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U anus S SIL CL J 2010 Number 4 2011 Spring Calendar Outgoing President’s Message January As I turn over the responsibilities of President, I’ve been 16 NCFC Meeting - NCMNS, 11 West Jones Street, Raleigh. remembering the events of the past two years - the speakers, the 1:30 pm, Level A conference room. Speaker: Linda McCall, digs, the events and the fun. It’s been a pleasure and a privilege to Spectacular Fossil Fauna of the Edwards Formation of Central be part of this. Texas. My thanks to our membership - working with such a group February is nothing but a kick; and my sincere thanks to the Board of Directors, who are the engine that keeps this group going. I’m 5 Schiele Museum Fossil Fair - 1500 East Garrison Blvd., looking forward to watching as our organization evolves. Gastonia. 9:00 - 4:00 Saturday, 1:00 - 4:00 Sunday, General contact: 704-866-6900. Best wishes to all - Mary March 20 NCFC Meeting - NCMNS, 11 West Jones Street, Raleigh. Incoming President’s Message 1:30 pm, Level A conference room. First and foremost thanks to Mary Boulton for her exceptional April leadership as president of the NC Fossil Club. Mary’s enthusiasm 23 Norwood Arbor Day and Fossil Fair 9:00 - 4:00 Contact: for the club and dedication has been an inspiration. She has Ruffin Tucker at 704-784-1672 or [email protected]. volunteered at professional digs around the country, done countless outreach to school children, and always with a smile. The last two years we have gone over to the spoils pile after the Our complete Spring calendar will be in Janus 2011#1, in March Aurora Fossil Festival, found several nice fossils, cut up and bemoaned the success of those near us. She is a great friend and will be a tough act to follow. Election of New Officers/Board I began collecting fossils with my family when I was 12 and After the Fall Fossil Fair on November 3 we elected new my mother Thelma Bennett was the driving force. To say she was Officers and Board Members: passionate about fossils is an understatement. School buses would President: Rick Bennett stop at her home on field trips to the Aurora Fossil Museum. Her sisters did not understand why her living room was lined with Vice President: Jonathan Fain bookshelves full of “Thelma’s rocks”. She would take her fossils New Board Members: Katie Graves, Tracey Mayo, Jody to any school class, summer camp or county fair. Fossil Festivals McDaniel, Eric Sadorf, Judy Stiles were mandatory. Additionally, Mike Bruff was appointed Membership So when asked to serve as president I knew the stern look Mom Chairman, replacing Robert Story who died last summer. would have given me if I had declined. Thank you for allowing me the honor of serving as President of this group. I will be calling on the vast experience and expertise Last Issue of 2010 that the members bring. The first year will be a learning curve so This is the last issue of Janus for 2010 so it is time to renew jump in with any needed advice. your membership in the North Carolina Fossil Club. Trish It is looking like a fun year for the NC Fossil Club. Our Kohler, our Treasurer, has asked me to implore you to send the speaker for the January Fossil Club meeting will be Linda correct amount for renewal. If you have ever been a member of McCall. Her topic is “Spectacular Fossil Fauna of the Edwards the NCFC (not simply last year) you can renew your membership Formation of Central Texas. “ Linda is a new member of our club for $15 (Individual) or $20 (Family). If you have never been a but has been actively involved with fossils for 30 years. With member, the fees are $20 (Individual) or $25 (Family). Trish tells a background in geology, she has co-authored several papers me that each year 8 - 12 members add an extra $5 to their dues It on fossils, exhibited and lectured extensively. She is active in is such a nuisance (and expense) to correct that it was decided not outreach and loves being out collecting. to correct it and simply add the extra $5 to the Treasury. Thanks to Vince Schneider we have been enjoying excellent presentations at each of our membership meetings. At the invitation of the NC Museum of Forestry the club