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Hello. I have always been a naturalist but am relatively new to fossils. Since I work all week, my time is somewhat limited so I only have time on weekends for fossil excursions, but I have done a few now to Middle and Lower Devonian sites in Western New York and Southeastern New York, Catskills and Mohawk Valley. Just this past weekend I made pilgrimage to the Kalkberg Formation on the Rickard Hill Road site in Schoharie which was a great time. I recently bought a Dremel engraver and am on the very first steps of learning how to prepare fossils. I decided to join the forum for a few reasons: I would like to share and keep track of my findings, to learn more about fossil hunting and prepping, and to contribute where I can. Edited to add: I need to figure out how to keep track of fossils I find so that my Lower Devonian and Middle Devonian collections don't get mixed up. If anyone has advice on how to store them, even temporarily, I would appreciate it. Right now I just have fossils all over the place.
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- Delaware County
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Hello everyone! So a while ago I collected a couple of rocks while fishing up near Plattsburgh, NY. These rocks were from the Ordovician Trenton Group and contained a variety of organisms including inarticulate brachiopods and corals. More importantly though, were the variety of trilobites. In one of the rocks I found pieces of Isotelus, Cryptolithus, and Ceraurus. I was looking at a small piece of that rock yesterday when I noticed a strange little fossil. It was a tiny, spiny free cheek of a trilobite! It looks very similar to Meadowtownella trentonensis although it could be a different species. I do apologize if the pics aren’t great but the fossil is so small that I had to use my microscope to see any detail lol. Also, how do I get my images to be not turned sideways? Thanks for looking! Owen
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- middle ordovician
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Hello, I live in "Upstate New York and have recently gotten into fossils. I've always had a small collection of fossils, mostly pieces I find when hiking and a nice box of some beautiful petrified wood. This summer I took a family trip to Penn Dixie and loved it. I found it very relaxing and it was great to come home with the kids and inspect the fossils and discuss them. I travel all over central New York for work and am looking for little spot where I can do so fossil hunting for an hour or two or check out some places for the weekend before the snow covers everything. If you have and tips for a crazy person that spends their lunch break looking at rocks on the side of the road, send them my way. Thanks
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I found these two when I was a child in Orange County, NY. Does anyone have an ID? From what I can tell, they're Goniatites. I can post more pictures if these aren't clear enough. Thanks! Here are the pictures. For some reason, it's not letting me upload them here. https://imgur.com/a/tRRAfi1#BtnFMPp
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- goniatite
- goniatites
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Brought my son fossil hunting today up in schoharie ny and he found something that sort of resembles a trilobite.
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- rickard hill schoharie
- trilobite
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