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Collecting Big Fat Fossil Sea Shells-Platystrophia pt. 1

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Collecting large brachiopods in Ohio . Cincinnati Ohio has world famous Ordovician age 440 million year old fossils.During the paleozoic the ice caps where melted the world was warmer .Sea level was several hundred feet higher than today .Primitive sea life fossils are found in great abundance .My kids and a friend go fossil hunting during a winter warm spell .I have many videos on fossil hunting , fossil classes and fossil lectures .Search You Tubes under Cincinnati fossils or look at my play list .New videos are added every few months .Visit drydredgers.org to learn more .
SEE PHOTOS of many more specimens and species found by our fossil club members field trip in April.
http://drydredgers.org/trip200904p1.htm

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  • What state is this in? Those are huge haha

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

  • 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?

  • 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.

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  • @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.

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  • 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 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.

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

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

  • 2:53 looked like it had a face :D

  • 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

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

  • Great location .

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