Hey y'all! What a treat to find these incredibly unique and old fossils! Be sure to subscribe to Rob's channel if you haven't! Huge thanks to him for taking us to these great spots. 🤟 th-cam.com/users/MichiganRocks
At 17:07, because of context with the other reef building organisms, I believe it is a stromatoporoid. The stromatoporoid is an extinct reef building sponge that lived from the Ordovician-Devonian. Stromatoporoid is not the same thing as a stromatolite as some have suggested. Enjoyed the video.
Kyle..you just showed death plates! I have a huge piece that i picked up in the 1990's and never knew what it was! Im from the coast but was living in KY at the time, 4 wheelin on top of a "knob". Stopped on top and was looking around at rocks and saw this big plate. The reason i picked it up is because it has a small welk on top and i recognized it. Telling my friends...this stuff in this rock comes from the ocean. They just laughed. I brought it home and its been with me ever since. Thanks for sharing, now i know what i have.
🧘Yes young Grasshopper! 🦗 Knowledge from the Book of Rob.. is just as interesting as the rocks! Shine on Shine off! 😃😁 Awesome place guy's.. certainly a fun day👍
Dude ive never been so late for a kyle upload!😭 this week was madness! This was so awesome!!! That looked like a serious fossil treasure trove! Love me some brachiopods😁 they can look so dang cool, and the coral! Awesome video dude! And big shout out to rob for taking you to the treasure!😄 forgot to mention the insane gigantic deathplates!!!😱 dude those are amazing!😄
Better late than never my friend!!! I appreciate you hahahaha. I really love the brachiopods too, I'm obsessed with them hahaha. This was such a blast man!
Great show Kyle!!..if your ever back up in Michigan come on over to the west side of the state. I can show you some great places to find agates, unakite, Petoskey..oh..and "stripy"..rocks..
Love the video and your enthusiasm for fossils. I've gotta get started looking for some. Very nice video and thanks so much for sharing your knowledge. Awesome!
Hey Kyle, I have seen a coffee table made out of one of those 'death plates', it was cut and polished flat. Definitely one of the most exotic and beautiful tables ever (but it weighs a lot). Great video!
Wonderful finds and so many of them! The big on looked like a fan mushroom that grows and dying trees. It has rings like a tree. Please don't move the camera so fast my eyes are old and I can't focus fast enough. It was very exciting..
I love Robs channel but seeing these places through your eyes was cool. It spun a new excitement out of it. Each of you bring a wide angle of information together, it's great would love to see more. Get his butt down to Fla✌
So glad I found your Channel! I'm in Wisconsin, but only a few hours from Michigan - Think I'll be headed that way before weather changes! Thanks for the Videos!
Cool stuff, I have found many Devonian age fossils here in Mississippi which include crinoids, brachiopods and bryozoans. My best find is a complete rugose coral. Some of my favorites to find are honeycomb corals(favosites)
Wow, great video. Took me back to my youth looking for crinoid stems and disks. I have found a few of those star shaped disks as well. Fantastic video. Thanks for doing them!!
The long-hinged brachs you found look to be Mucrospirifer mucronatus. Very cool! They're widespread in the Devonian, I've found them in Pennsylvania as well.
Awesome finds dude! Some of the Indian tribes were known to use crinoids as beads. My pops told me he found a few crinoids in the fields around where he grew up in Cochran, Georgia. I found lots of artifacts in those same fields but sadly no crinoids...
That's really cool ! I've never been able to find devonian fossil yet ! It's funny how the crinoid stem you've found are round, whether the ones I find in the lower/middle Jurassic back home in France are mostly star-shaped ! Between the corals, crinoids, bryozoan and of course the brachiopods, it was great to watch !
I was screaming at the screen once you got to Burkholder because there was so much stuff everywhere! I know you can't (and shouldn't) take all you can, but I was just freaking out at the sheer amount of specimens littering the entire area. I think the calyx in matrix and blastoid were my favorites.
I’m so happy that you got to check out our Lake Michigan fossils! I live in Milwaukee Wisconsin and we have similar fossils. My favorites are brachiopods, crinoids and coral fossils. I sure wish we had Petoskey ones in Milwaukee. In my neck of the woods we were a part of the cerulean sea. BTW, you scored big, awesome haul 💕
This is on or near the west shore of Lake Huron, rather than Lake Michigan. As I sit here anticipating hip joint replacement surgery a week from today, I really enjoyed seeing these very familiar places. Great finds, and I look forward to getting back in the saddle in a few months!
