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Hi everyone! I recently took a middle/high school group to Beltzville State Park to collect fossils from the Devonian Mahantango Fm. We found the usual plethora of crinoids, bryozoa, trilobites and corals, etc. Upon looking under the microscope, one student found a large amount of these tiny (like 3mm across) star-like creatures in one rock - superimposed upon bivalves and coral. She'd love to know what they are for her assignment. Thanks!

Yesterday was a gorgeous day for a fossil hunting trip, and also the last day of summer before my SO had to go back to school to teach little ones. So the clan of three gathered up our bathing suits, towels, sunscreen and a bag for holding fossil finds, and we drove out to Beltzville, PA, which has a little something for everyone! At first, we were at the swimming beach, playing around and looking for fossils there... well, the pickings were little to none. I think we found a small pebble that had some bryozoans in it. That was about it. I was wondering where all the fossils were? Did we arrive just after they had all been found? I stopped looking at this point (sigh of disappointment) and swam around with my daughter in the warm lake water. We went up for lunch, dried off, and my sweetie got on his phone and did some research on the park. Turns out there are other places around the lake better suited for fossil hunting! Yay! After we ate, and the little one played on the children's playground, we piled back into the car and headed to the other side... Way fewer people, and completely fossilicious!!