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!