here are some fossils i found during a high school Geology field trip to the Hungry Hollow in Ontario, Canada, spring 2007. I was a lot more discriminating back the because i was saving room for eurypterids and trilobite. sadly, i found no trilobites, and the closest thing i found to eurypterid remains were a few soggy 6x2 inch chevron-shaped plates that crumbled into mud as soon as i tried to bag them (*tear). other than that, fun trip

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[Maniraptoran]

lets see, here we have a bryozoan, a horn coral, a strip of stromatoporoid (i think), and a piece of crinoid stem.

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Edited November 11, 2011 by Maniraptoran

[Maniraptoran]

some kind of tabulate coral

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[Maniraptoran]

another kind of coral

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[Maniraptoran]

this one is interesting. the teacher told me this one is a bivalve, but nowadays im thinking this one is a Platyceratid gastropod. i already posted this thing on the FID forum, but most of replies were about my poor camera work

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Edited November 18, 2011 by Maniraptoran

[Maniraptoran]

this is some debris i dug out of the shell from the previous post. the orange red bits fascinate me. my theory is that they are the fossilized mouthparts of the dead mollusk ( beak or radula, perhaps?), but it is also likely that they are bits of pyrite or some other mineral.

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[pleecan]

You need to view it under magnification... there are a lot of debris found in the shells of the mollusc... get yourself a loupe or microscope and start exploring the tiny bits : )

this is some debris i dug out of the shell from the previous post. the orange red bits fascinate me. my theory is that they are the fossilized mouthparts of the dead mollusk ( beak or radula, perhaps?), but it is also likely that they are bits of pyrite or some other mineral.

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