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And of course, some of my favorite buddies were out yesterday. post-4072-0-18717400-1364746778_thumb.jpg

They were last years babies. None of the big ones were out yet. The rattle snakes were out too.

Fossils are simply one of the coolest things on earth--discovering them is just marvelous! Makes you all giddy inside!

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Hey girl, nice prep job, I know what would be a good Christmas present and in involves air and abrasive stuff, then I could send some items to you for one of those rainy days, LOL----Tom

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Hey girl, nice prep job, I know what would be a good Christmas present and in involves air and abrasive stuff, then I could send some items to you for one of those rainy days, LOL----Tom

I would love it, but I just don't have the room right now for it. In the meantime my little handheld tools will just have to do. Maybe in a few years when we move to the new place.

Fossils are simply one of the coolest things on earth--discovering them is just marvelous! Makes you all giddy inside!

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Really nice haul for a day. Anywhere I could see the brachiopods from there?

Here are some pictures I took last year of some of the other fossils I find:

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Fossils are simply one of the coolest things on earth--discovering them is just marvelous! Makes you all giddy inside!

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And of course, some of my favorite buddies were out yesterday. attachicon.gifIMG_3536-1.jpg

They were last years babies. None of the big ones were out yet. The rattle snakes were out too.

Great picture!

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Here are some pictures I took last year of some of the other fossils I find:

Love those snails at the bottom right! Are those Platyceras?

 

Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger

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Love those snails at the bottom right! Are those Platyceras?

Yes they are. I like them too. Have found them in various sizes.

Fossils are simply one of the coolest things on earth--discovering them is just marvelous! Makes you all giddy inside!

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Have you found any with the spines intact?

No. I find them in the matrix but do not see spines on them even then.

Fossils are simply one of the coolest things on earth--discovering them is just marvelous! Makes you all giddy inside!

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I was just curious. Apparently some species have spines, although it's a rare thing to find them intact. Mostly one just sees the points of contact on the body after they've broken off.

 

Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger

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Cleaned up a few for the most part today.

Here's another Kettneraspis with only half his spines... post-4072-0-67670300-1365365146_thumb.jpg

That Huntoniatonia with Kainops that I was working on the other day...poor bugs, they had it kind of rough post-4072-0-44805500-1365365127_thumb.jpg

Even though this one is squished and broke, I liked it so I cleaned it. post-4072-0-72291200-1365365116_thumb.jpg

Some rolly poly's post-4072-0-55098600-1365365094_thumb.jpg post-4072-0-32279300-1365365107_thumb.jpg

And a few other miscellaneous that I had cleaned. post-4072-0-89010900-1365365084_thumb.jpg

Fossils are simply one of the coolest things on earth--discovering them is just marvelous! Makes you all giddy inside!

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Hey Lyla, I just now noticed your pics from the last few days/couple weeks.. Nice fossils and presentation - your photography is good enough, all you need is the names and you could put together a guide to the fauna! (Too bad the site will be closing so it would be pointless) At least you'll have a collection to play with for years that few others have comparable.

Some of those brachios look a little beekitized, am I right?

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I've got all the names...there are other hunting areas in the same area that you can still hunt provided Black Cat closes. Yes, some are actually beekitized; I have some really pretty brachs that are this way.

Fossils are simply one of the coolest things on earth--discovering them is just marvelous! Makes you all giddy inside!

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Here is a little Viola, Bois d'arc and Harrigan formation list of common Trilobites I pulled together from various sources on the Internet. I use it when ID'ing bugs from Black Cat and around OK. Hope this is helpful.

Trilobites from OK Viola, BoisdArc & Harrigan.pdf

Jon

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That looks like an excellent guide.. Is there a similar one for the brachiopods/etc from that formation?

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Thanks, I use the referral sheets Bob gave me. They help out quite a bit as well as the casts.

Fossils are simply one of the coolest things on earth--discovering them is just marvelous! Makes you all giddy inside!

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  • 2 weeks later...

Ok....so for those of you who would like to see the unprepped trilos, here's most of my finds from the past few trips. The ones in the boxes and the table have been hammered down into smaller rocks. The ones in the water in the bowl were found loose. There's a few that show you how they need to be put back together and cleaned. Hopefully this will give you an idea of how those of us who hunt Black Cat start in our prepping/cleaning of the trilos.

Tis a long journey for some of us to get them cleaned :).

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Fossils are simply one of the coolest things on earth--discovering them is just marvelous! Makes you all giddy inside!

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Wow! Amazing! I am hoping to get to Delta, Utah this summer to add some to our fossil collection. Do you hunt for most of these in Texas?

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These are all from Black Cat Mountain in Oklahoma.

Fossils are simply one of the coolest things on earth--discovering them is just marvelous! Makes you all giddy inside!

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Incredible! So happy to see them - thanks for posting these awesome photos.

~Lise MacFadden - Arkona, Ontario, Canada

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Long job - tell me about it! You should try working with this stuff I have up here... I don't even bother prepping - just collecting and stabilizing is enough work. Prepping I'll leave to someone else or maybe do it myself when my collecting days are over and I've managed to acquire the right equipment.

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You come back home with a lot of weight after a good day of collecting, dontchya?

It depends on whether or not I choose to clean a lot of the matrix off or not while I am at the quarry. If I don't I can have a back truckload full of rocks. If I do clean it, I could have just one flat box full. I still come home with on average around 20 complete trilobites per trip. Somedays though I just focus on looking for brachiopods, etc. so I may not come home with many trilobites.

On the flip side, the extra matrix I have to remove once I get home makes for good hole filing material :).

Here is one that I am still working on cleaning, but he's mostly clean. post-4072-0-70042100-1366729107_thumb.jpg

Fossils are simply one of the coolest things on earth--discovering them is just marvelous! Makes you all giddy inside!

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