Bruner Collection No. 7

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Best guess: loose-packed rugosa colony

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Tabular coral of some sort. The hexagonal shape makes me pretty certain.

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>>2197070
There was something else growing on this colony when it died, but I don't know enough to hazard a worthwhile guess.

What the fuck are those

>>2197077
Things I would smash

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Triplophyllum spinulosum. This species has evidently been known since at least 1851 and has been reclassified several times.

>>2197077
Which ones? These are all fossilized coral.

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"Zaphrentites prolifica", apparantly now called Zaphrentis prolifica. Silica, Ohio, collected 1931.

Fuck I haven't been on /an/ for a while
What did I miss from the previous 3 threads?

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Oddly shaped solitary rugose coral. I thought this was a toebone or something when i first saw it but on the open end the septa are still faintly visible.

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>>2197096
I think constriction of the coralite in response to bad growing conditions might be what went on with this fellow.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/257763494_Life_Strategies_and_Function_of_Dissepiments_in_Rugose_Coral_Catactotoechus_instabilis_from_the_Lower_Devonian_of_Morocco

>>2197089
Nothing that you can't find here

http://desuarchive.org/an/search/subject/Old%20Naturalist/type/op/

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This solitary coral isn't much too look at on its own

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>>2197112
But its been replaced by some very nicely colored rhodochrosite

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>>2197114
Collected 1964 in "N/E Utah"

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Stop me if this sounds familiar: A colony of coral...

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>>2197118
...which has formed a geode.

Love the color and texture on this one.

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Favosites gothlandica. Silurian. Collected near Iowa City.

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>>2197996
I don't know how "good" this fossil is on the whole, but I think it'd be a great teaching tool. You've got a nice clear view of the tabs that give tabulata their name.

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>>2197998
And each individual coralite is pretty clear as well.

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Heliophyllum halli. Silica, Ohio 1931.

I was excited for half a second when I read the name, I thought maybe it was named after Clarence Hall, but he says it was probably actually named for James Hall of New York.

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Manicina areolata. Bahamas.

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>>2198162

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Reversa segments. I'm not sure I see the reason for embedding bryozoan segments this short in artificial matrix. For protection? The large archimedes from earlier I can understand, it's so long and unwieldy it'd be easy to break, but these guys are rather short, and the loose ones seem sturdy enough.

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>>2198193

They look cooler alive... pic related it's one of my tanks with living coral.

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Spirferid shell overgrown by Favosites.

>>2198205
Pretty.

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>>2198208

When I frag I sometimes take some zoom shots

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Ostrea carinata. Cretaceous of Denton TX.

>thread #7 already

I won't be surprised if you find the Ark of the Covenant, the Holy Grail, the missing works from the library of alexandria, Amelia Earhart, and all ten lost tribes of israel in that bookshelf.

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Another Favosites, this one with sort of an odd layered overall shape.

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>>2198240

>>2198238
If I do I'm going to ask for a raise.

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Coprolite, Washington, possibly oligocene.

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>>2198253
These are both alternately described as "serpent excreta". He was really reaching for a way to describe them that wouldn't result in juvenile giggling.

I've honestly never been this happy to see a piece of crap before. I'm sick of looking at coral.

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Assorted planorbidae. No locale listed, just described as "Oligocene" in age.

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Chickenscratch alert:

"From Fred Morgan-?Cretaceous? echinoid-mississippi-Hardovinia subquadrata"

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>>2198906
The species name is the only thing I can't really make out. There's no way it actually says "Hardovinia subquadrata", that gets a whopping zero results on google.

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More echinoids

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Fossilized pine cone.

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>>2198919

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I dont know what this is and it's driving me nuts because it seems somehow familiar to me.

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>>2198925

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>>2198928

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>>2198937
Fossilized mussel(?). Yellow River area, Clayton County Iowa.

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>>2198938

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>>2198939

>>2198193
>Archimedes was a plagiarist after all..

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Inarticulate brachiopod

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>>2198954

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>>2198956

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>>2198958

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Dinosaur gizzard stone of fossilized coral and algae. Paton Ranch, Shell, Wyoming. Collected May 1957.

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>>2198967

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>>2198968

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Inoceramus death assemblage

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>>2198980

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Stricklandia castellana. Keokuk Iowa, collected 1933.

