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Hello! This was our first trip where we went looking for Devonian fossils in Upstate New York. Being our first time we were not sure about how accessible the location would be. A big thanks to @Fossildude19 and @Jeffrey P for guiding us and without their reassurance we might not have made the trip. We left early and it took us about 4 hours to drive to the location at the Kingston 9W roadcut to mostly surface collect fossils. We reached around 11am and got to work pretty quickly. We collected for about 2.5 hours and decided to stop after the traffic got too heavy. The location was great. There were fossils everywhere one could set their eyes upon. It was unbelievable. We walked around for a while just admiring the great preservation of fossils. Felt like we were on the ocean floor minus the water of course. It was awesome would definitely recommend checking it out but would recommend going early in the day or during weekdays as lesser traffic will let you explore more freely. We found several fossils but mostly Brachiopods which were pretty abundant. The fossils which had fallen out of the matrix were pretty delicate. The preservation in the limestone was great. The finds are as follows. Some pictures of the fossils on the surface which were cool to admire but near to impossible to extract. Mostly Tentaculites and a gastropod hiding Brachiopod heaven Very abundant fossils in every layer. Here are the things we were able to bring with us. A Spiriferid Brachiopod which is buried in many smaller brachiopods and its cross-section. Another Spiriferid brachiopod. A tentaculite imprint along with its fellow brachs. My first Trilo-bit Mostly Brachiopods and tentaculites from here on. A bryozoan of some kind Also need help identifying this one. Here are some of my finds from the trip. I have a lot more pictures which I will put in my gallery. So check that out if you want to see mostly hash plates full of brachiopods which I am planning to extract some brachiopods from hopefully. I might also not because it is too much work and I am not equipped with the equipment to remove them safely. Also what am I supposed to do with all these not so small can't be stored in a box fossils? I can't bring myself to throw them out because they are so pretty. How do you people deal with it? Should I allocate a corner of my basement to rock piles from my fossil hunting adventures? Hope you all enjoyed my post. -Vee

Is this a trilobite segment? Found on the trilobite ridge . The second one is the outline in case you can't see it, sorry it turned itself, I don't know why it did that.

Two things from trilobite ridge. I have absolutely no idea what the first one is, but I'm hoping it's a weird deformed trilobite cephalon, although it's probably not. Is the second (a corkscrew) a crinoid? It's different from the ones I've seen. Sorry one of the first got mixed up in the second.