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Paulding Exempted Village Schools 1 - 2006 Blue Bird Vision - Retired; Cardinal Bus Sales - Lima, Ohio. One of many Blue Birds in the fleet.
On Saturday, September 23, 2017 the Old Van Cortlandtville Cemetery Association held a Plaque Dedication to unveil a new marker for the John Paulding gravesite. I was honored to be a part of the ceremony and also to secure the funds needed to create the plaque. Knowing of my interest and involvement in promoting history and being a Revolutionary War Reenactor for over 40 years, members of the association approached me hoping I would help in the creation of the plaque. I was glad to have the opportunity to have a hand in the initiative to create the plaque and was able to obtain the funding required to have the plaque created and installed.
The act of John Paulding and his comrades Isaac Van Wart and David Williams capturing British spy Major John Andre was a turning point in our nation’s history. In recent years, the story has a renewed interest due the background setting of West Point, George Washington, Benedict Arnold and especially the new details regarding the spy ring involved in the war. A number of books and even a television series has appeared in just the last few years giving renewed interest in the story.
John Paulding, the lead figure in the capture of Andre, is buried in the Old Van Cortlandt Cemetery just yards from the historic Revolutionary War Era Old St. Peter’s Church. He died in 1818 at the age of 60 and was honored with a prominent site and stone/obelisk structure. Over time, the words engraved into the marble monument have faded and it is just a matter of time until they are lost forever. The new plague that was installed replicates the engraved words exactly so as to preserve them for generations to come.
The Fannin-Cooper Farm in Paulding County was honored as a 2013 Georgia Centennial Farm because it was farmed by multiple families for more than 100 years and because it is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. The farm has been operated continuously since 1858 by the Fannin and Cooper families and is owned by Anthony A. Cooper, Jr. The Fannins raised corn and cotton, as well as cattle and hogs. The 84-acre farmstead includes two houses, outbuildings, and farmland. Today the main crops are hay, timber and cattle.
Paulding County, GA
2023 Freightliner M2-106/Rosenbaur
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Engine 3 serves the Mount Tabor & East Paulding Communities.
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Photograph-"The Heritage of Paulding County, 1832-1999"
Money was a hard thing to come by for the farming families in the rural south during the Great Depression. Because of the depression there was inflation. This is the increase in the value and worth of something. Because of this people bought less so there was a decrease in the need of employers. This was a big problem because it led to the cut back of employers and production. Before the depression hit people would put their money in a savings account in the bank. When the reality of the Great Depression was sinking in, most people ran to the banks as fast as they could to withdraw this money in hopes of surviving this difficult time. Because the banks had also invested in the stock market they had lost a significant amount of money as well. They were able to pay out few peoples savings to them, but they had nowhere near the amount of money in the bank to give everyone the amount of money they had put in their account. By the end of the depression a lot of banks were near collapse and there was a great deal of banks that had closed and lost the savings of millions of people.
Wheeler, Mark. The Economics of the Great Depression. Kalamazoo, Michigan: Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 1998.
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Hippocardia cunea (Conrad, 1840) - fossil rostroconch from the Devonian of Ohio, USA. (Dave Mielke collection; temporary public display, Ohio Geological Survey, Columbus, Ohio, USA)
This species is also known as Hoareicardia cunea.
Rostroconchs are an extinct class of molluscs. They are restricted to the Paleozoic - they first appear in Lower Cambrian rocks and go extinct in the Upper Permian. Rostroconchs somewhat resemble bivalves (= clams & relatives), but they are actually pseudobivalved. They have a continuous, univalved, calcareous shell roughly shaped like a taco. As the organism grows, it breaks the shell along a "hinge line" and recements the shell together. This can be seen as tiny breaks and cracks that have been resealed. True bivalves have two separate calcareous shells held together by organic material. Bivalves can readily open and shut their shells.
Rostroconchs had an inferred semi-infaunal lifestyle and, as a group, were likely deposit feeders or filter feeders or both. They had a permanent anterior gape (open space between the edges of the "two" shells and a posterior rostrum (= tubular extension of the shell). Some rostroconchs had a hood - an extension of shell material around the rostrum. The soft-part anatomy was probably clam-like. They had their greatest diversity during the Early Ordovician.
