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I'm a very new fossil hunter. I found this lovely little trilobite head (at least, I'm 99% sure it's a trilobite!) in the area around Arkona, Ontario (Canada) this past summer, which to my knowledge is middle devonian. Problem is, it's only the head. I'm not sure if that's very helpful (I'm not even familiar with where to look for resources on IDing trilobites) so I figured I'd ask here. If not to genus, I'd love to get it narrowed down as far as possible, and I'd also love to know what features support your ID! Trilobites are among my favourite extinct animals, I'd love to be able to ID the ones I find in future. Links to good resources on trilo ID are also appreciated, especially ones focusing on trilos found insouthern Ontario. Scale is a centimeter ruler with millimeters. A view from above: And from the side: Sorry if the formatting is weird, I'm posting from mobile. Let me know if any more information is needed, and I'll do my best to provide it. Thanks, all!
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Went out today and found what I believe to be a very small headless isotelus. Also found some flexis, and various other things. Here are a few photos from today.
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Ok, grandson found some cool stuff here in eastern North Carolina. I'm pretty sure the tooth is an extinct giant white shark. The other a trilobite.
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I had arrived to do some looking around and a truck pulls up and a guy hops out. He starts getting his gear together and I start up a conversation. While talking he tells me that he had yet to find his first full trilobite. So I tell him that they are there to be found, and start telling him what to look for, and we both start searching. I ended up finding the first one. I left it and called him over for him to see it in situ. After inspecting it we were back to looking some more. We find various other fossils, I believe he even found a crinoid calyx, and a small isotelus pygidium. Anyhow a bit later Ihear him say, look at that, and look over and ask if he found one. He had indeed! He had found his first roller! I was so stoked for him! After congratulating him we hunted a bit longer then took off for a spot that he wanted to show me. Not long after arriving at the new location I found a dandy flexi roller, and a bit later an isotelus in matrix, not sure exactly how much is in there but plan on working on it a bit with the dremel at some point to find out. I am hoping that he will add his finds to this thread once he gets home and gets them cleaned up. I had fun, and it was nice to hunt with someone that has the interest that he does, and we plan on doing more hunting together in the future. The highlight of the day was seeing him find his first trilobite! A few photos from today ... I kept a cool hashplate with multiple types of brachiopods, a horn coral, and a bryozoan colony or coral?? I also found two rusophycus together but forgot it in the vehicle....may take photos of them later.
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From the album: New York Devonian Micro Matrix
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From the album: New York Devonian Micro Matrix
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From the album: New York Devonian Micro Matrix
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From the album: Mahantango Formation
Eldredgeops rana Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania- 1 comment
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From the album: Mahantango Formation
Eldredgeops rana Juniata County, Pennsylvania- 1 comment
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Although we do not normally collect trilobite fossils, this is the first time we have included acanthopyge sp. I know that this fossil is quite rare and valuable among trilobite fossils. It seems to be a cool trilobite that appeared in the Devonian period!
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Found this today, it does not look like a flexicalymene. But I am not sure what it would be. Any ideas?
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I was showing a friend at work this photo and noticed that the eyes look large, and the design on the head does not look right for flexicalymene. What are your thoughts of it being a possibility?
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I visited the Quincy spot again, still with meagre finds but some were half-decent. I of course found some more disarticulated thoracic segments but they’re not worth posting, I found too many. Agraulid bits? The cranidium is probably a very badly preserved Skehanos quadrangularis. Some Paradoxides harlani bits, the cheek is weird because the genal spine is somewhat stubby. A very nice cranidium, and a nice size too, ~11 cm between the palpebral lobes, 7 cm from the anterior border to the occipital lobe. A pretty large section of thorax, with seven lobes. A little buddy. It was nice, but the rocks are very fragmented so there is almost no chance for a complete specimen.
