Nimravis Posted August 16, 2019 Share Posted August 16, 2019 Yesterday I went on a little fossil hunting trip with former Forum member Kim Texan. She had stopped by on her way to Oshkosh, WI. I decided that it would be better to have a successful trip at finding fossils, so I took her to a Pennsylvanian roadcut that exposes the LaSalle Limestone / Bond Formation. It never fails to yield fossils. While collecting, a car stopped by and a reporter and photographer from the LaSalle Tribune stepped out and asked if they could take some pictures and ask some questions. Here are some pictures that I took of Kim, the area and a couple of our finds - I did find the article in the Newspaper today, along with a couple pictures that I ended up buying. No interview would not be complete without mentioning the Fossil Forum. Here is the article below: "With hammers swinging and chisels chipping, fossils were being uncovered along the roadside of County Highway 62. Just down the hill from Illinois Valley Community College, two out-of-towners were digging their way into limestone in search of different types of specimen. “It’s like a fishing hole. Nobody wants to tell you where they’re finding them,” said Ralph ******** of Aurora, who hunts for different fossils around the area. Ralph said he, unlike some others, tries to let other people know about good spots to search in on The Fossil Forum. It’s how he came into contact with Kim ****** who is from Dallas and was on her way up to Oshkosh, Wis., before stopping in the area to hunt with Ralph. “That’s one nice thing with the forum is you meet a lot of people,” Ralph said. And after 25 minutes of looking, the pair had found a few different items such as brachiopods from the Pennsylvanian period. Ralph said what they were uncovering was from about 310 million years ago. “You find shark teeth here too,” he said. Ralph said he found Peripristis teeth and confirmed it with a paleontologist with a local connection. Stephen Brusatte, now a chancellor’s fellow at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, was born in Ottawa and is an Ottawa High School graduate. “I sent him a picture to see if he could confirm what it was,” Ralph said, adding Brusatte got back to him quickly with a confirmation." (Brent Herrmann- NewsTribune Online Editor) 18 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted August 16, 2019 Share Posted August 16, 2019 Nice to see that she's still active and maintaining her connection to a forum member. Did she mention how it ended up with her bison? Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nimravis Posted August 16, 2019 Author Share Posted August 16, 2019 3 hours ago, Ludwigia said: Nice to see that she's still active and maintaining her connection to a forum member. Did she mention how it ended up with her bison? We only had about a short time (1 hour each way) driving to talk and we talked about other fossils that she had been collecting in Texas and a couple Mississippian sites that I had told her to stop at in Southern Illinois on her way up. She did say that she has been out all of her free time and collecting a lot of ammonites. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJB Posted August 16, 2019 Share Posted August 16, 2019 Sounds like fun and a good report but one of my pet peeves is a dull pick hammer. That thing needs a bit of work. RB 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peat Burns Posted August 16, 2019 Share Posted August 16, 2019 Very cool, Ralph! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miocene_Mason Posted August 16, 2019 Share Posted August 16, 2019 Some nice fossils, good company, and some community outreach, nice job! 1 “...whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been and are being evolved.” ~ Charles Darwin Happy hunting, Mason Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted August 16, 2019 Share Posted August 16, 2019 Nice report, Ralph. 1 Tim - VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER VFOTM --- APRIL - 2015 __________________________________________________ "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir ~ ~ ~ ~ ><))))( *> About Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FossilDAWG Posted August 16, 2019 Share Posted August 16, 2019 That does look like a great spot to collect. I moved this topic to "fossil hunting trips" as no requests for an ID were made. Don Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nimravis Posted August 16, 2019 Author Share Posted August 16, 2019 51 minutes ago, FossilDAWG said: That does look like a great spot to collect. I moved this topic to "fossil hunting trips" as no requests for an ID were made. Don Thanks Don, I did not mean to put it there, I had my 5 year old grandson standing next to me asking questions about the arcade that we just left and he was throwing me off my “Fossil Game”. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FossilDAWG Posted August 16, 2019 Share Posted August 16, 2019 More important to connect with your grandson than it is to pick to right place for a post. Posts can be moved. Time with grandkids (or kids) can't be replaced. Don 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dalmayshun Posted August 16, 2019 Share Posted August 16, 2019 here here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FossilNerd Posted August 16, 2019 Share Posted August 16, 2019 It’s always good to reconnect with friends, and it looks like you two had a good time together. I love the article and the plug for TFF. Well done! 1 The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it. -Neil deGrasse Tyson Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't. -Bill Nye (The Science Guy) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deutscheben Posted August 17, 2019 Share Posted August 17, 2019 What a nice little article with some actual well-researched facts and details, and it's so good to see folks meeting up and fossil hunting together. I've had people stop to talk to me at that site before, but a journalist is something new. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nimravis Posted August 17, 2019 Author Share Posted August 17, 2019 6 hours ago, deutscheben said: What a nice little article with some actual well-researched facts and details, and it's so good to see folks meeting up and fossil hunting together. I've had people stop to talk to me at that site before, but a journalist is something new. I agree, I had a neighbor from across the road stop by and told me how they State came by and brought down several tons of rock and move it away. I wish I knew where they moved it too, a lot of great fossils would have been in that material. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pagurus Posted August 17, 2019 Share Posted August 17, 2019 You're famous now! I'm glad you both had an enjoyable and productive day. Thanks for posting. Start the day with a smile and get it over with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Rico Posted August 17, 2019 Share Posted August 17, 2019 Some nice finds and your names in the paper too, this can’t be bad. If you speak to Kim please give her my best regards. I also was wondering how her bison prep turned out? Cheers Bobby Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nimravis Posted August 18, 2019 Author Share Posted August 18, 2019 5 hours ago, Pagurus said: You're famous now! I'm glad you both had an enjoyable and productive day. Thanks for posting. I was famous before- Lol. Here is a picture of me (Left) from a Wilmington, Illinois newspaper from 1995 from a trip that I helped leading from the Braidwood Fossil Ridge Library to collect Mazon Creek concretions at Pit 11. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nimravis Posted August 18, 2019 Author Share Posted August 18, 2019 5 hours ago, Bobby Rico said: Some nice finds and your names in the paper too, this can’t be bad. If you speak to Kim please give her my best regards. I also was wondering how her bison prep turned out? Cheers Bobby Thanks Bobby, I will let her know. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted August 23, 2019 Share Posted August 23, 2019 Neat Ralph! You finally got You proverbial "15 minutes of fame" ! 1 Darwin said: " Man sprang from monkeys." Will Rogers said: " Some of them didn't spring far enough." My Fossil collection - My Mineral collection My favorite thread on TFF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nimravis Posted August 26, 2019 Author Share Posted August 26, 2019 On 8/22/2019 at 10:14 PM, ynot said: Neat Ralph! You finally got You proverbial "15 minutes of fame" ! I was looking for 20 minutes Tony. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted August 26, 2019 Share Posted August 26, 2019 1 hour ago, Nimravis said: I was looking for 20 minutes Tony. Well, maybe there are some slow readers out there. 1 Darwin said: " Man sprang from monkeys." Will Rogers said: " Some of them didn't spring far enough." My Fossil collection - My Mineral collection My favorite thread on TFF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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