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Kueichouphyllum sinense Yu 1931
Coral from the Lower Carboniferous of China

Iron Out vs. Rock Quat vs. CLR on Kyanite
with iron stains and hematite

Fish Jaw or Spine?
Appears to be a small but extremely well-preserved bone
Note: "Discussion" link below the pictures

Previously Unidentified Sponge - Eocene, North Carolina
Castle Hayne Formation - Pender Co., NC.

Mystery solved: Exanthesis ovatus

Pennsylvanian nautiloid
Identification needed for a County Fair project

Fossil or Pseudofossil?
This specimen was found in central Colorado in the Pennsylvanian Minturn Formation

Eocene sepioid cephalopods - Anomalosaepia
Eocene sepioid cephalopods - Belosaepia
These web pages prepared by T. E. Yancey
Off-Site link
thes pages are not on the photo album

MAPS Fossil Show "Hub" website
Current information about the next fossil show
Use this link to promote the Annual Fossil show
Off-Site link - not on the photo album

EVACTINOPORA a star-shaped bryozoan
This link takes you to a website showcasing one of the most
unusual Mississippian fossils that occur in the midcontinent
region of North America.
Off-Site link not on the photo album

Digital hand-held microscopes
When the image looks good on the monitor "Click"
      Images of Fossils - Information - YouTube links

Pseudofossils
(Fossils that really aren't!)
Alan Goldstein - Falls of Ohio State Park
Off-Site link not on the photo album

Interesting fossil found near Moscow, Russia
Looking for a name for this fossil.
In lieu of a name, a discussion would be of interest.


Chimaeroid Egg Capsule
Oligocene - Keasey Formation - near Vernonia, Oregon

Ammonite inside a clam
Turning over this specimen, revealed quite a surprise.

Ammolite
The scientific name given to the gem material extracted from
Placenticeras ammonites & comes in a wide range of colours & patterns

Mastodon Jaw
Found while fishing on the Mississippi River
near Cape Girardeau, MO

Bison Jaw with Teeth
Cow or Bison? A topic of frequent discussions.
Off-Site link not on the photo album

Cretaceous trace fossil
A friend gave this to me some time ago
to see if I could get ID on it

Undescribed fossils

Two old friends enjoying a beautiful Fall day
fossil hunting in the colorful Fern Glen Formation

Egg shapes on brachiopod

Eliasopora sp. (bryozoan)
Lower Devonian epibonts

Trackway and seed ?
While collecting fern fossils from a Carboniferous coal seam and
associated shale, I came across what appears to be tiny tracks....

Mystery gift from a friend
A friend recently gave me a gift with no documentation

Large cephalopods (and a bryozoan) from the Salem Limestone
These nautiloids do not seem to match any illustrations
in the books on the Salem fauna ...

Warning for Indiana Roadcut Collectors (PDF file)
An article from the Bloomington Indiana newspaper focuses
on stopping to collect rocks on Indiana's state highways

Fossils of the Owl Creek Formation
The Owl Creek deposit dates to the end of the Cretaceous
and first identified in southeastern Missouri near Ardeola, MO

Karen's Kollection of Dead Kritters
Fossils from Karen's collection

Unknown from the Minturn Formation
This fossil was found near McCoy, Colorado in
the Minturn Formation, which is known for its
Pennsylvanian invertebrates.

Unusual Bryozoan Association
Prismopora bryozoan encrustations on crinoid stems
were found near Holdenville, Hughes Co., OK.

Mississippian strata in Illinois

from Handbook of Illinois Stratigraphy

Middle Ordovician site photos
and 2 brachiopods - Monroe, Orange County, NY.

