chris1956
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Post by chris1956 on Feb 21, 2024 16:55:56 GMT -5
A neighbor called me today and said he was digging up his rock garden (tired of weeding all the time) and wanted to know if I wanted to come over and see if there was anything I would like. Are you kidding? Turns out he went on a lot of trips when he was a kid and most of the rocks just went in the "rock garden". So I spent probably an hour with a hoe just digging them out of the dirt. Lots of larger quartz, lots of chert, some jasper, banded iron, fossils and some stuff I am not sure what it is. Here are some pics. Any help in IDs would be great. Unfortunately, he didn't know where individual rocks and fossils came from. Could be anywhere west and north of Missouri. Fossils. Any help on this stuff would be great. I am probably going to give these to a nine year old future paleontologist in the neighborhood. Her dad is probably going to be mad with me for giving her more fossils. Forgot to include something for scale in the first one. The round discs are about 2 inch diameter. This one is about 1.5 inch diameter Chunck of bone? The inside of it looks like quartz/quartzite. I am pretty sure the top one in the next photo is a large prairie agate. Not sure about the bottom one as it is a little more like quartzite. jasoninsd ? Closeups follow of each.
The next one looks like a concretion but the material on the outside looks like a fine quartzite and the darker material on the inside looks like coarser quartzite. No idea on the next two. Top one has a look of calcedony and the bottom one reminds me more of sandstone or quartzite. Any help would be appreciated. Hope you at least enjoy the pics. Thanks, Chris
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Post by rocknewb101 on Feb 21, 2024 16:58:38 GMT -5
I'm the worlds worst ID'er, but those look quite interesting - especially the rounded one's on the bottom - is there green and red in the last one?
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Post by khara on Feb 21, 2024 17:17:25 GMT -5
Cool ammonite (2nd pic). It’s fun that these were just in his yard. But, I guess I can relate, just with different materials. I’ll be interested to hear what the potentially fossil “disks” are. Those are interesting.
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Post by rocknewb101 on Feb 21, 2024 18:56:57 GMT -5
LOL. The green on the bottom one is moss/lichen that I didn't get off when scrubbing and washing. No red in the bottom one. The red on the top one is in the rock. Reminds me of jasper or agate material. Maybe this is another prairie agate? Closeup of the red stuff. haha!! got it lol.
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Post by Mark K on Feb 21, 2024 19:25:13 GMT -5
1st pic is baculites and concretions, last pics are sandstone concretions. They may have been metamorphosed into quartsite.
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Post by rmf on Feb 21, 2024 19:33:18 GMT -5
image 1 Bacculites on the top concretions on the bottom image 2 scaphalites image 3-6 unk image 7 prairie agate remaining concretions??
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chris1956
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Post by chris1956 on Feb 21, 2024 22:57:37 GMT -5
Cool ammonite (2nd pic). It’s fun that these were just in his yard. But, I guess I can relate, just with different materials. I’ll be interested to hear what the potentially fossil “disks” are. Those are interesting. Thanks. I couldn't believe they had all the fossils in the dirt. His dad had also tossed some polished stones in there. I am planning to repolish them and give them back in a glass jar. 1st pic is baculites and concretions, last pics are sandstone concretions. They may have been metamorphosed into quartsite. Thanks. Didn't think about concretions being metamorphosed. image 1 Bacculites on the top concretions on the bottom image 2 scaphalites image 3-6 unk image 7 prairie agate remaining concretions?? Thanks. I am no expert on the fossils and finding more about concretions lately.
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Post by realrockhound on Feb 22, 2024 0:15:41 GMT -5
pterodactyl Knee caps
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Post by wpotterw on Feb 22, 2024 7:30:15 GMT -5
A neighbor called me today and said he was digging up his rock garden (tired of weeding all the time) and wanted to know if I wanted to come over and see if there was anything I would like. Are you kidding? Turns out he went on a lot of trips when he was a kid and most of the rocks just went in the "rock garden". So I spent probably an hour with a hoe just digging them out of the dirt. Lots of larger quartz, lots of chert, some jasper, banded iron, fossils and some stuff I am not sure what it is. Here are some pics. Any help in IDs would be great. Unfortunately, he didn't know where individual rocks and fossils came from. Could be anywhere west and north of Missouri. Fossils. Any help on this stuff would be great. I am probably going to give these to a nine year old future paleontologist in the neighborhood. Her dad is probably going to be mad with me for giving her more fossils. Forgot to include something for scale in the first one. The round discs are about 2 inch diameter. This one is about 1.5 inch diameter Chunck of bone? The inside of it looks like quartz/quartzite. I am pretty sure the top one in the next photo is a large prairie agate. Not sure about the bottom one as it is a little more like quartzite. jasoninsd ? Closeups follow of each.
The next one looks like a concretion but the material on the outside looks like a fine quartzite and the darker material on the inside looks like coarser quartzite. No idea on the next two. Top one has a look of calcedony and the bottom one reminds me more of sandstone or quartzite. Any help would be appreciated. Hope you at least enjoy the pics. Thanks, Chris The ones below the complete ammonite fossil are segments of belemnites - cephalopod with a straight shell.
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Post by jasoninsd on Feb 24, 2024 8:33:41 GMT -5
Hey Chris! Thanks for the tag...sorry for the delayed response. I'm in agreement on the Prairie Agate. The ammonite is super cool! I find a LOT of Baculite segments around this area...and am always excited when I do find them!
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chris1956
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Post by chris1956 on Mar 10, 2024 18:51:41 GMT -5
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Post by khara on Mar 10, 2024 23:49:31 GMT -5
Glad to see how they turned out. That striped one is cool. Nice little memento for your neighbor.👍
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Post by Pat on Mar 11, 2024 0:38:34 GMT -5
I have no idea what you found. Glad you got some answers.
You were lucky your neighbor made the nice offer, and he was lucky he had you to haul them away. Thanks!
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Post by liveoak on Mar 11, 2024 6:39:53 GMT -5
Cool, you re-polished & gave them back. Nice Patty
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Post by Fossilman on Mar 11, 2024 11:20:21 GMT -5
Looks like you have the fossils ID'ed.. I polish my Baculites and Ammonites on an expando drum with sanding papers, they polish up great. The smaller fossils in the photos are called Crinoid stems..
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chris1956
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Post by chris1956 on Mar 11, 2024 19:03:08 GMT -5
Glad to see how they turned out. That striped one is cool. Nice little memento for your neighbor.👍 I liked the striped one too. I have no idea what you found. Glad you got some answers. You were lucky your neighbor made the nice offer, and he was lucky he had you to haul them away. Thanks! Yep. I don't think he minded me taking them at all. Also got some larger pink quartzite rocks for the flower garden boarder. Cool, you re-polished & gave them back. Nice Patty Thanks. Looks like you have the fossils ID'ed.. I polish my Baculites and Ammonites on an expando drum with sanding papers, they polish up great. The smaller fossils in the photos are called Crinoid stems.. I hadn't thought about polishing them. I will have to look into that. Thanks.
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