will be holding the November Fossil Festival in Whiteville NC on November 5, 2011. They will be in their newly renovated facility and the Fossil Festival will be the cap to their Dinosaur Exhibit opening in April. They have hosted us before so we know they Janus on the Internet will produce a fun and successful event. Rick Be sure to see the very important announcement on the next page. Janus on the WWW Transitions Issues of Janus back to 2001#4 are available at the Club’s website: http://www.ncfossilclub.org/newsletters.htm/ Click on the link “Past copies of Janus for club members only”, log in with User Name: janus 2009 Password: meg and click on the desired issue. The individual issues are .pdf files and will open with the Adobe Reader which is installed on most computers. If it’s not on your computer it can be downloaded free at http://get.adobe.com/reader/ Those of you with an Internet connection would get a full color copy by the download procedure specified above. The last issue of Janus cost more than $300 to copy (b&w) and mail; we would like to do away with this expense where possible. The Board decided to implement an “opt in” procedure for receiving a paper copy. In other words, if you want to continue to receive a paper copy you must contact Mike Bruff, Membership Chairman. Otherwise, when a new issue is available I will send a postcard to the membership advising you that it is available and reiterating the information above for downloading it. I hope we can make this work to everyone’s satisfaction. In addition to the cost to the Club, each mailing requires about 4 (intolerably boring) hours of my wife and my time. I have been editor of Janus for almost 20 years now and the only part of that which I begrudge is the time spent mailing each issue. Richard Chandler, Editor Contact Mike to continue to receive a paper copy of Janus: Mike Bruff, Membership Chairman, North Carolina Fossil Club, P.O. Box 25276, Raleigh, NC 27611-5276 919-553-6925 [email protected]

I received word from Dwayne Varnam (via Jim Mahoney, thanks to both) that NCFC member Dick Stober died on November 6, 2010. I did not recognize the name but certainly did recognize the couple in the picture Dwayne included of Dick and his wife Angela. New Printing of Neogene Fossils of North Carolina We are just about out of stock of the popular Neogene guide which the Club publishes. When we reprinted the and Long-time member James R. Knowles, Sr. of Raleigh died Paleogene guide a couple of years ago I completely digitized it. on November 30, 2010. Survivors include his wife Billie Sahm Among other things, this allowed John and me to correct a couple Knowles; daughters, Carolyn Beck and Diane Welch, and son, of embarassing gaffes it contained (we were young and stupid at James R. Knowles, Jr.. the time ). I am in the process of doing the same for Neogene now and have caught a few problems: Ruffin Tucker provided this link toDr. Pressley Robinson Triaenodon sp. → Carcharoides catticus Rankin, Jr.’s obituary in the Charlotte Observer: http://www. Carcharocles angustidens → Carcharocles chubutensis legacy.com/obituaries/charlotte/obituary.aspx?n=pressley- Galeocerdo contortus → Physogaleus contortus rankin&pid=145957513. Dr. Rankin’s collection was the basis for Hexanchus gigas → Hexanchus griseus the Rankin Museum in Ellerbee. Notorhinchus primigenius → Notorhinchus cepedianus Alopias superciliosus → Alopias vulpinus Pterorhytis conradi → Pterorytis fluviana Trigonostoma sp. → Trigonostoma tenerum carolinensis Porpoise → Toothed Whale (or “Porpoise”)

Do you know any others? If so, please contact me at [email protected] 2011 Calendar of Fossil Wood 919-851-2153 Elizabeth Wheeler’s 2011 calendar of incredible Richard Chandler 1225 Lorimer Road fossil wood photographs (macro and micro) is on Raleigh, NC 27606 sale for $15.75 at http://www.lulu.com/product/ calendar/2011-plants-with-a-past/12459668. Profits go to support research on fossil tress and work on the InsideWood website [http://insidewood. lib.ncsu.edu]. Fall Collecting Trip 09/24/2010 ― Rocky Point Fall Collecting Trip 10/24/2010 ― Castle Hayne Nine club members met on September 24th for another trip Nineteen members were