Lower Devonian site photos
Orange County, NY - Esopus Formation

Ammonite crunching Mosasaur
Globidens cranials & partial cervical vert column
MAPS Fossil Expo 2009

Crinoid and Prep work station
Images of a beautiful crinoid and prep work station

Upper Mississippian Crinoids from Alabama
This slab was collected years ago using the peel method

Huge Archimedes
Archimedes wortheni found near St. Louis, Missouri

Platystrophia brachiopod species by formation

Indiana - Kentucky - Ohio
Excel spreadsheet - Index fossil species in bold text

Collecting trip to Anna, Illinois
Upper Mississippian - Golconda Formation

Favosites sp.
coral found near St. Louis, MO

Cruziana wandering through a field of Zoophycos
Perhaps hunting them?

Burlington Crinoids
Request for identifications

Tennessee Coral
This coral weathered out from a limestone-chert deposit

Two sponge holdfasts found in St. Louis, MO
Pennsylvanian and Mississippian specimens

Ice formations along the Ohio River

Spectacular ice along the edge of the Ohio River ...

Beekite rings on brachiopods
Examples of beekite formation on brachiopods

Mystery shape found in Pennsylvanian shale
Identified as a Beekite ring

Mystery Invertebrate
Now identified as a stromatoporoid

Lower Devonian Trilobite
Dalmanites emarginatus Hall, 1876
Orange County, New York

Kope Formation

This album will focus on fossils from a series of outcrops
in the Carrollton area of Carroll County, Kentucky.


Lower Devonian Fossil (New York)
Possibly a crinoid stem, but more squared-off ...

Deltodus sp.

Mississippian shark tooth
St. Louis, MO


Theodossia hungerfordi
Beautiful Devonian brach with associated
colony of auloporid coral

Fossil collecting in Fenton, MO, October 2008
Three crinoids, a blastoid and a Platyceras sp.

SEMO Fossil Club collecting Owl Creek formation (Cretaceous)
Dr. Bruce Stinchcomb extended an invitation to the
SEMO fossil club to collect on his property ...

An Usual Geological Time Chart
Bizarre geological time chart that was sent to our park's gift shop ...

Petrodus sp. dermal denticles (oscicles)
Shark skin armor (Pennsylvanian)

Mississippian Bryozoan
Rhombopora sp.

Dinosaur Eggs
Paleo Art

Camerisma pyrmidata
Gzhelian Stage, Rusavkian substage (Pennsylvanian)
Gzhel quarry, Gzhel village (Russia)

Huge Mastodon tooth
Rear upper skull tooth

Holcocrinus sp.
Rare Mississippian crinoid with cirri found in Missouri
images Before and After preparation

Russia-USA joint venture Paleontology project
Language separates us ... Pictures bring us together
Alexander Davydov (Moscow, Russia)
Barry Sutton (St. Louis, Missouri - USA)
Off-Site link not on the photo album

Eocene Leaves
These fossils have a rather extensive history ...

Raymond Cave
A small beautiful cave in northwestern Kentucky

Mass mortalities of the Eocene
1. Crane fly or Hoover fly larvae?
2. Turritella agate

On-the-Road Fossil Diversions
in Southern Indiana and North Central Kentucky

Lake Gosiute, Green River Eocene
unknown larva, worms and bugs

MAPS fossil show
A collection of pictures taken at previous
MAPS Fossil shows - (Mid-America Paleontology Society)

Glyptocrinus sp.
Ordovician crinoid
Montgomery Co., MO

Late Ordovician Crinoid
Glyptocrinus sp.
Cape Girardeau County, MO

Recent Discovery in Russia
Very interesting small round spheres covered by a limy dust.

Liroceras excentricum (Eichwald, 1857)

Nautiloid Cephalopod (Moscow, Russia)

Observations of a Devonian fish bonebed
A bone bed occurs at the top of the Jeffersonville
Limestone (Eifelian, Middle Devonian).

Ice Spears
weird ice crystals protruding from my truck's tailgate ...

New Wyoming Catfishes
Green River Eocene - SW Wyoming

Mystery fossil (Russia)

67 pound blue forest, Wyoming wood stump
Green River Eocene, 50 MYO

Mark Twain Lake fossil hunt (Missouri)
Burlington Formation (Mississippian)

Easter weekend Fossil hunt, Southern Missouri
Numerous Cambrian and Ordovician fossils

What is it?
Identified: Pteropods are planktic gastropods ...

