Heart full of fossils

[cricket71]

These beautiful fossils were a gift to me from Bone2Stone (Jessy) for picking up the goodies he sent to the Arkansas get together. Thank you Jessy for being the amazing person that you are. I will cherish these and display them always. I have never seen a heart quiet like this. I am proud to have you as my friend.


I could not get this pic to flip the direction i wanted it.

[Chakotay]

Wow!!! Those are sweet!!!

[cricket71]

Can one of you awesome Admin. guys move this to the fossil section.. Im a dork and posted in the wrong place!!!  Thank you

[Bone2stone]

Well Cric, I see you finally got a round tuit.
I'm sure someone will move the post for you.
I would suggest it go in the Murfreesboro thread, or fossil link.
The specimen is referred to as a "hash-plate".
It is the remains of meals where a creature disposed of the leftovers.
The straight one is a cephalopod called a baculite.
There are three scaphites, cephalopods, on there.
(The big one top left, is a good one) "Worthoceras"
It is most likely near complete which would make this specimen a rarity.
The other two are, one near complete and an impression.
Only one small clam on there that I could make out.
That may be the only one on there that was not a meal at the time.
Got trapped in the mixture and died there.
The rest are snails, particular names I could only speculate on.
All are replaced with calcite crystal and casts are siltstone.
This particular stone was found in the same locality that I took
Cat to on her first intentional fossil hunt.
Hope you enjoy this specimen and treasure it as I'm sure you will.
Oh and again you are welcome.
Jess B.