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From time to time, I find these rocks in the river that look like they have many small shells and fragments embedded in them. Unfortunately, mostly what I know is Pleistocene, so it's hard for me to make anything out of them. This one I found a couple of weeks ago seemed particularly busy. Would love it if someone could tell me more. @JohnJ @Jared C
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I was back out in the field today to look for fossils. I finally went over to this stranger rock that for some reason I had put off looking at for almost a year! It turned out to be a nice chunk of fossils hash. I could see sea shells and their imprints along with coral and possibly bones (don't know if they are or not). This is only a small piece of the overall rock and I hope to get back to get the rest when the weather clears up. all the best! Boris
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Well I went out today looking for trillo's but had no luck. I brought home a chunk of fossil Matrix that I thought I could pick apart and maybe just maybe uncover one. Chances are, there is no chance. I did find a beautiful clean brachiopod nestled inside the matrix I found chunk of matrix with a calsite crystal deposite in it but it was high on a hill that was precarious at best and if I lost my footing?.... well lets just say "it wouldn't be a good look". So I visually mapped my path and went for it. It was bigger then I thought but I was able to break off the bit I wanted. I saw more even higher but It wasn't worth the risk.][ I walked further down and found two huge slabbs that had fallen from the very top of the strata. I was able to examine them and was surprized how the thin layers were and that they did'nt shatter in the fall, With very little effort I was able to pull away the wafers, exposing the fossil hash full of brachiopods, bryozoa and such. I'll have to take better pics of some my finds. I used my phone and a magnifying glass this time.
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