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Common Trilobites of Minnesota

From the free PDF: A Guide to Fossil Collecting in Minnesota. http://www.bluffcountryfossils.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Guide-to-Fossil-Collecting-in-Minnesota.pdf

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Southern Minnesota Bedrock Map

Bedrock formation maps are absolutely ESSENTIAL to successful fossil hunting as I state in my guide on the sidebar: Beginner’s Guide to Fossil Hunting. Here is a bedrock formation map for southern Minnesota. I scanned this so that it gets huge so that it is actually readable. So just click to read it.  🙂 This … Continue reading »

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More Galena Formation Faunal Lists

http://www.bluffcountryfossils.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/galena-fauna-maybe.pdf

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2015 MAPS EXPO!

The Mid-America Paleotological Society’s yearly Expo in Iowa City, Iowa is the Largest Fossils Only Show in the World! Learning lectures, exhibitions and activities! And FOSSILS! The Hotel Show is for the minerals, etc. Here is the PDF for the April 10-12 Expo! http://www.bluffcountryfossils.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/MAPS-2015.pdf

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Maclurites as Suspension Feeders! PDF

http://www.bluffcountryfossils.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Maclurites-as-Suspension-Feeders.pdf Maclurites crassus Only about 1 in 50 Maclurites found in southeast Minnesota will be of the open whorl pattern of the Maclurites crassus. There is a FASCINATING discussion going on about the living components of the Maclurites on thefossilforum.com here: http://www.thefossilforum.com/index.php?/topic/52556-maclurites-living-component/

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Field Trip Guide Book to Rocks in Southeast Minnesota

  http://www.bluffcountryfossils.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Field-trip-guidebook-to-rocks-SE-MN.pdf

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Minnesota Fossils At A Glance

http://www.bluffcountryfossils.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Mn_Fossils-at-a-glance.pdf

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Indians in Southeast Minnesota

http://www.bluffcountryfossils.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Indians-in-SE-MN.pdf   Occasionally we find American Indian artifacts while out fossil hunting in southeast Minnesota, I thought this was interesting. I hope you do too.  😀

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PDF for Fossils in Fillmore County

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Minnesota Ordovician Faunal List

http://www.bluffcountryfossils.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/faunal-list-ordo-mn.pdf

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