@@trachodon oh ok thank you! Looks like an awesome place! I wish you the best with your hip replacement and hope that you mend quickly so that you can rock hunt soon! 🙂
I once found a brachiopod filled with quartz up there. Very cool place to rock hunt. Glad you’re enjoying our beautiful state!!!! Subscribed thanks to @michiganrocks btw
The Fossils are awesome! You found some awesome ones with Rob. The death plates are my favorite! I probably would have to rent a trailer to pull behind my pickup to take home rocks. 😁
If you like older fossils, I recommend going to Skiatook lake in Oklahoma, similar age in fossils and same density of fossils as this spot. Nice video!
Luv in’ the weird little coral pieces, and the “mutant punk in seed” ! Also, Rob is “rockin’” the best T! Sounds like me! If you ever get to the area where the glowing stones are I’ll subscribe! How about Petosky stones? I love them too! Really cool finds, 😎 Virginia Beach,Virginia by way of Hemlock,Michigan! 😁 Hey y’all ‼️ 😎
It is so deicing to know that there is so much cool stuff to find. I am so jealous that I can't take some time off to try finding fossils myself. My new goal is to trying to find fossils near me. Thanks for the inspiration.
Great video. The more I watch, the more I want to go to Michigan. But 1st I have to go to Florida. I wonder if I can find some roads in the Boca Raton area to find fossil shells and shark teeth.?. Anyway, can’t wait to see your next video. ✌🏻❤️🙂🙏
For the first location the brachiopods look like Atrypa reticularis and some Spiriferids, the second is Mucrospirifer mucronatus as you pointed out as well as some strophomenids, the funky coral looks like Aulopora sp. Most of the quarry brachiopods were rhynchonellids but I think I also saw a chonetid. Could the banded structures you saw be stromatolites?
I wish I had known you were up here!!! I found some great crinoid calyx at partridge point as well as blastoids and rockport has an area with some trilobites! Found 3 partials in one day!
Im back! Lost my account for a minute. Nice fossils in mi. I live in mo. and have found all kinds of fossils. Of coarse i was so young when i went hunting for them. Need too do some hunting while i metal detect. Ya never know! Happy hunting!
If you ever happen to end up in Las Vegas, take a close look at the bare, rocky hills surrounding the city-- not the tall ones, but the low, rolling, rough stone hills. They're ancient coral beds, and I lived in LV for three years; during that time I went hunting the exact same things you're hunting in this video, but in desert hills full of barrel cacti and scorpions. Found them, too-- lots! So there's a new place for you to hunt if you ever get the chance. Thanks for this video-- you had a much prettier place to hunt in, but you brought back a lot of good memories (except for the time I sat on a barrel cactus; that wasn't so good.)
Good to see you back to what you love, fossils. I don't know the rocks too well only the big names. Petoskey, Yooperlite and Pudding stone. Death plate? What is the difference between that and a mortality plate? I have to be loaded up with a lot of specimens. Blastoid are referred to as sea buds.
I can definitely tell by your comments Kyle that you thoroughly enjoyed that part of the state. If you're interested in the paleo-history of that area, look up "Michigan Basin geology" and you'll find all sorts of information on where "Michigan" was at that period, as well as what creatures lived on the coral reefs of that time. Too bad your trip wasn't a month later as I'd be in the area as well, but I have the feeling Rob is going to try and run me all over the place and ask questions (I'm a geologist, but my expertise is the UP). Great finds, especially that blastoid!
![Another fossil skull - it could be the missing piece! [rare marlin fossil]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/3zKm4dq8pN4/mqdefault.jpg)
That was a fun day. It's so much fun see seeing someone else see this stuff for the first time. I love sharing my state with others.
Rob, absolutely loved your shirt!!!
@@angef9687 Thanks. My sister got that for me.
ROB, I see what you were saying about it being an ocean there. You have marine fossils instead of wood!
Minute 23:30, Wow! Amazing how the earth is changing. Wonder what the map will look later if we make it that far.
@@nubybautista9814 It's hard to imagine continents moving that far, but it's a very slow process.
Hey y'all! What a treat to find these incredibly unique and old fossils! Be sure to subscribe to Rob's channel if you haven't! Huge thanks to him for taking us to these great spots. 🤟 th-cam.com/users/MichiganRocks
Rob an awesome guy!
Loved seeing/hearing your excitement with each find! Glad you got to get out fossil hunting with Rob and had a great time
At 13:05 there tons of brachiopods, and chrinoid stems , very cool! Great work Kyle!!