present for the trip to Castle Hayne into the Martin Marietta Rocky Point quarry where we were on October 15th. We were very fortunate to have John Everette fortunate to be able to hunt the entire mine. We started at ten in join the hunt. John had hosted this trip for years and we want to the morning, before the heat got too intense and found the usual thank him for all his past effort. We were confined to the usual Rocky Point fare. Don Rideout found a nice sawfish vertebra hunting area but a nice mix of Cretaceous and Eocene material and a perfect Eurhodia rugosa echinoid. Trish and Louis Kohler were found. Some rare specimens such as Don Clements found a variety of small teeth, a Cylindracanthus fragment and a Linthia variabilis and Roxada Story’s Agassizia wilmingtonica Hardouinia mortonis echinoid. Later after lunch we relocated to were found. Trish and Louis Kohler came across a beautiful the other side of the mine and Tracy Schwartz immediately found nautiloid Eutrephoceras carolinensis. Jim Tunney found a the largest tooth of the day. A nice three inch ariculatus! With Hardouinia mortonis, slit shell and some brachiopods. Chris temperatures approaching the 100 degree mark, hunting became Mayo found a perfect Mosasaurus tooth while Tracey Mayo a secondary and escape from the heat became the priority. As some beautiful Squalicorax pristodontus and a partial Sawfish rostral retired to their cars to enjoy some A/C, Bruce Hargreaves found a tooth – Ischyrhiza mira. Eric Sadorf found the first Crinoid I nice Hardouinia kellumi! New member Kristin Harvey enjoyed have ever seen! He also found a Squalicorax and a Cretalamna her first experience of hunting in a quarry. Eric Sadorf and biauriculata. Bruce Hargreaves found five smallariculatus and Jonathan Tait also accompanied the trip. David Sanderson Joy Herrington a nice Linthia wilmingtonensis. I found my first Coelopleurus carolinensis echinoid. Rufus Johnson, Lindsay Werden, Jim Marcy, Eric Wilkinson and Don Rideout also attended the hunt. I would like to thank Burnie Freas of Castle Hayne and Doug Pope from Rocky point for allowing the club to hunt their mines. David Sanderson

The Crew at Castle Hayne

Eric Sadorf’s Crinoid Dave Ridout’s gorgeous Eurhodia rugosa depressa

Tracey Mayo’s Ischyrhiza mira rostral tooth and Tracey Schwartz’ HUGE Carcharocles auriculatus fabulous Squalicorax pristiodontus tooth Tall Tales from the Trails, No. 17 Department of Natural Resources Map and Bookstore (http:// marine invertebrates, Fossil Mountain, Confusion www.mapstore.utah.gov) sells the maps and most of Dr. Hintze’s Range, and Crystal Peak, Wah Wah Mountains, Millard County, publications mentioned in this piece. Their shop is not far from Utah the airport in Salt Lake City, away from downtown, at 1594 West North Temple, and their mail-order service is excellent. On our James R. Bain, Bahama, NC back-roads driving tour, to Fossil Mountain, near the site of the Summary: Marine invertebrate fossils at two sites in the Great historic Ibex ranch, and thence S and W to Crystal Peak, several Basin Desert. Paleontologists studying the Ordovician worldwide 1: 100,000-scale, metric maps from the US Geological Survey make pilgrimages here because of the richness of the fauna. (USGS) will be handy: “Wah Wah Mountains North” (1980) and Amateur fossil collectors are less inclined to visit because many “Tule Valley” (1981). fossils are fragmentary, but persistence is rewarded. These are This classic Basin and Range terrain makes communication nice side trips if you visit the world-famous trilobite with the world outside difficult--as you might guess, cell phone beds west of Delta, Millard County, UT. coverage is likely to be nil, and you might find no functioning Millard County is a special place to NC Fossil Club collectors. daytime radio stations, either. When scouting for the NC Fossil Though the drive there from Raleigh is ~2,200 miles, members Club’s 1986 field trip to this general area, we found that walkie of our Club have been frequent visitors, as attested by the many talkies were helpful for communication among vehicles. mentions in our “Janus” newsletter: e.g., 2001, No. 4; 2006, No. Vicinity of Skull Rock