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All fossils collected from Rochester, MN.
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What an incredible series of Ordovician sea bottom sculptures!
All fossils were collected in the city limits of Rochester, Minnesota in 2014.
Closeups of the groups:
Liospira sp. Ordovician Gastropods collected in Rochester, Minnesota.
Hormatoma sp. Ordovician Gastropods collected in Rochester, Minnesota.
Fusispera sp. Ordovician Gastropods collected in Rochester, Minnesota.
Ordovician Trochenema sp. Gastropods collected in Rochester, Minnesota.
Ordovician Subulites sp. collected in Rochester, Minnesota.
Brachiopods various Genus and Species Ordovician collected in Rochester, Minnesota.
Various Bryozoan Species, Ordovician collected in Rochester, Minnesota.
Cephalopod species, Ordovician, collected in Rochester, Minnesota.
Ordovician Crinoids collected in Rochester, Minnesota.
Ordovician Graptolytes species collected in Rochester, Minnesota.
Ordovician Prasopora Bryozoans collected in Rochester, Minnesota.
Ordovician Fisherites, former known as Receptaculitids, collected in Rochester, Minnesota.
Ordovician Rugosa sp. Coral collected in Rochester, Minnesota.
Ordovician Trilobite sp. Molts collected in Rochester, Minnesota.
What a wonderful way to display your fossil finds!
And how did he do it???
Expanding foam (Great Stuff) and wood glue!!!
Yes, I didn’t believe it either.
🙂
Look at the bottom – Expandable foam that you fill large cracks with dry and cut off.’
A look at the back – note the uncovered foam on the left side.
I’ve worked with expandable foam before on different projects and I can tell you that it is not only a great adhesive (wait for it to start to setup then sprinkle sand over it and set the fossils into it) but infinitely carve-able. Use the whole can at one time as you can not save it!
The yellow wood glue adheres the foam to the board and is also great to add sand into any voids. This paleo-sculpture is 4′ long and about 2′ wide – I can pick it up with one hand!
Only the two large sculptures on the back are not adhered to it – Fisherites and Cephalopods.
Can be seen when you book a fossil tour at
Whispering Winds, Spring Valley, Minnesota
– 30 miles below Rochester, Minnesota.
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