- Professors and students from Syracuse University examine a 380-million-year-old coral reef uncovered during the excavation of a house foundation in Pompey in April 2021. Kneeling is SU earth sciences professor Linda Ivany. Standing, from left, are earth sciences professors Cathryn Newton and Christopher Junium, and doctoral student Shiv Das. Nancy Furdock | Special to Syracuse.comNancy Furdock | Special to Syrac
Syracuse, N.Y. – Nancy Furdock loved fossil hunting as a kid growing up in rural Pompey. So when odd, tubular-shaped rocks began tumbling from the backhoe digging the foundation for her new house atop a hill in Pompey, Furdock was intrigued.
“My excavator happened to mention that there’s these weird-looking finger-like rocks he’d never seen before,” she recalled.
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