I found this channel because I follow Rob's channel. It was fun to see the both if you sharing videos.
Hi Kyle. Rob sent me to your channel. Welcome to Michigan! I’m enjoying your videos.
Take a sip of beer every time Wildkyle says “crinoid stem” lol. What a fun day you had, makes me want to visit Michigan
Done .
I just subscribed to Michigan Rocks! I loved this video! I want his shirt!
You missed nice 2" crinoid section at 2:36 straight over to the right of the two pieces you picked up.....
Just saw the same thing , my heart sank when he skipped over it !!! Was such a nice sized piece 😍😍😍
Bro I'm loving your Michigan vids! Thanks for taking us along w ya!! Rock on!
So jealous!!! Have fun and continue to share!! We love it!💜
At 17:07, because of context with the other reef building organisms, I believe it is a stromatoporoid. The stromatoporoid is an extinct reef building sponge that lived from the Ordovician-Devonian. Stromatoporoid is not the same thing as a stromatolite as some have suggested. Enjoyed the video.
Nice one, looked it up and you are definitely correct.
I love Robs shirt!
So glad you had a good time in our beautiful state. I've found what I believe are dinosaur fossils on the shores of lake Michigan
Kyle..you just showed death plates! I have a huge piece that i picked up in the 1990's and never knew what it was! Im from the coast but was living in KY at the time, 4 wheelin on top of a "knob". Stopped on top and was looking around at rocks and saw this big plate. The reason i picked it up is because it has a small welk on top and i recognized it. Telling my friends...this stuff in this rock comes from the ocean. They just laughed. I brought it home and its been with me ever since. Thanks for sharing, now i know what i have.
Loved the cladipora rock you threw back at 17:50!
19:19 top right corner! Looks really interesting!
Yesssss just what I needed!
That blastoid was super cool 💎👀💪
Wow that area has so many cool fossils!
Fantastic video,really enjoyed it
You got some monster finds. I've been to Rock Port Quarry, but didn't walk back as far as you did. Awesome finds.
Very cool!
Amazing stuff! Its hard to wrap my head around how old those fossils are.
Thank you for the walk along.
Wow! Epic day….what could be more fun than finding fossils with M.R. Get him down to Florida😀 great finds
That was fun, Kyle! Thanks for sharing another adventure!
Very fun video. Thank you for sharing.
What extraordinary finds…all the shapes in the rocks..it’s so neat to hear about the history in the rocks so long ago
So cool! Devonian fossils are my favorites!
🧘Yes young Grasshopper! 🦗 Knowledge from the Book of Rob.. is just as interesting as the rocks!
Shine on Shine off! 😃😁
Awesome place guy's.. certainly a fun day👍
You're so smart professor Kyle the palaeontologist, you know your stuff!
Two of my favorite channels in one video?! You both are so genuine and nice, and you’ve taught me so much. Much appreciation ❤️
Thank you so much! We really appreciate that ☺️
I love Indian beads and those shells, I use to collect those as a child. I miss being able to rock hunt.
Dude ive never been so late for a kyle upload!😭 this week was madness! This was so awesome!!! That looked like a serious fossil treasure trove! Love me some brachiopods😁 they can look so dang cool, and the coral! Awesome video dude! And big shout out to rob for taking you to the treasure!😄 forgot to mention the insane gigantic deathplates!!!😱 dude those are amazing!😄
Better late than never my friend!!! I appreciate you hahahaha. I really love the brachiopods too, I'm obsessed with them hahaha. This was such a blast man!
Great show Kyle!!..if your ever back up in Michigan come on over to the west side of the state. I can show you some great places to find agates, unakite, Petoskey..oh..and "stripy"..rocks..
Now this stuff is more in line with the fossils I grew up hunting in Arizona.
Gorgeous mucrospirifer brachiopod at 13:17!
Rock and fossil hounding is sugar addictive,it is sweet,had some agatized coral and agates,you got it made.Awesome video.❤👍
I NEED a shirt like Rob's lol. I currently only have a shirt with the caption: "Of Quartz I love Geology!"
Great adventure Kyle. Love our planet.
Love the video and your enthusiasm for fossils. I've gotta get started looking for some. Very nice video and thanks so much for sharing your knowledge. Awesome!
The stuff you are referring to at 17:14 looks a lot like petrified wood? Great video! (lots of fossils here in Cape Breton) Cheers
Hey Kyle, I have seen a coffee table made out of one of those 'death plates', it was cut and polished
flat. Definitely one of the most exotic and beautiful tables ever (but it weighs a lot). Great video!
