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Robby Raccoon

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Just curious to see what some of you have. I know there are several forum members with a collection of fossils.
This one I found missing today.... terrified as it is my best fossil: Late Cretaceous Dragonfly I've had since grade 6. I got it for a project. The local museum tends to only sell fossils of fish and dinosaur teeth, but they had this piece. For me, it was quite expensive-- my most expensive project for class ever-- but worth it. It kind of became a pet.
Essentially, what I'm saying is this: Post your favorite fossil and info. on it.
 

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It came out blurry, but you can see the nice setting of sandstone that holds it.
 

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We havr a creek in New York runs into Seneca Lake, where there a lot of fossils of Trilobites. We used to take our girls to find them for school. Last year one daughter was visiting in New Y0ri and found fiv4e stone eggs in the rocks at another creek. We haven't found out what created them, for sure.RED M.
 

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Eggs, you say? That is possible, but I know of no egg-bearing sites in New York-- or even on the Eastern Seaboard.
 

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Great fossil , lets extract some dino DNA from it Lol . All joking aside that is a nice fossil . I have collected trilobites mostly for the past twenty five years I guess . That is I used to surface collect , been a good long time now that I have hunted any due to some of the local low lifes that went into the creeks and dug out all the clay exposures completely obliterating all the hunting spots as for surface collecting . There is always a few that ruins things for the many . I have trouble these days making the long walks down the creek banks so I gave up quite a few years ago . They sure spoiled it for the younger bunch that used to so much enjoy surface collecting . I posted a couple of display cases I built a good while back on here showing off some of my finds . I have only one picture handy showing a few but it is not much of a showing . I had these for sale on craigslist till the posting expired a week or so ago . These are all Flexacalymene Retrosa species . Might have spelled that wrong lol . If I can remember tomorrow , I will go out and try to take a couple pics of some that I have .
 

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Neat ones. Thanks for the showing. My daughter that froud the eggs, thinks they were from egg bearing animal, like a dinasore maybe. Nothing identified yet. They are from 4 to 7" long and two to three inches in the central diameter. RED M.
 

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Finally got out to the garage and took a few pics of some of the other trilobites I have . Most all of them in the display case are Flexicalymene Retrorsa Species except for just one or two which are Flexicalymene Meekis . The big dog is a Isoteulos Gigas Species , it is also found in the same matrix as the others dating to the Ordivician Period . The Gigas was proclaimed the Ohio state fossil back I believe in the middle 1980s
 

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