Fossils

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I started this so I didn't take Joeranger's thread off topic.

I found this "bone" near Lebanon, OH. If anyone is from around here, it was found at Camp Kern. I found it when I was 12 and grabbed it because it looked like a bone. I know there are a lot of fossil plants that can be mistaken for a bone, but this is pretty uh bony. My dad sprayed it with lacquer so it wouldn't flake apart I guess. Oh one of the people conducting the hike at Camp Kern said it was probably just a cow bone... So it might be a rare fossilized Ohio cow.

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I found this at my mom and dad's house when I was little. It certainly looks like a footprint, but I'm not 100% sure.

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Here's a few things I've personally dug up. The farmfield of northern Illinois used to be a massive tropical sea, so there's plenty of shells and stuff to find.
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And, of course, my prized trilobite impression. I drug it home when I was 6.
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I've found a few fossils on gravel roads and in fields near my in-laws home. They also have property that has a cave on it, and it's possible to climb down inside and look around. At one point there is a large section of wall that has small fossil shells sticking out of it. I hate to admit it, but I took a few.

Most of the stuff I find in the fields are strange objects and stuff left over from native American camps and one home that was torn down In the early 1900's. We have a few buckets at home filled with all sorts of odds and ends, lots of nails, a ceramic cat, marbles. We mainly pull the stuff out to get it out of the way of tillers and plows.
 
Ok I sent the above "bone" picture to Ohio State's Paleontology dept. because they have a guy who will ID fossils. It's apparently a straight-shelled cephalopod covered with a bryozoan colony (the coral looking pieces). I think the entire "bone" part is the shell, and where you see the horizontal bands, that's the animal part. Still very cool!
 
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