Views of the Mahantango

This is the last post dealing with fossils I've found in the Coburg formation for now. As I have only been to the quarry a few times, a...

Lingula is a genus of Brachiopods that is extant today with fossils that have been found back to the Cambrian period. Over that time they s...

I have found a number of Strophomenid type brachiopods on my trips to collect in the St. Mary's Cement Quarry, but it is hard to distin...

Next to Isotelus , Flexicalymene is the most common trilobite in the upper Ordovician. The same is not true in the Coburg formation as I h...

Gastropod fossils from the Paleozoic tend to not have any shell preserved with some exceptions to that rule. In this case, it is true. Sinu...

When you see a small rounded pebble looking thing on the ground, you often think it is just a water worn pebble. However, when you find it ...

I'm told by fellow collectors that Ectenocrinus canadensis is the most common crinoid that is found in the Coburg formation. I've m...

By far the biggest attraction at the St. Mary's Cement quarry is the possibility of finding the trilobite Pseudogygites latimarginatus ...

Today's fossils are what I believe to be Dalmanella testudinaria . I am not entirely 100% certain on this only because there are a numb...

One of the more common species of Brachiopod in the upper Ordovician is Ryhnchotrema . This genus of Ryhnchonellids are generally small and...