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Mississippian Road Cut Collecting Near Vienna, Illinois


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Today I stopped at a favorite roadcut near Vienna, Illinois at the intersection of I-24 & 146. This site contains Mississippian Fauna of the Chester Series / Upper Chester Group / Menard Limestone.

 

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Here are some of my finds- 

 

Pentremites spicatus Blastoids- (the larger 2)

 

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Archimedes screw and Crinoid Stem-

 

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Crinoid Basal Plates- Agassizocrinus (?)

 

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Brachiopods-

 

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Horn Coral-

 

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Fenestella Bryozoan-

 

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Hash Plates-

 

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Terrific finds, Ralph! 

Love the blastoids and the fenestellid in particular! :)

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Great report and finds, Ralph! :) 

Thanks for posting them. 

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1 hour ago, FossilDAWG said:

Nice blastoids! :wub: Decent size for some of them too.

 

Don

Thanks Don and you are correct about the size. This location tends to have Blastoids of that size and a short distance to the West near Anna, Illinois usually has them smaller. I am always hoping to find a hash plate with a Blastoid in it, but so far no luck.

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Fantastic finds. I only have 2 blastoids in my collection, and my biggest one is still dwarfed by yours. Amazing preservation too! :envy:

 

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I love it all, especially that last hash plate containing the two Archimedes bryozoans - very nice! :dinothumb:

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1 hour ago, Max-fossils said:

Fantastic finds. I only have 2 blastoids in my collection, and my biggest one is still dwarfed by yours. Amazing preservation too! :envy:

 

Yes Max, they grow them big a that site.

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50 minutes ago, Ludwigia said:

Great finds! And they're not all that heavy to lug home :)

Correct, they fit in your pocket like a couple of marbles.

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49 minutes ago, Monica said:

I love it all, especially that last hash plate containing the two Archimedes bryozoans - very nice! :dinothumb:

I do find some pretty hash Plates at that site, but not at the Anna site a short distance away.

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8 minutes ago, masonboro37 said:

Great report and pictures, thank you for sharing!

Libby

Glad that you enjoyed it Libby.

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4 hours ago, Jeffrey P said:

Is it an optical illusion or are those blastoids huge? Congratulations on some excellent finds. 

They are large-

 

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