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Hello, as I mentioned in a recent post, today I led a group with several students from my college to the Montour Fossil Pit and Preserve. All of the members found fossils and several of them want to have their fossils ID’d. These images come from one such member who wants to have her fossils ID’d. I think I know what some of them are and there are others I have no ideas about. Here are my guesses: 1.) Some sort of Bivalve probably Cypricardella? 2.) Very Large Strophodonta 3.) Some sort of brachiopods, I dont know about the bottom left, I can also ask her for a higher quality photo of it if that would be helpful 4.)Crinoid Stem 5.) Center: Horn Coral?, Top and Bottom: Brachiopods 6. Some kind of Gastropod, Can’t identify genus. It is totally possible that I am wrong about many of these, (except the crinoid stem, I’m pretty sure of that one), but any help with these would be appreciated.

This was published in my local paper. I visited this site when I was in third grade, almost 40 years ago. It's about a 30 minute drive from my home. I'll have to visit some time again and take my kids. Looks like fun! http://www.pressenterpriseonline.com/daily/051017/page/1/story/fossil-pit-makes-impression