Pass. At mileage ~36.6 on US 2; 2007, No. 3. In the past, we have discussed the Cambrian, Highway 6-50, more than ~32 miles SW of Delta, Utah, you will Mississippian, and Pennsylvanian fossils of Millard County. Let leave the pavement and head SE and then S on dirt roads. At this us now turn our attention to the Ordovician. point where you leave the pavement, at ~39º 02.53’ North, 113 º Difficulty: . – ...: One to three on a scale of five; rough 24.17’ West, you are in Tule (pronounced “two-lee”) Valley, in a roads, but easy collecting, with sporting hillside scrambles for the gap between Sawtooth Mountain in the southern House Range to adventurous at all sites. your N and the Confusion Range to your W and S. Conglomerate Geologic setting: An old-fashioned treatise on the geology of roadcuts and boulders near the paved highway from here to ~3 Millard County by Hintze and Davis (2003), together with their miles E of this junction, at Skull Rock Pass, contain a hash of geologic maps (2002a, b), and Hintze’s 1988 sublime overview graptolites and pieces of diverse marine invertebrates, including of Utah’s geologic history, will provide you hours of absorbing trilobites (“tri-lo-bits-‘n’-pieces”) of the Lower Ordovician armchair paleontology. These scholarly works are labors of love Fillmore Formation, Pogonip Group (Wilson 1995: 99-100, and by scientists at the top of their game. In particular, the 1988 the description of the Pyramid Section by Benner et al. 2004). text makes good airplane reading, and will give the lay reader As you leave the pavement, the giant salt pan to your E, just an approachable account of the geology of this amazing state. over the low ridge of the Black Hills, is Lake Sevier (locally Professor Hintze took “geology-camp” students to the Ordovician pronounced “severe”), a remnant of Glacial Lake Bonneville of sites described here over the course of several decades, and Pleistocene times, which today receives and evaporates much of he used their labor to help produce classic publications on the the effluent of south-central Utah, courtesy of the Sevier River. Paleozoic of Utah. (Farther N and E, the Great Salt Lake and associated salt flats are “No place in the world has a more diverse assemblage of also Lake Bonneville remnants.) If you drove in via Delta, Utah, early Ordovician fossils than western Utah” (Hintze 1988: 19). you almost touched the north shore of Lake Sevier just E of Skull Lower Ordovician strata considered here were deposited in Rock Pass. On the afternoon of June 28th, 1996, son Edward shallow coastal waters. Stop near Skull Rock Pass (below) and (age 8) and nephew John Bain (age 9) wanted to play on the bed contemplate what kind of a modern coast could produce such a of Lake Sevier. I consented, because at a distance it appeared pebbly conglomerate rich in hash. to be a clean, brilliant white, salt hardpan. (The lake level has All collecting sites mentioned here are described explicitly in varied wildly in recent years, and it looked dry at the time.) Also, Wilson’s (1995) popular fossil guide. I had just spent a long day hunting Cambrian trilobites in the Legality: For the scattered sections of Utah state trust land in northern House Range with those two little screech monkeys, this region, a Rockhounding Permit for common invertebrate and I was worn out, and I wanted a little parental quiet time alone plant fossils can be purchased for a nominal fee from the state’s before driving us the hundreds of miles back home to Flagstaff, School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration. But the AZ, that evening. Well, the boys quickly broke through the salt most productive fossil-bearing strata described here are on your crust into the anaerobic Lake Sevier salt muck below, which federal lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management. smelled as if it was rich in carcinogenic agricultural chemicals For decades, BLM has allowed collection of reasonable amounts and, I imagined, mutant, radioactive, human fecal coliform of common invertebrate and plant fossils for personal use, but bacteria. The kids were delighted with the large clumps of stinky regulations are in flux—see my editorial