Sun Oil Company, Buss-Halb unit No. 1 well core, Freedom Township is a fossil collection site in Delta, Michigan, cataloged in the Paleobiology Database. Fossils here come from the Trenton Formation, dated to the Rocklandian to Shermanian (457.3–449.6 million years ago). The depositional environment is recorded as carbonate indet. Documented finds include Flexicalymene planilabra.

Geologic setting

Formation: Trenton
Geologic interval: Rocklandian to Shermanian
Age: 457.3–449.6 Ma
Depositional environment: carbonate indet.
Recorded occurrences: 1

Locality notes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Township,_Michigan

Fossils found here

Flexicalymene planilabra

Trilobita · Calymenidae

Records and references

Data: Paleobiology Database collection 75970 (CC BY 4.0) — view the source record

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Questions about Sun Oil Company, Buss-Halb unit No. 1 well core, Freedom Township

Can you collect at Sun Oil Company, Buss-Halb unit No. 1 well core, Freedom Township?

It depends on who owns the land and whether a mining claim covers it. BLM land usually allows hand collecting for personal use, national parks allow none, and private land needs the owner’s permission. Pro members see the owner and any claims at this spot.

What minerals are found at Sun Oil Company, Buss-Halb unit No. 1 well core, Freedom Township?

Fossil.

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