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Fossils From The Waldron Shale


Lmshoemaker

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A few of my fossils I retreived from the Waldron shale. I have many more, but haven't produced photos for them yet. I couldn't attach the files here, the size was way to large, so I had to link from flickr.

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Do you have identifications for these (or did I miss them)?

"There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant

“Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley

>Paleontology is an evolving science.

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Do you have identifications for these (or did I miss them)?

You didn't miss them, I don't know some of the species, but two I know are Glyptocrinus and eucalyptocrinites, If you look up a picture of those two species, you can tell which is which. And the trilobites, I don't know the genus of, but they are all phacopids. The others I'm not too sure on. ;)

I had a nice crinoid holdfast base, but left it at my uncles after taking these photos.

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This one my uncle found at the same place. I looked up the species; it is Eucalyptocrinus, same as one I linked to earlier.

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Actually your trilobites are not phacopids. Number 0745 is a calymenid, Calymene breviceps and 0738 is a dalmanitid, Glyptambon verrucosus.

Thanks for posting a few fantastic fossils from the Waldron Shale. :D

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Actually your trilobites are not phacopids. Number 0745 is a calymenid, Calymene breviceps and 0738 is a dalmanitid, Glyptambon verrucosus.

Thanks for posting a few fantastic fossils from the Waldron Shale. :D

Oh, thanks for correcting me. :D

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Nice collection! The Waldron Shale is surely one of the best fossil sites in Indiana. However, I have got chance to visit it and only find this cephalon of Glyptambon verrucosus in a local gem show.

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Nice collection! The Waldron Shale is surely one of the best fossil sites in Indiana. However, I have got chance to visit it and only find this cephalon of Glyptambon verrucosus in a local gem show.

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That's pretty nice, all the trilobites I find degrade very easily and don't have the same milky color as the crinoids have, all the one's I've found were brown, That's pretty neat!

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