Totally Random: Show off your Fossils Minerals and Rocks

[cujofan2000]

Hello Everyone,

With UD Champs coming out soon; with their fossils and artifacts cards, I wanted to see how many people collect fossils, minerals or just rocks in general. I personally collect all of the above (I really like fossils ... I am a geologist so I come by it honestly). If you too collect rocks, fossils and minerals please post pics of some of your favorites in your collection. I will start things off:

Trilobites (I really love trilobites, cool little critters):
- UD Champs has Trilobite cards ... I want them

Ammonites:

Baculites - a genus (think of it as a type of ammonite):

one of my favorite minerals, Kyanite (a high grade metamorphic mineral):

and a rock containing molds of many different fossils, the bigger guy in the middle is a brachiopod:

I have lots more but I will stop at that, either you guys on these boards are going to think I am totally crazy or I might find some other rock hounds on here ... who knows

I will say one thing, to anyone who opens UD Champs, please save your trilobite cards for me

Cheers
Connie

 

[Cam98]

nice stuff...i dont collect rocks or anything like that but with ud champ out, i think its pretty kool to add stuff like that...

btw what are Trilobites exactly,??, they kinda look like cockroach

 

[cujofan2000]

nice stuff...i dont collect rocks or anything like that but with ud champ out, i think its pretty kool to add stuff like that...

btw what are Trilobites exactly,??, they kinda look like cockroach

Thanks for the post. I also think UD Champs is a cool concept, I know alot of people are against it, but it suits my collecting needs.

To answer your question Trilobites do look like a cockroach (thats what my mom calls them too). They are considered to be apart of the super phylum - Arthropoda, which is the same phylum as spiders, ticks, lobsters, and insects. They however make up their own class called Trilobita. They lived in marine environments and depending on the genus (different type of trilobite) they had different life modes. They lived on or near the sea floor, some were predators, while some were filter/deposit feeders. Sadley they all became extinct at the Permian/Triassic boundary about 252.2 million years ago and none are around today .

Hope that answers your question, if you want to know anymore about these guys just let me know

Cheers
Connie

 

[cmcdonald1]

Have to admit that I do not collect fossils of any kind. BUT...I just love new knowledge and your descriptors are absolutely fascinating!!! Keep them coming!

 

[lucky19]

Here is a few pictures of my fossil teeth.These shark teeth were all found while snorkeling or beachcombing in Florida/Georgia

Megadon tooth found in St. Mary's river Georgia

This is a three toed horse molar I found snorkeling off Casperson beach florida

 

[bidds55]

Megadon tooth found in St. Mary's river Georgia

Now that is really freaking cool!

 

[bfyler]

Great Fossils there Connie and thanks for the history class as well always wonderes the same thing but just never asked.. as far as those teeth go very cool Glad I never had to meet that Megadon-- Ouch

 

[GabbyGuy]

Connie, and here I thought the only fossil you collected was Cujo!

Interesting stuff......

The only minerals I collect come from the daily vitamin/mineral pill I take.

My son has a Rock collection...but they are WWE Wrestling figurines of Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson.

I did pickup a pretty cool rock about 10 years ago. A friend had a whole bunch of ugly grey/black cannonball-looking rocks and he gave me one. I hammered it open and it was filled with crystals. I believe it is called a geode. Mine is a pretty cool one in that it is filled with a layer of pure quartz crystals, and then some purple amethyst crystals. Very pretty in person (the photo doesn't do it justice). I have it on display in my living room because it is so beautiful. When the light hits it, it sparkles and shines. Pretty neat rock.

--Curt

 

[FrozenInferno]

I love seeing stuff like this, bring on Champs!

 

[hockeykid87]

That's a sick tooth. Imagine if those things were still around?

The only thing I have is a chunk of Obsidian rock that I saw when we went to a rock....factory place on a field trip for geology class. It's really cool, solid black, smooth on the side, but sharp as a knife on the corners!!

 

[cujofan2000]

lucky19 - those are some awsome teeth you have, especially that Megadon ... it's even cooler you found it yourself.

bfyler - thanks for the comments on my fossils . If you have anymore questions about fossils just feel free to ask

GabbyGuy - haha, yeah I collect all kinds of fossils, Cujo included . That is a very cool geode that you have there. I love cracking open rocks like that, as its a suprise everytime, you never know what you might find. Thanks for showing that geode of yours.

hockeykid87 - Obsidian is a cool rock, I don't know if you know this or not but it is volcanic glass. That sharpness is a "property" of obsidian, and as a result in the past it was used to make things like arrow heads.