Classification: Animalia, Mollusca, Rostroconchia, Conocardiida, Hippocardiidae
Stratigraphy: Silica Formation (also known as the Silica Shale), Givetian Stage, upper Middle Devonian
Locality: quarry northwest of the town of Paulding, northern Paulding County, northwestern Ohio, USA (41° 10' 52.55" North latitude, 84° 37' 19.32" West longitude)
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This monument was designed by John Paulding and it was dedicated in 1922 in front of Knoxville High School in downtown Knoxville, Tennessee.
To find out more about this monument please refer to this website: doughboysearcher.weebly.com/the-doughboy-war-viquesney-vs...
Located south of the Cherry County Courthouse, this monument is a contributing object to the Cherry County Courthouse, which was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.
Please refer to this website for more information on the Paulding Doughboy statues located around the nation: doughboysearcher.weebly.com/the-doughboy-war-viquesney-vs...
Fluorite from Ohio, USA. (Joseph Vasichko collection)
A mineral is a naturally-occurring, solid, inorganic, crystalline substance having a fairly definite chemical composition and having fairly definite physical properties. At its simplest, a mineral is a naturally-occurring solid chemical. Currently, there are about 5400 named and described minerals - about 200 of them are common and about 20 of them are very common. Mineral classification is based on anion chemistry. Major categories of minerals are: elements, sulfides, oxides, halides, carbonates, sulfates, phosphates, and silicates.
The halides are the "salt minerals", and have one or more of the following anions: Cl-, F-, I-, Br-.
Fluorite is a calcium fluoride mineral (CaF2). The most diagnostic physical property of fluorite is its hardness (H≡4). Fluorite typically forms cubic crystals and, when broken, displays four cleavage planes (also quite diagnostic). When broken under controlled conditions, the broken pieces of fluorite form double pyramids. Fluorite is a good example of a mineral that can be any color. Common fluorite colors include clear, purple, blue, green, yellow, orange, and brown. The stereotypical color for fluorite is purple. Purple is the color fluorite "should be". A mineral collector doesn't have fluorite unless it's a purple fluorite (!).
Fluorite occurs in association with some active volcanoes. HF emitted from volcanoes can react with Ca-bearing rocks to form fluorite crystals. Many hydrothermal veins contain fluorite. Much fluorite also occurs in the southern Illinois area (Mississippi Valley-type deposits).
Geologic context: vug-filling fluorite crystals in carbonate rock (found in September 2016) of the Detroit River Group or Dundee Limestone (Lower to Middle Devonian)
Locality: Stoneco Incorporated's Auglaize Quarry, southwest of the town of Junction, northeastern Paulding County, northwestern Ohio, USA
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The original portion of Lyndhurst dating back to the late 1840's. This beautiful ediface was designed by Andrew Jackson Downing for the Paulding family
Basidechenella lucasensis Stumm, 1965 - fossil trilobite from the Devonian of Ohio, USA. (Dave Mielke collection; temporary public display, Ohio Geological Survey, Columbus, Ohio, USA)
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This species is also known as Dechenella lucasensis.
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Trilobites are extinct marine arthropods. They first appear in Lower Cambrian rocks and the entire group went extinct at the end of the Permian. Trilobites had a calcitic exoskeleton and nonmineralizing parts underneath (legs, gills, gut, etc.). The calcite skeleton is most commonly preserved in the fossil record, although soft-part preservation is known in some trilobites (Ex: Burgess Shale and Hunsruck Slate). Trilobites had a head (cephalon), a body of many segments (thorax), and a tail (pygidium). Molts and carcasses usually fell apart quickly - most trilobite fossils are isolated parts of the head (cranidium and free cheeks), individual thoracic segments, or isolated pygidia. The name "trilobite" was introduced in 1771 by Johann Ernst Immanuel Walch and refers to the tripartite division of the trilobite body - it has a central axial lobe that runs longitudinally from the head to the tail, plus two side lobes (pleural lobes).
Seen here is a rare trilobite called Basidechenella lucasensis from the Middle Devonian-aged Silica Formation of northeastern Ohio. Silica Formation trilobites occur with other typical Middle Paleozoic shallow marine invertebrates: brachiopods, bryozoans, crinoids, and corals.
Classification: Animalia, Arthropoda, Trilobita, Polymerida, Proetidae
Stratigraphy: Silica Formation (also known as the Silica Shale), Givetian Stage, upper Middle Devonian
Locality: quarry northwest of the town of Paulding, northern Paulding County, northwestern Ohio, USA (41° 10' 52.55" North latitude, 84° 37' 19.32" West longitude)
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Located in a small triangular park near the base of the Columbia River bridge (U.S. 101) in Astoria, Oregon
Please refer to this website for more information regarding this statue: doughboysearcher.weebly.com/the-doughboy-war-viquesney-vs...
