Fossil Hunting with Goats

I've known where a few fossils are on the property. For the fun of it, I decided to take the goats on a walk while I had my camera and photograph them. They're all in the same kind of limestone-like rock, and all spiral shells. The limestone makes up most of the rocks around us, with a scattering of a pink flecked granite.

I find rocks and fossil hunting fun. With these fossils, I have made no attempt to remove them from the rocks they rest in. Given how easily the limestone fractures apart, I am concerned any effort to remove them would damage them if the rock cleaves through the fossil. So in the rock they stay.

This is one of the more weathered fossils, exposed to the elements for a while. Small, but very clear. Because Suzie always wants to ear the camera, she was in my face as I was attempting to get a close picture!  

 This one is in a rock that has been more recently exposed. It is about an inch across. 

Almost too tiny to notice! A cute little shell which is barely more than a shadow in the stone.  

 

Because it was in the way, my Dad scooped up a big slab of stone in his tractor bucket. Little did he know that this beauty was hiding underneath. I found it a while after the stone was put in a new, out of the way place. And this is a BIG fossil, almost four inches across! Again, Suzie's hooves appear as she tried to chew on the camera!