Turtle Fossil

[Moozillion]

My youngest sister and her family live in Montana. They know of several places where trilobites are very plentiful and have collected some. Hubby and I haven't been to Montana yet, but I told my sister I'd really like to find a trilobite. She's happy to take me, but says that the locations where you get the best trilobites are only accessible in the summertime (the areas are snowed in for winter). The only TINY problem with THAT is summertime is when they routinely get massive WILDFIRES all through that area. Dang. I don't want to go fossil hunting badly enough to outrun wildfires!!!!!!!

 

[Moozillion]

I love how the ammonites swirl inward to infinity!!!!! I have 2 ammonites: one from Madagascar and one from Who-Knows-Where .
The one of unknown origin is mounted as a pendant.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

My youngest sister and her family live in Montana. They know of several places where trilobites are very plentiful and have collected some. Hubby and I haven't been to Montana yet, but I told my sister I'd really like to find a trilobite. She's happy to take me, but says that the locations where you get the best trilobites are only accessible in the summertime (the areas are snowed in for winter). The only TINY problem with THAT is summertime is when they routinely get massive WILDFIRES all through that area. Dang. I don't want to go fossil hunting badly enough to outrun wildfires!!!!!!!

Some of the TFF peeps have been out in the snow and ice collecting in frozen rivers and snow filled quarries, on beaches hacking things out of the frozen sand.
But then I used to do that sort of thing.
Not any more.
I wait til spring.
These lovely ammonites and clams are from Montana, part of my Secret Santa. But i don't have any trilobites from there, though i know there are sites for them in the State.

 

[Moozillion]

Some of the TFF peeps have been out in the snow and ice collecting in frozen rivers and snow filled quarries, on beaches hacking things out of the frozen sand.
But then I used to do that sort of thing.
Not any more.
I wait til spring.
These lovely ammonites and clams are from Montana, part of my Secret Santa. But i don't have any trilobites from there, though i know there are sites for them in the State.

Oh, my GOODNESS!!! ANYONE who would be out collecting in this weather is TRULY dedicated- or a bit mad, or both!!!

 

[Oxalis]

Trilobites left no descendants, sadly.
They're beautiful fossils, are they yours?

Aww, if I remember where I read that, I'll have to contact their editor!
Oh well, at least we have pill bugs and horseshoe crabs to remind us of cute little trilobites...
Not my photos; they're just from Google. I do have a trilobite fossil; sometime I will have to take a photo just for you!

Oh, how COOL!!!!!
I have 2 ammonites, one of which was purchased as a necklace pendant.
I LOVE PILL BUGS!!!!!!!!! Now I love them even MORE knowing they are TRILOBITE descendants!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'd love to see your necklace!!

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

I love how the ammonites swirl inward to infinity!!!!! I have 2 ammonites: one from Madagascar and one from Who-Knows-Where .
The one of unknown origin is mounted as a pendant.

Cleoniceras , mentioned earlier will almost certainly be the one from Madagascar.
For the other, post a picture and i may be able to name it.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Oh, my GOODNESS!!! ANYONE who would be out collecting in this weather is TRULY dedicated- or a bit mad, or both!!!

Yup, bit of both, I reckon.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Aww, if I remember where I read that, I'll have to contact their editor!
Oh well, at least we have pill bugs and horseshoe crabs to remind us of cute little trilobites...
Not my photos; they're just from Google. I do have a trilobite fossil; sometime I will have to take a photo just for you!

I'd love to see your necklace!!

Indeed horseshoe crab larvae are known as trilobite as trilobite larvae because they look so much like them, but the relationship is quite distant.
Yes please, to your trilobite photo and to Bea's necklace!

 

[Moozillion]

Aww, if I remember where I read that, I'll have to contact their editor!
Oh well, at least we have pill bugs and horseshoe crabs to remind us of cute little trilobites...
Not my photos; they're just from Google. I do have a trilobite fossil; sometime I will have to take a photo just for you!

I'd love to see your necklace!!

I’ll take a photo and post it- probably tomorrow.
I also have a pendant of raw amber that has “forest debris” in it. I’ll post that, too. [emoji2]

 

[Moozillion]

Indeed horseshoe crab larvae are known as trilobite as trilobite larvae because they look so much like them, but the relationship is quite distant.
Yes please, to your trilobite photo and to Bea's necklace!

WOW!!!! They really DO look like little Trilobites!!!!!

 

[Moozillion]

OK the first one is obviously my ammonite pendant. No idea where it's from. It looks brighter in better light.


And this is my raw amber pendant with twigs and stuff in it:

 

[Moozillion]

Although I found this tooth in the St. Francisville loess area many years ago, I have NO CLUE what it is. it is NOT the equine tooth that I mentioned before- that was much bigger.

 

[Moozillion]

These earrings were a gift from my Hubby before we were married. They are fossil walrus bone.
Which bone, you ask? Why, it's slices of petrified walrus penis bone!
I only wear them to select gatherings. Depending on who asks what they are, I may just say "fossil bone" or I may tell them exactly which bone! The Inuit word for this bone is oosik.

 

[Moozillion]

And here is my Madagascar ammonite:

 

[Moozillion]

I also have an insect in amber around here somewhere but can't seem to put my hands on it just now.
That meerkat that John send me has been lurking around...I wonder it he's got it...

 

[DE42]

And here is my Madagascar ammonite:

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I have two halves of one of those.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

OK the first one is obviously my ammonite pendant. No idea where it's from. It looks brighter in better light.
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And this is my raw amber pendant with twigs and stuff in it:

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Very nice, but no way of telling exactly what they are or where they're from, I'm afraid.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Although I found this tooth in the St. Francisville loess area many years ago, I have NO CLUE what it is. it is NOT the equine tooth that I mentioned before- that was much bigger.

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That is a shark tooth, i'm pretty sure from a fin-spined hybodont shark, designed to crush shells.
I think it's a species of Orodus from the Upper Pennsylvanian , 300 million years old or so. .

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

These earrings were a gift from my Hubby before we were married. They are fossil walrus bone.
Which bone, you ask? Why, it's slices of petrified walrus penis bone!
I only wear them to select gatherings. Depending on who asks what they are, I may just say "fossil bone" or I may tell them exactly which bone! The Inuit word for this bone is oosik.

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Ha de ha!
Yes, i've seen these bones for sale

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

I also have an insect in amber around here somewhere but can't seem to put my hands on it just now.
That meerkat that John send me has been lurking around...I wonder it he's got it...

mmmm.
i've never seen a fossilized meerkat.