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Hello everyone, I found this large trilobite pygidium today which is the largest piece of trilobite I have ever found in the area, the pygidium measuring nearly 2 inches long. Judging by the trilobits I usually find I think the area is Devonian as I have trilobits I've previously found I believe are from eldregops and greenops. The problem with this site is it's imported material from somewhere in upstate new york so I'm not 100% percent sure. Though I believe it's devonian I don't know of any species with a pygidium this size personally so would anymore with more expertise help me find an ID of what species this can belong to, I'd love to know since I can't see myself coming across another one of these in the tiny area I get to look in.
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Partial Dipleura Trilobite from Cole Hill- Madison County, N.Y.
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Dipleura dekayi trilobite thorax and pygidium) Middle Devonian Skaneateles Formation Delphi Member Hamilton Group Cole Hill Quarry North Brookfield, N.Y. -
Hello fossil friends, Once again, I was in western New York for my annual 4th of July family get together. I was able to get out for a short hunt on July 5th, thanks to my wife and my cousin and her kids. I got up at 5:45 am, got on the road by 6:00 am, and traveled the hour to my usual spot of choice. I arrived to the site around 7:00 am. I have been coming here for many years, and I don't think I've ever not found something interesting there. I only hunted from 7:10 am til 11:20 am. I took a break to meet up with my cousin and her kids for a guided fossil hunt. Can't really hunt when being called hither and yon to check out the latest find. All in all, though, I didn't do too bad, for the short time I put in. First, few shots of the creek: I noticed some recent digging in this spot - I knew my friend JeffreyP had been here within the past few days. Unfortunately, I was not able to meet up with him this year at this site. I hoped he had left me some things to find! This is my total haul: Some brachiopods, some partial trilobites, a few gastropods, and some complete/mostly complete trilobites. Close ups to follow ...
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So I’m a newb at the fossil stuff. I mean I have fossils and like Jurassic Park as much as the next guy... well a little more maybe. But anyway I was looking through my collection the other day and came across this trilobite I got from my friend a long time ago and it has always anoyed me for some reason. I just don’t know if it’s normal and he broke it or what is going on with it. I thought I’d ask the experts here. Also it’s from a cliff on a beach on Lake Erie in Buffalo, New York. Thanks
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Hello everyone. It’s great to be part of this online community. I look forward to reading and participating in this forum. My family and I live in the Denver/Reamstown area of Lancaster County PA. We we are complete novices when it comes to fossil hunting and don’t know where to begin looking, but are excited about starting down the road on this hobby. Could someone please point me in the direction of some local areas that are known to have fossils? I would greatly appreciate it.
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Coiled Dipleura Trilobite from Deep Springs Road
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From the album: Middle Devonian
Dipleura dekayi (coiled trilobite) Middle Devonian Moscow Formation Windom Shale Hamilton Group Deep Springs Road Quarry Lebanon, N.Y. -
Partial Greenops Cephalon Preserved in Pyrite from Penn Dixie
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Greenops sp. (partial trilobite cephalon preserved in pyrite) Middle Devonian Moscow Formation Windom Shale Pyrite Bed Hamilton Group Penn Dixie Quarry Blasdell, N.Y. -
Just got back from a trip to New York. Started off at Penn Dixie in the mid-Devonian, then to the Hamilton group, and ended in the mid-Ordovician Trenton group in the Mohawk valley. My main goals were to find some nice complete trilobite specimens, especially the Dipleura dekayi. Special thanks to @Darktooth for hunting advice at DSR. Here are some of my finds: Eldergeops rana, from Penn Dixie. cephalon is a little dinged up but I kind of like the imperfection. Partial Dipleura cephalon found loose in talus at DSR Here's another one found by splitting the shales. It had been raining hard for about two days and stopped when I arrived early morning. After prep: Greenops boothi in situ After prep: Another Greenops, positive negative from CHR. Had to glue it back together, broke when split, but it still looks good to me. Grammysia bisculata, a nice bivalve A surprise enrolled juvenile Dipleura dekayi, mostly complete , just missing an eye And last , but not least, some Ordovician fossils found in the Mohawk valley region. Hindia parva (I think?) sponge Straight shelled nautiloid, measures about 5 inches across Triarthrus parts Thanks for looking!
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A group of us spent several days at a spot near Thedford, Ontario working an exposure in the Widder Formation. Rather than roll out a long backstory, I thought I would go straight for showing the finds. I'll kick it off with the trilobites. 1. A coveted multi-plate containing three Greenops widderensis. The picture is blurry because it was starting to rain that day and we had to move fast. As one of them had its lappets hovering precariously outside the matrix, I had to coat them in cyanoacrylate fast so that it would survive the trip home. This one is in the hands of a preparator friend as it may be a bit more advanced than my current skills could handle.
