http://woostergeologists.scotblogs.wooster.edu/2011/07/24/wooster%e2%80%99s-fossil-of-the-week-an-edrioasteroid-upper-ordovician-of-kentucky/ A World to Explore Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:47:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://woostergeologists.scotblogs.wooster.edu/2011/07/24/wooster%e2%80%99s-fossil-of-the-week-an-edrioasteroid-upper-ordovician-of-kentucky/comment-page-1/#comment-5547 Mark Wilson Sun, 24 Jul 2011 11:50:53 +0000 http://woostergeologists.scotblogs.wooster.edu/?p=4563#comment-5547 Most collectors by far are motivated by the sheer beauty and elegance of fossils, and they collect with respect for both science and nature. A few, though, simply ransack outcrops for profit. I saw many edrioasteroids from this site cut from the cobbles and for sale individually from a science supply house.

]]> http://woostergeologists.scotblogs.wooster.edu/2011/07/24/wooster%e2%80%99s-fossil-of-the-week-an-edrioasteroid-upper-ordovician-of-kentucky/comment-page-1/#comment-5546 Susan Sun, 24 Jul 2011 11:03:30 +0000 http://woostergeologists.scotblogs.wooster.edu/?p=4563#comment-5546 I wonder what motivates the collectors. Do they want to study it up close? Admire it as a marvel or from an aesthetic perspective? Share the wonder with their social network? Or is it ownership — they want to incorporate it into their personal collections, using their own little tube feet to gather it in?

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