Page 4: Jim Cox Finds The Top Prize In The Last 15 Minutes
Photos by Ron Fine, Bill Heimbrock, Ken Peterson, Tom Bantel and Bob Zimmerman
Words by Bill Heimbrock
And the dig goes on.....
Hammers were pounding a rhythm to the brain.
Then 15 minutes before the 4 pm daily closing of the Ridgemount Quarry - Jim Cox exposes the largest Eurypterid head yet!
Both wonderful and scary at the same time, the head continues into the rock with
arms intact. It looks like it's very large and very complete. All hands
assembled to try to expose and extract this complete Eurypterid before the
quarry locked the gate on us in 15 minutes. Here are some pictures of the mad
rush.
Success! With the very welcome expert help of Malcolm Thornley and John Spina, the specimen was extracted and we were able to leave the quarry with the appreciated patience of the quarry management.
That's all the photos for Friday, June 7, 2013 at the Ridgemount Quarry. Now lets see the photos from the Penn Dixie trilobite dig.
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