Cretaceous Era Plants from Brazil
These came with a collection of Brazilian fossils
...

An April 2007 Fossil Collecting Trip in Clark Co., Indiana
Speed, Indiana

Collecting at Essroc Quarry in Southern Indiana
Speed, Indiana

Devonian collecting continues...
I was over at the Cooper Lane Quarry and
collected like mad for about 3 hours ...

Fossil Collecting Around Louisville, June 17 & 18
Coral Ridge collecting requires a lot of crawling ...

Results of Recent Fossil Collecting In Clark Co., Indiana
and Jefferson Co., Kentucky
Devonian fossils from Clark Co., Indiana

Calamites
One of my favorite fossil collecting spots in Clearfield, Pennsylvania
...

Mosasaur rock collection on eBay
Amusing fossil offered for sale on eBay with
a half million dollar starting bid!

Blaco River fossils
My wife and I found these fossils in the dry river bed of
the Blaco River in Hays County near San Marcos, Texas.
     Identified: Ilymatogyra arietina (Roemer) - Ram's horn oysters

Devonian Fossils of West Virginia
Fossils from the Fore Knobs Formation, Upper Devonian,
Randolph County, West Virginia.

Unknown Mississippian Fossil from Missouri
Burlington Formation
Identified: Crinoid arm trunks from which biserial arms are attached.

Fossil Collecting Axioms
November 2006 thread archive
One of the most enjoyable and longest running threads in recent memory

Here's Looking at You
I think it's cute. Kettneraspis williamsi (trilobite)

Mystery Fossil from Russia

Evactinopora - Interesting "star shaped" bryozoan
Mississippian - Fern Glen Formation - Missouri

Slicing with a 24 inch rock saw
Tile saw couldn't do this type of lapidary slicing ...

Wide open spaces of Wyoming, early December collecting;
180 pound trophy size stromatolite

Platyceras sp.
Before and After prepared pictures
Mississippian - Warsaw Formation - St. Louis, MO

weird Trepospira
Pennsylvanian gastropod

Other fossils in park collection
Falls of the Ohio State Park

Future paleontologist(?) finds a rare fossil
These are photos of a cyclocystoid found by a participant
in the "Young Paleontologist Camp" today ...

Temnocheilus sp. (Pennsylvanian cephalopod)
St. Louis Pennsylvanian Fossils of the Altamont Formation
"Off-sight" link not on the photo album


The Dinosaur Bone House
"Believe It or Not"

MAPS 2006 - Velociraptor
Velociraptor model that I acquired at MAPS Fossil Expo

MAPS 2006 - Melonechinus multiporus
link below the pictures to view
specimen before preparation

Fossils from the Great Pyramids of Egypt
While visiting the Great Pyramids of Egypt last month ...

Finding a Elaeacrinus blastoid
One of my life long goals was finding a loose, well-preserved
Elaeacrinus verneuili (Roemer) blastoid.

Easter weekend fossil hunt
Fern Glen Formation (St. Louis, MO area)

Creeping Crinoids
Crinoid crawls to escape predators
Paleo textbooks may need some serious revision!

T-rex Tooth Scars on an Edmontosaurus Vertebrae
Hell Creek Formation of eastern Montana

Beaver skull found in Michigan bog deposits
Photographed at a Gem and Mineral show here in St. Louis ...

Killer large echinoid from Morocco

This is one of the best echinoids I have ever seen ...

Gastropod with Color Bands
I would like to know about the frequency
of occurrence of this type of preservation ...

Fossil Fish Digging in Wyoming
Photojournal report on a fossil hunt in Wyoming

Giant Stromatolite colony from Nevada desert
Estimated at 50 tons ...

