30 April 2015
Posted by Callan Bentley
Looking at Ordovician carbonates in Germany Valley, West Virginia, a few weeks ago on Rick Diecchio’s GMU sedimentology and stratigraphy course field trip:
Lots and lots of brachiopods…
Crinoid columnals mized with brachiopods:
A set of coarsely-infilled trace fossils:
Crinoid stem:
Nice strophomenid brachiopod:
Bryozoan? Receptaculid?
Callan Bentley is Associate Professor of Geology at Piedmont Virginia Community College in Charlottesville, Virginia. He is a Fellow of the Geological Society of America. For his work on this blog, the National Association of Geoscience Teachers recognized him with the James Shea Award. He has also won the Outstanding Faculty Award from the State Council on Higher Education in Virginia, and the Biggs Award for Excellence in Geoscience Teaching from the Geoscience Education Division of the Geological Society of America. In previous years, Callan served as a contributing editor at EARTH magazine, President of the Geological Society of Washington and President the Geo2YC division of NAGT.
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I found a clump of the same shell fossils in southern Ontario. They worth anything?
Probably not cash-wise, but they’d be a useful donation to a local school’s science program, I’d bet.
I think this is it, but if not exactly, then it’s certainly close to this.
Follow-up: Yes, Street View definitely shows that to be the one.