The group with Jennie, the EB Skills School Coordinator.
It was a very warm and humid day, so we kind of took it easy. We started out with the fossil tour of what they were likely to find at Whispering Winds and then headed to Masonic Park.
One of the joys of fossil hunting, too me, is getting out in nature and seeing some of the wonders of the natural world. I just couldn’t resist taking a picture of this iridescent green dragon fly we saw at Masonic Park.
It was getting warm, so I took them to a shaded spot where we collected lots and lots of Prasopora sp., Rhinidictya sp., and Batostoma sp. bryozoans. Plus some awesome single links of crinoids were collected.
From there we went to the last site and found more GREAT fossils!
Two beautiful Ordovician hash plates filled with fossils.
Fillmore county is the most fossiliferous county in Minnesota. It is on the edge of the Driftless. A great 26 minute video on The Mysteries of the Driftless can be viewed here:
http://www.bluffcountryfossils.net/blog/mysteries-of-the-driftless-video/
The group with Bev, the host of the tour.
