Sugarcreek Fossil Bed EarthCache
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This earthcache will take you to a designated fossil collection
site in Sugarcreek Metropark. Please stay on designated trails.
Expect about a 2 mile hike round trip.
There are several fossils pictured & named on the informational
sign that have been found in this fossil bed. You can use this sign
to identify your fossil.
Some of the more common fossils found here are:
Brachiopods - marine animals that look like clams. They are
actually quite different from clams in their anatomy. Although they
are rarely seen today, they are actually fairly common. They often
make their homes in very cold water, either in polar regions or at
great depths in the ocean, and thus are not often encountered.
There are about 300 living species of brachiopods. Depsite their
relative obscurity today, brachiopods have a long and rich history.
During the Paleozoic era, they were extremely abundant. They
diversified into a number of different morphologies and even
participated in the build-up of ancient reefs. At the end of the
Paleozoic, some 250 million years ago, they were decimated in the
worst mass extinction of all time, the Permo-Triassic event. Their
numbers have never been as great since that time.
Trilobites - hard-shelled, segmented creatures that existed
over 300 million years ago in the Earth's ancient seas. They went
extinct before dinosaurs even came into existence, and are one of
the key signature creatures of the Paleozoic Era, the first era to
exhibit a proliferation of the complex life-forms that established
the foundation of life as it is today. Trilobites were among the
early arthropods, a phylum of hard-shelled creatures with multiple
body segments and jointed legs (although the legs, antennae and
other finer structures of trilobites only rarely are preserved).
LOGGING REQUIREMENTS
In order to claim this Earthcache, you must:
1 - Visit the location and find a fossil. You will need to
identify your fossil by name.
2 – Take a close-up picture of your fossil next to your
GPSr.
(Make sure the fossil is clear/close enough so we can tell what it
is. Blurry photos are bad.)
3 – Take a picture of yourself in the fossil area (either
with the informational sign or the fossil bed in the background.)
4 – Send us an email with your fossil name and the time
period that the fossil came from.
5 – Post your log. Include photos both photos as described above in
2 & 3.
Please follow all
fossil collection guidelines on the informational sign and all
Metropark
rules.
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