Large Cambrian Trilobite
Stenopilus sp. #1
from the Missouri
Ozarks

Stenopilus sp. #2
Cambrian trilobite from the Missouri Ozarks
This bug has a large head compared to it's overall body size

Stenopilus sp. #3
Another "showy" Cambrian trilobite from the Missouri Ozarks

Fossil hunt on the Meramec River
Carl and I "took the rain with us" on this fossil hunt

Marine Fossils and Mississippian Geodes
This geode is from Harrodsburg Limestone
in Central Indiana

Mini Devonian Fossils  
Old Trick ... New Place

The Hunt for Ampyxina
Trilobite fossil hunt (Missouri)

Blastoid fossil hunt in Illinois
Mississippian locality near St. Louis, MO

Unknown Crinoid from Missouri
Mississippian - St. Louis Limestone

Autumn fossil hunt in Illinois
Beautiful fall colors and lots of fossils

Cretaceous Ammonite from South Dakota
Jeletzkytes nebrascensis

Texas ammonites
(identification request)

Unknown? found in the Ohio River
Identified: The large bulb shape is a Tilly bone

Welcome to the Green River Eocene of Wyoming
Two day field trip of the Green River Basin's fantastic Eocene
and ancient Lake Gosiute of SW Wyoming ...

Lyropora sp.
A Large "V" shaped Mississippian bryozoan

Unknown Mississippian Crinoid
Warsaw Formation - St. Louis, MO
Now identified: Eratocrinus commaticus (Miller, 1891)

Onychocrinus (Species?)
Mississippian crinoid - St. Louis, MO

Collapsible Field Cart
We loaded it with about 200 hundred pounds of rock ...

Holy Roller, Batman!
Huge enrolled trilobite from Morocco
Parahomalonotus
planus planus

Pholad Bivalve Borings
Recent pholad bivalve borings--rock boring clams
Some of the holes still had the clam shells in them

Here is an oddity
Snail completely encrusted by a stromatoporoid ...

Unknown Pennsylvanian fossil
The "U"-shaped area at the left end of the fossil
was apparently enclosed and club-like ...


Paleolist member's web sites

Geoffrey Notkin (list owner/moderator)
Home of the Paleolist
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www.meteoritemen.com
www.twitter.com/meteoritemen

Aereolite Meteorites for Sale
Specializing in the highest quality meteorites
Authenticity guaranteed


Barry Sutton
Paleontology and Geology of Missouri

St. Louis Pennsylvanian Fossils of the Altamont Formation
Mississippian Fossils of Missouri
Other Fossils (USA and World Wide)

Russia-USA joint venture Paleontology project
Alexander Davydov (Moscow, Russia)
Barry Sutton (St. Louis, Missouri - USA)

Barry Sutton and Tom Yancey
Carboniferous fossils of Russia
Produced by: Barry Sutton, Alexander Davydov and Tom Yancey
This website is presented to showcase Carboniferous fossils of the
Moscow region of Russia; an area that is world famous for beautifully
preserved fossils.


David Freeman
Freeman's Fossil Sale
Offering fine Wyoming fossils including rare Lake Gosiute fishes

Don Miller
Miller's Fossils

Glen J. Kuban
Dinosaur Tracks and Other Trace Fossils
Home Page

Karl A. Wilson
New York Paleontology

Fossils of the Empire State
and the Strata In Which They Are Found

Matt Wood
Lower Jurassic Fossils from North Yorkshire

Roger K. Pabian (passed away Dec. 2010)
the website will remain online
Nebraska Invertebrate Fossils


Ron Ratkevich
(Tucson, Arizona)
T-RAT.COM:  All things Ancient in Arizona

Steve Hess
EXTINCTIONS, Inc.

Tom Yancey and Barry Sutton
Carboniferous fossils of Russia
Produced by: Barry Sutton, Alexander Davydov and Tom Yancey
This website is presented to showcase Carboniferous fossils of the
Moscow region of Russia; an area that is world famous for beautifully
preserved fossils.


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Barry Sutton
LakeNeosho@aol.com


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