Nimravis Posted September 16, 2018 Share Posted September 16, 2018 Today I spent a few hours collecting at the Lawrenceburg, Indiana Road Cut. Here are a couple of finds- cephalopods, gastropods, brachiopods and trilo-bits. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRealWiwaxia Posted September 16, 2018 Share Posted September 16, 2018 Where'd you get that 1 inch cube from? It seems useful. "A true man of honor feels humbled himself when he cannot help humbling others." - Robert E. Lee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raggedy Man Posted September 16, 2018 Share Posted September 16, 2018 Nice finds! Thanks for posting. 1 ...I'm back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nimravis Posted September 16, 2018 Author Share Posted September 16, 2018 17 minutes ago, TheRealWiwaxia said: Where'd you get that 1 inch cube from? It seems useful. I received it from FF member @aerogrower he makes them. It is very useful. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tidgy's Dad Posted September 16, 2018 Share Posted September 16, 2018 Terrific finds, Ralph! That orthocone is spectacular, and just look at all the brachiopods lying around! 1 Life's Good! Tortoise Friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monica Posted September 16, 2018 Share Posted September 16, 2018 Does that large orthoconic cephalopod have bumps on its surface? If so, very nice ornamentation! I really like the strophomenid with all those inarticulate brachiopods on it - very cool!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrangellian Posted September 16, 2018 Share Posted September 16, 2018 19 minutes ago, Monica said: Does that large orthoconic cephalopod have bumps on its surface? If so, very nice ornamentation! I noticed that too - thought it was a bryozoan. Maybe it's coated in bryo's? Admirable, whatever it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nimravis Posted September 16, 2018 Author Share Posted September 16, 2018 @Monica and @Wrangellian , I believe it is bryozoan- I will take a better pic later and post. Here are a couple more quick pics that did not post last night. The first 2 are of the largest concentration of Isotelus parts that I ever found. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nimravis Posted September 16, 2018 Author Share Posted September 16, 2018 @Monica and @Wrangellian here are hopefully better pics. I am thinking bryozoan- it is The skinniest one I have ever found. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tidgy's Dad Posted September 16, 2018 Share Posted September 16, 2018 6 minutes ago, Nimravis said: @Monica and @Wrangellian here are hopefully better pics. I am thinking bryozoan- it is The skinniest one I have ever found. Beautiful. A species of Escharopora, perhaps? 1 Life's Good! Tortoise Friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrangellian Posted September 16, 2018 Share Posted September 16, 2018 Interesting.. The shape would lead you to believe it was a nautiloid coated in bryo, but were there bryos that grew in long spikes/pillars like that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nimravis Posted September 16, 2018 Author Share Posted September 16, 2018 13 minutes ago, Wrangellian said: Interesting.. The shape would lead you to believe it was a nautiloid coated in bryo, but were there bryos that grew in long spikes/pillars like that? I don’t know that, and I know @Tidgy's Dad responded- I will also tag @Peat Burns and @Herb . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tidgy's Dad Posted September 17, 2018 Share Posted September 17, 2018 Escharopora. Picture from Dry Dredgers. And one showing monticules (bumps) from an online retailer : 4 Life's Good! Tortoise Friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monica Posted September 17, 2018 Share Posted September 17, 2018 We have a bumpy-looking bryozoan in the Georgian Bay Formation (Stigmatella) that I've found encrusting other fossils, including orthoconic nautiloids, but it's never looked as nice as the one that Ralph has found... Here are pictures of mine: @Nimravis - is there any evidence of a siphuncle at either end of your specimen? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KimTexan Posted September 17, 2018 Share Posted September 17, 2018 But are they so evenly spaced? I guess bryozoa are space themselves evenly since they are in a colony, but I don’t know of any that look quite like that. But that doesn’t exclude the possibility. I seem to recall a young artist from Israel who posted drawings of straight cephalopods on here based on descriptions in journal articles, but I can’t remember if any had bumps. Many ammonites have numerous tubercles so why not an otho covered in them? It kind of makes me think of my polka dotted ammonites. Not exactly, but my polka dots are not bryozoan they go below the surface. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KimTexan Posted September 17, 2018 Share Posted September 17, 2018 Oops, I think I totally missed the point of Adam’s post. It was the proposal that it could be a bryozoan rather than a cephalopod. See Ralph, I can be a bit dingy. Why does it always seem to follow Adam’s comments though? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tidgy's Dad Posted September 17, 2018 Share Posted September 17, 2018 1 minute ago, KimTexan said: Oops, I think I totally missed the point of Adam’s post. It was the proposal that it could be a bryozoan rather than a cephalopod. See Ralph, I can be a bit dingy. Why does it always seem to follow Adam’s comments though? It's probably because I speak gibberish. Life's Good! Tortoise Friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walt Posted September 17, 2018 Share Posted September 17, 2018 3 minutes ago, Tidgy's Dad said: It's probably because I speak gibberish. But it's The Queen's gibberish! 1 Everything is generated through your own will power ~ Ray Bradbury Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incognito Rockhound Posted September 17, 2018 Share Posted September 17, 2018 I am absolutely green with envy - way to go!!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doushantuo Posted September 17, 2018 Share Posted September 17, 2018 What Adam meant was "monticules". Nim, some pretty nice finds you have there, congrats. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tidgy's Dad Posted September 17, 2018 Share Posted September 17, 2018 5 minutes ago, doushantuo said: What Adam meant was "monticules". Nim,some pretty nice finds you have there,congrats Yup, ta; missed the 't' on the keyboard somehow. Corrected. Thank you. Life's Good! Tortoise Friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nimravis Posted September 17, 2018 Author Share Posted September 17, 2018 3 hours ago, KimTexan said: See Ralph, I can be a bit dingy. Why does it always seem to follow Adam’s comments though? Lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrangellian Posted September 17, 2018 Share Posted September 17, 2018 5 hours ago, Tidgy's Dad said: Escharopora. Picture from Dry Dredgers. And one showing monticules (bumps) from an online retailer : Ah! Didn't think they could get as big and round in x-section as Ralph's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dalmayshun Posted September 17, 2018 Share Posted September 17, 2018 beautiful orthocone or whatever...never noticed anything even resembling such a piece at that location...but it is large and always interesting to explore. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herb Posted September 17, 2018 Share Posted September 17, 2018 looks like a bryozoa coated cephalopod to me also. Nice finds. 1 "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence"_ Carl Sagen No trees were killed in this posting......however, many innocent electrons were diverted from where they originally intended to go. " I think, therefore I collect fossils." _ Me "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."__S. Holmes "can't we all just get along?" Jack Nicholson from Mars Attacks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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