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Iowa/Minnesota Orthocones (Ordovician)

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Wrangellian Regular Member

Wrangellian

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Mike @minnbuckeye kindly sent me a package of orthocone nautiloids from his area recently. It's one of the taxa that are sparse in my collection so I was happy to accept the offer. I'm posting them to show what a generous guy he is and to elicit more info about them that might be missing...  I don't think that big one in the lower right was labeled - Is it the same as the other large one, Elgin IA?

 

 

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Miocene_Mason Regular Member

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Those are some good looking orthocones!

“...whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been and are being evolved.” ~ Charles Darwin

Happy hunting,

Mason

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Manticocerasman Regular Member

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Orthocones :yay-smiley-1:

As long as it is a paleozoic cephalopod you got my attention :P

growing old is mandatory but growing up is optional.

 

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Innocentx Regular Member

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I'd be happy with those! Especially the Isorthoceras sociale.

"Journey through a universe ablaze with changes" Phil Ochs

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minnbuckeye Regular Member

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Now I remember what I sent you!! The unlabeled one is from a housing development in Rochester, Minnesota, Olmsted County. Likely from the Platteville formation, Ordovician.

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Tidgy's Dad Regular Member

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What a lovely collection of orthocones. :)

Mike is an exceedingly generous and thoughtful chap.

Life's Good!

Tortoise Friend.

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