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Hey all! I thought I’d share some finds from this weekend. Me and my fossil protege @ChasingGhostsYT spent Sunday morning digging the Shawangunk formation in search of Eurypterids and the afternoon was spent digging the Lockatong formation. On the Eurypterid front tons of specimens were collected but a lot of them still need prep and cleaning. See attached photos below. The Lockatong was more difficult for me as i haven’t spent to much time collecting it, but I did manage to collect a track and some unimpressive fish scales. Below I’ll attach a picture of a Eurypterid or 2 the track and me digging the Eurypterids and me and Zach enjoying are chicken. I’ll have a lot to share after this weekend but for now thanks for looking!

Found this flipping rocks this afternoon. Curious if anyone has any ideas or takes. Location in title. Looks like some sort of bone to me. Any thoughts or resources would be appreciated!

Hi everyone, over the weekend I checked out a site about 3 miles away from me. I was told by a friend who had collected in an area very close to this site decades ago that there used to be fish partials there. Unfortunately, the site he was talking about is now filled in and the whole general area is overgrown. I've driven past this stream too many times to count, and given its proximity to a fish fossil site I figured that it would be worth checking out. The point of my trip was to find some arkose or siltstone just to see if it was even there, which it was. View of the stream this photo doesn't do it much justice, but this little outcrop of rock (siltstone? shale? sandstone?) was about 6 feet wide. Enigmatic bean-looking thing (fossil?). I ended up misplacing this piece, I came home and couldn't find it. The best scale reference I can give is that an average sized thumb would perfectly fit inside of it. The bean-looking thing is the only find of note from my quick excursion to the site, I'm not entirely sure on whether it's a fossil or just a geological thing.

Hi Everyone I was driving along a New Jersey Highway Rt 46 where there was some road work being done with a large amount of spoil piles and after making my second trip to this site I found this slab laying on top of some other rocks and I noticed that this one looked different then any of the other one ,,being that this one appears to have some impressions of some kind and all the others with mica particles didn't have any at all. I think they may be a trace fossil of some sort of vegetation. What you you think it might be. There are other areas that contain these raised ridged patches,,but are to faint for me to capture with my camera.