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Just a quick post because this is somewhat of a rarity. About three weeks ago I was hunting fossils in my favorite Ordovician location up here in Ontario Canada with a few friends including Northern Sharks and I found my first ever cyclocystoid. I cannot tell you how many 1000s of crinoid stems I have thought for a split second might be a cyclocystoid or edrioastroid. Finally picked up the real thing...... not an imposter. The segmentation in the ring is the giveaway. This one is in quite a good state of preservation and has had an initial prep under the scope with air abrasion. (40 micron do
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One Of My Favorite Trilobites But So Far I Am Skunked For The Perfect Specimen
Malcolmt posted a topic in General Fossil Discussion
I must admit that ceraurus is one of my very favorite trilobites. I have been hunting diligently to try to find a prone museum quality specimen for my personal collection. This is the best that I have been able to find so far (I have about 5 others that are all in the neighborhood of 80% complete). Although this is not shown in the pictures there is a perfect hypostome that I have exposed on the bottom of the specimen. On the plus side it is very inflated and 3 dimensional with no squashing.The area that I am hunting for these is very fragile shale that has only been recently exposed and it is -
My friend QuarrymanDave here on the forum asked me to prep what looked to be an unusual trilobite from the veralum formation of Ontario. This is Ordovician . The prep is not finished, I still need to do the fine detail . Even though this is just a cephalon , I think it is an amazing little fossil. It is 31.3 mm at its longest and 22.0 mm at its widest. I have certainly never seen this species in all the times I have been to the location he found it in. It could very well be a rare paraharpes ottawaensis or equally rare dolichoharpes dentoni Please jump in with your identification......