kazzoo Posted October 17, 2008 Share Posted October 17, 2008 You see them and want to take em home. But better left for others to enjoy A ordovician cephlopod I presume. Regards Kaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest solius symbiosus Posted October 18, 2008 Share Posted October 18, 2008 Wow! That thing is a monster. What part of the country? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kazzoo Posted October 18, 2008 Author Share Posted October 18, 2008 Wow! That thing is a monster. What part of the country? Figured you would stop by! This was on a big slab of rock with two about the same size, This one is the most clear. This is from southwest wisconsin, driftless area. Paleozoic Plateau. Primarily dolomite, sandstone, and some shale. Regards Kaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kazzoo Posted October 18, 2008 Author Share Posted October 18, 2008 This is the slab, and why it does not come home. Unless you happen to have a dump truck and a forklift. People use this kind of stone for building walls and houses. Or it ends up being ground up for gravel. Probly will be the fate of this slab. Regards Kaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kazzoo Posted October 18, 2008 Author Share Posted October 18, 2008 Another look at it, Notice the slab has lots of other interests as well Regards Kaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted October 18, 2008 Share Posted October 18, 2008 That is certainly very fossiliferous material; is it in a quarry? "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...
Guest solius symbiosus Posted October 18, 2008 Share Posted October 18, 2008 In the old days, I would have sat there for a weekend with a star bit and chisel until I destroyed it, or brought it home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mommabetts Posted October 18, 2008 Share Posted October 18, 2008 Wow that is nice, I bet someone else finds it and then it will be gone!!!!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kazzoo Posted October 18, 2008 Author Share Posted October 18, 2008 That is certainly very fossiliferous material; is it in a quarry? Yes, not a very big operation. No standing equiptment. Its when someone wants blocks and slabs for some building project it seems. Have to guess-timate the size, less than 100 yards long next to a curve in the road on a uphill grade, depth can not be more than 30-40 yards in from the road. Directly behind it runs miles of Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources owned land rolling and sloping down to the Wisconsin River. Regards Kaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kazzoo Posted October 18, 2008 Author Share Posted October 18, 2008 Wow that is nice, I bet someone else finds it and then it will be gone!!!!!!!!!! You know, I have not met anyone else in the area who is interested in these things. Considered a to be a eccentric hobby by most people I talk to. "Well good for you" and "How nice you have a hobby", and it (the conversation) tends to move to other topics (and quickly too). So not a lot of competition so far. I am betting it will stay a off site collection for awhile. Imagine a grown man messing around with rocks... Regards Kaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kazzoo Posted October 18, 2008 Author Share Posted October 18, 2008 I post this one, simply because of walking on the slab trying to get pictures of the Cephalopod I scuffed this one up with my shoe. Gets one to wonder what you pass by or damage unknowingly. Not that this is anything special, I just felt bad I did it to something 450 million years old. Sorry no scale here, lets just say its about six inches long and smaller than the diameter of a standard pencil. Regards Kaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bmorefossil Posted October 18, 2008 Share Posted October 18, 2008 very cool find Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest solius symbiosus Posted October 19, 2008 Share Posted October 19, 2008 That last one looks like a crinoid stem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kazzoo Posted October 19, 2008 Author Share Posted October 19, 2008 That last one looks like a crinoid stem. Thats what I believe it to be as well. Just felt bad I scuffed it up going after the other shots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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