Fluorite and calcite from Ohio, USA.
A mineral is a naturally-occurring, solid, inorganic, crystalline substance having a fairly definite chemical composition and having fairly definite physical properties. At its simplest, a mineral is a naturally-occurring solid chemical. Currently, there are about 5400 named and described minerals - about 200 of them are common and about 20 of them are very common. Mineral classification is based on anion chemistry. Major categories of minerals are: elements, sulfides, oxides, halides, carbonates, sulfates, phosphates, and silicates.
The halides are the "salt minerals", and have one or more of the following anions: Cl-, F-, I-, Br-.
Fluorite is a calcium fluoride mineral (CaF2). The most diagnostic physical property of fluorite is its hardness (H≡4). Fluorite typically forms cubic crystals and, when broken, displays four cleavage planes (also quite diagnostic). When broken under controlled conditions, the broken pieces of fluorite form double pyramids. Fluorite is a good example of a mineral that can be any color. Common fluorite colors include clear, purple, blue, green, yellow, orange, and brown. The stereotypical color for fluorite is purple. Purple is the color fluorite "should be". A mineral collector doesn't have fluorite unless it's a purple fluorite (!).
Fluorite occurs in association with some active volcanoes. HF emitted from volcanoes can react with Ca-bearing rocks to form fluorite crystals. Many hydrothermal veins contain fluorite. Much fluorite occurs in the vicinity of southern Illinois (Mississippi Valley-type deposits).
Locality: Auglaize Quarry, southeast of the town of Junction, northeastern Paulding County, northwestern Ohio, USA
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Phacops rana crassituberculata Stumm, 1953 - fossil trilobite from the Devonian of Ohio, USA. (Dave Mielke collection; temporary public display, Ohio Geological Survey, Columbus, Ohio, USA)
This fossil is also known as Eldredgeops rana crassituberculata.
Trilobites are extinct marine arthropods. They first appear in Lower Cambrian rocks and the entire group went extinct at the end of the Permian. Trilobites had a calcitic exoskeleton and nonmineralizing parts underneath (legs, gills, gut, etc.). The calcite skeleton is most commonly preserved in the fossil record, although soft-part preservation is known in some trilobites (Ex: Burgess Shale and Hunsruck Slate). Trilobites had a head (cephalon), a body of many segments (thorax), and a tail (pygidium). Molts and carcasses usually fell apart quickly - most trilobite fossils are isolated parts of the head (cranidium and free cheeks), individual thoracic segments, or isolated pygidia. The name "trilobite" was introduced in 1771 by Johann Ernst Immanuel Walch and refers to the tripartite division of the trilobite body - it has a central axial lobe that runs longitudinally from the head to the tail, plus two side lobes (pleural lobes).
Seen here is a famous trilobite whose remains are relatively common in the Middle Devonian-aged Silica Formation of northeastern Ohio. This is Phacops rana crassituberculata (also known as Eldredgeops, an unnecessary genus name based on taxonomic oversplitting). Phacops trilobite fossils occur with other typical Middle Paleozoic shallow marine invertebrates: brachiopods, bryozoans, crinoids, and corals.
Classification: Animalia, Arthropoda, Trilobita, Polymerida, Phacopidae
Stratigraphy: Silica Formation (also known as the Silica Shale), Givetian Stage, upper Middle Devonian
Locality: quarry northwest of the town of Paulding, northern Paulding County, northwestern Ohio, USA (41° 10' 52.55" North latitude, 84° 37' 19.32" West longitude)
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American hero John Paulding died in 1818 at the age of 60. He was one of the three who captured British spy John André and uncovered the traitor Benedict Arnold and his plot to help West Point fall and George Washington be captured. Paulding is buried locally in the Old VanCortlandtville Cemetery off of Oregon Road and Locust Avenue in the Town of Cortlandt NY.
Last year the VanCortlandtville Historical Society and Old Cemetery Association held a commemoration of the 1780 capture by Paulding and unveiling of a new plaque containing the inscription on Paulding’s monument that has become faded and hard to read. On Sunday, September 23, 2018, they held another commemoration of the 200th Anniversary of Paulding’s death and to show the newly cleaned monument. Prior to the ceremony at the cemetery, there was an outstanding play, “Captor in Question,” performed by actors/educators Sean Grady and Gary Petagine, portraying Pauling and former Revolutionary War Intelligence Officer/Congressman Benjamin Tallmadge.
