HamptonsDoc Posted September 4, 2015 Posted September 4, 2015 I found this fossil when I was probably around 12 years old while playing in a stream coming down from a mountain outside of Binghamton, New York. The entire specimen is around 6 inches long on the longest side. Doing some googling I think these are brachiopods with crinoid stems? There's one raised area that almost looks like a partial Trilobite (bottom left of the third picture). There's a lot of activity on this stone. What do you guys think? Not that I would ever sell this, but is it worth any money?
Herb Posted September 4, 2015 Posted September 4, 2015 you are correct, crinoids and brachs. It is worth exactly the time and effort it took you to find it and to enjoy it. "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence"_ Carl Sagen No trees were killed in this posting......however, many innocent electrons were diverted from where they originally intended to go. " I think, therefore I collect fossils." _ Me "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."__S. Holmes "can't we all just get along?" Jack Nicholson from Mars Attacks
Guguita2104 Posted September 4, 2015 Posted September 4, 2015 Welcome to the Forum! I agree with Herb...In the pics we can see external molds of brachiopods and crinoid stems.
Auspex Posted September 4, 2015 Posted September 4, 2015 That's a classic slab of brachiopod/crinoid "hash" molds. It's value is immeasurable: the kindling of the sense of wonder in a 12 year old boy 2 "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!
abyssunder Posted September 4, 2015 Posted September 4, 2015 Very nice association of brachiopods and crinoid stems,especially the last, because there are different types of stems (circular, tetragonal and pentagonal). I think, this ensemble of sea bed sediment with deposited organic remains is a good example for teaching in schools, or for a fossil collector a nice trophy. 2 " We are not separate and independent entities, but like links in a chain, and we could not by any means be what we are without those who went before us and showed us the way. " Thomas Mann My Library
Jeffrey P Posted September 5, 2015 Posted September 5, 2015 Welcome to the Fossil Forum from the Hudson Valley. That's a great fossil piece there. Congratulations. I see Spirifer brachiopods, a variety of crinoid stem sections, and a few possible bivalve shell pieces. Since it is from the Binghamton area I'm guessing it is probably Upper Devonian in Age. There are more great pieces like that in the Hudson Valley where I'm from. Good luck.
sithman Posted August 9, 2016 Posted August 9, 2016 I had a few hash fossils collected when I lived in NY but my ex took them with everything else I owned! I loved those fossils! I would like to once again have something like that in my collection! Thomas
abyssunder Posted August 9, 2016 Posted August 9, 2016 It happens sometimes, in our lives, but, don't care about that, Thomas. " We are not separate and independent entities, but like links in a chain, and we could not by any means be what we are without those who went before us and showed us the way. " Thomas Mann My Library
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