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  1. Just got back from a trip to Forbes, NSW a couple of days ago. Found some great stuff! But after that we checked out a site mentioned very vaguely in an old paper and were pretty successful! The site which is located near Parkes, NSW has Late Ordovician trilobites and other fauna. From what I can gather most of the species from the site are undescribed(?). Anyway, here are a few of my finds, maybe @piranha could help out with some ID's. Oh and I haven't finished prepping these specimens, but I'll post them when I have, although it may be a while since my airscribe has decided to break Crinoid Undescribed calymenid Unidentified trilobite cephalon Another no ID trilobite cephalon. Halfway through prep... continued...
  2. A while back, @Darktooth and I did a little trading. Somewhere in the mix, he mentioned that his educational outreach (and collection) would benefit from some examples of C. chubutensis. I sent a couple of examples and it seems all that cuspy goodness went to his head. I received a COVID care package from Dave a week or so ago that contained a complete New York fossil trip in a box! I was completely blown away and the objects have given me quite a bit of entertainment. The field-trip-in-a-box was complete with lovely hand written tags, so everything was ready to put right into a large riker box. No way Dave could have known this, but my family has been self-quarantined because my son had a known COVID exposure. This care package has been a welcome distraction, to say the least! My absolute favorite is the Grammysioidea. I'd seen these in past posts and online. They are just as cool in person as in pictures. Thanks for the awesome collection and distraction Dave! Case with fossils and labels Bembexia sulcomarginate Dipleura dekayi Grammysioidea alveata Greenops sp Greenops sp Greenops sp Rhipidomella sp
  3. Hello, I’m a beginner of collecting trilobites fossils, and I have bought one recently but seems it’s a fake trilobites. Can you guys help me plz. Thanks!
  4. Today on a hunt I found on of the most unusual trilobite pygidiums I've ever seen from new york and cannot find anything out there to compare it to. Unfortunately the site is imported material from an unknown quarry upstate so all I do know is that its from the Devonian of New York based on other material found there, unfortunately I cannot attach a formation to this one. Also its also fragile and a very partial piece thats unpreped, I think its a ventral display. This maybe a head scratcher so maybe the trilobite experts here can help weigh in on what this can possibly be.
  5. Hey everyone!! I'm writing in to see if anybody has a preference between Paulding fossil garden and Sylvania fossil park for finding trilobites. There is a spot at the header of this entry which nobody else has talked about that might yield some gems. Posts about Paulding seem like hit or miss trilobite presence. Which site would be more "picked over" do you think, if you do at all? I'm driving through Ohio soon and can only stop at one spot. Trilobites and microfossils are my priority and all else would be a great bonus. If anyone cares to weigh in I would greatly appreciate it - I don't know where to start! Thanks, Justin
  6. Tidgy's Dad

    Trilobites from Sweden

    Wins from an auction hosted by my friend @Kasia These bits are in a medium grey limestone found at Raback, near Kinnekulle, Vastegotland, Sweden, so are probably from the Upper Cambrian part of the Alum Shale Formation. Maybe Peltura scaraboides? Or is there not enough left to get close to an id? Max 5 mm wide and 4 mm long. All specimens are on the same rock. The scale's in mm and is partially obscuring a bit seen better below : Not really expecting too much from these tiny fragments, but any help or blind guesswork very much appreciated. @piranha @Johannes @Dromiopsis But anyone else more than welcome to comment too Thank you.
  7. minnbuckeye

    Three Unlabeled Trilobites to ID

    Being stuck at home has given me the opportunity to rummage through my fossils. I started with my trilobites. Weeded out three containers of Isotelus partials to give to the local sand pit. But I found 3 unidentified trilobites tucked in with the Isotelus for some reason.. Any help at IDs is appreciated. 1. Gerastos?? I think this was a gift to me many years ago. 2. Thaleops? Though I considered Illaenus or even Bumastus. The matrix looks like the Platteville, Ordovician 3. I have such difficulty with "rollers"! Thaleops? Matrix looks like the Galena, Ordovician that I frequent.
  8. aek

    Are these the same?

