kurtdog Posted August 12, 2008 Share Posted August 12, 2008 I guess I'd like to hear your IDs on these, too, please, guys...thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted August 12, 2008 Share Posted August 12, 2008 Sweet! I think: Pecopteris, Neuropteris, & Neuropteris (I think). "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJB Posted August 12, 2008 Share Posted August 12, 2008 Those are simply beautiful. I had a chance to buy hundreds of those many years ago, but at the time, i was not interested in fossil plants. Dang!!! RB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Nicholas Posted August 12, 2008 Share Posted August 12, 2008 Very nice Nodules... I'm shocked at some of the stuff I see from Mazon Creek.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest N.AL.hunter Posted August 12, 2008 Share Posted August 12, 2008 This is a reply for all of your Mazon Creek postings... Really Nice!! I thought this area was basically dead. When did you collect them? Recently? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted August 12, 2008 Share Posted August 12, 2008 ...I thought this area was basically dead. When did you collect them? Recently? In another one of his posts, he casually mentioned that he had a Creek nodule collection from the 60's. He had my undivided attention from then on! "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurtdog Posted August 12, 2008 Author Share Posted August 12, 2008 In another one of his posts, he casually mentioned that he had a Creek nodule collection from the 60's. He had my undivided attention from then on! LOL, I knew it--that's why I knew I had to get that camera back so quickly! N.AL.hunter...just a little more...made two, possibly three trips, there. Wasn't even old enough to drive. Just my two friends and me. One of the mom's took us on the first trip and my aunt took us on the second. My aunt knew Richardson (Field Museum). But that's all it took, just a few trips. And I've got banker's boxes full of these. This Pit 11 was amazing, back then. Very little waste shrubbery, basically a barren hill. I remember the end of the dirt road to the pit had a big shady tree next to the lake/mine where the ladies would station themselves with the coolers and drinks and food while we went up and down the hill all day long like billy goats. I remember I was always the last one to get off the hill when we had to leave. But that's how it was. And you didn't even have to dig for these, they were right there, on the ground. You just picked them up, went over to a nice, embedded rock, got down on one knee, and start tapping away. I didn't even want to come down for lunch. In fact, on the last trip, it got dark, and they were all yelling at me to get down and get into the car, and I had my back-pack with me, and I just threw everything I could find in there, until it couldn't fit anymore. It was so heavy, I don't know how I even dragged it down that hill, and got it into the car. I just hated to leave anything there, though...ya know? In fact, I think the only reason I finally came down is because I didn't have a flash light. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest N.AL.hunter Posted August 12, 2008 Share Posted August 12, 2008 Great story! Really glad you let us know "how it was" in the Good Old Days!! Well written. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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