Fossils

[LC]

A close up of a few .

 

[Robby Raccoon]

Now I want to come down there and hunt for some.

 

[LC]

And the Gigas species . This one was excavated just a few miles from me , it measures ten inches in length , the biggest one found form that area where it was retrieved . This species gets a lot bigger than what this one measures , some I believe have been found around thirty inches in length in other areas . .

 

[LC]

Now I want to come down there and hunt for some.
Well , come on down young fellow and I will try and truge along with you ! Our Museum in Cincinnati has a really super display of them .

 

[Robby Raccoon]

I want one as a pet. []My bike's tire is flat, so I can't today.[] Lol.Ours has only displayed local finds from the Michigan Basin. Albeit it extends into Ohio, I think, they do more local items-- save for a huge display they recently added.
I myself have 2 trilobites I've found-- you can hardly tell they were. They're hardly noticeable, especially when compared to the spines--like this one. []
This was one of the first fossils I stumbled across. It's been over a decade, and it no longer smells like sulphur.

 

[LC]

Here is a pic of an enrolled one Robert , its is a Retrorsa species . I have quite a few of these .

 

[Robby Raccoon]

A bit blurry, but they're adorable! I have a book of Michigan fossils that includes a bunch of trilobites. I have so many pages flagged just to go back and look at them. Lol.

 

[LC]

Sorry for the blur , but still can easily be seen . If you go on eBay and od a search on Ohio fossils you will find quite a few I would imagine or Google it as well . I was told the other day by a friend to do a search on Google for Dry Dredgers and in doing so would find digs from the sight just east of where I live here in Brown County Ohio .

 

[Robby Raccoon]

I Googled them. You get a lot of trilobites, but we get a whole bunch of crinoids-- heads included. Those and Petoskey rain dominant here.

 

[LC]

There are crinoids here as well but I never found one intact . Found only a couple of the bulbs and the stems are usually found in or on nodules .