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Today I was rearranging fossils in my basement and I came across some fossils that I had purchased in 2019 at a garage sale for $2.00. The pieces are from 18 Mile Creek in Western New York. These fossils are Middle Devonian in age and the person that they belonged to collected them I believe in the 80’s or early 90’s. Here are a few of the pieces. It is nice to have a representative group of some of the fossils from this location. Hopefully I have the ID’s correct on these. Stereolasma rectum- Mucrospirifer mucronatus (?) (L) Stropheodonta demissa (R) Rhipidomella penelope Athyris spiriferoides Longispina mucronatus Gastropod Naticonema lineata Bryozoan Straight-Shelled Nautiloid - Spyroceras sp. Eldredgeops rana Greenops barberi

Here’s a upper Devonian paleoniscoid fish I found in 18 mile creek - Erie county,NY this spring. seems to be similar to fish found in younger stratigraphy Linton deposits from Ohio area. Been hard to find any specific info on Devonian fish found in New York, perhaps a rare find? Has anyone found anything similar in western NY?

Hello, here are some recent finds from a hike thru 18 mile creek outside Hamburg, NY.

I just wanted to let forum members to know that the north side of 18 Mile Creek in Erie County, New York is closed to collecting. I came out in April and collected but went this week and found the site gated off and posted signs. I spoke to staff at Penn Dixie in Hamburg, New York and they said a new owner of the property does not want people on his land. I would suggest people try Penn Dixie. A man from Colorado found a death plate with 7 Phacops Rana on it.

So last weekend I decided to take a trip up to the Buffalo Area with plans to head into Canada and collect. Well, the day I was to drive into the Great White North I realized I'd forgotten my passport (Dang CRS disease!). Soooo.... I changed up my schedule a bit which gave me the opportunity to spend a full day at Penn Dixie, explore a new site that I'd only been told about and spend a day with forum member Mikeymig. I drove up Thursday and spent the afternoon playing on the lake Erie shoreline at 18 Mile Creek. Along the cliffs I found some falls of the higher up strata above the Tichenor limestone and Windom shale. It was Upper Devonian material from (presumably) the Sonyea Formation (Cashaqua Shale), the black Middlesex Shale of the Genesee Formation with the gray West River Shale and the Genundewa and North Evans Limestones. Thanks to Karl Wilson's site for detailing the formations above the Moscow. Normally I only encounter these formations when traipsing upstream in 18 Mile Creek but I was able to access them by walking a couple miles south along the shore line (a bit easier walk than trying to navigate the creek itself). A portion of a carbonized tree that I think is in the Middlesex Shale. Goniatites from either then Genundewa Ls. or the Cashaqua shales. I'm fairly confident that these are Goniatites and not gastropods because of the following that I read in the "Geology and Paleontology of Eighteen Mile Creek", by A.W.Grabau, Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences, Pg. 7,8 I added the italics to the relevant portion of the text. Friday morning I awoke and realized that I'd left my Passport at home. After some frantic e-mailing to Malcolmt and Northernsharks, who were expecting me at sites this weekend, I decided to spend the day at Penn Dixie. Carmine (Xonenine) had mentioned that the club had recently excavated the trilobite beds a little more and I wanted to try my luck again. They had indeed dug the drainage trench deeper and removed some of the overlying layers on top of the "Smoke Creek Trilobite Bed" that is the big attraction for collectors. One of the beds the removed is a brachiopod rich layer and I had some fun splitting up rock from there looking for large inflated Spinatrypa and Pseudoatrypa. Much of the newly exposed Trilobite layers were off limits due to a special event the club was hosting on Saturday, a "Dig with the Experts" where one could come in and dig with experienced club members. Many members were in the excavation area pulling up blocks of the layer to be put into piles for the next day. The idea was to make it a little easier for amateur collectors to get access to the layer without requiring heavy tools and crowding the work pit. They had another area where similar rock had been dug last fall and allowed to weather some so I took a crack and looking in that material for some Trilobites and I did have some success: Continued in next post....