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A Perry County Trilobite

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Trilobites are generally not rare but my brother and I spent our childhood in pursuit of the elusive triolobite. This was the best we did, a Silurian example about 2 1/2 inches long. It was found about 1962 or 63 when the route of highway 13 just south of Linden, TN was changed and a limestone bluff along the Buffalo River cut through. It proved to be a very good fossil site. Brachipods, coral, crinoids and pieces of trilobites were common in Perry County but a finding a complete example was rare indeed.

My brother still owns this fossil, a source of Perry County nostalgia.

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Jerry's Really Old Stuff

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CKC3

Very nice! I live in perry county. Thornville to be exact. I'm also on the hunt for one of these.

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Along a hillside on White Oak Creek is one of the most interesting fossil sites in Perry County. The limestone formation exposed along the hillside contains a dense concentration of the large brachipods. They are far larger than any other Silurian era brachipods I've seen.

The road cut along the bluff overlooking the Buffalo River just south of Linden is where we found this trilobite. There were other smaller trilobites, a good place you should be able to find a specimen.

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