Views of the Mahantango

I don't usually collect random fossil traces when in the field, but I felt these two examples would be worth saving. I'm not sure w...

A trip to Arkona last fall yielded a fine specimen of Mucrospirifer arkonensis that is perhaps the most complete specimen I've found to...

I found two interesting fossils in the Utica shale (Ordovician, Darriwillian stage) while looking for Trilobites this past fall. Both appear...

Among the rocks in the large road cut north of Avoca, NY on I-390 (that I blogged about a couple of days ago) were these trace fossils. The...

I'm showing off some starfish today starting with these Asteriacites lumbricalis from the Raethian stage of the Triassic that were foun...

Being that the Mahantango formation is Devonian in age, more specifically Givetian stage, it is not uncommon to find pieces of pyritized bra...

What looks like a starfish fossil is, in fact, a trace fossil. It represents where a starfish burrowed into the sediment to hide and rest or...

A common find in the brooks of Monmouth county, NJ are these preserved burrows called Ophiomorpha nodosa . They are the former homes of a sp...

While sorting through some fossils from the Verulam formation, in preparation for a display I was putting together for the DVPS show, I foun...

Today I have some odd trace fossils to show you. They are called Conostichus and come from the Pennsylvanian rocks of Texas. Most often foun...

This is a piece of Quartzite with Skolithos trace fossils present. Skolithos is the name given to the thin vertical tubes that you can see r...