    Are these two odontopleurid pygidiums from the same species? They don't seem to match up. Same locality, Maquoketa group.First one measures 4mm across and the second measures 2mm. I'm finding not much information on odontopleurids from the Maquoketa... Leonaspis? Any help appreciated.
  9. Minerva8918

    Big trilobite from Gore

    Found this big guy in Gore. The head was exposed so I kept chipping away hoping there was more to him, and sure enough! It took about an hour to chip away the surrounding matrix, and at the end I thought I'd have to break him to extract him fully, but I pulled and he popped out! Is he deformed or just big? The head looks kind of smushed. Apparently my pics are super large so I'll try to add a couple more in the comments.
  10. Spring of 2020 We took advantage of the time off and the break in weather to hunt one of our favorite streams here in Western New York. This was just a spring scouting mission to see what was exposed after the ice and snow has melted. Some of the more interesting finds were a crinoid crown (very rare for this locality) possibly Logocrinus, Spinocyrtia granulosa open with both valves, Orthospirifer marcyi, a large Megastrophia concava cleaned by nature with epibionts, and 3 small nearly complete Greenops. We also found many small Favosites coral colonies, large Heliophyllum corals, and 8 different species of brachiopods. Happy Collecting!
  11. aek

    Local Silurian

    Yesterday I decided to make a quick trip before the Illinois stay at home order took place. For the past 4 years I've been trying to find all 16 of the trilobite taxa in the Sugar Run formation. So far I've found 12. The lichids are eluding me, except for a partial Trochurus welleri found last year. Here is what I think is a lichid fragment (?) Dalmanities illinoisensis pygidium continued...
  12. Hello all! We are planning a trip (with a stop in Pennsylvania) to New York this May to hunt for Trilobites and could use lots of advice. We live in North Carolina, so it is a bit of a haul and we are new to trilobite hunting and to rock splitting fossil hunting generally. I'll lay out the tentative itinerary first and then ask a few specific questions. Any recommendations on the itinerary (additions or places to skip on a limited trip) are, of course, more than welcome! Tuesday Day 0: Drive to Danville, PA and check into a hotel Wednesday Day 1: Visit the Montour Preserve fossil pit ; drive to Buffalo, NY Thursday Day 2: Visit 18 Mile Creek Friday. Day 3: Visit Penn Dixie Quarry (1) Saturday Day 4: Visit Penn Dixie Quarry (2) Sunday Day 5: Drive back to NC The big questions we have (apart from whether this itinerary seems like a good first trip for ambitious new trilobite hunters) are: What tools should we bring? I know safety glasses, chisel and geologic hammer, but what about larger picks, prybars, hammers, shovels, gloves, etc? I've read about people "digging out" an area at Penn Dixie; what is required for that? And what is involved? Is there any rhyme or reason to the pieces you choose to split? What do you look for in a spot? Is there anywhere else "nearby" (within a few hours of anywhere on the route) that we should check out? What am I forgetting to ask? Thank you so much in advance for your help! This forum has been a great planning resource for me and I find more great threads to lurk on every day! Philip
  13. Hello community, due to the coronavirus, Virginia Tech amongst many other schools forced evacuation of campus, so I was forced to go down to VT to quickly clear out my dorm. I ended up staying at my brother’s house for a few days with him and my girlfriend just to enjoy the peace of the empty school. Yesterday, my girlfriend and I drove down to Pearisburg and hiked to see the cemetery then to hike up the Appalachian Trail to Angel’s Rest. On the way down the Appalachian Trail, I began inspecting what I believe to be as shale and noticed a small shell imprint. I began fiddling around with more of the rocks and then directly into the side of the mountain looking for more shells or other possible fossils. I noticed a shell shaped stone in one of the rocks and I would appreciate verification that it is/is not a fossil. Also, same goes for the tiny protruding dots on the last fossil. Lastly, all identification would be very helpful (I barely know anything about fossils in this area and only know this area was covered by a sea during the Silurian/Ordovician period because of limited research). Rock 1: -Shell imprints Rock 2: -Shell -Trilobite?? -Shell imprints Rock 3: -Shell?? Rock 4: -Shell imprints Rock 5: -Shell?? And shell imprints Rock 6: -“Dots/bumps” possible trilobite? -Shell imprints
  14. Steadly approaching 3 years of collecting from dumped dolomite piles in Milwaukee County has lead to a plethora of "Calymene celebra" molts from Silurian Dolomite of the Racine Formation. Wenlockian. Many hours have been spent with a large sledge hammer breaking out mold of Calymene and other trilobites in similar ways to the Cedarville dolomite in Ohio. The trilobites are almost always complete and are in a noted molting position shown in Weller 1907 An example from my collection and prepped Over the three years we have collected over a hundred complete individuals from the dolomite. About 10 percent of the time we find a Calymene missing its cheeks and in a more flattened preservation. The next most common type of trilobite found is Cheirurus sp. Only 3 complete internal molds have been found of this individual but partials are more common. Likely the species represented here is Cheirurus hydei Found by user evern. As noted this association of trilobites seems to best line up with Hartung Quarry in Milwaukee based on Mikulics Theisis from 1979 on Southeastern Wisconsin Silurian Trilobites. One weird thing is Bumastus being absent from our location, although the chart basically implies only one individual was found. The next trilobites on the list are sparse at best with only a few individuals seen. They are Sphaerexochus, Encrinurus, Dalmanities, Deiphon, Ceratocephala, Acidaspis and Eophacops. The last 4 represented by only 1 specimen each. After finally reading through almost all of Mikulic's dissertation, I am glad to have learned of the location of the stone I have been finding so many trilobites in over the year. Sphaerexochus cephalon Encrinurus Dalmanities Deiphon Eophacops (not mine, Field Museums) Thanks for the read. Hope evern will post his beautiful Dalmanities Cephlon when it is finished prep.
