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DMC Field Trip

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DMC Field Trip
Hosted by the Tampa Bay Mineral and Science Club
Oligocene Fossils in Florida
Saturday, January 11, 2020

See the pictures below of some of the fossils found by GMS members Al Klatt and Lori Carter.

Photo by Al Klatt

Auger Shell (note how the impression (top) has more details than the cast (bottom)

Photo by Al Klatt

Bubble Snail?

Photo by Al Klatt

Cone Shell in matrix

Photo by Al Klatt

This location has abundant echinoids

Photo by Al Klatt

Superb preservation of details on an echinoid

Photo by Al Klatt

Assortment of gastropods

Photo by Al Klatt

Olive Shell

Photo by Al Klatt

Assortment of pelecypods

Photo by Al Klatt

View of the quarry

Photo by Lori Carter

Conch with the lip of the shell preserved

Photo by Lori Carter

Recently discovered, unnamed crab

Photo by Lori Carter

Another crab carapace, smaller than the other, but presumably the same unnamed species

Photo by Lori Carter

Microfossils inside an auger shell cast

Photo by Lori Carter

Ostracod microfossils?

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