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Finishing up the install of my Fossils of the Michigan Basin exhibit at the NASR Museum at St. Clair County Community College in Port Huron, Michigan. From the pictures you can see that they have a vast collection of Ice Age creatures. My exhibit compliments these by telling the story of our ancient DEVONIAN seas that covered Michigan.
The exhibit will be here for 3 months.
Saturday March 16th - free college day, I am doing 3 lectures, and according to one of my facebook friends they are already full, great day.
Many of the casts in the permanent exhibit here at the museum were donated by the late Michael Sinchak and his wife Barb. They were super benefactors to the museum. Those of you who many years ago came to the Detroit Rock and Mineral Show in October may remember Michael, he always brought great cast dinosaurs and creatures as the centerpiece of the show.
REMEMBER the Ice Age Creatures are NOT Mine, just showing you some of what the museum has to offer. My exhibit begins after you pass the Mastodon skull.
They also have a wonderful collection of crystals and minerals on display.
The exhibit will be here for 3 months.
Saturday March 16th - free college day, I am doing 3 lectures, and according to one of my facebook friends they are already full, great day.
Many of the casts in the permanent exhibit here at the museum were donated by the late Michael Sinchak and his wife Barb. They were super benefactors to the museum. Those of you who many years ago came to the Detroit Rock and Mineral Show in October may remember Michael, he always brought great cast dinosaurs and creatures as the centerpiece of the show.
REMEMBER the Ice Age Creatures are NOT Mine, just showing you some of what the museum has to offer. My exhibit begins after you pass the Mastodon skull.
They also have a wonderful collection of crystals and minerals on display.
Fossils of the Michigan Basin is striking tomorrow at the Kingman Museum in Battle Creek and moving to the NASR Museum in Port Huron for 3 months. If y'all are in the area of Port Huron, stop and see what fossils we can find right here in the great State of Michigan. Also stop by Saturday at the FREE college lecture series at St. Clair County Community College I will be doing 3 lectures there on various subjects. Stop on by and say hello.......You know I will stop at the Palms Krystal Bar for their famous Chicken in the Rough.
Trilobite Lovers, trilobiteophiles, fossil fanatics. DID you MISS the TUCSON show or were you just unable to go. We just listed over 30 trilobites that were found and prepared by renowned trilobite hunter Markus Martin. Jennifer Kchodl and I have over 30 of his "RED BUG" trilobites for sale on the store site, some EXCEPTIONALLY rare bugs as well from other parts of the country and Canada. We have also listed a bunch of Penn Dixie Bugs. While on the site be sure to check out the rest of the store for affordable and Museum Quality fossils of all kinds. Remember free shipping on orders over $ 100.00 in the United States only. And we still have a few Dalmanites and one Calymene from the Rochester Shale. Check out the site for lots of other fossils as well. www.paleojoe.com/recently-added-products/
So.....nice to rekindle old relationships with old friends. Ray and I have also dug in the same places all over the U.S. we spent some time together in New York digging.
Boy...we are getting old aren't we ?
Boy...we are getting old aren't we ?
Last day at the Sharonville, Ohio Gem, Rock, Mineral and fossil show. Been a great weekend. Sold lots of stuff, but we have hundreds more fossils. Affordable to high end museum pieces. Trilobitophiles, wee have got lots of trilobites. I could list stuff here but would be too long. If you are out and about c'mon by.
Crinoid collectors still trying to sell this block of 12 crinoid crowns. 3 different species. Alabama crinoids.
Crinoid collectors still trying to sell this block of 12 crinoid crowns. 3 different species. Alabama crinoids.
What a great day in Cincinnati. Great to see Carlton Brett again. Nice to talk to someone who has broken rocks in the same quarry, skinned knees on the same shale and cussed over broken trilobites during recovery. Carlton and me and Carlton and my daughter Jen.
I will be at the Sharonville/ Cincinatti Rock show March 1,2, and 3. Our store has hundreds of fossils for sale and we should have all of them there with us. Cystoids, Kemmerer fish, Polished ammonites, petrified wood, Meg teeth on and on and on.
We have affordable specimens as well as high quality museum specimens.
