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Yeah, they look kinda like managers. I've got a bunch of fossils where I work, too.

PS - seriously, cool photos!

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Very Cool..
To touch and see 30 million or however many years ago.
Really cool.
I wish I could touch them.

Nice echinoids. In some locales, these are given the common name 'sea biscuits.'

Very Cool..
To touch and see 30 million or however many years ago.
Really cool.
I wish I could touch them.
From the article linked by the OP, these echinoids are from between 103 to 108 million years ago (mya), which is in the middle of the Cretaceous period (145-65 mya).

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Very Cool..
To touch and see 30 million or however many years ago.
Really cool.
I wish I could touch them.

zman I.....well....I'll....:D
Blue, your in TX, some of the smaller ones would make a nice bolo tie, similost well pobably want to make Marcia some jewerly form som of that as well:yes:
Craig

I`m way off on age no doubt.
I am right on with enthusiasm for this stuff though.
I do look for meteorites when I`m out hunting. havent found one yet but I expect it`s only a matter of time.
Earth time and space time are totally different.
But the same in a way.
Cool..aumundo

Man, that is....cough...cough....too damn...cough cough.... heavy!

Just playin'.

Kurt Vonnegut's car has a bumper sticker which reads...

"Your planet's immune system is trying to rid itself of you."

Love that.:D

Cool stuff!

It's incredilbe to think that those things were alive millions of years ago.

For you guys in Southern California, if you want to see/touch/experience rocks >570 million years old, there are numerous outcrops along the San Gabriel Fault. On this Geologic Map of California (http://geology.about.com/library/bl/maps/n_statemap_CA1250.htm), the brown-shaded areas in SoCal are places where Pre-Cambrian rocks are exposed at the surface.

There's a lot of interesting geology in California. If there's more interest, let me know and I'll do some more research.

[QUOTE=Wigwam Jones;1851511]Yeah, they look kinda like managers. I've got a bunch of fossils where I work, too..

Aww, shit, Wiggy ! (grin)

Wow! Some nice finds there! :thmbsp:

If anyone knows a place that hires fossils, I could use better work these days. :D

That "coral" fossil is actually a stem piece from a CRINOID (sometimes spelled "chrinoid", but the former spelling without the "h" is most correct). They used to be widespread in the oceans, but have almost entirely died out. [Ocean life, like terrestrial, has changed quite a bit. Trilobytes used to be probably the most common form of life on the planet, and are now extinct, although one type of crab still extant closely resembles them.]

There is some good introductory info about crinoids with pics here: http://www.uky.edu/KGS/fossils/crinoid.htm

I found a large rock packed with crinoid fossils in the dirt planter-bed of my elementary school, when I was in first grade, by stubbing my toe on it. I took it home (with permission; the teacher had no idea what it was), got it ID'd by a professor at ASU, and brought it back to school for show-and-tell. One of my first fossil finds ever, and the only one that "found me" more than I found it!

Very Cool..
To touch ... I wish I could touch them.

They feel like, well, ROCK -because that is what they are. Unless you mean something kinky... :D

Hell I'm the fossil where I work.

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Unless you mean something kinky...

I know I did, now that stupid song from Rocky Horror Picture Show is stuck in my head. Susan Sarrandon:D
Craig