Alaskan Fossils
Cephalopods
I found this ammonite deep in the Talkeetna Mountains a few years ago.
When I moved it, I thought it must weight over a hundred pounds, so I
asked my friend Raymond to help me in getting the monster out.
The location was about twenty miles from the nearest road, so that meant
backpacking it all the way--no cheating even with all terrain vehicles.
It took four days, but we got it out in one piece. When we finally got
it onto the scales, it weighed in at 140 pounds! Since then, it has
been on display at the Alaska Museum of Natural History in Anchorage.
P A L E O Z O I C
| period
| Devonian
| Mississippian
| Pennsylvanian
| Permian
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M E S O Z O I C
©2001 Curvin Metzler