Thanks for the info.  Since it is a long drive to that area for me and since I
know of productive sites in the Buffalo area it sounds like I should pass on
that site.  I don't get to make that trip very often.

Pete


--- On Mon, 2/16/09, vtcodger <donald.kenney@...> wrote:

> From: vtcodger <donald.kenney@...>
> Subject: [NEPaleo] Re: Spring Creek NY Fossil Collecting
> To: NEPaleo@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Monday, February 16, 2009, 7:25 PM
> --- In NEPaleo@yahoogroups.com, "facops13"
> <facops13@...> wrote:
> >
> > Does anyone have info regarding pyritized fossils st
> Spring Creek
> in
> > Alden NY.  I was there a while back but didn't
> have much luck
> (plus I
> > sprained my ankle).  It's possible I didn't
> find the exact spot or
> > outcrop.
> > I know it's still winter but a few warm days has
> gotten me to
> start
> > planning collecting trips.
> > Any info would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Pete
> >
> I collected there a couple of times a great many decades
> ago.  My
> faint recollection is that I sort of mucked around at or
> near the
> US20 bridge over Spring Creek.  As I recall, the pyritized
> fossils
> are in nodules in the creek bed -- typically a couple of cm
> in
> diameter -- many smaller, a few larger.  I think I found a
> couple of
> brachiopods, a straight cephalopod, a small bivalve, and a
> poorly
> preserved Phacops trilobite.  There are also trilobites --
> Greenops
> and Phacops in the clay of the banks.  But they are
> incredibly
> fragile and very difficult to collect even if you manage to
> find
> one.
>
> The pyrite nodules apparently need to be treated.  Mine
> decayed over
> a period of decades and took a few previously stable
> specimens from
> other localities with them when they went.

--- In NEPaleo@yahoogroups.com, "facops13" <facops13@...> wrote:
>
> Does anyone have info regarding pyritized fossils st Spring Creek
in
> Alden NY.  I was there a while back but didn't have much luck
(plus I
> sprained my ankle).  It's possible I didn't find the exact spot or
> outcrop.
> I know it's still winter but a few warm days has gotten me to
start
> planning collecting trips.
> Any info would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks
> Pete
>
I collected there a couple of times a great many decades ago.  My
faint recollection is that I sort of mucked around at or near the
US20 bridge over Spring Creek.  As I recall, the pyritized fossils
are in nodules in the creek bed -- typically a couple of cm in
diameter -- many smaller, a few larger.  I think I found a couple of
brachiopods, a straight cephalopod, a small bivalve, and a poorly
preserved Phacops trilobite.  There are also trilobites -- Greenops
and Phacops in the clay of the banks.  But they are incredibly
fragile and very difficult to collect even if you manage to find
one.

The pyrite nodules apparently need to be treated.  Mine decayed over
a period of decades and took a few previously stable specimens from
other localities with them when they went.

Does anyone have info regarding pyritized fossils st Spring Creek in
Alden NY.  I was there a while back but didn't have much luck (plus I
sprained my ankle).  It's possible I didn't find the exact spot or
outcrop.
I know it's still winter but a few warm days has gotten me to start
planning collecting trips.
Any info would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
Pete

Hello!

Great place to dig is the Penn Dixie Quarry, in Hamburg, NY - just
south of Buffalo and Niagra. See their website here:

http://www.penndixie.org/

Have dug there in the past for a nominal fee, and found lots of
Trilobites and other fossils. The staff are friendly and helpful. And
if you strike out, they might even give you a fossil or two!


Also - At the intersection of Milestrip and Abbot roads, there is a
Firehouse. Behind the firehouse is Smokes creek - big parking lot, and
picnic facillities. If you walk in the stream, there are things
weathering out of the shale. Trilobites, brachiopods, and corals.

Good Luck .

Tim, aka Fossildude19

I invite you to visit my website The Dead Bug in Amber Club
(http://snakefly.tripod.com/) and check my inventory of amber with
insects from the Dominican Republic.

If you have questions, I'll try to answer them.

Thank you,

Yale Goldman

hi everyone my parents are bring my son to niagrafalls for a week and
want  to do some digs he loves any fossil but his really looking for a
trylobite dig does any one now of any places between northern nj -
canada that they could hit on there way it will be in aug.
thanks

Hi Stan,

Welcome to the group. One of my favorite sites is the Schoharie site. I
go there quite often in the warmer months. I used to collect in my
uncle's farm in Center Valley, just outside of Worcester, NY. But when
he passed on about 5 years ago, the farm got sold and i haven't been
back. I tried to hit the Little Falls site last summer but got lost, so
I ended up in Herkimer instead.

