Swarthmore Fossil Hunting Club Visits the Montour Fossil Pit

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Hello all, yesterday I led a trip to the Montour Fossil Pit with several other Swarthmore students as one last fun thing to do before final season begins and everyone gets consumed by work. We had 5 people in total including myself there and we had quite a good time. Currently I am in the process of receiving images of everyone’s finds and several students want their stuff ID’d so I have a post for that under the proper section to get their questions answered but I thought everyone would enjoy a more general trip-report style post, I will update this post with other people’s finds as they come in.

 

Here are my finds:

 

A coral stem

 

 

 

 

A partial bivalve with both sides preserved.

 

 

 

Mediospirifer brachiopod

 

 

 

 

 

What appears to be a spirifer brachiopod with all the folds well preserved.

 

 

 

 

 

 

2 Chonetes brachiopods, one with a crinoid stem fossil as a bonus.

 

 

 

 

And finally my favorite find of the day, a very very small Greenops pygidium, which was preserved in great detail.

 

 

 

Hope you all enjoy these!

 

Caleb