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I think this could be Arctinurus occidentalis but not 100% sure...measures 20mm across. Any help appreciated. Sugar run @piranha
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Hey all! New to the forum and happy to finally have something to share. Went hunting in Montague, NJ two days ago on the first of the year and had some luck. I found directions to the site, "Mountaintop Rd. Fossil Beds" using instructions from the first entry on this list. Looks like it's all in the same town as Trilobite Mountain, which I unsuccessfully searched for early on in the day. Eventually I decided to try my hand at this second one before sunset hit. It's a shame that somebody seems to be using this property to hunt animals instead of fossils, but using some discretion you should be able to get in just fine. To my delight, my first fossil hunt yielded many interesting specimens. Shells and more than a few instances of Phalangocephalus dentatus. Wondering about how i might prep this one, which I found inside a larger hunk of rock utterly clogged with shells and trilobite fragments. Would it be useful to take a dremel to it? Also found this strange negative, wondering if anybody more experienced than myself has opinions on what could have left this impression. I hope to do many more fossil hunts in my lifetime. This was a perfect day for me, I can't wait to get back out and do it again. Cheers everybody!
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Hello. I'm Japanese. I am collecting many trilobites.I love trilobites! I also collect Japanese fossils.(Ammonites and trilobites) I will introduce you a rare Japanese fossil. Please get along well！(^_-)-☆
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Hi everyone, I recently purchased this trilobite from a museum gift shop and unfortunately it came with no locality, formation or species information and I haven't been able to find anything similar online. Does anybody recognize it? The larger of the two is 18mm long and the matrix is very soft. Any info much appreciated!
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Hello and Happy New Year to all! Hope you all had a great time I saw these two interesting trilobite positive and negative from the Montagne Noire in France. I would be interesting in knowing their species and if they are rare/hold any value if possible (without giving numbers of course) Unfortunately 2 out of the 3 pictures are very poor quality. Hope you can still tell. Number one could be some kind of Psychopyge sp. ??? Curious to know your thoughts. Kind regards.
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So, apparently I started an account on this site back in 2015 but never posted anything. Not sure why? I guess I was in college and working and didn't have time to post. Anyway. I'm here and definitely want to start posting about my own collection and whatnot. I am still and always have been into fossils and really anything science. Biology and comparative anatomy was my first love. I do have some questions about some of my fossils and want to share my enthusiasm for paleontology. Thanks
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I recently purchased another Huntonia oklahomae trilobite and am very pleased with it. However it does not have detailed eyes, I knew this when I purchased it but further inspection leads me to believe that the eyes are intact but have simply not been fully prepped. I am curious would it be possible to have the eyes professionally prepped to reveal the eye facets? If so what would be the risk of damaging the trilobite and approximately how much would it cost? Here is a picture, the trilobite does seem to be coated in some sort of clear coating, not sure if that makes a difference.
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Hello all, I bought this trilobite for my uncle for Christmas. It didn't come with any identification information, but I assume it is from Morocco. I was wondering if anyone could help me determine its name and age. Thanks for any help.
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Attached are photos of a Odontochile I took a chance on. It's nice size and while not cheap, for my purposes it was a good price. I was fairly certain it was legit when I originally posted it based off the high res photos, but when I got it I freaked myself out as I wasn't seeing the eye lenses, but they are there. Just a lesson in the dangers of high res photos I guess. Anyway, curious what ya'll think. Also curious if Odontochile is correct as I understand from searching there is some discussion about that. Thanks! Just wanted to add that it passes the bite test and I am unable to find any obvious seams in it with my loupe. I know it has some repairs but no restoration, but that was disclosed when speaking with the seller.
