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FIELD TRIP ANNOUNCEMENT
THE FOSSILS OF TOMPKINS & MADISON COUNTIES
New York State
Saturday & Sunday, July 11th & 12th 2026
Meeting up Saturday at 10:30 A.M.
Meeting up Sunday at 8:00 A.M.
Our Summer field trip will begin on Saturday at the Museum of the Earth of the Paleontological Research Institution (PRI) in Ithaca, N.Y. Among the many exhibits at this excellent museum are many fossils from New York State and the Finger Lakes region - areas where we will be collecting. Note, there is an admission fee for the museum for those who want to attend.
The rest of Saturday and all of Sunday we will visit & collect at three marine fossil sites from the Middle Devonian Hamilton Group. Note, there is no fee for these parts of the trip.
Trilobites (3 species), rolled & straight cephalopods, gastropods, & large brachiopods will be found as well as many other fossils at all sites on both days..
On Saturday we will visit a site in the Hamilton Group. Fossils at the site can include trilobites Dipleura dekayi, Greenops boothi and Phacops rana, trace fossil (Zoophycus), brachiopods Lingula, Mucrospirifer mucronatus, Spinocyrtia granulosa (very large), cephalopods (Michelinoceras, Tornoceras), bryozoans, bivalves, gastropods, bryozoans, corals, bivalves, gastropods, etc.
On Sunday we will visit two other sites, both also from the Mid Devonian Hamilton Group. They contain fossils including those mentioned above.
People may come for one or both days. More information will be provided to those who register.
More information, including directions, will be provided to those who register.
The Field Trip Leader and Coordinator will be Patrick Murphy.
Note, all those attending must be members of the New York Paleontological Society.