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Over the Fourth of July weekend, I made my annual pilgrimage to Western NY for a family get-together/reunion. I have been going to the Rushford Lake area for over 20 years now. I usually take a partial day to do some fossil hunting further north and west of that area, closer to Buffalo, NY. This year, as a change of pace from hunting my usually Middle Devonian haunts, I decided to try to get back to a site I went to last year with Jeffrey P that exposes some Silurian aged sediments. I've come across differing opinions on what stratigraphy this site exposes. Some consider this site to be part of the Clinton Group and Lockport Formation, while others consider it to be a Rochester Shale/Lewiston Member exposure. Either way, these fossils are Silurian in age. This is a surface collecting locality, where I get down on hands and knees to search for tiny fossils that have weathered out of the under-laying limestone/shale areas on a hillside. There are chunks of matrix to collect as well, that show hashplates of bryozoans, crinoid, and shell material. I arrived to the site a bit after 8:00 AM. I took my time, and scoured the hillside with a pair of +3.00 reading glasses on, to better see the tiny fossils. It stinks, getting old! This is what the area basically looks like: Rock hammer for scale lower center. As I hunted, I threw interesting looking fossiliferous chunks of matrix down to the bottom of the hill, as I explored the surroundings. I took a few small chunks home to put in the garden to weather out some. I came across a few interesting/photo worthy flora and fauna while hunting. A nice Common Daisy: And a little Yellow caterpillar - possibly a Tiger moth caterpillar: Here he is, on the ground, looking for fossils with me. Note the large amount of ramose bryozoan bits, scattered along the ground. There are also some fenestrate bryozoans, and a Leptaena brachiopod visible in this picture. . I spent about 2 to 2.5 hours at the site, moving along on hands and knees, picking up whatever looked interesting. I found quite a few things. Some corals, both Favosites parasiticus, and Enterolasma caliculus. Ramose and Fenestellid bryozoans. A number of small to miniscule brachiopods - Rhynchonellids, spiriferids, and strophomenids. A few bits of trilobites, both Dalmanites and Flexicalymene. A gastropod, which still needs some prep, and a few crinoid bits. (My identifications come from THIS WEBSITE. ) Here is a group shot of my loose finds. I will have to take some pics this evening or tomorrow of my matrix pieces. I found a really nice, large plate of a crinoid calyx. cystoid! Caryocrinites ornatus. Ruler is in CM. Here are the Trilobites: And a Leptaena with a crinoid (or cystoid?) plate attached, and a tiny brachiopod- unidentified at the moment. More to follow.
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One of my favourite brachiopod groups are the Pentamerida, and I thought I might share a few specimens for those of you interested in such things. They are all of Silurian age and are from three different countries. The first is Pentameroides septentrionalis - a large example from Akimiski Island in Hudson Bay. It is from the Lower Silurian Attawapiskat Formation. The second image is of two Gypidula sp. from the Middle Silurian Wenlock Limestone of the English Midlands. The final specimen is of Kirkidium laqueatum from the Upper Silurian of Indiana, USA. I obtained these species by exchanging with other brachiopod collectors. Hope you like them.
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Schizophoria resupinata And Spiriferid Brachiopods
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From the album: Lower Carboniferous Ireland
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Trip to Deer Lake - Orwigsberg, PA - Mahantango Formation (Middle-Devonian)
Masonk posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
Hi All, I took a trip a couple weeks ago (6/19) out to Orwigsburg, PA to Deer Lake to hunt for Middle-Devonian fossils. Interesting location as the exposed formation (Mahantango) is situated in the parking lot of a local restaurant. It was a hot one, but I managed to find some shade under a few small evergreens. Spent a few hours at the site and did fairly well overall. Found one Trilobite and a section of Cephalopod. Plenty of Crinoids, Brachiopod, Gastropod Steinkerns, Bryozoan and Bivalves.
