Location County State/Province Directions,Notes Age Formation Fossils Comments Reference Lat-Long
– Berkshire MA Fossils in (non?)-Taconic Lower Cambrian rocks Cambrian Lower trilobites? MA0003
Cheshire Berkshire MA Olenellid trilobite fragments near Cheshire,MA Cambrian Cheshire Olenellus MA0001
North Adams Berkshire MA from quartzite bed near base of Formation Cambrian Cheshire Olenellid trilobite fragments MA0002 Original says Underhill Fm an Easterly Equivalent of the Cheshire
Williamstown Berkshire MA In quartzite on W summit of Clarksburg Mountain Cambrian Lower Trilobite-Olenellus MA0128
Attleboro Bristol MA At Hoppin Hill in forested area (part of exposure under water at reservoir Cambrian Lower hyolithids,a very few trilobites MA0004
Attleboro Bristol MA in quarry 2.4km S of RR Station below Dighton Conglomerate Pennsylvanian Dighton Conglomerate vertebrate footprints-Dromopus,Invertebrate tracks MA0005
North Attleboro Bristol MA A third Cambrian Lower Fauna is reported from Hoppin Hill in North Attleboro in Bristol County. I have seen a map that suggests that the Cambrian Lower rocks are relatively low on the hill. Cambrian Lower Weymouth the trilobites Serrodiscus,Hebediscus,Strenuella,and Olenellus (a non-Avalonian form) are reported MA0006
North Attleboro Bristol MA Otherwise unspecified location 4.8km from North Attleboro High School Pennsylvanian Plants-Calamites,Annularia,ferns MA0007
Plainview Bristol MA Pennsylvanian small vertebrate tracks MA0008
Somerset Bristol MA In local shale exposure Pennsylvanian? Plant fossils MA0009
Elizabeth Islands Dukes MA A small Cretaceous exposure is reported in the Elizabeth Islands near Woods Hole,MA. It is not known if it is Potomac or Monmouth group or if fossils are found there. Cretaceous ? MA0010
Elizabeth Islands Dukes MA Tertiary fossils in sea cliffs. ? MA0011
Gay Head Dukes MA At Gay Head,Martha’s Vinyard,In cliffs Cretaceous Potomac cones -Pityostrobus and Pseudoaraucaria MA0012
Gay Head Dukes MA At Gay Head,Martha’s Vinyard,In cliffs Miocene Calvert Shark Teeth MA0013
Gay Head Dukes MA At Gay Head,Martha’s Vinyard,In dark gray lignitic clay along beach Cretaceous Potomac ? MA0014
Gay Head Dukes MA At Gay Head,Martha’s Vinyard,in clays along road to concession area Cretaceous Magothy conifer cones MA0015
Gay Head Dukes MA In small exposure of coarse,shelly sand below location of 20th Century Coast Guard Station Pleistocene mollusk shells MA0016
Martha’s Vineyard Dukes MA In cliffs at Gay Head Cretaceous ? MA0017
Martha’s Vineyard Dukes MA On Martha’s Vinyard at Squibnocket Cliffs Miocene Calvert Shark Teeth MA0018
Nomans Land Dukes MA Tertiary fossils in sea cliffs. ? MA0019
Nonamesset Island Dukes MA 2.4km S of Woods Hole On S Side of the island in lignitic (coaly) clay Cretaceous Raritan Plant spores-Henrisporites,Paxillitriletes MA0020
Boxford Essex MA Devonian fossils including brachiopods,mollusks and trilobites are reported from float material in gravel pits in the town of Boxford,Essex County. Devonian brachiopods,mollusks and trilobites MA0021
Danvers Essex MA In Purchase Street Clay Pit,see Liberty Street Brick Pit also in Danvers Recent Leda Clay ? MA0022
