Collecting Big Fat Fossil Sea Shells-Platystrophia pt. 1

[listonification]

Man, I live in Indiana and now I'm planning to go next summer. So I would like to find out the location of it! It looks like fun!

[vulcan1429]

Can u imagine what was blasted out and hauled away to cut that road!!! Thousands of tons of treasure!!!!

[NorthForkFisherman]

@vulcan1429 Got similar going on in my backyard right now. Lots of late Carboniferous seafloor with tones of brachiopods, crinoids, and bryozoans, all being hauled out to expand US 69 here in Overland Park, KS. If I had a place to clean some of these beauties they'd all be going to Ebay.

[KnowledgeInternet]

Great video! Thanks for sharing. The trilobite find was awesome!

[lovedapizza1]

2:53 looked like it had a face :D

[subbywubby123]

i live in pa and im so sick of finding shells and coral. the coolest thing i can find are trilobites! i wanna find leaves and fish and bones and blah blah blah

[johnthreesixteen316]

@flyingscience I think the evidence is overwhelming.  71 percent of the earth is under water as we speak and of the remaining 29 percent, most is covered in sediments containing the fossil record.

[johnthreesixteen316]

@flyingscience 2 of every kind were taken on the boat, not 2 of every species.

[ElGorkodos]

Great location .

[d2paintballer]

What state is this in? Those are huge haha

[flyingscience]

Ohio , they are big for the Ordovician perion (golf ball sized ) .Small compared to modern shells .

[Brianswers]

There was a cliff like that in BC that friends and I hiked to. It was tons of shells everywhere. Pretty cool

[magick205]

It reminds me of where I grew up. Lots of glacial till, but with a alot of Hexagonina specimens tossed in and polished by the last ice age.

[magick205]

Guys, I am so damn jealous of you. What a great way to spend a weekend off. When you process your finds, do you use a chemical bath, and how does that get them out of the matrix without damage?

[flyingscience]

We simply clean with toothbrush to get mud off. I brake off the excess rock .You cant get it all off .There are enough clean ones to not mess with chemicals.

[geyser]

It' exciting to learn first-hand...