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Help ID Different Gravel fossils


ajaxkdt

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I am in New Orleans. All the fossils except the darker brown one came out of a bag of pond rocks from Home Depot. I think they came from a Mexico beach, but I can't guarantee The darker one I found on the bank of the Mississippi river a few miles upstream from New Orleans. Can Anyone tell me the different types I have here?

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10 minutes ago, ajaxkdt said:

 

 

I can help with a few. These are crinoid stem pieces. The circular ones are width-wise cross-sections and the long, segmented ones ate lenghtwise cross-sections.

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These two are bryozoa.

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This is another crinoid.

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This one is probably more crinoid, but too worn to tell.

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The rest are too worn to see distinctly.

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Glad to see another Naulins  boy on here.

That's about all we can get, driveway gravel around here. At lease, that I know of.

But there's a whole country to explore out there.

Joe

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As a former resident of New Orleans, I can say you are probably lucky to even find that much!  Most of the local sediment is very young (geologically speaking).  Most of the driveway "gravel" that I saw when I lived there was was from shell beds (fairly recent ones at that).  Real gravel has to be brought in from some distance away.  :unsure:

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The river is real low right now. I’m in river ridge and the bank was a good 50-75 yards from the levee. I’m sure there is more but I didn’t have a lot of time. That one just stood out.

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