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I have not gotten out much locally this summer due to a few issues. Forced myself to step away from my current stresses and hunt some fossils along the Minnesota Iowa border. Found some nice brachs, cephalopods, rugosa coral, gastropods, and fisherites. Nothing special, but it was nice being out again. When I returned home, I was going to hammer a little matrix away from a few of my collections. A large slab had a worn cephalopod in it and I was going to break it out and put it in with the fossils I take to the children's sand pit at a local park. With one swing of the hammer, I decided this one was NOT going to the park! It is amazing how often this happens to me. I wonder how many nice fossils have been left behind only because I quit breaking the rock.DSC_0449.thumb.JPG.549421c20b2db7e0302a2b20fbbb4569.JPG 

 

 Two beautiful Maclurites and a Hormatoma laid hidden underneath the matrix surrounding the cephalopod. 

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Nice association piece, that’s definitely one for display!

“...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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That is fantastic Mike. Beautiful piece. 

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behind the trailer, my desert
Them red clay piles are heaven on earth
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Well done! I may be partial to the practice of swinging the hammer. :P 

...How to Philosophize with a Hammer

 

 

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Whoa that’s cool!

Max Derème

 

"I feel an echo of the lightning each time I find a fossil. [...] That is why I am a hunter: to feel that bolt of lightning every day."

   - Mary Anning >< Remarkable Creatures, Tracy Chevalier

 

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Beautiful find Mike :yay-smiley-1:

Every once in a great while it's not just a big rock down there!

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In mineral collecting we call those "cabinet grade".  Yep, right there in the den in the glass cabinet.  Thanks for sharing.

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Wow very nice :dinothumb: Congrats !!!

Many greetings from Germany ! Have a great time with many fossils :)

Regards Sebastian

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Congratulations. I would have definitely been stoked. Those Maclurites are simply awesome. One of my favorite gastropods. 

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Thanks everyone. You appear to have the same sentiments towards this piece as I!!!

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Wow, very cool. I have never seen either of those before. There’s no Ordovician anywhere near here.

That is such a great find.

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