Wed
Jul 5 2006
11:06 am
Did you know that Tennessee had a state fossil?
By: WhitesCreek

 And it's the wrong one!

http://whitescreek.blogspot.com/2006/07/fossil.html
Joe P.'s picture

I thought the fossil

Submitted by Joe P. (not verified) on Wed, 2006/07/05 - 6:49pm.

I thought the state fossil was Lt. Gov. Wilder ....

WhitesCreek's picture

Click the last link and

Submitted by WhitesCreek on Wed, 2006/07/05 - 7:38pm.

Click the last link and you'll see the real fossil....

Joe P.'s picture

Yep

Submitted by Joe P. (not verified) on Wed, 2006/07/05 - 8:16pm.

Yep, that's the real fossil!!! Amazing how much influence he has lo these millions of years later .....

WhitesCreek's picture

Since I live a scant 25

Submitted by WhitesCreek on Thu, 2006/07/06 - 7:53am.

Since I live a scant 25 miles from Dayton, home of the Scopes Monkey trial, our state fossil can only be 6 to 10 thousand years old. Looking at the picture, I think it could be true.

Eleanor A's picture

Not to be pedantic about

Submitted by Eleanor A on Thu, 2006/07/06 - 10:47am.

Not to be pedantic about this whole thing, but TN was a shallow sea for many millions of years. Which is why all our homes are built on limestone (a cruel joke, since we're now in the tornado belt and nobody's got a basement).

Sucks that we don't get really cool fossils like icthyosaurs, tho.

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