Jeff

--- In NEPaleo@yahoogroups.com, "Stan" <stanl55745@...> wrote:
>
> Hello, I just joined the group. I collect in upstate NY, mostly in
> Madison and Oneida counties. I would be interested in hearing from
> others who collect in the upstate central NY area.
>
> Stan
>

Hello, I just joined the group. I collect in upstate NY, mostly in
Madison and Oneida counties. I would be interested in hearing from
others who collect in the upstate central NY area.

Stan

Hello, I just joined the group. I collect in upstate NY, mostly in
Madison and Oneida counties. I would be interested in hearing from
others who collect in the upstate central NY area.

Stan

Just joined. In the Northeast I've collected in NJ, along C&D canal
and Blackbird,DE but was spoiled by Peace River.

hi everyone i am a new member i live in nj i am doing this for my 8
year old son who is a crazy rockhound palio in traing. he has been on 3
fossil digs and several mining digs from ny nj pa and ark.
hes so crazy for his b-day we got him a sterioscope collage grade not a
toy. we are always looking for digs that we can do on day trips. if any
good ideas come up or group trips let me know. he is still to yound to
sighn up for the mineral soc. up here he has to be 13 but he digs
better then i do.and knows a hell of a lot more.
we are in hardwick nj
jess

----- Original Message -----

From: schwmic

To: NEPaleo@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2008 9:26 PM

Subject: [NEPaleo] Peace River

Hey guys...going down to Peace River in Florida with my son. Any
advice is appreciated.
Thanks,
Mike

Hey guys...going down to Peace River in Florida with my son.  Any
advice is appreciated.
Thanks,
Mike

Welcome Elizabeth, I used to live in Waukesha. Good quarries in the area
with some very nice fossils.
Dave


-----Original Message-----
  From: Bluefizzure Copywriting & Design Breakthroughs
<bluefizzure@...>
To: NEPaleo@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 11:15 pm
Subject: [NEPaleo] New Member in Wisconsin






Hi all,

I just joined, and wanted to let you know that i'm rekindling a love
for collecting and looking for rocks and fossils i've had all my life.
I live in the Milwaukee, Wisconsin area. I'm getting back into going to
rock shows and also looking for rocks and fossils.

I'm not sure if Wisconsin is considered part of the NE, but i'm
interested in learning of places within driving distance of Milwaukee,
plus other fun places to look in the U.S.

Thank you, and I look forward to "meeting" you all and hearing your
experiences.

Elizabeth

Hi all,

I just joined, and wanted to let you know that i'm rekindling a love
for collecting and looking for rocks and fossils i've had all my life.
I live in the Milwaukee, Wisconsin area. I'm getting back into going to
rock shows and also looking for rocks and fossils.

I'm not sure if Wisconsin is considered part of the NE, but i'm
interested in learning of places within driving distance of Milwaukee,
plus other fun places to look in the U.S.

Thank you, and I look forward to "meeting" you all and hearing your
experiences.

Elizabeth

Yep, that's the one.
>
> Hey Henry, Is it the one you showed me, thats in your basement? i
am
> not sure if it's a fish head but it sure looks like one!)
>
> --- In NEPaleo@yahoogroups.com, "Henry" <digsfossils@> wrote:
> >
> > I own the fish head.
> > http://digsfossils.com/fossils/misc_fossils.html
> > And I still think it's a fish head.  LOL
> >
> >
> > >
> > > Big Brook has produced some pretty neat pseudofossils.  Anybody
> > remember that amazing iron concretion "fish head?"  It had eyes,
> > gills and pouty fish lips.  It really, really looked like a fish
> > head.  But, alas, it was just one of nature's little jokes.  I
> still
> > have a handful of concretions that look like teeth, ammonites and
> > other just plain weird shapes.  Both the darker iron (hematite or
> > limonite?) and the siderite concretions take on many bizarre
> forms. 
> > >  
> > > The conditions at Big Brook in the Late Cretaceous were not
> > conducive to terrestrial footprints.  That water was deep.  But
> there
> > have been footprints found in the soft clays of the Raritan(?)
> > Formation.  Those were found many years back while mining for
> brick
> > clay.
> > >
> > > Erich Rose, Exhibit Designer
> > > 807 The Living End
> > > Austin, TX 78746
> > > 512-382-7197
> > >
> > > --- On Thu, 8/7/08, Henry <digsfossils@> wrote:
> > >
> > > From: Henry <digsfossils@>
> > > Subject: [NEPaleo] Re: footprint id help...
> > > To: NEPaleo@yahoogroups.com
> > > Date: Thursday, August 7, 2008, 4:53 AM
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Sorry, but it couldnt be a dino print. But it is an interesting
> > looking
> > > concretion.
> > > >
> > > > hey all...i went to big brook collecting last weekend. along
> with
> > a
> > > > bunch of shark teeth and other fossils, i found a dino track.
> im
> > not
> > > > sure what type of dino made it, but it is very cool. ive
> posted
> > pics
> > > of
> > > > it in the album titled big brook footprint. mabye someone out
> > there
> > > can
> > > > id it for me.
> > > >
> > >
> >
>

Hey Henry, Is it the one you showed me, thats in your basement? i am
not sure if it's a fish head but it sure looks like one!)

