Kansas City Fossil Hunting

[Dblackston]

The wife surprised me with a trip to Kansas City this weekend for my birthday.  We stopped at a road cut on the way out of town headed home and found some fun specimens. 

 

My neice and mother stopped at the same location a few weeks ago as well. We are excited to identify the finds for my nieces 4H geology project. 

 

I always wonder about some of these specimens if they are just the larger and smaller varieties of the same fossils. 

 

Here is a shot of the road cut.

 

 

 

Here is an overall of our finds from the day. 

 

 

We think these are all Worthenia despite the large variety of sizes encountered. 

 

 

 

These look like Turritellas but not sure or confident what they are quite yet.  need to research some more. The turritellas I am familiar with are from Kanopolis and smoother than these. 

 

 

We found this one that has an angle between a worthenia and all of the smaller ones. It also has smoother and rounder coils.  It's the only one that looks this way.   It's not as narrow as the turritella shaped ones, and not as wide as the worthenia shaped ones.

 

 

Lastly we found these small bivalves from what it looks like. My wife was particularly handy at finding these. 

 

 

 

Overall it was a blast and a great stop and addition to my birthday weekend!

 

Edited May 29, 2023 by Dblackston

[grandpa]

Happy Birthday.    These are some great finds! 

[Fossildude19]

@Missourian  @Samurai

[Paleoworld-101]

Lovely shells. How old are these? 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Nice finds.

[Missourian]

(Drawings borrowed from Kansas Geological Survey Bulletin 169)

 

The clam is Phestia sp.

[Dblackston]

Missourian, thanks again for the ID and the tips on finding these specimens. 

 

I'll go read that bulletin and try to learn some more. 

[traveltip1]

Nice. What's the age? Thx

[Jeffrey P]

On 5/30/2023 at 5:04 PM, traveltip1 said:

Nice. What's the age? Thx

I believe they're Pennsylvanian.