Fossil collecting at Hueston Woods, Ohio
At the end of June, I visited Hueston Woods state park and went fossil collecting. The first time I visited the park was 30 years ago when I was in…
Fossil Park, Sylvania, Lucas Co. Ohio
Address: 5675 Centennial Road, just south of Sylvania-Metamora Road, Sylvania Ohio. Site: http://www.olanderpark.com/pages/Fossil.htm Field guide for the park: fieldguide.pdf. This park was built from inactive quarry owned by the Medusa…
State Fossils
From Wikipedia State Age Common name Binomial nomenclature Image Year &Citation Alabama Eocene Basilosauruswhale Basilosauruscetoides 1984[1] Alaska Pleistocene Woolly Mammoth Mammuthusprimigenius Arizona Triassic petrifiedwood Araucarioxylonarizonicum California Pleistocene Saber-toothedcat Smilodonfatalis Colorado…
Petrified Wood is rare in Ohio
From Ohio History Central web site Plants in the form of algae and phytoplankton appeared early in the Precambrian. Blue-green algae (cyanobacteria) were the dominant life form for much of…
Ohio State Fossil – Isotelus brachycephalus
Butler County is in an area known to scientists as the Cincinnati Dome, a large area in North America defined by a bulging of the earth's crust into a dome…
Trilobite Web sites
triloworld - A collection of information on trilobitesWestern Trilobite Association - Group of dedicated amateur and professional trilobite collectors whose focus is on western North Americahttp://www.trilobites.info/ - Trilobite Reference SitePaleoBiology…
All things Trilobites
Very cool site dedicated to my favorite extinct creature: the trilobite.
Sylvania Ohio Fossil Park
Devonian fossilsLocation:Fossil Park is located in an abandoned mine in Sylvania, OH. It is on the west side of Centennial Road in Sylvania, which is just north-west of Toledo.The direcitons…