Danvers Essex MA The Liberty Street Brick pit in Danvers,in Leda Clay Recent Leda Clay several genera of mollusks: Portlandia,Pandora,Modiolaria,Saxicava,Lyonsia,Mactra,Cylichna,Haminea,Schizoporella MA0023
Georgetown Essex MA 25 species of fossils found by N.P.Cupples in Unmetamorphised rocks in the Georgetown area,in boulders in area gravel pits Ostracods,Brachiopods,pelecypods,Gastropods,Trilobites MA0024
Lynnfield Essex MA In Lynnfield Center in outcrops of quartzite,slate and Limestone Cambrian-Devonian Annelids and fucoids MA0025
Nahant Essex MA Along the causeway Cambrian Lower Weymouth ? MA0026
Nahant Essex MA In the cliff at East Point. (One reference indicates Braintree Slate with Middle Cambrian Paradoxides – a trilobite) at this locality Cambrian Lower Weymouth ? MA0027
Nahant Essex MA On Ocean side opposite Maolis Spring in Limestone Cambrian Lower Weymouth ? MA0028
Nahant Essex MA On the Lynn Harbor side of Bass Point below high tide level near the Causeway. Cambrian Lower Weymouth ? MA0029
Nahant Essex MA Small shelly fauna 42.4N 70.9W in green slaty siltstone and sandstone Cambrian Lower Weymouth Eccentrotheca,Ladatheca,Allatheca,Mellopegma?,Pelagiella,Aldanella,Hyolithes,Ginella MA0030 Paleobiology Database 56833
Nahant Essex MA on the North side of the bay at the Nahant peninsula where a small exposure of Cambrian Lower Shales and limestones tilted at about 30 degrees is found at the SouthEast tip of the Peninsula. As of late 1995, the site was owned by NorthEastern University Cambrian Lower Weymouth This site is principally known for a variety of species of the conical fossil Hyolithes. Similar fossils have been reported from other sites in the area. Hyolithes,Stenotheca,Scenella,Orthotheca MA0031
Rowley Essex MA At Glen Mills Silurian-Devonian ostracods Hermania MA0032
Rowley Essex MA At Smith Hill Silurian-Devonian ostracods Hermania MA0033
Rowley Essex MA East of Clay Lane in Rowley on the West bank of Batchelder’s Brook in chert. Devonian? ? MA0034 Batchelder’s Brook runs NS parallel to US1 N of MA131
Rowley Essex MA In open field to N of DPW Garage Silurian-Devonian ostracods Hermania MA0035
Rowley Essex MA On US1 on ledge between DPW garage and Leviton Lane on E side of road (probably no longer accessible) Silurian-Devonian ostracods Hermania MA0036
Rowley Essex MA can be found in red lakebed shales along Route 1A in Rowley North of the Hwy 133 junction. Silurian-Devonian ostracods Hermania MA0037
Rowley Essex MA near Hunsley Hills Silurian-Devonian ostracods Hermania MA0038
Topsfield Essex MA beside Rowley Bridge Street in quartzite chert Limestone beds (may be Cambrian Middle). Devonian? Annelid? microscopic mollusks,Sponge — Ethmophyllum MA0039
West Newbury Essex MA At Archelaus Hill in West Newbury in red Limestone,slate and quartzite beds. Devonian? ? MA0040
West Newbury Essex MA Fragments of Hyolithes reported in red Limestone,slate,quartzite on E side of Archelaus Hill Cambrian? ? MA0041
Bernardston Franklin MA Fossils MA0042
Bernardston Franklin MA Devonian Fitch fossils MA0043
Bernardston Franklin MA Silurian Clough fossils MA0044
Bernardston Franklin MA Adjacent to Rt 5 N of Bernardston Fossils MA0045
Deerfield Franklin MA Triassic-Jurassic Newark Plants MA0046
