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Post by Drummond Island Rocks on Sept 3, 2019 17:14:38 GMT -5
This is a large fossil death plate I found about 7 years ago. Back then we had a local rock club and this was the only rock collecting trip I was able to attend before the club shut down. The location was a working gravel pit in South East Michigan. I can remember getting a few smaller pudding stones but this was the largest thing I brought home. It measures about 18"x 14" and about 6" thick. I am not a fossil collector by any means but this one has somehow survived. Probably because it is too big to easily give away. Looks like mostly crinoids   Thanks for looking Chuck |
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Post by rockstock on Sept 3, 2019 17:43:35 GMT -5
Super cool - massive one at that makes it all the better.
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Post by HankRocks on Sept 3, 2019 18:28:09 GMT -5
This is a large fossil death plate I found about 7 years ago. Back then we had a local rock club and this was the only rock collecting trip I was able to attend before the club shut down. The location was a working gravel pit in South East Michigan. I can remember getting a few smaller pudding stones but this was the largest thing I brought home. It measures about 18"x 14" and about 6" thick. I am not a fossil collector by any means but this one has somehow survived. Probably because it is too big to easily give away. Looks like mostly crinoids Thanks for looking Chuck When you posted this all I could think of was this episode from Seinfeld |
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Post by fernwood on Sept 3, 2019 18:45:40 GMT -5
That is great.
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Post by amygdule on Sept 3, 2019 19:04:50 GMT -5
Crinoid Stew, just add spice.
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Post by Jugglerguy on Sept 3, 2019 20:19:23 GMT -5
There is a lot of that sort of stuff around Alpena, but that one is very nice compared to most here. The death plates around here don’t usually have crinoid stems that are cut in half from top to bottom like yours has. I wonder how they got broken or cut like that.
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Post by Drummond Island Rocks on Sept 4, 2019 5:50:57 GMT -5
There is a lot of that sort of stuff around Alpena, but that one is very nice compared to most here. The death plates around here don’t usually have crinoid stems that are cut in half from top to bottom like yours has. I wonder how they got broken or cut like that. This one is something I would expect to find up near your place. The club members were mostly looking for and finding brachiopods. There was nothing similar to this one found that day. Chuck |
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