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Cambrian trilobites and creatures


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Hi, i've just used my first binocular yesterday and decided to take a look on the pieces of schist i had collected in La Maurerie, member of the Coulouma formation, Cambrian, Montagne Noire, France. I need help to find out what i saw on them.

Firstly, i splitted a piece of schist in two yesterday and found those tiny rounded things that puzzle me a lot. The whole of them form a shape of a little less than a centimeter.

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I also found that partial cephalon of one centimeter (part and counterpart) and wondered if it was from a Solenopleuridae or Trinucleidae.

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This really tiny pygidium of a few millimeters, i thought it could be from a Raphiophoridae or Dalmanitidae

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This one, a little bigger

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And that cheek and eye (the supposed eye is half a centimeter)

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"On ne voit bien que par le coeur, l'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux." (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)

"We only well see with the heart, the essential is invisible for the eyes."

 

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1 hour ago, jpc said:

interesting small fossils... I have no idea what they might be. 

Thank you man.;)

I mostly wonder about those tiny rounded things, i wondered if it could be ostracods or pellets, but i really would like them to be eggs or a nursery, a very very wishful hope i guess:zzzzscratchchin:

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"On ne voit bien que par le coeur, l'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux." (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)

"We only well see with the heart, the essential is invisible for the eyes."

 

In memory of Doren

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The La Maurerie Formation is lower Ordovician and the Coulouma Formation is middle Cambrian. emo73.gifmail?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmail.yimg.com%2Fok%2Fu%2Fassets%2Fimg%2Femoticons%2Femo31.gif&t=1676409771&ymreqid=23281213-8dc1-3cff-1c35-7a0055013400&sig=gBQhlfB0vn8_Zir.2tAGKg--~D

 

This fragment is a good match with a ventral example of a common Coulouma trilobite: Solenopleuropsis sp. mail?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmail.yimg.com%2Fok%2Fu%2Fassets%2Fimg%2Femoticons%2Femo71.gif&t=1676409771&ymreqid=23281213-8dc1-3cff-1c35-7a0055013400&sig=B1LyDtV5oxrEv_o21M7FUw--~D

 

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21 minutes ago, piranha said:

The La Maurerie Formation is lower Ordovician and the Coulouma Formation is middle Cambrian. emo73.gifmail?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmail.yimg.com%2Fok%2Fu%2Fassets%2Fimg%2Femoticons%2Femo31.gif&t=1676409771&ymreqid=23281213-8dc1-3cff-1c35-7a0055013400&sig=gBQhlfB0vn8_Zir.2tAGKg--~D

 

This fragment is a good match with a ventral example of a common Coulouma trilobite: Solenopleuropsis sp. mail?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmail.yimg.com%2Fok%2Fu%2Fassets%2Fimg%2Femoticons%2Femo71.gif&t=1676409771&ymreqid=23281213-8dc1-3cff-1c35-7a0055013400&sig=B1LyDtV5oxrEv_o21M7FUw--~D

 

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Thank you man, so i wasn't in La Maurerie after all, i found those four years ago.:blink:So that's a Solenopleuropsis :JC_doubleup:

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"On ne voit bien que par le coeur, l'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux." (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)

"We only well see with the heart, the essential is invisible for the eyes."

 

In memory of Doren

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