I'm here because my last name is bruner... exactly wtf is going on in this thread?

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Bellerophon. Hamilton Shale near Silica Ohio. Collected 1932.

He lists it as a gastropod but evidently there is some debate as to whether it belongs in gastropoda or gonoplacophora.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellerophon_%28genus%29

>>2198988
The late Mr. Harold Bruner collected various natural and manmade curiosities from some time in the mid 1900s up until the early 90s. When he died his daughter in law decided to donate his collection to my department in lieu of hocking it. They put me in charge of making a catalog of it because our actual curator just retired.

>>2198988
>>2198993
I'm sure Mr bruner would be pleased to know that so many people he's never met are enjoying his collection. Even though these threads are usually light on replys, I guarantee theres a lot of people that browsed and simply don't know what to say.
I like the first one ITT BTW.
I can't help but imagine I'm on the beach after a storm and I wind up stepping on a cluster of it.

>>2198253
>>2198255
I don't know what this says about me, but these were the only things in the thread I could easily identify.

Also, don't stop, OP, this is fascinating.

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Platyceras, apparently. Silurian of Waldron Indiana.

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Mix of brachiopods from the Hamilton Shale near Silica, Ohio. Collected 1932.

There's a whole bunch of these, these are the more unusual ones.

>>2199013
Oh this will go on for another month.
I missed the first couple of threads unfortunately.
I think we're only like 2/3 through the rack.
OP should put all this into one massive zip file (rar, whatever kids use nowadays, leave me alone, I'm old).

>>2199029
"Cabinet" I guess is a better term than rack.
Rack implies a single column.

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Interesting mixed species DA here

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>>2199042
Got a trilobite head

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>>2199046
one of several turritella

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>>2199046
>>2199050
Wait a minute those two things didn't exist at the same time...

Brachiopod shell

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>>2199053
Coral or somesuch?

>>2199050
>>2199053

My bad, that's a Hormotoma.

>>2199042
Primordial potluck.
Grandad is in there somewhere...

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He was puzzled as to the nature of this specimen. The note with it reads "Is this a Silurian earthworm burrow? See NY state museum handbook part I-page 125".

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>>2199078

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>>2199080

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>>2199081
He doesn't outright say when and where he got this, but its probably from New York based on his choice of book, and the note is written on a scrap of his journal dated 1962, so we got that going on.

>>2199087
This is as cool as any of it. How many notes does he have? Just to think of this guy collecting for so long....
You should start threads with his pic if you have it/can get one from his family.

>>2199092
There's a great deal of paper in here along side the specimens. Tons of business cards from fellow collectors, rockshops, clubs, etc. Sketches and notes on paleoenvironments sometimes come with the fossils. There are more substantial writings tucked away here and there, but I haven't gone through any of them.

>>2199099
Half the value of the collection from a historical standpoint is all of that paper.

>>2199100
Huh. Maybe I should stop being so rough on the newspaper he used to wrap some of this stuff.

>>2199100
Maybe more than that.
Rocks stay the same.
Perspectives and accounts from those years-with first hand notes are fleeting.

>>2199101
I didn't think of that. But you could literally be handling the only remaining copy of some 70 year old newspaper.

>>2199100
>>2199102
I've been thinking of posting a side thread on /his/ for the various First Nations/other native tribes artifacts and other miscellaneous man-made stuff.

Also, the second person I messaged about those supposed million-dollar chopsticks was a dead end as well, but they recommended another person who has yet to get back to me.

>>2199143
>I've been thinking of posting a side thread on /his/ for the various First Nations/other native tribes artifacts and other miscellaneous man-made stuff.

I'd be interested in that. Personally I'm more interested in anthropology than rocks and fossils. Though all this stuff is cool.

>>2199029
Follow the last link
>>2197099

>>2198967
Fascinating

>>2199143
If you do please link it to one of these so we can follow

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"Conularia Quadrisulcata missouriensis"

Quite a mouthful

Keokuk Limestone, collected 1932.

He has this listed as a gastropod, but apparently the fossils have been reinterpreted as belonging to the Cnidarians.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conulariida

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>>2199869
These appear to be smaller bits of other Conulariids.

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Another mixed up DA. No documentation.

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>>2199904
brachiopod

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>>2199905
planisprial gastropod

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>>2199906
bivalve

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>>2199908
Whatever we got going on here.

