thair Posted September 26, 2012 Share Posted September 26, 2012 My son and I went out last Saturday to a friends ranch and the following is what we picked up. The preservation is good at this location but we really did not find anything new so most of this will end up in my "give away" box. I included a couple picture of the ground in this spot so you can see it is not a problem finding stuff just deciding what you want to keep. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thair Posted September 26, 2012 Author Share Posted September 26, 2012 other pictures Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted September 26, 2012 Share Posted September 26, 2012 Abbondanza! It would take me a while to acquire 'the eye'; sort of a Where's Waldo thing. "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted September 26, 2012 Share Posted September 26, 2012 Wow! Oh to be able to walk around picking up gastropods left and right! Thanks for posting your report/pics. The preservation on some of those is quite good. Regards, Tim - VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER VFOTM --- APRIL - 2015 __________________________________________________ "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir ~ ~ ~ ~ ><))))( *> About Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Missourian Posted September 26, 2012 Share Posted September 26, 2012 You are fortunate to have so many gastropods with such good preservation. Our Penn. snails are usually either crushed or are internal molds. Context is critical. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
squalicorax Posted September 26, 2012 Share Posted September 26, 2012 Beautiful spirifer brachiopods My Flickr Page of My Collection: http://www.flickr.com/photos/79424101@N00/sets Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeoJon Posted September 26, 2012 Share Posted September 26, 2012 Amazing stuff. Those horn corals are very neat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moahunt1 Posted September 26, 2012 Share Posted September 26, 2012 what period are they from? ....... looks like you have a sweet wee collection by 'wee' I mean you collected heaps!!!! Nice work!!! Saving them from getting trampled on!!!!!!! Hunted for fossils in:UK - Lyme Regis, Charmouth, The Thames and Hampshire (two trips) Egypt - Desert somewhere near Giza - Nummalites and petrified wood Australia - Lightening Ridge opal fields - opalised things!!!!USA - Florida- Gainesville creeks and Diving in the Santa Fe river Meg teeth and 10 000 year old mammalsNew Zealand- Around 30 sites visited and collected from. Including Chatham Islands. and now Canada Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Missourian Posted September 26, 2012 Share Posted September 26, 2012 what period are they from? Pennsylvanian Context is critical. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moahunt1 Posted September 26, 2012 Share Posted September 26, 2012 *goes off to Mr Google and checks Pennsylvanian!!! lol!!!!! we don't have it here in NZ lol!!!!! Aha I just thought every one kept fossil hunting in Pennsylvania!!!! and they had good ferns !!!! I went to PA when I was there in June and I found 16 arrowheads!!!!! no fossils. Hunted for fossils in:UK - Lyme Regis, Charmouth, The Thames and Hampshire (two trips) Egypt - Desert somewhere near Giza - Nummalites and petrified wood Australia - Lightening Ridge opal fields - opalised things!!!!USA - Florida- Gainesville creeks and Diving in the Santa Fe river Meg teeth and 10 000 year old mammalsNew Zealand- Around 30 sites visited and collected from. Including Chatham Islands. and now Canada Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted September 26, 2012 Share Posted September 26, 2012 *goes off to Mr Google and checks Pennsylvanian!!! lol!!!!! we don't have it here in NZ lol!!!!!... LINK "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moahunt1 Posted September 26, 2012 Share Posted September 26, 2012 LINK thank you!!!!!! I get it now lol!!!! Hunted for fossils in:UK - Lyme Regis, Charmouth, The Thames and Hampshire (two trips) Egypt - Desert somewhere near Giza - Nummalites and petrified wood Australia - Lightening Ridge opal fields - opalised things!!!!USA - Florida- Gainesville creeks and Diving in the Santa Fe river Meg teeth and 10 000 year old mammalsNew Zealand- Around 30 sites visited and collected from. Including Chatham Islands. and now Canada Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moahunt1 Posted September 26, 2012 Share Posted September 26, 2012 So in our Carboniferous we had some coal forests and some insects!!!!! not very many things at all Hunted for fossils in:UK - Lyme Regis, Charmouth, The Thames and Hampshire (two trips) Egypt - Desert somewhere near Giza - Nummalites and petrified wood Australia - Lightening Ridge opal fields - opalised things!!!!USA - Florida- Gainesville creeks and Diving in the Santa Fe river Meg teeth and 10 000 year old mammalsNew Zealand- Around 30 sites visited and collected from. Including Chatham Islands. and now Canada Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Missourian Posted September 26, 2012 Share Posted September 26, 2012 It looks like you got just the Carboniferous that 'fell through the cracks'. Context is critical. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted September 26, 2012 Share Posted September 26, 2012 It was a different world back then: "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrangellian Posted September 27, 2012 Share Posted September 27, 2012 Visean was Mississippian, here is the Late Carb: (too bad no labels on this one) Nice haul, thair, I'm sure I said it before, but I envy those of you who live near such a spot! Talk about thick on the ground, and well preserved also, no need to prep! I like the spiny brachs and the corals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hit The Deck Posted September 27, 2012 Share Posted September 27, 2012 Wow! That’s a great patch of earth there. I see a piece of a Petalodus but no Trilobites this timeJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thair Posted September 27, 2012 Author Share Posted September 27, 2012 Wow! That’s a great patch of earth there. I see a piece of a Petalodus but no Trilobites this timeJ I have never found any Trilobites at this location and very few pieces of Petalodus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erose Posted September 27, 2012 Share Posted September 27, 2012 Is that one or two nice rostroconchs I see? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thair Posted September 27, 2012 Author Share Posted September 27, 2012 Is that one or two nice rostroconchs I see? Yes there is one complete one and the other is a broken one consisting of one side. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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