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Crinoid Calyx!
GMS Field Trip
Lower Devonian Fossil Location in Tennessee
Saturday, October 13, 2018
The second location on the epic trip was a quarry where we collected Lower Devonian marine fossils. It was a different area than we searched before, so there was a lot of new territory to explore.
Crinoid stems, bryozoa, and brachiopods were abundant while trilobite pygidiums were a little harder to find. Jeffery Brugemann even found a trilobite head with one finely detailed eye visible! Al Klatt found a perfect coral (Pleurodictyum lentinularum).
Many thanks to quarry personnel who took time to escort us and keep us safe, plus Charles for arranging this trip.
Lori Carter
On behalf of Charles Carter, GMS Field Trip Chair
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Photo by Lori Carter
New area to explore
Photo by Lori Carter
Trilo "bits" in the rubble
Photos by Lori Carter
A menagerie of fossils in one plate
Photos by Lori Carter
Heather Smith found this perfect cystoid
Photos by Lori Carter
Jeffery Brugemann's spectacular trilobite head with close-ups
Photo by Lori Carter
Not sure what this is, but we saw several
Photo by Lori Carter
Trilobite pygidium (trilo-butt) and some brachiopods
Photo by Lori Carter
Al Klatt's cool coral (color from being stored in a soft drink bottle)
Photos by Lori Carter
I think this is a big crinoid calyx, species unknown
Photos by Randy Gentry
Some of Randy Gentry's finds including a superb crinoid calyx with stems attached
Photo by Sherry Kitts
View of quarry
Rich Devonian fossil beds
Close-up of trilobite plate with brachiopods
Positive and negative trilobite possibly Odontocephalus and brachiopod Leptaena
Trilobite and brachiopods: Sphaerirhynchia, Kazlowskiellina, Leptaena,
horn coral Rugose, and crinoid stem with encrusting bryozoa
(Pictures and captions by Sherry Kitts)
Photo by Lori Carter
Nice bryozoan on the right, with other bryozoan bits around it
Photo by Lori Carter
Not sure what this is -- maybe a bryozoan?
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