Hunter Thurmond
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It also resembles internal molds of turritella sp. but they are more tightly coiled. Were there any Miocene mollusks with super thick coiled shells or gaps in the coil?
@jkallmeyer I can’t get my iphone to focus much closer than that. The only other option is a series of shots through a 20x hand loop at different focus depths. I am in the process of acquiring a better camera so in the future I will have better shots. For now here is some of the side which might be a bryozoan. The second photo is 40x
@jayson-kowinsky, @jkallmeyer, Sorry I meant the little nodules below the brachiopod.
Thanks @bheimbrock awesome to get such an in depth response from a professional. I’d like to point out I was considering putting some back and appreciate the advice NOT to. And next time I’ll spend a bit more time examining on site.
@jkallmeyer, @rleder, @bheimbrock, @lcone, @george-powell, @lmccall, @cferrara, @walter-stein
Could some of you share your criteria for what you keep and what you discard; and how you discard of it?
After my first fossil trip I ended up with many fragments, half of me wants to keep them all and say each one is special because its 300 million years old, but I know I can’t and that there will be endless more.
Why not have a general history of paleontology with a subforum on women and a subforum on men, instead of a forum on women with subforums on general history and a subforum on men? Seems a little off balance to me. But that being said, I loved reading about Mary Anning, people like her are exactly the kind of people I like reading about; ie rehydrating fossil ink to illustrate icthyasaur diagrams!
Is the Needmore formation also equivalent to the Mahantango formation, in Virginia? @jayson-kowinsky
Here are more pictures of the rocks and of the outcrop I took them from. The outcrop was not very uniform either.
My first guess was coral as well. The background is typical carpet, so yes it is quite small maybe 4-6 mm. To me it seems to leave a trail to the right or a shadow where sediment was blocked. It ws found at the base of a landscaping tree, a clump of shale caught in the root mass, so whether or not it is actually from martinsburg shale is also questionable. I thought it looked similar to this picture
