Fossil Hunting Horn Coral, Dry Dredgers Oct. 2007

[lleaves]

Thanks, this video was helpful to me. I found a rock slab, in Springboro Ohio, with many elliptical indentations. I did not know what it was but I thought it was some kind of trace fossil. The slab I found is very similar to the slab you show at the end of this video except that the indentations are primarily elliptical. Now I know these are the marks of peticals from brachiopods.

[rubytuesday24]

Aw man, I wanna go! Looks awesome.

I found some horned coral in the Austrian Alps.

[flyingscience]

Do you know what geologic period it was from? That sounds awesome ! Did you find brachiopods sea shells as well .

[ShilgenVens]

I found some horned coral at one site on my fossil hunting weekend. These corals lived during the Ordovician?

At another site we found several different types of leaves and ferns. Devonian?

[flyingscience]

The horn corals indeed lived during the Ordovician ,Sillurian and Devonian (I don't know when they went extinct).Find brachiopods too ?

[ShilgenVens]

Yes we found a thick pinkish coloured layer FULL of brachiopods. They were jumbled in a thick layer about 18" thick. They were heavily calcified (if that is the correct term). There were horned coral at the same site, which was a rock slide, but the horned coral was not found in the same rock as the brachiopods.

At a different site we found some beautiful ferns and various other leaves. We're heading back to the leaf site in three weeks.

[samten54]

Your kids are lucky.

[kelsimrules]

thank you for this video i love your fossil hunting videos i never miss them 5 stars!

[flyingscience]

Some of the finds can be seen in the coral video .I still havent gotten around yo making part 2 .look again soon.

[flyingscience]

Holtadena is the name of the Brachiopod I couldnt name .First time I saw 1 . Its in the Cincinnati fossil book .

[st4273]

I love your fossil hunting videos, very informative and educational. You should sell some of them on ebay :)

[healthyaddict]

Thanks for sharing! (as always) =)

[flyingscience]

Horn coral is often missidentified as dinosaur teeth , horns or claws by uninformed newbies.The museum sees people bring these in weekly , their dissapointed when its identified .

[flyingscience]

If fossil hunting where as popular as soccer every location would be over picked .Fossil comtinue to erode out with weathering but it takes many good rains.

[flyingscience]

Typicly you have to drive many miles away from Cincinnati to find horn coral .This location had not been collected by anyone for many years .Fortunatly fossil hunting isnt as popular as soccer.

[yellowdart137]

there are a few river beds here that are very productive. both near my home, north of dayton. horn corals were common things for children in this area to have. at one point i must have had about 30 or more.

[flyingscience]

The "long story" graphics was supposed to be on the young boys story.Downloading videos puts audio and text out of synch sometimes .