A Trip to the Devonian Shale of New York Good stuff I'm itching to stray farther afield in search of a trilobite I need to get better at identification first or the trip would be a waste of time Luckily I have lots of Devonian around here (Twin Tiers) for practice It's just the wrong age for trilobites I'm sorry it rained on your trip but glad you enjoyed it anyway It's a nice area
Devonian WNY 2024 Season Summary - The Fossil Forum Currently snowed in so there's no better time to post the summary of my 2024 Devonian fossil hunts I did not get out to as many localities as I wanted to, but still had a good crop of finds DSR is probably 45 minutes from my house and I didn't make it once last year, hoping to make a few times in 2025 especially if members of the forum head
Chasing Trilobites Devonian Discoveries at Lost River Quarry I recently made a couple of trips to Lost River Quarry in West Virginia, and I wanted to share my experience and some of the fossils I found! This spot exposes the Devonian Needmore Formation (about 390 million years old), and from what I’d read beforehand, my main focus was on finding some Trilobites!
Marine fossils from Silurian-Devonian - The Fossil Forum Haas 1968 records 65 species of Silurian-Devonian trilobites from the Istanbul region Pilletina (=Metacanthina) has a few look-alike possibilities for your partial pygidium Haas, W 1968 Trilobiten aus dem Silur und Devon von Bithynien (NW-Turkei) [Trilobites from the Silurian and Devonian of Bithynia (NW Turkey) ]
3d simulation of extinct biomes - The Fossil Forum A lower devonian enviroment with small plants like Asteroxylon, Nothia, Rhynia and Ventarura, these and few other are part of the Rhinie chert (found near the village of Rhynie, Scotland) Edited July 5, 2021 by ftlcgi
A Day in the Lower Devonian with the New York Paleontological Society Member Title: MotM - June 2017 - Devonian Scholar Posted October 19, 2020 Yesterday, Tim (Fossildude19) and myself met at our usual meeting spot and with Tim driving and his downloads playing, we headed north to a planned rendezvous with the New York Paleontological Society's outing at Cobleskill Stone Products just outside Schoharie, N Y
Finding Middle Devonian Fauna In Central Upstate New York The Middle Devonian fossils of Central New York are quite different from those in Western New York (Buffalo area) or eastern New York (Hudson Valley and the Helderbergs) Conditions in all three areas were quite different as the erosion of the Acadian Mountains in New England created a large delta that slowly advanced westward
Glenerie NY - Lower Devonian visit - Fossil Hunting Trips - The Fossil . . . Last weekend, I was able to get together with my fossil buddy @Jeffrey P, and we hit the Lower Devonian, Glenerie Limestone, along Route 9W, near Saugerties, NY The Glenerie Limestone is part of the Tristates Group Lowerd Devonian in age The road cuts are on a busy road, but far enough off the road to not be problematic
Collecting fossils in the Devonian of Eastern NY Here are some of those Middle Devonian finds I promised, the deposit is a deep water deposit and as a result most of the fossils found are the same species of bivalves with the occasional Goniatites and Nautiloids