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Can't remember if I have ever made a trip report before, but here goes... I have been conducting a lot of online research and found a new (to me at least) site that I wanted to explore. It appeared to be part of the Bois d'Arc formation in Pontotoc county, Oklahoma. I did the research, figured out the property owner, and got permission to access the site. I had to put off the trip multiple times due to the amount of rain we were getting. I figured the creek might be flooded. Finally almost a week went by without rain and I set a new date. Due to unforeseen circumstances, I got a much later start than I intended and so only had a couple hours to explore the site. On my way down to the creek site, I found a few miscellaneous fossils. Mostly crinoid debris, but also a few other odds and ends yet to be photographed and identified. The most interesting thing I discovered were three "concretions". I am calling them this for lack of a better term if not correct. They were immediately between two stratigraphical layers. I can tell there are crinoids stems going into the middle of them, but never seen anything like these before. Now I am trying to research how to clean/prep these so I can get a better view of the contents. I wasn't able to get pictures of them i situ because I misjudged the depth of the creek where I found them and was in "much" deeper water than I intended. Holy smokes was the water cold when it filled my boots! I already have permission to go back and explore again when we have had less precipitation and the creek is not so deep. Pictures below.
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My wife and I went on a 7500+ mile ramble to break out of our COVID doldrums. Due to the virus we had to change up many of our original plans... which conversely added a number of additional fossil hunting locals as they allowed us to mostly avoid our fellow humans and maintain social distancing by many many miles. As part of our trip preparations my wife sewed us a number of masks, including a whole series of fossil hunting masks for me. Originally we were supposed to stay in Chicago, but we elected to avoid staying in the city, so we only got to do a drive by We started the trip with a bonus dig, meeting up with fellow forum member @minnbuckeye for a guided Ordovician hunt in Fennimore, Wisconsin (THANKS MIKE!) Unfortunately I neglected to take pics of the site so I will only be able to share a farm pic we passed on the way. Mike was a gracious host who kicked off the visit with a gift of several fossil samples from his home turf As with all of the fossils from this trip, all finds are as they arrived back home, no prep. Some of our finds from Fennimore:
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