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Post by radio on Jun 5, 2017 20:12:00 GMT -5
I miss the little guy/gal, but I know it is in good hands. A few years ago I found a very nice Trilobite in the creek that runs through our place. Not long after, I had a chance to meet and speak with Matt Forir, the director and resident Palentologist of the Missouri Institute of Natural Science and asked him about it. He explained that Trilobites were extremely rare in this part of Missouri and in fact, they were so rare he had never seen one from this area at all. Fast forward 4 or 5 years and I decided to donate it to the Museum. Matt was away on a dig, but his Wife, Samantha was overjoyed to accept it for their collection. The little guy/gal is upside down, but the head is still embedded in the cavity.
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Post by wigglinrocks on Jun 5, 2017 21:03:01 GMT -5
Very good of you to share it with others .
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Post by Fossilman on Jun 6, 2017 8:53:54 GMT -5
Nice fossil...........It went to a good home.......Nice of you to do that!
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Post by rockjunquie on Jun 7, 2017 9:38:58 GMT -5
That's really awesome! Very good of you, Sir
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Post by Deleted on Jun 17, 2017 19:27:56 GMT -5
That's great! Hopefully future generations of rockhounds will see this and get the rock bug
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Post by spiceman on Jun 17, 2017 21:19:09 GMT -5
A god man. It can be enjoyed by others now. If you need another one, I live near Cearsers Creek in Ohio. It's on a YouTube. I can show you where they find them.
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Post by radio on Jun 18, 2017 9:00:57 GMT -5
Thanks all. I plan to return there in a few weeks and "visit" my former pet. spiceman if you have any in the 3/4-1 inch range suitable to make jewelry out of, I am interested. also interested in any smaller ones that are not prime specimens that I can give to kids who have an interest in fossils. I am out of everything but sharks teeth to put in free goodie bags for our future Paleontologists
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Post by Peruano on Jun 19, 2017 12:17:56 GMT -5
Not to split hairs here, but I'm tempted to remind us that a donation to a museum is not just for the enjoyment of others or to stimulate future rockhounds. Ideally that becomes a voucher specimen : perhaps documenting the occurrence of a well known animal, or perhaps actually representing a distinct position, anatomy, or species to be studied judiciously by paleontologists, and folks in related fields of stratigraphy, etc. etc. Its important to remember that the things that we think of as things of beauty and as raw materials for creations for enjoyment are also potential scientific specimens warranting documentation, preservation, study, and description. Most chunkcs of dino bone are just that (chunks of bone that can not be identified with much precision); however some have much more info to be probed and utilized and hence are best left unprocessed as lapidary materials. Just a wider perspective.
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