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A long time ago in a place not so far away......
Much of the North American continent was under a shallow sea. Life was abundant. There arose unprecedented diversity. Yet animals had not emerged onto land.
Almost a half billion years later, thought dominates the planet. The discovery of fossil fuels beckons a new era of atmospheric change. The discovery of fossil life gives new hope for change.
A great city is built where the lost paradise has emerged from the planet's depths. This brings enlightened thinkers to their origins to see with their own eyes what dreamers have known.
This beautiful image is real. The city of Cincinnati was built in a place where the Earth's crust has been bent upwards. This is called the "Cincinnati Arch." Erosion and glacial action has exposed the remains of animals that lived 450 million years ago, during the Late Ordovician Period. The fossils are astonishingly well preserved, giving paleontologists an excellent picture of what the earth was like long before there were people or even dinosaurs.
With this exposure of Ordovician time, along with other exposures, scientists can see that life on earth is hearty. It has overcome major catastrophes to radiate into diverse forms across the planet again and again. Our atmosphere has become great concern of scientists today. Will we survive our use of planet Earth? Look to our past for the answer. Come to Cincinnati and find the answer for yourself.
This Web Page is a celebration of Cincinnati's rich fossil heritage. The next time you visit the Cincinnati Area, be sure and make fossil hunting part of your plans. Browse these pages and take notes. I hope they make your visit to Cincinnati enjoyable!
Xfossils.com Amateurs Advancing Paleontology
The Cincinnati Trilobite Fragment Identifier
The Trilobite Flexicalymene
Dan Cooper's Cincinnati Trilobites
Tom Johnson's Ordovician Trilobites
Cincinnati Scolecodonts
Cincinnati Crinoids
I'm Bill Heimbrock. Professionally, I'm a Systems Analyst and Consultant. My hobbies are photography, science and paleontology. My goal is to find new ways help the professional field of paleontology. During fair weather, I spend about every other weekend in the field studying and collecting fossils. I am interested and eager to share my findings with those of you who are interested. My current research includes microfossils from the Arnheim Formation and Rhombiferans from the Kope Formation.
If you would like more information, visit my Fossil News page at...
http://geocities.com/heimbrock/Billheim.htm
or check out the Heimbrock Family Home Page at...