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From the album: La dominelais - spring 2016
Ectilaenus giganteus : a trilobite found in La Dominelais on spring 2016 Ordovician, Landeilian (-460 MA) -
From the album: La dominelais - spring 2016
Ectilaenus giganteus : a trilobite found in La Dominelais on spring 2016 Ordovician, Landeilian (-460 MA) -
From the album: La dominelais - spring 2016
Colpocoryphe rouaulti : a trilobite found in La Dominelais on spring 2016 Ordovician, Landeilian (-460 MA) -
From the album: La dominelais - spring 2016
An asaphidae pygidium found in La Dominelais on spring 2016 Ordovician, Landeilian (-460 MA) -
From the album: La dominelais - spring 2016
An asaphidae pygidium found in La Dominelais on spring 2016 Ordovician, Landeilian (-460 MA) -
From the album: La dominelais - spring 2016
An asaphidae pygidium found in La Dominelais on spring 2016 Ordovician, Landeilian (-460 MA) -
Neseuretus tristani 3 before (down) and after (up)
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From the album: La dominelais - spring 2016
Neseuretus tristani : a trilobite found in La Dominelais on feb 2016 before and after preparation. Ordovician, Landeilian (-460 MA) -
On a recent hiking trip my jr paleontologists stumbled upon what we think is a bird fossil in a large piece of shale. This was found in a creek bed with running water along the Walnut creek formations. I believe this is in the Cretaceous period in the Dessau Member formation here in Austin, Texas. At first we assumed it was a turtle but after further researcher we have changed our minds. The sharp angle in the bone is similar to bird fossils we have seen in our research.
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From the album: La Noe Blanche - feb 2016
Colpocoryphe rouaulti : a trilobite from the ordovician of the south of Rennes (Brittany - France) -
From the album: La Noe Blanche - feb 2016
Colpocoryphe rouaulti : a trilobite from the ordovician of the south of Rennes (Brittany - France) -
From the album: La Noe Blanche - feb 2016
Colpocoryphe rouaulti : a trilobite from the ordovician of the south of Rennes (Brittany - France) -
From the album: La Noe Blanche - nov 2015
Another rolled up Neseuretus tristani : a trilobite found at La Noe Blanche on nov 2015 Ordovician, Landeilian (-460 MA) -
From the album: La Noe Blanche - nov 2015
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From the album: La Noe Blanche - nov 2015
Rolled up Neseuretus tristani : a trilobite found at La Noe Blanche on nov 2015 Ordovician, Landeilian (-460 MA) -
From the album: La Noe Blanche - nov 2015
Rolled up Neseuretus tristani : a trilobite found at La Noe Blanche on nov 2015 Ordovician, Landeilian (-460 MA) -
From the album: La Noe Blanche - nov 2015
Colpocoryphe rouaulti : a trilobite found at La Noe Blanche on nov 2015 Ordovician, Landeilian (-460 MA) -
From the album: La Noe Blanche - nov 2015
Neseuretus tristani : a trilobite found at La Noe Blanche on nov 2015 Ordovician, Landeilian (-460 MA) -
From the album: La dominelais - feb 2016
Colpocoryphe Rouaulti - an ordovician trilobite from La Dominelais - Bretagne - France -
From the album: La dominelais - feb 2016
Colpocoryphe Rouaulti - an ordovician trilobite from La Dominelais - Bretagne - France -
From the album: La dominelais - feb 2016
Colpocoryphe Rouaulti - an ordovician trilobite from La Dominelais - Bretagne - France -
From the album: Anomalocaris and friends.
Grasper from an Anomalocaris sp. (not yet classified) from the Middle Cambrian Wheeler Shale of Utah. The biggest predator of its day! -
Found this guy last night splitting some shale I had laying around. Found on a piece about the size of a quarter!
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Here's a piece of shale I found near Pueblo, CO. The formation comes from the Western Interior Seaway of the Upper Cretaceous. The raised striations lead be to believe this could be an impression of a marine organism, or just a psuedofossil. Any help with the ID would be amazing. Thank you! - Geoff P.S. the measurement units are inches
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I found this today at the rock quarry located in Crescent, Iowa. I was busting shale when I noticed something shiny amidst the rubble, and found this. The professor on the trip (I went with my college) said she had never seen anything like it before. The shiny part reminds me of mother of pearl. The professor guessed that it may be a wasp, but she suggests that I get it identified by someone with more knowledge/experience than her. Any ideas??
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Hi everyone! I'm new to this site (signed-up-5-mins-ago new, lol), and I have a question. Unfortunately, I don't have a picture, because I wasn't thinking and sent it to school with my daughter, who is studying fossils in class. Anyway, my husband and I took our daughter fossil-hunting on a trail in Frostburg, MD (Allegany Co.). As a kid, I used to go through shale piles at my grandpa's farm and occasionally run across a fern fossil, and since this particular trail (down from the train depot, Allegany Highland trail, perhaps?) has lots of shale on the sides, I thought it would be a good place to look. Without much luck, we dug through fallen piles of the black shale. I finally stumbled across a piece of shale (right as I was ready to give up, lol!) that had an imprint that I'd never found before. The only way I can describe it is that it looked like a bunch of vertical lines, very even, and the prints (two side by side) were about 2-3 inches wide. I looked it up online, and the pictures of calamite fossils looked identical as far as I could tell. The question posed to you all, after all the long-winded explanations, is: Is it possible to find calamite fossils in Western MD? None of the websites I visited specifically stated what I would be able to find in Western MD, and I'd like to have a name to put to the fossil. After she's done showing it to her class, I will try to take a photo. For now, if anyone can confirm/deny/offer any other suggestion as to what I have found, I'd be so darn grateful! Thanks!, MissusTodd