inJanus 2008, No.3—so salt gel adherent to their footwear. They called themselves, “the I will leave it up to you to contact the BLM’s regional office for Muck Monsters of Lake Sevier.” I removed their shoes and information on the legal status of collecting: Bureau of Land placed them in the back of my Ford pickup. Contained within a Management, Fillmore Field Office, 35 East 500 North, Fillmore, new camper shell, the greenhouse effect did its thing in the desert Utah 84631, phone: (435) 743-3100. heat, and the distillates permeated our clothes and camping gear. On the way home, the muck set into a crumbly concrete, which Navigation: A driving loop, with stops for fossicking. we laughingly broke apart with a geologic hammer the next day Consider taking a global positioning system (GPS) and a high- before trying without much success to clean their shoes. The clearance vehicle on these dirt desert roads, which will be boys’ mothers were not amused, though they did appreciate all impassable when muddy. Top up your gas tank, and carry plenty the trilobite loot their sons brought home. of food, water, and survival gear. Let someone know where you are going, and when you will return. Stay oriented along the way. But I digress. At the junction where you leave the pavement of This is open range, with cattle and sheep and wild ponies moving US 6-50, the BLM sign pointing S says, “Ibex Well 8.5, Crystal freely across the landscape. A mobile cow camp was located not Peak 22.” Set your trip odometer to zero as you leave the asphalt. far from Fossil Mountain in mid-April, 2006. Proceed SE and then S. Soon a small salt lake, the Tule Valley Hardpan, develops on your right, squeezed between the road Call me an old timer, but I believe that paper maps are and the Barn Hills. I have seen light aircraft land on this salt flat always nice to have in the field. The Utah state government’s when it was dry. At odometer mile 8.6, as you make your way S, you will pass Ibex Well (signed), drilled into the south end of the left (~NW) off of the main ranch road and onto a two-track Jeep small salt hardpan you have been following. trail, and began the ascent of the alluvial fan (bajada) of Fossil At odometer mileage 10.2, a BLM sign points to your right Mountain. I pushed my poor Subaru a bit far, scraping bottom (SW), saying “Blind Valley 11.” Turn right (SW). This junction and almost igniting a range fire with my catalytic converter, is at ~38º 54.44’ N, 113 º 22.33’ W. and I parked odometer mile 17.1, at ~38º 52.31’ N, 113 º 27.68’ Barn Hills. As the road begins to hug the SE tip of the Barn W. When one is alone and far from the highway, the smell of Hills and curve around to the W, the limestones and shales on scorching grass so close to one’s gas tank always gives pause. the slopes on your right are fossiliferous (Ordovician Pogonip Take your time to scramble and explore Fossil Mountain. The Group). Note that handsome white Watson Ranch Quartzite uppermost heights lack fossils. From the bajada going up, the has fallen onto the fossil-bearing slopes from strata above. For sequence (Hintze and Davis 2003: 301, *=fossiliferous) is: the a detailed view of the area, secure two 7.5-minute topographic Juab Limestone*, the Kanosh Shale*, the Lehman Formation*, maps in the USGS 1: 24,000 series: “The Barn” and “Warm the Watson Ranch Quartzite, and the Crystal Peak Dolomite Point.” To collect the SE slope of the Barn Hills, I parked at (all Whiterockian and all in the Ordovician Pogonip Group), odometer mile 12.7 at ~38º 52.62’ N, 113 º 23.59’ W, and walked capped by a thin layer of the Mohawkian Eureka Quartzite. up the slope to the N. I found nice graptolites (especially along Concentrate on the gullies dissecting the lower slopes, visible bedding planes in the shale layers), gastropods (both squat and behind my Subaru in the accompanying illustration. Some of the pointy, some large), brachiopods, ammonite impressions (coiled brachiopods here really glisten. Ammonite and other cephalopod and straight), and bits of trilobites. This parking area has been impressions and detailed fossils and crinoids are also found. in use as a dry camp for decades by shepherds, cattlemen, and For