Gill Franklin MA 4.8km N of Turners Falls at Fields orchard 300m W of Bartons Island (now submerged?)–42d36m33sN 72d32m8sW Jurassic Portland vertebrate footprints-Anchisauripus,Grallator,Eubrontes,Anomoepus,Apatichnus,Sauroidichnites=Sauropus,Ornithoidichnites=Sauropus,Batrachopus MA0047
Gill Franklin MA 4.8km N of Turners Falls at Lily Pond/Barton Cove– 42.6056413N,72.5370329W Jurassic Portland vertebrate footprints-Ornithichnites=Argoides,Anchisauripus,Grallator,Stenonyx,Gigantitherium=Kayentapus,Plesiornis,Hyphepus,Eubrontes,Gigadipus=Eubrontes,Brontozoum=Eubrontes,Eubrontes,Anomoepus,Sauroidichnites=Sauropus,Ornithoidichnites=Sauropus MA0048 Paleobiology Database 52986
Gill Franklin MA 42.64036290N 72.49953250W Jurassic Portland vertebrate footprints-Otouphepus MA0049
Gill Franklin MA At ‘Horse Race Quarry’ on bank of Connecticut River 4.8km N of Turner’s Falls — 42.6403629N,72.4995325W Jurassic Portland vertebrate footprints-Anchisauripus,Grallator,Otozoum,Eubrontes,Anomoepus,Batrachopus,Sauroidichnites MA0050
Gill Franklin MA Plants,Tracks at Lily Pond. Plants Pagiophyllum at Horse Run Triassic-Jurassic Newark Plants-Pagiophyllum;tracks MA0051
Greenfield Franklin MA Triassic-Jurassic Newark Plants,Bones,Tracks MA0052
Greenfield Franklin MA 900m N in Quarry — 42.5875857N,72.5995339W Jurassic Portland dinosaur bones MA0053 Paleobiology Database 52965
Mintagne[?] Franklin MA At one time Yale’s Peabody museum published a list of localities open to collecting. Triassic-Jurassic Newark Dinosaur Tracks Anchisauripus MA0054 Probably a reference to Montague,Franklin County,MA
Montague Franklin MA At Dexters Marsh about 900m from Connecticut River — 42.6403629dN,72.4995325dW Jurassic Portland vertebrate footprints–Argoides,Trihamus,Ornithoidichnites=Steropoides,Anticheiropus,Steropoides,Anomoepus,Sauropus? MA0055
Montague Franklin MA At Montague Canal about 900m from Connecticut River — 42.6403629dN,72.4995325dW Jurassic Portland vertebrate footprints–Anchisauripus,Otozoum?,Anomoepus MA0056
Montague? Franklin MA Triassic-Jurassic Newark Plants,Tracks MA0057 Original says ‘Horse Race,Mintague’ Montague is my best guess
Sunderland Franklin MA Triassic fish MA0058
Sunderland Franklin MA Triassic Turners Falls Sandstone fish-Semionotus MA0059
Sunderland Franklin MA Triassic-Jurassic Newark Plants,Fish MA0060
Turners Falls Franklin MA Triassic fish MA0061
Turners Falls Franklin MA Along Connecticut River above Turners Falls at Riverside Bridge (site of 19th Century ferry — 42.6111966N,72.5528665W Jurassic Portland vertebrate footprints–Grallator,Anchisauripus,Apatichnus,Selenichnus,Eubrontes,Anomoepus,Apatichnus,Platypterna,Batrachopus,Ammopus MA0062
Turners Falls Franklin MA Along Connecticut River at Turners Falls — 42.6111966N 72.552866W Jurassic Portland vertebrate footprints-Argoides,Sillimanius,Steropoides,Ornithichnites,Orthodactylus,Isocampe,Amblypus,Cunichnoides,Helcura,Anchisauripus,Grallator,Leptonyx,Selenichnus,Plesiornis,Hyphepus,Lagunculapes,Otozoum,Amblonyx,Eubrontes,Gigandipus,Anomoepus,Apatichnus,Platypterna,Trihamus,Batrachopus,Sauroidichnites,Corvipes,Palamopus,Plectropterna,Harpedactylus,Exocampe,Xiphopeza MA0063 Paleobiology Database 52996
Turners Falls Franklin MA In sheer 60 meter cliff exposing a number of fossiliferous beds Triassic fish,bones,etc MA0064
