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Found these (but no trilobites) at St Leon. Contact me if they are yours.

Hey, did any of you guys forget a long, green chisel at deep springs road? I found one amongst the rubble last Saturday.

New here hopefully learn more about what my family and I have been collecting for last 7 months. I have been studying and can identify some common rocks and fossils but it's a serious uphill battle starting from nothing. Couple bins of random things we have found.

Ammolite from Canada or Labradorite from Madagascar? THE BLUE POLISHED STONE COULD IT BE Sodalite? And the last calcite with quartz?

Hello. I am new around here so I hope this is the place to put this. I am looking for ways to ID everything that we have gathered on a state field trip for my son's 4-H project. I have the booklet that one of the state project leaders put together that lists what is supposed to be found where but that is all. It does have some pictures in the back but they are mostly line drawing type pictures in black and white so they are are tell what stuff is. Kansas does have a website that they have some pictures on but some times it isn't the greatest to use. I also have so many questions that I am not sure where to start. I will just number the biggest ones. 1. In the booklet we have it lists the things we should be able to find. If it isn't listed there does it mean we can't find it there?? 2. Kind of ties in with number 1 because we found stuff that looks like it could be one of two different things. How do you tell the difference between the two? Do we just assume it is the one that is listed in the book if the other possibility isn't listed? For example: One fossil we found looks to me like it could be either Phylum: Mollusca; Class: Gastropoda; Genus: Pharkidonotus or Phylum: Mollusca; Class: Gastropoda; Genus: Knightites. However only the Pharkidonotus was listed as being a possible find in that area. 3. If what they list as a possibility to find all that will be there is there a place you can go and just type in the name of the fossil and or rock and it will bring up pictures? Can I do that here or do I just have to scroll though all of the posts? I think that will get us started at least. I still need to wash all of our stuff and I can post pictures if needed. I am afraid though that I won't be able to get great pictures because some of this stuff is super tiny and my camera doesn't do well with small stuff. Thank you all so very much for any and all help as we sure need it.

I am down in Kentucky Collecting on the AA Highway since yesterday. I was out hitting roadcuts for 11 hours today and unlike my last visit her a few weeks ago, I did not loose another 1 cm cube, but I did find some equipment. So if there is a member out there that is singing the song- “If I Had A Hammer”, and the companion piece for safety glasses and garden trowel, I found them today at a roadcut in Brooksville, Kentucky. The hammer is a little rusty now, but it gives it a nice “well used” look- lol. Below is a picture as found, if these are your’s, send me a PM and I will get them to you.

"The appearance of these sharks are largely unknown. However, author and illustrator Ray Troll mentions in his book, Sharkabet, about how paleontologist Rainer Zangerl once discovered a large shale slab containing a long, eel-like fish covered in long, spine-like denticles, only to have it dry out and crumble into dust. As such, according to Zangerl's account, Troll reconstructs Listracanthus as resembling a tremendous, fiercely-bristled frill shark." http://fossil.wikia.com/wiki/Listracanthus Oh my GOD!!!!!!! How frustrating!!!! To actually have uncovered an imprint of an extinct shark, one of the many holy grails of collecting, but it being destroyed, and before anyone else could even see it(and i guess before he took a picture of it:/ ). Brings a whole new aspect into the sad idea of discoveries that could, or even HAVE been made, but haven't, won't, or can't be actually discovered to science:( I wonder how many paleontologists have nightmares about that? Maybe even a common nightmare thread for the career? *by the way, these are in the edestus/helicoprion family, so maybe this is a clue as to what those guys looked like? (simultaneous to all of helicoprion's and to most of edestus' known spans...I don't know what, if anything, that might point to as far as likelyhoods of potential similarities)

Has anyone established whatever happened to a couple of our members, Chris (CBOB) and Jim (OldTimer)? I have written notes months ago, but they show that they have never been read.

Extremely bad news that I have to bring today. My dad just recently passed in the hospital due to cardiac arrest. I don't know what to think. Not crying, but there's a huge hole where my dad was now. Been cold all morning. There is one thing I know for sure, though. Now I MUST get my eagle project done, as I know that I'd be (excuse my language) damned to the fiery pits of hell. That is the one thing I know I can do, even if Dad isn't here anymore to help. More in need of prayer than at any point in my life prior.

Hello Everyone, Tragedy from an outing this past weekend and I'd much rather a TFF member who enjoys the educational aspect of fossils get a chance to benefit from my misfortune rather than a picker looking to collect and sell. It's been years since I've posted here but I've known and loved all the interactions I've had in the past and hope to give back a little good Karma here. I was traveling to the famous St. Leon IN road cut with a student of mine and I know I left behind a bag of amazing trilobites. For those who live in the area, you know where I'm talking about. I had a small 2x3 inch bag with at least 5 really nice Flexicalymene wrapped in bits of aluminum foil in it and a bunch of Zygospira (I'm a serious brachiopod fan). I'm fairly certain it either fell out of my bag, or I may have set it down and left it on the blue shale bed at the top of the Waynesville Formation (Blanchester Member) likely on the East side of the road cut. I've been finding I have some memory issues lately and I'm paying dearly for this one. I don't want to put too much detail as I tend to be rather protective of sites, even if they are fairly well known. I have basically given up hope of being able to get back down there soon (I'm from Milwaukee) but I would love for someone to find them and at least keep them and enjoy them. It's also possible that they may have fallen out of my truck while parked at the outcrop. If so, look on the curb on the East side of the road, just about one man-made cut tier below where the blue shale meets the road. (maybe about 100 yards North (downhill) of where this shale later meets the road. The trilobites are all wrapped in little bits of aluminum foil. Some are prone, others enrolled. Of course, I would be ecstatic if someone were kind enough to actually find them and send them to me, but I'd still prefer that at least someone finds them and keep them for themselves rather than have them survive 450 million years in the ground, just to get picked up, carefully wrapped and then run over on the curb and destroyed, or crushed on the outcrop. If someone can make it there sooner than later, I wish you luck and hope you recover them! If you do it is entirely up to you to choose to keep them, but I'd LOVE to see or hear that someone from TFF actually found them. I feel there could be a good chance since It was just last Sunday (March 17th) and people usually collect more during the weekends. If you can get there I hope you find them, love them, and above all learn from them! Kindest regards. Scott

I’m absolutely stumped on this one. I can’t tell if it’s just an unfished product or what. Help please.