Ontario Fossils

As Dirty Harry once said, a man has got to know his limitations. I think ontariominerals.com needs something on fossils, but paleontology is not my field, and I am not going to even think about listing all known Ontario fossils here. I've got enough on my hands trying to shoot Ontario minerals, but if/when I get in the mood I'll chuck some more phossil photos up here. 

A killer trilobite from Catfish Creek, near London, Ontario

A pyritized cephalopod from the Hungry Hollow Area, near Arkona, Ontario

A beautiful eurypterid from Fort Erie's Ridgemount Quarry

A fine Isotelus trilobite from Cobourg

Fossil Links:

Check out Bob The Fossil Guy's site - lots of pix of the famous Devonian sites around Arkona, plus fossil pix. Bob tours the countryside giving talks, to libraries and schools, on the wild and wooly world of professional fossil collecting. Plus he does birthday parties, as Bobo the Clown, complete with drunken pie fights and an enormous dunk tank. The price is right and the kids love it, so book him today, and remember that he loves nothing more than a pie in the face!

The University of Michigan's Deep Blue - a massive searchable catalog of scanned publications that are very hard to get nowadays! Fantastic resource. Want a 30 year old description of a new fossil from Arkona? It's probably here.

The University of Michigan's Museum of Paleontology has assembled THE MOTHER OF ALL DEVONIAN FOSSIL IMAGE DATABASES!!!! Holy god, over 1,100 photos of incredible fossils from Ontario, Michigan, and Ohio. Some truly fabulous things here... 28 armed starfish; dozens of species of trilobites, perfect and complete; complete crinoids; that sort of thing... all professionally identified and searchable!