My fossils

Here are a few of my fossil rocks I picked up outside, they are everywhere.

I am going to post some large ones for detail, so sorry if you have to scroll. I was going to post this in earth but images are disabled.

Bear with me as I add pictures.

 

Yes, if you have fossil pictures, post them here!!

It's sandstone and limestone turbo. Unfortunately I had to leave all of my fossil rocks except for these few at my old house, I had hundreds. I see some down in the ditch of darn though.

I have more pictures I am trying to find.

 

This one is quartz, but it appears to have formed around something that is not part of the quartz. If I had my old photo software,you could see how the quartz forms a lattice enclosure over something inside.



This is the other side.

 

Those are awesome B.Elliot!!!! I wonder if mine are still at my old house? I had some crinoids as big around as my thumb and 8" long. <snif> Most of the really large brachiopods had slightly crushed tops where they had been exposed. Had what looked like shark teeth in some.

 

That crinoid stem in the middle of post two is one stem, you can see where it was broken, that one is about 10" long. Also, I should add that I can wear a size 7 ring on my thumb! I am positive that I moved with me a mid section of a crinoid inbedded in rock as big around as my thumb, very cool. I moved that one because it broke off from a larger piece and I threw it in the box. I will go crazy until I find it.

 

Here are some brachiopods, you can see the different shapes and sizes.

 

Those are AWESOME!!!!! Unfortunately most rocks I pick up have been bulldozed by construction and it's hard to find nice whole specimens. I hate you!!

I live in Kansas, we were undersea 440 million years ago.

 

Can anyone identify the fossil toward the top right?

http://img518.imageshack.us/img518/3229/pdr00301fn1.jpg [Broken]

Arrgh, I had reduced this to e-mail it and hopefully the full size image is stil on the camera, but I have no way of downloading it right now.

 

I can enlarge it on my computer to see it beter, but I can't save it enlarged. It looks like a fleur de lis, not a trilobite.

rew, if you can view it enlarged on the Win 98 computer of yours, i'll e-mail it to you.

http://img518.imageshack.us/img518/6439/pdr0030redev6.jpg [Broken]