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>>2199910
I think these are shepherd's crook structures. Trilobite segments viewed head-on

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>>2199912
The underside is a bunch of brachiopods.

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I got nothing here.

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Large ammonite segment

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Calcareous tufa. Yellowstone. Collected 1932.

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>>2199961

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>>2199963

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"Nummulite-Family Orbitoids-Foraminifera protozoa

Pyramids Egypt."

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Stalactitic aragonite. Yellowstone 1932.

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Another ammonoid.

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Calcite sand crystal. Badlands South Dakota. Collected 1935

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Aragonite. Mine La Motte Missouri.

>>2199963
>>2199966
This is cool.
Looks so intricate and delicate.

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Lepidolite. Rapid City S.D. Collected 1988.

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Rhodochrosite. Butte Montana.

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Renegade fern fossil party crashing the mineral drawer.

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Kind of a pointless excercise since you can't here a picture, but here's a rattlestone. If you're walking around in the South Dakota Badlands and you spot something like this, give it a shake and you might find yourself a nice little souvenir.

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>>2200696

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Ostrea (?) shell with a positively gleaming interior.

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Sigillaria stem. Keokuk Iowa.

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>>2200720

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>>2200723

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This guy isn't anything we haven't seen before.

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>>2200738
In fact we've already seen much better.

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>>2200741
But look what was tucked underneath it.

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>>2200742

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>>2200747
I think this is the fossil-bearing concretions he collected in-situ.

Cool, can you verify if Mr bruner is one of the guys in the pictures?

>>2200758
I can't actually but I figure it's got to be either him or someone who was with him on that trip, otherwise he wouldn't have bothered tucking it in with the fossils.

>>2200673
Looks like a wad of old bubble gum.

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Spirifer Logani. Late Carboniferous of Lee County Iowa. Collected from St. Louis Limestone 1932.

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>>2203820

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>>2203822

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A large spirifer of some sort. This one is rather flat and wide compared to the bucket-type shape of >>2203820

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>>2203845

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>>2203885

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>>2203889

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Planispiral gastropod of some sort, with the matrix still attached.

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I'm not sure what this is. It could be a turbinate or turretiform gastropod viewd from underneath. Anyone want to weigh in?

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Celestite. Strontian Island, Lake Erie.

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Blue barite concretion.

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>>2204028
This was in the same box as the celestite above and ID'd as such but it's rather hefty for its size, so I think he misidentified it.

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Single large barite crystal. Same deal as >>2204030
>>2204028

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>>2204032
I suppose its also possible that it's mostly celestite w/ partial replacement by barite.

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>>2204034

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>>2204047

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>>2204047
>>2204049

I think that what we have here is a pseudomorph after a piece of twinned skeletal quartz. Not sure what mineral has replaced it, but its powdery and seems rather friable.

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Porifera and whatnot

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>>2204086
Written on back: "Augers"

>>2204086
Cool stamp.
>>2204084
Love these, so intricate.

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>>2204092
"Ground and tree shells (snails)
Southern Fla.
and Cuba

With check marks at bottom of picture

Claremont, garden snails-some beautifully marked"

God damn it Harold why couldn't you have put these in the drawer with the shells?

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>>2204096

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>>2204099
"Dear Marie- I am anxious to learn that your ankle is entirely well
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Am inclosing a few pictures that I made of my shells while I was [illegible], I am ok except my ankle- its better
Chiton [common name mermaids cradle] and looch(?) shells"

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Chicken egg, laid by Marie Buxton's chickens-around 1908.

I guess he was friends with the family who owned "Buxton's Delight" that was mentioned a few threads ago.

>>2204109
...a chicken egg?

>>2204201
A chicken egg.

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Barite w/ secondary copper minerals

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>>2204733

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Sodalite. Pungankon, Ontario, Canada.

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>>2204779

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Pipestone. Minnesota.

I thought "Pipestone, Minnesota" was a place when I read the label but it turns out its "catlinite", a metamorphosed mudstone that occurs within quartzite that was used by native americans for carving pipes.

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Stalagmites.

>>2204735
This guy has a lot going on.
Is it just different trace elements giving it the different colors (like sapphire/ruby) or are they different types of material?

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>>2204838
Azurite and malachite are both copper carbonate hydroxides, just with different ratios of hydroxide to carbonate. They form from weathering of primary copper minerals.

