Ludwigia Posted July 28, 2015 Posted July 28, 2015 (edited) I have a fairly simple numbering system for my collection. I just take a fauna, give it one or two letters and start at 1. Just looking at that number a couple of minutes ago made me suddenly realize how many of these lowly beasts I've amassed over the years. I just can't resist these ones, although I already actually have enough of them in the collection. I went for a trip over the fields the day before yesterday since the winter wheat has already been harvested and most of the straw has been made, so I figured that maybe some farmer had plowed up a few fields, which turned out to be the case. There it was. Yet another Actinostreon marshii. I just love these guys! They have such character and they always have room for stowaways in the form of oysters and tube worms. Edited July 28, 2015 by Ludwigia Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/
ZiggieCie Posted July 28, 2015 Posted July 28, 2015 WOW, those are great. I would have a hard time leaving that on the ground and walking away.
Auspex Posted July 28, 2015 Posted July 28, 2015 They really are wondrous fossils, aren't they? Very appealing. "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!
Foshunter Posted July 28, 2015 Posted July 28, 2015 Great looking fossil, looks like something from another planet----Tom Grow Old Kicking And Screaming !!"Don't Tread On Me"
jcbshark Posted July 28, 2015 Posted July 28, 2015 I find a lot of inverts but nothing looking like that one : ) Every once in a great while it's not just a big rock down there!
Pagurus Posted July 28, 2015 Posted July 28, 2015 Irresistible! Start the day with a smile and get it over with.
PFOOLEY Posted July 28, 2015 Posted July 28, 2015 299 German bivalves on the wall, 299 German bivalves...take one down and pass it around...298 German bivalves on the wall. "I am glad I shall never be young without wild country to be young in. Of what avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?" ~Aldo Leopold (1887-1948) New Mexico Museum of Natural History Bulletins
JohnJ Posted July 28, 2015 Posted July 28, 2015 299 German bivalves on the wall, 299 German bivalves...take one down and pass it around...298 German bivalves on the wall. .... Yet another Actinostreon marshii. I just love these guys! They have such character and they always have room for stowaways in the form of oysters and tube worms. Roger, these guys could 'star' in a B-grade 'monster movie'. They remind me of their sister taxon, Lopha, we have over here in Texas. The human mind has the ability to believe anything is true. - JJ
Ludwigia Posted July 28, 2015 Author Posted July 28, 2015 (edited) Looks like you guys are falling in love with them too. Like Ziggie says, you just can't leave them lying there, even if you've already got a ton of them.... 299 German bivalves on the wall, 299 German bivalves...take one down and pass it around...298 German bivalves on the wall. Mike, if you're insinuating what I think you are, just send me a PN... By the way, John, these things used to be called Lopha marshii until some smart paleontologist noticed that they weren't actually related to the modern Lopha, so he changed the name. Edited July 28, 2015 by Ludwigia 1 Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/
Auspex Posted July 28, 2015 Posted July 28, 2015 Looks like you guys are falling in love with them too... Any favorite fossil of yours is a favorite fossil of mine "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!
Ludwigia Posted July 28, 2015 Author Posted July 28, 2015 Any favorite fossil of yours is a favorite fossil of mine Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/
Shamalama Posted July 29, 2015 Posted July 29, 2015 You have too many Actinostreon oysters in your home you say? .... Y'know, I have room in my drawers for such fine looking petrified benthic inhabitants. -Dave __________________________________________________ Geologists on the whole are inconsistent drivers. When a roadcut presents itself, they tend to lurch and weave. To them, the roadcut is a portal, a fragment of a regional story, a proscenium arch that leads their imaginations into the earth and through the surrounding terrain. - John McPheeIf I'm going to drive safely, I can't do geology. - John McPheeCheck out my Blog for more fossils I've found: http://viewsofthemahantango.blogspot.com/
Ludwigia Posted July 29, 2015 Author Posted July 29, 2015 You have too many Actinostreon oysters in your home you say? .... Y'know, I have room in my drawers for such fine looking petrified benthic inhabitants. Hmmm... Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/
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