Shamalama Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 Kolihapeltis rabatensis (Devonian, Kolihapeltis couche, Jebel Oufatene) Detail of the pygidium Detail of the eye and spine (note the spine has been repaired). Notice the cool patterns on the exoskeleton. Most of the reason I decided it was not fake and purchased it. Just picked it up from the NJ Gem and Mineral show in Edison yesterday. Anyone have some info on the genera? I can't find any good public access papers out there that detail Kolihapeltis. -Dave __________________________________________________ Geologists on the whole are inconsistent drivers. When a roadcut presents itself, they tend to lurch and weave. To them, the roadcut is a portal, a fragment of a regional story, a proscenium arch that leads their imaginations into the earth and through the surrounding terrain. - John McPheeIf I'm going to drive safely, I can't do geology. - John McPheeCheck out my Blog for more fossils I've found: http://viewsofthemahantango.blogspot.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raggedy Man Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 http://www.fossilmuseum.net/Trilobite-Pictures/Kolihapeltis-chlupaci-hollardi/Kolihapeltis-chlupaci-hollardi.htm It's not perfect, but maybe it can help. Nice specimen! Regards, Paul ...I'm back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranha Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 These are a few of the important publications describing Kolihapeltis. Alberti 1966 is the paper that erected K. rabatensis as a new species. I'll send all of these for you. Congrats on a great acquisition! Alberti, Gerhard K.B. (1966) Zur Taxionomie und Verbreitung der Trilobiten-Gattung Kolihapeltis Prantl & Přibyl 1947 im Unter-Devon. Paläontologische Zeitschrift, 40(3/4):192-204 Alberti, Gerhard K.B. (1970) Trilobiten des jüngeren Siluriums sowie des Unter- und Mitteldevons. Part II. Trilobites of the late Silurian, as well as the early and middle Devonian; part 2. Abh. Der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft, 525:1-233 Prantl, F. & Přibyl, A. (1947) Klasifikace a rozdělení rodu Scutellum Pusch, 1833 z českého paleozoika. Classification and division of the genus Scutellum Pusch, 1833 from the Bohemian Paleozoic. Rozpravy České Akademie Věd a Umění, Třída II, 56(9):1-29 Šnajdr, Milan (1960) Studie o celedi Scutelluidae (Trilobitae). A study of the family Scutelluidae (Trilobitae). Rozpravy Ustredniho ustavu geologickeho, 26:1-280 Šnajdr, Milan (1989) Kolihapeltis from the Bohemian Devonian (Styginidae, Trilobita). Časopis pro mineralogii a geologii, 34(4):353-361 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fossilized6s Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 Nice looking bug! So bizarre. ~Charlie~ "There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why.....i dream of things that never were, and ask why not?" ~RFK ->Get your Mosasaur print ->How to spot a fake Trilobite ->How to identify a CONCRETION from a DINOSAUR EGG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herb Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 Nice one Dave! "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence"_ Carl Sagen No trees were killed in this posting......however, many innocent electrons were diverted from where they originally intended to go. " I think, therefore I collect fossils." _ Me "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."__S. Holmes "can't we all just get along?" Jack Nicholson from Mars Attacks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 Now that's a really exotic looking specimen! Very nice! Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shamalama Posted April 12, 2015 Author Share Posted April 12, 2015 Thanks guys and Thank you Paul for the link, which does give me a little background, and Scott for the papers. This bug was a spur of the moment purchase and I haggled a really good price from the dealer. Beforehand I did a little digging on my phone to try and verify that it was a real species and what good specimens looked like. I thought it was a cooler fossil than the Dicranurus monstrosus and "Devil Horned" Cyphaspis (which I have trouble believing is a real species and not a fake) that were also available and it fell into my price range once I haggled. -Dave __________________________________________________ Geologists on the whole are inconsistent drivers. When a roadcut presents itself, they tend to lurch and weave. To them, the roadcut is a portal, a fragment of a regional story, a proscenium arch that leads their imaginations into the earth and through the surrounding terrain. - John McPheeIf I'm going to drive safely, I can't do geology. - John McPheeCheck out my Blog for more fossils I've found: http://viewsofthemahantango.blogspot.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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bone digger Posted April 13, 2015 Share Posted April 13, 2015 Very nice trilobite, good buy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranha Posted April 13, 2015 Share Posted April 13, 2015 ...I thought it was a cooler fossil than the Dicranurus monstrosus and "Devil Horned" Cyphaspis (which I have trouble believing is a real species and not a fake)... The "Devil horned" Cyphaspis are indeed authentic. This excellent paper was recently published: Van Viersen, A.P., & Prescher, H. (2014) “Devil horned” Cyphaspis (Trilobita, Otarioninae): examples from the Middle Devonian of the Ardennes (Belgium), Eifel (Germany) and Ma’der (Morocco). Geologica Belgica, 17(3-4):268-275 OPEN ACCESS PDF 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrangellian Posted April 13, 2015 Share Posted April 13, 2015 Well-played 'score', Dave! Any time I try to haggle, it's "well I can't really come down or there isn't any profit for me" or similar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shamalama Posted April 13, 2015 Author Share Posted April 13, 2015 Scott does it again with the informative papers! I had thought that the specimen I looked at had the horns glued on and it looked fake. However, after looking through the paper, the holotype for Cyphaspis walteri sp. nov. looks just like the specimen I saw. I'll have to look closer next time and maybe haggle me another good piece. -Dave __________________________________________________ Geologists on the whole are inconsistent drivers. When a roadcut presents itself, they tend to lurch and weave. To them, the roadcut is a portal, a fragment of a regional story, a proscenium arch that leads their imaginations into the earth and through the surrounding terrain. - John McPheeIf I'm going to drive safely, I can't do geology. - John McPheeCheck out my Blog for more fossils I've found: http://viewsofthemahantango.blogspot.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranha Posted April 13, 2015 Share Posted April 13, 2015 ...Its from the family of scutelluidae... Kolihapeltis is classified in the family: Styginidae. The latest general consensus merges the 'Scutelluidae' into the Styginidae with a subfamily ranking for the Scutelluinae. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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