This afternoon Ben, Jason and I left the Farm and headed out to Trammel Fossil Park, where we combed the good ol' Ordovician seafloor looking for remnants of the ancient seas. The fossils were scant compared to those at Caesar's Creek; the largest brachiopods had long since been snatched, but we found some pelecypods and gastropods. I was pretty stoked to find a liospira (it kinda looks like a snail, and it's fairly rare), but most of the finds were conserved to corals; a good number of hellopora could be found on every inch of ground. I have yet to find a trilobite; that's like the Gold Mine of Ordovician fossil hunting. Since Caesar's Creek has all but dried up this spring, I'm thinking about heading up there tomorrow and searching for trilobites. For those who live in the Midwest, here's a guide to Ordovician fossils that I've found helpful:
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