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<p>[QUOTE="AntiqueBytes, post: 3473701, member: 13195"]Someone wrote: "Ah from the green river in Wyoming near Rock springs. The correct name is Elimia agate, but lots of folks in that neck of the woods still call it Turritella agate." </p><p><br /></p><p>and I went to Wiki and it said:</p><p><br /></p><p>"The fossils are hosted in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalcedony" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalcedony" rel="nofollow">chalcedony</a> rich sedimentary rock. This rock was originally incorrectly called <i>Turritella agate</i>. It was named after the sea snail genus <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turritella" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turritella" rel="nofollow">Turritella</a></i> because of the resemblance of the freshwater snail shells to the <i>Turritella</i> fossils that are found in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agate" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agate" rel="nofollow">agate</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas" rel="nofollow">Texas</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California" rel="nofollow">California</a>. The Wyoming fossil shells, however, are in a freshwater sedimentary deposit and identifiable as the genus <i>Elimia</i>, and are less-silicified than those in Texas and California."[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="AntiqueBytes, post: 3473701, member: 13195"]Someone wrote: "Ah from the green river in Wyoming near Rock springs. The correct name is Elimia agate, but lots of folks in that neck of the woods still call it Turritella agate." and I went to Wiki and it said: "The fossils are hosted in [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalcedony']chalcedony[/URL] rich sedimentary rock. This rock was originally incorrectly called [I]Turritella agate[/I]. It was named after the sea snail genus [I][URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turritella']Turritella[/URL][/I] because of the resemblance of the freshwater snail shells to the [I]Turritella[/I] fossils that are found in [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agate']agate[/URL] in [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas']Texas[/URL] and [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California']California[/URL]. The Wyoming fossil shells, however, are in a freshwater sedimentary deposit and identifiable as the genus [I]Elimia[/I], and are less-silicified than those in Texas and California."[/QUOTE]
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