It was an honor to participate once again in honoring Paulding and helping to preserve his memory and American history.
John Paulding Engine Company No. 1
Appearing in the 2023 HVVFA Dress Parade held in West Glens Falls, New York on June 17th.
Photo By Derek J. Ewing
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Corocrinus nodosus Kier, 1952 - fossil crinoid from the Devonian of Ohio, USA. (Dave Mielke collection; temporary public display, Ohio Geological Survey, Columbus, Ohio, USA)
Crinoids (sea lilies) are sessile, benthic, filter-feeding, stalked echinoderms that are relatively common in the marine fossil record. Crinoids are also a living group, but are relatively uncommon in modern oceans. A crinoid is essentially a starfish-on-a-stick. The stick, or stem, is composed of numerous stacked columnals, like small poker chips. Stems and individual columnals are the most commonly encountered crinoid fossils in the field. Intact, fossilized crinoid heads (crowns, calices, cups) are unusual. Why? Upon death, the crinoid body starts disintegrating very rapidly. The soft tissues holding the skeletal pieces together decay and the skeleton falls apart.
Classification: Animalia, Echinodermata, Crinoidea, Periechocrinidae
Stratigraphy: Silica Formation (also known as the Silica Shale), Givetian Stage, upper Middle Devonian
Locality: quarry northwest of the town of Paulding, northern Paulding County, northwestern Ohio, USA (41° 10' 52.55" North latitude, 84° 37' 19.32" West longitude)
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The Spirit Of South Paulding, Georgia, USA.
From a collection of photographs taken at the 29th London New Year's Day Parade 2015 (LNYDP 2015). We were standing on opposite sides of the road in Piccadilly near the junction with Regent Street. The parade featured bands and participants from all over the world, along with representatives from London Boroughs whose theme was "London on the Move". See www.lnydp.com for more information.
This is the rare and beautiful Georgia aster. It can be distinguished from other purple asters by the white changing to reddish disk flowers. For more information: plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=SYGE
Phacops rana crassituberculata Stumm, 1953 - fossil trilobites from the Devonian of Ohio, USA. (Dave Mielke collection; temporary public display, Ohio Geological Survey, Columbus, Ohio, USA)
This fossil is also known as Eldredgeops rana crassituberculata.
Trilobites are extinct marine arthropods. They first appear in Lower Cambrian rocks and the entire group went extinct at the end of the Permian. Trilobites had a calcitic exoskeleton and nonmineralizing parts underneath (legs, gills, gut, etc.). The calcite skeleton is most commonly preserved in the fossil record, although soft-part preservation is known in some trilobites (Ex: Burgess Shale and Hunsruck Slate). Trilobites had a head (cephalon), a body of many segments (thorax), and a tail (pygidium). Molts and carcasses usually fell apart quickly - most trilobite fossils are isolated parts of the head (cranidium and free cheeks), individual thoracic segments, or isolated pygidia. The name "trilobite" was introduced in 1771 by Johann Ernst Immanuel Walch and refers to the tripartite division of the trilobite body - it has a central axial lobe that runs longitudinally from the head to the tail, plus two side lobes (pleural lobes).
Seen here are famous trilobites whose remains are relatively common in the Middle Devonian-aged Silica Formation of northeastern Ohio. These are Phacops rana crassituberculata (also known as Eldredgeops, an unnecessary genus name based on taxonomic oversplitting). Phacops trilobite fossils occur with other typical Middle Paleozoic shallow marine invertebrates: brachiopods, bryozoans, crinoids, and corals.
Classification: Animalia, Arthropoda, Trilobita, Polymerida, Phacopidae
Stratigraphy: Silica Formation (also known as the Silica Shale), Givetian Stage, upper Middle Devonian
Locality: quarry northwest of the town of Paulding, northern Paulding County, northwestern Ohio, USA (41° 10' 52.55" North latitude, 84° 37' 19.32" West longitude)
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Photograph-"The Heritage of Paulding County Georgia, 1832-1999"
During the Great Depression the majority of children in small, farming families had to leave school to support their family. This is the Hiram School House where most of my family attended school. My great aunt and uncle were among the many children who had to quit going to school. My great uncle quit school when he was in second grade. He stayed home and helped his father with the cotton gin that his family ran. Having my great uncle work at the gin helped his family out greatly. During this time, the families needed all of the help that they could get in terms of having enough money to buy the essentials. Because my great uncle worked at the gin, he gave his parents one more source of income that helped them keep a roof over their heads and food on the table. My great aunt did not leave school until she was in the sixth grade. After she left school, her mother went to work. They needed my great aunt to leave school so she could take care of the household while her mother was out working. She took care of the cooking, cleaning, laundry, etc. Because most children were not able to finish school it was kind of difficult for them in the future. But despite the later difficulties these children, even at very young ages, put their families first and learned a great deal of responsibility.
