You missed Hard Parts in there. Edit the thing!

I try to not think of myself less than a scientist but it's hard not to think that way. It takes more time for others and that's ok.

That's what has kept me out of University. I was supposed to start my 2 year degree in geology but in order to do that, you have to meet a specific score in math for anyone majoring in a STEM field. I passed everything else but math. It's a massive challenge that I'm trying to overcome.

They normally called sea buds. Shepards crowns might be referring to Ammonites.

I haven't tried. 🤔

Indeed!!!!!

Estwing picks. I have 2 with the sharp pick at the ends. I need to find a flat ended one soon for breaking into shales. I use chisels in replace of that though.

I like to sing and dance. But rocks are my thing, man

They eroded out of the shale so it was easier to pick them up off the ground.

~321 million years old (Upper Mississippian)

Make it stop!

We found it be happenstance. Pretty decent trace fossils. Diane found trilobite tracks.

Send me a message and I can send you the coordinates.

Been into Springfield and Grafton Illinois as well as parts of Missouri looking for fossils. I hope to be back in that area soon especially up and around Wisconsin.

Ceraurid trilobites are known from the Chickamauga Limestone in Tennessee but as far as I know they have not been reported from Georgia according to the the literature. This might actually be the first record of this type of trilobite in the state! Still need to do more research to be sure.

Evidence of this is found in the form of limestone and shale along the roads in Ringgold and Fort Oglethorpe. Within those rocks are evidence of the inhabitants of that sea. This includes brachiopods, ostacods, crinoids, bryozoans, and trilobites.