Thanks to Ellsworth Starring for gifting me a mysterious box of unidentified fossils that were in his basement for decades, many of which are from South Dakota (Pierre Shale, probably) and some of which may not be.
Scleractinian coral | Paleozoic
Cross-section of solitary rugose coral | Paleozoic
Tabulate coral | Paleozoic
Stromatoporoid | Paleozoic (it’s a sea sponge)
Baculites “rainbow ammonite” | Cretaceous
Fossil shark teeth | Cenozoic (apparently there’s an Otodus meglodon tooth in there somewhere)
Fossil bivalves + gastropods
karen donovan | poetry 