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| Left to Right: 1. small chunk of fossilized coral or sponge 2. buffalo nickel so you can guesstimate the size of each fossil 3. Part of a fossilized buffalo tooth. The surface is very beautiful and looks like the cracked glaze of a raku fired pot. 4. Unidentified solitary coral. I have never seen a fossil like this one. Below is a detail of it's center. 5. a really nice chunk of coral. I usually find tiny pieces of this particular kind but now I finally have a charcoal briquet sized piece. I was totally pumped to find it. I need to get better at coral identification. |
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| A detail of the #4 Solitary Coral. This piece (and all of them, really) have inspired me to find out more about fossils. I have a generalized knowledge of the stuff, in that if I see something unusual I'll pick it up. We'll be going to a Lapidary Society Meeting in a couple weeks where I hope to extract some knowledge from the experts. |
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| A coyote skull found on a sandbar. |
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| A pig jawbone found on a sandbar. I assume someone slaughtered one and threw it's remains in the river as pigs are not native to the area and do not run feral (i god I hope pigs never run feral in Iowa. They're so destructive) |
