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I have been collecting fossils for a long time but am fairly new to preparation beyond scrubbing and light picking. I had the opportunity to collect at the Bob Carroll quarry near Clarita, Oklahoma last month. We got chased out by rain after just a few hours and when I left I wasn't sure whether I really had any decent trilobites or not. I knew I found some nice brachiopods and some cool trilo-bits (even the tails of the Huntoniatonias are pretty neat) but beyond that nothing else was obvious. I'm still working through the material I collected but I wanted to solicit some advice on two that I am working on as I have never really done this much prep on any specimens. The first one is a Paciphacops campbelli that was just a glimmer of hope: After working on it for a while with an air scribe and air abrasive (dolomite) I have gotten it to this stage:
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Dave's Down To Earth Rock Shop and Prehistoric Life Museum & the Burpee Museum
Nimravis posted a topic in A Trip to the Museum
Today I had the great pleasure of spending 9 hours with Fossil Forum Member @Monica while we visited Dave's Down To Earth Rock Shop and Prehistoric Museum in Evanston, Illinois and then we drove 90 miles NW of Chicago to the Burpee Museum in Rockford, Illinois. Monica flew from Ontario, Canada on Friday with her husband to attend the Stars Wars Celebration at the McCormick Place. Today she set time aside for me so we could do some Fossil stuff while here husband went back to the convention. After picking her up from her downtown hotel, we drove North on Lake Shore Drive so I could show her the lakefront. After a couple quick stops, we made a detour to my sons house so I could drop off a new Lego Jurassic Park Set for my 5 year old Grandson, that's as far as he goes with fossil related stuff. After this we had a 15 minute drive to Dave's Rock Shop, this was the first time that Monica has been to a Fossil Store and this is a great one to visit.. This post will be picture heavy. Dave's Down to Earth Rock Shop- The below pictures are just some of the fossils that are for sale, I will then post some of the fossils that are in the stores downstairs museum. I am not one for pictures, but had to take one to for the post.
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Hey everyone, I had an entire free afternoon yesterday so made my way out to DSR and Briggs rd. I haven’t been out there since the group hunt and I was curious to see if I could find pickings to split. I did a good amount of slab tossing and I know others did as well. People also got some newer areas going also and I was curious if I could work off those too. I started the day at Briggs rd because I did so well last time I was there. I was drooling for a 2nd shot! I didn’t find anything top shelf worthy but I did seem to stumble on more dipleura than I did the last couple visits. These are the total spoils from Briggs rd. I don’t know how common dipleura is at Briggs or if they ever come complete but these are my best dipleura so far from Briggs rd. They sure don’t show up like the Eldredgeops lol. I just liked this cephalon lol. All alone popping out it the rock with great detail!! Basically I got a bunch of stuff like this. I did a ton of labor moving over burden so that perhaps in the future I can keep expanding the shelf I started. Kinda rough on the back but this overburden doesn’t remove itself! After a few hours I moved onto DSR to see what was left behind for me to find . With all the action at DSR with the group hunt something was bound to get missed!! I forgot to take pictures of the site when I was at DSR so all I have are the final spoils and some close ups of my favorite finds. DSR spoils I wasn’t at DSR as long cause I was so tired and worn out from Briggs rd so I didn’t do much slab removal or excavating. I spent most my time scouring over others discard piles looking for hidden gems! And gems I did find!!! I found this dipleura looking through some blocks that were pulled off the upper layer of the quarry. Dipleura tends to show up more in the upper strata. It’s missing the pygidium and the cephalon is tucked over. With some minor prep I should be able to expose the rest of the cephalon. Super happy about this find. In general I have been coming up empty with dipleura at both Briggs rd and DSR so it was a bonus. Last but not least....... Echinocaris punctata phyllocarid!!!! I found this just sitting out in the open face up. Most likely mistaken for a bivalve. I couldn’t believe it. My best phyllocarid carapace so far. It’s nearly perfect!!! I have to say this beats all my other finds for the day. Just sitting face up for me to find . Well that wraps it up. Fun time at Briggs rd and DSR with a couple exciting finds for me. Seems like every time I go out I comeback with something totally unexpected!! It just keeps me coming back for more . Hope everyone has a great mother’s day! Thanks for reading, Al
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Spent 8 hours yesterday mucking about in the Hungry Hollow Member, resorting to that section of the Widder Formation as there are no viable upper Widder outcrops at the moment. Nothing fabulous in terms of finds, but the HH Member is temperamental... High turbidity makes for a lot of fossils that are not hardy to come out as a puree. Corals dominate this stratum, at times making up more of the composition than matrix. It also means not much in the way of reliable bedding planes as most of this stuff comes out in chunks delineated by the corals. It can also be quite muddy/wet, and hard to pick out what's there. When it dries, it is not much better. I didn't take much in the way of field pics. I did, however, see an abundance of salamanders, which speaks to some measure of ecological health in the area given that they are among the more ecologically sensitive critters. I struck my own spot by digging out a lot of soil and roots. The only field pics. Corals being by far the most abundant, some of them can come out quite large. These I set aside in piles for other collectors.