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>>2204844

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>>2204846

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>>2204847

>>2204847
So this thing came out of a Spirula spirula, but as for
>>2204844
>>2204846
>>2204849

I just have no idea what the heck...

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Cypria tigris, Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia. Collected 1938

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>>2204906
Part of me hopes that one day I'll pop one of these open and there'll actually be some smokes inside, but deep down I know they'd probably be all decrepit anyway.

Hi OP, former geological curator here, few comments ofr you, FWIW...

>>2198253
>>2198255
Those are probably abiogenic - mineral concretions from sedimentary rocks.

>>2198925
Septarian structures - often seen in mudstone concretions, in this case all yiu have left are the mineral infills

>>2198938
>>2198940
Looks like a unionid (freshwater) bivalve, but I don't know the fauna from that area


>>2199940
more concretions

>>2200701
Pinctada - so-called "pearl oyster", a little closer to scallops - not a fossil in this case

>>2204844
>>2204846
Vermetid gastropods - may be Neogene, may be Recent...

>>2204849
Solitary coral, Fungia sp.

Hope the info is of some use.

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Turbinate gastropod

>>2204909

(Damn my typing is for shit.)

Meant to say: nice work OP - enjoying this trip down memory lane.

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Young Giant Clam, Great Barrier Reef, collected 1938.

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>>2204909
>>2204913
Thanks! I'll amend my catalog with that.

Funny you should mention septaria, the very last specimen in this drawer was "Aragonite stalactites on septaria" from yellowstone, probably collected around the same time as the other yellowstone specimens.

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>>2204921

>>2204791
There is a Pipestone in Minnesota. Maybe it's pipestone from Pipestone?

>>2204846
>>2204847
These are hollow right?

Just imagining the millennia that past and left these undisturbed, and how lucky you have to be to unearth one intact.

Even 20 years old would be surprising.

What exactly is happening to all of Mr. Burners collection when you're done cataloging it?

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>>2204989

>>2204989
They're moving it upstairs to a storage room near the fossils display in a few weeks. They said that they wanted me to use stuff from it in lectures for tour groups. I'm also trying to get a few cases to display the more impressive stuff.

>>2205109
I'm not sure if I'm happy that it will be archived or sad that most will be locked away behind closed doors.

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>>2197063
>>2197070
>>2197075
>>2197118
>>2197996
This shit makes my skin itch

>>2205162
The trick to getting collections like this used is getting as much data as possible online - collections catalogues, field notes, anecdotal and biographical stuff about the collector. That tends to get collections used by a fairly wide range of interested people - scientitsts, wirters, artists, collectors &c.

That said, it has the look of a fairly typical enthusiastic amateur's personal collection, so mostly fairly unexceptional items collected from fairly well-known localities and not terribly well documented. That's not to talk it down, but I dealt with a lot of similar material over the years, and at best it tended to get incorporated into larger systematic collections, or if not, used for teaching and demonsatration to schools and interest groups. At very worst (undocumented, poor physical state, very commonplace), they'd be disposed of because space and finance is limited in most institutions.

Good luck - it's a worthy cause!

>>2204909
>>2204941

The vermetids and spirula are definitely modern, they're too light to be fossils.

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Root of Eucalyptocrinus

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Assorted Pentremites. The ones in front are Pentremites godoni, I'm not sure about the others.

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Dichocrinus inornatus. LeGrand, IA. Hampton-Kinderhook (I think this refers to the formation he got it from). Mississippian in age.

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Rhodocrinus kirby. Same locale as >>2205577

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>>2205582
Cactocrinus nodobrachiatus

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Hormotoma

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Death's Head Sphinx Moth and Carolina Sphinx Moth.

The insects appear to have been his wife's collection, a few of the boxes have "Marylyn Bruner" printed on the side.

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>>2205715
Male and female Black Swallowtail butterflies.

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>>2205717
Locusts and katydids

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>>2205720
"Tropical butterflies"

>>2205715
>old school torn off legs
so goofy

>>2205726
What exactly was the rationale behind yanking the legs off these things?

>>2205727
Next up

>>2205450

They may well be modern, but lightness of colour or mass are not indicators that they are not fossils - for example google for images of molluscs from the "Caloosahatchee Formation" which is ca. 2.5MA.