Hello,

Ya, it looks like coral pieces in a limestone matrix.  All the little circles look like coral polyps.

The “next adventure” wasn’t fossil related 🙁 …  I went to the South Pacific Humback Whale calving grounds in Vava’u for a few weeks (just returned a few days ago).

Although they are not prehistoric, being with “living” cetaceans in the wild is pretty cool. You can easily imagine what the Miocene and Pliocene seas must have looks like with the…[Read more]

@lcone, @egardner – Here are a few more pictures…  We also visited the Mace Brown museum.  Bobby and Sarah recently finished prepping the “Cone Whale” and put it on display. It’s the most complete baleen whale ever collected from the PCS Mine in Aurora, NC.  Also, it was collected by Lee Cone!!!

And finally, this is completely unrelated to any…[Read more]

@lcone, @egardner – Hello,  Sorry for the late reply… I just got back!  Here are some of the pictures of the fossil dive!

I also have a video of the trip, it’s on my page:

http://www.fossilguy.com/trips/blackwater-dive-2017/index.htm

You should check out the end, with Lee vs the Alligator!  I wish I would have filmed his facial ex…[Read more]