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Hey everyone! Back at it again. This time I’ll keep it a little shorter and get to the fossils. I made it back out into the field last weekend and visited DSR and Cole Hill on Sunday 3/29/20 with fellow forum goer @DrDave. Usually we shake hands on our hellos and goodbyes like any two people would. It was odd not giving the usual greetings with a friend and keeping distance during social interaction. Almost feels rude it’s a weird feeling. You almost have to say “sorry I can’t touch you” so you don’t seem rude lol. Unusual times we must adjust to. Anyway. At DSR I have been kinda working an area that has been rewarding me over and over. Either I’m working a productive interval OR I am simply working an area that is easy to flip slabs therefore yielding more specimens. To actually know I would have to dig seriously at different levels and see what I find. There was actually and obnoxious amount of talus on top of this and I had to rake with a purpose to get it cleared up. FIRST slab I pulled up....do you see it? Same picture zoomed in a little....see it now? Same picture zoomed in more...see it now? I wiped off some mud and took another photo....this is why phyllocarids get missed. They don’t really pop when you first find them. I scour every rock very carefully and even then they aren’t exactly jumping out of the shale. I’ve found some of my BEST specimens in other peoples garbage piles. I’ve have found spectacular specimens this way. I knew I had a beautiful Rhinocaris double carapace and I could see something curious sticking out the end but I wanted to clean it up before I made assumptions on my observations. I actually found several phyllocarid specimens on this day . I’m going to share some of the process I go through cleaning and cutting choice specimens and show the final results! stay tuned