Geological Society of America Special Paper 474, June 2011, “Geobiological opportunities to learn at U.S.  Fossil Parks” by Renee Clary, of Mississippi State University, and James Wandersee, of Louisiana State University, evaluated   seven fossil parks and the Penn Dixie Paleontological and Outdoor Education Center in Hamburg, NY was ranked No. 1.

 This fossil site contains various marine invertebrate fossils like;

Brachiopods, Pelecypods, echinoderms, plants, crustacea, bryozoans, cephalopods, fish, etc….

Penn Dixie Paleontological and Outdoor Education Center is owned and operated by the Hamburg Natural History Society, Inc., P.O. Box 772, Hamburg, New York 14075 

Mediospirifer auduculus, 4.5 cm wide, collected from the upper Wanakah Shale in tributary to Rush Creek by Richard Spencer

For more information, visit :

http://www.penndixie.org/

http://www.penndixie.org/paleo/fossils/hp.html