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I only recently got into collecting after being out hiking and literally tripping over a large coral fossil a couple years ago and the hunt has been on since! SO much to learn! I wish I'd have started 30 or 40 years ago. I haven't posted any of my finds as I've been trying learn a little first and see if I could identify some of these. I think I've got some of them and others I haven't found a name for, so I hope you don't mind me dumping several on you. Are all these Receptaculites Oweni? They were found in the Galena dolomite in the Dubuque area in what I think is the Fairplay member of the Dunleith. (30 or 40 feet above river level) The third photo of the slightly smaller one was found in a drainage ravine so I can't be sure the layer it came from, but I don't believe it had been carried very far if at all. It was 30 or 40 feet higher than the other two. Is the last one Ischadites Iowensis or another Oweni? Is there a good guide to these somewhere? These next are of a nautiloid I haven't found the name for. This was found in the Guttenburg member of the Decorah also in the Dubuque area near river level. It was in the outcrop about a foot above the top of what I think is the Spechts Ferry member. I also found quite a few Rafinesquina brachiopods laying around in the talus and the pygidiums of a couple different trilobite. I think one is Gabricerarus Mifflenensis and the other Isotelus? It looks a lot like the ones in the last photos of what I'm pretty sure are some Isotelus Iowensis I found near Elgin, IA). Are these Isotelus Iowensis? These were found near Elgin, IA in what I think is the Elgin member of the Maquoketa. About a foot above the Turkey river that day. You can actually make out what I assume are compound eyes? Being kind of new to this I'm amazed at the detail you can still see in some of these for something so old. I haven't found the name of these cephalopods yet either. They were found the same day and not far from the trilobites in Elgin and about 5 or 6 feet higher in the rock layer.
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