My interest in this geologist stems from some fossil specimens found in Colonel Lucien Beckner's collection a Pennsylvanian Period gast...

This shell appears to be a Transverse Ark shell or Anadara transversa (Say, 1822). It was found by a 17 year old Lucien Pearson Beckner in...

  This shell appears to be a Florida Cross-barred Venus shell or Chione elevata (Say, 1822). It was found by a 17 year old Lucien Pearson ...

This shell appears to be a Brown Baby Ear Snail or Sinum maculatum (Say, 1831). It was found by a 17 year old Lucien Pearson Beckner in 1...

These shells appear to be Crested Oysters or Ostrea equestris (Say, 1834).  One has group of barnacles attached to it. They were found by a...

  This shell appears to be a Spotted Slipper Snail or Crepidula maculosa (Conrad, 1846). It was found by a 17 year old Lucien Pearson Beckn...

Recently, I was given to a small bag of seashells that was in the possession of a long time University of Louisville geology professor James...

These pictures are not of fossils but of a modern day bivalve. It is a cross-hatched lucine ( Divaricella quadrisulcata Orbigny 1842). I...

This year's Christmas greeting image was created with specimens from two locations. The star (thin section of crinoid stem), trunk (...

Working on this year's fossil Christmas tree which will partially not consist of fossils. I am using some specimens I collected while...

While in Charleston, South Carolina USA we stayed at Folly Beach (August 2017). During beach time, I tried to find shark teeth, phosphate...

Today, I will not post fossils but images of shells that might one day be fossils. These pictures were taken in August 2016 at Saint-Malo...