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Hi! My 8 y/o son and I are visiting Nashville, TN to look for fossils. We found lots of brachyopods today. Where should we look for Trilobites and Gastropods? I’ve read some posts, but it’s hard to pinpoint specific areas. Any tips?
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Hi! My name is Alexandra. I live in St. Petersburg, looking for and preparing trilobites. As you know, we have near St. Petersburg very good places to search for fossils known all over the world. If someone from trilobite lovers wants to come and find good specimens here or if you are traveling through Russia and you will be interested to come in search of trilobites, then I can easily show you the best places to search near St. Petersburg without problems. You do not need anything for this-it will be absolutely free for you. I can explain it by the fact that I am the same person as you, and I have the same disease that can be called "paleontology" Is this interesting for you, write to this topic or search for me in Skype: Alexandra Kalinina (with bird on skateboard on avatar :-) ) and ask any questions. P.S. sorry for my English
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Looking for any trilobites not on this list (even partials)
DevonianDigger posted a topic in Member-to-Member Fossil Trades
Hello, all. I am putting out the word that I am looking for basically any material that is not already on this list. If you have partials or completes, or even recognizable bits of any trilobite not on this list, I'm hoping to help clear out some space for you by taking them off your hands, lol! Just shoot me a message if you have something you're looking to part with and we will figure something out if possible! If there is just a genus listed with no specific species, then I can't ID what it is based off of what is present and wouldn't mind having a better representation anyway. Thank you all in advance! Amphyxina bellatula Ampyx priscus Arctinurus boltoni Asaphellus sp. Asaphus cornutus Asaphus expansus Bellacartwrightia sp. Bolaspidellus housensis Brachyaspis microps Breviscutellum sp. Bristola harringtoni Bumastus sp. Calymene celebra Calymene niagarensis Colpocoryphe cf. rouaulti Colpocoryphe grandis Coltraenia oufatenensis Cornuproetus cornutus Coronocephalus sp. Cyphaspis carrolli Cyphaspis sp. Dalmanites limulurus Dechenella burmeisteri Declivolithus titan Diacalymene sp. Dicranurus hamatus Dipleura dekayi Drotops armatus Ectillaenus giganteus Eldredgeia venustus Eldredgeops rana Elrathia kingi Encrinurus punctatus Estoniops exilis Flexicalymene meeki Flexicalymene ouzregui Flexicalymene retrorsa Gerastos marocensis Glyptambon sp. Greenops barberi Greenops widderensis Harpidae sp. Harpes sp. Homoteuls sp. Hoplolichoides conicotuberculatus Huntoniatonia huntonensis Huntoniatonia lingulifer Isotelus maximus Itagnostus interstricta Kainops invius Kainops raymondi Kettneraspis williamsi Koneprusites sp. Leonaspis sp. Lochovella deckeri Lonchodomas mcgheehei Megapalaeolenus deprati Ogygopis typicalis Olenellus gilberti Onnia superba Paciphacops campbelli Paralejurus dormitzieri Paralejurus sp. Protolenus sp. Pseudodechenella rowi Pseudogygites latimarginatus Reraspis plautini Symphysops sp. Termierella sp. Thysanopeltis sp. Trimerus delphinocephalus Walliserops trifurcatus -
Hi, Monday I visited a new site highly recommended by another TFF member. It was a roadcut on an interstate highway near Schoharie, NY. The roadcut exposed what I believe (based on fauna and preservation) the Lower Devonian Kalkberg Formation, part of the Helderberg Group (410 million years old). The day was gorgeous. Temp was in the low 70s. Fossils were plentiful in particular layers and the preservation was often excellent. Many were found loose from the matrix lying in the rubble. As with other exposures of the Kalkberg in Schoharie County, the biodiversity was awesome. I collected for two and a half hours, exploring only about half of the exposure when a state trooper pulled up and informed me that this highway allowed emergency stopping only and recommended I move along. I had time to gather all of my finds and my tools. I am a bit sad knowing I can't return to this very productive site and that there were likely more magnificent specimens still sitting there waiting to be picked up. However, I'm glad that I had the opportunity to collect there once. Here is an overview of my finds and a pair of Diaphorostoma ventricosum gastropods on matrix.
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I have been reading through the threads about dolomite powder as a blasting medium for cleaning trilobites. Am I correct in my understanding that to get the range consistenty around 40 microns you need to run the powder through a 325 mesh sieve? I am assuming the dolomite powder available from places like the pottery supply house is not consistently in range of 40 microns, and will need to be sifted. Is there a place to buy 40 micron dolomite than anyone can recommend. (Someplace along the London to Toronto corridor would be ideal) Thanks in advance!
