Submitted on 2025-07-18 by John Topor

Location (approximate): Arkona, Lambton, ON

Strat unit: Arkona formation

Submitter notes: Formally Atractocrinus. Occurs in the upper Arkona Formation. It is usually found as just a calyx and rarely with a tegmen. Only one known specimen is preserved with a small amount of arms. The center specimen is 22mm tall. See scale in photo for size.

Photo title: Crinoid Calyxes

Taxa present: Atelestocrinus concinnus

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Submitted on 2025-06-07 by Mary Ann Szwabowski

Location (approximate): Sylvania, Lucas, OH

Strat unit: Silica formation

Submitter notes: This speciman is a crusher tooth plate

Photo title: Fish Tooth

Taxa present: ptyctodont

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Submitted on 2025-05-30 by Mary Ann Szwabowski

Location (approximate): Sylvania, Lucas, OH

Strat unit: Dundee formation

Submitter notes: None

Photo title: Rostroconch

Taxa present: Conocardium cuneas

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Submitted on 2025-05-30 by Mary Ann Szwabowski

Location (approximate): Sylvania, Lucas, OH

Strat unit: Silica formation

Submitter notes: The pyritized lophophore is exposed

Photo title: Pyritized Paraspirifer Lophophore

Taxa present: Paraspirifer bownockeri

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Submitted on 2025-05-30 by Mary Ann Szwabowski

Location (approximate): Sylvania, Lucas, OH

Strat unit: Silica formation

Submitter notes: None

Photo title: Mucrospirifer encrusted with Bryozoan

Taxa present: Mucrospirifer prolificus, Fistulipora

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Submitted on 2024-09-07 by Mary Ann Szwabowski

Location (approximate): Sylvania, Lucas, OH

Strat unit: Silica formation

Submitter notes: This brachiopod is encrusted with bryozoan

Photo title: Brachiopod with Bryozoan

Taxa present: Fistulipora , Pseudoatrypa

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Submitted on 2024-09-07 by Mary Ann Szwabowski

Location (approximate): Sylvania, Lucas, OH

Strat unit: Silica formation

Submitter notes: Perfectly enrolled trilobite

Photo title: Trilobite

Taxa present: Eldredgeops crassituberculata

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Submitted on 2024-09-07 by Mary Ann Szwabowski

Location (approximate): Sylvania, Lucas, OH

Strat unit: Silica formation

Submitter notes: This solitary coral is encrusted with bryozoan

Photo title: Solitary Coral

Taxa present: Fistulipora , Heliophyllum halli

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Submitted on 2024-03-20 by Mary Ann Szwabowski

Location (approximate): Sylvania, Lucas, OH

Strat unit: Silica formation

Submitter notes: This brachiopod is encrusted with a peacock colored pyrite and measures 5.0 cm.

Photo title: Pyritized Brachiopod

Taxa present: Paraspirifer bownockeri

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Submitted on 2024-03-20 by Mary Ann Szwabowski

Location (approximate): Sylvania, Lucas, OH

Strat unit: Silica formation

Submitter notes: Speciman measure about 6.0 cm

Photo title: Trilobite - Eldredgeops milleri

Taxa present: Eldredgeops milleri

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Submitted on 2024-02-11 by Michael Lask

Location (approximate): Paulding, Paulding, OH

Strat unit: Silica formation

Submitter notes: 55 mm

Photo title: Eldredgeops crassituberculata

Taxa present: Eldredgeops crassituberculata

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Submitted on 2024-02-11 by Michael Lask

Location (approximate): Alpena, Alpena, MI

Strat unit: Squaw Bay formation

Submitter notes: 29 mm across. Collected by Patricia Rutkowski. Prepared by Scott Vergiels.

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Taxa present: Koenenites cooperi

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Submitted on 2024-02-11 by Michael Lask

Location (approximate): Alpena, Alpena, MI

Strat unit: Squaw Bay formation

Submitter notes: The larger one is 34 mm across. Collected by Patricia Rutkowski. Prepared by Scott Vergiels.

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Taxa present: Koenenites cooperi

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Submitted on 2024-02-11 by Michael Lask

Location (approximate): Alpena, Alpena, MI

Strat unit: Paxton formation

Submitter notes: Dunkleosteus sp., Antrim Shale, Traverse Group, Paxton Quarry, Alpena, Michigan (Devonian) - 326 mm long (over a foot!) This is a section of the left, lower inferognathal element (part of the lower jaw). Collected and prepared by Patricia Rutkowski. She recovered part of it in 1994 and another part in 1998.

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Taxa present: Dunkleosteus sp.

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Submitted on 2024-01-12 by Mary Ann Szwabowski

Location (approximate): Napoleon, Jackson, MI

Strat unit: Marshall formation

Submitter notes: This specimen from the lower Marshall Formation is a crusher tooth belonging to the Chondrichthyans class of fish and measures 12.7mm long

Photo title: Shark Tooth

Taxa present: Deltodus

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Submitted on 2024-01-10 by Mary Ann Szwabowski

Location (approximate): Sylvania, Lucas, OH

Strat unit: Silica formation

Submitter notes: This trilobite has two pyritized muscle scars from the soft bodied stomach underneath.

Photo title: Trilobite

Taxa present: Eldredgeops crassituberculata

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Submitted on 2023-12-03 by Mary Ann Szwabowski

Location (approximate): Sylvania, Lucas, OH

Strat unit: Silica formation

Submitter notes: Specimen measures about 6-1/2" x 3-1/2". The shell that remains has been preserved with spirorbis (worms) on the outside of the shell and Repteria stolonifera (bryozoan) on the underside.

Photo title: Nephriticeras Cephalopod

Taxa present: Nephriticeras

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Submitted on 2022-08-24 by Mary Ann Szwabowski

Location (approximate): Sylvania, Lucas, OH

Strat unit: Silica formation

Submitter notes: The muscles of this brachiopod are normally relaxed (closed) at death, but in this speciman the muscles were open.

Photo title: Paraspirifer with open muscle

Taxa present: Paraspirifer bownockeri

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Submitted on 2022-02-13 by Nick Katsarelas

Location (approximate): Alpena, Alpena, MI

Strat unit: Potter Farm formation

Submitter notes: I'd welcome your help in identifying the genus or species to which these belong. Each plate is between 5 and 10mm in diameter.

Photo title: Crinoid basal plates

Taxa present: Crinoidea

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Submitted on 2022-02-13 by Nick Katsarelas

Location (approximate): Alpena, Alpena, MI

Strat unit: Potter Farm formation

Submitter notes: I'd welcome your help in identifying the genus or species to which these belong.

Photo title: Crinoid spines

Taxa present: Crinoidea

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