Southwest Va Fossils

[toddrandolph]

Your fossils look a lot like the Ordovician limestone from southwest Ohio, 500 million years old. I've got a chunk of that somewhere around here with a starfish amongst brachiopods. The round disk things are crinoid stems. I'm not sure if the fan things are part of the crinoids or some sort of coral. There are fossil fish to be found in the Devonian age shales along the river banks around Cleveland, though I have yet to find one.

 

[madman]

hey charlie nice finds! havent found much around the the knoxville area, but have have found some like in the first pix , north of here near tazwell

 

[RedGinger]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPhK1KCiPek I have a few fossil videos on there. I'm uploading one right now with some kind of footprint in it. Please feel free to comment, I don't know much about them.

 

[woodswalker]

Those are great fossils...I find those washed up on the beach of Lake Michigan all the time....Hope you don't mind my posting a pic on your post but here's a crinoid stem(thats the long cylinder shaped one by the quarter) and just to the left of that is a individual section of the stem....thats your what your unidentified fossil would look like if it weren't embedded in that rock[8|]

 

[whiskeyman]

Thanks for the comments everyone...[]

esp Surf's about "wheat chex"...ROFL[]
and I agree, now that ya mention it - the "fish" does more closely resemble a crawdad...

Nice finds Woodwalker...and you are correct - they are as small as yours, (if they weren't embedded.) But, my large slabs are easier to keep up with...[]

 

[Wangan]

It would be too bad to ruin the outside but I cant help but wonder what is on the inside.

 

[RedGinger]

Whiskeyman, how were you able to get such great pics of your fossils? Did you use a light box? Your camera must have a good macro setting. I'm having trouble with mine.

 

[Road Dog]

ORIGINAL: whiskeyman

the other "stuff"...consists of crinoids , sea fans and maybe small bones ? and a white deposit amid some crinoids that looks like a fish...all these are quite small...

I found a piece of this at Cape Hatteras years ago.

 

[whiskeyman]

RED...sorry it took me so long to reply. I have a Canon PowerShot A1000 IS camera...and it does have an excellent macro setting with image stabilizer....when the light is good...[]

and no...no light box...JUst laid it on a tabletop.