Recently We have purchased nearly 50 trilobites from Markus Martin, well known trilobite expert. He personally collected and prepared these museum quality bugs. We also have dozens of Eldredgeops that just came back from the prep lab, Ollenellus from Pennsylvania, Elrathia, Asaphiscus, Bolaspidella from Utah, Dalamanites and Calymene from New York, Oklahoma pachiphacops, RARE bugs from Quebec and the list goes on.
If you are in the Cinci area stop by and say hello.
We have affordable specimens as well as high quality museum specimens.
Recently We have purchased nearly 50 trilobites from Markus Martin, well known trilobite expert. He personally collected and prepared these museum quality bugs. We also have dozens of Eldredgeops that just came back from the prep lab, Ollenellus from Pennsylvania, Elrathia, Asaphiscus, Bolaspidella from Utah, Dalamanites and Calymene from New York, Oklahoma pachiphacops, RARE bugs from Quebec and the list goes on.
If you are in the Cinci area stop by and say hello.
Several weeks ago I wrote a facebook post on Epibionts found on Paraspirifer brachiopods. They were aulopora corals.
An epibiont is an organism that lives on the surface of another living organism. Normally they are harmless to its host creature.
Today I am showing another epibiont on a different spriferid (Mediospirifer) but still from the Silica Shale of Ohio.
These photos show inarticulate brachiopods attached to the surface of the Mediospirifer and also scars from where other inarticulate brachiopods were either torn or fell off.
An inarticulate brachiopod is one that has no hinge, most brachiopods have a two piece hinged shell. These do not. It is believed that the inarticulates would attach themselves to the other creature in order to move with it to perhaps a better feeding area or at least be exposed to more food.
At one time this brachiopod had 7 inarticulates getting a free ride.
Photo 1
Mediosprifer audaculus with 3 inarticulate brachiopods
Devonian Period
Silica Shale Formation
Sylvania, Ohio
Photo 2 scars of where inarticulate brachiopods were attached.
Photo 3 scars on a different area where 2 more were attached.
An epibiont is an organism that lives on the surface of another living organism. Normally they are harmless to its host creature.
Today I am showing another epibiont on a different spriferid (Mediospirifer) but still from the Silica Shale of Ohio.
These photos show inarticulate brachiopods attached to the surface of the Mediospirifer and also scars from where other inarticulate brachiopods were either torn or fell off.
An inarticulate brachiopod is one that has no hinge, most brachiopods have a two piece hinged shell. These do not. It is believed that the inarticulates would attach themselves to the other creature in order to move with it to perhaps a better feeding area or at least be exposed to more food.
At one time this brachiopod had 7 inarticulates getting a free ride.
Photo 1
Mediosprifer audaculus with 3 inarticulate brachiopods
Devonian Period
Silica Shale Formation
Sylvania, Ohio
Photo 2 scars of where inarticulate brachiopods were attached.
Photo 3 scars on a different area where 2 more were attached.
OMPHALOCIRRUS manatobensis
These are some really special fossils I found in Rogers City, Michigan. These are Gastropods, Ammonites had not yet really begun to populate the seas, we had ammonoids (primitive ammonites) but these are gastropods or commonly known as snails. They range in size from around 1 inch in diameter to about the size of a dinner plate.
Gastropods or snails are in the group of animals called mollusks. They can be found today in fresh and salt water and some are also found on land.
These are marine gastropods and they are coiled. I have found some rare straight-shelled gastropods that were originally described in the 1930's from the Ferron Point Formation. I will do a post on those at a later date.
These are INTERNAL molds of the creature. Most of the time in the Rogers City Limestone formation this is all we find. Rarely do you find the external shell of the gastropod. The second photo is one that is partially covered by calcite crystals. There must have been a void in the rock and as water percolated through the sediment it deposited calcite in the void creating these crystals.
I have found these from Just north of Alpena to Rogers City, but mostly they are found in the area around Rogers City.
OMPHALOCIRRUS manatobensis
Devonian Period
Rogers City Limestone
Rogers City, Michigan
These are some really special fossils I found in Rogers City, Michigan. These are Gastropods, Ammonites had not yet really begun to populate the seas, we had ammonoids (primitive ammonites) but these are gastropods or commonly known as snails. They range in size from around 1 inch in diameter to about the size of a dinner plate.
