This post will concentrate on finds that I discovered that cost me a pretty penny.
I mean, I'm in northwest Arkansas, I'm on a country road, a car passes every twenty minutes. No need to lock your door, right?
Apparently so. Some disgusting slimeball stole my iPod and my GPS. I gave the cops a description of your car, scum. Rest easy.
Anyhow, on a more positive note, I found some killer stuff. Here we go:
This is exactly the SECOND crinoid calyx I've ever found. The first one still lies in the wash in the woods on my Pea Ridge, Arkansas farm home I enjoyed when I was fourteen. It's in a slab that was too massive for a kid to mess with. It's just as well. I'm sure I would have misplaced it by now, as I did with a bunch of massive oysters I found in Austin, Texas construction sites as a kid.
Horned coral casts, about 1" long
Trilobite cast. These bugs are VERY scarce in my Mississippian-era-area (Bentonville, Arkansas). Finding trilly evidence is a special treat. This is the same piece that is pictured above.
Again, the same rock, what I believe is a very tiny trilobite. That was one bonzer rock!
And finally, on the whimsical side, a tree root that managed to grow its way through a crinoid stalk. I would call that a mixture of the old and the new.
For lots more fossil pics, check out What Is This Fossil?
