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From the album: Central Australia - Arthur Creek Formation
Trilobite from the Arthur Creek formation in central Australia. Xystridura altera (sp?) -
From the album: Central Australia - Arthur Creek Formation
Trilobite tail from the Arthur Creek formation in central Australia. Xystridura altera (sp?) -
From the album: Central Australia - Arthur Creek Formation
Trilobite from the Arthur Creek formation in central Australia. Xystridura altera (sp?) -
From the album: Central Australia - Arthur Creek Formation
Trilobite from the Arthur Creek formation in central Australia. -
I noticed this thing on a plate of hyoliths I received from the Middle Cambrian Zhangxia Fm, Shandong, China. It kind of looks like a carpoid to me, but it may just be a suggestively shaped fragment of some other fossil. Any thoughts?
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Found associated with Elrathia kingii and Itagnostus interstricta trilobites. See field trip report here:
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Found during a trip out to a hill right adjacent to U-Dig Fossil Quarry. The trip report can be FOUND HERE. This is the largest I've collected. Typical sizes I've found are 3-6mm in length, 1-3mm in width.
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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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From the album: MY FOSSIL Collection - Dpaul7
Piochaspis sellata Trilobite SITE LOCATION: Chisolm Shale, Pioche, Nevada, USA TIME PERIOD: Middle Cambrian Period (497-521 Million Years ago) Data: Ptychopariida is a large, heterogeneous order of trilobite containing some of the most primitive species known. The earliest species occurred in the second half of the Lower Cambrian, and the last species did not survive the Ordovician–Silurian extinction event. Trilobites have facial sutures that run along the margin of the glabella and/or fixigena to the shoulder point where the cephalon meets the thorax. These sutures outline the cranidium, or the main, central part of the head that does not include the librigena (free cheeks). The eyes are medial along the glabella on the suture line (however, some species have no eyes). The fossils of the moults of trilobites can often be told from the fossils of the actual animals by whether the librigena are present. (The librigena, or cheek spines, detach during moulting.) In ptychopariids, short bladelike genal spines are often present on the tips of the librigena. The thorax is large and is typically made up of eight or more segments. The thorax is usually much longer than the pygidium, which is usually small. In some species the pygidium is outlined with a flat border. The Subclass Librostoma was recently erected to encompass several related orders, including Ptychopariida, Asaphida, Proetida, Harpetida, and possibly Phacopida. These are now known as the "Librostome Orders". Trilobites of the orders Proetida, Harpetida, and of the family Damesellidae were originally placed in Ptychopariida. Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: †Trilobita Order: †Ptychopariida Family: †Ptychopariidae Genus: †Piochaspis Species: †sellata -
From the album: MY FOSSIL Collection - Dpaul7
Piochaspis sellata Trilobite SITE LOCATION: Chisolm Shale, Pioche, Nevada, USA TIME PERIOD: Middle Cambrian Period (497-521 Million Years ago) Data: Ptychopariida is a large, heterogeneous order of trilobite containing some of the most primitive species known. The earliest species occurred in the second half of the Lower Cambrian, and the last species did not survive the Ordovician–Silurian extinction event. Trilobites have facial sutures that run along the margin of the glabella and/or fixigena to the shoulder point where the cephalon meets the thorax. These sutures outline the cranidium, or the main, central part of the head that does not include the librigena (free cheeks). The eyes are medial along the glabella on the suture line (however, some species have no eyes). The fossils of the moults of trilobites can often be told from the fossils of the actual animals by whether the librigena are present. (The librigena, or cheek spines, detach during moulting.) In ptychopariids, short bladelike genal spines are often present on the tips of the librigena. The thorax is large and is typically made up of eight or more segments. The thorax is usually much longer than the pygidium, which is usually small. In some species the pygidium is outlined with a flat border. The Subclass Librostoma was recently erected to encompass several related orders, including Ptychopariida, Asaphida, Proetida, Harpetida, and possibly Phacopida. These are now known as the "Librostome Orders". Trilobites of the orders Proetida, Harpetida, and of the family Damesellidae were originally placed in Ptychopariida. Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: †Trilobita Order: †Ptychopariida Family: †Ptychopariidae Genus: †Piochaspis Species: †sellata -
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 -
From the album: Adam's Cambrian
Agnostid Trilobite Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Trilobita Order: Agnostida Family: Ptychagnostidae Genus: Ptychagnostus Species: gibbus Author Citation Linnarsson 1869 Geological Time Scale Eon: Phanerozoic Era: Paleozoic Period: Cambrian Epoch: Middle Stratigraphy St Davids Sediments Biostratigraphy Paradoxides Series Provenance Acquired by: Purchase/Trade Location Road cutting, 300 m S.W. of Cement works. Slammerstad, Oslo Norway Listed as St.David's, Paradoxides Series. About 505 million years old. -
Question about Cystoids and their food catching/feeding mechanism
Sallent posted a topic in General Fossil Discussion
I bought this fossil the other day. It is two cystoids from the middle Cambrian, apparently from Idaho. I was looking for more information as to how they caught their food, perhaps their mouth/digestive processes. I seem to find a lot more about crinoids than I do these guys. Part of my curiosity is that I've seen fossils of crinoids with rather well-preserved tube arms showing decently sized pinnules to catch floating food particles, however, the few pictures of cystoid fossils I've come across seem to show thin arms and I can't really see any pinnules preserved. It just kind of peaked my curiosity about how these guys would have caught their food and transported it to their mouths. I also can't seem to find any pictures of fossils showing the mouth structure of these creatures. I'm relatively new to fossils, so any help is appreciated. I'm sure someone is bound to know more about these things or have a fossil that shows these things in more detail. Any help is appreciated.