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This was my second time visiting this well-known Late Carboniferous, Kasimovian stage (305-7mya) spot on the NW edge of the Illinois basin. Here are some things I found. Some large brachiopods. After splitting some rocks, came across this nice tooth. I kept both halves for careful extraction/reassembly at home, which took at least a few hours. I don't know much about shark teeth and after researching, and from what I can glean from what scarce information is available, I think it's a Holocephalia subclass, Chimaera tooth. Possibly Cochliodus sp...? It measures 2cm. Correct me if I'm wrong, as I don't know much about teeth. Another cool thing I noticed is that it fluoresces a eerie green under ultraviolet light, however my cell phone camera interprets the UV light differently than my eye. I probably have to mess around with exposure settings or something. Whatever the case, it helps bring out details. Also,, found this genal spine of Ameura sp. with a tooth fragment(dark spot, lower right). I was crossing my fingers that at least the entire cephalon would be there ,but no dice... however, it also fluoresces glow-in-the-dark green which makes it stand out from the matrix easier to photograph. Ahh, to find a complete Ameura that fluoresces.. Thanks for reading.
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Is this real trilobite? Is this just fantasy?
LeoMD posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
Hi guys! First things first, I've been following this forum (and this section inter alia) for a good year, I simply love the community, so I decided to join it and actively participate instead of being just an external viewer. I'm not a fossil expert, but I'm willing to learn and I'll do my best to improve. But I guess that since this is a fossil lovers community, it's fossils what you want to see. Well... I inherited from a granduncle of mine a LOT of minerals -geodes, crystals, nuggets etc- and fossils (I hope I can show you my collection over time), including ammonites -guess that guy litterally LOVED ammonites- of all shapes and sizes, dinosaur, shark and mammoth teeth, amber with insect inclusions and many many other things... including trilobites. The largest trilobite I got is this: it's a 27x17x4cm piece, not the best I've seen in my life but still pretty good IMO. No idea of where he got it, nor when, not even how much he paid for it. Still, I'm pretty sure it's a fake. But before officially confirming that my granduncle threw his money away with this, I'd like to ask you a second opinion. Thanks for your help, I'm sure he would really appreciate it (pretty sure atm he's resting in Paradise, surrounded by his beloved ammonites). (if you'd like to see more photos, just ask)
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Just About How Fake Is This Trilobite?
Kurufossils posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
I present this here large asaphus trilobite, besides being repaired how much if composited/fake is this trilobite?
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I think this is a bait and switch article. It starts off by telling you about the Burgess shale then transitions into explaining why we are going extinct too. I didn't learn anything new from reading it though. Anyway there are pictures. Of trilobites. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/12/06/ghosts-future/?arc404=true
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Show Us Your Rarest Or Most Incredible Partial Fossils!
Kurufossils posted a topic in Member Collections
Here is a thread to share some of your rarest partials that if whole would've been incredible specimens, but you know how it is sometimes... Yet they still amazing to own a piece of. I will start off by sharing a piece of the tail of a Probolichas Kristiae, an incredibly unique looking rare lichid trilobite from Oklahoma that would've of been incredible if whole of course yet this piece still has amazing detail and I am more that happy to own
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Ever since I first got my Scabriscutellum sp. I've felt like something was off with the pydium but could never place it. That is until today. I realised that the pydium on my trilobite was inverted as opposed to most pictures I've seen. By that I mean the lines along the pydium (sorry I don't know the technical term, if anyone wants to enlighten me that would be appreciated) which appear to be raised in most photos are depressed. Here's a picture of a "normal" scabriscutellum. (Hopefully you can tell what I'm on about.) As you can see raised lines along the pydium. However here's a picture of my scabriscutellum. As you can see quite the opposite. I'm curious is this some sort of pathology, differing species or sign of fakery? Here's where it gets interesting, circled in red are a few of several discolored spots where the shell seems to be missing. When I first noticed these I thought perhaps plastic, that the ends of the spines had broken off and replaced with painted plastic. However a hot needle test proves these spots are not plastic. Also interesting, there are what look like air bubbles in the matrix which I am 100% positive is real rock and not resin. (Result of volcanic activity maybe?) Today though I also found pictures of another scabriscutellum with the weird tail and it also has the discoloration. I'm honestly a bit confused and a lot curious any opinions are appreciated.