--- In NEPaleo@yahoogroups.com, "Henry" <digsfossils@...> wrote:
>
> I own the fish head.
> http://digsfossils.com/fossils/misc_fossils.html
> And I still think it's a fish head.  LOL
>
>
> >
> > Big Brook has produced some pretty neat pseudofossils.  Anybody
> remember that amazing iron concretion "fish head?"  It had eyes,
> gills and pouty fish lips.  It really, really looked like a fish
> head.  But, alas, it was just one of nature's little jokes.  I
still
> have a handful of concretions that look like teeth, ammonites and
> other just plain weird shapes.  Both the darker iron (hematite or
> limonite?) and the siderite concretions take on many bizarre
forms. 
> >  
> > The conditions at Big Brook in the Late Cretaceous were not
> conducive to terrestrial footprints.  That water was deep.  But
there
> have been footprints found in the soft clays of the Raritan(?)
> Formation.  Those were found many years back while mining for
brick
> clay.
> >
> > Erich Rose, Exhibit Designer
> > 807 The Living End
> > Austin, TX 78746
> > 512-382-7197
> >
> > --- On Thu, 8/7/08, Henry <digsfossils@> wrote:
> >
> > From: Henry <digsfossils@>
> > Subject: [NEPaleo] Re: footprint id help...
> > To: NEPaleo@yahoogroups.com
> > Date: Thursday, August 7, 2008, 4:53 AM
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Sorry, but it couldnt be a dino print. But it is an interesting
> looking
> > concretion.
> > >
> > > hey all...i went to big brook collecting last weekend. along
with
> a
> > > bunch of shark teeth and other fossils, i found a dino track.
im
> not
> > > sure what type of dino made it, but it is very cool. ive
posted
> pics
> > of
> > > it in the album titled big brook footprint. mabye someone out
> there
> > can
> > > id it for me.
> > >
> >
>

I own the fish head.
http://digsfossils.com/fossils/misc_fossils.html
And I still think it's a fish head.  LOL


>
> Big Brook has produced some pretty neat pseudofossils.  Anybody
remember that amazing iron concretion "fish head?"  It had eyes,
gills and pouty fish lips.  It really, really looked like a fish
head.  But, alas, it was just one of nature's little jokes.  I still
have a handful of concretions that look like teeth, ammonites and
other just plain weird shapes.  Both the darker iron (hematite or
limonite?) and the siderite concretions take on many bizarre forms. 
>  
> The conditions at Big Brook in the Late Cretaceous were not
conducive to terrestrial footprints.  That water was deep.  But there
have been footprints found in the soft clays of the Raritan(?)
Formation.  Those were found many years back while mining for brick
clay.
>
> Erich Rose, Exhibit Designer
> 807 The Living End
> Austin, TX 78746
> 512-382-7197
>
> --- On Thu, 8/7/08, Henry <digsfossils@...> wrote:
>
> From: Henry <digsfossils@...>
> Subject: [NEPaleo] Re: footprint id help...
> To: NEPaleo@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Thursday, August 7, 2008, 4:53 AM
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Sorry, but it couldnt be a dino print. But it is an interesting
looking
> concretion.
> >
> > hey all...i went to big brook collecting last weekend. along with
a
> > bunch of shark teeth and other fossils, i found a dino track. im
not
> > sure what type of dino made it, but it is very cool. ive posted
pics
> of
> > it in the album titled big brook footprint. mabye someone out
there
> can
> > id it for me.
> >
>

I concur...not a footprint. but it would be nice to find footprints
in Big Brook...

--- In NEPaleo@yahoogroups.com, "Henry" <digsfossils@...> wrote:
>
> Sorry, but it couldnt be a dino print. But it is an interesting
looking
> concretion.
> >
> > hey all...i went to big brook collecting last weekend. along
with a
> > bunch of shark teeth and other fossils, i found a dino track. im
not
> > sure what type of dino made it, but it is very cool. ive posted
pics
> of
> > it in the album titled big brook footprint. mabye someone out
there
> can
> > id it for me.
> >
>

Sorry, but it couldnt be a dino print. But it is an interesting looking
concretion.
>
> hey all...i went to big brook collecting last weekend. along with a
> bunch of shark teeth and other fossils, i found a dino track. im not
> sure what type of dino made it, but it is very cool. ive posted pics
of
> it in the album titled big brook footprint. mabye someone out there
can
> id it for me.
>

hey all...i went to big brook collecting last weekend. along with a
bunch of shark teeth and other fossils, i found a dino track. im not
sure what type of dino made it, but it is very cool. ive posted pics of
it in the album titled big brook footprint. mabye someone out there can
id it for me.