Submitted on 2019-07-02 by Mike Palescuk

Location (approximate): Marshall, Calhoun, MI

Strat unit: Marshall formation

Submitter notes: From construction site in city of Marshall. Size about 3/4”.

Photo title: Bellerophon gastropod in Marshall Sandstone

Taxa present: Bellerophon sp.

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Submitted on 2019-07-02 by Mike Palescuk

Location (approximate): Sylvania, Lucas, OH

Strat unit: Silica formation

Submitter notes: Unit 9 bug solidly supported by a huge polished pyrite nodule. Now in the Cranbrook collection.

Photo title: Pyrite nodule supporting prone Eldredgeops

Taxa present: Eldredgeops milleri

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Submitted on 2019-07-02 by Mike Palescuk

Location (approximate): Arkona, Lambton, ON

Strat unit: Widder formation

Submitter notes: Acquired from Tom Johnson, and photographed in Fossils Quarterly magazine.

Photo title: Triple Greenops

Taxa present: Greenops widderensis

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Submitted on 2019-05-12 by David Thompson

Location (approximate): Alpena, Alpena, MI

Strat unit: Thunder Bay formation

Submitter notes: attached to matrix

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Taxa present: Placoblastus obovastus

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Submitted on 2019-05-12 by David Thompson

Location (approximate): Alpena, Alpena, MI

Strat unit: Thunder Bay formation

Submitter notes: details of Ambulacra

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Taxa present: Placoblastus obovastus

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Submitted on 2019-05-12 by David Thompson

Location (approximate): Alpena, Alpena, MI

Strat unit: Thunder Bay formation

Submitter notes: Contrast in size of blastoids from same formation.

Photo title: Small & large of same species.

Taxa present: Placoblastus obovastus

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Submitted on 2019-05-12 by David Thompson

Location (approximate): Alpena, Alpena, MI

Strat unit: Thunder Bay formation

Submitter notes: showing attachment area.

Photo title: stem end of previous Blasted photo

Taxa present: Placoblastus obovastus

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Submitted on 2019-05-12 by David Thompson

Location (approximate): Alpena, Alpena, MI

Strat unit: Thunder Bay formation

Submitter notes: None

Photo title: Detail of previous specimen showing ambulacra.

Taxa present: Placoblastus obovastus

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Submitted on 2019-05-12 by David Thompson

Location (approximate): Antwerp, Paulding, OH

Strat unit: Dundee formation

Submitter notes: injured Rostroconch that healed and grew.

Photo title: Deformed Rostroconch

Taxa present: Conocardium coneus

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Submitted on 2018-12-25 by Joseph Koniecki

Location (approximate): Paulding, Paulding, OH

Strat unit: Silica formation

Submitter notes: The top crinoid is about 3 cm tall. Crinoids are very rare at the Paulding site compared to the Sylvania site. Very few complete crowns have been found.

Photo title: Crinoid

Taxa present: Proctothylacocrinus sp.

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Submitted on 2018-12-15 by Joseph Koniecki

Location (approximate): Arkona, Lambton, ON

Strat unit: Arkona formation

Submitter notes: The specimen is 1.5 cm across.

Photo title: Pelecypod

Taxa present: Paracyclas lirata

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Submitted on 2018-12-15 by Joseph Koniecki

Location (approximate): Milan, Washtenaw, MI

Strat unit: Silica formation

Submitter notes: Specimen is about 3 cm across. It is rare to find these inflated.

Photo title: Pelecypod

Taxa present: Mytilarca cordata

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Submitted on 2018-12-13 by Joseph Koniecki

Location (approximate): Alpena, Alpena, MI

Strat unit: Four Mile Dam formation

Submitter notes: Identification of this specimen is based on a 1876 publication by Rominger. The coral is 10.5 cm tall.

Photo title: Coral

Taxa present: Striatopora rugosa

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Submitted on 2018-07-06 by Joseph Koniecki

Location (approximate): Sylvania, Lucas, OH

Strat unit: Dundee formation

Submitter notes: 4 cm across the matrix.

Photo title: Rostroconch

Taxa present: Hippocardia sp.

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Submitted on 2018-06-12 by Michael Lask

Location (approximate): Port Sanilac, Sanilac, MI

Strat unit: Amherstburg formation

Submitter notes: These little pieces of Petoskey stone were collected decades ago on the rocky shores of Lake Huron. They are exactly as found, naturally polished and aged. The larger fragment is 36 mm across. Hexagonaria was a genus of reef forming tabulate coral. Tabulate corals are extinct. Enormous reefs formed in what was Michigan during the Devonian period.

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Taxa present: Hexagonaria percarinata

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Submitted on 2018-06-09 by Joseph Koniecki

Location (approximate): Paulding, Paulding, OH

Strat unit: Silica formation

Submitter notes: A very rare crinoid. The calyx is 1 cm across.

Photo title: Crinoid

Taxa present: Deltacrinus sp.

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Submitted on 2018-06-09 by Joseph Koniecki

Location (approximate): Paulding, Paulding, OH

Strat unit: Silica formation

Submitter notes: A plate with four crinoid clayxes. It is 16 cm across the slab.

Photo title: Crinoids

Taxa present: Gilbertsocrinus ohioensis

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Submitted on 2018-06-09 by Joseph Koniecki

Location (approximate): Paulding, Paulding, OH

Strat unit: Silica formation

Submitter notes: The crinoid is 2.5 cm tall. Another very rare crinoid.

Photo title: Crinoid

Taxa present: Melocrinus

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Submitted on 2018-06-09 by Joseph Koniecki

Location (approximate): Paulding, Paulding, OH

Strat unit: Silica formation

Submitter notes: It is 24 cm across the slab.

Photo title: Corals

Taxa present: Heterophrentis simplex

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Submitted on 2018-06-09 by Joseph Koniecki

Location (approximate): Paulding, Paulding, OH

Strat unit: Silica formation

Submitter notes: The slab is 30 cm across.

Photo title: Corals, bryzoans, and brachs, OH My

Taxa present: Heterophrentis simplex, Sulcoretepora sp., Strophodonta sp., Aulopora microbuccinata

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