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From the album: Trilobites
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Was hiking across the Colorado River from Dead Horse Point/Canyonlands a few years back and found this. Looks porous and cemented in a siliceous rock. Any ideas? Thanks!
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Well I finally had the opportunity to head out to Millard Co. with my Geology professor, the esteemed Forest Gahn. He is one of the worlds leading experts in Echinoderms and he specializes in Crinoids. The guy goes diving a lot to study Echinoderms in their natural habitat and he's managed to keep some Crinoids thriving in a tank at BYU in Rexburg, Idaho. Here's some pictures of the trip to some special Geology and Paleontology sights in south western Utah. I had a blast. Students sitting on the edge of Fossil Mountain, one of the richest Ordovician deposits in the world learning about it's geology from Forest Gahn. The major fossiliferous formations are the Juab and Kanosh Shale formations. In a remnant of the last ice age lake, Lake Bonneville forest scopes up a handful of algae and cyanobacteria rich mud along with Playa (dried up lake). This is an extinct marine animal known as a Graptolite discovered at a nearby Ordovician road cut in Millard Co. UT. No trip is complete without trilobites. Here's a large Asaphiscus wheeleri molt from U-Dig near Delta, UT. This Native American arrowhead was recovered in Millard CO Utah during one of our hikes. My professor claims its origins may be from the Shoshone Tribe. Forest teaches students about the Cambrian marine fauna at U-Dig near Delta, UT. Forest shows students the fossilized remains of a Stromatolite (just above his knee) colony alongside the Lake Bonneville Playa (dried lake) near Notch Peak UT. Here is the view of Fossil Mountain in Millard CO, UT at sunrise. At dusk on the first night we camped at the dunes of Little Sahara which are composed of ancient sand deposits from the Sevier River dumping into Lake Bonneville. Perhaps one of my favorite parts of the trip was being let into the collections archive room at the BYU museum of paleontology in Provo, UT. A lot of the dinosaurs in the collections here are from the Saints and Sinners Quarry in Colorado. Lots of neat therapods including a near complete Allosaurus.
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Hello! I’m a new enthusiast looking for any tips to expand my knowledge and anyone with info on sites in UT. Look forward to meeting fossil friends, Stegasoar
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Hello! My name is Ann Cooper and I wanted to stop in and introduce myself. I am originally from Indianapolis, but I have lived in Utah for 20 years. Growing up in an inner-city, I did not have much access to the outdoors, wildlife, nature and ancient life sciences. However, I always knew deep down, that I wanted to explore and discover the things that came before me. I eagerly thumbed through books on dinosaurs, fossils and similar sciences. At the age of 8 or so, I can remember digging a small square in my backyard and setting up a grid to log what I found. A school field trip to a State Park in Southern Indiana fueled my passion to find more when I saw large areas of limestone and was allowed to take a piece home with me. I had never seen anything like it. Today, I am just as excited to find those pieces of our ancient history as I was as a child. Hope to get some fossil identifications as well as possibly provide some insight as well.
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A very rare new discovery: The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences reported today that a clutch of oviraptorosaur eggs was found in the San Rafael Swell of Utah. It was a first for the North American continent since these ars typically found in Asia. NC Museum release with video http://naturalsciences.org/calendar/news/rare-dinosaur-eggs-discovered-by-n-c-museum-of-natural-sciences-paleontologist/ @HamptonsDoc @-Andy-
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Here's a mystery fossil from the Lower Ordovician Fillmore Formation of Utah. My initial impression is it must be a graptolite, but I've never seen any graptolites from this formation with this structure and I can't find any graptolites in my research that look like this. The other thing that's throwing me off is the "rod" running down the middle is preserved actually fairly 3d where every graptolite I've seen is preserved as just a flat film. For reference the specimen is about 2" tall including the middle section still covered in matrix. Any ideas?
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From the album: Trilobites
Wheeler Formation Millard County Utah, United States© 2018 by Jay A. Wollin
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From the album: Trilobites
Wheeler Formation Millard County Utah, United States© 2018 by Jay A. Wollin
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From the album: Trilobites
Wheeler Formation Millard County Utah, United States© 2018 by Jay A. Wollin
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Hey everyone! I'm new to the forum, but have been hunting fossils (mostly in Utah/Nevada) for several years now. Most of what I've found are corals or shells, but I'm eager to expand that collection and branch out a little. Is there anyone on here that goes regularly, and is this the place to ask about getting a group together?
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I thought about this as an example of bone from the Morrison formation, but realized that I'm not positive that it is bone. It was found southwest of the ghost town of Cisco, UT. Our target site that day was the old Cactus Rat uranium mine. It seemed harmless since the area was already quite disturbed. By the way I do store it in lead flashing.
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Measurement is for the straightened-out individual (middle portions of which are missing)
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Well, i thought I'd show my primitive prepping skills. This is all rather unnecessary as Tony @ynothas already done this thread here and probably better and the pieces shown were kindly donated to me as well. So treat this as a repeat of what Tony does better. Hey ho. So these are the three pieces that Kind Tony sent me. 1. Notice this Elrathia kingii (1.2 cm long) has a break on the anterior margin (cause of death?) .and an upside down Itagnostus interstrictus (5.5 mm) above it and a piece of another to the right of it. 2. This Elrathia (1.8 cm long) has another ones cephalon stuck to its cephalon and some serious damage on the right side pleura. 3. This one is upside down in the matrix. (2.3 cm long) All my prepping was done balancing the specimens on my knee and using a jeweller's loupe to see and a board pin to do the actual prepping. Some water and saliva were also involved, but that was all. First I carefully cleaned as much of the matrix off the first two specimens as i could using the pin and then dug around the third piece so I could 'pop' it out of the matrix. Then I dug all around the other two specimens with the pin and popped them out of the matrix. Here is the third one popped out and with a bit of prep already completed. Sorry for the dreadful photo, but wifey and her camera phone weren't about so i started prepping and then took this photo with my computer as i was impatient to continue. When it was first popped only a tiny bit of the glabella was showing clear of matrix. Here i have popped the Itagnostus before popping the Elrathia.
