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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sallent, post: 3115738, member: 76194&quot;]Very nice. I don&#039;t have any nummulites, namely because they are much younger than the fossils I&#039;m collecting at the moment. I&#039;m finishing pre-triassic invertebrates now, and will soon be shifting focus to vertebrate animals through the Cretaceous period, and eventually one day move into modern animals (65,000,000 BCE through present). In other words, I&#039;m working my way through from primitive lifeforms to the present, one step at a time.</p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=74863]@Collecting Nut[/USER] , your crinoid collection did inspire me to buy another crinoid. You are going to love this, just got it this weekend.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]791661[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]791662[/ATTACH]</p><p>SPECIES: Scytalocrinus sp.</p><p>AGE: Carboniferous (Mississippian)</p><p>LOCATION: Crawfordsville, Indiana</p><p>FORMATION: Edwardsville Formation</p><p>SIZE: 4&quot; long on 5.3x3.6&quot; limestone</p><p><br /></p><p>Sweet, 350,000,000 BCE and it looks like it just died yesterday. Compared to my other crinoid fossil, the 3D detail on this one blows it away. Not that I don&#039;t love my Cambrian crinoid, because I sure still do...especially when you consider that it is a much rarer species which is almost nearly impossible to buy these days in the marketplace due to the quarry where it was mined in 1976 being shut to the public for various decades, and the fact that it is 155 million years older than the one I just purchased. I even know who discovered it in 1976 (and the month and day of the discovery), so that kind of provenance is worth more to me, and I&#039;m sure it will too to whichever custodian purchases it from my estate after I&#039;m dead.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]791663[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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