On a recent visit to the Cincinnati Museum
Geier Collections Center, I was waiting in a meeting room there that has a lot of display cases. The cases intent I believe is to show a sampling of the 3 million piece collection stored there.
This first picture shows a slab with a large
crinoid stem and calyx partially exposed. The stem may have been almost a meter long. It was amazing to see such a large piece intact like that one.
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The larger display cases had two prepared
Calymene or
Flexicalymene trilobites. The items shown in the cases were very nice. If I had to change one thing, it would be nice if each specimen had display card telling what it is and maybe a little of its history/donor information.
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I think this was Ordovician Period
braching bryozoan. If it is, quite a beauty in 3-D.
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A rock plate with four
brachiopods (
Platystrophia?) probably from the Ordovician Period.