UPDATE: This is not Strobeus, but Leptoptygma. Cleaning out the aperture makes this clear. April 2023. This tiny late Paleozoic gastropod is most likely identified as Strobeus brevis. Measuring somewhere between four and five millimeters, this snail would be challenging to spot if you were not looking for it. ThisRead More →
I have found very little fossilized woody material in the Late Carboniferous strata locally. It most certainly exists, I just haven’t been lucky enough to recover any. That changed yesterday with the recovery of a fossilized taproot. The specimen was found in-situ in shale immediately above the Pine Creek limestone.Read More →
Plant fossils are very common in the Glenshaw Formation. The shale preserves a multitude of plant fossil specimens, waiting to be found. Preservation can be an impression or a carbon film. These carbon films are leftover carbon from when the original organism was alive. The oxygen, nitrogen, and hydrogen disappearRead More →
This starts a series of posts on Fossils NOT of Parks Township. I traded some brachiopods to a collector in France for an exchange of Ammonoids from France. The first specimen I focused on is a Jurassic species with a temporal range of 180.1 to 175.6 million-years-ago. I know littleRead More →
Without a doubt, the genus Metacoceras is one of the two most common cephalopod genera found locally. This particular specimen preserves inner chambers. It did split in half while I was recovering it, but to my surprise, everything remained intact. Individual septal wall/suture lines can be seen on close inspection.Read More →
I still have only found two examples of the genus Neospirifer locally. I spent three or more hours on this one, carefully removing excess parts of the limestone matrix. I’ve been getting more patient with the air scribe, turning it down to work on more delicate areas. There are wellRead More →