ashcraft Posted December 7, 2007 Share Posted December 7, 2007 Greetings from souteast Missouri, I have enjoyed perusing your site. Well put together and informative. Any body else from my neck of the woods? We are headig out tomorrow to collect from a Smithville location (Ordovician), should be loads of fun, with steep hills, large boulders, and crowbars. ashcraft, brent allen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gatorman Posted December 7, 2007 Share Posted December 7, 2007 Welcome to the forum, put yourself on the members map so others near you can find you. I hope you enjoy the site, post some pictures of some of your finds, we would all love to see them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Cris Posted December 8, 2007 Share Posted December 8, 2007 Welcome, ashcraft.. Have fun tomorrow... take some pictures of the area and the finds if you can.. Hope ya find lots! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xiphactinus Posted December 9, 2007 Share Posted December 9, 2007 Greetings from souteast Missouri, I have enjoyed perusing your site. Well put together and informative. Any body else from my neck of the woods? We are headig out tomorrow to collect from a Smithville location (Ordovician), should be loads of fun, with steep hills, large boulders, and crowbars. Welcome! I'm in the St. Louis area....hunted some of the Ord in the Ozarks....esp around Van Buren. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Pristis Posted December 9, 2007 Share Posted December 9, 2007 Welcome! I'm in the St. Louis area....hunted some of the Ord in the Ozarks....esp around Van Buren. Some of my fondest memories are of floating the Current River out of Van Buren. Never used a boat, just SCUBA gear. Mask, fins, and snorkel (with a wet-suit) are the basics for floating (more like flying than swimming!) that beautiful stream. Interesting fish, giant salamanders, but I never saw a fossil in the bottom rubble. I seem to recall the high bluffs along the river were of massive limestone, but I really wasn't focused on fossils on those expeditions. --------Harry Pristis http://pristis.wix.com/the-demijohn-page What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time? ---Shakespeare, The Tempest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xiphactinus Posted December 9, 2007 Share Posted December 9, 2007 That is a very beautiful area!! In the limestones you saw there are cherts that are full of interesting Ord. fauna -- snails, cephalopods and most interesting, monoplacophorans -- multi-segmented mollusks with shells...kind of a combo of snails and annelid worms. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gatorman Posted December 10, 2007 Share Posted December 10, 2007 Do you have an pictures of the monowho'sawhaty? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashcraft Posted December 10, 2007 Author Share Posted December 10, 2007 It was a great trip Saturday- too wet for pics. Brought home a nice slab of Smithville with parts of 12 gastropods showing. We then went to the museum at Marble Hill, home of Misouri's only verified dinosaur remains. Guy Darrough has quite a few exhibits showing of life-like dinosaurs. I wouldn't drive a long way just to see it, but if you are ever in the area, it would make a nice side trip. Monoplacophorans don't show in our Ordovician rock....I was thinking (very dangerous) that they were more found in Cambrian strata. There are pictures of some on Bruce Stincomb's website. Brent Ashcraft ashcraft, brent allen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gatorman Posted December 10, 2007 Share Posted December 10, 2007 Do you have a link? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xiphactinus Posted December 10, 2007 Share Posted December 10, 2007 Do you have a link? here you go... http://www.lakeneosho.org/MissouriFossils.html Bruce Stinchcomb is a neighbor and one of the most knowledgable fossil people out there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashcraft Posted December 10, 2007 Author Share Posted December 10, 2007 I tried to go to the Ozark Paleontology Website, it took me to the Junior College where Dr. Stinchcomb taught. He is now retired, so I don't know much other then that. If you google Ozark fossils, you will get hits for several articles on monoplacophorans from the Ozark regions (some writen by Dr. Stinchcomb). The previous post is an excellent website for Missouri fossils. Brent Ashcraft ashcraft, brent allen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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