Wroble, Lisa A. Kids Throughout History: Kids Durint the Great Depression. New York: PowerKids Press, 1999.
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Here is one more from the waterfall I came across last week in Paulding County. This is basically the view as you come down the path to the final approach to the fall area. I really can't wait to see this place in a few weeks when everything starts to bloom and some greenery starts making it's way in.
I stacked a 8x ND with a polarizer on this and the other shots from High Shoals Falls. shot comprised of 3 exposures blended using Photomatix 4.
Check out more about the location of this waterfall and others throughout the eastern US in our waterfall database
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Paulding Exempted Village Schools 1 - 2006 Blue Bird Vision - Retired; Cardinal Bus Sales - Lima, Ohio. One of many Blue Birds in the fleet.
The Fannin-Cooper Farm in Paulding County was honored as a 2013 Georgia Centennial Farm because it was farmed by multiple families for more than 100 years and because it is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. The farm has been operated continuously since 1858 by the Fannin and Cooper families and is owned by Anthony A. Cooper, Jr. The Fannins raised corn and cotton, as well as cattle and hogs. The 84-acre farmstead includes two houses, outbuildings, and farmland. Today the main crops are hay, timber and cattle.
Photo by Charlie Miller
Sign on the side of the Masonic Temple, corner of South Main Street and East Perry Street, Paulding, Ohio. It's not clear if this building is still in use, but it certainly looks in fine shape.
Phacops rana crassituberculata Stumm, 1953 - fossil trilobites from the Devonian of Ohio, USA. (Dave Mielke collection; temporary public display, Ohio Geological Survey, Columbus, Ohio, USA)
This fossil is also known as Eldredgeops rana crassituberculata.
Trilobites are extinct marine arthropods. They first appear in Lower Cambrian rocks and the entire group went extinct at the end of the Permian. Trilobites had a calcitic exoskeleton and nonmineralizing parts underneath (legs, gills, gut, etc.). The calcite skeleton is most commonly preserved in the fossil record, although soft-part preservation is known in some trilobites (Ex: Burgess Shale and Hunsruck Slate). Trilobites had a head (cephalon), a body of many segments (thorax), and a tail (pygidium). Molts and carcasses usually fell apart quickly - most trilobite fossils are isolated parts of the head (cranidium and free cheeks), individual thoracic segments, or isolated pygidia. The name "trilobite" was introduced in 1771 by Johann Ernst Immanuel Walch and refers to the tripartite division of the trilobite body - it has a central axial lobe that runs longitudinally from the head to the tail, plus two side lobes (pleural lobes).
Seen here are famous trilobites whose remains are relatively common in the Middle Devonian-aged Silica Formation of northeastern Ohio. These are Phacops rana crassituberculata (also known as Eldredgeops, an unnecessary genus name based on taxonomic oversplitting). Phacops trilobite fossils occur with other typical Middle Paleozoic shallow marine invertebrates: brachiopods, bryozoans, crinoids, and corals.
Classification: Animalia, Arthropoda, Trilobita, Polymerida, Phacopidae
Stratigraphy: Silica Formation (also known as the Silica Shale), Givetian Stage, upper Middle Devonian
Locality: quarry northwest of the town of Paulding, northern Paulding County, northwestern Ohio, USA (41° 10' 52.55" North latitude, 84° 37' 19.32" West longitude)
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Alley Cat Lanes, 120 Weast Jackson Street, Paulding, Ohio. A bowling alley in downtown Paulding, now permanently closed.
The Fannin-Cooper Farm in Paulding County was honored as a 2013 Georgia Centennial Farm because it was farmed by multiple families for more than 100 years and because it is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. The farm has been operated continuously since 1858 by the Fannin and Cooper families and is owned by Anthony A. Cooper, Jr. The Fannins raised corn and cotton, as well as cattle and hogs. The 84-acre farmstead includes two houses, outbuildings, and farmland. Today the main crops are hay, timber and cattle.
