My first trilobites!

[A.C.]

Fossil hunted with my college roommate today towards the deer lake region. Here is about 1/2 of my haul, will be excited to clean them and remove some matrix eventually and uncover them more!

Edited September 6, 2020 by A.C.
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[Huntonia]

Awesome finds! The trilo in the top left looks especially promising. Can't wait to see them finished. What's your prep setup?

[Fossildude19]

Great finds!

Thanks for showing us.  

Be sure to update us when you have completed prep on them. 

[RJB]

  By any chance did you save any of the opposing rock?   I find that there is almost always a small piece or two in those rocks that you can transfer to the main rock and make for an absolute complete specimen.  Nice finds and Good luck

 

RB

[Kane]

Well done! Now you've been bitten by the bug... for more bugs! The shell colour preservation and the matrix seems very similar to Mahantango deposits. 

[Monica]

Congratulations on your first trilobite finds!!!  I hope this is just the tip of the iceberg! for future hunts!

[A.C.]

Thanks for all the love! I will definitely take crisper pictures and make a thread on it, my buddy found an AMAZING one...

[A.C.]

13 hours ago, RJB said:

  By any chance did you save any of the opposing rock?   I find that there is almost always a small piece or two in those rocks that you can transfer to the main rock and make for an absolute complete specimen.  Nice finds and Good luck

 

RB

No... I thought it was neat to see their imprints on the rocks but in the excitement, I chucked those to the side and took the main piece.

[A.C.]

Detailed cephalon's eyes. 

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[A.C.]

[A.C.]

Some sort of cephalopod?

[A.C.]

Better pics of the complete one's aren't letting me load in somehow... any ideas on why? Keeps giving 3.5mb error yet my computer shows it is less.

[Monica]

This looks like the internal mold of a gastropod to me:

 

Re: picture-uploading issues...

Try refreshing your browser - that usually fixes the problem 

[Darktooth]

Congratulations, for some nice Trilos!

[A.C.]

[Ludwigia]

Yippee!

[Nautiloid]

I love that greenops! Great finds 

[A.C.]

1 hour ago, Nautiloid said:

I love that greenops! Great finds 

Thanks! Was super excited to uncover it! 

[Planko]

Wow! Congratulations! 

[A.C.]

3 minutes ago, Planko said:

Wow! Congratulations! 

Thank you!!

[markjw]

Those are spectacular trilobites !!

[FossilNerd]

Very cool! Congrats on your first trilobites! Can't wait to see them prepped!  

 

[RandyB]

Very nice finds, congratulations on finding a productive place to hunt. A lot of the old popular exposures were clobbered when the state widened rte 61 through that area a few years back