Baculite fossil from Pierre Shale

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Our local geological society does a small but very nice "Earth Treasures Show" about this time every year. While most of what I picked up were more in the line of mineral specimens, I did score one fossil this year.

 

 

Nothing spectacular, I realize, but better than anything I've collected on my own. Nice sutures.

 

Incidentally, I just got volunteered to be our program director, which means I'm in charge of finding an interesting speaker every month. With COVID, we've been meeting by Internet the last few months, which has actually expanded our scope for speakers not from our area. If any of y'all know of a paleontology or geology speaker who gives a great talk, who might be interested in doing an online for us, I'd be much obliged. We usually have a pretty appreciative audience -- both professional and amateur earth scientists, many from Los Alamos National Laboratories, though we're a hobbyist club rather than a professional society.

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PM me about a zoom talk if you like.