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Hello all, I am back with another St. Leon hunt. This took place the next day after my previous post. All started well, I took the roughly 2 hour trip to St. Leon and arrived right around noon. The sun was already beating down and I was bound and determined to find a trilobite after looking at @Newbie_1971's finds from the same day. What I didn't except though, was the battle it would take to find one. Once I arrived, I gathered my stuff and tracked up the side of the readout to reach the Liberty formation. Once I was up there, I wanted to go to the very end of the shelf and work my way down, so I had to navigate around a few trees. No sooner than I get up there, I lose my footing and take a hit to my knee. Afterwards I decided to put on my knee pads in case I tripped on air again. Attached is also a picture of the surroundings. So, it was off to a rough start. But, no sooner than I sat down, I found this fella. I sat down, looked to my left, and lo and behold, he was sitting there waiting to be found. Now, I could have SWORE me and my wife checked this exact spot yesterday. He might have just been a little shy is all. At the very end of my trip, I found a teeny one as well, affectionally named Timmy. Beyond the two trilobites I found, which were definitely the highlights of my trip, I found some other goodies as well. Plenty of Zygospira were found. There was several spots you couldn't look down and not seem them littered about. Other notable brachiopods included Plaesiomys Subquadratus and Strophomena. All specimens were in pretty good condition, although there were some that looked like they had went through it, including half of the fossil being nearly flat, and others being curled over themselves. P.S. if the names I am using are incorrect, please let me know. I am still learning! Beyond the brachiopods were plenty of various bryozoans of various sizes, some may be corals, I am really not sure of the difference between the two yet. What I do know is there were fragments of them everywhere you looked. All specimens were very well preserved on this front. Other than the brachiopods and bryozoans, were the gastropods. I am not even going to attempt to identify any of them, but if anyone wants to drop names feel free to! Although my knowledge is limited, the fossils I found were not. Some crinoid fragments were also found, but not as many as other places I have searched. A few other cool finds I am across was a brachiopod on the tip of a bryozoan and another brachiopod attached to the side of a horn coral, and a brachiopod covered in bryozoan. always enjoy finding fossils that show interactions between each other. Lastly, here are a few finds that I'm not sure what they are, if anything. Thought I would include them to look at.
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I was able to get out for a hunt today with my friend Stephen spent about 8hours dealing with the heat and bugs. We found plenty of fossils including brachiopods, bivalves, gastropods, and Dipluera parts and pieces. We were digging in a highly weathered and fractured area and I found the highlight of the day. A weathered and somewhat beat up Dipluera. Not complete but I'm cool with that. Measures at 5 7/16 inches.
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Large Inarticulate Brachiopod from Deep Springs Road
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Lidstroemella aspidum - Acrotretid Brachiopod 1 and 7/8 inches wide Middle Devonian Moscow Formation Windom Shale Hamilton Group Deep Springs Road Quarry Earlville, N.Y.- 2 comments
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Fossil hunting weekend to the Jurassic of Luxembourg (BE & LUX)
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Hi everyone, Two months ago our fossil club the BVP (Belgische Vereniging voor Paleontologie) orginized a fossil hunting weekend to the Jurassic of Luxembourg (Both in Belgium & the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg) during the 13th & 14th april 2024. The first day we visited the Socogetra quarry in Sampont, Arlon, Gaume region, Luxembourg, Belgium. The layers in this quarry date back to the early Jurassic, the sinemurian to be exact, around 200 million years ago. While not an extremely rich quarry when it comes to fossils, potential finds are Bivalves like Pinnidae, Greslya, Cercomya and Cardinia. Currenly there was a temporary exposure where some Gastropods were to be found, which were my personal favorite finds in the quarry. Besides that there is a chance to find ammonites (though very rare) as well as sometimes shark teeth (even rarer) and Brittlestars (very rare). The most common finds are crinoïd stems. Day 1: Sampont, Belgium - 13 april 2024 We met in the morning at a forest road which led to the quarry where we met with the quarry owner who told us a bit about the quarry itself. I soon met with my friends Tom & Tineke who I hang out with most during our hunting trips, and we were joined by another girl called Anne who was new in our club but who decided to hang out with us the entire day. While the finds where sparse and not always of great quality we all did go home with some nice gastropods and lots of Crinoïd stems. But most important of all, we had a fun day with great weather and amazing company! Some people were lucky enough to have found some decent ammonites. This was the spot where we started and ended as it seems the best fossils were to be found here. Full of Crinoid stems and if you started sieving the sand you could find the gastropods. We first searched the surface. Lot's of pieces of Crinoïd stems on the sand. After doing some surface hunting we went to a higher level of the quarry. Here we found some bivalves (though not of great quality) as well as some partial ammonites, though other members managed to find complete ones. Partial weathered ammonite block with Bivalves Me & Tineke After finding not really much at the higher level we went back to our original spot but started sieving instead, it was then that we found some of the nicer gastropods. Cardinia sp.
