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It's become a regular habit for me to visit the site in the Kimmeridgian in the ditch at the side of the road at least once a month. For one thing, it's less than an hour's drive away and it's also relatively easy to work for an old codger like myself. No forging through the woods, clambering uphill and breaking hard rock. All I have to do is get out of the car and mosey a couple of hundred yards down the road and into the ditch. The marley limestone is easy to take apart, and as long as the hypselocylum zone is giving up its offerings, I'll be happy to keep on visiting it regularly. You just have to love the Upper Danube Valley, not only for the fossils, but also purely for it's majestic scenery. I thought to take my camera along today, so I was able to take some shots as I was working away. Spent about 4 hours there and I hit a good spot. Here's the first find after just about 20 minutes. Then they were popping out fairly regularly for the next few hours. Here are a couple of "discovery" and "breaking out" pairs of photos.