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Post by radio on Jan 28, 2016 14:40:41 GMT -5
I know it is some type of mollusk, but never seen anything like this here in SW Missouri! I was walking the creek looking for arrowheads since we recently had some major flooding and the creek bed got rearranged beyond belief! NO arrowheads were found, but this curiosity showed up and found it's way into my pocket. This is the same creek I found a dandy Trilobite in a couple years ago Shell is right at 2 inches long, 1 inch front to back and about 5/8 thick and very wavy.
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Post by panamark on Jan 28, 2016 15:52:57 GMT -5
a fossil brachiopod, possibly Neospirifer sp. Interesting it is rare there as Rob Jugglerguy has them by the bucket up his way which isn't too far from you. But the lay of the seas were different then.
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Post by radio on Jan 28, 2016 16:50:58 GMT -5
a fossil brachiopod, possibly Neospirifer sp. Interesting it is rare there as Rob Jugglerguy has them by the bucket up his way which isn't too far from you. But the lay of the seas were different then. Thanks Mark, I have an e mail in to the Missouri Institute of Natural Science to see if they want it for their collection
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Post by Jugglerguy on Jan 28, 2016 17:26:31 GMT -5
Missouri isn't that close. I've never been there. We do have lots of those, but not that big. Ours are around an inch wide. Here's a picture from when Mark came to visit. Those are all brachiopods.
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Post by radio on Jan 28, 2016 18:00:43 GMT -5
That's a lot of fossils!!!!!
I got a reply from the museum saying they would love to have the shell. I'll probably also donate the Trilobite to them at some point. A couple of years ago, the Paleontologist there told me because they are so rare in the Missouri Ozarks, a collector would likely pay between $300 and $400 for it. He hinted very strongly he would love to have it as a donation if I would part with it :-)
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Post by Jugglerguy on Jan 28, 2016 18:09:03 GMT -5
We have trilobites here too, but I have yet to find one. Do you have a picture of yours?
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Post by radio on Jan 28, 2016 18:39:42 GMT -5
We have trilobites here too, but I have yet to find one. Do you have a picture of yours? here you go. I thought the body was gone and just left the impression, but the local Paleontologist told me he is upside down. The head is intact and almost appears to be floating in the host rock. He/she is 35 mm long
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Post by Jugglerguy on Jan 28, 2016 18:54:04 GMT -5
Wow, that's really cool!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2016 19:06:39 GMT -5
Donations to museums generate tax deductions.
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Post by radio on Jan 28, 2016 19:27:31 GMT -5
Donations to museums generate tax deductions. I hadn't thought of that, but that could work. Although it isn't extraordinary, I would rather it be seen by folks for many years than end up in a $2 bucket of rocks at the estate sale some time in the future
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Post by Fossilman on Jan 29, 2016 10:31:28 GMT -5
Those are very nice fossils and a museum is the ticket......I have a few that will be going to a museum in Montana,when I get tired of looking at them...LOL
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Post by inyo on Jan 29, 2016 15:21:38 GMT -5
I know it is some type of mollusk, but never seen anything like this here in SW Missouri! I was walking the creek looking for arrowheads since we recently had some major flooding and the creek bed got rearranged beyond belief! NO arrowheads were found, but this curiosity showed up and found it's way into my pocket. This is the same creek I found a dandy Trilobite in a couple years ago Shell is right at 2 inches long, 1 inch front to back and about 5/8 thick and very wavy. Unfortunately, I'm not seeing any of your photographs, although I do see Jugglerguy's.
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Post by radio on Jan 29, 2016 16:02:39 GMT -5
I know it is some type of mollusk, but never seen anything like this here in SW Missouri! I was walking the creek looking for arrowheads since we recently had some major flooding and the creek bed got rearranged beyond belief! NO arrowheads were found, but this curiosity showed up and found it's way into my pocket. This is the same creek I found a dandy Trilobite in a couple years ago Shell is right at 2 inches long, 1 inch front to back and about 5/8 thick and very wavy. Unfortunately, I'm not seeing any of your photographs, although I do see Jugglerguy's. Photobucket is down for some unknown reason, so they aren't showing up for me either
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Post by Pat on Jan 29, 2016 16:08:38 GMT -5
Not seeing your photos either. I'm on a Mac El Capitan with Safari.
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Post by radio on Jan 29, 2016 16:33:16 GMT -5
Not seeing your photos either. I'm on a Mac El Capitan with Safari. Photobucket is down for maintenance, so photos are temporarily unavailable. I've been trying to upload more photos all day with no luck.
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Post by inyo on Jan 30, 2016 19:08:10 GMT -5
I know it is some type of mollusk, but never seen anything like this here in SW Missouri! I was walking the creek looking for arrowheads since we recently had some major flooding and the creek bed got rearranged beyond belief! NO arrowheads were found, but this curiosity showed up and found it's way into my pocket. This is the same creek I found a dandy Trilobite in a couple years ago Shell is right at 2 inches long, 1 inch front to back and about 5/8 thick and very wavy. Unfortunately, I'm not seeing any of your photographs, although I do see Jugglerguy's. Ah, yes--They've now appeared. Not a mollusk. It's a very nice spirifer-type brachiopod. Since it came from SW Missouri, the geologic age is Mississippian--roughly 362 to 320 million years old (although from western to central Barton County and then northward along the Kansas border, it's all Pennsylvanian--around 320 to 286 million year old).
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Post by Pat on Apr 3, 2016 22:59:00 GMT -5
Photos up. Thanks!
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Post by Fossilman on Apr 4, 2016 9:38:44 GMT -5
Photobucket is down for maintenance, so photos are temporarily unavailable. I've been trying to upload more photos all day with no luck. Hopefully Photobucket is working now. I have a nice one of those I found at Fisherman's Island by Charlevoix. Still in matrix. Should I leave it in there? Last pic is the back side. It's about two inches across. Stuff like this,I use a Dremel tool and face the area,where the fossil is contained and work the area,removing some of the matrix from the fossil-with just enough area left to display them both..... Throw on a bit of clear polyurethane and your good to go for display....
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Post by nowyo on Apr 5, 2016 22:18:25 GMT -5
Just now saw this thread- radio that is a super brach, and a really nice trilobite. Russ
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Post by nowyo on Apr 5, 2016 22:20:52 GMT -5
Hopefully Photobucket is working now. I have a nice one of those I found at Fisherman's Island by Charlevoix. Still in matrix. Should I leave it in there? Last pic is the back side. It's about two inches across. Stuff like this,I use a Dremel tool and face the area,where the fossil is contained and work the area,removing some of the matrix from the fossil-with just enough area left to display them both..... Throw on a bit of clear polyurethane and your good to go for display.... Michael-a question for you. Have you ever used one of those little engraving things to prep fossils? I've only done a little playing around, for some things it seems to work okay, especially the ones with a variable speed control. Russ
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