natalia_la_loca Posted January 13, 2015 Share Posted January 13, 2015 they're cute in a spiky pine cone sort of way. Link to comment
amphipod Posted January 13, 2015 Author Share Posted January 13, 2015 Halkerids might have been over aggressive scavengers that would be difficult to remove because of the scales. Sort of like fireworms with feeding habits. And opabinia, a must have for any predator tank. Link to comment
amphipod Posted January 14, 2015 Author Share Posted January 14, 2015 what about tabulate corals? Link to comment
Dr.Brain Coral Posted January 15, 2015 Share Posted January 15, 2015 Damn amphipod you bet me to it haha. Opabinia and tullimunstrum would both be sweet. Eurypterids would be my favorite to have in a tank. I am planning to go to a really big shale formation near my house and look for some trilobites and maybe even a eurypterid. Link to comment
amphipod Posted January 16, 2015 Author Share Posted January 16, 2015 what time period? over where i live in ohio we have some devonian limestone, ive only found brachiopods and a couple cool ones i never could inentify, are you good with fossil identifications? some smaller eurypterids could have been pretty awesome in a tank, a few like pterygotis would have been fit for something like shedd aquarium. also that would be quite horrifying back in those times to step on one lol Link to comment
Dr.Brain Coral Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 I would like to think I am good with identifying fossils haha. Send some pics, I'll check them out. Link to comment
Dr.Brain Coral Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 Amphipod, it's obvious you are interested in paleontology so I thought I would share a cool story with you. A few years back me and my dad went on a dinosaur dig out in Montana sponsored by answered in genesis. We dug in Glendive Montana with a paleontologist who also runs his own museum out there. We were with a group of about 20 other people and we had 10 days of digging. On day 7 I was digging and I noticed a piece of bone. I called over Otis( the paleontologist) and he took a look. He said To keep digging but be careful incase I had something cool. I kept working with Otis helping and we eventually uncovered a complete vertebrae of a dinosaur. He was really excited and he told me they had not found one of these fossils in this area. He told me he will clean it up and after he is done it's going right into his museum with my name on it for recognition. I am planning a trip to go back out and see it one of these days. I will post pictures if you are interested later. Link to comment
amphipod Posted January 17, 2015 Author Share Posted January 17, 2015 Amphipod, it's obvious you are interested in paleontology so I thought I would share a cool story with you. A few years back me and my dad went on a dinosaur dig out in Montana sponsored by answered in genesis. We dug in Glendive Montana with a paleontologist who also runs his own museum out there. We were with a group of about 20 other people and we had 10 days of digging. On day 7 I was digging and I noticed a piece of bone. I called over Otis( the paleontologist) and he took a look. He said To keep digging but be careful incase I had something cool. I kept working with Otis helping and we eventually uncovered a complete vertebrae of a dinosaur. He was really excited and he told me they had not found one of these fossils in this area. He told me he will clean it up and after he is done it's going right into his museum with my name on it for recognition. I am planning a trip to go back out and see it one of these days. I will post pictures if you are interested later. I'm not just interested, I'm totally fascinated with paleontology, I'd love to see the vertabra, what sort of dinosaur was it? here are three I can't figure out, there are two different ones in the larger one. The small one I don't know where it came from, large one is Devonian age limestone. Link to comment
Dr.Brain Coral Posted January 17, 2015 Share Posted January 17, 2015 Well I would need pictures of just the fossils. I cant really tell to be honest. He didnt know what dinosaur the vertebrae is from but he assumed its from a Hadrosaur Link to comment
amphipod Posted January 17, 2015 Author Share Posted January 17, 2015 You can't see the pictures I sent? Link to comment
amphipod Posted January 18, 2015 Author Share Posted January 18, 2015 Those hadrasaurs were pretty big, kinda funny how few animals are larger than them today compared to the Cretaceous. Link to comment
HecticDialectics Posted January 18, 2015 Share Posted January 18, 2015 Looks like hands and feet and rocks from a backyard. You really expect anyone to id something in those blurry pictures? Link to comment
Psychosis Posted January 18, 2015 Share Posted January 18, 2015 Looks like hands and feet and rocks from a backyard. You really expect anyone to id something in those blurry pictures? Probably. Link to comment
amphipod Posted January 18, 2015 Author Share Posted January 18, 2015 Those are the best pics I can make. Hint in the larger rock the black ones are the fossils and the entire small one is a fossil. Link to comment
Dr.Brain Coral Posted January 18, 2015 Share Posted January 18, 2015 That is the best picture I have Sorry It took so long, I wanted to find a way to post the pic without just linking to my facebook Link to comment
amphipod Posted January 18, 2015 Author Share Posted January 18, 2015 Awesome agreed So how wide was this one? What other fossils have you found? Link to comment
Dr.Brain Coral Posted January 19, 2015 Share Posted January 19, 2015 It was about 8 inches across. I found on that trip lots of assorted fossils like fragments of dinosaur bones, turtle shells, gar fish scales, petrified wood and I helped excavate a huge triceratops rib. Some other notable ones are following floaters up a hill and helping my dad and another paleontologist excavate a piece of a triceratops frill at this ladies ranch. Me, my dad and the two paleontologists were going to sit down and they were behind us and they said hold up. We look back and watch as one of them bends down and picks up a oblong rock. He holds it out and says you just walked past a trex tooth haha. That was pretty funny. He let us keep almost all the fossils we found just not really important ones like the vertebrae or the tooth. I have found many local trilobites and bivalves including a rare type of trilobite. I have an unidentified fossil that I am wondering if its a eurypterid carapace. Worm burrows and a bunch of ammonites are a few other cool ones. I have had some very interesting finds. Up until recently the majority of my time was devoted to paleontology. Link to comment
amphipod Posted January 19, 2015 Author Share Posted January 19, 2015 That is what I call an awesome time I've always wanted to go in a more fossil rich area, you had an awesome experience. My area is loaded with basically brachiopods, rugose corals, and occasionally some other varied corals. Do you know what species of trilobite it was? Show the eurypterid Also if you don't mind me asking, how old are you? I'm 16. Also lol all I ever liked when I was younger was dinosaurs, now anything alive I'm totally fascinated by. Link to comment
Dr.Brain Coral Posted January 19, 2015 Share Posted January 19, 2015 That is what I call an awesome time I've always wanted to go in a more fossil rich area, you had an awesome experience. My area is loaded with basically brachiopods, rugose corals, and occasionally some other varied corals. Do you know what species of trilobite it was? Show the eurypterid Also if you don't mind me asking, how old are you? I'm 16. I have mostly the same types of fossils just some others like trilobites. I will have to look the type up. I will get some pics tommorow of my fossils for you. I am 16 as well Link to comment
amphipod Posted January 19, 2015 Author Share Posted January 19, 2015 Sounds good to me also lol were the exact same age. Link to comment
amphipod Posted January 19, 2015 Author Share Posted January 19, 2015 a few of my favorites. Link to comment
Dr.Brain Coral Posted January 19, 2015 Share Posted January 19, 2015 Nice. Is that a trilobite I see? Link to comment
amphipod Posted January 19, 2015 Author Share Posted January 19, 2015 Yes it is, Phacops to be precise. Poor old fellas head wasn't attached when I found him, so I put it in the compartment next to him lol Link to comment
amphipod Posted January 20, 2015 Author Share Posted January 20, 2015 What about marrellomorphs? I have mostly the same types of fossils just some others like trilobites. I will have to look the type up. I will get some pics tommorow of my fossils for you. I am 16 as well Link to comment
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