Perfect Castaway Posted March 16, 2009 Share Posted March 16, 2009 Hello all, A few years ago my hippie sister and her hippie friends invited me to a drum circle (hippies....lol) The drum circle was to take place on a farm some 60 miles or so north of Wichita, Kansas. I'm sorry, did I say farm? "Hippie Commune" is what they called it (hippies...lol). Armed with a copy of Oceans of Kansas I was determined to finally have my first successful fossil hunt. I've been collecting fossils most of my life but I never had any luck finding them on my own. In fact, it wasn't until I was 25 years old that I found my first fossil. And it was a piece of snarge. No, literally, it was a piece of shark coprolite. 20 years of hunting fossils and my first find was a piece of shark poop. Anyway, I was very excited to do some fossil collecting in Kansas and so, not being one myself for hippie drum circles, I set off in search of fossils on the commune. And can you believe the hippies thought I was the weird one (hippies...lol)? I quickly found lots of broken shells along a dry creek bed. It was very fossiliferous. The rocks were very nearly 50% fossils. Most of them no good but I did find a few nice pieces. Hours went by and yielded mostly shell fragments so I tried my luck in a different spot. That's where I found these. Not sure what to make of them exactly and since I don't find many fossils on my own I've never really had to do much research in identification. When you buy fossils on eBay, they usually tell you what they are. As near as I can tell on the geological map of Kansas it's either the Cretaceous or the Permian. Thanks in advance for any help, Timothy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest solius symbiosus Posted March 16, 2009 Share Posted March 16, 2009 The first two appear to be some kind of productid brachiopod. Sorry I couldn't be more helpful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tracer Posted March 16, 2009 Share Posted March 16, 2009 i'm going with permian, but you now live in an area where you can drive not too far and find much better preserved brachs in the pennsylvanian. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old dead things Posted March 16, 2009 Share Posted March 16, 2009 I've been trying to upload a picture with this for the last half an hour, but for some reason it won't upload. Anyway I believe it is a pinna clam. In the Pierre Shale we rarely find them complete, but if I can ever get this upload figured out I'll post a picture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest solius symbiosus Posted March 16, 2009 Share Posted March 16, 2009 i'm going with permian, but you now live in an area where you can drive not too far and find much better preserved brachs in the pennsylvanian. Yep, the productids died off in "The Great Extinction". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimmy1971 Posted March 17, 2009 Share Posted March 17, 2009 Hippies.....LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MOROPUS Posted March 17, 2009 Share Posted March 17, 2009 Pointing out the first pic, I think I recognize a Dictyoclostidae Brachiopod member, something like Dictyoclostus sp. or Antiquatonia sp.. That sort of thing! And definitely, Carboniferous (although, a member of the family survived the "Big One", Horridonia species!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old dead things Posted March 18, 2009 Share Posted March 18, 2009 I think I finally figured this out and hope the photo comes up. Do you see the similarities with a pinna clam? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest solius symbiosus Posted March 18, 2009 Share Posted March 18, 2009 Hippies.....LOL Some what apropos... at least for some of us http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOP8j8vJAkE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeD Posted March 18, 2009 Share Posted March 18, 2009 Some what apropos... at least for some of ushttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOP8j8vJAkE That was funny! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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