trilobites, alas, all I found were disarticulated chunks. A university geology camps. Hintze’s (1973) stratigraphic section beautiful, intact, starfish-like stelleroid, Stibaraster ratcliffei, “CAMP” runs uphill from here. Motivated individuals made from Fossil Mountain was described and illustrated by Blake and some great studies of trilobites in this area, based almost entirely Guensberg (1993)—check out the eye candy (paleo-cheesecake) on small pieces (e.g., Demeter 1973, Young 1973). in their Figure 1. Continue W. At odometer mile 15.9, at a Y junction, take the main (right) fork to the N up into Blind Valley. At odometer mile 16.0, at a T junction, again take the right fork, and keep heading N up into the Blind Valley. Now you are squeezed in between the southern terminus of the Barn Hills (to your right or E) and Fossil Mountain itself (to your left or W). Limestones and shales on both sides of the road have Ordovician Pogonip fossils. In the Barn Hills-Ibex-Fossil Mountain area, “most of the fossils that occur here are fragmented as a result of their having accumulated in a high energy, wave-dominated, shoreline environment. It is difficult to find a complete, unbroken trilobite, echinoderm, or brachiopod” (Wilson 1995: 100). But keep at it, and you will be rewarded, at least with brachiopods. I found big assemblages of intact “brachs” without too much effort. Disarticulated Ordovician fossils were discussed at a similar assemblage near Beatty, NV (Janus 2006, No. 3). Fossil Mountain is a conical peak, summit elevation 6,649 feet, in the Confusion Range. At odometer mile 16.3, I turned Apparent carbonate hardground, a preserved section of seabed, from the Kanosh Shale, Ordovician Pogonip Group, collected immediately north of Crystal Peak, Wah Wah Mountains, Millard County, Utah, and later given away as a door prize at a meeting of the North Carolina Fossil Club, Inc. (measured 100 x 150 mm).

Crystal Peak. Now let us head S and then W to the fossiliferous Kanosh Shale at Crystal Peak. From our perch on the bajada of Fossil Mountain, backtrack to the main ranch road in Blind Valley (odometer mile 17.8). Turn right (S). At mile 21.2, cross over the road that connects Tule Valley Road and Snake Pass—continue S. The desert gravel really sparkles in this region, much as in does (from tiny gemstones—minute, sun-bleached topazes) in the vicinity of Utah’s Topaz Mountain, but I did not stop to prospect for gems here south of Ibex. At mile 26.2, turn right on the Garrison-Black Rock Road, a major, “The Little Subaru That Could,” with bell-shaped graded county dirt road, and proceed W toward Crystal Peak. At Fossil Mountain in the background, Confusion mile 33.0, in the saddle between Crystal Peak (to your immediate Range, Millard County, Utah, 16 April 2006. The left or S) and an un-named peak to your right (N), turn right following week, this faithful vehicle served as the on a spur in the piñon pine-juniper woodland and park as close as you can to the fossiliferous Kanosh Shale slope to your N “baggage wagon” for fossil treasures collected by (Wilson 1995: 103). I parked at ~38º 47.88’ N, 113 º 35.47’ W, members of the NC Fossil Club. and scrambled up the slope to the N. The fossil fauna is similar to that seen in the Ibex area (above). Here, some nice plates of hardground—fossilized hard sea bottom—can be found, with Book Review abundant brachiopods and turret-shaped gastropods. The USGS Remarkable Creatures, a novel by Tracy Chevalier (New York 7.5-minute, 1:24,000 series topo map, “Crystal Peak”, covers this Times bestselling author of Girl With A Pearl Earring) is a story area. Hintze’s (1973) stratigraphic section CP (for Crystal Peak) based on famous English fossil collectors, and was described from this site. Elizabeth Philpot. (First printing, January 2010, Published by High-desert, elfin forests of piñon pine and junipers are special Penguin Group, New York. 310 pgs.) places to me. Lanner (1981) gave a good account of this habitat. Chevalier builds on the historical accounts of Mary Anning and The pines do not set nuts every year, but when they do, the Elizabeth Philpot’s incredible experiences and contributions to nuts rival any pignolias