Vienna, Illinois Roadcut

[Nimravis]

On my way home from Georgia today I decided to make a short stop at the Vienna, Illinois roadcut that is right off of I-24.

 

 

 

 

 

The weather was nice, a balmy 52 degrees and I was out collecting without a jacket.

 

 

I decided to stop for 20 minutes and see how many blastoids that I could find, but alas, I only found a small one. I did find the usual pieces that are found at the Mississippian roadcut- blastoid, brachiopods, horn coral, a crinoid basal plates, bryozoan, including Archimedes screw and a number of hash plates. I really do like to collect Mississippian hash plates, I think that they are really pretty.

 

Here are a few of the finds-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[jpc]

a blastoid... how cool is that? 

 

 

[Nimravis]

12 minutes ago, jpc said:

a blastoid... how cool is that? 

 

 

They are cool, I usually find many more and much larger.

[jpc]

19 minutes ago, Nimravis said:

They are cool, I usually find many more and much larger.

My comments are very Wyoming-centric.  They do not exist here.  And they are so cool.  

[connorp]

Nice finds! Have you ever been to the Sulphur, Indiana site? You'd love that if you like Mississippian stuff.

[Nimravis]

23 minutes ago, connorp said:

Nice finds! Have you ever been to the Sulphur, Indiana site? You'd love that if you like Mississippian stuff.

No-I do want to go there sometime.

[RuMert]

Nice finds and weather, looked like some of my October trips