Views of the Mahantango

In the black oil shales of the Collingswood member of the Whitby formation there are often found great shoals of Ostracod fossils.William He...

There are five different species of Euglyphella ostracod found in the Silica Shale. Below is one I found in my sample from Sylvania, Ohio. ...

Another Ostracod from the Silica Shale sample from Sylvania, OH that I've found is Ulrichia. A review of the book "Ostracods o...

Jumping over to the Silica shale here is a Arcyzona ostracod that I found in the Silica Shale. Looking through the book "Ostracods...

Continuing my search through the screened remains of the Centerfield member of the Ludlowville formation (Devonian, Givetian stage), I came ...

Parsing through a sample of the Centerfield Limestone looking for microfossils, I was pleasantly surprised to find some small "rice gra...

Here are another couple of Ostracod fossils from the Arkona Shale. They are Quasillites and I think they are Q. concentricus . They stand ou...

Here is one of the Ostracods I have been able to identify from my Arkona screenings. I think they are Poloniella cingulata . This is a speci...

I ran a sample of the Arkona shale through my screen set to see what I could find. I didn't look too long or closely as this was meant t...

Microcyclus sp. are solitary corals that lived on the muddy bottoms of the Devonian sea 389mya and were preserved as part of the Arkona for...

I took a trip not long ago up to an old quarry that I'd head about near Lock Haven, PA. The quarry exposes the Silurian aged Mifflintown...