Wonderful finds and so many of them! The big on looked like a fan mushroom that grows and dying trees. It has rings like a tree. Please don't move the camera so fast my eyes are old and I can't focus fast enough. It was very exciting..
Another awesome video. You know you need to take gifts back to Derick and @paleocris 🙂
So many awesome fossils, Kyle! It's good to get a look at some different fossils than those we are used to!💖
love your videos kyle!
I love Robs channel but seeing these places through your eyes was cool. It spun a new excitement out of it. Each of you bring a wide angle of information together, it's great would love to see more. Get his butt down to Fla✌
Thanks for the videos!
Awesome video! I’m so jealous that you two are out there finding such epic fossils.
So glad I found your Channel! I'm in Wisconsin, but only a few hours from Michigan - Think I'll be headed that way before weather changes! Thanks for the Videos!
I love Robs rock hunting videos. I've been on seeeveral hunts with him.
Love finding crinoid stems and brachiopods here in central Oklahoma!
Yup- got some of those, too, from Lake Murray State Park, south of Ardmore.
@@trachodon I have found some down dirt roads before! Love lake Murray
Cool stuff, I have found many Devonian age fossils here in Mississippi which include crinoids, brachiopods and bryozoans. My best find is a complete rugose coral. Some of my favorites to find are honeycomb corals(favosites)
Love it! Got a bunch of fossils myself with my daughter at Rockport. Had great fun!!!
I love crinoids , I find them all the time in the creeks near my place , I make them into jewelry like necklaces and bracelets and stuff .
Looked like a lot of fun with a lot of cool finds. Got a new subscriber. Was fun to watch. Great video
Wow, great video. Took me back to my youth looking for crinoid stems and disks. I have found a few of those star shaped disks as well. Fantastic video. Thanks for doing them!!
The long-hinged brachs you found look to be Mucrospirifer mucronatus. Very cool! They're widespread in the Devonian, I've found them in Pennsylvania as well.
Yup, I have found them in upstate NY as well.
Awesome finds dude! Some of the Indian tribes were known to use crinoids as beads. My pops told me he found a few crinoids in the fields around where he grew up in Cochran, Georgia. I found lots of artifacts in those same fields but sadly no crinoids...
That's really cool ! I've never been able to find devonian fossil yet ! It's funny how the crinoid stem you've found are round, whether the ones I find in the lower/middle Jurassic back home in France are mostly star-shaped ! Between the corals, crinoids, bryozoan and of course the brachiopods, it was great to watch !
I was screaming at the screen once you got to Burkholder because there was so much stuff everywhere! I know you can't (and shouldn't) take all you can, but I was just freaking out at the sheer amount of specimens littering the entire area. I think the calyx in matrix and blastoid were my favorites.
I... cannot put into words how jealous I am. Wow. Absolutely amazing. 😠😂
That was so cool. I am a rock and fossil nut myself.
The younger fossils you guys find in Florida blow me away. My area ranges from Pennsylvanian to Ordovician.
I love the videos and how nice you are to your fans keep up the great work👍👍(:(: (:
That’s crazy to think that the land you were standing on actually moved over 3,000 miles !!! WOW 😮
I’m so happy that you got to check out our Lake Michigan fossils! I live in Milwaukee Wisconsin and we have similar fossils. My favorites are brachiopods, crinoids and coral fossils. I sure wish we had Petoskey ones in Milwaukee. In my neck of the woods we were a part of the cerulean sea. BTW, you scored big, awesome haul 💕
This is on or near the west shore of Lake Huron, rather than Lake Michigan. As I sit here anticipating hip joint replacement surgery a week from today, I really enjoyed seeing these very familiar places. Great finds, and I look forward to getting back in the saddle in a few months!
@@trachodon oh ok thank you! Looks like an awesome place! I wish you the best with your hip replacement and hope that you mend quickly so that you can rock hunt soon! 🙂
@@heidikoester You are so kind- thank you, Heidi!
@@trachodon 🙂
I found coral attachments on a large brachiopod I found near Louisville (KY) recently!
That huge conglomerate rock was amazing!
Awesome adventure!!
I once found a brachiopod filled with quartz up there. Very cool place to rock hunt. Glad you’re enjoying our beautiful state!!!! Subscribed thanks to @michiganrocks btw
I love d watching this .the knowledge you have is amazing thank you for making these videos !!!❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️I could watch this all day!
