Devonian Fossil Hunting
11-Apr-94 15:23:04
Sb: #127496-Devonian Fossil Hunting
Fm: jerry dedrick 72767,2450
To: Syndesis 76004,1763
……….and yes, there is such a thing as $20,000 for a nice slab of
crinoids. They have to be crinoid *heads* though, and are VERY uncommon. I have
what might be one, but really too mangled to tell. The heads were soft and
didn't fossilize easily. See _A Pictorial Guide to Fossils_, page 20, for a
picture of just such a slab, found by B. H. Beane in Iowa. Now as to *my*
finding such a slab…….. and I've been looking around here for more years
than I'd care to count…… Stems are a dime a dozen around here. I have some
nice casts. Crinoid hash with tons of the little disks mixed together is also
quite common here…….JD