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I found all these specimens on the west side of the road cut. I believe those are eyes in the middle. All these specimens were found in Trammel Fossil Park in Sharonville, Ohio, with the exception of the two in the column on the right. They were from the St. Leon road cut. This tear-dropped shape bryozoan is, I believe, Homotrypella.
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This past Saturday I only had time for a quick hunt due to things that needed to get done around the house. Also it was raining and I had the boys with me. I almost wasn't going to go but the siren song of sweet treasures were calling me, beckoning me to come and find them. I decided to hit up both Briggs road and Deep Springs. I hunted both sites in under an hour and a half. I didn't find much and was mostly surface collecting. The boys found a few things. I did manage to find a my first decent size Dipleura cephalon from Briggs. The past few hunts there I have been finding more and more Dipleura kibbles -n- bits. It is raising my hopes of finding a complete one there. When I got to Deep Springs it looked almost exactly as it was when I left there from the TFF group hunt. It looks like an asteroid hit it! There are plenty off slabs and hash plates laying everywhere. I found a decent Dipleura cephalon from here too, that I think I will try prepping. There wasnt anything else that I really wanted to bring home so I was getting ready to leave but decided to take one last look. It seems that everytime I do this here I find a greenops. Sure enough, I spot one just lying on top of the debris. I really can't believe I spotted it. Even though it was a short hunt and nothing spectacular was found it was nice to be out there.
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Hi friends, I'm Glauco Pereira...I've been collected fossils since 2013. I have a simple collection of fossils worldwide, but mainly from USA, Morocco and UK. I'd like to learn more with the members of this group. Cheers!
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I am new here. Any places in new mexico where I can find Fossils? Especially trilobites
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Partial Dipleura Dekayi Trilobite from Madison Co.. NY.
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I went on a short, 2 hour hunt today after work. I decided to hit the trilo layer at Briggs Road once again. I found a fair amount of trilo parts and a few which may be whole. Here are some of the finds.
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Hi, I went to St Paul, Indiana a couple weeks ago and was wondering what these two parts are? One is two inches across, the other is about an inch across. Trilobite parts? If so, what species? Thanks for any help.
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As you are all probably aware, I have been to the Chatsworth Conasauga exposure multiple times, and have gotten some stellar stuff from the formation. Recently, I have been seeing a lot about another exposure of the Conasauga in Floyd County near Rome somewhere along the Coosa river that produces a different trilo species (Elrathria Antiquata), as well as a species of primitive sponge, Brooksella (which I have yet to get, or any sponge material for that matter). Any tips on Floyd's Conasauga material? Brooksella, my primary interest: Elrathria antiquata, another objective:
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Hi everyone. Like the title says, I am new to fossils. While I am just starting to learn about them, I have long been interested in them, just never had the resources before. My wife showed me a few of hers, then took me to a local fossil park. I'm hooked. Trilobites interest me the most, but I don't have one yet. Please be patient with me as I will have tons of questions, but don't worry, I am a quick learner. Thanks for letting me join!
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TFF Spring Gathering at Deep Springs Rd. in Central NY
Jeffrey P posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
Despite the foreboding weather prediction, the conditions for the spring gathering of TFF members at Deep Springs Road quarry was nearly ideal; sunny and pleasantly cool in the morning and when the rain finally did arrive in early afternoon it was only light and intermittent. Kane had announced to us he was traveling across the border from Ontario, accompanied by his wife, Deb, and member of the month, Jay (Devonian Digger). Members from New York, PA., Connecticut, and Massachusetts wanting to meet them and collect at a great spot gathered there. Deep Springs Road is the easternmost exposure of the Middle Devonian Hamilton Group's Moscow Formation's Windom Shale, the same formation exposed at Penn Dixie where Jay work and collects. But the fauna at Deep Springs Road is entirely different. Corals are nearly absent. Bivalves are extremely abundant. Species such as the large trilobite Dipleura dekayi which are very rare at Penn Dixie are common here. Every rock has the potential to reveal the gems of this rich and diverse fauna. Oh, and by the way, thanks largely to Kane and Jay's and Darktooth Dave's prodigious efforts a massive amount of rock was moved. In the picture, left to right-Kane's wife Deb, Jay, Mike (Pagurus) and his wife, Leila. Above them- Kane. On the far right, Tim (Fossildude19)..thumb.JPG.a23717f9fa655f2407b9309f0514a5e3.JPG)
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Maximo Alfonso https://roykenbibliotek.no/trilobox/ took us to a local foundation excavation in Slemmestad and we collected these two, above and below, which apparently have potential to be prepped, if someone can do it. The Trilobox just had its grand opening, here are some specimens. Cheers, Gordon Asaphus expansus
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