Turners Falls Franklin MA May be multiple localities Triassic Upper-Jurassic Lower Turners Falls Sandstone footprints-Anomoepus,Apatichnus,Argoides,Corvipes,Eubrontes,Exocampa,Fulicopus,Grallator,Platypternia,Plesiornis,Stenopus[?],Sustenodactylus,Triaenopus MA0065 Stenopus is a genus of shrimp and lobsters
Turners Falls Franklin MA below dam Triassic Turners Falls Sandstone footprints-Sillimanius,Xiphopeza MA0066
Turners Falls Franklin MA near ferry Triassic-Jurassic Newark Plants,Fish,Tracks MA0067
Chicopee Falls Hampden MA Triassic-Jurassic Newark Fish,Tracks near Cabotville MA0068
Chicopee Falls Hampden MA aka ‘Chicopee Factories’ 42.2N 72.6W Jurassic Portland vertebrate footprints-Anchisauripus,Grallator,Anomoepus,Ornithoidichnites,Argoides,Plectropterna,Sauroidichnites,Polemarchus MA0069
Holyoke Hampden MA At Dinosaur Footprint Reservation (New Bed) On MA5 about 3km N of Holyoke 42.2N 72.6W Jurassic East Berlin vertebrate footprints-Anchisauripus,Grallator,Eubrontes;Plants-conifers MA0070 Paleobiology Database 53060
Holyoke Hampden MA Commercial Quarry near Ashley Pond–42.1667591N 72.6678689W Jurassic Portland vertebrate footprints-Eubrontes MA0071
Holyoke Hampden MA Gary Gaulin 1996 site 42.1972280N 72.6441860W Jurassic East Berlin vertebrate footprints-Anchisauripus,Grallator,Eubrontes,Anomoepus MA0072
Holyoke Hampden MA In shales and sandstones exposed for commercial development along US5 1.6km S of US202 Jurassic Portland conifer fragments,pollen MA0073
Holyoke Hampden MA Murray Quarry from 1920-1930 timeframe at 42.2039480N 72.6468240W Jurassic East Berlin? vertebrate footprints-Anchisauripus,Grallator;Ichnofossils-Skolithos MA0074
Holyoke Hampden MA Tracks along Connecticut River Eubrontes,Grallator–Anchisauripus MA0075
Longmeadow Hampden MA Triassic-Jurassic Newark Bones,Tracks MA0076
Mount Holyoke Hampden MA Triassic-Jurassic Newark Plants,Tracks MA0077
Mount Tom Hampden MA Triassic-Jurassic Newark Plants,Triassic arthropods,Tracks MA0078
Mount Tom Hampden MA aka ‘Mt Tom West’ 42.2N 72.7W Jurassic East Berlin vertebrate footprints-Eubrontes MA0079
Smiths Ferry Hampden MA On W bank of Connecticut River on E slope of Mt Tom Uplift — 42.2584242N 72.6142564W Jurassic East Berlin vertebrate footprints–Anchisauripus,Grallator,Eubrontes MA0080
Smiths Ferry East Hampden MA Quarry opposite the Smith’s Ferry site — 42.2584242N 72.6142564W Jurassic East Berlin vertebrate footprints–Anchisauripus MA0081
Springfield Hampden MA Found during blasting at the US Armory in Springfield in 1877–42d6m13sN,72d35m17sW Jurassic Longmeadow vertebrate-Megadactylus MA0082
Springfield Hampden MA at Waterworks Triassic-Jurassic Newark Bones,tracks MA0083
Westfield Hampden MA Triassic-Jurassic Newark Plants MA0084
Amherst Hampshire MA Pratt Museum at Amherst College Hitchcock collection of Connecticut Valley dinosaur tracks. May be worlds largest collection of tracks. Triassic-Jurassic Newark ? MA0085
Belchertown Hampshire MA Triassic-Jurassic Newark Bones MA0086
Granby Hampshire MA At Nash Dinoland Triassic abundant dinosaur footprints on display (some for sale) MA0087
Granby Hampshire MA Commercial quarry and museum at Nash Dinoland. Claims 5000 tracks taken from small quarry Triassic-Jurassic Newark ? MA0088
