Penn Dixie microfossils

[fossil35]

I had a few little pieces of Penn Dixie from New York matrix and was going to see if can found any micros out of it. Was wondering if anyone has broken down matrix from there and had a good ways of doing it?

[JamieLynn]

I had some Micro Matrix from Penn Dixie  - It was already broken down so can't really help you out there, but this is the stuff I found: 

 

[Fossildude19]

The Penn Dixie shale breaks down easily from natural weathering, so, maybe soaking in water for a long period of time might do it for you.

Also try Hydrogen Peroxide baths. You might consider putting the pieces on a screen of some sort, suspended in the water in a Rubbermaid type container.

 

[fossil35]

Those are really nice founds JamieLynn, hopefully will found few bits as well.

Thanks for the advice Fossildudue19 will give those a try and see how it goes.

 

[fossil35]

Took some time to break down to small bits but found few pieces fossils.  For a few inches of shale pieces, not to bad. Cleaned them up best could (they are very little).

 

#1 (it would be little less then 1mm on a few mm matrix) (not sure what is)

 

#2 (around 3mm. Didn't clean as well as wanted but ok for so small) (trilobite)

 

#3 (all are around 1mm or less) (crinoid stem bits)

 

#4 (around 1mm) (would guess a coral bit)

 

#5 (around 1mm) (not sure what is but was very hard to clean, on edge of matrix)

[Ludwigia]

Just a little tip if you don't already know about it: There are microscopic conodonts to be found at Penn Dixie in the North Evans Limestone.

[Fossildude19]

Your 3 unknowns appear to be ostracods.

[fossil35]

Conodonts look cool. Would love to have found some but didn't see any, pieces weren't limestone.

 

Had to look up the ostracods. That is interesting things I didn't know about. Thank you for the info.

[Coco]

Could 4 not be a trilobite eye ? I do not know if there are species big enough for such an eye there.

 

Coco

[Fossildude19]

18 minutes ago, Coco said:

Could 4 not be a trilobite eye ? I do not know if there are species big enough for such an eye there.

 

Coco

 

 

I'm pretty sure it's an ostracod. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Coco]

Hi,

 

OK, I don’t know enough about these little beasts OK, I don’t know enough about these little beasts

 

Coco

[Isotelus2883]

The North Evans Ls is near the entrance of the park.

[Ludwigia]

On 9/11/2024 at 12:58 AM, fossil35 said:

Conodonts look cool. Would love to have found some but didn't see any, pieces weren't limestone.

 

 

7 hours ago, Isotelus2883 said:

The North Evans Ls is near the entrance of the park.

 

Just drawing your attention to this since I missed out on this post last week.

[fossil35]

Found another one of those seed shrimp. Looked almost like had eyes. These are interesting little things.

 

#1 (around 1mm) (sorry photos where hard to get well they so little) (was even harder trying to dig it out)