>>Fossils utterly fascinate me.<< No foolin, man. Me too. Incredible things. Incredible.
>>I would surely like to find some trilobites, crinoids, brachiopods ... such things. I like those early invertrbrates even more than the fish, lizards, big-*** bones of the Mesozoic.<<
Me too!
I like the trilobites and the crinoids and the shelly and byrons. If I had a chance to have one skeleton vs a chambered type it would be the chambered. That articulated one you had sounds UNBELIEVABLE.
Yah, I don't care too much about bones; it's fish and plants and shells and toob worms and undersea life of any kind.
Need to learn "where" too. Most definitely.
I remember that in the Rockies, this one place we hung out at about 5000 feet, the rock was all Great Basin sediment; and there would be shells, plain as day, above the ancient shoreline. I just couldn't grok it all.
Of course, if you go to Dinosaur Natl Monument, the bones can get you going. Most definitely.
Part of that, is that it's somehow easy to visualize the ancient environment.
OH! The Petrified Forest! In Arizona! WOW!
THAT is spacey. Whole logs, just kerploppity.
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