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Recently returned from a near week-long dig with a field comrade in the Quebec City area, visiting many sites, dealing with torrential downpours, sleeping rough, and covering roughly 2,000km of road. It was a fantastic time with a good friend and quite productive. I came back with about six flats of fossils. I'll show a few of them. None of them are prepared yet, and I have a lot of work to do! I'll show them in their raw field state for now. The Neuville Formation is upper Ordovician, comparable to the Cobourg/Lindsay Fm in Ontario. The faunal composition is different, though. The material is known for its crinoids and trilobites (mostly two species, but others do appear now and again depending on the member). First up, Ceraurus pleurexanthemus, which are generally on the smaller side and comparable those found in the Rust Walcott. No pygidial spines on this buddy. Small, but complete. This will be a nice one. Scrappy and uncertain to be complete, but better to take it home to find out than leave it in the field. As an added bonus, a small Isotelus gigas hypostome. Buried and uncertain. One has to scan these rocks carefully as something like this can easily be missed. Possibly complete. Another possible one with what may be a Cryptolithus cephalon on top. Again, hard to say until I get it in the lab. Will the head be there? Not sure yet. It could be tucked. Very tiny, but likely complete e Buried, but also possibly complete This one is a bit uncertain at the moment Some Flexicalymene senaria. These ones are scrappy. In terms of Flexis, these are the true prize finds. Both of these are about 5 cm (2") long, making them among the biggest in this formation. The second one will likely be a bit larger once prepared. They are monsters! And these are Cryptolithus cephalons. No luck finding complete ones this trip.