Darren Garrison Posted July 31, 2015 Share Posted July 31, 2015 (edited) I have an unhealthy obsession with Flexicalymene trilobites. I finally got control over it before financial meltdown, but whenever I see a photo of a nice Flexi I still feel dejected that I don’t own it. Four views of the same group. A different view of some of the enrolled Flexis. (The shell debris are there to hold them in position.) The largest and smallest in my collection. It is easy to find someone advertising the biggest specimen that they have of a given species, but few people ever point out that they are selling the smallest. To get my tiny flexis, I had to specifically ask a collector/seller to pick out his smallest ones for me. These are my smallest placed under a bottlecap on my flatbed scanner. Four small enrolled trilobites in the palm of my hand - a Flexicalymene, a Phacops, a Kainops, and an Isotelus.(I’ve ran out of my 2 MB of upload space for this post, so the rest of my images are linked.) http://i313.photobucket.com/albums/ll394/darrengarrison/fossils/fossilhash_01_smaller.jpg http://i313.photobucket.com/albums/ll394/darrengarrison/fossils/fossilhash_02_smaller.jpg This is a 10 inch or so Ordovician slab from Cincinnati that I bought on Ebay and scanned on my flatbed scanner. (I gather that this material is a rather mundane find for collectors in the area, but since I’m not in Ohio it is exotic enough for me.) It is filled with crinoid columnals, brachiopods, bryozoans, and recognizable fragments from Isotelus, Flexicalymene, and Cryptolithus trilobites. For me, examining this seems almost like actually going diving in the Ordovician and looking at the seafloor, and like I could reach down and grab a handful of fine silt, gritty with fresh shell fragments. (And yes, this is actually scaled down from full resolution.) http://i313.photobucket.com/albums/ll394/darrengarrison/fossils/hypostome_2.jpg This is a slab around 3 inches square that has a nice dark Isolelus maximus hypostome. http://i313.photobucket.com/albums/ll394/darrengarrison/fossils/crypto1.jpg http://i313.photobucket.com/albums/ll394/darrengarrison/fossils/crypto2.jpg http://i313.photobucket.com/albums/ll394/darrengarrison/fossils/crypto4a.jpg Each of these three fragments are only around an inch or so square, but they are crazy full of crinoid columnals and Cryptolithus fringes. http://i313.photobucket.com/albums/ll394/darrengarrison/fossils/ta_slab_1.jpg http://i313.photobucket.com/albums/ll394/darrengarrison/fossils/ta_slab_2.jpg http://i313.photobucket.com/albums/ll394/darrengarrison/fossils/ta_wall.jpg On a tangental note, if you like staring at the details of high resolution slabs, you will probably also enjoy these scans of both sides of a turatella agate slice (plus one excerpt suitable for wallpaper.) http://i313.photobucket.com/albums/ll394/darrengarrison/fossils/ammonite.jpgAnd a sliced, shattered ammonite that looks very “artistic”. Edited July 31, 2015 by Darren Garrison Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raggedy Man Posted July 31, 2015 Share Posted July 31, 2015 Your trilobite collection is magnificent! I'm sure we can think of worse things to spend disposable income on...and this isn't one of them. I'm also a trilobite nut which exposes my bias opinion...lol Best regards, Paul ...I'm back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted July 31, 2015 Share Posted July 31, 2015 Very,Very nice collection!Thanks for sharing. " We are not separate and independent entities, but like links in a chain, and we could not by any means be what we are without those who went before us and showed us the way. " Thomas Mann My Library Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pumpkinhead Posted July 31, 2015 Share Posted July 31, 2015 I can think of worse addictions to have Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aplomado Posted July 31, 2015 Share Posted July 31, 2015 Very nice! I want to get pair someday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FossilDAWG Posted July 31, 2015 Share Posted July 31, 2015 That's an impressive pile of Flexis. Do you get to collect any yourself, or are you limited to buying them? It's great fun when you find something like that in the field. Don Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darren Garrison Posted August 1, 2015 Author Share Posted August 1, 2015 All bought - unfortunately, I've never been anywhere close to the collection areas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcolmt Posted August 1, 2015 Share Posted August 1, 2015 Very very nice... I suspect many of us might fit into the category "obsessed" seems to be a common trait amongst members of the forum....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaleoWilliam Posted August 1, 2015 Share Posted August 1, 2015 That is a lot of Fleicalymene triliobites. Nice collection! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted August 1, 2015 Share Posted August 1, 2015 I have a fond spot for Flexis... My very first trilobite was a nice walnut-sized enrolled beauty from the silica shale; I got it from Malek's Fossils in the early 60's. "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mediospirifer Posted August 2, 2015 Share Posted August 2, 2015 Nice bunch! I've been to the Cincinnatian collecting areas a couple of times. Some places have more trilo-bits than others. That's a very nice hash plate, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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