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This year I pulled the trigger on heading to Penn Dixie for the Dig With the Experts weekend! Definitely would highly recommend . I drove up from Boston to the Buffalo area on Thursday and spent the day Friday digging with @Malcolmt and @JamesAndTheFossilPeach. It was a blast! Thanks again guys for giving me a lay of the land. Credit to @JamesAndTheFossilPeach for the find of the day with a giant Eldredgeops (pic below). Saturday and Sunday were spent looking for trilobites in the roped off Dig With the Experts section of excavated shale with some success. Monday I drove back to Boston, and stopped to stretch my legs in Glenerie, NY to walk a stretch of road looking for Devonian brachiopods and gastropods. Got a couple! All in all, a great trip... although I'm nice and sore . Here are my takeaways from the weekend. I tried to get a bit of the entire Penn Dixie Ecosystem keeping at least one of everything and as many trilobites as I could find. I wish I took more pictures Saturday and Sunday, but I was too busy splitting shale . Cheers, Barret
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Back in January I bought a new 15 drawer cabinet and have slowly been transferring my collection to it. Going through my old finds, some of which have been boxed and/or bagged away I haven't seen for years has been a pleasure and some new gems have turned up that I had overlooked the first time around. There was this Actinodesma erectum, a pteriomorph bivalve which had broken when it was excavated last summer at Cole Hill.
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Hello all! It's almost spring, and that means it's time for @Kane and me to alter the geography of New York state once again! Current plans are to start at Penn Dixie on April 26th, then off to the DSR area on Saturday. Sunday is a mystery still, but we're working on it. As always, anyone is welcome to come out and join in the destruction, er... fossil hunting. Last year was a heck of a thing, lots of good stuff was found, and I think everyone had a pretty good time. @Pagurus, @JamesAndTheFossilPeach , @Fossildude19 , @Malcolmt, @Jeffrey P (I'm sure there are more I'm forgetting off-hand.)
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Today, I decided to stop and see what @MeargleSchmeargl left behind at the Conasauga River trilobite location. I do like collecting at this Cambrian site. It is not a matter of finding trilobites, it is deciding which pieces you want to keep. I only spent about 1 hour there and did not collect any matrix, I just felt like splitting some pieces and finding a few trilobites. Nothing special was found and they we’re all Aphelaspis brachyphasis. As stated in @MeargleSchmeargl post, the River was low and the matrix was dry, thus making it very easy to split. I have only seen the River lower than today on one other occasion. When it is low, it is easier to maneuver and find a place to get comfortable. Here are my finds from today- this is the least amount of trilobites that I have found, but it because it was just a quick stop and I was taking my time. Here is my favorite find of the day- Here are some others-
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This year's second hunt was successful, considering the snow. There is still a bit of snow covering some places. I was still lucky enough to find some ok fossils. The area where I found these trilobites is called fossildalen/fossilvalley in slemmestad (i`ve showed pictured from the area before). The fossils here in the area stem from the time periods of Cambrian, Ordovician and Silurian, a period of 541 million to 419 million years ago. At that time, Slemmestad was a seabed in a relatively shallow sea. The trilobites fossils I found are about 420 million years old I believe. I found around 10 trilobites or parts of them.
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First steps into Floyd county Cambrian: Lots of nodules, not a lot of Trilos.
