Soo, here is my hunt from yesterday!
Something upset me yesterday, probably more than it should have, so I leaned on my most reliable coping method: going into the woods, sifting through rocks on my hands and knees until the sun goes down, and letting Mother Earth give to me gifts that she left here just for me. It really clears my mind, all I can think about are the rocks in front to me and the sound around me and sometimes how my knees hurt, haha. And now I feel a little better.
I guess I haven’t been posting my fossils because they are not the prettiest or largest fossils, but nonetheless they are hundreds of millions of years old and they make me happy. Here is what the Earth gave me yesterday.
This rock has quite a few Brachiopods in it. I love when the rock has little ridges in it like this, when the fossils are perpendicular to the surface, it’s like a zebra. Also, sorry for the quality of the close up, I can’t find my magnifier (my room is very cluttered..) and the phone just does not like getting into focus on such small objects. I tried using a toy magnifying glass I had but it was so useless haha
This one is an array of things, Bryozoans, Brachiopods, Crinoids. I adore the squiggles of the Brachiopods shell:) In the 3rd photo you can see an imprint of a Crinoid columnal in the center and a Bryozoan branch just above it. I am going to break this one open later and see if there’s anything good inside.
More Bryozoan colonies. Just so cute. Amazing how such delicate things have survived so long.
THIS is the burrows of unidentifiable ancient marine worms :D
Looks like a shark, doesn’t it?!
Here’s another one! I just love burrows so much, they are beautiful, like art. I think also I love them so much because you can truly see the life. The movements those worms made. Where were they going? Unlike all of my other fossils, which are animals that are dead, these are just pure life. Same could be said for foot prints. (which would be a dream to aquire)
Thanks for reading, I hope seeing such old guys made u smile a bit! These are all Devonian so they are somewhere between 419-358 million years old.












