Started out visiting 18 mile creek in Hamburg. Found quite a few braciopods. Shale was quite slippery and could not make it to the lake. Site is promising for dryer weather and waders. Headed over to Penn Dixie. The trilobite bed is covered with overburden as the site is not ready for the season. Picked through lots of weathered shale and found tons of horn coral , some partial phacops, lots of brachiopods, and a couple enrolled phacops. My wife took the day with her find. I think its a greenop
It was the first day where the weather was decent enough to do some fossil hunting.I had a little over an hour after work. Off to my reliable site Penn Dixie in Hamburg NY. It was an hour long exploratory trip. I found a great deal of shell bed material from the Wanakah shale, I am a sucker for Brachiopods and horn coral, so I scooped up a bunch to play with later.
Lots of nice specimens in this material. After I start prepping I will post pics from this pile.
I picked up some partial
