Group prepares to collect fossils at the Sheds locality.
Shale bank at Sheds.
Quarrying the shale.
Trying to expose fresh bedding surfaces.
Group working the shale bank.
Bob and Winelle examining a slab.
Melissa looking for fossils in the float.
Gail bringing a batch of specimens back to the van.
Melissa with her prize trilobite specimen.
Phacops rana - thorax and pygidium. Probably a molt from a large individual.
Sizing up the job.
Bret chisels into fresh rock.
Bret and Andrew working the shale.
Sledge and chisel work.
Bret hands over a new slab for inspection.
Bedding plane covered with impressions of Mucrospirifer.
Phacops rana cephalon and impression, with nuculoid clams.
Typical deeper water Hamilton fauna - Phacops, Mucrospirifer, and Nuculoidea.
Typical deeper water Hamilton fauna - Phacops, Mucrospirifer, and Nuculoidea.
Grammysia bivalve
Cyrtospirifer brachiopods
Spyroceras - orthoconic cephalopod
Winelle sorting out her fossils.