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I am in the Salt lake area for a few weeks doing some skiing and working the boat show. I have got out and hunted a few areas that were listed in a publication but found them mostly picked over. I did find an Ammonite, a small shell and some star shaped Crinoids. Are there any places that you members would suggest hunt around the area? When I leave I plan on stopping in Price to tour the museum there and some of the local area there. Are there any areas that can be suggested to look at in that area as well as along I-70 heading east towards Colorado?
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I will be in Vernal Utah in July and I have a free day. Are there any fossil sites open to the public? Or specific museums/sights to see? I know Dinosaur national monument is very close. Any replies or suggestions are greatly appreciated!
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I found this little guy at U-Dig in Utah, and put him in my “junk pile”. When I took a close look, it appears to be more narrow than your usual Elrathia, with more body segments. Could this be an Altiocculus?
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New Stalked Filter Feeder from Spence Shale, Antimony Canyon, northern Utah
Oxytropidoceras posted a topic in Fossil News
Primitive and weird’ fossil looks like a tulip By Brendan Lynch, University of Kansas’ Biodiversity Institute, January 2, 2018 http://www.futurity.org/stalked-filter-feeder-siphusauctum-lloydguntheri-1644252-2/ The paper is: Julien Kimmig, Luke C. Strotz,and Bruce S. Lieberman, 2017, The stalked filter feeder Siphusauctum lloydguntheri n. sp. from the middle Cambrian (Series 3, Stage 5) Spence Shale of Utah: its biological affinities and taphonomy https://doi.org/10.1017/jpa.2017.57 Published online: 07 August 2017 http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1017/jpa.2017.57 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-paleontology/article/stalked-filter-feeder-siphusauctum-lloydguntheri-n-sp-from-the-middle-cambrian-series-3-stage-5-spence-shale-of-utah-its-biological-affinities-and-taphonomy/ Yours, Paul H.- 1 reply
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I got a nice delivery of shale from udig for Christmas, i've just been in the freezing cold splitting and having fun. Here are my finds. I'll post better and more clear pictures when they dry. I washed them and put them infront of the radiator to dry, is that a good thing?
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From the album: MY FOSSIL Collection - Dpaul7
Elrathia Trilobite fossil Utah, USA Middle Cambrian 501,000,000-530,000,000 million years Elrathia is a genus of ptychopariid trilobite species that lived during the Middle Cambrian of Utah, and possibly British Columbia. E. kingii is one of the most common trilobite fossils in the USA locally found in extremely high concentrations within the Wheeler Formation in the U.S. state of Utah. E. kingii has been considered the most recognizable trilobite. Commercial quarries extract E. kingii in prolific numbers, with just one commercial collector estimating 1.5 million specimens extracted in a 20-year career. 1950 specimens of Elrathia are known from the Greater Phyllopod bed, where they comprise 3.7% of the community. Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: †Trilobita Order: †Ptychopariida Family: †Alokistocaridae Genus: †Elrathia -
I found what appears to be a small (1 cm) ammonite in Green River, Utah back in 1993. Anyone have any idea what genus it is? I don't know the geologic horizon I found it in but looking at a geologic map of the San Rafael desert, it's probably Cretaceous. I do remember it's from the East bank of the Green River, near the Old Highway Elgin Road. Matrix appears to be limestone if that helps (reacts vigorously to acid). Thanks for the help.
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I found a few lists of trilobite species from Utah, but am having trouble finding any information on telling the Agnostid species apart. Looking for some sort of papers, book, illustrations, pictures or something that can help me make sense of the differences between, say, Baltagnostus eurypyx, Itagnostus interstricta, Peronopsis interstricta, and etc. Thanks!
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Had an awesome day digging at U-Dig with @FossilSloth So the hound and the sloth hung out today and we pounded rocks from sun up to sun down. I found the largest Asaphiscus wheeleri I've ever seen and Justin scored a good number of Elrathia kingii. The find of the day a was massive Asaphiscus wheeleri. The trunk is full of Utah trilobites to prep this winter. Had an awesome day. Exhausted yet determined to find some more. The U-Dig season closes soon and I already miss this place. Justin and I holding up some of our finds. It's always fun meeting up with another forum member. Justin hauled off seven buckets full of trilobites, sponges, and brachiopods! One of Justin's buckets. I see an Elrathia kingii multiplate! Another Elrathia kingii awaiting preparation. Really going to miss this place. Sunset over the ancient sea ways. Up close of the day maker. Another angle. I'll post more trilobites as I prep them out. Found a myriad of Perenopsis and will post those later. The site manager showed us a secret spot full of them. Here is a video of all the neat trilobites we found in between one of the Shale slabs: That's all for now folks!
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Think this is a tooth fragment. Found in the Rico Formation near Potash, UT which is just outside of Moab, UT. 1 1/4" x 1/2".
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From the album: Utah
Perenopsis multi-plate from U-Dig. @Kane an old timer to the site showed me were to find these and after a few hours I found a couple with 5+. I said I'd get you another one, but perhaps I could up the stakes for another E. rana. Stay tuned!
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