Quick stop at Port Jervis Area

[Nate B]

I'm a pretty new fossil hunter and have been on the lookout for spots wherever I go. I took a trip past the Port Jervis area yesterday and stopped at a small creek running into the Delaware.

 

The original spot I was planning on visiting had been closed off since the information I got about it had been posted.

There was a wide variety of Devonian(?) shells and crinoids that had been carried down from a hill above.

 

I attached some of the better pieces I found. I'm not sure what the small speckled patch on one find is though, any info would be great!

 

 

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[Fossildude19]

1-3  - are spiriferid brachiopods of some sort. They are internal molds, and as such, difficult to ID.

4 -  is  a crinoid and bryozoan hash plate.

5 - Could be a bryozoan.

6 -  is a bivalve, maybe something similar to Modiomorpha, but could be something different. Hard to tell, as again, it looks to be an internal mold.

7 - Looks like an imprint of Mucrospirifer mucronatus.

8 - is a bunch of crinoid stems and columnals.

9 - looks like a brachiopod death assemblage, the larger spiriferid variety.  Maybe something like Mediospirifer or Spincyrtia.

[Nate B]

Thanks for the info!

[Jeffrey P]

These all look like specimens from the Middle Devonian Mount Marion Formation. Nice finds!