Trilobite Found in the Lake where they Filmed Dirty Dancing

[cabes234]

Hello everyone, I am currently staying at the Mountain Lake Biological Station in Giles County Virginia doing research on evolution (on living animals not fossils) and yesterday I decided to take a walk around mountain lake. This lake and the hotel next to it was actually the location that the movie Dirty Dancing was filmed in but due to natural geological processes the lake is now almost completely drained. This draining has revealed a lot of the sandstone and limestone that once made up the lake bed. I was not going here looking for fossils but when I sat down to rest I saw the Pygidium of a trilobite! I am pretty sure that this trilobite is probably of Silurian age but could also be from the Ordovician. I am not sure if its genus can be identified but I thought it was a cool find nonetheless and worth sharing. I will be returning to the bank to see if I find anything else and will post them in this thread if I do.

[Fossildude19]

Rotated, cropped, contrasted, and brightened:

 

[piranha]

For comparison: Diacalymene lesperancei – early Silurian of Anticosti Island, Canada.

 

In the United States I would label this one as: Diacalymene cf. vogdesi (Foerste 1887)

 

 

Chatterton, B.D.E., Ludvigsen, R. 2004

Early Silurian Trilobites of Anticosti Island, Québec, Canada.

Palaeontographica Canadiana, 22:1-264

 

Edgecombe, G.D., Adrain, J.M. 1995

Silurian Calymenid Trilobites from the United States.

Palaeontographica Abteilung A, 235:1-19

[cabes234]

I’m back at the area and I did not find much. I did find what appears to be a burrow of some kind but I could be completely wrong, I will add and image to this post of it anyways. Is it possible that the trilobite was a once off fossil, it seems unlikely but I don’t know too much about this stuff. Anyways here is the suspected burrow fossil.