Cam Muskelly
Amateur Paleontologist;
On Track to Becoming a Professional Paleontologist
From Duluth, Georgia
Cam will graduate from Duluth High School in 2017
He is well known by many of Georgia’s paleontologist and geologist, all of which are helping him on his way and advising him.
Amateur Paleontologist;
On Track to Becoming a Professional Paleontologist
From Duluth, Georgia
Cam will graduate from Duluth High School in 2017
He is well known by many of Georgia’s paleontologist and geologist, all of which are helping him on his way and advising him.
At the end of April 2015 Bill Montante, an advanced amateur paleontologist who has been published in the scientific literature, guided Cam on his first fossil hunt into the truly ancient Conasauga Shale of Middle Cambrian; 500 million year old trilobite occur in numbers.
For more information on Georgia trilobites see Section 1 of this website; Georgia Oldest Fossils.
The location of the outcrop is near Northwest Georgia’s Spring Place; right on the border of Whitfield and Murray Counties.
Cam was fortunate to have such a friend & guide; Bill is the co-author of the 2007 paper; Exceptional Fossil Preservation In The Conasauga Formation, Cambrian, Northwestern Georgia, USA; By David R. Schwimmer & William M. Montante, Palaios, Vol.22, No.4, July 2007, Society for Sedimentary Geology.
Cam plans to become a paleontologist specializing in Georgia’s and the Southeast’s fossil record. GeorgiasFossils.com always supports students wanting to learn more!
They were splitting the shale to collect trilobites of the genre Aphelaspis.
What a wonderful way to begin your fossil hunting!
Thanks Cam for sharing!
For more information on Georgia trilobites see Section 1 of this website; Georgia Oldest Fossils.
The location of the outcrop is near Northwest Georgia’s Spring Place; right on the border of Whitfield and Murray Counties.
Cam was fortunate to have such a friend & guide; Bill is the co-author of the 2007 paper; Exceptional Fossil Preservation In The Conasauga Formation, Cambrian, Northwestern Georgia, USA; By David R. Schwimmer & William M. Montante, Palaios, Vol.22, No.4, July 2007, Society for Sedimentary Geology.
Cam plans to become a paleontologist specializing in Georgia’s and the Southeast’s fossil record. GeorgiasFossils.com always supports students wanting to learn more!
They were splitting the shale to collect trilobites of the genre Aphelaspis.
What a wonderful way to begin your fossil hunting!
Thanks Cam for sharing!