Filmore County, Masonic Park, near Spring Valley, Spring 2006 

Masonic Park aerial view
Image from County Well datebase linked from Minnesota Geological Survey website.*
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Top row: 2 fragments of Receptaculites? and a trace fossil (on rt.). Lower row: 5 solitary rugose CORALS(Streptolasma?)*
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TRILOBITE frag (Illaenus?); BRACHIOPOD on slab(unknown); GASTROPOD(Fusispira sp ?); BRACHIOPOD on slab (unknown);
right end of row, upper, BRACHIOPOD(Rafinesquina sp?) and, lower, (Platystrophia sp?)
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GASTROPODS(planispiral) Maclurites crassus. Specimen in lwr lft corner is 6.5 cm wide.

Note: the 4 images are fossils collected by Gary & Nancy Heinzel, from 1975-2006 in Fillmore County, Minnesota. Initial i.d. of these superb specimens proudly attempted by Dean Kjerland. I will continue to refine the stratigraphy and the systematics...*
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Upper row: GASTROPODS(conispiral): Hormotoma sp(2ea), Fusispira sp (2ea), Hormotoma sp (on slab - see it?).
Lower row Nautiloid CEPHALOPODS: Cyrtoceras sp?; unknown siphuncle; Staufferoceras sp?; "Spyroceras"?
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...details coming...
(all images courtesy of the Heinzel's)
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outcrop of the Upper ordovician Dubuque Formation(?) near Spring Valley, Minnesota
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