MeargleSchmeargl posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
I just went to the Floyd county Conasauga at a roadside site mentioned in https://www.researchgate.net/publication/264495630_Taxonomy_and_biostratigraphic_significance_of_some_Middle_Cambrian_Trilobites_from_the_Conasauga_Formation_in_western_Georgia (partly guided by a few locals). After searching, we found tons of nodules, and only a few exposed Trilo parts. It was only near the end of the trip that I realized that at this site, I might need to split the nodules open to find much in them. So I took a few decent sized ones with me to figure out what to do with them after I attempted to split a few, and only getting one open relaitively cleanly (nothing inside). My immediate assumption is perhaps to use the freeze/thaw method I've heard people use for mazon creek nodules (instructions?). Any other tips for splitting these nodules? They're much tougher that I personally thought they'd be (at least it was harder to actively split them on site, given their round shape makes it hard to keep the chisel going in one spot). The site: Some of the numerous nodules present:
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Last Saturday (April 6th, 2019) my wife and I made our second trip to Tully, NY to search for trilobite fossils. Unfortunately this was the second time I was unable to find a complete trilobite; I'll keep searching for them in other locations. I did find some other fossils that I thought were interesting enough to keep. The first photo is of the hill in Tully that I searched. On our first trip I tried to cover the entire hill while we were there, on our second trip I concentrated on smaller areas and had better results with finding fossils. A gastropod fossil which is next to another fossil that is round, flat and has a spiral pattern that is difficult to see in the photo. I found many brachiopods and some bivalves. This is the longest crinoid stem that I've found so far at Tully, it is about 13/4 inches in length. I'm guessing this is another crinoid stem. It has a much larger diameter than the other crinoid stems that I've found and it has "spikes". And two very small pieces of fossil from trilobites, which I was happy to find even though they are not complete. Thanks for looking.
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Going out to look for trilobites for the first time!
Trinitydraco posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
So I just found out about two good fossil sites for trilobites only and hour away from my house! This is my first time going out looking for fossils ever and I am so excited! I gots me a spade, large flat head screw driver, thin pry bar, gloves and claw hammer. For prep tools I have an air scribe and compressor, steel dental/sculpting tools, mini files, polishing papers, and other small tools as I work with silver. The site is in Vermont and I am expecting wet, cool conditions. I wanted to get any tips or advice you may have for a first timer to help make my afternoon trip a success. Tri-Lo-Bites! (read as dine-o-mite!)- 10 replies
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I visited a small Paleozoic (Silurian) coral reef in Indiana the other day. No earth-shattering, jaw-dropping discoveries, but it's an interesting spot with dolomitized fossils. Here's a google earth view of the center of the reef. A nice mollusk, if anyone knows what species, let me know. It shattered when I tried to extract it, but I was able to glue it back together as you can see here. Sphaerexochus romingeri cephalon After extraction.. I believe this is a Platyceras: To be continued..
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This really cool trilobite came out of the wanakah shale of the Hamilton formation.
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So I am brand new to fossils and am having a hard time finding unprepared trilobites. I don't really have the ability to go hunt my own at this time but I want to get into preparation. I found the U-Dig site where I can order like 40lbs of shale but that's a bit much for me at the moment. I am just trying to find a few trilobites to get started and to get a feel for the tools and prepping. I was on online but had a hard time finding ones that had not already been prepped. Not to mention I have been warned about the risk of fraud buying trilobites on online. If anyone can direct me to where I can get some sweet rock bugs I would be very grateful!
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Just visited the American Museum of Natural History, and one piece I saw there was a pair of Ordovician Isotelus Trilobites:l (iowensis?) Seeing this, I remembered that Isotelus Trilos were something that I was looking for. Anyone know of a site in/near Georgia?
