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After making a stop at the Anna Roadcut, I drove about  15 minutes to Vienna, Illinois where there is a roadcut at the entrance to Interstate  24. This rock is  supposed to Be Mississippian Menard Limestone. 

 

At this location I also found some nice hash plates, my biggest blastoid of the day, Horn coral, Archimedes’ screw, bryozoan and brachiopods.

 

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I love these palaeozoic trip reports!  That location looks just like Sulphur, IN.  That is a beautiful, inflated blastoid.  And those brachiopods are in really nice shape for Mississippian material (especially that spiriferid). Nice finds and pics.  Thanks for posting.

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15 minutes ago, Peat Burns said:

I love these palaeozoic trip reports!  That location looks just like Sulphur, IN.  That is a beautiful, inflated blastoid.  And those brachiopods are in really nice shape for Mississippian material (especially that spiriferid). Nice finds and pics.  Thanks for posting.

Thanks for the comments Pete, and yes, I was looking for more of the same, but no luck. 

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Upper Chester fauna, beautiful Pentremites spicatus specimen :fistbump:, these larger Pentremites are especially nice to find. Great pics of a well used rock hammer!

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5 hours ago, Archimedes said:

Upper Chester fauna, beautiful Pentremites spicatus specimen :fistbump:, these larger Pentremites are especially nice to find. Great pics of a well used rock hammer!

Thanks and yes, my hammer has been around lol..

5 hours ago, Kane said:

Those are some impressive blastoids! Huge! I know someone with a miserable life who would love to hunt here. ;)

 

Thanks, the only problem with This road cut was it was littered with a ton of trash.

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That is a big blastoid - WOW!  This thread makes me even more :envy::envy:!!!

 

I'm glad you had a nice day out hunting!

 

Monica

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Easily accessible roadcut sites like this are a treasure. :) 

Thanks for another great report. 

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Some great finds Ralph I love the Archimedes screws. I have always wanted to add some to my collection and that blastoid :envy:. Cheers Bobby 

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@Monica ,   @Bobby Rico ,  @Fossildude19 Thanks for the nice comments.

 

 

 

5 hours ago, Ludwigia said:

Nice finds! Did you find them all in the scree at the bottom or did you also clamber about a bit?

Nothing was found at the bottom, I had to climb around a bit..

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Gorgeous, and hashplates are one of my favorite things, I look at them for hours with my loupe...nature is absolutely amzing. Congrats

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Nice finds, I've spent many hours at both of those spots, got stung by a hornet last time I was at the Vienna cut. 

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On 10/27/2017 at 1:59 PM, dalmayshun said:

Gorgeous, and hashplates are one of my favorite things, I look at them for hours with my loupe...nature is absolutely amzing. Congrats

Lol, I do the same with some hash plates that I have..

19 hours ago, matt2396 said:

Nice finds, I've spent many hours at both of those spots, got stung by a hornet last time I was at the Vienna cut. 

Matt,

Lol, I had hornets all around me.

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The blastoids are beautiful. I have never seen any of those around here. At least not where I’ve hunted. Now the picture below your group of blastoids with all the shells, I have found quite a few of those around here, but they are all in the Pennsylvanian, but I guess they’re both Carboniferous and not so far apart that the Mississippian might have species crossing over into the Pennsylvanian period.

I found these about 10 days ago in a road cut here in Texas. I think they may be neospirifer. They look similar to the one stuck in matrix.

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10 hours ago, KimTexan said:

The blastoids are beautiful. I have never seen any of those around here. At least not where I’ve hunted. Now the picture below your group of blastoids with all the shells, I have found quite a few of those around here, but they are all in the Pennsylvanian, but I guess they’re both Carboniferous and not so far apart that the Mississippian might have species crossing over into the Pennsylvanian period.

I found these about 10 days ago in a road cut here in Texas. I think they may be neospirifer. They look similar to the one stuck in matrix.

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Very nice finds Kim, I think they are possibly of a different species..

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