The Fossils are awesome! You found some awesome ones with Rob. The death plates are my favorite! I probably would have to rent a trailer to pull behind my pickup to take home rocks. 😁
Right by meeeee!!😁
Im impressed man... didn't know how much you knew about rocks. I really liked the 60 million year old frog... never knew they got that old... :p
Nice blastoid! I've only found a handful in Iowa in Devonian formations.
Love all the knowledge you share in your videos!
If you like older fossils, I recommend going to Skiatook lake in Oklahoma, similar age in fossils and same density of fossils as this spot. Nice video!
This is the kind of stuff I find between my home in Columbus OH all the way down to Louisville KY!
Awesome finds
I want to go to there. I find the same types of fossils in my area, but not usually as nice as those, and rarely not in matrix. Congrats!!!
Great video makes me wanna go fossil hunting
That was awesome
Your nice Blastoid is Nucleocrinus elegans. I find them here in NY.
Luv in’ the weird little coral pieces, and the “mutant punk in seed” ! Also, Rob is “rockin’” the best T! Sounds like me! If you ever get to the area where the glowing stones are
I’ll subscribe! How about Petosky stones? I love them too! Really cool finds, 😎 Virginia Beach,Virginia by way of Hemlock,Michigan! 😁 Hey y’all ‼️ 😎
I got two Yooperlite videos coming up! ☺️
It is so deicing to know that there is so much cool stuff to find. I am so jealous that I can't take some time off to try finding fossils myself. My new goal is to trying to find fossils near me. Thanks for the inspiration.
You're my new favorite channel 💕 I'm loving fossil hunting with you!
Will.have to go through my rocks I've found . definitely found some cool ones .post some pictures for you .
Great video. The more I watch, the more I want to go to Michigan. But 1st I have to go to Florida. I wonder if I can find some roads in the Boca Raton area to find fossil shells and shark teeth.?. Anyway, can’t wait to see your next video. ✌🏻❤️🙂🙏
Man this place if full of treasures
For the first location the brachiopods look like Atrypa reticularis and some Spiriferids, the second is Mucrospirifer mucronatus as you pointed out as well as some strophomenids, the funky coral looks like Aulopora sp. Most of the quarry brachiopods were rhynchonellids but I think I also saw a chonetid.
Could the banded structures you saw be stromatolites?
I wish I had known you were up here!!! I found some great crinoid calyx at partridge point as well as blastoids and rockport has an area with some trilobites! Found 3 partials in one day!
Fossils are so cool! Amazing finds!
Im back! Lost my account for a minute. Nice fossils in mi. I live in mo. and have found all kinds of fossils. Of coarse i was so young when i went hunting for them. Need too do some hunting while i metal detect. Ya never know! Happy hunting!
Love your videos. Currently live in Florida about to relocate to Tennessee. What can I look for out there? If you know. Lol
I like what I see. New sub 👍
Ill be watching. Thank you.
If you ever happen to end up in Las Vegas, take a close look at the bare, rocky hills surrounding the city-- not the tall ones, but the low, rolling, rough stone hills. They're ancient coral beds, and I lived in LV for three years; during that time I went hunting the exact same things you're hunting in this video, but in desert hills full of barrel cacti and scorpions. Found them, too-- lots! So there's a new place for you to hunt if you ever get the chance. Thanks for this video-- you had a much prettier place to hunt in, but you brought back a lot of good memories (except for the time I sat on a barrel cactus; that wasn't so good.)
Good to see you back to what you love, fossils. I don't know the rocks too well only the big names. Petoskey, Yooperlite and Pudding stone. Death plate? What is the difference between that and a mortality plate? I have to be loaded up with a lot of specimens. Blastoid are referred to as sea buds.
I can definitely tell by your comments Kyle that you thoroughly enjoyed that part of the state. If you're interested in the paleo-history of that area, look up "Michigan Basin geology" and you'll find all sorts of information on where "Michigan" was at that period, as well as what creatures lived on the coral reefs of that time. Too bad your trip wasn't a month later as I'd be in the area as well, but I have the feeling Rob is going to try and run me all over the place and ask questions (I'm a geologist, but my expertise is the UP). Great finds, especially that blastoid!
Thank you so much Paul! I'll definitely check that out. That sounds incredibly interesting. I wish I'd be here longer too! 😭
I have only found one blastoid like that, but mine was much more broken. That was a really good find.
@@MichiganRocks Same here. I've only found small ones in Michigan, nothing that big.
@@captpaul8827 The smaller ones are more common on this beach, but still hard to find. Those big ones are really cool.