  15. Last week I made my third annual pilgrimage back to the Chicago area to visit family, do a little fossil hunting, gorge myself on great ethnic foods and treat myself to some Chicago-style deep-dish stuffed pizza for my birthday--yum! I had hoped to pick up some more Pit 2 (Braidwood Biota) Mazon Creek nodules from Fossil Rock campground in Wilmington but sadly it is now closed and up for auction with the distinct possibility that it will never again allow fossil hunters to gather nodules from the spoil piles at the back of the campground. Instead, I figured on focusing back on the Pit 11 (Essex Biota) nodules in the Mazonia/Braidwood State Fish and Wildlife Area where I first had hunted nodules since learning about them several years ago. I had hoped on meeting up with some TFF members but unfortunately this turned out to be a busy weekend for them and we never managed to get out for a group nodule hunt. I did make it out to Mazonia/Braidwood for a couple hours of the weekend. Luckily, this location in Braceville is only a short 45 minute drive from where we were staying so it is quite convenient to pop over there. The weather report did not look good for Saturday afternoon and soon after we arrived the low clouds and mist turned to drizzle and then to rain and we were chased out with little to show for our efforts. We did a little better on Sunday and I have a small cache of nodules soaking in a bucket at the moment before their first freeze/thaw cycle on a shelf in my freezer. I had suggested to the TFF members in the greater Chicagoland area (including far western cities and extending into Wisconsin) that if there were other fossil hunting opportunities in the area that I might be able to replace Fossil Rock campground with some other novel (to me and my wife, anyway) location. Rob Russell suggested a small road cut in north central Illinois as a possibility but stated that a much more certain location would be the St. Leon roadcut in southeastern Indiana. We considered how we wanted to plan our week in Chicago and decided that Friday would be the best day for a roadtrip to Indiana. Google Maps (for some unknown reason) showed this trip as just under 4 hours. I figured that would be only an hour more than we normally drive to get to the Peace River here in Florida and that we could do it as a day trip. We got up early on Friday (easy to get out of bed with the prospect of fossil hunting ahead) and were on the road before 6am. Being reasonably close to the Summer Solstice and at a much more northerly than our normal South Florida latitude, the days were long and we were able to depart in daylight. We ducked under the southern tip of Lake Michigan and once in Indiana headed southeast on I-65 toward Indianapolis. Right away I could see that the Google Maps estimate of arrival time was optimistic. Large swaths of I-65 were under construction and there seemed to be as many large semi trucks on the road as cars. We stopped off along the way for a quick breakfast and continued to make steady progress toward Indianapolis. We had planned on stopping there because in my haste to pack for the Chicago trip I had forgotten to pack a long sleeve shirt. I have had more than my fair share of solar radiation as a kid spending my days shirtless and shoeless running around the country roads of northern Wisconsin with the local kids during my youth and now prefer to spend my time in South Florida covered up from the sun as much as possible. Rather than lathering up armfuls of sunblock I tend to prefer long sleeve shirts for their abrasion protection as much as their SPF. I set the GPS for the address of a Target store in Indianapolis as we had left the Chicagoland area before they were open. Unfortunately, we got the E or W prefix wrong on the street address and ended up some 16 miles away from the store. We managed to find a discount store in the area and after about 5 minutes of shopping (twice my normal preferred extent) I came away with my new "in the field" shirt for the extravagant price of $2.50. Back on the highway again and heading toward the town of St. Leon. We were making reasonable time (as best we could with the traffic and construction) but realized that 4 hours was a hopelessly unrealistic travel time. When I double-checked the distance I realized that it was around 280 miles and a 70 mph average speed would be needed to make this journey in the specified time. As that was the limit on the fastest parts of the highway we would not be arriving mid-morning as I'd originally planned. In the end we arrived for an early lunch in St. Leon where we (surprisingly) found vegetarian food at a restaurant called Skyline Chili. Chili they had--several large cauldrons of it bubbling away in the open kitchen area--but skyline? The only skyline visible in this open rural area was that shown in silhouette on their sign. Post lunch we headed north on Old State 1 till we saw the splendor of the extensive roadcut that I'd seen in Google Maps satellite imagery or in the trip photos of other groups that have hunted here before us. This roadcut through the 450 million year old Upper Ordovician deposits seems to have been an effort to minimize the slope of the highway running through its middle. We parked well off the road on the extensive shoulder near the drainage area and could hear the frequent trucks and cars go by. On their way up the incline we could hear the trucks shifting into low gear to climb the grade and the engine breaking of the trucks making the opposite trip. We were the only ones there, the sun was shining, the weather was pleasant and within minutes of parking the car we saw that the rocks around us were virtually carpeted with brachiopods and other fossils--it was going to be a good day. It had taken us 6 hours to get here (50% longer than originally estimated) but with the prospect of a new and exciting hunting opportunity, we couldn't be happier. For those who have not yet seen the roadcut at St. Leon here is what it looks like looking down the sloping highway with terraced slopes flanking the road. You'll notice the wide shoulder and the shallow drainage trough which make for safe parking well away from the traffic. The photo of the brachiopod slab right next to where we parked the car indicated a productive day was ahead of us.
  16. Today on day 2, I spent about six hours in the on and off rain, near Lawrenceburg, Indiana collecting Ordovician fossils. I found numerous trilobite parts, but nothing complete. Things that believe are parts of trilobites- "Isotelus" fragments. These two pieces were on a very large block that was not feasible to try and move. I figured that I would try and get them out, but unfortunately, I was not successful . Many Cephalopods – Brachiopods- "Platystrophia" "Rafinisquina" Gastropods– Believe these to be "Cyclonema". Bryozoan– Crinoid Stems– How they were found:
  17. My great aunt gave this to me years ago, and I would like to know if it is real. I know there are tons of fakes, and would like to see if mine is real.
  18. My granddaughter was watching this earlier and I thought maybe there is hope for kids cartoons. Title was suspose to say peppa pig
  19. Nautiloid

