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From the album: Chengjiang/Guanshan Biota Collection
Naraoia spinosa from the Heleinpu Formation. Amazing digestive branches-
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The three inch Wanneria walcottana right after I found it, Dean went home with the negative!
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From the album: My Kinzers Formation Fossil Collection
A nice, three inch long Wanneria walcottana that I found surface collecting next to dean. He went home with the negative -
A puny Olenellus (Paedumias) yorkensis
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From the album: My Kinzers Formation Fossil Collection
A puny Olenellus (Paedumias) yorkensis that I split out at home. The rest of the bug lays buried under the rock until I send it to someone who doesn’t destroy fossils when they prep em. -
Larval Olenellus plate. Look close!
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From the album: My Kinzers Formation Fossil Collection
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Heartbreaker Olenellus thompsoni
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From the album: My Kinzers Formation Fossil Collection
Another heartbreaker. I think this is an Olenellus thompsoni. Would’ve been gorgeous with the other half, maybe we’ll find it in the future. -
From the album: My Kinzers Formation Fossil Collection
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Rock covered in larval Olenellid cephalons. Look closely!
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From the album: My Kinzers Formation Fossil Collection
One of my favorite finds. This rock is covered in larval Olenellid molts. I wonder if we hit a nursery of some kind? -
Partial Olenellus thompsoni(?)
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From the album: My Kinzers Formation Fossil Collection
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From the album: My Kinzers Formation Fossil Collection
A cool plate, Olenellus (Paedumias) yorkensis cephalon as well as an O. thompsoni cephalon. I’m convinced that yellow mark may be a sponge. -
My three inch Wanneria walcottana!
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From the album: My Kinzers Formation Fossil Collection
The best Wanneria walcottana we found. Three inches from the tip of the cephalon to the last thoracic spine. -
Eldredgeops rana schuylkill County, Pennsylvania-
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From the album: Mahantango Formation
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Are they real? Hollardops + Barrendeops
Marco90 posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
Recently I've read about fake Moroccan trilobites, so I'm afraid every fossil in my collection is fake Could you help me figure out if these two specimen are genuine or not? One is Hollardops, the other a Barrendeops (I think).
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Another member expressed some possible doubt, about this "Trilobite from Vancouver, Canada". Fair enough. I am willing to find out what others more knowledgeable than myself think about the specimen in question. Educate me. I am working with an inexpensive Android phone, but doing my best to offer a few good pictures with good lighting. International measurement scale shown.
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From the album: Trilobites
A purchased example from Ontario, this Ceraurus is-
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From the album: Trilobites
Collected in the upper Neuville shales, this olenid is among the more abundant faunal elements, along with graptolites and occasional pyritized nautiloids. Of note to distinguish the species is an array of nodes along the axis.-
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From the album: Mahantango Formation
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Three days ago, I made my first trip ever out to the St. Leon road cut in hopes of finding my first ever identifiable trilobite fossil. I had found only one trilobite before along the Ohio River, and much of it had eroded to where it was unrecognizable. St. Leon did not disappoint, even in spite of my cluelessness about which formation was which. After searching for awhile in the rain and beginning to feel discouraged about not finding a trilobite, I saw this fellow tucked away in a large rock. Unfortunately, I didn’t bring anything for scale, but the trilobite was roughly 2 cm across. I left the rock with the hopes of finding another trilobite that would be easier to take home. Just as I was beginning to trek back to my car, I found “Tilly” directly under my boot: It wasn’t a complete trilobite, but I was and am exceedingly happy with the features on this fossil. I left soon after for the day with this fossil in haul and a few others, which are included in the following images (it is worthy to note that in between my collection of the trilobite and my taking the picture below, I had done roughly 5 hours of prep work with a dental pick and a toothbrush): For the next time I post, I will certainly purchase a ruler or standard cm cube and find a better surface to place the fossils on, but this is all I have at home at the moment. I returned to St. Leon today with a similar objective as my first outing: trilobites. Once again, I was not disappointed. As you can see, these will need a lot more prep work than Tilly, but I’m excited for the challenge. I also found some other neat fossils whilst searching today: Overall, I am very happy with my trips down to St. Leon, and felt they were productive. For someone who is relatively new to the hobby, the road cut makes many types of fossils accessible in one small place, which is very neat. The area just requires cautious and careful movement, as much of the road cut is effectively cliffs of rock. If anyone feels the inclination to point out any genera or species of the fossils, I would greatly appreciate it, though I understand that the images I took are not of great quality. I know Tilly is a Flexi (F. meeki?), but that is admittedly the extent of my knowledge. Thank you for reading through this transcript of my journeys! P.S. I’m including another image of post-prep Tilly for fun. I tried to scrape more, but the fossil was just too fragile and kept breaking on me.
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Here's my latest prep. A Cambrian trilobite. Given to me so long as I prep it.
Raistlin posted a topic in Fossil Preparation
Nearly all prep was done under a scope at 30X with a sharpened sewing needle. Some was done with air abrasion. The last four trilobite pics didn't load in order eith the others. But you get the idea. The very last is a side by side of my sharpened sewing needle verses out of the package.
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Unknown possible pygidium. Joliet formation. @piranha
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Went on a little "Easter Egg Hunt" with my folks, found some excellent fossils. day was hot but I enjoyed it. I have provided my best ID, but please feel free to correct if you can identify it further! it helps with my labeling system for sure. this lizard was good luck right next to where my mom was standing i noticed this beauty sticking out of the rock further excavation revealed this possible horn coral? eldredgeops rana heads trilobite glabellar fold ( possibly Odontocephalus?) Dipleura rib impression (Very exciting to have found 3 species in one trip!) amonoid Cephalopod Agoniatites vaxunemi (note the preservation of the sutre lines). and here is a conularid i found as well Possible pelecypod? brachiopods and lastly a couple of crinoid buttons dug out of the rock
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As with the other most of this prep was done with a sharpened sewing needle. I finished it off with Paleobond.
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Anybody know the species of these two trilobites?
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Hello, I've been recently fascinated by large isotelus trilobites. Does anyone on here own one and would like to show and talk about it, I would if I owned one but I don't see that happening anytime soon haha. This is the largest I've seen for sale so far that would've been 8 inches, would be nice to be able to find one but I don't have that luxury.
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To trilobite experts: I found some partial exoskeletons of trilobites at Black Cat mountain in Oklahoma, that after cleaning and prepping, appear to have an appendage attached that kind of looks like a head. But looking at complete trilobites, I don't see this "head" anywhere. I found 3 of them like this. Photos of two of them are attached. Is this "head" even a part of the trilobite, and if it is, what exactly is it? Thanks for any help.
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