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Hello everyone, A couple of weeks ago I had the chance to visit a more distant fossil locality - an opportunity that I took to collect some Paleozoic fossils among the scenic Appalachians of eastern West Virginia. Heading out west, I planned to visit a new exposure of the Needmore Shale that I suspected had the potential to produce some nice trilobite specimens. Unfortunately, upon arriving at the locality rain was coming down in droves, effectively ending any chance of prospecting the locality. Hoping to escape the rain, I made my way farther south toward the well known Lost River road cut in the vicinity of Wardensville, West Virginia. As I had hoped I did manage to escape the rain, and I was left with a few hours to search for some Devonian fossils among the fissile green shale. I had only been to the Lost River locality once before late last year, and I had managed to secure the trilobites which had proven rather elusive in the more fossiliferous rocks of the Mahantango. The rain, which did seem to have swept through the area shortly before I arrived, had turned the fine rock dust that coated the talus piles into slippery mud. Above the treacherous talus piles, a large vertical exposure of the Needmore Shale held trilobites and a variety of other shallow marine fauna that had once inhabited a Devonian reef. Here are the finds from both trips I have taken to the Lost River locality: A few small brachiopods from the locality. Unlike other Paleozoic localities I have had the opportunity to visit, brachiopods do not seem to be extremely common at the road cut. I only came across them occasionally, with most being so small they were hard to identify without the aid of a magnifiying glass. A spiral gastropod preserved in iron oxide that contrasts quite nicely with the dark green matrix. On the most recent trip I found the two above specimens exposed on the surface of the shale. They seem like they could be the central lobe of trilobite pygidiums with the other two sections having weathered away. Any insight into what these might be would be greatly appreciated . Rugose coral The specimen above is intriguing. The roundish shape seems to suggest a fossil, though it could very well have a geological origin. I apologize for the poor photographs of the above specimen, but it was incredibly difficult to get the camera to focus on it properly. When I came across this fossil whilst splitting shale, I was quite confident that I had come across a trilobite due to the black calcitic appearance and the 'ribbing' that seemed to define the fossil. Yet after extracting and cleaning the fossil, it does not resemble a trilobite and is very faint even after the shale dust was removed. Any suggestions as to what it might be would be very welcome . Some assorted Dipleura ribs. Some trilobite ribs, likely either belonging to Dipleura or Eldredgeops rana. Eldredgeops rana pygidium preserved in a light yellow color. Enrolled Eldredgeops rana consisting of the body with a partial cephalon (first two images) and the pygidium on the reverse side (last image). The trilobite is flattened, which may be a result of the tectonic forces acting on the rock during the uplift of the Appalachian mountains. Another Eldredgeops rana specimen with considerable relief from the surrounding matrix. This specimen was found in association with a few others, though if it possessed a cephalon it was lost among the chips of shale. A prone Eldredgeops rana molt found on the first outing to the road cut. Positive and negative of an Eldredgeops rana molt. Thanks for taking a look!
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I’ve finally put the last touches on the Paleozoic Shelf for my at-home fossil display, and I’m very happy with how it turned out. It includes fossils from every period of the Paleozoic Era, except the Permian (which has its own shelf). It’s not every Paleozoic fossil I own, but it’s a curated collection of some of the ones best suited for display. They fossils are roughly organized such that they get younger as you go left to right! The large artwork on the background is a print of a piece done by Rob Sula, depicting a Devonian scene. Plus a better view of the Cambrian Explosion case: I love curating my little museum, and I hope you all could get some enjoyment and inspiration out of this post!