Photo by Charlie Miller
Phacops rana crassituberculata Stumm, 1953 - fossil trilobite from the Devonian of Ohio, USA. (Dave Mielke collection; temporary public display, Ohio Geological Survey, Columbus, Ohio, USA)
This fossil is also known as Eldredgeops rana crassituberculata.
Trilobites are extinct marine arthropods. They first appear in Lower Cambrian rocks and the entire group went extinct at the end of the Permian. Trilobites had a calcitic exoskeleton and nonmineralizing parts underneath (legs, gills, gut, etc.). The calcite skeleton is most commonly preserved in the fossil record, although soft-part preservation is known in some trilobites (Ex: Burgess Shale and Hunsruck Slate). Trilobites had a head (cephalon), a body of many segments (thorax), and a tail (pygidium). Molts and carcasses usually fell apart quickly - most trilobite fossils are isolated parts of the head (cranidium and free cheeks), individual thoracic segments, or isolated pygidia. The name "trilobite" was introduced in 1771 by Johann Ernst Immanuel Walch and refers to the tripartite division of the trilobite body - it has a central axial lobe that runs longitudinally from the head to the tail, plus two side lobes (pleural lobes).
Seen here is a famous trilobite whose remains are relatively common in the Middle Devonian-aged Silica Formation of northeastern Ohio. This is Phacops rana crassituberculata (also known as Eldredgeops, an unnecessary genus name based on taxonomic oversplitting). Phacops trilobite fossils occur with other typical Middle Paleozoic shallow marine invertebrates: brachiopods, bryozoans, crinoids, and corals.
Classification: Animalia, Arthropoda, Trilobita, Polymerida, Phacopidae
Stratigraphy: Silica Formation (also known as the Silica Shale), Givetian Stage, upper Middle Devonian
Locality: quarry northwest of the town of Paulding, northern Paulding County, northwestern Ohio, USA (41° 10' 52.55" North latitude, 84° 37' 19.32" West longitude)
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Paulding Exempted Village Schools buses 6 & 28 - 2001 & 2002 Blue Bird GMCs - Retired; Cardinal Bus Sales - Lima, Ohio
Mediospirifer? fossil brachiopod with encrusting Aulopora corals from the Devonian of Ohio, USA. (Dave Mielke collection; temporary public display, Ohio Geological Survey, Columbus, Ohio, USA)
Auloporids are a group of extinct tabulate corals. They consist of calcareous colonies of hard substrate-encrusting, trumpet-shaped corallites. They first appear in the Ordovician and go extinct in the Permian. The auloporids seen here are encrusting a spiriferid brachiopod from Ohio's famous Silica Formation, a richly fossiliferous unit.
Click on the photo to zoom in and look around. The small, subtle, squiggly, vine-like structures near the lower right side of the fossil are a problematic fossil known as Hederella, which was also a hard-substrate encruster. Hederella was once considered to be a type of bryozoan, or "moss animal", similar to the cyclostomes Corynotrypa and Cuffeyella (those genera occur in the Ordovician-aged Cincinnatian Series of the Ohio-Indiana-Kentucky tristate area). Recent studies have indicated that Hederella is not a bryozoan at all, but is, or is closely related to, the phoronids, a group of lophophorates.
Classification of corals: Animalia, Cnidaria, Anthozoa, Tabulata, Auloporidae
Classification of brachiopod: Animalia, Brachiopoda, Articulata (also known as Rhynchonelliformea), Spiriferida, Spinocyrtiidae
Stratigraphy: Silica Formation (also known as the Silica Shale), Givetian Stage, upper Middle Devonian
Locality: quarry northwest of the town of Paulding, northern Paulding County, northwestern Ohio, USA (41° 10' 52.55" North latitude, 84° 37' 19.32" West longitude)
Merlin Entertainments Orlando Eye, International Drive, Orlando, Florida - 7th November 2014 (Photographer: Nigel G. Worrall)
During the construction site tour, James Paulding, General Manager of New Openings North America, provided insight on the expansion of Merlin Entertainments into central Florida including these must-see attractions, and updates on the LEGOLAND Florida Hotel. Also attending the event is John Stine, Director of Marketing for I-Drive 360, providing updates on the development. Explore the three new attractions coming to Orlando – The Orlando Eye, Madame Tussauds, and Sea Life Orlando Aquarium.
Thank you to our event sponsors:
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