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I am considering buying this fossil offered online but it's NOT on our "favorite" auction site- just straightforward purchases. I really like this, and it's not QUITE up to what is not affordable for me. It is offered as an arthropod trackway in hyporelief.
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this trilobite from Shidian Yunnan, China; Ordovician period; 7cm；eyes and facial suture in pic 1; genal spine cannot see.
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Need help on the id of this early ordovician trilobite butt. South Central Missouri.
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Hi, I have had come into my possession a small plate of trilobite's. Location is unknown but the previous owner vaguely thought it possibly came from China. The complete trilobite is 23mm long, 10mm wide. Any thoughts on species or location would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
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Hello all, after some trades with an associate of mine, I have a really nice trilobite in need of preparation. My experience mainly lies with crinoids and brachiopods, and I have only prepped a handful of trilobites. I'm not well familiar with the species anatomy or the rock type, so I would rather a more experienced trilo preparator try for the best quality results. The split rock is clean, and will glue back to prep out nicely it appears. It looks complete, with the split revealing an eye, some of the cephalon, legs, and pygidium. Just a bit of the genal spine remains in the opposite side of the rock. It looks like a nice Gerastos trilobite, probably Gerastos dhondtae of Eifelian (Jemelle Formation). I have more photos I can share, but will only put a few on here. Of course I'm willing to pay the postage and preparator their prepping fee for the service. If anyone knows any service, recommendations, or feels like maybe they are up to the challenge please post or PM me! Thanks, Jackson
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Near 7 inch drotops trilobite for trade
mattbsharks posted a topic in Member-to-Member Fossil Trades
This trilobite would be around 7" if prone. It had poor restoration done to it which I removed as best I could. There may be one or two small patches of restoration that I missed. In exchange for this trilobite I'm interested in all offers, especially high quality complete fossil fish, other high quality trilobites, and medium to big European Ammonites.
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I have had this drotops for a while. It measures over 5.5" long by 3 inches wide. I have looked very careful for repair and the only place it looks like it might have it is a band between the eyes and the tip of the nose. I cannot tell if it is bad prep work or repair. In exchange for this trilobite I'm interested in all offers, especially high quality complete fossil fish, other high quality trilobites, and medium to big European Ammonites.
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Dipleura Dekayi From NY or Parahomalonotus trilobite From Morocco
Kurufossils posted a topic in Fossil ID
Hello, I received this trilobite a long ago that I thought was a Parahomalonotus trilobite when I initially got it, recently someone let me know this maybe actually a Dipleura Dekayi, I definitely have my suspicions this would be the case because the surrounding shale matrix is very unusual for Morocco. What do you guys think?.thumb.jpg.65201464577574d7941edb4a3d3b3420.jpg)
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Below is a Trilobite fossil from the Arthur Creek Formation (middle Cambrian) I found some months ago. This formation is located in the Southern Georgina Basin in Central Australia, in a remote location between Northern Territory and Queensland. I hadn't attempted preparing a fossil before and decided to finally give it a try. I wanted to see if the Cephalon was present and still intact and if I could carefully uncover it. I'm quite pleased with how it turned out, as the fossil is comprised of a very dense sandstone and I was told it could be a challenge. Now I have it fully uncovered I wanted to see if anyone could help with identification. From the reading I've done I'm thinking it's Xystridura Templetonensis. The two circular sections either side of the Glabella, which itself is quite circular line up with other examples I see of Templetonensis. I find it hard to get an accurate thorax segment count, but I believe I see 13, which would also line up with what I thought. Thanks for any help!
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Hey guys, I recently got a bunch of fossils for my friend as an early Christmas present and I'm trying to figure out what they are. Most of them are brachiopods and clams but I'm having trouble identifying the genus of these guys. I have no information on where they came from or what period they're from. Can you guys help me as best as you can? IMG_3331.HEIC IMG_3332.HEIC
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