ricktune Posted September 9, 2012 Share Posted September 9, 2012 I have a few pictures from my excursion through Northern Kentucky, Southern Indiana and Southern Ohio last weekend (08/31-09/03) with my wife. I collect a lot of brachiopods so that's what most of these are, but I haven't taken a lot of pictures yet, this is just a tease. Included in these photos is a huge quarried, winged brach that I am chomping at the bit to get cleaned up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ricktune Posted September 9, 2012 Author Share Posted September 9, 2012 A few more pics including a high wall behind the wal-mart in Aurora Indiana. This wall has produced a massive amount of shale and I brought some home that shows "wave motion" and one is covered in brachs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ricktune Posted September 9, 2012 Author Share Posted September 9, 2012 Hard to see here, but there are two gastropods in this matrix above and to the right of the quarter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erose Posted September 9, 2012 Share Posted September 9, 2012 Nice mix of stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted September 9, 2012 Share Posted September 9, 2012 Love the brachs; that big spirifer is a Boss Hogg! "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. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bullsnake Posted September 9, 2012 Share Posted September 9, 2012 Cool stuff! Pennsylvanian? Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Siphuncle Posted September 9, 2012 Share Posted September 9, 2012 i was admiring your plethora of platystropia... Grüße, Daniel A. Wöhr aus Südtexas "To the motivated go the spoils." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Siphuncle Posted September 9, 2012 Share Posted September 9, 2012 make that platystropHia... Grüße, Daniel A. Wöhr aus Südtexas "To the motivated go the spoils." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ricktune Posted September 9, 2012 Author Share Posted September 9, 2012 We weren't in the carboniferous, more Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian as we made our way towards Louisville. It was pretty much the same in Indiana, we may have crept into the Mississippian for a bit, but never in the Pennsylvanian. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ricktune Posted September 10, 2012 Author Share Posted September 10, 2012 I was just going over some of the pieces that we picked up behind the Wal-mart in Aurora Indiana and the shale is definately showing some pieces of trilobite. I haven't come across a whole animal yet, but I have about two hundred pounds to pick through. I see that there are very well preserved Brachs and some crinoid. Might be worth a trip if anybody lives close by, they literally have tons of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vordigern Posted September 10, 2012 Share Posted September 10, 2012 great finds!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Siphuncle Posted September 10, 2012 Share Posted September 10, 2012 rick...i don't consider myself an expert but i've historically done best on whole trilobites and crinoid crowns of various periods by targeting fine grained shales, both soft and hard. i steer clear of limestones, esp shell hash...just my way of eliminating lots of rock and targeting best preserved, high order fossils. Grüße, Daniel A. Wöhr aus Südtexas "To the motivated go the spoils." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ricktune Posted October 30, 2012 Author Share Posted October 30, 2012 When I get out of this hospital I'm going to break in my new CP9361 on these pieces and get them cleaned up. I had sooooo many plans when we got home that weekend so many weeks ago......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrangellian Posted November 3, 2012 Share Posted November 3, 2012 You might find that the CP9361 is a little heavy duty for those fossils, might need a finer tool or air abrasive... but maybe get some more advice first, don't trust me alone! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Archimedes Posted November 8, 2012 Share Posted November 8, 2012 nice fossils thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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