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Hello! I am looking for some spots to go fossil hunting in Durham/GTA. (Greater Toronto Area) I don’t have a car so the more local the better! I have already been to Hayden Shores and collected many trilobites but it’s just not as good as it used to be.

So jumped out after work again today. Same deal. Found 3 or 4 frags within minutes of arriving. I was stoked and was feeling that today was going to be the day. But it turned out to not be the day. I did find some super cool stuff and I really need to start taking the time to take more in the field photos to share with you guys. I just feel so rushed since time is limited and I am after what seems to be a unicorn ... hahaha. I found a couple huge sections of bryzoan I believe, and numerous other fossils including lots, and lots of trilo-bits. The past couple of days I have been leaving almost all of them and keeping just a few. Anyhow....here are a few photos from today. First photo, cephalopod, and not sure what the dark string looking thing to the right of my hand is. Any ideas guys? Second photo, a few trilo-bits that I brought back. See if you can see them. Third another section of matrix containing a head and butt. Last photo, the longest run of crinoid stem that I have found to date. Thanks for looking, and if you have any tips that may help me out in my search, please feel free to share. Thanks to you that have given me tips and advice, I appreciate it greatly!

Yesterday I decided to make the journey across the border to check out the Penn Dixie site. My ever obliging bf (pictured) joined me as another set of eyes and so he could have fun hitting things with a hammer. Neither of us had ever done anything like this so I wasn't really sure what to expect! But I think we got a pretty good haul for a first time visit. Shout out to our tour guide Kevin for the nice intro to the site and tips on tool use. I am already itching to go back, I had to force myself to leave because I was certain a nice plate of multiple prone trilobites was just certain to be in the next shale we split... Will reply with more pics

One of the biggest regrets in my years of fossil collecting is never getting the chance to collect from the piles of Ordovician Martinsburg fm. material placed in the Swatara Gap Park by PennDOT. I had only just begun to collect fossils when that happened and by the time I was old enough to do proper research and learn about it the piles had pretty much been depleted. We still did end up visiting the Park, collecting from the Devonian layers there. After learning about the Swatara Gap site though I have been fascinated by the blind trilobite Cryptolithus. With its long genal spines and lace collar the trilobite has a very unique appearance. Recently my dad and I decided to make a renewed effort to collect some Ordovician trilobites. I did some research and it seemed like our best bet was to make a trip to VA/WV. Armed with a list of potential sites we made the all day trip there and back. Our first stops were in Northern Virginia. We scouted a few road cuts, but due to the hot sun and some very aggressive ticks, we quickly moved on when we did not see any evidence of fossils. My parents are planning to move to Virginia in the next few years so we might come back to scout the cuts again when the conditions for exploration are better. From there we crossed the border into West Virginia and settled on a known site for Ordovician trilobites. We spent the good part of the day at this site before making the trip back to New Jersey. We came away with a good assortment of Ordovician fossils, including some bits of Cryptolithus tesselatus. The quality certainly does not compare to what was found at Swatara Gap, but I am happy to have some examples in my collection now. I have found some additional places to add to my list of potential sites, so my chase for quality Cryptolithus fossils will go on! Cephalons of Cryptolithus tesselatus Pygidia of Cryptolithus tesselatus Cheeks of Cryptolithus tesselatus Part of a Pygidium of Odontopleura Thorax and Pygidium of Flexicalymene granulosa Partial Cephalon of Flexicalymene granulosa My guess is that this is a partial cephalon of Isotelus but I am not sure Ectenocrinus simplex Sowerbyella Dalmanella Climacograptus A cool 3-D Bryozoan

Hello ! I present you my very small collection. I started it last summer, so I do not have many pieces yet, but I prefer pretty pieces. I do not have the chance to search on the field, so I buy my fossils. We have: Keichousaurus Hui, I really like his broken tail Russian trilobite, Asaphus punctatus (I have not been able to label it yet). Restoration verified with violet lamp, less than 10% Spinosaurus tooth, correct quality, only glued but with pieces of the same tooth Last Acquisition: caudal vertebra spinosaurus I am going to buy other teeth of theropauds (carcharodontosaurs) in the next few months and I am mainly interested in dinosaurs fossils. See you soon !

Hello everyone, I found this large trilobite pygidium today which is the largest piece of trilobite I have ever found in the area, the pygidium measuring nearly 2 inches long. Judging by the trilobits I usually find I think the area is Devonian as I have trilobits I've previously found I believe are from eldregops and greenops. The problem with this site is it's imported material from somewhere in upstate new york so I'm not 100% percent sure. Though I believe it's devonian I don't know of any species with a pygidium this size personally so would anymore with more expertise help me find an ID of what species this can belong to, I'd love to know since I can't see myself coming across another one of these in the tiny area I get to look in.

Hello, this trilobite was found in rock from somewhere upstate new york. It was an interesting shape different from what I have found before but it is very worn to tell exactly what it is to my knowledge, is it to broken up to id? If not I'll let the new york trilobite experts here take this one. The trilo measures a little over an inch.