[Vaquero]

Where I hunt in NY Southern Tier is a shale field filled mostly with Devonian fossils. Mostly little clam like shells. Occasionally you find the imprint of what looks like a sea worm. I keep the good ones I find.

[ETL]

Where I hunt in NY Southern Tier is a shale field filled mostly with Devonian fossils. Mostly little clam like shells. Occasionally you find the imprint of what looks like a sea worm. I keep the good ones I find.

I've lived in New York City all of my 60 years. As a onetime geology major in the 1980s and avid camper, I've been Upstate many times (Catskills and Finger Lakes mainly). Lived in Central NY for ~two years in '89, in an old farmhouse in Beaver Meadow.

Yes, the Catskills are basically a large set of sedimentary beds atop layers of fossiliferous limestone. Where rivers and/or roadcuts dig deep enough the limestone sequences are exposed. This occurs mostly along the perimeter of the Catskills.