sTamprockcoin Posted September 24, 2017 Share Posted September 24, 2017 A friend gave me directions to a locality in Huntingdon/Centre County PA. This is a excavation in the Lower Member of the Ordovician Reedsville Shale (possibly now called the Antes Shale). There were lots of Bryzooians, a variety of shells some with pyrite coatings, trilobites, and crinoid stem pieces. Most all of the fossils seemed to be casts/molds. The shale is so fissile that it was difficult to collect anything whole!I can't wait to get back and sped some time doing some actual digging & splitting though Wednesday was a beautiful day to spend in the woods. I probably would have collected more but kept getting distracted by the 3 or 4 kinds of butterflies flitting around. The last two photos show things that I'm not sure what they are. The circled item is on a small plate almost covered with bryzooians. Link to post Share on other sites
sTamprockcoin Posted September 24, 2017 Author Share Posted September 24, 2017 This was one of my distractions! Link to post Share on other sites
Fossildude19 Posted September 24, 2017 Share Posted September 24, 2017 Great report and finds, Tim! Always fun to get to a new place to hunt. Those trilos look like Flexicalymene sp., perhaps. Not sure what your odd one is, although I would guess some sort of coral. Thanks for posting them. Link to post Share on other sites
Plax Posted September 26, 2017 Share Posted September 26, 2017 Nice! I miss central PA. I recall the Antes having Triarthrus trilobites also. Link to post Share on other sites
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