A High Resolution Paleontological, Ichnological and Chemostratograpic Study of Late Devonian Mass Extinction

How's it going?
I am the shorter of the two Emilys, aka New York Emily, and play assistant to the tall, dark, and handsome California Emily. We have been traipsing around creek beds of western New York in New Oregon, Eden, Evans/Derby, Silver Creek, Boston, West Falls, Java, Sheldon, Hume, Geneseo, Livonia, Mount Morris, and Portageville and stealing glances at an exposure at Dunkirk Beach. We have been collecting shales, be they black or green/grey, hoping to find interesting trace fossil and biomarker trends around the Frasnian and Famennian boundary, through the Upper Kellwasser black shale, all the way to the time at which the Dunkirk Formation was deposited. We recently have also been looking at the Middlesex and Rhinestreet black shales and were treated to a guided tour of some localities of these horizons by the great Dr Jeff Over of SUNY Geneseo. He has been aiding us in accessing these localities, as well as those in Java and in Sheldon, so a great amount of appreciation is owed to him.
Dr Diana Boyer also aided us in Java, by guiding us around the locality on our first traverse up there on the 8th after we (Emily, Diana, Jeff, Charles Spath, John Lohan and myself) all shared a drizzly tour of the Ithaca area by the Museum of the Earth and its participating paleontologists. After Diana's tour, Emily and I worked in the area and were treated to some lovely WNY weather, which included some strong downpours and a tree falling 20ft from our collection area, which was made up for by the collection of some very neat burrows and some brachiopod fossils.
At many of our localities, Miss Emily and I have been fortunate in finding some very neat pyritized burrows and some pyritized banding (found today at our Middlesex locality, super excited), as well as some fossils of sorts and other hip treasures.
this is the New Oregon locality, which is along Eighteenmile Creek on New Oregon Rd. This is after we removed fissile rocks but before collection