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Hey everyone, As some may already know I’m in Austin Texas until Sunday. Leading up to the trip I couldn’t pinpoint any reliable Texas locations due to water level reports and people warning about water levels at some localities. Some of the places I was interested in were on rivers. I could have wasted a lot of time if I showed up with high water levels. I’m only here once to I needed to chose something with less of a gamble. So I figured I would just scratch my trilobite itch up in Oklahoma!! We arrived in Austin on Tuesday and I had arranged a hunt with Leon for Wednesday. This way I would be back to Austin Wednesday night. Turns out Leon and Alan Lang are best friends of over 30 years! Leon actually called Alan to ask who I was and I passed the test haha. Small tangent but needs to be said......Leon, like Alan Lang interview people before letting them in. Sadly the intentions of some people are not pure. Also some people gripe and groan about prices as if complaining will be enough to get a discount. Or people get too pushy and try to dicker price making the whole thing awkward...It doesn’t work like that. Yes Leon’s and Lang’s are pay to dig. Yes we all want free fossils and for the most part free fossils are available all over the country/world. They are nice to even let us in. People don’t really appreciate or I should really say “understand” the investment it takes to own these places. They don’t have to let us in at all. Think of Caleb’s quarry (Rochester shale) and the quarry exposing the Trenton group with exquisite trilobites. Good luck even getting access to those places. I hear the owners of Caleb’s quarry are very nice people but it’s private. Privately owned and privately dug. There are places like this all over the world....privately owned and privately dug. I’ve seen a lot of stuff on the forum kinda knocking the pay to dig quarries and I think it’s a matter of perspective and possibly jealousy...heck I’m legit extremely jealous!!! If I told you how much money these guys poured into these places (especially Lang x10) you would ask...”why aren’t they charging more!” After one conversation in person you would probably change your tone and realize these guys are just like us....fossil crazy and actually quite nice. Ok back on topic I met Leon in Coleman, Oaklahoma at 8am yesterday (Wednesday) and I immediately recognized him. He’s actually on Alan Lang’s website prepping a multi plate. I didn’t realize it was him from the website! We chatted for a moment and off we went! You can’t stumble on this place...and Leon has many stories from 20-30 years ago about people sneaking in and selling fossils before the land was sold to Leon. One story about a particular poacher brought some laughs. Leon’s a funny dude. After the gate we had to literally drive through cow pastures. We saw deer, coyotes (yea coyotes!), cows and a bull! Just driving through the fields ha. The black one further away is a bull.
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Had a great fossil expedition the other day. Found 3 rolled Isotelus trilobites.
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Great day overall found all of these plus a triple with 2 eldredgeops and 1 greenops which I gave to Devoniandigger to prepp
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Hello all- I am in the early stages of planning a fossiling outing to TX and OK in March. Would any of you folks be willing to either point me or take me to sites out there? There are a lot of different fossil in these states and I have been in touch with a few forum members already, but I would appreciate any help any one can offer. I have Waurika and the Wilson Clay Pit o the list already. I imagine I can do NSR solo, but anyone who would be willing to show me around there would be a hero. I don't plan to go as far as Houston but Austin maybe for Whiskey Bridge.... A crab would be a real prize... or a TX trilobite. Many Thanks. Answer here or PM me.
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Hello friends, I need your help to learn a little more, I am not an expert in trilobites, in fact what I own are the Brachiopods, but accommodating my fossils, I found myself very similar and they filled me with doubts, can you could help me distinguish between an interstricted Peronopsis and a Ptychagnostus atavis, both of the Upper Cambrian, of the Wheeler Formation, in House Range, Millard county, Utah. Thank you.
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An unidentified species of Paralejurus, dated to the Emsian age of the Devonian. It's from Jebel Oufatene, Morocco. It's also my first 3D trilobite. Of course, I bought it, I don't have any skills in finding fossils and preparing them. They'll hopefully develop in the future though.
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Reconstruction of trilobite ancestral range in the southern hemisphere
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Reconstruction of trilobite ancestral range in the southern hemisphere January 10, 2019, FAPESP https://phys.org/news/2019-01-reconstruction-trilobite-ancestral-range-southern.html http://agencia.fapesp.br/reconstruction-of-trilobite-ancestral-range/29527/ Carbonaro, F.A., Langer, M.C., Nihei, S.S., de Souza Ferreira, G. and Ghilardi, R.P., 2018. Inferring ancestral range reconstruction based on trilobite records: a study-case on Metacryphaeus (Phacopida, Calmoniidae). Scientific reports, 8(1), p.15179. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/328251419_Inferring_ancestral_range_reconstruction_based_on_trilobite_records_a_study-case_on_Metacryphaeus_Phacopida_Calmoniidae https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-33517-5 Bolivian Trilobites - At The Top Of The World American Museum of Natural History https://www.amnh.org/our-research/paleontology/paleontology-faq/trilobite-website/trilobite-localities/bolivian-trilobites-at-the-top-of-the-world Gallery of the Devonian Trilobites of Bolivia https://www.amnh.org/our-research/paleontology/paleontology-faq/trilobite-website/trilobite-localities/bolivian-trilobites-at-the-top-of-the-world/gallery-of-the-devonian-trilobites-of-bolivia Yours, Paul H.-
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A gift from a member of the Australian Fossil Club.
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