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As I wrote in my previous Deep Springs Road Quarry thread, the very next day I was off to Kentucky. Like my other trips there, the purpose was primarily family/social. My father was turning 95. Between spending quality time with family, I was able to visit a couple of my favorite roadcuts exposing Paleozoic marine sediments and collect specimens I don't have access to in New York. The first site I visited was the very first site I was to acquaint myself with in Kentucky years ago. It is located near the town of Leitchfield, about a half hour from my family in Elizabethtown. Years ago, it was my very first exposure to rocks of the Mississippian Age and it has been a favorite ever since. I've visited this site every time I've been to Kentucky in the past seven years. The site, more specifically, is an Upper Mississippian marine site, the Leitchfield Limestone, Glen Dean Member. Since I've been there last year, they've done a bit of work on the road, installed curbs and a sidewalk, severely restricting the offroad parking situation. It also appears they are planting grass which will limit the collecting area. Fortunately, there was enough room to park my car and the collecting area was still open. The weather was pleasant and sunny as I wandered up and down and across the slopes of weathered shale and limestone exploring and searching for specimens. There were a number of rugose corals present, though most were badly weathered I ended up keeping this one- Zaphrentoides spinulosum:
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It was the day before I was supposed to leave for Kentucky, but the only time we could all get together. The weather prediction kept changing every day, finally settling on cloudy with showers later in the afternoon. Tim (Fossildude19) and I met at 6AM at our usual meeting place, a park n' ride off Interstate 84, and drove up to DSR, stopping once in Roscoe, N.Y. off Route 17 at the diner for coffee and Tim's breakfast sandwich. It was my second time going to DSR this year, but I've been there dozens of times since I first visited the site in the spring of 2013. In late 2014, I introduced Tim, my new fossil hunting buddy to the site and suggested it might be a good place for TFF meetups because of the blanket permission to collect there, the easy accessibility and collecting, and the wide biodiversity and abundance of late Hamilton Group specimens there. The following year we did have our first TFF meetup there and the rest is history: Deep Springs Road Quarry is the easternmost exposure of the Middle Devonian Moscow Formation Windom Shale, the same formation and member that is exposed at Penn Dixie and a number of other sites near Buffalo. However, the marine fauna exposed here is far different from those other sites to the west. Trilobites, especially Eldredgeops and rugose corals are more abundant at those other sites. This site, which was much closer to the Catskill Delta, was likely cloudier and this less hospitable to corals which are uncommon to rare at DSR, but more favorable for bivalves and gastropods. Trilobites are not as abundant as they are near Buffalo, but they are still common. While Eldredgeops trilobites can be found, Greenops trilobites are the most common species seen at DSR, and the second most common are Dipleura dekayi which are pretty rare in western New York. We arrived between 9 and 10. The temp was in the 60s, so good. Dave, (Shamalama), Mike (Biotalker), and Veenasaur and her husband were already there digging. I was Tim made me jealous right off the bat, finding the tiny comma-shaped bivalve, Phestia brevirostra, the only bivalve species I have yet to find at DSR in ten years of active searching. Tim did gift me a specimen a few years back, so I do have one in my collection. It was my first time meeting Veenasaur who came up from Massacusetts. I hadn't seen Dave in at least two years. I always appreciate Dave's focus on things most of us overlook and in the process finding real treasures of the prehistoric world. It was also great seeing Mike again. Last time was at Penn Dixie at the Dig with the Experts, roughly a year ago. Mike found wonderful examples of the rare tear-shaped scallop ancesetor, Mytilarca oviformis and Pseudoaviculopecten princeps. Despite being a bit hobbled having had a bicycle mishap the week before resulting in a broken rib, though I was making an excellent recovery by that point, I made a few decent finds: My favorite was this smallish phyllocarid, Echinocaris punctata, both valves. It was in a pile of rocks. I first found the imprint and a few minutes later, the other side, unfortunately broken, but recoverable.