Hadley Hampshire MA The Nash Dinosaur Museum at Hadley Massachusetts displays many footprints and tracks. Triassic-Jurassic Newark ? MA0089
Hadley Hampshire MA aka ‘Titans Piazza’ 42.3N 72.6W Jurassic East Berlin vertebrate footprints-Anchisauripus MA0090
Mount Holyoke Hampshire MA In float material ‘near’ Mt Holyoke college presumably derived from nearby Holyoke Range Jurassic Portland vertebrate-Podokesaurus MA0091
Northampton Hampshire MA Dinosaur footprint Reservation near Rt 5 retaining wall on W side of Connecticut River. A.K.A. ‘Mt Tom East’,’Northampton track site’,’Ashael Lyman’s Site’–42d15m24sN 72d36m55sW Jurassic Portland Steropoides,Anchisauripus,Eubrontes MA0092
South Hadley Hampshire MA 42.26675770N 72.58286670W Jurassic East Berlin vertebrate footprints-Anchisauripus,Grallator,Apatichnus,Eubrontes,Anomoepus,Batrachopus MA0093
South Hadley Hampshire MA At Dickinsons Quarry–42.2806466N 72.5586994W Jurassic Portland vertebrate footprints–Anchisauripus,Grallator,Eubrontes,Ornithoidichnites,Anomoepus,Batrachopus MA0094
South Hadley Hampshire MA In shales below the Holyoke Dam on East Bank Triassic plants MA0095
South Hadley Hampshire MA In stream near Pliny Moody’s Footprint Site (Moody’s Corner?) — 42.2806466N 72.5586994W Jurassic Portland vertebrate footprints–Anchisauripus,Grallator,Batrachopus MA0096
South Hadley Hampshire MA In strip NE to and across the Connecticut river dinosaur tracks MA0097
South Hadley Hampshire MA N at Moody’s Corner Jurassic Portland vertebrate footprints–Anchisauripus,Grallator?,Brontozoum,Apatichnus,Otozoum,Anomoepus,Batrachopus,Ancyropus,Ornithoidichnites MA0098
South Hadley Hampshire MA Plants,Bones,Tracks at Moody’s Corner Triassic-Jurassic Newark Plants,Tracks,Bones MA0099
Sankaty Head Nantucket MA Several beds exposed 41.3N,69.10W Pleistocene Barnacles-Balanus;Gastropods-Cliona,Crepidula,Eupleura,Urosalpinx,Columbella,Ilynassa,Nassa,Turbinella,Odostomia,Polynices,Buccinum;Bivalves-Arca,Mytilus,Ischadium,Ostrea,Gemma,Mercenaria,Venus,Petricola,Tellina,Cumingia,Ensis,Corbula,Mya,Noetia,Crenella;Placopecten,Macoma,Spisula,Mesodesma,Astarte MA0100 Paleobiology Database 61268,61289
West Tisbury? Nantucket MA In limestone at 41.420 N 70.620 W Cretaceous Raritan gastropods-Actaeonella MA0101
Attleboro Norfolk MA Ellis Road Hoppin Reservoir,Small shelly fauna 41.10N 71.3W in slaty red siltstone and sandstone Cambrian Lower Weymouth Eccentrotheca,Sunnaginia,Rhombocorniculum,Linguella,Torellella,Pelagiella,Gracilitheca,Obolus?,Obolella,Dipharus,Serrodiscus,Calodiscus,Strenuella,Helcionella,Scenella MA0102
Braintree Norfolk MA At Hayward’s Quarry and nearby exposures–e.g. W side of East Howard St,Quincy,MA (no fossils),an abandoned RR cut at Webb Park (fossils rare at best),small exposure near 60 Allen St (no fossils),Old Quincy Reservoir (few or no fossils) Cambrian Middle Braintree Avalonian trilobites – Paradoxides,Dawsonites[?],Condylopyge,an unidentified Agnostid,Braintreella,Agraulos,Kingaspis MA0103 Hayward Quarry is part the Fore River shipyard since WW-II. Shipyard decommissioned around 2000,but quarry access still reported restricted. Dawsonites is early Agnathan fish? misspelling?
