Sender: |
|
Date: |
Thu, 15 Jul 1999 20:52:31 -0500 |
Reply-To: |
|
Subject: |
|
MIME-Version: |
1.0 |
Content-Transfer-Encoding: |
7bit |
Content-Type: |
text/plain; charset=us-ascii |
Organization: |
North Alabama Shell Club, Huntsville, Alabama |
From: |
|
Parts/Attachments: |
|
|
Dear John,
Join the club. While viewing the fossils at the Falls Of Ohio while at the COA
convention, I saw what looked
like a Brachiopod (lamp shell). It even appeared to have a pedicle (fleshy
stalk). That was not too far out since
fossil flesh has been discoverd in Argentina. Since we had been cautioned not to
pick up anything I dared not
touch it. I called it to the attention of a lady close by. She turned it over.It
was the product of a tree or bush nearby.
Glen Deuel
"Cramer, John" wrote:
> Glen's story about the okra pod that looked like a snail shell reminds me of
> one of my foolish moments. We had collected some 25 species of Eocene
> gastropod fossils from an Alabama roadcut site. I was sorting them at home
> and, as usual, had a group of shells I couldn't quickly identify. I went
> through these, looking through my books and kept coming back to what looked
> like a small slipper shell but no ID. Well, I made several attempts to ID
> the thing and then something clicked somewhere and I realized I was looking
> at half of very modern pistachio shell. Talk about feeling stupid!
|
|
|