Shale road finds and cotton hill coral bed

[Tjbfossils]

Since I’m new here I’d like to show some of my finds from a past trip searching a freshly covered dirt road in Berne, NY, ...  and a nearby shale pit that is on the Cotton Hill Coral Bed.

 

The shale road has had trucks brought in from two locations. One being from the shale pit I also explored but the other is unknown.

Dr. Bartholomew has helped me identify many of the finds. I found one nice trilobite that I was told is a proetid so I’m happy about that.

 

The gastropod is a Bembexia. Both of these from the unknown location as well as the clams in the upper left and the cephalopod pieces.

 

 The large bivalves are Grammysia bisulcata from the Cotton Hill Bed. The round brachiopod is a Lindstomnella from the Cotton Hill Bed.

 

The small Favosites is also from the bed. We found some Favosites in this location that were almost 5 feet across.

 

I have one that we managed to get into the truck that is three foot by three foot.

The Cotton Hill Bed is amazing, and loaded with fossils. There are horn corals laying everywhere as well as Favosites.

 

It’s truly awesome to see how filled with life the area was millions of years ago. 

 

 

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[Tjbfossils]

Looks like they didn’t all go through so here are the other pictures. Thanks for reading! I love stalking all your posts lol.

 

 

 

 

 

[Tjbfossils]

This is the large favosite and one that’s about 10 inches

across. 

[Fossildude19]

Nice finds! The images need to be in .JPG format to show up on the Forum.

Yours are .DNG format.

 

Your last item in the second post is an Orthonata undulata bivalve.

[Isotelus2883]

Great bug.