Schoharie County

Schoharie County sits in New York's Helderberg Group country, a stack of Devonian-age limestones deposited in a shallow inland sea roughly 400 million years ago, and it's one of the classic regions for Devonian fossil collecting in the state. The best-documented specific spot is a roadside outcrop on Rickard Hill Road just outside Schoharie village, exposing the Coeymans and Kalkberg formations (lower Helderberg Group) — extremely fossiliferous rock with abundant brachiopods, bryozoa fragments, trilobite pieces, and Favosites corals, a tabulate coral genus commonly preserved as silicified material, matching the DB's "Silicified Coral" listing well. The batch coordinate for this entry lands in the Town of Fulton, a few miles southwest of Schoharie village — still Schoharie County, but not the exact Rickard Hill Road spot, so treat this as a county-level entry with Rickard Hill Road as the best specific example.

Rickard Hill Road sits just outside the village of Schoharie, off NY-30. It's described as a roadside outcrop with a large collecting area well off the shoulder of the road — a meaningfully different, safer setup than a highway-shoulder exposure.

Surface and loose-material collecting — searching float and weathered rock along the outcrop rather than hard-rock excavation. Watch footing on any unstable bank, and use normal streamside caution if collecting extends down toward Schoharie Creek.

Rickard Hill Road is described as a public roadside outcrop with room to collect off the road; land ownership of the outcrop itself (state DOT right-of-way vs. adjacent private land) was not independently confirmed by this research. As with any New York roadside outcrop, stay off private property beyond the road right-of-way without permission, and avoid unstable cut banks.