    Middle Devonian trilobites ID

    I found this large rock filled with trilobite pieces yesterday near Manlius in central NY. I believe this rock is middle Devonian in age but I’m unsure of the formation.
  20. I have triplet grandchildren, almost 6 yrs old, who are ripe for discovering stuff. I've dabbled with flintknapping and have a couple purchased fossils that they are interested in. I am looking for some small fossil material that hasn't been cleaned so that they (and I) can "discover" the ancient creatures and research their known history. This material needn't contain complete specimens...I'm thinking maybe whole or partial trilobites, etc. I have some appropriate working tools. We are a bit north of San Francisco and not not close to any good collecting location. online has lots of prepped fossils but I'd like to get some as-found stuff. Any suggestions for finding this kind of thing online? Please PM me with any info. Thanks.
  21. 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!
  22. Hi All, Why am I not finding any trilobites (or even any identifiable trilobite partials)? I know the obvious two answers would be that I am either overlooking them or I am hunting in an area that they will not be located in. I am hunting outside of Willow Springs, Missouri, USA in what I believe to be Ordovician Period rock. I am finding all sorts of crinoid, brachiopod, gastropod, bryozoa, rugose, favistella fossils and more. I have even found a large stromatolite reef but I cannot find a trilobite fossil. I would think with the diversity of the fossils that I am finding, trilobite fossils (pieces, partials or whole) would show up at least once. The trilobite is THE bucket list fossil for me and if I need to change my method of searching or my area of searching I want to do that. Virtually all of the fossils that I am finding are "field walking" finds. I either find them in seasonal creek beds, areas of erosion or areas where dirt and rock have been removed or disturbed, if that makes any difference. Thanks for your time and any advice that you can give me.
  23. I bought a new old cabinet last winter and spent several months filling it with newly labeled specimens, most of them now stored in jewelry boxes. I took photos of it to show Tim, Fossildude19 and he suggested I post them in the Members Collections section. I followed his suggestion. The collection started in 2011 with a few fossil purchases off a well known public auction site. By the early spring of 2012 I was collecting in the field and the vast majority of my collection was self collected in that manner from sites, primarily in the Northeast and Ohio Valley as well as ones collected on trips to Texas, Germany and out west. There are also some gift specimens that I own thanks to the generosity of a number of friends, most of whom are on the Forum. The top of the cabinet is occupied by miscellaneous specimens, some that wouldn't fit in the drawers, some slated to be in a glass display case I hope to eventually get, and my collection of fossils found in New Jersey just above the Iridium Layer.
  24. An interesting web page on fake trilobites. Fake Trilobites, American Museum of Natural History https://www.amnh.org/research/paleontology/collections/fossil-invertebrate-collection/trilobite-website/the-trilobite-files/fake-trilobites Yours, Paul H.
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