from China or southern Europe. Pesto, Paleontology. As a novelist, she develops themes of relationships, anyone? This coniferous saddle would make a good dry camp. opportunities for romance, and the social and religious pressures The fossiliferous slope to the N of the saddle is nice, but imposed by the fossil finds. We know that Mary Anning was Crystal Peak itself is a real eye-popper. Its light-colored, often taken advantage of. She was young; she was poor; she was 35-million-year-old rhyolite (Hintze and Davis 2003: 143, and female. What could she possibly know about the creatures whose Figure 172) sets it apart from all other peaks in the area—since skeletons she showed to the world for the first time? visiting, I have been able to spot it from commercial airliners. Just as I finished reading this book, I noticed a cast of one Scramble up onto its smooth, rounded bulk and examine its of Mary Anning’s creatures for sale on eBay. People are still weird, honeycomb weathering. Small, doubly terminated quartz profiting from her fossil finds. crystals can be found eroding out of the rhyolite here. Mary Anning was a poor young spinster who by the age of twelve was renowned for her keen eye for finding fossils in the Literature cited: cliffs near her home at , England. Benner, Jacob S., A.A. Ekdale, and Jordi M. DeGibert. In the novel, Mary’s association with Elizabeth Philpot, a lady Macroborings (Gastrochaenolites) in Lower Ordovician of English society who also collected fossils from the same cliffs, hardgrounds of Utah: Sedimentologic, paleoecologic, and exposed class differences of English society during middle and evolutionary implications. Palaios 19: 543-550, 2004. late nineteenth century. Mary and Elizabeth’s associations with Blake, Daniel B, and T.E. Guensburg. New Lower and Middle science spotlighted gender constrictions in science. As if social Ordovician Stelleroids (Echinodermata) and their bearing on the standing and gender constraints were not enough, Mary Anning’s origins and early history of the stelleroid echinoderms. Journal successful recovery of complete but unrecognizable creatures, of Paleontology 67: 103-113. including ammonites, ichthyosaurs, and plesiosaurs challenged Demeter, Eugene J. Lower Ordovician Pliomerid trilobites religious dogma which declared that all living creatures came from western Utah. Brigham Young University Geology Studies from Noah’s Arc. The idea that any of God’s creations might be 20: 37-65, 1973. extinct was just beginning to form. Hintze, Lehi F. Lower and Middle Ordovician stratigraphic Competition among collectors and disputes among famous sections in the Ibex area, Millard County, Utah. Brigham Young names from the same period: George Cuvier, , University Geology Studies 20: 3-36, 1973. , Charles Lyell and others, are topics that, like salt, flavor the novel. Hintze, Lehi F. Geologic History of Utah: A Field Guide to Utah’s Rocks. Brigham Young University Geology Studies, In a brief postscript, the author notes aspects of the story Special Publication 7, 202 pages. that were based on fact. Mary Anning died at age 47 of breast cancer. Mary Anning’s contributions to Paleontology were Hintze, Lehi F., and Fitzhugh D. Davis. Geologic map of finally, after long struggles, publicly acknowledged by the the Tule Valley 30’ x 60’ quadrangle and parts of the Ely, scientific community and she is credited for fossils on display Springs, and Kern Mountains 30’ x 60’ quadrangles, northwest at the Natural History Museum in London and Musee National Millard County, Utah, 2 plates, 1:100,000, Utah Geological d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris. Elizabeth Philpot, an expert on Survey, Map 186, 2002a. [A CD version published in 2006 fossil fish, lived considerably longer. Elizabeth’s collection was contains geographic information system or GIS data.] donated by the Philpot family to the Oxford University Museum Hintze, Lehi F., and Fitzhugh D. Davis. Geologic map of the of Natural History. Lyme Regis, as a tourist attraction, continues Wah Wah Mountains North 30’ x 60’-minute quadrangle and part to draw fossil collectors interested in the period. of the Garrison 30’ x 60’-minute quadrangle, southwest