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I recently retired and moved to Pawnee, Oklahoma. With more time on my hands now, I would love to return to fossil-hunting - an activity I shared as a child with my late father. I had a wonderful Paleontology course in undergraduate school at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. During one of our field trips, I lucked upon a huge trilobite that our teaching assistant cleaned up and put in the university museum. Talk about beginner's luck! Please feel free to contact me to join your hunting excursions in NE Oklahoma - I'm a little afraid to be out walking around remote areas alone and would love to have the company.

My family calls this a petrified egg, but a researcher called it fossilized (well, it is all speculative on what the heck it is). What would be the difference, or is that the same thing, fossilized and petrified? I googled it and it said there wasn't a distinction. Also looking for any info on what you think this egg might be, and wanted to share it with the community too. When I was growing up, once a year my mom would get out this petrified egg, and my brothers and I were allowed to hold it. It was always a very special treat! We would wrap a magazine around it, hold it up to the light, and we could see through it a little bit. My grandfather found it while digging a well on his ranch in Colorado. I had my mom and Uncle Keith write a note about the egg a few years ago. Uncle Keith use to carry it around with him when he was a kid. He even took his nail and dug a small hole in the crust. It's about 3" long, (bigger than a chicken egg), and has a hard rough crust. I have included an email from the Denver Museum, and from the University of Riverside, California about the egg. I feel very blessed to be its keeper. Thank you in advance, Kathy