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Heath Carroll posted a new specimen in the group What is it? from the myFOSSIL app 4 years, 7 months ago
4 years, 7 months ago4 years, 7 months agoHeath Carroll has contributed a new specimen to myFOSSIL!
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Heath Carroll posted a new activity comment 4 years, 7 months ago
4 years, 7 months ago4 years, 7 months ago#jbauer note the head at top and the plate on side and long bill with serrated edge to the left and down.
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Heath Carroll posted a new specimen in the group What is it? from the myFOSSIL app 4 years, 7 months ago
4 years, 7 months ago4 years, 7 months agoHeath Carroll has contributed a new specimen to myFOSSIL!
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Hi, @heath-carroll – did you take this specimen home with you or is it still out where you found it? It looks kind of like a smushed brachiopod but I’m having some difficulty telling.
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I think a lot of our fossils have plant life mashed in with them. That is what makes them confusing sometimes. This one I think is plant material.
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Hm, let’s tag in our plant expert and see if he can weigh in with his knowledge. @mackenzie-smith
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Hi @heath-carroll. Like @jbauer I’m also having a hard time seeing the specimen in question. I can see the rocks behind it quite nicely. Personally, I am unaware of co-occuring plant and animal material in Iowa. Do you know what formation you are collecting in? There are plenty of marine invertebrates that look like plants though including coral,…[Read more]
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I jbauer has given me links to look those things up. I will this evening. The area I live in Iowa has the southern most glacieral lake in Iowa and I own some pasture ground that is heaved It is the highest ground for miles and the ground to the. Roth of me is flat as flat gets that wonderful farm ground we are lknown for. The glaciers brought…[Read more]
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Heath Carroll posted a new activity comment 4 years, 7 months ago
4 years, 7 months ago4 years, 7 months ago-#jbauer this is very similar also. My glass fossil is just like this. Seth has a nice specimen here. Seth check out batoidea photos online and see if you see similarities
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Heath Carroll posted an image in the group What is it? from the myFOSSIL app 4 years, 7 months ago
4 years, 7 months ago4 years, 7 months agoOther side of see through rock. #fossil
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Hi, @heath-carroll – this looks like a piece of chert to me!
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Heath Carroll posted a new activity comment 4 years, 7 months ago
4 years, 7 months ago4 years, 7 months agoNote the long bill like nose with serrated edges
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Heath Carroll posted an image in the group What is it? from the myFOSSIL app 4 years, 7 months ago
4 years, 7 months ago4 years, 7 months agoSide view of what I believe to be the head. #fossil
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Note the long bill like nose with serrated edges
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Hi @heath-carroll – I’m not seeing a head, I think this is just a strangely weathered rock.
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Heath Carroll posted a new activity comment 4 years, 7 months ago
4 years, 7 months ago4 years, 7 months ago#jbauer That is the same thing I have been trying to get a I’d on.
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Heath Carroll posted an image in the group What is it? from the myFOSSIL app 4 years, 7 months ago
4 years, 7 months ago4 years, 7 months agoThis is the front of what I think is the head. #fossil
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Heath Carroll posted a new activity comment 4 years, 7 months ago
4 years, 7 months ago4 years, 7 months agoThe thing that sticks out to the right is nothing but just to the left of that thing that sticks out in the area that is brown you can just make out what I believe to be fins they always have dots on them. Also if you look to the left a little farther you will see the spade shaped item that is always present with these it is at the end of a long spine
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Heath Carroll posted a new activity comment 4 years, 7 months ago
4 years, 7 months ago4 years, 7 months agoNope it has me confused. But it is so uniform I thought I would pick it up and see what you folks might think of it.
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Heath Carroll posted an image in the group What is it? from the myFOSSIL app 4 years, 7 months ago
4 years, 7 months ago4 years, 7 months agoPhoto of the spade. #fossil
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Heath Carroll posted a new activity comment 4 years, 7 months ago
4 years, 7 months ago4 years, 7 months ago#vperez this spade shape is what I believe to be the stinger it is always at the end of the long tail.
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Heath Carroll posted a new activity comment 4 years, 7 months ago
4 years, 7 months ago4 years, 7 months agoI’m definitely going to have to get better at taking better photos
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Heath Carroll posted a new activity comment 4 years, 7 months ago
4 years, 7 months ago4 years, 7 months agoI should get an address from someone so I could just send some of these do you could see what I’m trying to show I have a ton of them so Ii didn’t think it would be hard to get an I’d.
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Heath Carroll posted a new activity comment 4 years, 7 months ago
4 years, 7 months ago4 years, 7 months ago#vperez it was limestone from north central or eastern Iowa.
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Heath Carroll posted a new activity comment 4 years, 7 months ago
4 years, 7 months ago4 years, 7 months agoI jbauer has given me links to look those things up. I will this evening. The area I live in Iowa has the southern most glacieral lake in Iowa and I own some pasture ground that is heaved It is the highest ground for miles and the ground to the. Roth of me is flat as flat gets that wonderful farm ground we are lknown for. The glaciers brought…[Read more]
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Hi, @heath-carroll this definitely looks like a fossil echinoderm. Probably part of a crinoid stem. If you edit your specimens you can add in information on classification, location, and more. Otherwise, I can just include them in the groups for conversation rather than as specimens with data. It has to do if you click that check box in the app…[Read more]
I am starting to learn the eras and time information. And trying to educate myself on the family etc of these fossils but I am not comfortable that my knowledge is good enough to answer some of the questions. If I don’t know for sure I will leave blank. I will say that I am thoroughly enjoying this learning experience.
Hi, @heath-carroll – The classification would be as follows: Kingdom Animalia, Phylum Echinodermata, Class Crinoidea. Then you could put crinoid in the common name since that’s how we refer to them in general conversation. Does that all make sense?
Here is a link to a database that helps with classification:…[Read more]
Thank you for the help you give me. It is a lot to learn but I really enjoy it.
Hi, @heath-carroll – It’s my pleasure. It seems like you are finding a lot of cool stuff, it is absolutely a lot to learn but that’s all part of the fun of it!