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ESCONI (Earth Science Club of Northern Illinois) sponsored a fossil collecting trip to the Dekalb Quarry last weekend and my wife and I were fortunate enough to make it off the standby list and attend.  Its always good to go collecting, even when the fossils are few and far between, which was the case this time.  The quarry personnel had kindly put out some rock for us to go through (Ordovician aged Galena and/or Maquoketa rocks) which the group of a couple dozen folks did.  Unfortunately, the fossils were pretty sparse in the shales and limestones.  I came away with one decent sized chunk of an Isotelus thorax (see below) and a few other trilobite scraps.  I was pleasantly surprised when the genal spine came to light after a little prepping as it was barely visible when I split the shale.  I saw another bigger Isotelus thorax and a nice chunk of bryozoan, but many other folks found very little.  As is often the case, meeting and talking to some new folks is always a big plus.  For me, I was very happy to finally get to meet @connorp as we have communicated a few times via TFF and his posts always have loads of good info on fossils of the Midwest (primarily).  

 

Thanks to Dave from ESCONI for organizing the trip and Connor, it was great to meet you and get to chat a bit.

 

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Picture not showing. :(

 

Looks like a link to a Google folder.

 

    Tim    -  VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER

 

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22 minutes ago, Fossildude19 said:

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Ooops, hopefully I fixed it now.

 

Thanks for catching that!

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Very cool! :)

Thanks for posting.

    Tim    -  VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER

 

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"In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks."

John Muir ~ ~ ~ ~   ><))))( *>  About Me      

Posted

NIce find. How big is that?

 

 

Mark.

 

Fossil hunting is easy -- they don't run away when you shoot at them!

Posted
1 minute ago, Mark Kmiecik said:

How big is that?

Sorry, I forgot to add that the background squares are 1cm on a side. So it’s about 4 cm long. 

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4 minutes ago, ClearLake said:

Sorry, I forgot to add that the background squares are 1cm on a side. So it’s about 4 cm long. 

 

Thank you.

 

 

Mark.

 

Fossil hunting is easy -- they don't run away when you shoot at them!

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