Millard In Remarkable Creatures, fossil collecting serves as the County, Utah, 2 plates, 1:100,000, Utah Geological Survey, Map platform for a theme of hardships imposed by class, gender, and 182, 2002b. politics in England at the time. As a female fossil collector, I Hintze, Lehi F., and Fitzhugh D. Davis. Geology of Millard could identify with Mary and Elizabeth enough to admire their County, Utah. Utah Geological Survey, Bulletin 133, xviii + 305 climbing the ancient cliffs of Lyme Regis in billowing skirts, pages, 2003. [Great bedtime reading for those of you who petticoats and bonnets - no hardhats and steel-toed boots for love the geology of our West.] them. I admit, I was turned off by repeated references to fossil Lanner, Ronald M. The Piñon Pine: A Natural and Cultural collector’s stained and dirty fingernails. I did not learn anything History. University of Nevada Press, Reno, 208 pages, 1981. new about fossils from this book but I thought the author’s portrayal of Mary Anning’s uncanny “eye” for finding fossils Wilson, James R. A collector’s guide to rock, mineral, and must have been real. Surely made me think of our outstanding fossil localities of Utah. Utah Geological Survey, Miscellaneous collector who also is renowned for having that “eye” – Becky Publication 95-4, vi + 148 pages, 1995. Hyne. Joy Herrington Young, George E. An Ordovician (Arenigian) trilobite faunule of great diversity from the Ibex area, western Utah. Brigham Young University Geology Studies 20: 91-115, 1973. Back Cover: This is the skeleton of Plesiosaurus macrocephalus which Mary Anning found in 1830 near Lyme Regis on the southwest coast of England. It is now in the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris. 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Select One Type of Membership  individual (new) $20.00 (Enclose check or money order  individual (renewal) $15.00 for the indicated amount.)  household (new) $25.00  household (renewal) $20.00 Children of NCFC members who are dependent minors and living at home may accompany parents on any trip EXCEPT PCS–Lee Creek or where otherwise noted. Memberships are effective from January through December of the year (or portion of the year) of the date of application. For example, persons joining in August will need to renew their membership 5 months later in January. NCFC Liability Statement The Undersigned hereby acknowledges his/her understanding that fossil collecting is an inherently dangerous activity which can result in serious bodily injury or death, and/or property damage and hereby confirms his/her voluntary assumption of the risk of such injury, death or damage. The Undersigned, in return for the privilege of attending field trips Related to the collection of and/or study of fossils, or any other event or activity conducted or hosted by the North Carolina Fossil Club (NCFC), hereinafter collectively and individually referred to as “NCFC Events”, hereby releases the NCFC, NCFC Board members and officers, NCFC Event leaders or organizers and hosts, landowners and mine or quarry operators from any and all liability claims resulting from injury to or death of the undersigned or his/her minor children or damage to his/her property resulting from any cause whatsoever related to participation in NCFC Events. The Undersigned agrees to comply with any and all rules and restrictions which may be communicated to the undersigned by the NCFC Event leader and/or landowner and mine or quarry operator and acknowledges that failure to comply will result in immediate expulsion from the premises. The Undersigned acknowledges that this release covers all NCFC Events and will remain in effect at all times unless or until it is revoked by written notice to the current President of the NCFC and receipt of such revocation is acknowledged. The Undersigned further attests to his/her intent to be legally bound by affixing his /her signature to this release. Name Signature Date

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Mail To: North Carolina Fossil Club, P.O. Box 25276, Raleigh, NC 27611-5276 North Carolina Fossil Club P.O. Box 13075 Research Triangle Park, NC 27709 What is this? See page 6 inside.