Thanks to the hard work of one fifth grader, HCS has a new fossil collection on display for a limited time! Check out the article below, written by Mrs. Orth:
These fossils are a combination of some that he has collected locally (like the brachiopods) and fossils that have been gifts (such as the amber and the petrolite). The amber is particularly fascinating because you can see (with the unaided eye) a spider that was trapped by the slow-moving tree sap to be forever entombed. Most of his fossils are small, marine organisms that would have filled the shallow seas once covering our area. Some of these remains may have been trolling the sea 450 million years ago! Drifting to the seafloor and being covered by layers of fine sediment have preserved the remains for us to study. The ammonites, fossilized shark teeth and fossil coral are all examples of fossils that we can find just scratching around in the backyard!
These fossils are a combination of some that he has collected locally (like the brachiopods) and fossils that have been gifts (such as the amber and the petrolite). The amber is particularly fascinating because you can see (with the unaided eye) a spider that was trapped by the slow-moving tree sap to be forever entombed. Most of his fossils are small, marine organisms that would have filled the shallow seas once covering our area. Some of these remains may have been trolling the sea 450 million years ago! Drifting to the seafloor and being covered by layers of fine sediment have preserved the remains for us to study. The ammonites, fossilized shark teeth and fossil coral are all examples of fossils that we can find just scratching around in the backyard!