Ordovician in Tennessee (Help!)

[DWhatley]

with your scientific mind and my ability to stumble onto good fossil sites and then charm the owners of the property into giving me access

Odd notions you have I DID passed my science courses but have never found a fossil in my life and failed charm school I'm afraid. Walking around in an area where I could hammer in the dirt on a sunny afternoon and actually find any fossil would be totally entertaining though. How far (drive time) are you from Atlanta?

 

[Architeuthoceras]

Ya'll can't go fossil hunting without me

 

[cuttlegirl]

Who said you weren't invited??? We need someone to haul the big rocks... It's only a 10 hour drive to Nashville from here...

 

[DWhatley]

Ya'll can't go fossil hunting without me

Who else would tell us what Jenn and I found?

 

[Terri]

"D" About a 5 hour trip from Atlanta and Kevin will have a nice 2 or 3 days on the road! I still vote Utah, Kevin has Cretaceous rocks and much better scenery, better yet we could meet up with Hajar in Oman (just dreaming)!

 

[DWhatley]

better yet we could meet up with Hajar in Oman

Now you are getting into some really fun fantacy but it would take winning the lottery to manage it.

 

[Architeuthoceras]

D, you win the lottery and we'll all go on a world tour visiting famous fossil localities... Maybe a few aquariums too I guess.

 

[Hajar]

Yes, how delightful that would be, to be people of both leisure and means, able to visit all the classic places at will. Seriously, anybody visiting this part of the world just give me a shout. We have Precambrian stromatolites through to Neogene coral reefs in the mountains, tropical seas just a few minutes away and we just counted up 25 species (in 6 phyla) in our aquarium (though no cephalopods!).

 

[DWhatley]

I would have to go snorkeling in your cuttlefish area if we should get there!

 

[Terri]

I think I'll go buy a lottery ticket today!

 

[DWhatley]

Glad you suggested that, I wanted to buy one on 8/8 with the mega ball and one of the numbers as 8's to do my part for International Ceph day

 

[Architeuthoceras]

By the way Terri, check out the western part (in green) on this map.

 

[DWhatley]

Very interesting map! I tried changing the tn to ga but a common link did not exist.

With lottery winnings we could dive here and likely find some very interesting items.

 

[Architeuthoceras]

Geologic Map of Georgia

 

[Terri]

Believe it or not Kevin I have seen that map before, I lurk around on the USGS website a lot. It took me forever to figure out what map to use, and that I could get coordinantes on my phone. I am going to have to check out Tn. Cretaceous rocks some day, Have you done any reading about Coon Creek? Interesting story about the geologist that mapped that area (a long time ago).

Anyway, while I have your attention, is this a section of a nautiloid ? If it is, it will be the first curved one I have found, it is from the same location as the last pictures I posted, it is also very small.