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Over a week ago I took advantage of our university's Reading Week break to hop a train east to do some late season digging. Apart from a few surprise finds, it did not quite live up to my expectations. I had to hastily organize it as I had got the dates wrong, assuming Reading Week was the following week (one of my students corrected me). It meant getting the trains and motel all lined up with barely a day to spare. Upon my arrival in Toronto for a layover, someone not all together upstairs thought it would be a wise idea to pick a fight with me. I defused the situation, but it certainly help set the tone for this week-long adventure. On the first day of the dig, I ended up walking about 25km for nothing. On the next day I went back to the spot that had been so productive weeks before, but this time it turned out to be the opposite with two exceptions. Unlike last time when cheirurids were popping out like they were going out of style, not even more than a pygidial spine of one this time. Instead, a pair of crappy Flexis:
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From the album: Trilobites
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So, I will admit, I am severely uneducated when it comes to trilobites, but I’d love to learn more about them — the different species, what’s rare, what’s common, formations they’re found in, etc. I don’t have any in my collection yet, and I’d like to change that. Any recommendations where I could start my learning? Books, articles, papers, anything is appreciated.
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I went to Rockport quarry in Michigan several times this year. And found this trilobite. A friend says it looks like Crassiproetus but i am not sure.... Thanks! In advance
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I was storing more of my collection away the other day, when I saw the eye of my Colpocoryphe specimen. Eye lenses! My other specimen has them too, but the eyes are a bit crushed. I thought it would be nice to share. I never saw these, and the second one was the first ever trilobite I got. I can’t believe I never noticed them.
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Once again hunted a bit after work. Found some crinoid pieces, a trilobite, hundreds of gastropod casts, and what I believe is a part of some type of trilobite in matrix. Any ideas?
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I have been busy working, and fossil hunting, and haven't been sharing as much as I would like here on your forum, but have a story to share. Yesterday I arrived to hunt for trilobites early in the morning. I started off hitting a couple areas that I had noticed the day before. I wasn't there long and heard voices approaching. I looked up and a man was almost on top of me. I stood up and we started a conversation, he asked if he was encroaching on me. I told him not at all and he was more than welcome to hunt alongside of me. He then told me that he was a professor and he was doing research with a student. He asked me what all that I had found and I explained to him that I was new to fossil hunting and that I didn't know most of what I was finding, but was mainly after trilobites. He then offered to ID what I had collected if I would show him. At that point I had only kept a few brachiopods. He explained what they were and started to tell me of areas to go to for trilobites, as well as other fossils. We of course talk about trilobites and I tell him of two people that I had ran into that had both told me that they had found isotelus rollers there. One person from Wisconsin that found a baseball sized specimen, which he had shown me photos . Another was a hoosier that showed me photos of a smaller roller that he had found there. You could tell by the look on the professor's face that he thought that both people were pulling my leg. He then told me that he had been bringing his students there for many years and one of the things that he would offer them, is that if any of them would produce a full isotelus he would reward them. His student approached I thanked him, and told them that I wished them luck and started climbing a super steep loose rock incline to get up higher to what looked to be good to me for trilobites. Part of the way up I started seeing micro areas of interest and started bouncing from one to another on my way. Next thing I know I spot something that catches my eye. Bend over and pick it up, and about fall over. It is an isotelus! I stand there in amazement and inspect the small trilobite. Normally I would continue hunting. But I knew he was still there with his student so I head his way. I shout down to him and say, "you will never believe what I just found". He asks what, and I tell him. Him and his student quickly scale the hill and inspect the isotelus. He then says, "I would have to pay up for that one". There is more to the story than this. But I just think that there was something to finding that fossil. Had they not shown up, I would have not scaled the hill via the route I did. The fact that he didn't seem to believe that the other's had found the isotelus. The fact that I spotted it amongst the rubble that I did. I don't know, it just seems strange to me. Is Karma real?
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From the album: Trilobites
The rarest harpetid in Ontario. Although fragmentary and in ventral position, still a worthy field find.-
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