Successful Trips to the Silurian, NY

[Rock-Guy-17]

Over the last 10 days I have made three trips to an outcrop in NY that exposes some Silurian material. After doing some research on the stratigraphic beds that occur in this unit I decided to head out and give it a shot. As soon as I showed up on the first day I found a negative of a complete Dalmanites sp. trilobite on a large boulder that someone decided to leave behind. I did not see any more than partials and brachiopods for the rest of the first day. I had much more success on the second and third day. Plenty more not pictured such as corals, brachiopods, and trilobite partials. Spent some long hours excavating this outcrop, will probably close the book on this one for the season. Pictures below. 

 

Complete Dalmanities sp. that I split open today. 

 

 

A Trimerus sp. trilobite that was broken apart when excavated. The rock that the cephalon is attached to was found adjacent to the body. The unit is very fossil barren so estimate the head comes from this body. 

 

Not entirely sure what this is, found by a friend.

 

This straight line is also an unknown

 

An interesting cephalon, not sure about this one either

 

Graptolite fossil

 

Eye of Dalmanities sp. trilobite. Did not encounter any other eyes while splitting shale. 

 

 

 

 

 

[Fossildude19]

Looks like you did well. Congratulations.

First unknown is a conularid.

Second is an orthocone cephalopod.

Third looks like a hypostome. Probably Trimerus.

[FossilNerd]

Nice finds! I agree with Tim’s assessment. The Conulariid is my favorite of your unknowns. Neat little critters.

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conulariida

[Darktooth]

Congratulations on a successful hunt! I love that Dalmanites!