First Trip to Ordovician, NY

[Rock-Guy-17]

It has been a while since I have made a trip to a new spot, I had some free time last weekend and decided to head out towards some promising localities in Central NY for Ordovician fossils. Found a great place to go through some research and digging. I hit a couple different sections of the same area and found different specimens. I am guessing at some point I wandered out of the Utica fm. and into the Trenton fm.

 

Pictures below, thanks for reading! 

 

 

I got to this one too late, but this could have been an A+ trilobite before it got weathered out. This find was pretty important for telling me which area to work in. 

 

1. Partial trilobite that didn't necessarily break the right way with a cephalopod

 

2. Pyritized disarticulated trilobite partials. 

 

3. Nice triarthrus head. Haven't done enough research to tell the difference between T. beckii and T. eatoni

 

4. Could be my favorite of the trip. Big cephalopod

 

5. Closest I got to a complete triarthrus

 

6. Good size but disarticulated. Found this one early. 

 

7. This is where I believe I moved on to the Trenton. Looks like a flexicalymene cephalon. 

 

 

8. Found this near the suspected flexi 

Edited October 4, 2023 by Rock-Guy-17

[Tidgy's Dad]

Nice.

Always good to do the research and find your own spots. 

[Fossildude19]

Nice finds, Vince.

Thanks for posting them!

[Jeffrey P]

Congratulations on finding a promising site to collect in and thank you for sharing your explorations. You may have been in the Denley Formation- part of the Trenton Group which has both Triarthrus and Calymenid trilobites. The Triarthrus look like Triarthrus becki. Good luck!