Braintree Norfolk MA At Mill Cove Cambrian Middle Braintree Paradoxides MA0104
Braintree Norfolk MA In the cliff at East Point,Nahant (probably incorrect) Cambrian Middle Braintree Paradoxides MA0105 Seems to be a juxtaposition of two Cambrian localities near Boston
Braintree Norfolk MA On Manatiquot Brook Cambrian Middle Braintree Paradoxides MA0106
Braintree Norfolk MA On the shore of the Fore River (This is the shipyard) Cambrian Middle Braintree Paradoxides site?) MA0107
Braintree Norfolk MA Quincy Dump South of Telephone Pole #10. (People who have checked out this report say ‘not likely’) Cambrian Middle Braintree Paradoxides MA0108
Braintree Norfolk MA South of old quarry in glacially transported boulders Cambrian Middle Braintree Paradoxides MA0109
Braintree Norfolk MA Valley of Hayward Creek Cambrian Middle Braintree Paradoxides MA0110
Braintree Norfolk MA Valley of Ruggles Creek Cambrian Middle Braintree Paradoxides MA0111
Braintree Norfolk MA at Mill Cove Cambrian Middle Braintree Paradoxides MA0112
Braintree Norfolk MA on Manatiquot Brook Cambrian Middle Braintree Paradoxides MA0113
Hingham Norfolk MA At Hewitts Cove Cambrian Lower Weymouth Ediacaran fossils,small shelly fossils MA0114
North Attleboro Norfolk MA Hoppin Reservoir,Small shelly fauna 41.10N 71.3W in slaty red siltstone and sandstone Cambrian Lower Weymouth Eccentrotheca,Plinthokonion,Watsonella,Bemella,Aldanella,Lapworthella,Sunnaginia,Torellella,Tiksitheca,Conotheca,Ladatheca,Gracilitheca,Allatheca,Halkieria,Fomitchella,Sokolvitheca[?],Chancelloria,Rhombocorniculum,Linguella,Coleoloides,Strenuella MA0115 No Citations for Sokolvitheca 070608 Paleobiology Database 56829,56830,56831,56832,56834
Plainville Norfolk MA At Masslite quarry — accessible only when quarry not operating (Sundays) Pennsylvanian Several dozen plant taxa,amphibian tracks,invertebrate tracks MA0116
Sheldonville Norfolk MA Small shelly fauna 42N 71.2W in algal mounds in slaty siltstone and sandstone Cambrian Lower Weymouth Chancelloria,Sunnaginia,Torellella,Plinthokonion,Bemella,Aldanella,Eccentrotheca,Halkieria MA0117 Paleobiology Database 56825,56826,56827
South Attleboro Norfolk MA Hoppin Reservoir,Small shelly fauna 41.10N 71.3W in slaty red siltstone and sandstone Cambrian Lower Weymouth Chancelloria,Eccentrotheca,Sunnaginia,Torellella,Rhombocorniculum,Linguella,Coleoloides,Pelagiella,Halkieria,Microdictyon,Linguella MA0118 Paleobiology Database 56831,56840
Weymouth Norfolk MA A second locality is found on the South shore of Boston Bay at Weymouth on the North Shore of Mill Cove,South of Highway 3A. Cambrian Lower Weymouth nearly 40 taxa of Lower Cambrian fossils including the trilobites Callavia and Strenuella are known from this locality MA0119
Weymouth Norfolk MA At Mill Cove and along Pearl St to and beyond North St in calcareous purple slates Cambrian Lower Obolella,Strenuella,Holmia,Weymouthia,hyolithids,Callavia, MA0120
Weymouth Norfolk MA On Pearl Street. Small shelly fauna 42.2N 70.10W in limestone Cambrian Lower Weymouth Chancelloria,Camenella?,Eccentrotheca,Sunnaginia,Torellella,Plinthokonion,Hyolithellus,Conotheca,Ladatheca,Mellopegma?,Aldanella,Pelagiella MA0121 Paleobiology Database 56836
Hull Plymouth MA Petrified Forest sold to developer by town ? MA0122
Marshfield Hills Plymouth MA Eocene and Cretaceous outcrops at third cliff. Fossils,if any,unknown Cretaceous Potomac ? MA0123
Point Shirley Suffolk MA in blue clay under glacial debris 42.4N,70.10W Pleistocene Gastropods-Urosalpinx,Ilynassa,Nassa;Bivalves-Ostrea,Aligena,Venus,Mya MA0124
Petersham Worcester MA Toms Swamp Holocene (11500 BP) Plant fossils MA0125
Worcester Worcester MA At lost location – ‘The Coal Mine’ Pennsylvanian Worcester Slate plants MA0126
– [?] MA North bank of Connecticut River opposite Mouth of Miller River,MA Triassic Newark ? MA0127