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The past two weeks I've been able to go out collecting a couple of times- two different locations, both Lower Devonian. Where I live the bedrock is all metamorphic. Nice scenery, wooded hills, lakes and wetlands, but metamorphic rock, so I have to drive over an hour to get to the nearest sedimentary exposures that are fossil bearing. My favorite locality that's within an hour and a half is Glenerie, which is located between Kingston and Saugerties just west of the Hudson River. It represents the type locality for the Glenerie Limestone. New York's Lower Devonian is divided into two groups: the Helderberg and the Tristates. The Tristates is the younger of the two and that's where the Glenerie Limestone is placed. I first visited the Glenerie site when I was a teenager. When I resumed fossil collecting 12 years ago, it was one of the first sites I revisited and quickly became a favorite (I lived much closer to it then.) For a while, I was there almost every week and this site was the first one I built up a collection from. As I became acquainted with other fossil sites, I visited Glenerie less often, but in recent years, inspired in part by my fossil hunting comrades, I've been going more. The Glenerie site is very rich in brachiopods which probably make up over 95% of the marine fauna. The vast majority of those are single valve. which display amazing detail in ornamentation, muscle scars, etc. Gastropods, tentaculites, bryozoans, and trilobites make up most of the rest of the fauna. Corals have been found by some of my friends on very rare occasions. I have found a single small nautiloid there as well as a partial crinoid calyx. I saw another this time, but unfortunately, was unable to extract it. The fossils are usually preserved in silica which resists the weathering that dssolves the limestone. Some of the limestone is densely packed with fossil shells. However, the rock is so hard that extracting the fossils which are actually softer than the matrix, is impossible. There are areas of the outcrop, near the top and in crevices where shells weather out complete and can often be obtained intact surface collecting. It was a good day for finding gastropods. I was able to collect a half dozen, including this one, a Platystoma ventricosa- actually two shells side by side, two and a quarter inch across.
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Ordovician Brachiopods from the Hudson Valley, NY.
Jeffrey P posted a topic in General Fossil Discussion
In September 2014, this writer collected a number of specimens of Ordovician Age brachiopods from a site just south of Kingston, NY. Ordovician brachiopods and other shelly fauna are pretty rare in the Hudson Valley despite widespread exposures of Ordovician Age shales, quartzites and slates that occasionally produce graptolites. These tiny casts and imprints found in crumbly shale and siltstone of the proposed Ulster Park Formation, from the top of the Normanskill Group is one of the few exceptions and deserves more extensive exploration. Sowerbyella and Dalmanella Dalmanella and Paucicrura rogata
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Today I met up with some forum members for a group hunt in the Middle Devonian of Central New York. Members @Fossildude19 , his Son Aidan,@Jeffrey P, @Easwiecki, plus five of his friends, as well as @Bjohn170 and his girlfriend Amy. I think i can safely say we all had a very nice day. There were plenty of fossils, good people, and the weather was ok.ok. I was the first one to arrive, bright and early at 7am and i had a couple hoursbefore the others started pouring in. It was Bjohn170's first time doing this type of digging but he and Amy did great finding trilobites. I think they found more then anybody else. Today was a little bit of everything. Trilo's, gastro's, brach's, bivalves, cephalopod, etc... I myself found a few mostly complete Greenops sp. One was the most complete one I have ever found, and nice preservation. I am hoping that everyone who participated in todays hunt will, when they have time, respond and possibly post their finds. I will post my trilos and a few other things but I will start by posting a pic of Bjohn170 (Bryce), with his first ever Trilobite. It was the only pic I took on-site. By the way everyone,please wish Fossildude19 (Tim) Happy Birthday!