Gastropods or snails are in the group of animals called mollusks. They can be found today in fresh and salt water and some are also found on land.
These are marine gastropods and they are coiled. I have found some rare straight-shelled gastropods that were originally described in the 1930's from the Ferron Point Formation. I will do a post on those at a later date.
These are INTERNAL molds of the creature. Most of the time in the Rogers City Limestone formation this is all we find. Rarely do you find the external shell of the gastropod. The second photo is one that is partially covered by calcite crystals. There must have been a void in the rock and as water percolated through the sediment it deposited calcite in the void creating these crystals.
I have found these from Just north of Alpena to Rogers City, but mostly they are found in the area around Rogers City.
OMPHALOCIRRUS manatobensis
Devonian Period
Rogers City Limestone
Rogers City, Michigan
-2 degrees outside this morning and dreaming of the warm Butte in Wyoming. Today just a brief post on Kemmerer.
If you have a bucket list of places to visit to dig fossils, this should be on it.
The video at the end is a short 41 second video of how I dig there and how easy it is to find fish.
One of my favorites. Warfield Quarry Kemmerer Wyoming. It is buried under lots of snow right now but a GREAT location to vacation and find lots of prehistoric fish.
This area is well known for the exceptional preservation of fossil fish. The fossils are Eocene in age roughly 50 Million years old. The area was once a huge 930 square mile lake of which about 500 square miles remain.
The chemistry of the lake is what preserved the fossils so well.
The sediment is layered with laminated limestone, the creatures were buried very quickly and relatively no scavenging took place so the fossils are beautifully preserved.
Check out their website or google Warfield Quarry for more info. It is a great vacation if you travel out west. many of my facebook friends have already been there, maybe they will post some comments.
I have hundreds of pictures too many to post, just a few here, enjoy.
Fossilized Eocene fish
Eocene Period
Warfield Quarry (pay to dig site open to the public)
Kemmerer, Wyoming
Picture 1 Plate of 4 KNIGHTIA
Picture 2 Me with a PHAREODUS
Picture 3 The PHAREODUS closeup
Picture 4 KNIGHTIA
Picture 5 Pile of fish fossils and tools
Picture 6 Sign to Warfield
Picture 7 Some of the fish found in 3 hours
Picture 8 large block of fish, getting ready to cut them down.
Picture 9 PaleoJoe and PaleoJen having a good time
Picture 10 PaleoJen and a block of fish.
For more pictures and stories check out paleojoe.com
If you have a bucket list of places to visit to dig fossils, this should be on it.
The video at the end is a short 41 second video of how I dig there and how easy it is to find fish.
One of my favorites. Warfield Quarry Kemmerer Wyoming. It is buried under lots of snow right now but a GREAT location to vacation and find lots of prehistoric fish.
This area is well known for the exceptional preservation of fossil fish. The fossils are Eocene in age roughly 50 Million years old. The area was once a huge 930 square mile lake of which about 500 square miles remain.
The chemistry of the lake is what preserved the fossils so well.
The sediment is layered with laminated limestone, the creatures were buried very quickly and relatively no scavenging took place so the fossils are beautifully preserved.
Check out their website or google Warfield Quarry for more info. It is a great vacation if you travel out west. many of my facebook friends have already been there, maybe they will post some comments.
I have hundreds of pictures too many to post, just a few here, enjoy.
Fossilized Eocene fish
Eocene Period
Warfield Quarry (pay to dig site open to the public)
Kemmerer, Wyoming
Picture 1 Plate of 4 KNIGHTIA
Picture 2 Me with a PHAREODUS
Picture 3 The PHAREODUS closeup
Picture 4 KNIGHTIA
Picture 5 Pile of fish fossils and tools
Picture 6 Sign to Warfield
Picture 7 Some of the fish found in 3 hours
Picture 8 large block of fish, getting ready to cut them down.
Picture 9 PaleoJoe and PaleoJen having a good time
Picture 10 PaleoJen and a block of fish.
For more pictures and stories check out paleojoe.com
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