Part 1 - Trip Report
Part 2 - Trip Photos (this page)
This Mississippian limestone quarry yielded a variety of fossils, including crinoids, blastoids, a very ancient shark tooth by the name Petalodus, archimedes, bryozoans, brachiopods, Rugosa and other corals, and even part of a trilobite.
(Photos courtesy Ron Beerman, Becky Guthrie, and Vicki Lais)
Everyone enjoying the cake brought by Lea.
Large horned coral on a huge boulder.
Part of a crinoid head, a couple of blastoids, and some crinoid stems.
James Lamb spent close to two hours carefully chipping out a Petalodus shark tooth found by Becky.
Beautiful bryozoan fan
Jessica with her slab containing a large crinoid.
Whole crinoid embedded in limestone rock.
Close up of an unusual shark tooth.
Excellent specimen showing a very long crinoid stem, numerous tiny pieces of crinoid stem, a blastoid, bryozoan, and archimedes stem.
Large "rock" that is completely coral.
Appears to be a tooth embedded in the matrix.
Large horned coral
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