Ninjafossils
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- Dec 18, 2012
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For anyone who may remember, I started a topic about a week ago asking about who owns the side of the highway so my mind could be at ease when I fossil hunt. When I was doing some more research, I found that there was a vacant lot that was full of limestone from the exposure that bulldozers had moved to build new buildings. I decided this place was easier (and probably safer) than digging alongside route 70. I head over and park in the Zaxby's parking lot and walk over to the field, which is loaded with large limestone chunks. Soon enough I start recovering some Ordovician fossils. I got a fantastic diversity of brachiopods, corals, bryozoans, Gastropods and even some cephalopods. I've been there twice already and now my suitcase is too heavy when I fly home for the holidays!
A pretty nice snail.
A nice cephalopod poking out of the rock. Unfortunately the rock is way too big to carry out and limestone is a ***** to break open. So she remains there for another day.
Another YUGE cephalopod. Same song, different chorus. Sorry bud. Maybe someone with a rock saw will come and take you home.
Cool plate with a ton of ostracods. They're tiny little crustaceans.
This was either a large bryozoa arm or a trace fossil burrow made by a trilobite. Either way it was YUGE.
If anyone could help me out on the flat object in the middle I'd really appreciate it.
One last time. The cephalopods were...YUGE.
Some smaller bryozoan arms.
Arguably the nicest crinoid stalk I've ever found. All of these fossils are from the Carter's limestone which is the foundation for the entirety of central Tennessee.
And a nice lil present crystal for the girlfriend.
A pretty nice snail.
A nice cephalopod poking out of the rock. Unfortunately the rock is way too big to carry out and limestone is a ***** to break open. So she remains there for another day.
Another YUGE cephalopod. Same song, different chorus. Sorry bud. Maybe someone with a rock saw will come and take you home.
Cool plate with a ton of ostracods. They're tiny little crustaceans.
This was either a large bryozoa arm or a trace fossil burrow made by a trilobite. Either way it was YUGE.
If anyone could help me out on the flat object in the middle I'd really appreciate it.
One last time. The cephalopods were...YUGE.
Some smaller bryozoan arms.
Arguably the nicest crinoid stalk I've ever found. All of these fossils are from the Carter's limestone which is the foundation for the entirety of central Tennessee.
And a nice lil present crystal for the girlfriend.
