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Hello everyone! This past Saturday, July 28, 2018, Victoria @VTinNorthAB and I met up with our families in Arkona, Ontario in order to do a little fossil-hunting together. It was a wonderful day - it was warm with a mix of sun and clouds and we all came away with some great finds! Please enjoy the photos below! Viola (my 7-year-old daughter) and Aviva (Victoria's 7-year-old daughter) in front of the falls at Rock Glen Viola and Aviva climbing a wall of Hungry Hollow's South Pit, searching for button corals and other goodies Adina (Victoria's 4-year-old daughter - it was her birthday!) and Aviva climbing the same wall - Adina was a trooper! Adina and Aviva posing for a picture post-climb Victoria fossil-hunting high up in the South Pit More to come...

Fossils from a recent trip to Rock Glen, Arkona Ontario. Any help in identification will be appreciated! Thanks!! Not sure if the second image is a fossil. Could just by pyrite nodules or something...

Hello fellow members! My name is Lise MacFadden (sounds like "Leez"). I have been living in Arkona for about 10 years now and other members of my family have been here about twice as long. We used to come hunting for fossils just for fun, especially when some young friends would come to visit. It seemed like an exciting pass time for them and of course they always loved it as did I! I have not done much fossil hunting in the last 10 years I have lived here (maybe 4-5 times), but it seems lately I have become a little obsessed with fossils. I imagine it will wear off in time but for now, I am just so excited to find and identify fossils in this area. This forum has been especially helpful to me already, helping me to identify some of the fossils I have found already. Rock Glen park has some amazing specimens, however there is a restriction there and you can only keep one piece of fossil per person, and it can only be a fossil you find on the surface (no digging or poking around). I do enjoy making little piles of fossils on the rocks though, and it doesn't keep me from picking up the pieces I find interesting and adding to the piles, mainly because I don't want to find them a second time! Continuing on down the Ausable River to Hungry Hollow is where the real fun is! You can shovel, scoop, dig and poke at your heart's content. I could spend hours at the pits with my nose to the ground. I was just there at the South pit yesterday. I spent some time scaling the East and South walls of the pit... though it was soft and I couldn't sit or bend down to rest without getting really muddy. Because it was so soft, I had to keep moving and that was tiring. Nevertheless, it was a pleasure just to scope out what was there. I managed to get all the way up the hills, taking the time to plan my steps so I didn't get stuck! I found a bunch of crinoid stems and sections, some interesting coral bits and a few other things I cannot identify yet. There are some really great horn coral pieces there but I did not take any home with me. Next time I will grab a shovel and really dig in! Anyway, if you ever want to know what the weather is like here in the Arkona area, in case you're planning to come and dig, send me a private message and I'll be happy to give you the low down. So far, the North and South pit of Hungry Hollow is accessible and though soft, totally doable. That could change with the next rain but so far so good. I've had great support on this forum so far so thanks to everyone who has been so generous with their knowledge and patient with a newbie like me!

Found some great fossils yesterday. Found some great Mucrospirifers (arkonensis and thedforensis), my first ammonite - though small (1.5cm) and my first Cyrtina and a few things I cannot name. I'm sorry this photo is not better... should have also taken a photo of the underside. I was out hunting with my sister near Rock Glen Ontario and she found it so it's in her posession. Otherwise I would have taken better photos of it. I searched high and low for something similar. We found this on March 27, 2013 in the Ausable river near Rock Glen, Ontario. It appears to be fossilized skin. The underside seems bony with ridges. The closest thing I could find that resembled this texture was the outer flat section of a large trilobite. Any idea what this is?? (about 2 inches wide)

Found in a rock pile of river washed stone at theAusable River near Rock Glen, Ontario on March 28, 2013 Could this be part of a crinoid bloom? I do find quite a few crinoid stems there. The material around it is not soft so I could not wash it away. It is roughly 1" long

Found this today March 28, 2013, near Rock Glen, Ontario, at the Ausable River, high up on the river bank where some new clay had washed down. It was in the clay about 6-8 feet above the water level. It measures approximately 6" long by 3" wide and weighs about 2 pounds... What could this be?? Here are some closer details