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Rocks, Minerals and Fossils

Rocks and minerals are important to everyone, every day. We see rocks everywhere – both as a part of the Earth, and used by society in construction and manufacturing. All of the raw materials we use to make things are either grown (plants and animals) or mined (rocks and minerals).

Fossils – Ozarks Paleontology – Bruce Stinchcomb

Precambrian, Cambrian, and Lower Ordovician rocks constitute the geologic center of the Ozarks and yield marine fossils of early history of marine animal life

Links to guides posted in the Missouri Fossil Hunters Facebook Group.

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Identification guide to the fossils of the Batesville Sandstone (Mississippian, southern midcontinent)
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Early Mississippian Fenestellid Bryzozoans of Missouri from Koenig 1958
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Identification guide to the fish fossils of the Carboniferous rocks of Illinois, USA
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Identification guide to the fossil fish of the Cherokee, Kansas City, and Wabaunsee Groups (Pennsylvanian; Missouri, USA)
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Missouri’s Mississippian crinoids: Identification by calyx internal mold
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Identification guide to the fossils of the Decorah Formation (Upper Ordovician, upper Mississippi Valley)
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Identification guide to the Brachiopods and Mollusks of the Desmoinesian (late Middle Pennsylvanian) rocks of west-central Missouri
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Identification guide to the fossils of the Fern Glen Formation: Early Mississippian (Osagean/Tournaisian), mid-Mississippi Valley
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Identification guide to the fossils of the Louisiana Limestone (early Mississippian) of the mid-Mississippi Valley
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Identification guide to the fossils of the Northview Shale (Early Mississippian of Missouri)
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Identification Guide to the Fossils of the Owl Creek Formation (upper Upper Cretaceous) of Southeast Missouri
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Identification guide to the gastropods of the Pawnee Formation (Pennsylvanian) of Saint Louis, USA
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Identification guide to the fossils of the Pierson Formation (mid-Mississippian of Missouri)
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Identification guide to the fossils of the Sainte Genevieve Formation (Mississippian of Missouri)
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Sauk Megasequence fossils of Missouri: An identification guide
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Roubidoux
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Identification guide to the fossils of the Saint Louis Formation (mid-Mississippian of Missouri)
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Identification guide to the fossils of the Warsaw Formation (mid-Mississippian, mid-Mississippi Valley)