Views of the Mahantango

Years ago I purchased some brachiopods that came from the middle Devonian aged Silica Shale in Ohio. These were fossils that had been collec...

Schizophoria is a genus of brachiopods that I have not personally collected much. I don't often find it in my preferred Middle Devonian ...

Ambocoelia umbonata is an index fossil for me indicating the rocks layers can be dated to the Middle Devonian. It's distinctive size an...

Cupularostrum prolificum is a small ryhnchonellid type brachiopod from the Silica Shale (Devonian, Givetian stage). It is similar looking t...

The triangular shape shell of Cyrtina is very easy to spot. It is a prolific member of many Devonian communities and is one of the more comm...

The small Terebratulid brachiopod Cranaena romingeri is one of the few smooth shelled brachiopods that can be found in the Silica Shale (De...

A few months ago I posted about some Mediospirifer audaculus that I'd finally found fully articulated in the Moscow Formation of New Yo...

Hercostrophia robusta is a new Strophomenid brachiopod for me. It was part of a lot of fossils from the Silica Shale of Paulding, Ohio but ...

I have found one specimen that I can ID as belonging to the Genus Longispina and that specimen was found in the Mahantango formation. Below...

I'm pleased to have an example of Devonochonetes scitulus from the Silica Shale near Sylvania, OH. This is a somewhat common brachiopod...