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Some of the fossils you will see over and over in the photo gallery and slide shows are:  Eldredgeops crassituberculatus and Eldredgeops milleri from the Silica Formation in Ohio; Basidechenella lucasensis and Paraspirifer bownockeri with epifauna from the Silica Formation in Ohio; Gravicalymene celebra from the Silurian of Shelby and Miami Counties in Ohio; Flexicalymene from the Cincinnati area; Calymene breviceps, Glyptambon verrucosus, Caryocrinites persculptis from Indiana, Paciphacops and Huntonia purdui from Tennessee.This is not meant to be an educational web site.  It is an attempt to share the treasures I have found over the past 15 years with others.  Most of my best bugs are pictured many times from several different positions.  I hope you enjoy viewing them, and will do my best to answer your questions.  I owe a great debt of gratitude to those who helped me get started:  Tom Johnson, Dan Cooper, Marc Behrendt, Scott Vergiels, Joe Koniecki, Stan Hyne, and David Thompson have all prepared or cleaned fossils for me and I want to thank them.  A special thanks to Tom Johnson for his display at the Smithsonian which turned me on to trilobites 15 years ago.  George Gaylord Simpson states more clearly than anyone what fossil hunting means to me.

“Fossil Hunting is by far the most fascinating of all sports.  The hunter never knows what his bag will be, perhaps nothing, perhaps a creature never before seen by human eyes!  The fossil hunter does not kill, he resurrects.  And the result of his sport is to add to the sum of human pleasure and to the treasures of human knowledge.”

-George Gaylord Simpson