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A few hours at the Lawrenceburg, Indiana Roadcut


Nimravis

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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.

 

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Where'd you get that 1 inch cube from? It seems useful.

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Terrific finds, Ralph! :drool:

That orthocone is spectacular, and just look at all the brachiopods  lying around! :wub:

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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!!!

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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.

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@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.

 

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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? 

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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?

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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 .

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Escharopora.

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Picture from Dry Dredgers.

And one showing monticules (bumps) from an online retailer :

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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:

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@Nimravis - is there any evidence of a siphuncle at either end of your specimen?

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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.

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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?

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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. :D

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3 minutes ago, Tidgy's Dad said:

It's probably because I speak gibberish. :D

But it's The Queen's gibberish! :rofl:

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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. :)

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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 :)

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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.

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beautiful orthocone or whatever...never noticed anything even resembling such a piece at that location...but it is large and always interesting to explore. 

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looks like a bryozoa coated cephalopod to me also. Nice finds.

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