ajaxkdt Posted July 21, 2020 Share Posted July 21, 2020 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? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I_gotta_rock Posted July 21, 2020 Share Posted July 21, 2020 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. These two are bryozoa. This is another crinoid. This one is probably more crinoid, but too worn to tell. The rest are too worn to see distinctly. 2 I refuse to give up my childish wonder at the world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajaxkdt Posted July 21, 2020 Author Share Posted July 21, 2020 Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Salande Posted July 22, 2020 Share Posted July 22, 2020 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClearLake Posted July 22, 2020 Share Posted July 22, 2020 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajaxkdt Posted July 22, 2020 Author Share Posted July 22, 2020 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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