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Today was a totally awesome day for fossilhunting here in Central New York! The weather was great for March and I had great company. And I haven't even mentioned the fossils yet. I had made plans to get out on a Devonian dig with my friends Stephen( @Buffalopterus ), Trevor, and Gary. I got to the site around 8am and was delighted that it was nice and Sunny. I was surprised when another car showed up and it turned out to be Eric, ( I can't remember forum name). The other guys showed up around 10, followed by Eric's friend Cassie. I really enjoyed everyone's company we all were joking around and laughing the entire day. As the sun got higher it kept getting warmer. And it seemed that everyone was finding stuff. Trilobites were very abundant today. Everyone found multiples I think 5 mostly complete Dipluera's were found today even though they were all small. I lost track of how many Greenops were found, but it was alot, and there were a couple Eldredgeops in the mix. I will say the the Greenops that were found by Trevor were the biggest and nicest ones that I have ever seen from there. He probably found the most Trilos out of everyone today. Lots of nice Brachs, Bivalves, and Gastros, as well. Just a great day all around. Here are my finds. And yes I got another Dipluera!
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Middle Devonian Fossils - Swatara State Park (Pine Grove, PA)
Masonk posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
Hi All, Took a trip last weekend to break rock @ Swatara State Park. Formation is Mahantango, however as I understand, the material itself is a roadcut transplant from nearby I-81. Spent about 5 hours looking and did fairly well overall. Main goal was trilobites (have yet to find any personally - goal achieved). Highlight is a possible Phyllocarid (suggested species - Echinocaris). I've attempted to ID mostly everything, however please feel free to correct me as I'm still learing. Few photos from the site: Looking down from atop the formation In situ Brachiopod - Cyrtina hamiltonensis? Brachipod?, Mucrospirifer?, Unsure of the 3rd photo. Coral and Sponge have been suggested. Possibly Receptaculites? Or maybe Bryozoan? Trilobite - Trinucleus? Trilobite - Greenops pygidum? Trilobite - Greenops pygidum? Trilobite - Greenops pygidum Crinoid stem?
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Today I was supposed to go Fossilhunting in the Silurian Rochester Shale, but plans got changed. All of the people I was supposed to go with came down with one of the many illnesses going around CNY. One of my friends, Tim, was going to my favorite Devonian site so I decided to go with him. My friend Tim is also a member of my local club and I have known him about 20 years. We met up at one of the thruway exits and he followed me to the site. The day was great, without a cloud in the sky. It was still a bit chilly until the sun got higher. Eventually i was able to take my long-sleeved shirts off and put on my t-shirt. Another club member named Sue, who lives only about 5 minutes from the site showed up unexpectedly after about an hour or so. So the 3 of us chatted it up for a couple hours. The finds were pretty typical of the site and many of the usual suspects showed up. I was very happy to find a complete Eldredgeops roller, which has a disarticulated pygidium, right of the bat. I was even more happy when just a short time later I found another Dipluera which looks so similar to the one I found last week. It was partially covered exactly like last week's that at first I thought it was the negative of that one. After a closer look I realized it was a different one all together. I also found a couple Greenops, that might turn out ok as well. All in all it was another great day with good company. I am really liking how 2024 is turning out for me fossil wise and I hope this streak continues. I hope everyone is doing well.
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A couple weeks ago I was on a fossilunt with my friend Stephen to a Devonian locale near Canandaigua Lake. This was a new spot to me, but is a known spot located on private property. This area is known for crinoids and large Eldredgeops, some up to 3 inches. I went with Stephen and his friend Gary. We arrived shortly after 9am. We parked in the owner's drive way and had a fairly long walk across to cow pastures to get to a creek located in the treeline at the back of the 2nd pasture. This is a Hamilton Group Moscow Formation Middle Devonian site. Crinoid pieces were very abundant in certain layers as well as trilobites in other layers. I found a fewtrilos mostly complete but covered in matrix. Gary found a decent roller. Some rather large corals were found by Stephen. I enjoyed collecting some Naticocema lineata gastrops as these were new to me. I didn't bring a ton of finds home but I was happy with my haul. I am posting pics of my finds, but will post more when I have a chance to take other pics. Some of my finds do not photo well.
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I'm off today not feeling well and was walking my dog. I happened to look down at the rocks in my yard and found this nice thorax and pygidium of a trilobite. I only know the rocks exposed are in the Mahantango. This is the first recognizable fossil I've found aside from small brachs.
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Having just returned from a trip to Oklahoma, I tried identifying my finds from the Lower Devonian's Haragan Formation. Success was had except these five fossils. Any help is graciously accepted! 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
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