3d simulation of extinct biomes - The Fossil Forum I'm currently working on a simulation of extinct biomes, i'm slowly learning how to make everything as realistic as possible for realtime 3d simulation I would like to start with plants recreated from some Silurian, lower devonian and upper devonian, and slowly working to recreating the biomes i
Devonian Epibiont - Fossil ID - The Fossil Forum Hello, all! I have recently acquired a specimen of Thamnopora germanica from the Quarry at Hotton, Belgium from Ken's trip there @ziggycardon This is the Trois-Fontaines Formation of the Lower Givetian, Mid Devonian And it has a couple of things growing on it This is not a great picture, but g
A couple Devonian Era ID requests - Fossil ID - The Fossil Forum Good evening folks, I really got into Fossils just this year and spent a lot of time in Central PA It was my first time experiencing Devonian era fossils and I've been captivated by all the organisms that lived back then Most of the things I come across I can identify at this point, when diggin
Devonian Placoderms from Iowa - Fossil Hunting Trips - The Fossil Forum Our Rock Club visited a site for the purpose of collecting crystals and specimens were both abundant and beautiful as seen by this combo of Calcite, Fluorite, and Pyrite The location is within the Devonian Cedar Valley Formation, usually a very fossiliferous rock But for some reason, the site h
Possible ichnofossil? Found in Mid-Devonian area, Roanoke, VA USA Hello, I found this unusual specimen in a mostly shale mid-Devonian formation in Appalachia It's called the Millboro formation in southwest Virginia USA The matrix doesn't seem to be shale but sandstone, although I'm a newbie so I'm not sure It looks like scratches in fossilized mud Could the
Back to Red Hill - Fossil Hunting Trips - The Fossil Forum Went back to Red Hill, PA yesterday and had some success - ran into Doug who gave me another excellent museum tour at the nearby field station and showed off some newly uncovered material Red Hill fossils come from the Duncannon Member of the Catskill Formation and are Late Devonian in age Note
Devonian Brachiopods Galore! A Trip to Iowas Prairie Fossil Park The latter is spectacular, although collecting is not allowed there The Fossil Gorge was created when heavy rains in 1993 caused the Iowa River to spill violently over a dam for almost a month and wash away about 6 meters of topsoil to expose the extremely fossiliferous Devonian limestone bedrock below
Red Hill, North Bend, Pennsylvania - Fossil Hunting Trips - The Fossil . . . Red Hill represents the Devonian experiment of living on land Still intimately associated with the water but life had not only moved onto the land but thrived there and in the process created the first soils and ecosystems that we would recognize