Funny you should mention the turtles!! In high school, I invited my best friend to join our local club on a field trip to the "Sylvania quarry" in Ohio to look for invertebrate fossils and hopefully some pyritized brachiopods. He had such a great time that he wanted to go fossil collecting elsewhere and I dreamed up this grandiose plan to spend the summer after graduation traveling around in the Midwest and Ontario to collect fossils. I even told him about the fossil turtles in Kansas and he was hooked on the idea. We never went on another fossil trip and he moved out to CA but has visited me here in AZ and he always mentions his regret that we didn't go after the turtles--it would have been one helluva trip!

Of course, that was 40+ years ago but I think of those turtles often and your photo-article really jolted me down memory lane! Thanks again.